skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m less familiar with Argentina than other countries. I know in Lebanon a lot of money changers will take crypto (Bitcoin / USDT primarily) and give you paper currency. There are a lot of money changers who earn a living this way. Very likely the same in Argentina.
Precisely for a guy who bought the Newton to USA and found it impossible to use in a Gartner conference which gave palm a free trial. You returned it and credit card not charged. I still have that Newton in storage but run thru many palm and typing (with treo phone) thousand words email back to others. All good.
It doesn't matter if it is "clearly" being abused, only if it is abused.
Thanks for doing the interview Kevin. I have learned a lot from your articles and interviews over the years. Especially how different the math I care about (computation) is from the math that mathematicians care about (structure).

It is great to see that with Lean/mathlib computer scientists and mathematicians have found a way to work together and benefit from the insights and skills of each other.

So please continue doing what you are doing. I believe it will long term have a massive positive impact on both computer science and mathematics.
He's right about this much at least:

> white supremacist literature from the last 40 years that repeatedly describes attacking critical infrastructure like pipelines, telecoms and electricity pylons and substations to create chaos

I've seen such advocacy posted many times on 4chan. That doesn't prove much, but I think it validates that line of speculation.
Are there a lot of Argentinian food stores that accept crypto? At the end of the chain, people need money to buy food to eat.

Or are there "black market" exchanges that would accept a transfer into their digital wallet and pay out cash, so these Argentinians can buy bread?
https://www-n--tv-de.translate.goog/politik/Lauterbach-warnt...
>Ukraine received a bunch of international crypto donations last year, for example.

While cryptocurrency was used to donate to Ukraine, a bank transfer or Western Union would have done the trick too -- since no one (except maybe the Russians) would consider such donations criminally actionable.

Which was my point. Sure, foreign remittances, sending money to friends/family and other mechanisms allowing money to be transmitted around the world is certainly a use case for cryptocurrency.

The rub is that for the vast majority of legal transactions (i.e., those that won't raise government hackles), cryptocurrency is currently riskier and less reliable than using a government-backed currency.

That's not a dig at cryptocurrencies. Rather, it's an assessment of the current financial ecosystem. Cryptocurrencies have lots of potential but, like most immature technologies, it's not quite ready for prime time.

As such, the vast majority of folks who choose to use cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange are those who either don't want their transactions detected by the government (the vast majority of which are those things that raise government hackles) and/or those who are risk tolerant.

Which is why cryptocurrencies are mostly used as a medium of exchange on the fringes of society/legality.

As the technology matures, you'll see cryptocurrencies become more and more mainstream -- even government-backed currencies. Because, in the end, cryptocurrencies are just another form of money.

For now, the primary use case for cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange is avoidance of government knowledge/involvement. Eventually that will change, but I'll probably be dead[0] before that happens.

[0] If I'm still alive in 2050, I'll be surprised.

Edit: Clarified my estimate for when cryptocurrencies will be pretty mainstream.
Why attack the person asking a question, instead of giving examples? It's not productive, and you just come off as pretentious and are pushing the discussion into an unproductive direction.

How would you have liked the question to have been phrased? This isn't rhetorical, btw. I'm genuinely curious now.

I found one about facial recognition not working for black people, and another that comes to mind in a similar vein is that the new Goole Pixels phones seem to do some camera razzle dazzle to make skin tones more accurate.

Another example that comes to mind is Overwatch's dev team is fairly diverse, which leads to really authentic hero designs in the game.

I think the last one is probably the best one out of the three I listed. The first two required more diverse models not developers IMO. But I'll keep them until people contribute more examples.
When you think about it, that's not so surprising. I imagine that set up would be the optimal one for a good of unknown but probable high value. It'll always be more work than it's worth for the army, and yet by auctioning off the unknown treasure they could capitalize on it. I wonder if this was employed anywhere else in the ancient world, if others came to the same conclusion in similar situations.
Why isn’t Binance looking to become a bank? It’d make more sense imo for Binance to operate as a bank with both a crypto backbone and a tradfi backbone
Government Seizes Robinhood Shares Purchased By SBF
> GBP

Google Business Profile. its common courtesy to use the full name with the first use, THEN abbreviate.
Nobody on Twitter had any good ideas. However Jon Callas suggested it might be a Singapore phone number, which was the best suggestion I saw ;) I even called it (it’s one digit too long) and got an error message.
"The D in AGL is for delivery".
Doesn't seem to need a download: https://app.skyfi.com/explore
Sure it happens, but if it doesn’t happen more often than unprovoked shootings. So you resort to having to multiply entities beyond necessity to make your scenario “just as plausible”.

