skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's a mortgage the deed is held by the mortgagee. Or at the very least there will be a formal legal claim on the deed (in the UK it's called a lien or a charge - not quite identical but similar) which isn't satisfied until the mortgage is paid off.

Worse, there were instances in 2008 of banks stealing homes out from under people - who sometimes didn't even have a mortgage - by getting fake paperwork waved through, because it was impractical for all the competing claims on a loan to be properly validated.

https://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/your_mortgage_documents_are...

Would blockchain fix this? No. The problem wasn't tracking the transactions, it was the fact that banks and the financial industry fraudulently hid the true risk of various loan bundles.

Blockchain would only have solved this problem if the loan context - creditworthiness, payment history, and so on - was included with every loan transaction, and could easily be accessed and summarised for all the transactions in all of the loan bundles.

Which blockchain doesn't do.

Coincidentally, this is exactly the same problem that blockchain hasn't solved for FTX, Binance, Mt Gox, etc. Blockchain does not provide an objective assessment of risk, value, or corporate credibility. It's just a ledger.

Even if you can't manipulate the ledger, you can still manipulate the perceived meaning of the numbers in the ledger. Especially if you're a trusted party in the cryptoverse.

In fact it doesn't just fail to fix these problems, it creates new opportunities for spectacular frauds.
Fraser's First Success Was a Failure
Seems quite related to the standard 'company lifecycle'

And, to your point, not every company follows one. But most do.
Ada was unobtanium for a long time for mere mortals like myself. In 1983 I was 18 and had access to a C compiler, an Ada compiler would have cost me an arm, a leg and my still to be first born, and information about the language was pretty much limited to what you could get from magazine articles of people that had maybe at some point known someone who had seen an Ada compiler in the wild.

The only other realistic options outside of government/enterprise were Pascal, BASIC and assembler, and within the bulk of the work was done in COBOL.
If your job is small enough and not ran too often, AWS is literally free.
come on, this is like gassing up your car.

Yes every once in a while you see some person on the side of the road who forgot to fill up with gas.

But is the answer to force everyone to pull over and gas up every 4 hours?

(yes, this is an imperfect analogy, but you get the idea)
Is it cheating to pay someone to take the test for me? Isn't hiring specialized labor just another kind of tool? In the real world, I certainly have access to all sorts of specialists.
Hi ppjim,

It would be great to know more on the issues with communicating with colleagues and sense of culture/community.

What does that look like now, and what would you improve?
In the first sentence (currently “Transport for NSW (TfNSW) has recently installed these around the Sydney CBD – a sticker on top of a pedestrian “beg button” explaining the button is redundant before 6am and after 10pm”) I think you mean it’s redundant between 6am and 10pm
A use case I've needed cloud services for is web scraping. Sites which IP ban web scrapers will still allow scraping from major cloud provider IP space.
Exactly, educations is not a vocational school where we teach people useful skills so they start doing whatever they learned. Machines have long been able to do things that we teach in the schools, the purpose of teaching is developing people. Once they are developed(that means they built understanding of how nature and society works and how to interact with) and its time to expect an output, only then we can talk about teaching useful skills.

Vocational schools do exist and they are useful but that's not what we are concerned about. People who cheat not to learn useful skills simply spend their time and money.
"If files are important to you, keep a backup, outside of cloud, or in another vendors cloud."

Agreed.

Broadly speaking, I don't think of my music collection as critical data ... and yet, when I examine the time, care and energy I have expended ripping CDs, naming and cataloging these files they are probably the single largest data input job I have ever taken part in.

So with that in mind I do, indeed, treat it as critical data and have it properly backed up.

"If files are important to you ..."

There is this UI element in itunes / apple music where you can choose what to arrange music by:

https://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/i/img8...

... and note that "filename" is not in that huge, comprehensive list.

That tells you everything you need to know.
Ironically, perhaps not so much so, that's precisely why the blockchain was invented in 1992. A simple notary service.
> For example, I was helping my kid out with their Java homework and we we're both stuck for a good hour. Finally I loaded the question into ChatGPT.
> The answer that came back helped us solve the problem.

But maybe the real lesson in ChatGPT, or a near future descendant, is replacing human programmers altogether?
Show HN: Shell script for playing music from YT with a text queue file and mpv
Hi, I am kind of hesitant to post this because I wrote this myself and it's definitely not polished but I thought people might find it useful considering some of the music related things I have seen posted here.

This doesn't have anything fancy like a recommendation system or pretty ui but it makes it very easy to listen to music and keep a history of what you've listened to. If it means anything, this is the only thing I use for music playing.

