skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any kind of commercial gain can be considered "profit". 10ct/month from an ad banner is considered a commercial activity in Germany and courts treat it as such, with consequences like Impressumspflicht (need to publish personal data, tax number, phone and fax number of the person responsible for a website) and DSGVO applicability. Same for indirect "profit": there have been judgements that considered blogging a commercial activity if the topic of the blog is similar to the dayjob of the blogger because the blog is considered an advertisement to a future employer or customer.

Therefore I would consider any kind of open source contribution by an IT professional a commercial activity. Only if the open source contribution is strictly a hobby and your normal job involves nothing IT-like at all you'd maybe be safe.
Tell what? I am not sure I am following you... can you be more specific?
It should
You can fun the web & collector in hub & spoke mode, where the webapp runs within a VM/container, and the collector runs on the host.

Someone posted about some issues they're running into wiht ESXI & smartctl recently -- https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny/issues/388

but that wasn't scrutiny related from what I can see.
> Dominos is still terrible from a gourmet food perspective.

They're not trying to be gourmet food, they're trying to be fast food. They were very bad by even that low standard, and they became better by that standard. I'm still not a fan, but to give credit where credit is due, they did improve.
Bingo.

The only way to be profitable is to fee transactions.

There are a magnitude more ways to be unprofitable, however, and because of rampant incompetence, the the scales are clearly favoring the bold/gullible holding large bags of those who have fleeced.
Of all the problems listed in critiques of fiat currency, what percent is just banking?

Seems hard to try to disentangle money and how money gets managed at scale.
GitHub Actions: Deprecating save-state and set-output commands
It's supposed to remind you of Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

As nonameiguess already pointed out, your answer disputes ekianjo's claim, as the peak in your graph was 1999.
Your first instinct was right, they come with little steel squares with individual letters pre-etched, and when you receive them you arrange them yourself into your seed phrase
It feels like dogs know just when we need them most. Well they might experts say
Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript/TypeScript bundler, runtime, package manager, and transpiler focused on being being fast and a drop-in replacement for Node. Much of it is written from scratch in Zig.

Bun also adds many runtime APIs like a builtin websocket server, FFI, Bun.mmap, SQLite, Bun.Transpiler and more.

`bun dev` let’s you use bun’s transpiler for frontend code

`bun install` is an npm client you can use with Node and it installs packages 20x - 100x faster than npm/yarn/pnpm

`bun run` let’s you run package.json scripts really fast

(I work on Bun)
> But the WHOLE point of crypto was to avoid governmental control

I think from a purist perspective that is true. I said this upthread but what people really want is more USD in their checking account. These exchanges are a place where they can roll the dice and maybe make that happen. As I said before, i bet 95% of the people burned couldn't care less about the philosophical aims of crypto currencies and just want a chance to get rich (in USD).
Exactly. Also many said 'engineers are not affected!'. I'm sorry to say they are.

The delusion and denial about how this is not a tech crash in 2022 is really quite hilarious and I do not believe that it is over just yet.
> because god forbid anybody diverge from the "glass monolith" design.

A few years ago my building's elevators were breaking down and had to be completely replaced. The new ones have a touchscreen that only ever displays the floor numbers, and real buttons that only go up to 9 (in a grid like a phone) where you have to hit two of them to go to floors 10+.
Now you get to buy weird "gaming cases" and who knows how bulky those are, and if they even work (random obvious SEO link thing: https://www.imore.com/best-gaming-cases-iphone-13-pro )
No, because the USD market price is psychological, just like the stock market [1].

And no, BTC is not the reserve currency; Ethereum is. Nearly all of these "crypto tokens" are just ERC-20 contracts that run as contracts on the Ethereum network. They're not even cryptocurrencies, just contracts with sets of rules that mimic the properties of a currency.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mr-market.asp
> When the bank goes bust there's insurance on your deposits

Usually it covers only limited amount, not full deposit. In US it seems to be generous $250 000 but in other countries it is much lower (e.g. just about $20 000 here).

> gold is practically hard to work with and barely functions as an inflation hedge

And deposit interest rates are often below inflation in developed countries.
Agreed 100%, but troughs are good for other things besides feeding pigs. I hope the actually innovative, non-scam projects don't have their name tarnished too much by all the pigs.
More than a decade ago? You know it was used in the 90s and early 2000s, right? And yes, it once had a reputation for being slow.
Can we acknowledge that both of those options are utter trash compared to conventional banking, though?

The system that the crypto advocates hate on, but provides 250k per person + per bank + per account type as insurance by default to all registered financial institutions?
as LambdaComplex mentioned, yes Scrutiny can differentiate between NVME, ATA and SCSI drives & SMART metadata/attributes
Up until recently for ETH this was non tenable given the gas fees.
What you are saying is:"Privacy exists only for the people who can afford it."
You do know there are fireproof safes that you can keep in your home right?
that's exactly what I'd expect from the users of an exchange called crypto.com
I think it depends on your goals.

