skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What behavior do they hope to collect that is not a huge privacy liability with the effort? They already know where millions of people spend their money (not say they will buy, but actually follow through).
> Tesla China, for its part, has denied the driver’s claims that the vehicle’s brakes were unresponsive during the incident. According to the electric vehicle maker, data from the ill-fated Model Y showed that the vehicle’s accelerator pedal was depressed deeply for an extended period of time, even reaching 100% at one point. Tesla China also noted that the driver did not press the brakes during the incident.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-fatal-model-y-crash-china-re...
I don't understand it either, but, perhaps he means that because the compile time of rust is longer, that the issue of hot reloading causing many many builds is exacerbated?
GM and Chrysler needed them to stay alive. Other companies (including some banks) just took them because why not, the future was uncertain. It turns out Tesla didn't actually need the loan so they paid it back early.
No security researcher has ever found proof that they are "always on" and recording everything people say. If they were, it would be front-page news and Amazon would have government investigations.

The devices listen for their wake word before ever transmitting data to the cloud. (This is also because the sheer amount of bandwidth needed for always-on would be un-economical even for Amazon).
Amazon's hallmark in the past has been investing big into businesses without immediate profits. Amazon gets massive revenue but has nowhere near the margins of an Apple, or Google. As you know, a net loss and revenue are not apples to apples. For full year 2018, Amazon had net income of $10B on $232B of revenue.

All of which is to say that a $5B loss is a very material number. They obviously thought it would be a big profit driver in the future, which it has not turned out to be yet.
Problem is that exchanges are getting caught fudging their "proof-of-reserve" reports. Crypto.com just got called out for "accidentally" sending $400M to a rival exchange that used the balance to prop up their reserve reports. It's becoming a joke at this point.

https://www.benzinga.com/fintech/22/11/29692377/crypto-com-r...
You're right, if they had any business sense they'd be making more than a piddling $1B/month - https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/26/22902283/samsung-earnings...
> How do I lock up my cash in a similar way?

You buy a vault or a safe, which you can access with a 'pin-code' (in the fiat world this is called a combination lock). Safes come with two keys, which allows you to keep a backup of your 'secret' elsewhere, and you can also insure the cash inside if you want to pay for a full 'backup'.

In addition, "smart" safes and dual lock safes are available which have two keys, mean you need approval from another person to initiate the transfer.

It's not an exact 1:1, but you can hardly say that you don't have the option of storing Fiat by yourself.
Honest question: does anyone else open notepad and start typing when they want to make a new webpage?

I have been making website and pages since 1998, and have never done it another way.
Buying drugs online was a real use case that actually worked, as was being able to smuggle wealth out of a country with exit restrictions.

As for legal uses, yeah, there are not many at the moment. Maybe some day there will be a DAO-type org that is worth being invested in or something but not today.
You could just print it on a piece of paper and put it in a safe!
In Lebanon, people are robbing banks to get their own money out. Maybe they are a little bit more comfortable than you are with holding keys to an unseizable asset.
can this be integrated with subsonic like servers?

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

these have good app support so this could be nice
Fed and Treasury are granted those powers by congress. That's why they aren't scams.
According to this study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/ there is no increase in Myocarditis cases among unvaccinated people who have contracted Covid-19. This study tracked 196,992 people which is a huge number, so the data here is quite good and clear. Contracting Covid-19 does not put you at increased risk for Myocarditis, the same cannot be said when evaluating a population that simply received the vaccination.
That's nice, but it's unrelated to the issue I'm talking about. If we care about crypto widespread usage, we have to look at what most people will do, and most people will choose convenience and won't have enough knowledge/interest/time to make informed decisions. Relying on "but you have the OPTION to do it properly" just leaves all those people behind and vulnerable to scams and situations like this. And ultimately, as the parent comment says, crypto will just speedrun financial history and find out why regulations exist.
When Amazon Music Unlimited was an attempted thing, that was a direct path to monetization that basically only happens if you have Alexa/Echo widely deployed. Otherwise, it seems a tenuous link to increasing sales in retail.

(I say "was" because they recently rolled part of it out as a Prime benefit a couple of weeks ago, but I can't figure out the exact difference between unlimited and what's included in Prime [and don't care enough to chase it down], but they are still offering a $9/mo unlimited offering, so there must be some difference.)
This is what I've moved to:

https://www.navidrome.org/
Wow, you responded to one of those Amazon recruiters. I can see now that it is responses like this that encourages them to keep pushing.

