skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like hundreds of government organizations constantly scheming something, in part to justify their existence, is not a good use of taxpayer money or human effort in general.
But is it a reasonable point?

I would assume that if you are a major player in the bitcoin world, you should do complicated things to secure yourself.

Its sort of like if someone wins the lottery, and tells the world they are putting the money under their mattress in their home. Its not unreasonable to say that such a person faces more risk than an ordinary person and should install an alarm system or something.
It doesn’t matter. It is simply not possible to adhere to such a reading schedule while also doing anything else. The level of phoniness of this guy is outstanding.
I just love the idea of going around creating accounts at multiple different banks for storing of parts of the key.

Then, when you're finally ready to access you funds, creating appointments at all those different banks, driving to them all, and then finding out enough of the keys are completely missing that you now cannot access any of your funds:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...

Or... you know... you could just store your funds in one or more bank accounts.
Seems like an edit. I didn't see it when I first wrote my reply. Or maybe I just missed it.

My post is still relevant as the article only briefly says something about AI and it's applicability to search.

I think a lot of people have only read about chatGPT and dismissed it as another AI viral buzz word. If you played with chatGPT in-depth you will know that this thing is not just applicable to search. It's a game-changer.

In fact this whole article is generic enough that it could even be itself generated by AI.
Describing the rules for conversation is like building a regular expression to describe a context free grammar.
> If she asked to see a hall pass from a freshman, they’d give her the finger. They swore at her and were generally rude. The behavior was so out of line that seniors would step in and tell them not to talk to her like that.

Shouldn't such students be expelled from school immediately?
Instance-Qualified Mastodon URLs
midJourney lets you upload a reference image. For a portrait of someone's face this produces consistently the same person.
The climate change we have right now has been caused by geoengineering too -- accidental geoengineering.

Intentional, careful geoengineering is the only real chance we have of holding back climate change. Human societies simply will not be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to roll back climate change solely by reducing emissions.

A combination of politically acceptable emission cuts, geoengineering, and acceptance of/adaptation to higher temperatures and their consequences is the only possible outcome in the real world. So hold back on the knee-jerk reactions to geoengineering and take it seriously.
Yes, I used to use some LinkedIn sales tools that had automated follow ups. Same with recruiter emails, if you think they're handcrafting each email, I have bad news for you. It's all templated, they use your first name and maybe put some effort into the intro using your specific company and experience, but generally, the rest of the intro email and the subsequent emails are all automated.
Freaking cool, but maybe a slight projectile hazard?
Yep. And there’ll be something made in Java 8 in 2030 that nobody has invested in since when it was written, and there’ll be a big budget risky rewrite.
Let's see:

1) he thinks that "dedicated servers" are in any way secure

2) discovers malicious intrusion, but doesn't burn down the whole server and re-key everything

3) is supposed to be knowledgable enough to be a core Bitcoin developer but stays on a "dedicated server" after finding malicious intrusion.

This is highly suspect. Either you have stuff that's not worth much, and therefore you don't pay to physically colocate your own server, or at very least you don't pay enough to get a server from a smaller company where you're dealing with real humans with names and reputations... Or you're storing things that really matter, have a large value, or likely both, and you'd pay extra to get better things.

What kind of hubris would lead to continuing to use a compromised server, particularly when the compromise appears to have come from the hosting provider?

Perhaps we need to wait for more information, but from what I've seen so far, there's something not right here.
> It is crucial for data scientists to carefully consider the quality and representativeness of the data they are working with

To bring this fully to the domain of epistemology, you could go further: why are certain markers of quality or measures of representativeness valid? If we develop a measure and it gives us a particular answer, can we tell whether the data or the measure is at fault.[1]

> [statistical significance] refers to the likelihood that a result or relationship observed in a sample is not simply due to chance, but rather reflects a genuine trend or pattern in the population.

This is in general not correct — statistical significance is about the probability of an observation assuming that the null hypothesis is true.[1] There is a narrow context in which you could interpret a p-value as being about the probability that there is a true effect: if you're doing Bayesian inference with a flat prior, but that is itself a very strong claim to make.

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/measurement-science/#TheL...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_p-values#Clarificati...
>Your lack of being informed about the facts on the ground in the Russian occupied territories

It is a bit hard to be well informed, since there are no "approved" journalists reporting from these territories. The only Western journalists there that I know of (Anne-Laure Bonnel, Anna Lipp and the rather hack-ish Patrick Lancaster) are not given much exposure on the mainstream channels. If you have not heard what they have to say, I suggest you correct that before warmongering any further.
> “Cool! That sounds fun!”

