skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15103085 - Aug 2017 (8 comments)

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078524 - April 2017 (7 comments)
I've seen systems at Boeing that understand CAD drawings semantically, like how arrows work and what regions are alternate views of what other regions, and whether a drawing is of the nose landing gear or the flap control, all based on scanned drawings from the 50's. So ... yes. Absolutely.
> CAT scans are routine, etc

That's a bug, not a feature. American doctors know that they order too many scans; they know it's harming their patients; but they can't stop doing it because there's a false belief that "more scans == better care".

If you're in England and you need a cat scan you get a cat scan. They're not forbidden.
Unfortunately, it leaves a lot to be desired. I've actually had to do a fair bit of GH access reporting myself recently and I can recommend the GraphQL API as it allows you to properly list direct and indirect permissions on repositories (org + team + direct collaborator) that are alot harder to do with the REST API due to its inconsistent permissions model.
In my current Node.js application I provide a GUI that runs in the browser as well as a command driven terminal interface. The GUI is much better for status updates, receiving changes from events on remote devices, doing many things at once. The terminal is much better for simple things, repetition, and automation.
Partly but also by effort and upbringing
The Construction and Collapse of FTX's Ponzi Through FTT
Good clarification — I was thinking the appointee level because this thread was talking about the overall direction of the FTC, and I was looking for a comparison which most people here would be familiar with where you could see the difference between people who differ in priorities versus those who seem to think the agency should not exist.

I should have clarified that my next sentence was switching to refer to the people who implement policies set by the senior levels: there are many people who do not agree with all of those decisions but will try their best to implement them because they want to make the country more successful or believe that a law needs to be enforced even if someone on their side broke it.
Really tearing off the mask there. Another point into the "free speech until I don't like it" column.

Not to mention not understanding what parody and satire are, of course. To this day there are people who still think Sarah Palin actually said "I can see Russia from my house!" but that doesn't make it not satire.
Are you saying I can't just log into this API and spend $15 * 34810000000000/25 = $20 * 10^12 (e.g. 20 trillion dollars) each year to get all of the planets annual carbon emissions back into the ground as bio-oil?

I kind-of did that calculation as a joke, but the result is actually fascinating to me... that's only about ~20% of global GDP. I expected it to be an impossibly large number, but it's not, e.g. about 10x as much as is spent currently on warfare and military globally.
Certainly Ungray Days incorporates many rhythms, chord progressions, and other structures that are derivative of other works. I think this is true of all pop music though. These strike me as songwriting elements that have withstood the test of time because they work, so I don't necessarily view them negatively - to the contrary I feel that I need a certain number of these familiar elements for music to emotionally resonate with me. What I love about Tsumiki's music is these common pop structures combined with the fast tempo, weird voice, and busy instrumentation. There is chaos unfolding in the music but at the same time it is held together by classic structures that I recognize from older songs. It produces this chaotic yet focused energy that really gets me going. There's definitely nothing complex or groundbreaking in this song in terms of musical structure, but I haven't really come across other music with a similar "vibe", if you will (System of a Down may come closest for me.)
The near-universal understanding in the fandom is that Vocaloid is a not a replacement for human voice, nor is it really aiming to be some sort of faithful emulation of it; rather it is "its own thing", like how a Piano isn't an emulation of human voice, nor is a DAW a replacement for a guitar or whatever.
I miss what.cd :(

When they got killed (after OiNK and the others) is when I mostly stopped listening to new music.
> I was an expensive parachute into a slurry pit.

Such a lovely metaphor. Now that I think about it, I’ve felt like that at times…
Would this likely become a dangerous "recovery" scenario with the plane spinning around on the center axis and accelerating directly towards the ground? This sounds dangerous for any passenger aircraft.
the vocaloid editor is notorious for being really hard to use.
How is it a stretch? Even Apple is admitting that sone of its performance optimizations in the browser may lead to insecurities.

Who is going to make a more secure browser? Google? Firefox? Every other popular browser is just a Chromium reskin outside of Safari and Firefox.
The 75% number was a trial balloon to make the real number (50%) less shocking.
As far as I'm concerned, that tradition is exactly as it has always been.

If you're going to make a claim like that you should say why, and post links, so readers can make up their own minds.
The Twitter Meltdown
I was at a medium-sized company (~100 employees) that laid off ~60% of their employees. Including 95% of the dev team. Everyone could see just how much of a bad move it was, and that was only the first bad move.

Most of the remaining skilled employees started looking for new jobs immediately. They could see the writing on the wall. Others just checked out and stopped caring about their work, doing just the bare minimum. The bulk of the remaining experienced employees were gone within two months.
The people who remained were the lower-level employees, without the experience to keep the company working.