I've removed everything from my linkedin, except my current position, and the only people hitting me up are Amazon recruiters. In fact, once I edited my profile, the rate increased.
I saw Plex mentioned, but personally I like Subsonic better for music specifically: http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

If you're already hosting Plex, what's one more Docker container running Subsonic? :)
You may well get an offer, but it will probably be deferred to 2023 if so. At Amazon, the interview loop makes a decision regardless of the viability/timing/placement of the actual offer made.
Ticketmaster using monopoly power to force use of app to attend concerts. Can’t even print ticket any longer.
The event loop one was a must-watch video for anyone who write Javascript. It even secured me a job offer.
No of course not but I would think it could certainly help to temper exuberance. Especially if you were considering a spectrum of uncertainties.
I hope that if we've learned anything from the past few years, it's that you can interpret and manipulate data to make it say whatever you want to say. That's true even when analyzing data about the present, doubly so trying to predict the future.

Being data-driven is a method for justifying decisions. But it's still a human making a decision in the end.
This is the key to understanding a lot of things about the "cryptocurrency community". There are two groups there with wildly different interests.

A large chunk (probably even a majority) of the people involved in the cryptocurrency space don't actually care about cryptocurrency as a technology at all, they're just there to make money. To these people, market price is everything, and the technology is irrelevant except to the extent that it affects the market price.

Then in the other camp there's a group of people who don't care about the current trading price, they're just interested in the technology and the new capabilities it enables.

I'm in that second camp (perhaps unsurprisingly, since this is Hacker News), so in my view this story isn't really all that interesting or surprising. From a legal/societal perspective, yeah this is terrible and probably someone should go to jail. But from a technical perspective, the fact that exchanges can scam people out of their money is hardly new information. As the saying goes: not your keys, not your crypto.

Though obviously for those who are interested in cryptocurrency solely to make money on speculation, yeah this is a big story.
At some point in the past decade, EU civil servants have completely lost the plot and they now seem to think that creating new reporting obligations is the solution to all problems and that people have nothing better to do that read hundreds of pages of European legalese poorly explaining technical concepts.

The European Green Taxonomy is a brillant exemple. It’s both complicated, costly and a poor way to achieve the goals it wants to achieve.

At this point, I have to assume it’s voluntary self-sabotage.
Every new form of money and trade had the people learning important financial concepts and took many, many years to start to iron out their weaknesses through better technology or best practices.

For instance, when barter and basic trade was used, people had to figure out new methods to do accounting and record-keeping: whether through sticks, tablets, papyrus, etc. It seems simple now, but these basic methods were incredibly huge technological leaps that took a long time, perhaps centuries in some cases, to develop.

When silver/gold were beginning to be used, different lessons had to be learned such as making the edges of coin ridged to prevent certain people from clipping chunks off of coins and taking a small piece of precious metal.

With fiat currencies that are not backed by anything, people had to learn the lessons of inflation. I'd argue that not all humans have even learned this lesson even today. While inflation is particularly glaring today, all people alive today have been systematically robbed of their savings every day, yet this fact is commonly ignored. The amount of value lost by people to inflation is much more glaring than any loss that's happened in the crypto space. In comparison, crypto doesn't have this flaw: there can be no circumstance that changes the fact that Bitcoin only ever has 21 million units and cannot ever be inflated.

Crypto has much smaller problems in comparison to other forms of money. It certainly needs better user interfaces and best practices and a little time for social acclimatization, but the progress from what was a proof of concept in just 13 years has been remarkable.
And for KPMG.
Ah, thanks for the edit.

Yeah, I hear you... the burdens are also real for non-profits and individuals. I should have said it is more about motivations. I wouldn't go into EU to complete against displaced ROW companies in the hopes of making money (personally or as a company or a VC).

But if the mission was to make the world a better place and profit wasn't important, sure. As business-unfriendly as the environment is, it is very consumer friendly, at least in intent. IMO there may be unintended consequences that harm consumers but their hearts are in the right place.
How do you manage the keys to this encrypted backup ?
The funny part of that is that you literally cannot have $1000000 in a crypto wallet, because that's not how dollars work. Oh, you've got something in your crypto wallet, but it ain't dollars.
It also sounds very on-brand for Holmes, and perhaps speaks to how much control she’s exercising over her own defense team if they’re operating in her style.
I don't think Hardware Hacker’s Handbook uses the Pico (don't have a copy in front of me) but it definitely uses a Pi 3+ as a demo target.
FTX is a Bahamas-based company. Why would US regulators be regulating a Bahamas company with no US presence?
Why do people leave their money at exchanges? When you go to the airport to exchange foreign currency do you leave your entire bank account there until the next time you need an exchange?
Wavelet is not a true native time-frequency technique, technically it is time-scale in nature [1].

