skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, to be honest I feel like I haven't seen actual money in years. I'm always surprised how much it changes every time I get close enough or actually handle a bill.

To be fair though, after seeing physical Canadian money (got some bills and coins for my son), US money isn't nearly as cool.
I think it's clear the person you're replying to isn't from the US since they seem unaware of how prevalent even magnetic swiping is in the US (or was when I left before the pandemic, when I visited a few months ago it seems interest in contactless has finally started to catch on).
> Maybe it's a friend request?

Just tried that - nope. It actually was the "Nitro - 1 Month FREE" tab below "Friends".

Never tried that before...
Lock or mark iPhone as lost from the watch would be a nice feature.
Sure. They’ve neglected to mention accommodation in their hiring website.

That … was on the advice of my lawyer.

Meanwhile, this:

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/googl...
Emoji Wallpaper: generate iOS 16 alike background
here or lobste.rs are the most coherent forums (fora?) i know of.
I'm still a little surprised I can't easily get chip-only credit cards that have no magnetic strip on the rear, but rather have a backup card that has a strip, and use chip/tap for everything else.
> "Mr. Chouinard does not own ... a cellphone."
An amazing factoid in an amazing story.

Major props to Yvon and family for setting an example that few will follow but many should.
"authoritarian vaccine policy", what are you talking about?
Compare with Google's "enhanced safe browsing" for Chrome and Gmail [1] and lockdown mode on Android.

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/11577602?hl=en
Using Pushdown Automata to Verify Packet Sequences
Yes - I work at Arup (https://www.arup.com/), a large engineering design and consultancy firm. The founder (Ove Arup) and original 7 partners “sold” their shares to a trust in the 60s or 70s (for something like 1 GBP, so they were effectively donated). The main difference between Arup and Patagonia seems to be that the beneficiaries of the Arup trust are Arup employees, while the Patagonia trust has other aims.

Ove Arup had a strong philosophy of design and how the business ought to be run, and the trust was set up to allow that view to continue to drive how we work. (https://www.arup.com/-/media/arup/files/publications/k/ove-a...)

I worked at a smaller firm previously that had a very similar ethos to Arup, but the original shareholders sold to a publicly held firm and it evaporated in short order.

The board that manages the trusts is mostly made up of folks who have spent much of their career in the firm, which helps to keep the trust from drifting too far from the mission. Obviously, there are changes with time, but we can make these changes for reasons other than next quarter’s financials.

(ps, if anyone is curious to see this from the inside, I am hiring devs! My burning need is C++ devs, but we are also hiring for skills all across the tech spectrum)
vim is great but Emacs is on a whole other level for me.

But I would love to spend some time to write a löve2d game in Fennel, for sure.
In the theft as described from the article, it would’ve helped since the scam was based on escalating a phone borrowing to theft while acting like a crime wasn’t happening.
Yes. We used to drive cross-country twice a year. Any time, day or night, if we encountered a rail line, he knew what rail line it was, what town was upline to the left and what town was upline to the right. He literally memorized that atlas.
Not at all what I am suggesting.

The cards are very insecure and primitive and have been replaced by smart phones in most areas.

One core way they are insecure is based on the main concept of the money which fails to utilize cryptography. Any money that uses cryptography to prevent the need for sharing secrets to execute transactions is a cryptocurrency. Any currency that does not use cryptography is obsolete.

Using physical pieces of paper is also ridiculous at this point. The only real utility is to avoid any kind of taxation, and the only reason that is needed by people is because governmental structures are also horrible and obsolescent.
Here is my question. I used Kagi Search in beta, then when it went pay, I stopped due to my search being pretty basic. My concern/question is, will they make this pay too once its out of "beta"
They are not a “solution” they are private citizens engaging in activities that are not if your business.
You will find this to be a common theme across most of the country
Maybe I'm taking this way too seriously since the domain is factsofadrunkenman but in case this is serious:

The article proposes an interesting idea and then goes straight to a list of results by claiming that if do x then y will happen without actually explaining a single thing. As a huge M. Friedman fan I would love to understand why this would happen. How/what does privatising the government even work/mean?
True. If there was some way to de-auth or remove high target apps that might allow some level of deniability?
(edit: I used the wrong word initially.)
My master's degree in electrical engineering cost me about $16k total, half of which was covered by my employer. I went to a local state university, it was about $500 per credit hour.

I would say that you could get most of the practical value in just taking the 300-400 level undergraduate classes and labs such as circuits, electronics, and controls, but then obviously you wouldn't have the degree!
> What really sucks about the more recent ios versions is that they make it a little counterintuitive to shut off your radios when you don't need them. If you want to actually shut off your wifi or blutooth its in your Settings app, the buttons in the control center don't actually shut things off.

This annoys the absolute hell out of me.