Coincidentally, the company fell apart and went into liquidation 6 months later.
did crypto.randomBytes and .toString('base64url') not exist in 2015?
Ah yes, these companies 100% want to reduce remote work due to productivity issues and not because they want to exert power over there employees. Because, as we all know, there's absolutely no way to measure productivity than by counting how many hours they spend at a physical location.
> I wasn't expecting the events to be mythologized beyond recognition within weeks.

Do you have any experience with the human condition?
I believe this is misleading, yes, reserve requirements are at 0. Capital requirements are not - https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/large-bank-cap...

Reserve requirements are about how much cash they must keep as a percentage of their assets, where capital requirements (which are non-zero) are more relevant to the fraction held in fractional reserve systems and are about ensuring solvency.
Mass formation?
Not sure why this is hard to understand. Their vision is of a house with Tesla solar on the roof, Tesla battery and Tesla car in the driveway all connected with the same app. They would later add other things like heating and cooling.
Oh we're doing the thing where you lie about things that have already been addressed

> Won't happen anytime soon. There's a lot. We have a century's worth, and the uranium price could easily be three times higher, without hardly an impact to utilities, and unlock more reserves and exploration.

A century at 300GW. Quadruple that and it's 25 years. Replace 2/3rds of electricity and it's under 20. And those are reserves at a price 3 times higher. New lower level reserves will be even more expensive to the point where the LCOE of solar is around the raw uranium price.

> Won't be effective for producing electricity. Might only be ~30% efficient.

...Which is why I suggested it for the 20-30% of primary energy that is low grade heat where it is 100% efficient.

> This not an indictment of nuclear power as a whole. American nuclear reactors have a ~90% capacity factor.

If you want the anomalous US reliability, then you can't pretend you're going to pay historic french or japanese prices. Also what's the capacity factor of US nuclear reactors where construction started this century?

> Wind is reasonable but don't forget that reactors can last a ridiculously long time ~75 years. Wind turbines might only last ~20 years in a corrosive environment.

When individual unplanned repairs, or regular planned maintenance for a decade, or mid life refurbs cost more than an entire new wind turbine, this is a massive downside, not an upside. Pre-paying for 75 years worth of electricity rather than 25 means you can only build out a third of the capacity (or a twelfth given the much higher user facing cost per kWh even if you can find the cash to keep hiding the larger hidden costs)

But before you can start gaslighting about the economics you have to demonstrate that it's physically possible. Which you have not done.

Nuclear can make a small contribution, but it cannot meet the scale of renewables.
Yes and this shows how he is narrowly smart, like all us humans
That’s why I’m an asshole/nice centrist :)
Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/HQhmGIW7MVU

Also, does he not have lawyers or public relations?
Are browsers the same as app stores? Are browsers designed to search for vetted web apps and provide an environment for them to run without the browser bulk? Are browsers designed for ease of purchase? Are alternative browsers supposed to be competition for app stores?
The people stuck renting who can't afford to retire
> the people who work the least are those who make the most effort at being seen

Not necessarily, but there’s certainly something to the unreasonable effectiveness of ‘just showing up’.
Putin is not as stupid as Musk. He's causing the EU to fracture a bit more as Hungary and Poland break with the EU on boycotting Russian gas/oil. The EU has already spun off the UK thanks to Russian propaganda. If Trump had won his reelection NATO wouldn't be long for the world either.

Plus, if you look at the way Musk got played recently to spread Russian talking points about Ukraine in order to protect his precious Starlink from weapons Russia probably doesn't even have, it becomes somewhat more obvious how the comparison breaks down.
Strong typing maybe? Depends on what you define these terms to be. For me. Static typing is a compiler that verifies your types are correct. Neither Python nor JavaScript has this. Python allows for type annotations, which is very different. It has no (builtin) enforcement. JavaScript has no type pins whatsoever, TypeScript does. There is a proposal to add types to JavaScript but that's not approved AFAIK
> They really ought to get around to building that transatlantic track

In the past, concepts for a transatlantic tunnel that is used by advanced trains were conceived:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel
Not just airlines, but other types of points or even Amazon gift cards.
Did meta lay off productive ICs or just recruiters and similar?
You are being weirdly antagonistic about this. Do you work for Docker? Random search result counts (not unique users btw) have nothing to do with a reproducible bug in Docker. Why are you so caught up on this? You are welcome to go to the issue queue in GitHub to read the steps to reproduce for yourself if you want.
look through it carefully as the forensics section is most interesting.....
Amazon is a two-sided market. I don’t think “monopoly” is a good description of a company that’s also a monopsony.