Is there a list of euphemisms that we should watch for during a conversation? I would have thought that the other side was interested, especially given the exclamations.
Ummmm might people have different sized hands?
The vast majority of adults read almost 0 books. I think there’s some value in forcing classic cultural capital when we can even if it’s lost on some.
folks, think for yourself. stop listening to the likes of Lex Fridman.

they don't have anyone's interest in mind except their own, or their show. they are an entertainment persona. don't waste your life away thinking you are being edified or learning anything. it is not happening. find better. or follow the people they interview on twitter, tiktok, facebook, etc.

if you are wondering, i stopped listening to them and their show with that bloop with the war in Ukraine. yes, i am aware that they have a Russian background. but i gave them the benefit of the doubt many times and that was the last straw for me. that's where i draw my line. you don't play with human lives.
I assumed referring to the Plague of Justinian, but apparently that happened a few years later in 541-549
Wouldn't any sane fork system capture the value of the loop variable instead of a reference to it? Why would anyone ever want to capture a reference to a loop variable that will be moved under one's feet? I'm sorry I'm struggling to understand what we're doing here and why.
The forced reeducation prisons were built after I was there. I did spend some time talking to locals, and they were justifiably paranoid. There had been some recent terrorism and they sensed blowback was coming to ordinary citizens. There was also a sense that Chinese gentrification was unlikely to benefit them.

I think it would have been better if the autonomous regions had been left alone, but that option disappeared in the west due to natural resources, and from the Chinese perspective “Free Tibet” means NATO weapons in Tibet. That is why they built an absurdly expensive railway to Lhasa.

The CCP is incomprehensible from an American perspective, but painfully practical and predictable from a Chinese perspective.
You wouldn't have those problems if you stuck to 320x240 pixels on your display.
What's he on about? I can't see the tweet he's replying to.
Non-issue if you only use the key once, then do a new split each time. Plenty of tooling exists to make this easily in reach with a simple shell script.
It was long after I graduated and passed symbolic logic that I realized a proof is the “solution” of an equation using logical operators instead of algebraic ones. Proof writing then becomes following branches on the tree of textbook knowledge to new leaves. I envy those who grok this when they’re kids.
The title excited me - maybe someone succeeded making new art that looks like the old pre-renders, maybe a convincing imitation of the scanline render look. Instead it was a vapid article about tossing pixel art into img-2-img and getting some tenuously related junk.
>These things happen every day, but happening to a core developer (if confirmed!) who has a deep understanding of the systems and security indicates just how fragile crypto can be (in my opinion)

Based on the other comments in this thread it looks like he didn't bother using a hardware wallet (which is literally something that's recommended on bitcoin.org[1]), and kept his wallet.dat on a server exposed to the internet. You're trying to paint a story of "well if a bitcoin core developer can't secure his coins, then who can!?!?", but in this case it looks like he was being an idiot. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

edit: on twitter he denied that he kept his wallet file on a server
Oh hey, I remember that thread
As a fair to middling conversationalist I actually enjoy when people break rules like 50/50 airtime. It takes the pressure off me and usually only happens when they are excited. I find excessively polite 50/50 conversations like watching tennis. “What do you do?”, “and what do YOU do?” etc.
Coq theorem prover. I'm tired of writing tests, I would rather write proofs. Can the code just be reliable and correct? That's all I want.
So? Many others do enjoy reading even if for school. Should we stop teaching math cuz kids don’t like it in the hopes they’ll teach themselves as adults? School will never be all things to all kids.
What do you think banks do? When you store a -lot- of value like a pile of gold bars, you are going to need more than a foam and aluminum hotel safe.
Not sure what info that comment is based on.

I've donated for a couple years with liberapay and never had a problem doing non-recurring donations.
not exactly how it works. as others have said, the orbit is incorrect for proper radiometric usage, and it would eat into their bandwidth and downlink constraints. doesn't make much sense
++ don't ioctl / sockopt unless you absolutely have to for backward compatibility. It's an old hazardous design. We have oodles of space for symbols even on modern embedded systems.
This likely would not have been posted or garnered upvotes if the Twitter account hadn’t been shut down. This is more “Streisand effect” than “musk hate.”
Good to see you here David! Yeah sheep is the last frontier of the last frontier of digitisation. Makes cattle look like the airline industry.
In every HN thread there are tangential subthreads, including plugs.

Personally - despite being neither the target market or that interested in an answer to the original question, I found the reply you are objecting to interesting and useful, and not at all the crass promo you are claiming.
Um last time I got interested in it you still needed mono for runtime the same way java needs a jvm. Is that not the case anymore ?
These have been around since at least the 70s.

https://www.onspot.com/en-US/about-onspot---about-us/
>it helps them see that they are not alone //

Do they have to consider separation of humans by characteristics to be important in order to get you that position where they feel alone with other humans? Bluntly, if a male says I can't be inspired by females isn't that because they're sexist?