Features:
- Everything is a text file (queue, your listen/artist history)!
- Mpv as music player (you can control or get info using the ipc socket the script opens)
- Download songs after you've listened to it a chosen amount
- Fzf to search music
- Add playlists from the cli
- Manage queue from the cli, fzf, or vim
- Run arbitrary commands on song change
- Search and play or select from search results

Here is a demo: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/woasvu/oc_ytmp_yo...

and the repo: https://github.com/ifeelalright1970/ytmp/
It seems to be quite active, with regular new releases. I’m lead to believe that https://www.toolchain.com/ is the main sponsor, but there are maintainers from other companies too. I do not know the details, though.
Home equity is at record highs and basically everyone has super low interest rates locked in for decades. Unless you top-ticked and bought a house in 2021 with no equity you’re fine.
According to the article her kids do qualify. She doesn’t want the 75 year lockup.
Yes, it's backwards. And counter-intuitive use of bool :(

They felt fine changing the argument order, why stick with the reverse polarity?
Pretty sure none of the users consented to photos of them on the toilet being posted on Facebook (and now a news article; wtf was the Tech Review thinking).
FTX collapsed, in part, because they were acting like banks by lending out the funds they were entrusted with and leveraging them.
> (1) maybe it doesn't need to scale for people to ultimately have a much better experience

Big, heavy doubt. This Twitter debacle has generated ridiculous, crazy amounts of drama and emoting, the likes I haven't seen on the net in ... a while. This kind of emoting and drama stirring only works when the pot is large. A storm in a small teapot really isn't much. It reminds me of the high drama that used to happen on large IRC channels run by teens in the early '00s, where you'd wake up and some portion of the server got muted or banned for some completely opaque but intensely personal reason. (I was one of the teens so I'm not implying like I was much better than the rest of them lol.)

I'm in 20-something small Matrix rooms/spaces and Discord guilds and none of them are nearly this dramatic. The kind of folks that seek engagement on Twitter IMO are in it for the high drama that you can only get on a large social platform. The folks that stay on the Fediverse are looking for something entirely different. I'm hopeful that some folks try the Fediverse and realize they didn't need Twitter at all (not in some sense of Twitter anger, but more that it's good for folks who want to socialize in smaller spaces be aware that it's very possible to do that on the net right now.)

FWIW If you're trying to build a small community and afraid of scaling issues, I still think hopping onto Matrix or Discord (preferably in that order) is a better idea. Synapse might be heavyweight but it's still lighter than running Mastodon, and if your community doesn't want to federate, you can run the much lighter Dendrite (or even lighter Conduit which is a bit more raw.) There's a large ecosystem of clients on all the big platforms for Matrix. Discord being a centralized, closed system has all of these problems solved as well.
Noblogs Communicates in the Fediverse Fluently
Well , it’s either I listen to it using this easy platform for us common folk, or I don’t listen to them at all. Or i pirate. It’s not that deep , you can get off your high horse.
Chiming in to add onto this. Fantastic show that is very much worth watching. I'd describe it as similar to Mr. Robot: Halt and Catch Fire uses tech to talk not only about the history of the tech industry, but also to say a lot about people.
> which one hosts the database?

Both?

> manipulate data to the disadvantage of the other

How is this even possible? Don't they sign their transactions?
Not for bool though.
So I take it you'd be equally suspicious of all the prior work from the Northern Hemisphere that claimed mammalian origins to be there? I guess that's reasonable. Western Europeans and North Americans are the default humans/scientists after all, and are completely objective about their central place in everything, even pre-human evolution.
It’s really great when you need to call ObjC APIs from C++ or vice versa.

For the most part you can keep things as regular C++ and then just mix in some ObjC APIs when needed without splitting out your files and targets.

It’s extra useful because macOS provides a lot of really great utility libraries like dealing with media or networking, which means you can greatly reduce your dependency count on Apple platforms.

I try and take the approach of reducing dependencies in favour of platform native APIs where possible when making multi platform code, and this is great for that.

Of course it means you have different details on each platform, but I find it much more pleasant than having to keep building dependencies, and dealing with all the corresponding issues like security, size or dealing with platform specific acceleration.
It very much sounds like security is an after thought.

Seems cool if you need to sync env vars, but you should probably just be using battle tested etcd+confd or console+console template.

This product seems to be based on some incredibly misguided principles (from a security perspective). I don’t think a technology like this has any place in a modern enterprise.

Part of the whole point of using a secret manager is to avoid storing them in environment variables.

That coupled with the lack of an API and the use of MongoDB are just too many red flags for me to ignore.
I wonder if I can make a Github repo with an action that commits to another repo on a cron. Or itself?
how did we get to the point where people have Internet-connected cameras and microphones everywhere in their houses yet implicitly trust that anything recorded will never under any circumstances be viewed by another human being
When the input is first selected here's will be a hot plug detect, EDID request and an EDID response. That response can be up to 32kB so anywhere up to ~2 seconds depending on how many extension blocks are in use by the display. Here's a nice breakdown on more of what happens there: https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/hdm....