There’s more of an argument that it’s a monopoly employer, but they’ve been raising wages.
Every Noise at Once: ASMR
> Given that there is no shortage of jobs for engineers

Where are these jobs? At startups that see they may not get another round of funding soon? At unprofitable recently IPOd unicorns that are losing money and cutting back staff? At Amazon (where I work) that just announced a hiring freeze? At Google where they admitted over hiring?
A few (or even many) companies creating accounts or servers with which to promote their products or services does not strike me as an existential threat to Mastodon, the ActivityPub network, or the wider Fediverse. People don't have to follow or interact with them. Users can block accounts or domains. Server admins can block other servers.

I do see other dangers though. Here are a couple bad scenarios I don't think there are adequate safeguards to handle gracefully:

Spammers, trolls, Nazis, etc... buy domains and spin up servers in an automated manner for the sole purpose of abuse. We saw that with email and while most of us get fairly little spam now it still isn't solved. To make matters worse, it's hard for anyone with a new email server to deliver to the existing big ones.

A VC-backed startup and/or existing big tech company decides to embrace, extend, and extinguish the protocol.
Hey OP, you’ve got a great project going! But have you considered that you might be violating TailwindUI’s license?

I’m not sure either but bringing it your attention, just in case you might be.

The License that TailwindUI provides (https://tailwindui.com/license) states:

Examples of usage not allowed by the license:

- Creating a "website builder" project where end users can build their own websites using components or templates included with or derived from Tailwind UI.

A way to circumvent this would be to create a branding and a design system for Postcard that looks distinct [as much as possible from TailwindUI components] and adhere to that design system for everything. Just use TailwindUI for the primitive blocks, not the design.
Doubt that there are any old school Sand Hill firms engaging in those kinds of ‘traditions’, and still around.

Do you have a source?
Make Law Mathematical
They met on The Met
I too had the inclination to include that one, but I hesitate because in theory, IMHO, it would be useful to know the language used for each software announcement on HN. In practice, putting the language used into a title is pure hype. Almost invariably, I still have to manually check source listings to confirm what language is being used. Lord only knows how much time I waste checking only to find the project is written in some language I do not use. Today HN titles may be likely to contain "written in Rust" but not long before they frequently contained "written in Go".
Rubio, Gallagher are introducing legislation to ban TikTok from use in the US
I feel like everyone with any common sense has known this forever, but everyone has been trying to ride the cheap money train for as long as possible. The question is who gets off in time and who is stuck on the train when it rides off the tracks? Has the train already left the last station?

I agree with DHH that there may indeed be a reckoning coming for these companies that can't find a way to even out those balance sheets. It's very easy to lose hundreds of millions a year and say it's all because of growth. But with interest rates way up and investment banks not willing, or not able to throw you more and more funding lifelines, companies simply aren't going to be able to do that for long.

I also think it's silly how many people chase multi-billion-dollar unicorn status instead of "settling" for building a smaller yet still highly profitable and stable software company. But I also grew up in a sensible but sleepy Midwest college town and not Silicon Valley.
Good question and I should have been more clear. The drug itself is $300,000-$500,000. It’s crazy expensive, but it’s not like a hedge fund patenting 100 year old insulin or something, it’s a bespoke medication. I still think they are price gouging however.

The medical care would likely add another $500,000.

https://ashpublications.org/ashclinicalnews/news/3469/CAR-T-...

All in about $1,000,000 per patient.

There were some drama in England about NICE not willing to put the medication on NHS formulary because of the sheer expense. Is it better to treat 1000 diabetics or one cancer patient?

https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2018/09/21/Novart...

They ultimately approved it.
'What is Mastodon and why are people leaving Twitter for it?'
They pretend they want tags be about semantics and not style. And yet and yet, they still refuse to add the "sarcasm" tag.
It's dense, but here's a good paper on it: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25505

And here's a more accessible article about the relationship: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-low-interest-rates-c...
Certainly not knocking rust analyzer – it's great! I think the missing piece of node versus Java is Java has first class support for threading, so I guess it depends if your system is IO or CPU bound, but for CPU bound systems, Java is certainly better than node. My naive understanding of Java's Jit and nodes jit is that Java's has more optimizations for CPU bound workloads, where a lot of v8s optimizations have gone into faster parsing and initial loading because that's an important use case for the web compared to Java which is mostly optimizing for the server use case at this point.
Sorry, was bleeding over from another post.

I'm not really sure what unfair is, though, to answer your question.
LH2-Powered Aircraft
I've been using Apache Airflow for CI. It's a square peg in a lot of ways but I like that it's python and I like I can run it locally and iterate by just rerunning a single task instead of the whole pipeline.

Pretty much everything is just a @task decorated python function or a KubernetesPodOperator but sometimes I imagine I'll write CI-focused operators, e.g. terraform.
Fontfaces aren't copywritable in the US.
Yeah an attacker may be able to use their own personal dual SIM Pixel phone to bypass the SIM lock screen for a stolen SIM card that they don't know the PIN or PUK code to using a similar technique, but like you said, I'm almost certain that it wouldn't actually let them use it to send and receive texts (and if it does, then that's really an issue in the SIM card's OS, considering anyone could just modify AOSP to ignore the SIM lock screen and then put that on their own phone.)