The better approach with better resolution is to use native time-frequency technique for example non-linear Cohen class time-frequency but currently it requires massive computing resources even for a short duration [2]. Hopefully with the available of cheaper RAMs in the order of Terabytes it will be more feasible to use proper time-frequency techniques for big data signal processing.

[1]Wavelet:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet

[2]Bilinear time–frequency distribution:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear_time%E2%80%93freque...
>I'm amazed how many people think the average person can't memorize a 12 word phrase.

The question is if you can reliably remember it in ten or twenty years without ever using it in the interim.
It’s no coincidence that the only European tech giant (SAP) is in the administration business. Bureaucracy, that’s what we excel at. And museums.
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"Do things that don't scale early" really applies here. Good for you.
That's a good question. I would hope it's not inevitable, but you would need a system that is vigilant about avoiding regulatory capture.
What do you do when the model says your favorite project (say the one that got you promoted or is getting you promoted) is a bad idea? Heck, forget fancy modeling, what does an excel sheet say?

As old as the bible, the saying, "Physician, heal thyself!"
i can run demanding AAA games on my PC

there is no reason software can't run on a single PC

time to study "software performance and optimizations"
I remember reading somewhere that while Amazon is on a hiring freeze, they still hire to fill positions of those who left the company. So perhaps you're interviewing for one of them.
Technically you have to do it at $0/month because once it changes to $20/month you're not in compliance. It's a minor distinction - your point is the important one. You have to do it way before you have the means.
Reminds me of:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, and naming things, and off-by-one errors.

What people don't realize is caches are much harder than just invalidation.

I'm a fan of continually testing (and running) things without cache at all just to verify what they do, caching can often cover a multitude of sins that you really don't need to be doing.
IMO, that is another word for something being broken.

Having more hobbies to do than can be reasonably done, but not feeling like you can or should stop is a sign of something wrong elsewhere.

Why feel compelled to do them then, after all?

The root cause, in my experience, almost always boils down to not enough understanding, awareness, and acceptance of what actually is vs what someone feels should be, could be, or wants to be.

Sometimes for good reasons, that matter. Sometimes for bad reasons. Sometimes for no apparent reason at all.

The most common factor I see all the time is emotional/mental overwhelm, as in my experience that is the root cause of almost all other causes, as it stops someone from seeing and reacting to the other problems when they occur (like lack of knowledge and bad information, misleading or manipulative other actors that don’t get properly handled, signing up for things that are not realistic due to lack of proper self awareness, lack of healthy coping mechanisms, or over reliance on healthy ones, etc).

If you want to read a overly analytical 312 page manual from the Army on exactly this topic, here is the link [https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN34875-TC_3-2...].

A lot of key Army doctrine involves how to get inside and lengthen the awareness/decide/action loop of the opponent, while shortening theirs, as it is a key tactical advantage.

It’s a large part of why the Ukraine war is going as well for the Ukrainians as it is.

The lessons apply to us all however. The sooner you can become aware of what is really happening, decide on/synthesize it into a course of appropriate and effective action (or inaction), and then follow through on it effectively, the healthier, happier, and more successful we tend to be.

With our bodies, rational analysis is almost always too slow, and can easily lead to self delusion. Mindfulness, breathing techniques, etc. are generally better. However, as Buddha was well aware of and cautioned against repeatedly, delusion is an ever present threat and can easily happen during meditation as well.

Both are often needed, IMO, for different parts of the problems we all face.
I think those videos are like tantalizing appetizers before you start your entrée(standard textbooks).
Sony Adds DualShock 4 Controller Support to Their Newer Linux Playstation Driver
This is a very interesting definition of "free will" and not one I would expect most philosophers to agree with, but more measurable and useful than most would propose. In this case "free will" reduces to self-modifying action with randomness injected by the environment, which feels more like a stochastic model than genuine self-determination. That said, the existence of a "reflection" function is still the primary determinant of any moral responsibility.
> On decentralized systems in particular I encourage you to read Moxie's take on web3 which outlines the challenges of this much better than I ever could

I am sad that the crypto/defi/web3 crowd hijacked the term "decentralized" and now people who should know better equate the two.

Web is decentralized. E-mail is decentralized. The internet is decentralized.

> Mastodon encourages not just decentralization, but federation. [...] I will make the point that this is the root of the issue here.

Ok, so we're actually talking about federation being bad, not decentralization as such.

