skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between financial audits, especially at a massive organisation's scale, and process/compliance audits.

The claims in that article from Senate aides are a bit misleading, as it's not that unexpected or unreasonable for a department as large and complex as the Pentagon to take years to reach 100% clean audits. After all, it took DHS a decade. It's because interventions don't take effect immediately, with process changes taking time to be planned, rolled out, and have an impact on reporting. As long as the trend keeps moving upward the country is better off than not having audits.

The US DoD as a whole has always done a huge amount of compliance auditing both internally and of suppliers, as well as financial auditing at most project and unit levels, outside of the new Congress-mandated top-level auditing requirement.
This is pure ad hominem.

Are his claims false? Is his reasoning unsound?
I can't find any articles about this. It seems unlikely these thefts were ignored for so long that someone managed to track down over 100 cars and drive them all the way to Germany, and that it still wasn't reported anywhere in the papers or news.
I've switched from Java coding to DevOps, and I must say that the complexity level dropped like a rock for me. I won't lie, it still gets complicated, but I'll take troubleshooting Docker or Apache over Spring annotations, any day.
I appreciate it wasting less precious energy. But this change also means that "Decentralisation" and "Power to the people" are fading away right?

The wealthy actors are the ones dictating the transaction now and they also on top get paid for being rich. This does not sound like a "better financial system" for me. Also, don't forget the DAO Fork[0] where with the "ungovernable Blockhain" it was decided a transaction was not ok and it was removed?!

[0] https://ethereum.org/en/history/#dao-fork
LED Luminaiaries

The standard GB/T 17743-2021 “Limit and Methods of Measurement of Radio Disturbance Characteristics of Electrical Lighting and Similar Equipment” (hereinafter referred to as “the new version of the standard”) which is applicable to the CCC certification of lighting appliances (10 lighting equipment) was released on December 31, 2021. This standard will come to force from July 1st, 2022, replacing GB/T17743-2017 (hereinafter referred to as the “old version of the standard”).

From July 1, 2022, new applications for certification shall be certified according to the GB/T 17743-2021 standard and issue a new version of the certificate. For products that have been certified according to the old version of the standard, the license holder should submit the application for the conversion of the new version of the standard in time, and complete the certification conversion according to the relevant resolutions of TC10 after the implementation date of the standard and before the end of the first follow-up inspection. All the certificate conversion of the old version of the standard should be completed by July 1, 2023 at the latest. For certified products that have been shipped from the factory, put on the market and are no longer in production before July 1, 2022, no certificate conversion is required.

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I think it would be better if these tools simply generated UI functions that could be named and used ala command list in editor. I think future UIs will be just talking and asking to find from big list of commands. Where AI will be able to navigate API from graphQL/OpenAPI description and maybe automatically plot data you want.
You have nothing to hide ... vs who?

Look at the recent Minecraft chat bans discussion. On one side those who want a "kid safe" environment. On the other side those who are having fun in small communities on private servers. Turns out what they do there can now earn them a global ban.

Also usually those who have "nothing to hide" tend to be the kind that would impose their values on the society as a whole. At gunpoint if possible.
Yup. And beyond that, once you get your stakeholders to express their needs clearly enough to cover all corner cases, what you basically have done is programming. Except the source code is in English than in C or Java or what have you, but it's just as complex to understand.
Ory, Keycloak, Authelia and bunch of others come to mind if that's exactly what you're looking for.
From September 1, 2022, Decree No. 113 "List of Compulsory Certification of Telecommunication Equipment" issued by the Russian government on February 4, 2022 will come into force. Decree No. 113 updated the list of products for the Compulsory Certification of Telecommunication Equipment (CoC), which replaced the list in the previous Decree No. 532. There is little difference between the two versions. Some wording in the product list has been updated, as follows:

1. " #Equipment that counts the amount of #communication data in the public network（оборудование, используемое для учёта объёма оказанных услуг связи в сетях связи общего пользования）" is changed to "Telecommunication equipment that has a measurement function and can count the amount of communication data provided by operators in the public network（средства связи с измерительными функциями, учитывающие объём оказанных услуг связи операторами связи в сетях связи общего пользования）"

2."Base Station and Repeater（Базовые станции и ретрансляторы）" has been renamed as "Base Station and Repeater Equipment（Оборудование базовых станций и ретрансляторов）"
#telecommunication #network #measurement

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If you run non-async (blocking) code in a fiber, then it will block the underlying OS thread.

Functions need to be compiled in a special way and use IO in a very specific way (async io) in order for them to be properly runnable by fibers.

This specific way is commonly referred to as "async", or "nonblocking", and all functions in Go are that way, including all IO functions available in the stdlib.
How can you do any transactions at all without trusted intermediaries? You have to trust government, banks, paypal... something.