I mean, do you store all your cash under your bed in case your bank go bust? People keep crypto on the exchange because it makes transactions easier, and in some cases you might have other perks such as being able to lend it for interest or spend it with crypto credit cards.

This idea that you can have a digital currency without some kind of bank or exchange is fundamentally flawed imo. Unless you believe the only valid usecase of crypto is as a digital alternative to physical gold then it probably makes more sense on an exchange. The main issue here is that the exchanges are not regulated.

But I suppose given the lack of regulation I would have to agree with you that the only safe use case right now is as a "store of value" in a cold wallet.
Second vote for a blog!
Lightning network already works well for me, I use it on the internet regularly, and I bought a coffee with it on the street a few days ago.

I would happily pay a bit for Mastodon if I needed, but for me Twitter is good enough though for now.
Jeff Bezos vows to give away most of fortune – and hands Dolly Parton $100M
This is going to be an interesting week or two in the crypto world.
As far as I know, Coinbase works this way. They don't transact, trade, or create derivatives of the crypto coins they manage. They simply make a profit by charging a fee per trade. They are regulated and a publicly traded company (which means certain standards of accounting) so they might be one of the only ones standing when this thing is done falling down.

These other exchanges are doing far more exotic things like creating their own coins to grant status on their exchange and creating derivatives so traders have more leverage and therefore action. Coinbase would be considered boring to these users since it is a vanilla exchange.
I agree - Deno did this right. They built the runtime ignoring NPM existed so it wouldn't compromise design principles, but left the window back into that ecosystem open so they could reap the benefits of "backward" compatibility.

I do think if Node has a successor, it won't be a future version of Node - it will be Deno. There is too much that Deno does better to ignore once all the compatibility is there to migrate.
Because at the time (2009 ish) auto companies were all getting bailout "loans" and many of them from the major auto corps were not paid back. Tesla got a fraction of what they did, and paid it back 9 years early and with interest.
That absolutely is how banks work. Yes, there are fundamentally complexities under the covers, but banks take deposits and make loans - that is their fundamental purpose.

Your points about "that's not how these exchanges work" is just a rephrasing of the point I made where the assets were loaned out illegally.
Tech company? Well yeah, but it also includes OSS maintainers that make a pittance for their generous contributions.
Language-specific package managers also often install globally, at least by default.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Ask HN: How to Pickup the Habit of Reading?
I want to read books. Preferrably written in English. I want to improve my vocabulary. At the same time, I want to read interesting/ entertaining/scifi/knowledgeable books.

Please provide me suggestions on how to cultivate hobby of reading and also suggest me few interesting books to read.
Stop losses can fail when prices are falling quickly enough.
Yes. Hence why I expect him to get at least the basics of the deal. Obviously he’s not getting any extra money for years worked.
This works better than the Canon EOS Webcam utility for me, even though my DSLR isn't officially supported. It works fine in Zoom. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Quicktime. I'll take a look at some of the code signing info in your docs and see if I can fix it.
That's my point - given the extreme volatility (and the fact that it was trading below $1K less than 6 years ago) why would anyone think there's some floor below which the price of BTC will never fall? Please don't bring up mining costs, which are completely irrelevant here.
Right, they said it should be a payment method over the internet. But they failed, mostly for two reasons:

- they not anticipate ASICs, or even GPUs, which destroyed the idea of decentralized mining where individuals would just mine to get coins to spent, and forced people to buy coins instead (leading to the rise of exchanges).

- their Austrian economics prejudice misled them about the nature of money, and the link between money and scarcity. The bitcoin supply was much too small, and too limited in growth, to accommodate for a exponential growth in usage. As a result, bitcoin instantly became deflationary, which is the second worse thing that can happen to something aiming to be a mean of payment (the first one being hyperinflation). For something to be a mean of payment, you need people to be willing to spend their tokens. Economies survive two-digit inflation, but even 10% deflation makes as much damage as Venezuela or Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation.

Had Satoshi not been libertarian, and decided for instance to index the amount of mined bitcoin to the difficulty of the block, they'd have not created an investment asset headed to the moon but they'd have been much closer to create the payment system over the internet they dreamed about (putting aside the privacy and scalability issues of course).
I feel for you - those buttons will stop working very well quite soon and trying to enter "12" will get you 1, 2, and finally 12.

