skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So apparently Grub inputs are security critical because it's been blessed to be a part of the TCB of secure boot systems.

Previously: https://eclypsium.com/2021/04/14/boothole-how-it-started-how...
> we are paying a lawn service to mow for you.

That would rub me the wrong way if I hadn't asked for it. I am just the sort of person who does not want pity or charity. If I want help, I'll ask for it or do the hiring, thanks.

In particular, mowing the lawn is one of my "escapes" where I can kind of zone out doing something that is routine and mindless for a little while. It's almost like meditation. Shoveling snow off of the driveway in the winter is another one.

So I would say, ask the person first. "I'd like to take care of the lawn for you if that would be helpful" rather than just doing it.
Central banks only "control" money in the sense that they have been granted the exclusive monopoly by the state to provide banks with it (and so on).

The state has not taken any view, yet, on who should have such a monopoly on crypto; but they can. Defacto monopolies exist in the form of the two mining companies.

This is all extrinsic to crypto.

Likewise, literally printing paper money is "decentralised". There's nothing about the present technology of "fiat" money any more or less "decentralised".

What you're talking about is how the state grants monopolies. And, as far as that's concerned, crypto will not fair well in that regard -- not at all!
Binance offered 45%

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/earn-up-to-4...
> It very well could be that the PBA cards are given out too freely.

I can't see a legitimate reason for PBA cards to be given out at all. If leeway is going to be given it should be given based on the situation (not the person). Friends/family of the police should not be given more leeway.
> This has all been done before (P2P lending) with exactly the same outcome, in the very recent past (last ten years).

Amen. I burned a couple grand in Prosper in the mid 00s, primarily because I'm an idiot. I think a lesson there also applies here:

1. If you are a borrower, and had decent credit, you'd just go to a normal bank, because you could get much lower rates.

2. So the only people borrowing on Prosper were people with horrible credit (and for good reason), who basically got free money on Prosper and then promptly defaulted, sometimes after like a month or 2 of payments.

Same thing goes with crypto. If you're earning 8-10% interest, it means someone else is paying slightly more than that to borrow, which they would only do because they can't get cheaper rates.
Here's actual data: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf

Table 3, "Residents who experienced nonfatal threats or use of force during contacts with police, by demographic characteristics, 2015 and 2018"

Of people who report having police contact within the last year (~18% of people), 2.0% report "Experienced threats or force at any time during the year". 1.5% for white people, 3.8% for black. This is 2018.

Any way you slice it, having a gun drawn on you by a cop is exceedingly rare--even for black Americans. And, of course, "gun drawn" is going to be a small subset of that 3.8%.
- Spend most of the day toying with new shiny toys and UIs rather than shipping value
it went down I think. am excited about this
That's how insurance should work in theory so its not like that's a new idea it's just that modern insurance companies are godawful at that original purpose of not screwing people over.
I find it interesting that zlib is supposed to be compensated for their servers but the authors aren't supposed to be compensated for their writings.

Personally, I'm in support of zlib / libgen / other illegalist libraries. But it is kind of funny to see where the morality lies on this.
I want both. That super yacht is an abomination in terms of pollution. Same for private jets, they should not be allowed. And so on.
I would argue it's not necessarily a problem to have liabilities for which you do not have assets on hand, whether it's Bitcoin or some security. The difference between these two situations is:

1) FTX didn't even bother listing their customer liabilities on their balance sheet, unlike Citadel.

2) I would assume (hope) that Citadel isn't a completely fraudulent company without the capital to make good on those assets if delivery is demanded!
> In other words, almost 95% of global currency volume is speculation. Why would anyone use currencies that are mainly used for speculation?

Much of that trading volume, speculative or not supports the international trade of real goods and services and hedges currency risk for large international companies [1]. The same cannot be said of Bitcoin, which does provide the same utility.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-...
> It's almost impossible to beat the market after fees. Anyone who promises to do so, consistently, is full of it. French (2008) and a whole body of literature before and after.

Not this dead horse again. Yes, academics have written a lot of papers claiming things that turned out to be false. See Renaissance Medallion Fund and Berkshire Hathaway for references.
I’m 46 and a fully fledged animal
Show HN: SingleFile is finally available on Safari (macOS/iOS)
Just two years ago, just have a look at the herd mentality responses and TikTok defenders around this [0] being in denial of the security risk and concerns raised in [1].

Little did most of them know that TikTok was already under a national security investigation years before Trump suggested the 'ban' on the same grounds [1][2]. I mentioned this in [3] and immediately got [flagged][dead] [3] at the height of 2020.

This is unsurprising. Always in election year; sense, evidence, research and the truth gets thrown out of the window and all is revealed and exposed afterwards and after the news.