It seems extraordinarily damaging to society to say to people, as many seem to 'here are the people you're allowed to be inspired by: they're superficially similar to you', at opposed to saying 'Payne-Gaposhkin asked the same question as you, see you're alike as people' (despite maybe being of different sex, race, nationality, era, class, wealth, etc.).
That’s one answer. But the question also applies to non-cryptocurrency uses of cryptography where you need to guard your private keys (like identity) — ie how to best enable people to use their keys while keeping them safe and also allowing for some form of recovery.
I don't think that works as a metaphor. IE got MS in trouble because it was so embedded into the OS that it was literally required, and MS did everything they could to force users to use it.

Android works fine when built from source with no Play Store at all, using F-Droid as the primary store.
ArcoLinux – January 2023 Release
An object is a function closed over its variable default arguments.
As far as I know, it was ignored until System 7, which added virtual memory support. A/UX (Apple Unix) required it, but that wasn't released until a year or so after the Mac II was initially available.
It is actually really simple, albeit tedious, to defend your bitcoin against remote state actors. Do keygen and signing with reproducibly built binaries on a reproducibly built minimal OS and never connect it to the internet.
I don't know know, company told him fuck off, he deleted his package but more them company required.
Plague of Justinian is assumed to be related, as it spread through crop-failure-driven migrations across a population already weakened by famine. There's a reason the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are depicted as riding together: famine, war, plague, and death usually accompany each other.
This is great for teaching, thanks for sharing!
Everyone has opinions on this so take mine worth the price charged.

You could go to a talent / recruiting program, there are usually some university affiliated programs that have ties to major tech companies or advertising firms.

Of course there are internships as well.

All of that is fine, but anecdotally I found it was far easier to just start doing weird / fantastic things with the internet. Experiment, have fun, create wacky things and blog / YouTube / TikTok about it (full disclosure there was no TikTok in my day). Get the word out that you do this stuff and funnel everything back to a portfolio page that says your available for contract or hire.

Additionally, start attending events where there are other “famous” devs doing what you want to do. Get to know the people and participate. Might take a few years, but if you’re motivated you can network your way into something.

Yeah it’s a ton of work - but that’s a barrier to entry also potentially highly lucrative.
I like Lex Fridman. His podcast expose ideas that's novel to me. I suspect it appeal to many other like me. It's all relative. If you are the smartest person in the room...
No, Orwell would be shocked that his "war is peace" slogan took root in the West first.

Also, "ignorance is strength".
So what? I didn't say he should go to jail or that the verdict should have been vacated... but I wouldn't have a lot of faith in the political process if a major political figure most likely only survived a criminal trial because of a due process issue.
Who would enforce this? The Bitcoin police?
I think that interpersonal relatedness or 'connection' relates to the degree to which people are willing to have their minds changed, or perhaps more accurately, admit to having their mind changed. Being open to admitting a change of mind requires a certain amount of vulnerability that can be difficult or impossible, depending on how well you know the other person.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that in group interactions where time is invested up front in 'ice breakers' (the non-cringey kind) or other exercises where the objective is not about the topic at hand but rather to better get to know the group participants, this can help build interpersonal relations. Seeing others as more 3-dimensional helps with social bonding and thus makes us more open to being more vulnerable.
I like thinking about centralizing personal data when it does not get bogged down in technical minutiae, but rather clear your mind and help you trace the bigger picture (on the place/aim of information in our lives)

By implication, I mostly sat in the middle. But the recent GPT-3+ advances convinced me to prepare for loosening the centralizing grip a lot more.
To folks who are saying this isn't enough or that we need to put executives in jail: you are all thinking from a systems/framer perspective and not from how the law actually works.