> Sometimes I just throw the device in airplaine mode for a while if I am busy or overnight.

I have made a habit of doing the same when I'm going somewhere remote that doesn't have service, else the phone will thrash the battery to death vainly searching for signal.
Patti harrison gives an interview about getting kicked off of twitter for using the blue check system to play a prank on nilla wafers.

'There's such a thing as too little fraud' is a take I saw somewhere recently.

Ben Franklin + Alexander Pope both used almanacs, a social media analog from their era, to fake the deaths of opponents (in Franklin's case it was an opposing almanac publisher whose death he predicted in his first issue).
Get a good carpet. I noticed the carpet. The carpet was the most ostentatious thing in the office.
Similar situation with a money order. The cash has already been paid up-front, before the money order can even be printed. It's pretty much guaranteed money.
It depends on the kind of vulnerability. Say you have a vulnerability that allows writing to arbitrary pages, then an attacker on RWX system can write malicious code into pages that would get executed. In W^X environment, the attacker needs to find a W page and write to it before it becomes the X page.

This isn't a 100% mitigation, but it does make it harder to exploit.

JavaScript JIT been source of so many RCE vulnerabilities.
And yet most open source projects are born in Europe ;)
> Im sure things have improved since then ?

Yep—Electron came along and made Java GUI programs seem trim and snappy. :-)
It's not really a concern so long as they are engaged in nonzero economic activity, in which case no money is permanently trapped within the vehicle. Money flows continuously in an economy and is only at rest in certain places such as bank reserves, mattresses, etc. But there is a very low incentive for it to remain at rest because our monetary system is inflationary. It certainly can be channeled into inefficient or unproductive economic activity (and often is), but the system ultimately keeps moving.

To get more concrete, if you have a charitable trust of the kind described in this article, then it will pay out salaries to employees and purchase various kinds goods and services. The recipients of those money flows will in turn put that money to work for their own ends: supporting a family with food, shelter, etc, paying other employees further along the value chain, acquiring other goods and services, and so on.

If someone accumulates this much wealth, they are well within their right to put it to work however they please. And doing so does not induce some permanent dysfunction in the system. In this case, I would argue that what the Patagonia founder has done is immensely commendable.
I don't have permissions on my own projects ( GCP)
We are using GCP's container-as-a-service CloudRun.

This morning, we've stopped being able to deploy.
Previously, we would edit a CloudRun service and then select an image uploaded to Google Container Registry to run the service with.

Today, we saw a message in the GCP UI that we, the account owner, cannot do this with the error that we cannot list contents inside our own Google Container Registry.

We went over to Google Container Registry and it still exists . We can see our images. There is some bug where adjacent services in GCP stops letting project owners be able to list GCR images. As it turns out, this has happened to other people without explanation. The linked thread is 5 years ago but it seems GCP still has this issue.
It's using clip to match the text to the image, so you can actually prompt it like you might an art generator. Here's "in the style of greg rutkowski": https://haveibeentrained.com/?search_text=in%20the%20style%2...

In the next few weeks we'll be adding the ability to log in and flag or upload your works (if they aren't there). Those lists will have permissions assigned to them, starting with simple opt-in or opt-out.
You can spot-check a lot of claims with freshman level knowledge of the natural sciences, unit conversion, and arithmetic. But this combination of simple, powerful skills is less common than I would like.
I’ve heard this exact same argument levied at the Gates Foundations (despite acknowledging the good they do), so you’re not the only one.
About once a week I get a mass message from a random twitter account with extremely clear spam (they even leave the group message after they send it!). They are often centered around crypto. I don't know how they are this bad because a Naive Bayesian Classifier could block this stuff.
Hp robot prints construction layouts on site floors
Ethereum Classic hashrate doubled this month ahead of ETH merge
Canva launches direct assault on Microsoft, Google
It could be, but the greater risk is that the children squander the wealth or divert it from its original purpose (assuming the original purpose was a good one), which I'd say from history is more likely to be the case. It also avoids a huge legal battle between heirs and other parties trying to grab pieces, again wasting much of it on lawyers etc.
How so? My understanding of the Chicago School posture is that lower prices to the consumer is the only thing that matters (vs, for example, too high of market share). The Chicago School proposes that no amount of market share is too high so long as prices don't go up (more or less).

This case actually proposes that prices are going up due to Amazon's practices. The path is an interesting one:

* Amazon charges 3rd party sellers high fees

* 3rd party sellers raise their prices on Amazon to recoup

* Amazon requires most-favored-nation status: 3rd parties sell at lower prices through other retailers

* So 3rd parties raise their prices at other retailers.
So netflix should have only paid for DVDs and shipping?
Right. Believe it or don't I'd avoided Spotify until this year. I'm shocked at how bad it is at music discovery for me. Not useless; but close to useless. Sigh.
The problem I have with this is that yes, I understand the possibilty of peverse incentives, but let's look at our real world experience. When we play a game with a smart animal or a child and they figure out how to cheat in order to get their reward we don't suddenly become lobotomized. We see their cheating, and generally find it amusing or cute. In the same way I think it's one thing to say that an AI might cheat to acheive a goal, but it's a completely different thing to say it'll be competent. Like all of this is really interesting, but it kind of assumes a lot.