As soon as that happens, it is already too late.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611558

[1] https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-sch...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-cfius-exclusive-id...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24612012
Is this intended for people new to FPS? I've been playing since early teens, coming up on 32 now... still consistently in the top while playing the handful of shooters I play. Perhaps it's because I'm not playing the twitch shooters though? I mostly play Battlefield.
not too sound dismissive, but one of the great things about obsidian is their ecosystem of plugins. I don't think this really rivals obsidian
>I don't believe I was particularly aggressive.

"You don't know what you're talking about" is aggressive and rude; like you're calling them stupid. "Actually, I don't think that's right", along with some, "Can you clarify?" is not aggressive, and welcomes them into a conversation.

>I called them out. That's how it should work.

There's a way to do that constructively. See above.
They had to bail out Alameda because Alameda was propping up FTX. I have seen nothing that indicates FTX would have been fine standing alone, and plenty to indicate the opposite.

It was a giant scam. All of it.
[2] crashed Chrome 3 times. Mac Monterey.
The intial surface language for the dsl was actually not Haskell! But I think eventually shifted to using ghc as a frontend library?

I’m not sure if I was the most patient of evaluators ;). If I was despite that one of the more patient evaluators, wow!

I kinda view everything in this space from the lens of tools I want to build for myself. Namely a decent transactional db system where the modelling language for datatypes and workflows is a linear logical concurrent functional language with some soundness guarantees. I did build a preliminary version of the core of that at jpmorgan, though for various reasons it never saw the light of day
Show HN: Realtime Chat with Python and WebSockets
I created an basic example of an basic chat using github auth check it out: https://chat.socketify.dev/

Chat source code: https://github.com/cirospaciari/socketify.py/tree/main/examp...
HTML Template credits to: https://www.bootdey.com/snippets/view/white-chat
Isn't htmx implemented in JavaScript which is downloaded clientside so you can use the hx- directives?
I have recently implemented a fairly complex workflow editor [1] at Northflank (https://northflank.com) using react-flow and elkjs. They make for a very powerful and flexible combination, great for our needs.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/gENveM4.png
I also played the prototype and similarly enjoyed it, and also can't play it now

Something that occurred to me: is there any way - or rather, are there any existing browser features that support - setting up an "alarm" for when a hug-to-death site becomes generally available again?
Building a Dynamic VRChat World
Those animations look great. Congrats on the launch - I'll try it out later when you're not getting hugged to death quite so hard :)
You can pay Bitcoin (and only Bitcoin) to embed messages, typically transaction messages, in the global Bitcoin blockchain.

I was hoping years back that all of this would have taken off for payments rather than silliness. I was wondering if we'd see a (low) Bitcoin value determined by the need to pay BTC transaction fees and those fees being effectively locked up until the next block comes
Would I take a job offer? Yeah, if the compnay has a reasonable plan for growth. Would I take an offer over my current position? Probably not.
I remember going to one of the local markets and asked the guy putting out the apples if the organic apples were really worth it.

He immediately pulled out an organic apple (fuji if I recall correctly) and the same type, but non-organic. He cut out a slice of each apple and let me taste it.

The organic apple had significantly better flavor.

He explained that the drawback was that the organic apples would go bad quickly so you should only buy what you need, and eat them promptly.
Granny Smith is severely underrated here. This site is like hipster-tier ratings of vinyl with a bunch of obscure stuff nobody ever heard of to try and appear more sophisticated.
People need to actually redeem the tethers for actual US dollars in order to collapse the tether scam. I think all the crypto exchange collapses and bankruptcy declarations will actually help tether. All the money will be locked up for years as the lawyers and accountants go through everything.

The Mt Gox "hack" was in 2014 and people have still not gotten money back yet. That is 8 years and counting.
Money laundering -- whatever. Simple greed explains it.
We have an app, too. Search for "Plocs" on the app store or click the link on the website if you scroll down a bit.
You can even see Apple developing their XR marketing in public: https://www.apple.com/augmented-reality/
Wow i didn't know about that project. Thanks for sharing!
There is a lot of research about how sitting for long periods each day has negative health consequences. It's much better to take a break every 30 minutes or so and walk around. The negative effects of not doing so aren't fixed even by having a period of moderate exercise every day, unless that period gets into the range of an hour. But during breaks every 30 minutes, you don't need to do much. Just walking around makes a huge difference.

To try and be healthier, I've been combining that understanding with the Pomodoro technique. I set a timer on my watch for 30 minutes while sitting at my terminal, then get up for 5 minutes and walk around (also timed). Sometimes I have chores to do during the walking period, sometimes I just relax, and sometimes I use it to break out of any mental ruts I've gotten into and think at a higher level about the task at hand.

I pretty much always feel that my overall productivity is enhanced by this approach. But it would be justified purely by the health benefits. I don't do this as a replacement for a schedule of moderate exercise. I try to do that too.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/dangers-of-sitting

http://neurosciencenews.com/sitting-brain-health-8774/
> Where is "not very pro-america"?!