Check every elevator carefully, ADA regulations sometimes require at least ONE elevator in the building to have real buttons (for the blind, for example).
Perhaps Valve could add a phone to the Steam Deck.
60 minutes and PBS NewsHour beg to differ
Quite a bit for 2 way audio. I think people don’t choose garish ringtones (e.g. crazy frog, nokia ringtone) so much now and they pick up a lot quicker these days. Someone leaving their phone at a desk and it ringing and ringing seemed more common back in the day. Might be modern phones don’t let that happen.
It's because the ones who would have said it now know.
Elements of Classical Thermodynamics A. B. Pippard, CUP. [1]

Made things like adiabatic processes, entropy and the Carnot cycle much more comprehensible as part of a general formalism. The 'classical' in the title means not statistical so we are talking heat engines and such.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/gener...
I wonder where would be the boundaries in case such legislation was pushed through. If my software is python-based then would python itself would have to be audited too? If I run my software in Podman containers then should Podman be audited too? What about operating system I execute my software on? Lets say thousand of companies use dependency X - would that dependency have to be audited 1000 times independently? That would be huge waste in my opinion..
I wouldn't go so far as to call this gibberish like other commenters, but I don't get the point. I follow the logic but it feels incomplete. Why does the thesis matter?
dup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33595949
As MIT, not as "tell people it's yours": https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...
You didn’t know an extremely common acronym in our industry. You have absolutely no room for this level of ego.
It is interesting to me that Satoshi’s name gets thrown about like a sort of crypto Jesus or, maybe more accurately, Bokonon. No one knows who he is or if he even existed as a single person or what his deal was.

Certainly privacy is a thing, but one does have to wonder who they (single person or group) were and what their true motivations were. It’s possible they were just a cryptography enthusiast with an overly idealistic way of how monetary systems could work in reality.
Andromeda, a 13.5M Core AI Supercomputer
Pretty impressive what the Cerebras folks seem to have accomplished here, reportedly verified by Argonne National Labs. Interested in hardware folks’ take on the architecture as a realistic path forward for training larger and larger models.
Interesting, I don't recall anyone else bringing this up as a potential name collision previously.

Doing a cursory search of Broadcom + scrutiny doesnt yield many results - other than antitrust litigation

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Broadco...

Do you have a direct link to the tool bychance?
I took a graduate-level cryptography class years ago. The material was advanced for me, so I had to do serious catch-up on the maths that underlie the basics. The main concepts too, to be honest. I looked at many resources online but the Khan Academy course in Cryptography by far was the most helpful: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/crypt...
His wealth has greatly increased. In retrospect, his donations look more like tax advantaged investments.
I think that's a case-by-case thing and we're finding out the answers to it now. I had no stake in FTX and keep almost all of my rather meager crypto in paper wallets.

My point here isn't about whether or not I think crypto should be regulated. My point is if crypto is going to be regulated, shouldn't regulators be able to sniff out a bad actor? Imagine if Madoff had started working with the SEC to help consult on policy. Wouldn't people have been upset with the SEC when he went bust since he was rubbing shoulders with them?
The US Government funds much more than any handful of rich people, and many times more than all of the charitable giving in the US every year. State and local government spending just piles on to the government spending side of the equation.
> what if this code becomes a library and is integrated as part of a long-lived program

Cue one of my favourite comments[1]:

/*
* We divy out chunks of memory rather than call malloc each time so
* we don't have to worry about leaking memory. It's probably
* not a big deal if all this memory was wasted but if this ever
* goes into a library that would probably not be a good idea.
*
* XXX - this *is* in a library....
*/

(Of course, this consideration should be appropriately downweighted by YAGNI, as threading memory management through prototype or internal utility code can by itself easily force it into very non-prototype territory wrt effort.)

[1] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/2180b6e56a...
As I understand, the interest rates for deposits in developed countries are too low to compensate inflation.
> Any investment portfolio that "only" made 8% YoY for 20 years would be incredible.

Isn't this almost exactly the return of SPY over that time period?
Web 2 2.0
How is "about 50% market share" a "near monopoly"?
Hi, you can report internet related financial crimes to the FBI's Internet Crimes Complaint Center: https://www.ic3.gov/
You obviously haven't heard of the lightning network.
You can fit $1 million in a briefcase in a safe. No need to rely on fractional reserve banking to store your money.

Granted, that would be stupid, but it's certainly an option.
Is this your project? It's imposible to get traction here if you post only a sign in form and there is nothing to see or try.

I found https://www.stmath.com/demo but it's easier to get traction here if you have two or three of the levels of the demo playable without registration.
Buildings are banning e-bikes amid deadly battery fires
Honk Avatars Are Perfect
Honk Avatars are Perfect as designed by Ted Unangst.

Honk is a Mastodon alternative. It is much simpler to install on your own server.

In this post I outline the reasons why the people who nitpick about the avatar image system are wrong.

I also show how a misguided user might switch to normal image avatars with a simple code patch. I only do this so that you might avoid being tempted to perform such a corrupting change yourself.
Most likely one's he controls. So really moving money in order to reduce his taxable wealth.
"Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction" is all it took for me to understand and enjoy game theory and it's only a small cheap pocket book. I've purchased five copies for friends.

https://academic.oup.com/book/689?login=false
Some additional context is that the same fraudster is using a dozen current and former open source volunteer Bitcoin Developers demanding that they publish Bitcoin software with an equivalent backdoor or pay him billions of dollars in damages.

