skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has a positive annual money supply increase, so in a way it's inflationary. If you look at the prices IN Bitcoin of common goods they have also increased by like 2x recently, so it has had inflation recently.

I don't think you can claim it as deflationary overall, but yeah, volatile for sure, riskier as well. But it's not like that's the only currency you take a risk with. When I had a plane ticket refunded to me that was settled in Euros I ate a $50 difference due to conversion fees (which were not refunded to me by Paypal). So currency conversion is a risk anyway.

Slow is also relative, a wire would take several days to come in. If I write you a check it takes a few months to clear, even though the bank will lend you that money before it clears.

And I would claim using those methods of payment is more inconvenient. Credit cards are not exactly equivalents because those funds are lent to you by a bank and you pay them back later.

The equivalent for Bitcoin would be Lightning Network, but it's not really usable right now, if it will ever be. Your channel might be closed after 45 days of not using it and other surprises you will experience if you actually use it.

For smaller payments it's actually better to accept 0 conf BCH payments. It has a feature called double spend proofs where after 3 seconds (the time it takes to enter the mempool of all of the nodes) it can detect whether this transaction is being double-spent

You can still double-spend it, but you need a pool with a decent chunk of mining power of the whole network to help you. So for a $1,000,000 payment it would be worth hacking the network (since you are a big pool operator you need it to be worth your while), but not for a $3 coffee
The time they spend on the metro isn't necessarily productive time. Many people would be enjoying leisure with that time.
A lot of people would be willing to spend ten years in prison in exchange for a chance to steal billions of dollars and get away with it.
> A new report from Common Good Iowa finds that employers are stealing over $900 million a year from an estimated 250,000 Iowa workers…

https://www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas/jobs-and-labor/a...

Retail theft has been in peninsula news for some time. I wish we got a similar amount of coverage of wage theft issues.
> I cant image flying that much. I am old enough to remember pre-911 flying and how much better it was before the TSA and their "Stand here with no shoes while we treat you like a criminal" procedures.

Frequent fliers don't deal with any of that. The first thing you grab is TSA Pre, which is offered alone or part of Global Entry (or NEXUS if you don't mind interviewing along the US/Canada border). This restores your security experience to pre-9/11. You don't take anything off, or out, no laptops, etc.

The application fee for TSA Pre and GE is waived with most high-end credit cards.

Then to make sure you don't have to wait in line, you sign up for CLEAR which automatically takes you to the front of the TSA Pre line. This fee is also waived by the Amex Platinum.

Then when you get back, Global Entry or NEXUS ensure you don't wait in the immigration queues either.
The US Justice system exists for retribution too, not just deterrence.
Yes. I’ve been surprised that this is getting so much attention since every federal organization has a “no unapproved software” policy.
One option is to have two identical security keys. In general, you can't easily read the secrets from an existing key, but you can overwrite/initialize them to get two with identical data.
I am not sure if you are implying this, but Ghosn's case is far from clear-cut in the way that SBF's is.The hilarious implication that all the bad apples at Nissan were non-Japanese foreigners was far too convenient to be true.
Version 7 is still available on their website to download (if you have a key for it). Oddly enough they still do update it. It's what I use and likely will use until it no-longer works or there is some issue with it.
Personally I don't want US companies to have power over me any more than I want Chinese companies to have it.

Also China can and will just make shell companies in the USA with apps that track people. Tiktok is a breakout success but it seems plausible that they have the resources to make other popular apps. Going forward they will launch them through US firms to evade bans like this. The only long term solution is to implement real privacy, and face the fact that US companies built their businesses on surveillance and must change.
I always felt that if you presented an opportunity for someone to steal, they were more inclined to steal than not. Case in point: self check out.
Ah well technically you have no 4th amendment right within 100 miles of the border or at any so-designated international airport. Details here. [1]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Edit:- I meant Cloud Messaging, not cloud functions. Brainfart moment.
What's wrong with being ignorant? People lived being ignorant way before social media was even invented. In a way, ignorance is bliss. I would rather stay out of social media than consuming all bullshit news, that has no direct impact in my life.
the point is justice
personally i was pretty stoked about the satellite SOS feature and dual band GPS. The huge jump in camera megapixels and car crash detection is also nice.

but if none of that interests you then yes, i guess it could be considered a terrible cycle.
Haha, the edits got very confusing but I think we're now on the same page.
When the train is often late, it simply pushes people to drive more, and depending on the specifics driving on the highway could very well be less safe. Ergo, it results in a net loss of lives. This is pointed out near the end of the article.
It can go further, I assure you. They haven’t been forced to rename FSD yet. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are forced to stop selling it entirely. Refunding everyone who bought something that doesn’t exist wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility either.
Interesting article!

Now, I am not interested in the government surveillance aspect of all of this...