Even still, being able to bypass the SIM lock screen would still be a bug, just not a vulnerability. Google doesn't pay bounties for non-security related bugs to the best of my knowledge, but I can't help but feel this is still not an ideal way to design the system. It likely is fine today, but as strix_varius said, these kind of assumptions are what led to this vulnerability in the first place. Vulnerabilities do pop up from time to time in otherwise well-designed systems, but this lock screen bypass never would have been present in the first place had better design practices been followed. As krajzeg said [1], The whole process and the nature of the fix doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the security of Pixel/Android in general.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545685
My favourite, and quite hilarious:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/30/voeltzko...
The FTC decree isn't related to free speech. It was a part of a settlement the FTC reached with Twitter regarding their mishandling of customer data[1].

The original article is anticipating a messy collision Twitter's legal obligations to the FTC and Musk's inscrutable product development roadmap given the recent employee churn (both layoffs and exits from key roles, e.g. CISO, CPO, & CCO.)

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2011/03/...
Let's say land ownership gave you complete ownership of the infinite wedge of space extending down from your plot of land to the center of the earth and extending up from your plot of land out to infinity. We might give this imaginary system a fancy latin name: the ad coelum doctrine.

In this world air travel would be next to impossible because you would need to find routes where you could negotiate passage with every land owner between point A and point B. That is obviously undesirable, cheap air travel is incredibly socially beneficial.

This was the way common law worked for centuries. But once we invented air travel we quickly realized it was absurd and sharply restricted property rights and this does not seem to have been a particularly big blow to "liberal democracy". when you have a bad law it is perfectly fine to realize you have made a mistake and then change the law.

Our current system is absurd, "we've got a scientific database duct-taped together by a fucking grad student in hiding, and AFAICT nearly every researcher uses it", let's change the law and take ourselves to a somewhere less absurd timeline.
During their closed alpha (or was it beta?), Spotify’s library consisted of some sort of superset of the (illegal) music collections of their staff. If I recall correctly, you would even get hits by searching for scene release groups in the search bar.

Once this ended and they went legal, I left Spotify and never looked back as about half of my music library was gone overnight. It taught me a valuable lesson early on in life about subscription services and “not owning” your digital files.
Dr Chad Rigetti to Resign
Which problem goes back to not regulating greed well enough. I need other greedy bastards to jump out of bed with a new idea on how to make a buck, i just don't want them to take $1.10 when they do it...
It feels like every time there's a crypto exchange exit-scam/fail/crash/run/fraud, someone says "but this one felt safe/different/better than the others".

I (genuinely) wonder how many more times that will happen?
Elastic Cloud Services: Scaling Snowflake’s Control Plane
Mikgazer is a pretty popular shoegaze album.
There's plenty, but they're a bit harder to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPYqrVDlc_4
Probably back-forming from geological sense
What do you estimate is a fair price?
> To maximize your expected value, you must aim for it and then march blindly forth, acting as if the fabulously lucky SBF of the future can reach into the other, parallel, universes and compensate the failson SBFs for their losses. It sounds crazy, or perhaps even selfish—but it’s not. It’s math. It follows from the principle of risk-neutrality. [0]

I think he figured in a million realities, the expected value is net very large. He just happens to live in a reality where it collapsed, but how much of his wealth is due to these games? I don't know if the probabilistic method is common among EA. For instance, if you gave me a chance to bet my entire net worth on a 51% odds game, sure the expected return is positive and if i had a million realities and netted everything out, I should take the bet. But most people would see that as insane

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181046/https://www.sequo...
"The White House deleted it because they got caught in a lie."

Worse, they got caught in a truth
Url changed from https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Artic..., which points to this.
In fairness, that's on teams to manage. Coordination is possible.
I wouldn't expect caching vs. cache ping-ponging to be an easy and clear-cut decision in any language, and any external dependency is thus possibly an issue there.
Mastodon does remind me a bit of the web prior to web 2.0. While using it recently I recognized the same community-scent and tools-scent and then later, a similar conceptual-outcomes scent. There is a lot of opportunity not just in the software but in its unfolding concept.

If you had a tilde website in the late 90s or early 00s you might know what I mean here; you may be at someone's mercy for service quality but it's also your own stuff and people can find you and your simple content in simple ways. So it starts to get fun to have this kind of platform for your voice.

And where there's fun, there will be a 2.0 involving additional widgets, this is a law of the universe.

(I also feel like open microblogging never really got a fair shake, due to the emergence of walled-garden social networks around the same time. And Mastodon happens to be very good for open microblogging)