Let's say that this machine breaks out and decides to take over the world to acheive whatever stupid task we've given it (I'm yet to see an AI ethics paper that doesn't exclusively deal in stupid tasks), do we really think that the AI is going to figure out it's going to need to ensure it stabilizes the power grid before it starts exponentially drawing power to collect buttons or whatever it is?

What is much more likely from our experience is that a basic AGI is going to do something really dumb. And then when we reboot it it'll do something dumb 1000x more times. And maybe eventually it'll do something almost as smart as us. This is what we term childhood.

I think a core part of these ethical papers is that you suppose an AI is generally intelligent, and that it is much more intelligent than anything plausible and never needs to learn from experience. Let me tell you, I'm pretty generally intelligent and I've not taken over the world more times than I can count.
Only in name. SB-9 can be sidestepped by rezoning to RH-2 (two family), but adding requirements that make building anything other than single family infeasible. E.g. https://www.zfplaw.com/blog/2021/12/thinking-of-utilizing-sb...
I love using cash.

Sometimes I don't when my local ATM is down (which seems to happen so often...), but when I can it feels much better to me. No digital records, no potential for this type of skimmer or other scam, don't have to give up my ATM pin, no worrying about my phone running out of charge, able to give it away freely to anyone in need without setting up a digital transfer, the old taco truck still only takes cash, etc.

I will be sad when cash starts to be less accepted. Already there are a (small) number of modern restaurants that don't accept cash in my area.
I dont believe Patagonia uses slave labor in their factories
Is anyone else annoyed that:
- We could have had chip & PIN, but for some reason (I'm guessing it's to do with how merchants take the hit for card fraud and VISA + MC think having to punch in a few numbers each sale will lead to fewer sales)

- Those tap targets on CC readers sometimes aren't where the antenna is, and you have to rub your card all over the reader to get it to work?

- Chip transactions take way longer than tap transactions, like 10 seconds? Why?
> It only matters when billionaires convert that paper into food, housing, jets, etc, for themselves does it actually affect anyone.

Fair point. One thing noting is that overall asset value isn't always directly converted to product/services but rather it's used as leverage. Sometimes this leverage is intangible ("don't f with me, I'm going to sue you"), other times it's very REAL tangible leverage - see Peter Thiel and Gawker.
How does the donation request get more annyoing each year?
I don't get the hate for billionaires, but the two statements are not logically equivalent. A statement implied by the GP comment would be:

"Every person who ever created a successful company and retained ownership of a lot of it, causing them to become a billionaire, is a policy failure".

Presumably the GP only has a problem with that process when it results in someone becoming a billionaire. My guess is that they think people will still found successful companies even if it doesn't result in billionaires, or that the benefits from successful companies will come about some other way.
It may be worth running a magnet over your cards at this point. I can't think of a time I've used the mag-stripe.

The skimmers here have a passthrough hole for the chip which means the mag-stripe only exists to feed the skimmers. So even this use case that gets skimmed isn't even using the mag-stripe itself!

Fuck it. Where's my magnet.
Of course I see a difference between those two; I just don’t think it’s a problem. Over many decades, many millions of people transferred some of their power to Patagonia as a result of their belief that they’d rather have the Patagonia product than the amount of power that money represented. Millions were made better off, by their own value function.
> The part I find amazing is you understand how to make this work in a part of your brain that apparently doesn’t communicate with the conscious understanding part. People can ride a motorcycle and not even understand how to make it turn, yet they do it.

Being able to do a thing is vastly different from being able to explain how to do a thing. If you ask me how I turn on a bike, the real answer is I just have the intention to go that way, and then I start going that way. Lots of other things are like that too; ask someone who is fast at word searches how they do it and it'll be something like "I kind of look at the grid and the word(s) pop out; and if it gets really tough I move my head around a bit and then they pop out" Not very helpful if that's not what happens to you, but it's what I do.
Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009)
https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-...

> The media multiplier effect can, at times, create disinformation storms with potentially dangerous effects for those Russia perceives as adversaries at the international, national, and local level. In the past, Russia has leveraged this dynamic to shield itself from criticism for its involvement in malign activity. This approach also allows Russia to be opportunistic, such as with COVID-19, where it has used the global pandemic as a hook to push longstanding disinformation and propaganda narratives.

Screenshot of a Geopolitica.ru article promoting conspiracy theories around Bill Gates.