Or you can start trusting the individuals at the other side of the transaction. Perhaps these folks who do not have experience can also benefit from your exp... Oh wait, you've become an intermediary?

Cryptocurrency is just an asset that you can sell nearly everywhere in the world. But it depends on electricity, is volatile in value, and has long transaction times. It's just an inferior cash, except the fact that it's not physical so border control can't take it away from you. If you are optimizing for that... Maybe there can be a simpler solution? Buy art shares? I don't know.
Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule, and his M2 MacBook Air
In addition to understanding the importance of giving, it is essential to know how to donate money to NGOs that benefits the poor and the needy in the best possible manner. When you donate to food NGOs in India, you lend a significant helping hand in uprooting hunger and bringing child welfare to underprivileged communities with limited resources. By contributing to an NGO like Annamrita, which works relentlessly to provide mid-day meals in schools, you can improve the state of health, nutrition, and education for children in India. Taking the right step ahead is all we need to achieve much-needed socio-economic growth.
The free market hasn’t been operating and never will operate with the restrained controls on energy usage that you outline though.

Besides, there’s so many more useful things to do with that cheap renewable energy at times of low demand - synfuels, desalination, etc - that we should definitely see what else the free market can come up with given negative energy prices, rather than propping prices up by running pointless hash-computers for some speculative investment scam.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a good Bluetooth travel keyboard?
I am working on the go quite frequently and have a nice “portable workstation” (calling the System 76 “Serval” a laptop seems misleading). I need to cut down on weight a little and no longer want to pack my quite heavy and corded Logitech “PRO KEYBOARD”.

What I am looking for is a lighter alternative that supports Bluetooth and is suitable for coding. The “MX Keys” might work, but I'm sure there must be better alternatives from other vendors, too.
What forums let you do that? Every forum I use (all based on Xenforo, admittedly) don't allow file uploads period, except for a small avatar. All other content must be embedded through external links. Which Discord also supports.

Not sure where the paywalling of forum features is happening there.
Well that's easy: a 2kW Bitcoin miner heats your house just as well as a 2kW electric furnace.

(I'm kidding but I'm also not; I'm regularly amazed by the fact that the most complex and intricate computational machines have exactly the same 'output' as the most basic 'heat this piece of metal' contraptions, when looked at as a blackbox.)
Ask HN: What is the lowest hill you're willing to die on?
I remember this question being asked on Twitter a few years back, so though it might be interesting to see what's HN's take on it.

By "lowest" I mean the one least relevant and consequential in the real world. As an example, this is mine:

I can't stand the acronym FAANG for a number of reasons:

- Netflix is not really on the same level as the other companies any more, if it ever was; it's there only to provide a pronounceable (and non-offensive) acronym.
- Facebook is now Meta, and the company seems to be doing everything they can do distance themselves (as an entity) from the brand.
- IMO, Meta itself is evil, and I don't think it should be grouped together with the others. But this is purely subjective, and others might have different valid opinions.
- It doesn't include Microsoft, which is bigger and more powerful than at least three other companies listed.

I have been (unsuccessfully) trying to promote a different acronym: GAMA, for "Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple"; or GAMMA, if it absolutely has to include Meta.

What's yours? :)
Eight States Are Seeding Clouds to Overcome Megadrought (2021)
Today over 2500 cars are stolen every year in our small state, and it was 10k in 2012 and 2013 and 8.5k in 2014, and suddenly decreased to 3k in 2017 (just around the time the guy from the bar went to prison)... Why is it so unlikely? They didn't do it at once - it was over years. There's a case such as this every few years - usually they just use brute force or key skimmers though, this one was unusually technical.

The guy from the bar said driving in Germany was the easiest part, since they paid off the border guards and the German highway police doesn't bother you too much if you don't do anything stupid. That's true from my experience too - even when I was driving 250 km/h all around the country they never stopped me. The local police here is doing random stops and checks much more.
If you just need oauth2 + openid connect, you can install a library from your Open Source package repository of choice.
Feels like arpanet atm, so give it some time.
https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timel...
In fact, it is precisely the reverse of that: it's not a buyer of last resort, it's an energy price FLOOR. Any energy that you could sell to a customer, must be sold above "y". And so it is with computer hardware - any top or near top wafer capacity item you may want to buy must be above "Y" (what a crypto miner would pay for it). And this is why we saw massive price hikes for consumer computer tech in the last two years.

And is this way - a price floor - and not the way you describe it, because of the economic incentives of miners. They have already paid for these captial intensive mining rigs, and to best turn a profit they must be running at all times. The marginal cost of mining is important, but given the capital costs (incl depreciation of hardware!) you cannot ignore it.