Brazil left despises the US after the coup. Bolivian right wants more US help to do another

Venezuela gov despises the US

Chilean left looks down on the US

Argentinian left is not US friendly, at most could be seen as transactional with the US. They really need help from world bank and imf

Bolivian left abhors the US, Bolivian right wants US support for a new coup

Paraguay is just doing its drug smuggling like they always do

Uruguay is in the process of signing a free trade agreement with China while US southern command is trying to avoid it from happening

Peruvian left is not friendly to US, Peruvian right has been working with US assistance against Peruvian left for a while to try and kneecap it

Ecuador is famously very anti-US and wouldn't deport Assange until he became excessibly annoying to deal with in the embassy

Colombia is a US puppet oligarchy. New gov is interesting, but it is still an oligarchy

Panama is a defacto neo-colony of the US

Puerto Rico is a literal colony of the US

Centro América with exception of México is a mishmash of neo-colonies literally using USD as their base currencies or detest the US in some form

So yeah...
Does tipping off local media in order to embarrass the suspect also make them more secure? People whose crime amounted to changing numbers on accounting spreadsheets have had all their doors simultaneously kicked down. They most likely have an idea of what the crime is because they have needed a warrant to get access to the property in the first place.
> My customer does not care if my backend code is beautiful

Apple can only sustain the high margins they do because you’re wrong. Some people care a great deal. Some of those people have deep pockets. If none of your customers seem to feel that way it’s probably because they are Apple customers.

But you also have companies like Anker and at certain points in their history Sony, Samsung and perhaps LG. They got it. At least for a while.

People here don’t complain about Apple for silly reasons as much as they used to. But I’ve been laughing at people jealously predicting their imminent demise while cashing dividend checks ever since their shares were $40 pre-split (7x and counting IIRC). I’m going to get to retire at least a couple years early just on AAPL, even having done dollar cost averaging.

> B2B crud app

Ah. Businesses have a weird split brain problem and it’s difficult or impossible there. They want custom software for less than or around the price of off the shelf solutions. The OTS ones can be beautiful and occasionally get away with it. If you care about art of even ergonomics you’re gonna have a bad time. I encourage you to seek out a new vertical.
> Why do you believe this?

Because I have worked with health care professionals for 20 years and they do not test for nutritional deficiencies unless you ask/beg them to. This is even more true with psychiatrists. I am advocating right now for a woman with a serum B6 deficiency that her doctor will not address. She has an actual serum B6 deficiency and anemia and depression and her dopctor thinks it is not importnat. That is why.

> It is easy and cheap to do a blood test for deficiencies, I have done that many time and they found I lacked nothing.

There are deficiencies and functional deficiencies. Plus there is serum B6 and RBC B6. Have you had your RBC B6 tested? Nope.

And Homocysteine levels will reveal more than serum B6.

And I do not believe you because you did not answer "how much did you take? And what type? Pyridoxine or Pyridoxal-Phosphate? For how long? Were you tested for a B6 defieicny, high homocysteine?"
well i'd prefer if it had never gotten to where it is, because every crash in the crypto markets wipes out the savings of some sucker who didn't know better. that sucks.
> i encourage you to demonstrate it -- live your life with others in a way that defies market forces. the proof is in the pudding; for now, there is only one game in town.

are you implying that you positively know that there is not a single group of people on the planet living an alternative that's better than what the majority is doing?
Money is not just dollars. I consider my bank account money, even though I know its backed by some fraction of its value in actual dollars. People take out loans that are backed by stocks, for example. If the stock market went to zero, they would default on the loan, and money would be destroyed.
The 21st century has so many options, even in a changing environment.

Japan has their styrofoam homes that answers earthquake damage prevention designs outside of pagoda architecture:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcIWmKlBiw

And the "Lift House" architecture makes a lot of sense in flood prone areas using simple bamboo techniques:

https://www.prosunarchitects.com/lifthouse

Its not too far of a stretch to see how these two technologies compliment each other.

New construction has a lot of innovation to enjoy :)
Modern web is fairly complex but it doesn't have to be. What you're after is a simple form to submit that data to someplace. CSS and JavaScript in your case are only needed to improve the look and get some kind of dynamic feedback.

So you have the client webpage, this can be a really simple webpage without any style that just has several form tags (Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp).

Then you need to send this data to some place. You can use standard html actions to do this to a back end script, a rest api, or even to a formatted email that will be sent via the user's email client.

You may need node to code the back end if there isn't one you can use. You can also use google sheets. See example here: https://github.com/levinunnink/html-form-to-google-sheet. This is really only useful for a small prototype so at some point you would need to standup your own backend somewhere. That gets more complicated because now you need a script (could be JavaScript & node for example or PHP or anything else) which processes your form request and stores it to a database someplace else.