The law says it actually has to be violated for damages to come into play, and then those damages need to be reliably proven. It's very hard or impossible to show hard, quantifiable economic harm from someone storing your geolocation data on a server. This is why the settlement isn't huge - though to be clear imo this is a fairly large settlement.
best watch ever!
so in this time, Excel isn't so good...
Another weak point I've thought of, which probably applies to many alarm panels with zero knowledge of the correct pin, is what safeguards are there preventing someone from doing replay attacks on the pin entry? I would think a hardlined panel would be more secure.
Can this do virtual files? For example if I turned a microcontroller into a false flash drive of sorts, and wanted to generate the contents of a file on the fly and not have them at rest in a FAT system.
Fair enough, though what I meant was really in relation to a class of problems, not this one person’s issue.
Lol… “finance” is a social construct. People are the protocol. The Bitcoin protocol is subject to a vast number of people related hacks. Other financial markets aren’t perfect, but at least they have mechanisms and acknowledge reality.
I don't wear watches as I'm always either at my computer or have my phone with me, but if I did wear a watch, I would probably go with something like the F-91W. Images of it bring on a nice retro nostalgia, and I appreciate its blatant function over flair aesthetic.
Related question: If the alignment of the rotating discs goes out, can these chains turn into undercarriage destroyers?
KeePass Password Safe on desktop and Keepass2Android Password Safe on my Android. Database is sync on my own server.
I hope to learn more about the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas through reading his works, I acquired a complete copy of the Summa Theologiae as well as some of his scriptural commentaries, and reading secondary works by thomists.
That's a misleading way of putting it. Tesla said "you have to wear our uniform shirt [because you started wearing pro-union shirts]" and the NLRB told them to get stuffed.
My fear with a password book (wife has one, different than OP) is it getting lost or destroyed.
Why in 2023 do people continue to treat Tesla with kid gloves? One dumbass manager? Companies are merely collections of people, money, IP, and organisational inertia. How is “one dumbass manager” any sort of mitigation? We are fully within our rights to attribute the actions of an employee at a company, in service of their employment at said company, to the company itself. Unless of course this is all implicitly about defending the reputation of Elon Musk, which itself is cringeworthy.
4 minutes run hard enough to push heart rate to 90%, 3 minutes recover, repeat 4 times; about 45 minutes, every other day if you're old and need the recovery.

https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/advice

https://vimeo.com/75764170
The title of the podcast is “Conversations with Tyler” but it just sounded like Tyler reading a list of canned questions, mispronouncing a couple of names along the way. Not exactly a conversation.
This is cool, though it doesn't say how many I got right or wrong. It says my score is 285, but is that good or bad?
Yeah, I think to do this right you need to block all visuals. I was able to guess nearly all of mine correctly just from visual clues.

Part of the reason I did so, however, was because the lyrics were often drowned out by the music. Hard to guess when you can barely hear what’s being sung.
Knowing of that inclination, there's three complementary principles that I try to follow:

1. Leaving room for your debate partner to save face is about as important as crafting a convincing argument.

2. Become comfortable with the condition of your debate partner never explicitly conceding the argument.

3. Explicitly conceding points that you agree with helps the other person save face to do the same back.
No? Doesn’t that seem a bit disproportionate?
Yeah, one opening screen included "#tamilsoundservice". :) (Tamil is one of the languages) I suppose I could try to ignore the video, but it was fun trying to use it for clues. "Oh they look like Bollywood dancers so I'll guess Hindi." This backfired on me when I tried guessing one based on the subtitles I saw, which I assumed were for karaoke, but the answer was completely wrong. I guess they were for translation, not karaoke.
Audio only would be far better but it might be easier just to start the video 15 seconds in.
I never stay logged into Google via a web browser, but I’m sure it would otherwise.
fyi https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/advice
Yeah, the React Native debugger is broken on my Pixel because the time is different from my laptop by ~0.5 s, so short taps register as long presses or something like that.
Great write up.

I have been eyeing pms5003 earlier. Since there seems to be a fan in the sensor, I wonder is it noisy?
Yes, putting relevant experience on your CV would be a good thing.

I’d also suggest changing the tone of the website a little. You say, “Take a moment to browse through my innovative ideas,” and then link to mine sweeper that uses sums instead of numbers? I kind of expected more from the description, and if I were looking as part of a job application I might start to doubt other things you claim. If you’d just said Minesweeper with sums I’d have come away with a much more positive impression.
The nun and the monk who fell in love and married
For what its worth, for a number of decades, American town squares have in many places been shopping malls, which are privately owned. There are several states where protestors can be thrown out of malls[0], free speech be damned. I'm frankly glad they're struggling.

[0] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/12/22/protests-first-amen...
I will die knowing a little about programming computers and not much else. Over time this has slowly become acceptable to me.
And rough on the pavement
I have also found old papers to be the best for learning a new concept - they make it as simple as it can be. A colleague of mine wrote a paper that proves that negative numbers exist and would often cite archimedes, Galileo, newton, etc in his bibliographies. I think he loved crediting the first person to come up with whatever idea or concept he was using.
With respect, ELO stands for Electric Light Orchestra.
Happening in Seattle too (minus the suing), seems like a trend: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/facing-eviction-twitte...
> Exactly! if the experts can’t secure their accounts, what hope does anyone else have?

A lot of hope, actually. If he followed the simple and oft repeated advice of using a cold wallet and/or offline computer, this attacked would have been mitigated. Hell, if some of the comments/speculation in this thread is true (ie. he kept his wallet.dat on a server connected to the internet), then this hack wouldn't have affected the user with the most basic setup of a software wallet running on a computer behind a NAT firewall.