When a suitable set of image parameters have been agreed HDCP (may) then step in to ruin your day. Again a nice walkthrough of that is available here: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/08/27/reposted....

As other commenters have correctly noted, there's definite room for improvement. One thing to remember though is this involves hardware that can be in operation for the order of decades so there's a lot of cruft that accretes in order to maintain compatibility. Frankly it's mildly impressive that for the most part all the above happens in silence and continues to (mostly) work.
I feel like you give too little credit to the "normies". My 92 year-old grandmother figured out how to join plenty of forums for her birdwatching and knitting and whatnot hobbies (classic phpBB style things). Choosing an instance is no more complicated than that, but you get the added bonus of being able to interact with the other forums, too.
+1 for quarto, i wrote my thesis in rmarkdown which flipped easily between latex and html output, with a bibtex referencing system. It also allowed you to inline latex for more complex outputs. And inlining calculated tables and charts meant i could keep my writing and code together. Quarto is the successor.
I don't think anyone has launched it because they can see how much difficulty Twitter had turning a profit. There are a number of companies that could launch such a thing (especially now that hiring former-Twitter employees should be as easy as it will ever be), but they also have financial teams capable of modeling whether or not it would be profitable.
Twitch has had “pinch to zoom” on touch devices for years. Amazing that Google just got it now and it’s still janky.

Multiple audio tracks seems like a brilliant feature. So brilliant that I’m surprised it’s taken this long. Excited to see what creators use it for, if nothing else than added accessibility and internationalization.
"Second-degree murder is typically murder with malicious intent but not premeditated."

This lacks malicious intent. They DID commit manslaughter. However, there are exceptions where manslaughter is permissible. Police are SUPPOSED to be held to these standards just as much as regular citizens. This is probably not the case, but many police officers have been hit with manslaughter charges in the past for bad shootings. The most recent notable one would be in San Antonio October 2022:
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128306894/an-ex-police-offic...

In order for manslaughter to be permissible, there has to be an imminent threat or death or great bodily harm that a reasonable person with the knowledge at the time of the manslaughter would believe to be probable. The police officers in this case will be able to meet every single one of those standards and then some.

Edit Note: Yes, there is a problem where people use self-defense as a means to engage in murder without consequence. For instance: Kyle Rittenhouse. However, proving malicious intent is extremely difficult.
I think it's a stable form of price discrimination.

Super price sensitive - subscribe to one service and switch service every month. $5-10/month.

Typical - subscribe to three services and cancel one every few months and swap another one in. $20/month.

Super price insensitive - subscribe to everything and pay as much as you used to with cable.

The ideal is for Apple TV, Fire TV or whatever to create a unified search and discovery mechanism.
No, his second big show, “Newhart”.

Plus I don’t know if it’s the case with Bob Newhart, but some old shows on Hulu (like Taxi) are missing tons of episodes.
> you were from the future with a Star Trek replicator an when in to Sam Goody, Scanned the Cassette and made a perfect replica of it it would not be theft

This is certainly false, no need to speculate. There is presently an entire underground industry of fake Louis Vuitton handbags, and other luxury brands. The goods may be amazing replicas but the legality is clear... an unauthorized source simply cannot produce LV handbags at will, and knowingly purchasing one is not legal either.

Do I think there is any actual risk that an individual person would be prosecuted for buying one of these bags? As I said elsewhere, no. It still doesn't make it legal.
They’re not big enough to be a weapon. Keep in mind the Cold War was as much an economic war as the other aspects. That was countless $billions. The space race alone through 1973 cost a quarter $trillion and that was a minor bit of spending compared to military and intelligence agencies.

The US recently during the Covid shutdowns rapidly spent and extra $trillion, then did it again 3 more times roughly a year. This is essentially done via minting fiat money.

The US also has too many strategic interests in Europe to allow an economic attack there either, although all of crypto is still too small to bother the EU to any high degree in terms of an economic attack.

Finally, Binance may be filled with criminal gains but criminals frown on people taking their money so if anything Binance, to the extent it’s resources have criminal origins, is constrained in deploying them beyond a certain point to defend their business.

No, Binance is far from immune to collapse, it’s just that if they start down that pathway then the criminals will be pretty insistent on being first in line to get their money out.
> And American culture does not like when government says "must".

Except when it's about treating everyone like terrorists in airports, I presume.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Substack or Medium pivoted to becoming Twitter 2.0?
I tried similar with sorghum in the microwave and ended up horribly burning it. I think it's too delicate a process with non-popcorn/rice grains, keeping it moving would have averted disaster for me, but I can't do that easily with a microwave.
Let's take this as evidence that the proposal is counter-intuitive?
The article is similar though. The "gaze" of the reader is doing all the heavy lifting here. Weiss is relying on us finding e.g. the ribbons indicating proximity preferences, and all the talk titles and so on as silly and as ridiculous as she does. What exactly is there left to engage with when you remove the bad faith ranting against her peers and junior researchers?

