skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suspicion is you haven't been invited to a carding ring, but instead somebody is trying to scam you. At some point, you will need to put up some money or somehow give them your financial details at which point they'll disappear.

The best scams always involve baiting the mark into apparently doing something they know is illegal; when they get scammed, they won't go to the authorities.
Have you even had a look at the article that I linked? You are making a claim without providing any backup whatsoever for your position, after it's already been pointed out to you with a scholarly reference that your belief is wrong.
Weird one, "How to talk to anyone" by Leil Lowndes, bought because someone else recommended, no idea about the scientific merit of anything in it. It helped me not just make sense of how to navigate social situations, but also how to view them as a game that can be played strategically if you need a particular outcome.

The books "Superforecasting" and "Think again" helped me nail down when and why people (myself included) make mistakes and I think it helped me prevent making mistakes or recognize mistakes others are about to make better.
You do understand this is purely speculation, do you?

India has never, ever explained its blocking of videolan.org. Only spurious remarks were made by government officials, mostly from agencies that weren't involved in the blocking.
I don't see anything here that is backed up with anything other than more dubious opinions.

When it comes to scaling in particular, we have a counter-example in e-mail which shows scaling an inbox model + reflection (mailing-lists) to a follower-list can scale to a vastly larger audience. Of course it can, given that it decomposes neatly into a trivially parallelisable set of components of a well understood nature.

It was when Twitter was still getting their fail whales, sometime around 2007, I first pointed out that parallel (might even have been on HN). There are some tricks to avoiding lag in presentation for accounts with huge numbers of followers, but there decentralisation already serves to turn a flat list of followers into a tree of instances -> subsets of followers per instance, and if/when any instances gets to a size when scaling a single instance becomes problematic, then decomposing into a virtual federated set of instances presenting a unified namespace solves that just fine (have built a mail setup doing just that - mapping <user>@<domain> to <user>@<backend shard> is not hard)

The issue of "unpaid Labour" and peoples lack of desire to self host also depends on an assumption that Mastodon is inherently tied to unpaid volunteers or self hosting, but you can already pay for Mastodon hosting, and more options are sure to appear if it keeps growing. And the largest Mastodon instance is run by a non-profit getting paid by sponsorships already.

And this goes straight to the issue of what happens when someone popular joins an instances and/or trust: No instance needs to accept someone who brings undue load without expecting donations or charging or just turning them away, but the converse is that trust is layered in Mastodon:

You can trust someone on the basis of a history of behaviour and integrity of the node you're on, but people who need more trust can also run their own instance on their trusted domain. E.g. if POTUS wants a trusted Mastodon account, the logical choice would be to have webfinger for @potus@whitehouse.gov or similar point to a trusted instance run by the government. Nobody else can set up addresses on whitehouse.gov because it requires controlling the ability to run a webfinger setup responding at https://whitehouse.gov/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3...

Conversely, if people need someone trusted to run their instance, there are any number of people who'll happily take their money to provide guarantees.
> their Austrian economics prejudice misled them about the nature of money, and the link between money and scarcity

Do you have any references or more to say on this? Not arguing. I’d just like to look into it.

I agree with your assessment that they were overly idealist and libertarian in their outlook. It has bled into crypto fundamentalists touting “this isn’t crypto!”.
People on this site routinely post links to evade paywalls. They celebrate ad blockers. But now many of the same people are wondering why "the media" didn't stop a tech fraud? You get what you pay for.
Kind of a weak contribution to the overall thread but...

Early in my career Rails really felt a little too magical. It did what I wanted but I didn't understand it at the fundamentals.

Then I broke down how ActiveRecord worked. I listed all of its functions and capabilities and wrote my own version of ActiveRecord to do the same things. Immediately the whole thing clicked.

Nowadays I would probably be able to get away with reading the code, but back then it was tremendously helpful.
And this is where the problem lies. It may be high times to see if EULAs are contracts or not. It would certainly clear some things up really fast. It is not impossible that this case may actually force this clarification.
And..... It's gone.
> Rust and Swift are not really competing in the same space.

Rust is trying competing yes, Swift is not trying to compete, they use it, they do what they have to do [1]

What happened to Mozilla's Rust plan with Firefox? so far, no bueno

> And nobody trusts Apple for cross-platform support.

Swift supports a wide range of targets and architectures [2]

They officially provide release build for all major OSs [3]

[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/OwnershipManif...

[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/aff7c14d92fd241aff85ba4c...

[3] - https://www.swift.org/download/
rcarr,

Thank you very much for bringing some numbers into this thread.