Good luck and happy coding.
I think Spain has the "Beckam Law" that you don't get taxed for 6 years if your revenue comes from out of Spain (remote work)
I wonder if fortune telling is real. Not the tarot kind but using the power of the mind to travel across spacetime and seeing visions is.
the problem with search, is that its assuming you know what you want to look for.. which always isn't the case.
Adam's Apples – An amateur explores the pomaceous fruit
It gets even worse than that.

When our first child was born, in the States, it was in a birthing center associated with the local hospital. This was in its own building, but in that building they have a room they call the "ER" -- this is where they decide whether to admit you, in terms of being ready to give birth. The entire function of that room, though, is just to charge exorbitant ER rates for admitting into the birthing center. (A 10 minute dilation exam.) This is completely fraudulent, of course, but they've been getting away with it for many, many years.
And ‘parenting’ and the other things I’ve manage to choose. However, jobs I can’t stand I leave (eventually)
One of the concerns over meds is that it would enable you to do those jobs you just don’t (and maybe shouldn’t) do.
> The value of most coins will go to zero.

By absolute number, sure, but if you count "most" by weighting them with trading volume, then no. Bitcoin and Ether will not go to zero.
Well, it's got a higher vowel density than even italian, so it's fit for opera.
Agree that while "they got swept up in the moment" is a reasonable theory (Hanlon's razor and what not), it also seem very plausible that they knew it was risky but not how risky, and felt like there was still a positive expected value because they would be able sell their coins early (I saw a tweet about how a16z is still up 5x on it's crypto investments because of this[1]).

[1] https://twitter.com/mims/status/1592934095117426689
It's called theft.
Sorry, I should have wrote Also, it is not about fundamentally about dopamine, but it is fundamentally about glutamate.
Is it also disheartening to see cigarette regulation framed as a second hand smoke issue, when alcohol causes car crashes? One problem hardly refutes the other. They're both problems.

I agree with social media eroding free will and being generally harmful to society no matter what country the social media comes from. Nothing would please me more than to see the dissolution of Facebook. But that doesn't refute the national security implications of communist Chinese social media particularly. Both of these are problems.
I think this is a fair question. Let me share:

As somebody who's been laid off and fired before, I think the hardest part is not always the money (though it can be), but loss of control.

People say the same thing about having their house broken into, they don't care about material loss, it's the sense of violation and not being safe in their homes that may persist for years that far outweighs money.

So the hard part can be, especially the first time when you don't expect it at all, suddenly having the routine of your daily life ripped away. All the projects, the mentoring, the presentations you were planning, all the coworkers you talked to daily, all gone in a snap.

If you're taken by surprise (which can happen a lot actually, since a lot of people in tech are incredibly awful at giving negative feedback directly and clearly) then you may for years get uncomfortable about any Friday meeting on your calendar from a manager. Or you may have trouble making yourself work at all when a pending layoff is announced.

But in a way it makes you stronger, more able to separate your identity and self-worth from your work.
Big companies, not all stakeholders are always known. sometimes they are notifying the wrong stakeholder. Its hit or miss I find.
What a remarkable coincidence. I was just looking at alternative terminals today and saw warp.

I like what they are doing. And like copilot (which I'm not a fan of, but I understand the goal maybe), I think it is leaning toward the real issue - we waste energy solving the same problems over and over.

Instead of helpers which enable us to reinvent wheels, we should be directing our efforts toward establishing a collection of pattern solutions and tools to compose those solutions into bigger ones which solve specific needs.

In the terminal, there are certainly a limited set of things we do repeatedly. In fact, much of what we do in the terminal can be done elsewhere (UI); it's just slower or more tedious due to clicking. It's also less easy to automate. But the intentions behind the actions are the same. "Create a new directory <here> name <name> and execute this <script>". Perhaps the biggest challenge is just in naming and organizing.
Does anyone know if when FBI/DOJ seizes domain names, do they only do so when an arrest is imminent? It's quite obvious in this case that it was allowed to remain operational while they were investigating. I wonder if that's the general MO for domain seizures. Because there are just tons of domains that should be seized that are still operating. Why don't those get taken down? No way FBI/etc aren't aware of these.
BTC was first :)
> life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

Nope, it should be burned in fire.

> Roughly 86% of all the fun you get from APL programming comes from the mysterious symbols and the magic behind them. It’s not that APL is alien to computers, it’s just the computers were alien to APL for quite a while.

That's being alien to humans my dude. If understanding syntax is heaviest mental exercise in programming language it is unexcusably terrible. It should be considered torture to even require someone to read it.
One reason many European varieties may be missing is because the apple market is pretty regionalized (95% of apples sold in the US are grown in the US), unlike the bananas market, which is hyper-globalized.