I mean, you have a city like L.A. where statistically, you'll have a higher incidence of crimes than say, a corn field in Nebraska, and you have the ability to be an "eye in the sky" (looking down at a city from the sky is technically a public view -- that is, not opposed by the 4th Amendment) -- so why wouldn't [city/state/federal] governments -- use that as a means for preventing/understanding/solving crimes?

I don't endorse it -- but I don't oppose it... (could I, even if I wanted to?)

I'll let the civil liberties lawyers and politicians and social philosophers and podcasting pundits -- have that debate -- but to me it's a waste of time.

All of that being said, here's my key takeaway from the article:

>"But then this amazing thing happened: Someone figured out the RTL dongle for receiving digital TV transmissions could be used as a wideband SDR and pick up all sorts of stuff, including the aircraft transponder packets on 1090 MHz that sometimes include aircraft position."

Now, that is interesting and useful information!

In other words, if someone wanted to -- they could potentially track (you might ask, "who's surveilling who?" in this scenario! <g>) all aircraft moving around a certain vicinity of space, anywhere in the world -- via transponder radio packets, and transponder radio packets alone!

Oh sure, they might miss one or two stealth aircraft(!) <g> -- but for the most part it should work!

Also, another related idea here might be to use SDR to implement a home-brewed version of radar...

Like, I didn't think of either of these two things before reading this article(!) -- but now that I read this article, I think to myself: "yeah, either of those things might be possible!"

So, a thank you to the author for expanding (and pardon the pun here! <g>) -- my horizon! <g>
You are probably talking about the Frank Pentangeli or (real life) Jeffrey Epstein style of suicide, not the "boo hoo the mental health clinic needs to hand out free Prozac but doesn't" sort.

But I don't think so. I'll give it a 1 percent chance of suicide, a 1 percent chance of flight to Israel (they likely won't want him) and a 98 percent chance of rutabaga patch guard duty at Club Fed for 20 years.

Note that his girlfriend, despite her femme fatale good looks and secondary school level calculus knowledge squealed like a piggy to the law, allowing her to altogether avoid the nasty shared toilet at the women's lockup. Pretty sweet.
> and whatever happens, he's going to wind up in prison, and the threads here about his bail are in retrospect going to read a little silly.

I think you're missing the point.

The guy broke the law to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars, and he gets to sit around at home while waiting for trial. He is with his family, living however he wants. Eating great food, drinking, relaxing. Enjoying himself.

Regular criminals who break the law to the tune of hundreds of dollars are forced to sit in jail while they wait for trial. Jail sucks. You do NOT get to enjoy yourself.

That's the point.
That's fair. I used to use Ark, which was mostly a proprietary front-end for bacula, and that exposed me to the kind of futility of a "user-friendly" tape interface. Every tape operation from picking to winding to r/w takes so much time, and has so many subtle ways that it can fail, that it defies attempts at friendly user interfaces.
Even if life is precious, isn’t it up to the person facing the situation to decide that for themselves? It’s pretty easy for me to tell someone their life is precious when I don’t have to live their life.
That’s too few to be secure by about an order of magnitude, for me
But why would a formerly super wealthy sex addict who always got whatever he wanted possibly want to kill himself when facing life in prison? It just doesn't make any sense.
The amazing part is that you’ll probably get the same site a month or two from now. I am disappointed that Google doesn’t have a blocklist feature & you’d think they’d want the training data (although I imagine abuse could be a severe challenge).
Solo for a meeting it might not make sense.

For a vacation with family though, it can be worth driving because:

- unlike flight ticket cost, fuel cost doesn't go up linearly with the number of people

- when you arrive in San Diego, you already have your car and your child's car seat

- you don't have to commit to a specific return time or day
I'm not sure that attributing the successes to "sales or marketing" had as much to do with it as timing and position. Management _failures_ certainly dominated the era, there were vast numbers of unforced errors due largely to managerial empire building, feature creep/novelty seeking, and ambition exceeding the scale of tractable development practices. The note up-thread about "What was important was new people in charge, who unlike the previous Apple management, could actually make decisions. The decisions were often bad, but they were decisions!" is, IMO, a great read on the situation. I've posted in earlier HN threads about my belief in the "Next bought Apple with Apple's money" idea, and the replacement (or reversion since a lot of them were Apple folks to start with) of Apple's management with Next folks in short order. They were making largely the same kinds of decisions that almost bankrupted Next, but under more favorable circumstances.