> Bill Gates is linked to the COVID-19 outbreak and uses the pandemic to implant microchips “in whole of humanity [sic].” COVID-19 vaccines are a fraud spearheaded by Gates and Big Pharma.

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/virality-project-fina...

> While all nations have engaged in some form of diplomacy or messaging related to vaccines, the Virality Project focused on observing state media and social media networks linked to Russia, China, and Iran. These three nations not only promoted their own efforts, but also attempted to undermine their rivals.

It's not a conspiracy.
Not OP, but I think there are very important environmental impacts that are not related to climate change. Take, for example, plastic in the sea - clearly a big issue for the environment, but addressing climate change will not impact this at all.

Other examples include destruction of habitats, NO2 in the air, dumping waste in nature and rivers, lead that gets into nature etc.
Because it protects you and others around you from disease. Cowards will make up lies and excuses for not taking it, though. I suppose you have to decide who you trust, your doctor, or internet trolls. My guess is, if you ask your doctor, he or she will recommend you take it.
This, and HN in aggregate is pretty right wing, so anything "woke" is bound to trigger a lot of people. I suppose there's always been a libertarian bend here in line tech workers in general, but ever since Trump (and especially Trump's loss), topics vaguely supporting progressive ideas are home to tons of comments airing right-wing grievances.
If someone manages to prove the racists are right then that will be a very weird world to live in and I have no idea how to speculate about it. I’d expect it’s about as likely as someone proving god exists, but I’ve seen overwhelming evidence that people are racist and that that racism permeates society.
Spot on. This should be higher.

I feel crazy sometimes explaining to people that despite all the buzzwords, it’s still just plastic and not great for you.

When I visited the US I went to some very big outdoor stores and their range of clothing made from cotton and other natural fibres was absolutely tiny. Such a shame. (Just as bad at home to be fair)
I would appreciate if articles reviewing cameras did a better job of explaining why the pixel count is just a single (and highly manipulable) measure of imaging merit.

For all the pixel count, no company ever talks about pixel size (physical) and the noise characteristic as a result or the effective resolution. The imaging chip has not gotten physically larger between iPhones, I assume, so the pixels are just dividing the same light into more sites. Is this better?

People who don't know will just assume that 48 MP, well that's better than a Sony A7RIII now, right? Of course not.
Not even formally verified open-source compilers can be trusted (and for the record, in practice, voting machine software does not reach anywhere near such level of security): https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Reflect...

Then you also have to trust the entire supply chain (software AND hardware): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/adding_backdo...

Because the prize is so great, the system has to withstand decades-long attacks by global superpower-level actors. And unlike a bank account, you don't know when you've been hacked.

Once compromised, a smart attacker will stay within the public poll's margin of error - which is much greater for small, local elections through which most politicians have to pass. Think 30% or more, in countries where people have little to fear from answering such polls truthfully. Or venture outside of it, deliberately making the election look stolen to throw a country into chaos.

No system that relies on an un-auditable black box for security can be trusted with elections. This is so blindingly obvious, anyone that says otherwise, no matter how credentialed, is either deluded, corrupt, or malicious.

All this risk, and the benefit is.. what? Countries all over the world manage to vote and tally the results quickly using nothing but paper.

> I'm only referring to electronic machines used to vote, without any internet connection.

If you don't trust the chip fab, how do you check there is no connection? I suspect antennas can be hidden incredibly well, and there are countless side-channels that can be used for communication. And even without antennas, machines are not safe: It is typically introduced to the target environment via an infected USB flash drive, thus crossing any air gap. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Do you trust every PC and every USB drive that comes into contact with the voting machine? And every PC that PC came into contact with, and so on?

Edit: To clarify, paper isn't immune to tampering. But crucially, tampering with it is much harder to hide, and it doesn't scale. Not unless you already have loyal agents controlling most polling stations in a country - at which point, no voting system can save you. But even then, hiding your activity will be hard, unlike if you only have to flip a few bits.
Seems most likely, but there’s nothing I need to say in that scenario. May as well cover the long-odds case in the off chance that I save someone’s life.
You specified on this page that you'd like to do something productive. My strategy has always been to study for my next job WHILE I'm on the current one. Is there any area where you feel weak that studying ahead would help you substantially? I would view a month as a massive gift if I wanted to pull ahead in something.
> Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images

Appropriate headline for an AI-generated illustration.
Other than the entertainment one, substantially less than 90% of people have access to those. Even for the entertainment part, lords and kings had plenty of options (like not woeking 12 to 16 hour days).

But moreover they (and many lower stations) had security, free time, and a lack of precarity that is unavailable to roughly 90% of the population today. This is worth far more than better circuises and ranks about as highly as things like medicine and refrigeration.
Agree GP sounds like it's that time.