We defeated the lawsuit in a pretrial action with the UK courts denying jurisdiction on the basis that the case had no serious chance of success. He sought permission to appeal and unfortunately it was granted. So the case appeal will be heard starting December 7th.

I think the case has concerning implications far beyond Bitcoin: if case law in the UK is established that OSS developers can be sued, forced to take on on millions of UKP in legal costs, because a user demands a backdoor be introduced because they claim they suffered losses at no fault of the developers, in spite of the unambiguous MIT expat disclaimer of liabilities, even years after they stopped working on the software (as is the case for me, for example)... then that is bad news for open source in general.

Mr. Wright's demands are particular absurd and his facts particular deficient, since they're all predicated on his obviously falsified history of Bitcoin usage. If his case can escape summary judgement than pretty much any well funded case could.

It's important as open source developers that such frivolous cases can be discharged at the earliest possible juncture to prevent the legal costs from being personally ruinous.

On top of this backdrop, issues like this BSV backdoor present a general risk to users of exchanges that support BSV (Robinhood and Bitfinex being the two best known)-- if the backdoor ends up making these exchanges significantly insolvent with respect to the BSV customers it's likely that customer assets will be pooled in a bankruptcy creating risk for customers prudent enough to not touch BSV.
>nobody gives a damn about what Satoshi was advocating for

I do.

>and especially not people believing in Bitcoin.

You're partially right there.
Yes, your assessment is exactly right. I remember when that sub was very young and I was a teenager. It started with the 15 or so actual examples of historical queer erasure, and then went on to the 50 or so examples of ambiguously queer figures that the members of the sub felt should be viewed as queer, and for a while it was the same few things being reposted so memes were tolerated, and now it's basically just memes and social media posts. Such is the life cycle of a subreddit.
I really wish it tracked your accuracy
(Must be US Citizen to apply)

Building AI to address unsolved problems.

Looking for back end and front end.

Back end: PyTorch, AWS
Front end: Javascript

If, in the interview you demonstrate a depth of understanding of Nicholas Carlini's papers on Adversarial AI, we are interested in you.
The EU is a bureaucracy and any bureaucracy's goal is to justify its existence by creating more bureaucracy. I'm personally anti-EU. European countries are way too different so that broad legislations can work with 27+ different countries.
The TOS is not a valid contract
Government are good at many things, but building towards ideal societies is not one of them.
A common, tired take on HN: crypto bros will re-invent every piece of financial regulation they condemned.

I doubt it.

The reason is simple. If you think this latest round of panics and collapses is anything new, you haven't been paying attention. This is but the latest round in a 10+ year history of shenanigans. They come in waves spaced roughly 4 years apart. Regulation has not and never will fix it.

Nor did that highly-touted financial regulation do anything to stop the panics, scams, and financial idiocy of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Lots of regulation. Lots of oversight. Congressionally-empowered regulators with fancy degrees and highfalutin titles. None of it stopped the Great Depression, the S&L collapse, the crash of 2000, the GFC, or the current brewing crisis in the Eurodollar system.

Indeed, there's an argument to be made that regulation and regulators incited those catastrophes through moral hazard.

Clucking at all the rubes losing their shirts on exchanges is an old game with no reward. It leads nowhere and advances no new insights.

For those interested in a possibly more eye-opening perspective, consider that Bitcoin not only makes financial regulation unnecessary, but practically impossible.
Went from 4.139s to 2.413s. I fail to see how it is 70%. I think it is explained as 4.139/2.413 = 1.7 which of course doesn't make sense here.
Twitter to Remove Device Info
The actual FDA approval letter[0] calls out in the document that all long term testing will not be completed until May 2027. Pointing that out has always gotten one branded as an antivaxx conspiracy nutter, rather than a person who might want to ensure that, well, long term testing data is actually in before injecting something into their bodies.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download
Probably advisable to not describe your customers as crazy as it might be interpreted badly.
I understand the concerns but it’s a risk most projects are willing to accept.

Automated builds should use ‘npm ci’ to use the exact versions.

If a developer goes crazy and push broken updates, it has been reversed and made the front page of most IT news websites in the past.

The supply chain of software rely on so many things. It’s impossible for anyone to trust everything. I don’t trust OpenSSL for security, the Linux kernel still doesn’t have unit tests as far as I know, my intel CPU is a black box with proprietary microcode that is known to allow network access to anything , so many tiny libs in C are half maintained,…

left-pad being offline for a few hours many years ago or fakers doing an infinite loop in one promptly removed release last year are not preventing me to sleep.