Personally I don't think the original article itself meets site guidelines. It's culture war content, it's entirely in bad faith, and it's inviting (for the most part) really ugly and uninteresting discussion. There's little to seriously engage with here in a way that meets site guidelines
Exactly. And it gets even better if you pair it with a personal voice assistant, like mycroft.ai

"Hey Mycroft, play songs about better software integrations"
She wants to build 4 rental units on a lot in downtown. That's an apartment building. Why should an apartment building with 4 units be exempt from offering affordable housing? She will not be occupying those four units. She will be staying in her fifth unit.
www.deta.sh
I know people have already given a good bit of advice and this was in my 20s not my 40s but I went through a pretty rough patch in college that I left with a couple suicide attempts and a trip to the mental hospital. Counseling was super valuable for me especially Christian counseling. I know this site isn’t the most religion friendly but the only reason I’m alive today is because Jesus met me in all that junk. Take it or leave it but that’s what happened to me.
Our biggest animal dangers here are humans, horses, and cows. In that order.
> Building a Dockerfile took ages due to the low compute

Why compile anything on the raspberry pi? Cross-compile on a machine with more compute (like your laptop, desktop, phone, or ec2 instance) one time, and then transfer the compiled binaries or built docker image over.

> Pi with 2GB instead of 8GB

For headless chrome, that should be enough unless you're doing other stuff with it. Unless you mean for compiling stuff, which as before can be done elsewhere.
"... there isn't a company on earth that thinks we consumers actually own anything. As for cloud storage, those who trust it haven't been screwed yet, and yes, they think whatever you store there belongs to them."

I know of at least one company - that thinks you own your own files.

It's actually a cloud storage company.

21 years and not one person screwed.
> Really? Email scaled. Internet scaled. Decentralization is scalable.

I don’t see any normal person self-hosting their own email service. Even if they did, good luck with handling spam. It can only viably scale to hundreds of millions with centralization; hence Gmail, Outlook, etc to reduce / limit the spam issue.

Mastodon has the same mistakes as the other federated alternatives and has already proven to be unable to scale more efficiently than Twitter, let alone the ridiculous hurdles to begin using it.

We are talking about scaling to hundreds of millions, not ten thousand or a shy hundred thousand and it falls over on a single moderator’s instance.
> What you’re seeing in India is democracy in action. Modi has the highest approval rating of any major world leader ...

If you think democracy is only about winning elections, then Hitler was a great democrat too.

> India is maturing, becoming culturally more self-confident, and shedding its post-colonial skin.

You mean the current indian leaders prefer to live in the past, fantasising about its glorious history while preferring to blame all its misgivings on "foreigners" to repress their feelings of insecurity with an equally dysfunctional sense of superiority complex?
After seeing this this AM, I just used this in a proper professional mix session for an ad we were finishing today. Sit-down interview shot with an iPhone (don't ask). I output stems of each subject's dialog, uploaded separately, laid back in and mixed little bit of roomtone back into it.

Gobsmack all around. Mine, that it did better in 10 seconds than I think nearly anyone could have done in 10 hours. Theirs, that they thought I performed a literal miracle.

Life comes at you pretty fast sometimes.
I already use use-package, so that's great...
I also use projectile and it's been working great... how should I prepare to move to project.el? Are there any guides? Or things just work the same I am used to, and I just need to delete projectile once upgrading?

I also use lsp-* for all IDE features... is eglot going to be the better choice here for every language?? LSP works with Go, Dart, Java, Zig, Rust, Lua... do I need to remove all my config for those to use eglot??
Facebook employs at least 115 people that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS
On a log-plot, that's a whole lot more than we had a decade ago. Approaching 1% and doubling every few years seems like a wonderful trend.
Yes, same here. It’s such an absurd design decision it makes me question if this isn’t a honeypot of sorts.

Injection at runtime is the target secret managers should be trying to hit.
Swindled is one of the best produced podcasts I've heard. They tell stories about financial and corporate crimes.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1R4mEpogS2auhyKnppCmrD?si=1...

https://valuedlistener.com
The “golden age” started with Netflix directing its cashflow into risky content like “House of Cards” and “Orange is the new Black”.

What’s the business model for a content production company that doesn’t have such sugar-daddy?
A story in a magazine (when they had such things) of a young lady house-sitting, told of the soup on the stove that was 3 generations old. "Eat all you like; just throw a little something in to replace whatever you take!"

She ate some, threw some pasta in, too much. An hour later, the pot was a solid block of pasta!

So she threw it out, started over with some Campbells canned stuff and never told anybody.