Basically, your explaination is a failure of first order thinking. To a first order approximation, only the marignal cost of mining matters and thus the scenario you describe is true. However, you must include the second and nth order effects of capex to truly match reality.
Does anyone know whether we will see an immediate jump in transactions per second due to this?
Many anti-vaxxer are politically motivated, in a venn diagram you can find them in the same region with the anti-globalist, national socialists, radical leftist, libertarians, anti-americans, science-sceptics etc.

The overlap is not exact, that's why I say use a venn diagram but essentially anything anti-establishment has a anti-vaxxer component since vaccinse are considered establishments' game.
> Credit card transactions may at some point involve cryptography, but at the bottom is the credit card number, and that can still be exposed.

That's not really "at the bottom of things", for physical, customer-present transactions which I was talking about there. At the bottom of things are private keys stored on the card, which sign the transaction. Exposing the credit card number gets you no more than having someone's cryptocurrency wallet address, in fact a lot less as you can't look up their balance. The idea that credit card transactions are simply the handing over of a number, that a merchant can then do with whatever they like, is very outdated, though I guess still makes sense in countries that haven't moved on from magnetic strips.

Yes, plugging in your card number online to buy things is still distressingly popular for various reasons, I agree we should definitely get rid of it. And we can! Either by reforming the credit card payment process in the sort of way Apple Pay online payments and Paypal already have (though they still use the numbers themselves, it's true), or by ditching cards entirely and going with things like open banking payments and pix, which tend to have OAuth under the covers (among other measures) that don't involve 'card' infrastructure at all.

The question was how you design a system from the ground up that will "allow for secure payments without giving away something like a bank account # or debit card number". Well, I would use these sorts of technologies (that already exist and are in widespread use), rather than a blockchain.
What will be Big Pharma's next move to bring revenue up again? The monkeypox certainly fizzled out to nothing.

I'm asking this because Big Pharma and certain high-profile individuals made it clear in print and televised US media both before and during Covid that we had best start getting used to these kinds of pandemics, because they would become recurring.
Not really, primes are pillars of all the numbers.

If you think of positive integers as having only multiplication (a semi group I guess), then prime numbers are the building blocks
so you just read an article about someone giving away a 1.5B revenue company, and paying 17+M taxes on it to give it political power, and you are here telling us they are not poor because they did get some revenue out of this company they have been running until they gave it away to charity? Are you ok?
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The mass media has made us vaccinate against something that was as risky as common cold to us.
> But this change also means that "Decentralisation" and "Power to the people" are fading away right?

But it was always like this, also with proof of work. PoS and PoW are both just variations of "proof of resources", which in turn is a convenient substitution for likelihood that one's voting power is independent.

If you want to give "power to the people", you need some way of estimating independent voting power, that is not tied to resources.
Let's talk about this in 10 years when it becomes plainly obvious that that is exactly what it's going to do.

In the meantime you could actually do some research on it and discover that you might not have a clue what you're talking about. Or don't, it makes little difference to the outcome.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-03/methan...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/lancium-raises-150-million-f...

https://medium.com/@magusperivallon/a-financial-hail-mary-fo...
Even moreso: Microsoft actively retarded development in the field.

Before Microsoft, if it didn't work, you sent it back and demanded a refund. Crashing was plenty reason to demand and get a refund.

It was Microsoft that got people to blame themselves when things didn't work ("did you try rebooting?") and never, ever offering a refund. Microsoft got people used to "defragmenting" their disks. (Nobody has ever needed to defrag a Linux filesystem.)

Remember when it came out that Windows 95 would crash all by itself if left running for, what, 39 days? Nobody had ever got it to work for that long. Before Microsoft, a crash meant you had to reboot, and that meant a product failure. After, crashing didn't even have a name, and I was shocked to learn that "crashing" now meant you had to reinstall the OS, which everybody just did regularly, in case it might fix something.

So, no: Bill Gates provided strictly negative value for his $billions.
Yep, a single digit amount of entities/wallets have majority control over the network.

"64% of staked ETH controlled by five entities"

https://cointelegraph.com/news/64-of-staked-eth-controlled-b...
Mining requires capital too
I suppose they made some money by running these cards..
They stand to get SOME of the initial investment back, unlike BTC ASICs, they are basically worthless outside of BTC mining..
Have you heard of heatpumps?
There are lots of babies who can’t breastfeed efficiently unfortunately.

They slowly run out of energy while trying to suck and you only realize in horror when they don’t wake up from
their hypoglycaemic “nap” by themselves anymore.

Breastfeeding is a wonderful thing and it’s an important default more mothers should be able to practice for as long as they and their child need and want to.