3% of the male population does not sound as much, but it is actually quite high, especially if it is true that 60+% of the 20-24y cohort is taking them [1]. That is 1.7+M young men. I am quite shocked. I suspect it is a generational phenomenon.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/281208/population-of-the...
It's got async messaging, so it's not not async either. It's also got the trick that every function call is a potential premption point, and immutability means you can't go very long between function calls.
Your wife should invest in skills / employability to the point that she can get a job with benefits (who cares about the pay). If you are worried about your job, I would recommend this first.

If your wife can step in and provide baseline benefits and income, that frees you up for higher-wage contracting/consulting/entrepreneurship.

Certainly don't get a house now. What if you need to move to another city for a job? You are obviously living below your means. That is a goddamn superpower in today's economy, which relies on people being under the guillotine constantly.

If your wife makes you feel more uncomfortable about your collective economic security rather than provides a backstop, then, well, that's why wives are the #1 enemy of feminism. You and your wife should have a willingness to face good times and bad with a collective desire to work and be secure.

Since you haven't lost your job yet, the time to get on this is now, to discuss possible uncertain economics with her to set expectations.
It depends on the final outcome.

If the bootstraped company succeeds it's less market for you. But if the company fails and you can turn a profit on that same market then you might benefit from it.
So about Madoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff#Government_acces...

He was rubbing shoulders with many of the financial regulators including the SEC and people were pretty upset about it.
Goodnight Oppy – Documentary about the Opportunity Mars Rover
Yep, Scrutiny has always been designed for a hub&spoke deployment model:

https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny/blob/master/docker/examp...
a minor point, but perhaps coroutines, stackful or not, should be distinguished from threads.
> All religions are essentially different paths to the same destination

Just to be clear, many religions and religious viewpoints would vehemently disagree with you.

The idea that all religions lead to the same place is really just one variety of religious belief. There are many others.

Reading the Tao Te Ching is great, but I'm not sure it's going to give you much insight into what Roman Catholics or Sunni Muslims are speaking of when they talk about divinity, god, and religion.
One of my kids, 15 at the time, was one of the reported cases of myocarditis. At the time of his hospitalization he was one out of 700 cases. He was in the hospital for two weeks. While under observation after his release, we have not seen indications of lasting damage. No way to know what the future holds. So far, so good.

We are still not anti-vax at all. In fact, I might go for my next booster today.

The one thing that angers me is that this incident cost us $10K. Obamacare, which was forced upon us and costs us $2,400 PER MONTH, did not cover it. We have no recourse whatsoever for this incident and any future care requirements.
If laws do not matter, I am not willing to follow laws.
> many of them from the major auto corps were not paid back

Which ones were not paid back? GM and Chrysler paid their government loans back. Ford paid their private equity loan back.
Yeah this was my first thought.
"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Helped me gain a more intuitive understanding of economics. On a side note, the man is a machine. He's been writing close to a book a year since the age of 80 (he's 92 now).
Not cloud but I recently bought one of these

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/248440-REG/Sony_CDPCX...

on Ebay, connected it to my home theater through a TOSLINK cable, and I've been loading it up with DTS encoded 5.1 discs. Also I got into the minidisc hobby

https://www.minidisc.wiki/

Like cryptocurrency, cloud music always ends in tears.
You missed the biggest effect specific to this community, which is that the raising rivals cost strategy of way overpaying for talent by the big guys seems to be abating. Programmers should expect serious headwinds in their compensation as that goes away as the big guys start valuing current profit over wrecking potential future competitors ability to compete by pricing them out of the programmer labor market. On the bright side, if you choose your startup wisely, this will mint a lot of wealthy programmers as the next big thing is developed and flourishes.
I've had excellent results with pointing people to Google Sites. The editor and available features work really well for just a static site for someone non-technical. You can set it up on a free Google account and point a custom domain name to it [1] very easily.

[1] https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en
Then your net worth is $110 and when you give away $10 your net worth goes down $10.
I mean this as a genuine question (not an indictment), and as a complete blockchain/crypto noob who has just been a spectator:

Why is this the case? Isn't this like one of the best use cases of the blockchain in crypto? Why would they not utilize the technology to prevent this exact thing from happening? Are there tradeoffs I'm not aware of?
Some of you will lose all your money that's a risk I am willing to take (CEO of random crypto company)
Cryptocurrency has value because people are willing to trade for it, whether money or goods. I don't understand why people are willing to trade for it, but to say it has literally zero value isn't exactly accurate.
Go after your clients or the money the clients send you.
https://archive.ph/YFloC
I also noticed the AI often got facial hair slightly wrong.
Seeing how family who got infected prior to vaccine availability are still suffering brain fog and lack of energy even now, I am too. The long term effects of covid concern me far more than those of the vaccine do.
>But it is difficult to "print" more cryptocurrency.