> I used to host a pastebin for a few years. It was Open Source and with that others also hosted it. I had to shut it down after it became (by a small percentage of users) used to host illegal content. [...] I really hard a hard few weeks when I first discovered what my software ended up being used for.

We take that risk every time we open source something or run an internet service. I would not be surprised if some criminals somewhere used Flask for nefarious purposes. That doesn't mean Flask and his other software is not, on net, a huge benfit for society. This issue is orthogonal with (de)centralization, tho.

> Imagine you're a rather small server and suddenly Eli Lilly and Company joins your instance.

Let me rephrase that to show what a straw man this is: Imagine you're a rather small email server and suddenly Eli Lilly and Company starts hosting their mail on your instance

The chance of that happening is precisely zero. WTH would they do that (and why would you let'em)? The same argument goes for Mastodon.

Turning to the title of the post, Scaling Mastodon is Impossible, I agree with the author (to the extent that I know about Mastodon, anyways). Maybe Mastodon isn't up to the task, maybe ActivityPub as a protocol is inadequate, but those are technical challenges to overcome. I don't believe this dooms the entire "decentralized federated network" concept.

> Wikipedia for all it's faults shows quite well that a centralized thing can exist with the right model behind it. [...] A “Not Twitter Foundation” that runs an installation of an Open Source implementation of a scalable micro blogging platform

This is an interesting proposal. I worry that the cost structure - in terms of hard work, not server capacity - is way different. For all its edit wars, the basic principle on Wikipedia that someone (or a group) authors an article and thousands or millions people read it. Once the article is written, it is (for the most part) static. "NotTwitter" is the opposite - you have constant stream of new content that needs to be policed (if you don't want your town square to descend into madness). Reddit's army of moderators shows how difficult that task can be.

[Meta: was the article flagged? It's got a fair number of points but is way down in the list of articles]
Instead, they've raised ~15B in capital. If Tesla had been able to do that, they wouldn't have needed a few hundred million in loans either.
Well, there is a reason most sites nowadays have comment section. The readers also read comments, even if they might only add to them rarely
H1B visa Indians fired by Meta, have 60 days to find a job or return
Rpi, tailscale, ampache?
Phobos landing should be very dramatic. I guess once the upper atmosphere starts clawing at it, it will gradually disintegrate and distribute dust all over the planet. Seems like it will heat up the atmosphere quite a lot.
Google's first party platforms (Search and YouTube) account for 85% of ad revenue [0]. Search alone accounts for 72%. I'm not really sure how AdSense is relevant to the discussion. Google is clearly a huge competitor to the NYT.

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204422...
They're using Ceph, so storage is (probably) still replicated; it's just compute that's a single point of failure. It's possible that they've got automation in place so spinning up a new instance (on a VPS, do there isn't any physical work involved) is quick enough to be acceptable?
That law would override any such disclaimer by the seller (or other kind of "commercial producer") of OSS software. What is "critical" is determined by the catalogue of critical software categories.
Let me tell you, no matter how miserable your salary in academia in Germany is - it is more miserable in the UK (higher living costs at slightly lower salary, which is around 1250 GBP for most students). I actually know Germans from top UK universities that are considering going back to Germany after they finish. So, same problem here, after Brexit: UK needs people to come and move things forwards, but the place is rotten enough that it doesn't happen.

This is not about "the grass is greener on the other side", it's more about: The only place in research you really can make $$$ seems to be the US and, maybe, Switzerland.

Or does anyone know any other country?
> That's how they are introducing neo-communism by the backdoor.

Even by HN's typical standards of political discussions, this sentence is quite something. You can't actually be serious?

This bill looks pretty shit, but you're jumping from that to a conspiracy theory that just doesn't seem to match reality at all?
The opensooq is not only considered the largest site for buying and selling in the UAE, but it can be said that the opensooq is the first advertising platform in the Arab world with millions of visits, and the number of views of its ads exceeds the limit of one billion per month.

The founding of OpenSooq dates back to 2008, and the company's organizers succeeded in developing the platform year after year and working to provide distinguished services to millions of people wishing to obtain a unique online shopping experience throughout the Arab world.

The opensooq allows the possibility of buying and selling smoothly and easily, and all that comes to mind of goods, goods and services.
> Well yeah - but they still won't be decentralized.

But people don't care too much about that. If so many crypto users, who we can assume are more informed and care more about decentralization than the average person, massively flock to centralized exchanges, why would the general population use decentralized services if they're worse?
They’re probably selling every unit at a loss. A big part of the Amazon smart home stuff also has to be the data it collects and the way it integrates with ordering off the retail site which might not have been counted here.