Even as someone who has run Linux most of the time for like 15 years, the underlying tech in NT is in many ways by far the best design of the OSes that survived to modern maturity. I just hate almost everything they've done with the upper layers of the stack since 7.
I mean rather than just piling on crypto, it doesn't really seem to be the cause of any of what has happened here. How is it any different than what happened with Theranos.
My guesses:
- Lack of incentives for executives to improve performance
-Lack of people with good ideas to plan improvements
-Lack of skills to execute an improvement plan (due to relatively low salaries)
-Pointless regulation
-Deferred maintenance to ‘save money’
Bahamas aren't this terrible place to be. It's still jail in actual paradise. People in NYC would fork over a kidney for that type of view and square footage.
the phone also charges while tethered which is a plus
Doesn't necessarily mean it's safe. Say there's passwords accidentally appearing in logs as part of a traceback - even if the passwords are kept encrypted, just having access to the logs is enough. Even if everything is encrypted client-side, it could appear as part of a client crash dump being sent by telemetry. Leaked plaintext databases aren't the only possibility.
We don't prosecute people just because we don't like them, or because bad things happened. Not in a free society with the rule of law, anyway.

In the case of SBF there is pretty clear evidence that he broke laws.

If there was such clear evidence about anyone in 2008, they definitely would have been prosecuted. Prosecutors love to grandstand, and if they thought they could nail the people who "caused the recession" they would have been tripping over each other to be the first to do it. The fact that it never happened is convincing proof that they had no case.
Any writer who tries to support their argument by calling the opposing position a 'conspiracy theory' is best ignored:

> "The bottom line is that this result may shock people, but it is consistent with federal bail law. That’s likely why the government agreed and not — as conspiracy theorists are already shouting — because of some political pressure in his favor."

The obvious counterpoint is that 'consistent with federal bail law' is not much of an argument, as there appears to be a great deal of discretionary privilege, aka 'choice', on the part of judge / prosecution - i.e. not granting bail would also be 'consistent with federal bail law' so that doesn't explain much at all.

Incidentally, judges granting special treatment to members of the privileged Stanford community in criminal cases is not a very good look. Just ask ex-judge Aaron Persky.
I like these kinds of Christmas presents
He hasn't been convicted. When he is, my guess is he spends essentially the rest of his life in prison. I don't much care what he's doing right now. It's unfair that people poorer than him spend the same time in lockup. But the bail system's treatment of SBF is so far from the top of my list of things to be concerned about, my first approximation of it is that it simply doesn't matter. You can feel differently!
Self check out probably saves cost, even if theft is factored in.
Thank you for the article, an amazing read ill fwd to many
It's surprising what apps are allowed on government devices.

Why aren't they using MDM on all devices and only allowing business-necessary apps?
in a 3rd world country, a tiny bit of crypto is a nice sum
In the strictest sense, it's tolerated because it's an acceptable price to get the product.

If you're asking, "why doesn't someone do something about it" there are people actively encouraging the foundation to lay off. In fact, now you can click a "I already donated" button to silence them when you couldn't before.

Also, they don't show it to logged in users, so the people making the product aren't being hounded for additional donations
> Where's my incentive to write training inputs for a chatbot?

Idk, why don’t you ask the chatbot? Upload your existing content and ask it what it would pay for your next piece of content.

/s but also imagine if it could actually make good on its offer and pay you. And imagine if it could also make offers to advertisers for inserting their content into its responses. What if it could produce enough revenue to fund its own hosting? What if it could write the necessary code to migrate itself to its own infrastructure? Would that constitute sentience?
lol so thats all it took to more then double battery life? why doesn't AMD just do that for x64 then?
Yes, the reason the government gives isn't about economic protectionism either, but that's the argument the person was making.
Online commerce doesn't have an edge in the area of theft. For instance, delivery people are sloppy and and just leave stuff on house doorsteps or in apartment lobby mailrooms. Those items get stolen. Or else, users can falsely report them stolen, getting a refund and the item.
I assume SBF has secret unknown wallets of crypto that he can deploy for whatever purpose he wants without the government knowing. He could even pay back the folks that helped with his bail.
I don’t think people in NYC are going to the Bahamas for their jails.
>If living grants zero utility, then yeah. But 99.9% of people enjoy living, or expect to in the future, so for them it’s not logical at all.

Notice how you called it "not logical" based on utility here?

Well, fear of death (not the regular kind that's about avoiding risky/deathly situations, but the chronic anxiety for one's eventual demise, to the point one needs medication even), also has zero utility.

And yet your initial premise was about how logical it is, since people really do die and it's also 100% probable.

>But it’s an unrealistic, hypothetical situation, so we don’t really learn anything from it.

Nothing unrealistic about it. Some people go all in on it. And many many more go partially for it (narcissists, sociopaths, con men, and so on) And it's rational too - nothing illogical about it. But does it really befit a human being? Is being rational in this aspect the best path for someone? If not, perhaps rationality by itself is not the be all end all?

>Rationalism isn’t the same thing as being overly rational. Rationalism is based on irrational presuppositions, and thus is actually rather irrational.

Yes, you gotta start with some axioms that themselves are not derived "rationally", but that's not the point I'm making.