Except it's not. It's trivially easy. Any exchange (or person/entity) can mint a coin, and FTX collapsed in-part because they were backed by their own coin.
Yes, there is probably no way to remedy wealth inequality that is easy or even that doesn't have serious downsides and an enormously volatile period of acclimatization. But that doesn't mean there is definitely no realistic way to accomplish it in the long run. Of course we should try to get consumers to stop participating, but making it 100% their responsibility is highly unrealistic/reductionist. Consequences are incredibly abstracted away from consumer behavior, and the good to the consumer's life is so immediately felt, and consumers are understandably desperate for good in life (even something as simple as convenience has a big impact). It is not entirely, or even mostly, their fault.
MtGox was pretty much stripped bare long before it was finally closed down. In fact it was effectively insolvent before it was even bought out by the last owner and running in pure Ponzi mode while the guy tried to make creative "investments" to get the exchange solvent again. Even with the incredible bull market on Bitcoin he couldn't make it work.

So nobody should expect to get much of anything out of the remains of MtGox.

https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/08/15/mt-gox-how-bitcoin-sto...
FWIW the slight of hand mentioned here isn’t in the article. I presume it means the fact iCloud backups aren’t end to end encrypted with your iCloud Keychain passphrase, which was reportedly either:
A) because apple wanted to be sure you could restore a device to which you lost the key (not implausible user experience story, but one you could imagine folks opting into)
B) the FBI complained and they caved
C) both A and B
Dura lex sed lex maxim did not come into being by courts obliging public opinion..
How much of a topic clicking is just reading from several different sources, rather than one source being particularly "good"? I often joke with a coworker that we don't fully understand a topic until we have read several textbooks/papers on it. It doesn't really matter how good any one text is. I've always wondered what the mechanism is for this. Is is just a certain amount of exposure to a topic? Or is there truly something different enough about the way different authors present material that once you have read from a few, things connect differently?

That being said, how many people are citing specific sources, when it was really just additional exposure to a topic that helped something "click"?
If there is no legal action taken against people who use violence, then yes.
Polkadot and Algorand are worthless ? Maybe they don’t have the ecosystem yet but they are serious projects that didn’t get ridiculous VC backing.
Those other billionaires donating a ton may be mostly legally doing their huge business. That doesn’t make it moral or ethical or completely legal. If the entire system is corrupt, pointing all fingers at the corrupt Dem party when the Repub part is just as corrupt if not more so is weird, uniformed, and biased. Are you spreading election misinformation?
This was early for me but after high school and before tackling more math I found Keith Devlin's book 'Mathematics: The Science of Patterns' answered questions that were never covered in high school and put mathematics into a place where I could then thrive and learn more.

For me, I wish more history of mathematics was mixed into the mathematics being taught.

Also, this could be a good book to read at any juncture.
>But at least in crypto I have the OPTION of storing it myself.

... what do you call putting cash in your wallet?
Reek's Pointers on C for... C pointers.
Watched it again recently and its aged very badly. At the time it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, but now its not at all. The bands that came on it were maximum nostalgia though.
Might want to rethink the name...
It would probably be more accurate to say it can do 70% more stuff in the same time. Or that it takes 42% less runtime
Even when the host country doesn't commit human rights atrocities to build the stadiums I don't end up watching. Not sure if that counts as me boycotting though.
Same position here, and having the ability to move my domain is by far the most important to me. And also why my medium to long term plan is to move my Mastodon setup to my own domains.

> though I'm glad to have Fastmail handle that for me these days.

I get less spam in my Fastmail account than on my remaining Gmail accounts, but far more importantly for me: I get far fewer false positives with Fastmail. The amount of real mail that used to end up in my Gmail spam folder made the spam filtering pretty much pointless because I ended up going through the spam folder daily anyway.
I learned monads with FunFunFunction.
They don’t charge. You can donate or become a paying member of the association. Or not. Up to any User to decide. (I am a paying member since quite some time)
Yes, they are supply and production constrained; not demand constrained. Like most players in this industry in the current market they actually struggle to satisfy demand. That can only be fixed over time by investing in production capacity and supply chains.

Luckily, they have plenty of cash in reserve to survive the next few years. So, if they start addressing those issues, their revenue situation should improve as their production volume stabilizes.
Contact: gmorehead@topologe.com
> As long as you‘re not financially profiting from the project, the legislation does not affect you.

As highlighted in the article, "commercial activity" is what triggers the legislation, not profit, and it's a broader concept.