It’s also a highly complex process that often even a lactation consultant won’t be able to “fix”.

So yeah no shame, just empathy for all involved.

Feeding suddenly gets 1000x harder especially when deciding to go down the commendable road of pumping. All while potentially suffering from additional knock-on effects from lack of often very effective comforting-through-breastfeeding for example.

Even if health, general well-being and circumstances allow getting breast milk into a baby over even just the minimally recommended time can be one of the hardest things you’ll ever witness your partner go through.

For the lucky - majority I’m hoping - it can be both very fulfilling and sensual bonding probably even relaxing to the mother as well.

Be very thankful if that’s so in your case.
anything that doesn't involve cows is not a classical vaccine
Same thing every belligerent discovered during WW1 once the introduced steel helmets instead of leather.
Maintaining contract performance is a full-time job. In this post, we will go over the performance of a contract in detail and explain how to manage it effectively using a contract lifecycle management system.
Ungovernable doesn’t mean that the people involved can’t decide what to do. “Ungovernable “ meeans an external party can’t force them to do something they don’t want.

The dao fork proves this because some people decided not to roll back and forked the chain instead. The ecosystem decided which fork was the main fork but they both live on.
Could you go into more detail or provide references on where I could read up more on how banks do this? I've always wondered why we hear a lot about crypto exchanges getting hacked, but seldom about banks. What is it that banks are doing right (or crypto exchanges doing wrong) in terms of security?
I think many people see GitHub Copilot as a code generator, without having used it, and then wonder like you.

But afaik almost everybody uses it as autocomplete on steroids.

So the reasoning behind using it is the exact same as using autocomplete in I.e. Intellij.

It's just slightly more powerful, since it will usually autocomplete the whole line (occasionally a bit more), instead of just the current keyword.
EU stonewalls over von der Leyen’s role in multibillion-euro Pfizer vaccine deal
Same experience in university. I had no prior programming experience and the professor insisting on the use of BlueJ caused me to repeat that course because I did not get the concept of object oriented programming at all.

The following year I got a different prof who used Eclipse and things started making sense.
Except cryptography usually rely on mathematical proofs. I'm not aware of such possibility for distributed systems. I know Lamport did work on that subject, but i'm not sure if you can equate a TLA+ proof on some properties to a mathematical proof about the structure of numbers, nor do i know if ethereum even has a TLA+ proof or equivalent of anything regarding the PoS protocol (i honestly don't know, so i may be completely wrong).
I may have misunderstood. I thought we were talking about an AI output that might be substantially similar to an original used to train the AI. If we're considering only the use of the original as a training image, then I don't know if that would infringe.
I agree, which is why I find a neurologist stating in certain terms "it's not psychosomatic" strange.
If this works for ETH, I don't believe there's a real reason why this couldn't work for BTC **

** big asterisk here as I have spent no time trying to understand how they made it work for ETH and how/if this actually applies to BTC..
This is a good overview of traffic steering methods. It would be nice to see an indepth article on whichever option you chose for your project.
The economic system that creates billionares is the problem, not the billionaires themselves. But because the issue is that wealth suppresses wages, the easiest visualization and embodiment of wealth is billionaires.

> Why shouldn’t creating that much value in the world result in the owners collectively benefiting?

Billionaires make money from both value creation and value capture, but it can be argued pretty convincingly that value capture is how billionaires make their money rather than value creation. In fact, there's plenty of examples where value is created but not captured (open source being one of them) that lead you to realize that massive value creation isn't possible with just one person, but massive value capture is. Even superstar value creators like Einstein or Beethoven were ultimately just contributors to a larger scientific or musical community.

When considering economic policy, you have to think of it as value capture, value creation, and value distribution. And while it's nice to think of value capture as "the capture of the value you create", the reality is that value capture can be any systemic transfer of wealth. Gambling is a prime example of a transfer of value without any creation of it.

Billionaires are actually not the problem; the problem is that wealth captures too much value compared to wages, which then produces economic conditions of slavery.
You should check your vitamin D levels
On the other hand consuming huge amounts of face masks generates a lot of emissions which will have negative effect in future. The question is if those measures are actually net positive in case of influenza or we just kill more people later by air pollution and climate change.
> Still waiting for Apple to allow restricting network access (both cellular and WiFi) for specific apps on all devices

I think you will find you are partially mistaken here.

Apple have provided the ability to disable cellular access from day one. Its right there for you as an option and has always been there (look under Settings->Mobile Data, you can toggle on/off for each specific app).

Additionally, Apple have always provided the ability to disable background data refresh for apps. In other words, this takes you 3/4 of the way to providing the ability to restrict WiFi access.

I know its cool to Apple bash, but at least get your facts right before you jump on the bandwagon.