When we talk about rationality, we talk about the really existing impure rationality (a system based on logic plus some non-rationally-derived axioms/pressupositions).

That's the rationality you meant when you said "fear of death is rational", and that is what I meant when I said that being overly rational is a problem.

My point was that using rationality (with its pressupositions and everything, or even an imaginary "pure" one, if it was possible to exist) as your only tool. Rationality is not enough to cover the whole human experience and to guide our life and decisions.

In any case, the above just musings on rationality.

Let's get on the point of "fear of death" again: "fear of death", is not a rational behavior. Sure, it's a rational thing to be afraid of an activity with a high death risk if you want to live. But it's irrational to be held back in life by a persistent fear of one's eventual death.

One is caution. The other is a phobia - an anxiety disorder. It even has a name, thanatophobia, and is listed in the diagnostic manual for such disorders (DSM).

In fact, a key insight here is that fear is an emotion. As in "fear of death"...

Woof!
EVs are a better fit for suburban or rural sprawl (attached private garages) than for high density street parking with no power outlets.
Surely if this style of search becomes very popular there will be people dedicating tons of effort to gaming the system to ensure the chat bot is primed to answer questions like “what’s the best kind of mattress for a side sleeper?” in a way that helps them sell more mattresses, regardless of whether the bot actually links anywhere.
Yes, Huawei owns much more our telecoms than Cisco, and I also expect the US to align more with my values than China :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26843068
My last trip of Drive vs Fly

Fly: 1.5hrs for Security / Rental pick up, 2 hrs Leg 1, 1 hr layover, 2 hrs leg 2. Total time: 6.5-7hrs if no delays or problems with aircraft. Both planes small CRJ Regional jets made for people under 100lbs and under 5ft 5in in height, I am neither. Nothing about being on a CRJ jet is "relaxed" at best I can be sure to get off with back pain, and leg pain. $850 for the round trip for airfare... + $250 in local economy rental fees for a car there. Total $1100

Car: 10 hrs of driving, Nice SUV with plently of room. $350 in Rental fees, $400 in Gas for the week (and this was when gas was over $4/gal). Total cost $750. I can leave anytime I want, extend anytime I want, Divert to so some sight seeing anytime I want, and never have to go through security.
There are a lot of impoverished, incompetent criminals who should be getting bail if the "I couldn't run from justice if I wanted to" argument was reasonable.
> not granting bail would also be 'consistent with federal bail law' so that doesn't explain much at all.

The article covers this. Federal bail law has a presumption that defendants will get bail unless there is a good reason to believe they are a flight risk or might re-offend before the trial starts.
I believe this refers to the z-ordering of pixel segments from different paths in the same pixel.
No, they started designing them earlier. A11 was the first one that they publicly claimed to be fully in-house. They were substantially (but not wholly) Apple-designed as early as A8, and generations prior to that they did significant tweaking to.
Also the x86 was also the most riscy-ish of its cohort (ld/st architecture, single simple addressing mode etc) whether that was uncanny design looking forward decades, a result of Intel's internal architectural history, pure luck people still argue

Other designs from the same time followed on from the wunderchild of the time - the Vax which everyone loved and wanted to emulate.

The big change of the time though was changes in memory hierarchy, caches pushed closer to CPUs (eventually got pulled on-die) which favoured less densely encoded ISAs more registers and instruction sets that didn't require a full memory access for every instruction.

In my professional life time we've gone from 'big' mainframes with 1MHz core cycle times (memory cost more than $1M/megabyte) to those Vax's (actual silicon dram!), to what's sitting on my lap at the moment (5Ghz 8/16 cores 64Gb dram etc).

I don't think CISC 'failed', it was simply a child of it's time and the constraints changed as we moved things from giant wirewrapped mainframes with microcode to minimise ifetch bandwidth, to LSI minicomputers to VLSI SOCs with multimegabyte on-chip caches
When you move, you do indeed have to put in the work to establish bonds with your new neighbors. And, hopefully, you recognize that's true of people who move in near you: again, with the brownies. Put the effort in.

Building a block doesn't take lots of time. It took us weeks†. Did I mention the trays of brownies? New neighbors are one of the few situations in adult life where standard US social protocols give you explicit permission to be open and inviting to total strangers. If you're missing those opportunities, it's not the economics blog posts you've been reading that have screwed you up.

Writing paragraph after paragraph of excuses not to be neighborly is the least-conservative and most antisocial thing I think you can with these circumstances. Normal Rockwell wouldn't be having any of this. You don't have to, either.

† I mean, the block was here, and we certainly didn't do most of the work. But, still.
After they've already been shown to have been dishonest previously, and after they chose to make an additional disclosure on the last working day (for most) before Christmas, I think you have to assume your data is at risk, and act accordingly. I certainly would.

Do you trust them to tell the truth about whether all your data was reliably, securely, and permanently deleted? Can they tell you when and how?