Note also this section on page 34:

‘making available on the market’ means any supply of a product with digital elements for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
I meant cryptocurrency like Bitcoin which is incredibly difficult to mint.
I don't think any company would ever get into that space. RIAA (etc) will come after them for not verifying that each user has a license for everything song uploaded. The best the community could probably do is have a 1-click AWS instance that is already setup for running your own streaming server and then you just push your music up there. Could even have a lightweight open-source mobile apps to use the APIs of this server.
I saw my first one several months ago and was so excited I wanted to take pictures.

I've seen five of them in the past week because the headlights are so unmistakable. They draw your attention in a way few vehicle models do.

I counted four pickup trucks, one SUV. This was in Georgia, which has a huge pickup market.
Sometimes a recession is also a self-fulfilling prophecy...
"Empathy for my children [and nobody else's]" is a good round-about way of saying "for entirely selfish reasons".

Especially since your actions do absolutely nothing to advance that goal you likely just made up now. If the governments have learned anything, it's that mandates need to be quicker and stronger, with much more stringent penalties for the dodgers.

So yeah... thanks for nothing.
You mean “the US government since Reagan has been blowing it.”

Oh look Reagan’s man abusing workers during Clinton’s time: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Let’s not pretend 2008-2016 was a bubble of failed oversight. 2007-08 crash, 2000 dotcom, looting pensions for Wall Street in the 80s.

There is the whole “SCOTUS handing one party an election in 2000.”

There’s no way I’m buying into such a specific narrative about the democrats when the entire government and public treat each other like shit propping up decades of headlines about inequality going up.
Good to see this fixed quickly:
https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/a3530463ee323b8ba492960...
I am a filmmaker. I went to film school. Maybe that has something to do with it?

I cannot recommend enough a book called In The Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch.
Thanks for the heads up. Have dealt with snap before (and eviserated it)
The showcase is 3 blogs from the same guy all with limited content?

Okay.. so someone copied Brian Lovin's blog platform and is proud of themselves.
Bananas? I call it interesting, brave and fun times. My two year old phone can do practically everything that can be done with today's flagship, but back then the difference between a year would be GPS, 4x storage, megapixel camers, interesting hardware. Changes were massive and manufacturers weren't afraid to experiment.
Why middleware may not be the right abstraction for your data policies
> you sell the majority of your earthly possessions

When I was younger, my father worked in the oil business. Relocation to other states & countries was reasonably common.

One of the scariest stories came from their last time in Saudi Arabia (I usually save the "you & your family are being deported in 48 hours" or "oops, your moonshine still burned down your house" stories for drinking time). This family was being relocated back to the US after more than 2 decades working in Saudi Arabia. There was a storm in the Atlantic. A really bad one. The shipping company had to jettison about 100 containers to "save the ship". Everything they owned. Every thing they collected in their adult life went overboard to a watery grave. All they had left was the luggage that they carried on the airflight back to the US. Insurance covered nothing since it was an intentional act by the ship's crew.
We'd all be vastly poorer because there would be much less capital available for future investments.
How's that working for you? As a hedge against inflation, Bitcoin seems a remarkable failure.
There is no issue with having each functionality being its own function or cli command. That's just good design.

The issue is when each function/command is a separate package that needs to tracked separately and depends on 10 additional packages.

I would like to see the typical dependency tree of a linux distro, I guess it is shallower and has a smaller fanout than a JS application.
I also fantasize about learning to CNC and weld bike parts :-).
Traditional institutions will always be dominant in some capacity, as many people are attracted to the convenience they offer. Unless something catastrophic occurs, crippling traditional financial systems or are truly compelling/easy to use platform releases, I can't imagine anything not owned by a "Traditional institution", let alone anything close to what Web 3 proponents preach regarding decentralization & where ownership lies.
It the power generating world, this is called a Black Start condition, and plans exist to handle it. Given the nature of the "profit uber alles" atmosphere of the previous management, it's not really surprising that this is the case.

They should at least give everyone in the core engineering staff a burner phone and a printed (on paper, laminated) list of all the others, for use ONLY in the event of a blackout. Also perhaps, they should install a Starlink terminal for each data center, unconnected to all the other networking, with a stack of USB sticks for copying boot code?
It’s almost as if most people are too busy to figure out the complex processes at doing things themselves, and the very concept of civilization is built on exchanging good and services for money whereby tasks are delegated to parties that are better suited to focus on them.
Indeed cash and gold have existed forever for people who didn’t trust banks…
Obviously the case even without Mysk’s research. Apple’s vision for the future is the walled garden of tech utopia. It makes sense that they want data to retain users and lock them in further to the brand. It’s so devilishly hypocritical to track users and pass it off as normal business practice when they have clearly positioned themselves as the defenders of user privacy against the likes of Alphabet and Meta. Alas, I’m typing this in an iPhone because I don’t know of another viable option for now.