Your scenario, while perhaps remotely possible, seems to be the most unlikely scenario within the known evidence. The most likely scenario was he took his gun and shot a cop and was promptly shot for that action which took his life. Whether or not he shot first really doesn’t matter to the situation. I am sure he was aware that a police presence in his area was possible given the protest. I think it’s likely that police identified themselves before any gunfire took place (it’s what they do, because it generally helps protect them by warning folks around them that they are police). If he was shot first, it’s entirely reasonable to believe he was aware that he was shot by police, still engaged, fired, and shot a cop.
Do we need a doomsday unix vault where we keep copies Incase modern fabs are destroyed in a conventional war
Well, it's a key-value data structure, serialized in the way you describe. You could say that a JSON object wasn't a key-value structure by the same logic. It's the same way for structures serialized in binary rather than text, like BSON objects.

You can think of a native dictionary as a declarative structure where each of the pairs "happen" simultaneously. A serialized structure is necessarily imperative because it must be an ordered series of bytes that are evaluated in sequence; it must be in order to be written to disk or sent across the network (with /proc being a sort of hybrid, IPC implemented as a virtual filesystem). So we generally need to convert our dictionaries into lists to serialize them.

You might think of something like sending an entire SQLite
database as an exception to this rule, but there's an equivalent perspective that it is an example of the rule instead. Lists of key-value pairs and dictionaries of key-value pairs are duals of each other so you're free to take the interpretation you prefer.
Right. Should well-behaved students fear their uncontrollable peers?
Logical equations explain the principles of the universe, they made us travel to the moon, why wouldn't they be able to explain phenomena related to feelings?
This has happened before, in 2013, near San Jose, CA.[1] Utilities were supposed to upgrade security by building concrete walls around major transformers. There aren't that many of them. Did that happen?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
heheleet also works
> The number one threat to the grid in nearly every place in the US? The weather.

These folks disagree: https://cybersquirrel1.com
But so do some people who fantasize about getting rid of fossil fuels --and they typically are polar opposites to the ones you are referring to... which goes to show extreme right and extreme left are like the head and tails of ouroboroses.
One reason is that plenty of powerful people default to zero-sum thinking. If there's money involved, they would like most of it to be theirs. Long ago I read something from Philip Greenspun where he talked about Oracle's pricing strategy, and it went something like, "Take all of your money, and then another $50k/year for support."

Which reminds me of a quote from Brian Cantrill: "You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
yeah, it happens a lot in established projects as well. especially projects with very small teams.
The biggest problem with taskwarrior is taskd and its use of client certs to authenticate which prevents people just using lets encrypt with it and having to manage self signed certs.
Does it really, or is it short term thinking?
Violence is the lsst resort of the incompetent (asimov).

I am also pretty sure that if violence is the only thing you respect, it's the only lever others have
The Windows installer won't even proceed without an internet connection and creating a Microsoft account, how is that any better?
Just want to say that it's one of my favorite twists of history that the guy who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's invented "true" crime.
trolling online is not a crime, so no crime, so no right to face anyone.
I think the nice thing about the node ecosystem is that all the packaging tools are using the exact same package.json. The only thing that’s different is the way they resolve/install the packages.
If you're male, then on the plus side you're leaving the age window for typical onset of schizophrenia. (OTOH, if you're female, you're kind of in the middle of that window :(
> it will increase rapidly in frequency

There's what, 1000-10000x the number of law enforcement personal, national guard, and active military than electrical substations? If these attacks were to rapidly increase over a few days we'd just post guards with guns and cameras at every substation while we pour a thick and tall wall of concrete around all the sensitive bits.
Theorem provers are used all the time to prove new things in computer science. A few examples: CompCert, SeL4 etc.
Not op, and not to be rude but honestly sounds like you maybe haven't. Meta's bleeding right now. Their attempt at Metaverse is failing hard.

Meanwhile we've got Apple coming along with thier extremely efficient in-house chip architecture thats about to release a lightweight headset with performance that blows away anything Meta has, not to mention an existing ecosystem that it will slot right into.

Outside of Meta everybody knows the 'Metaverse' (i.e in the form as 'Meta' themselves describe it) is a truely awful concept that clearly is not gaining popularity or any kind of desire from the general public.

Based on the leaks we pretty much know that Apples already cracked full body tracking, eye tracking, has a SIGNIFICANTLY lighter design and higher battery life. Hardware wise it'll make everything Metas produced look pretty archaic.

Then it comes to software and app ecosystem. I don't think theres even a debate to be had here. Meta vs Apple would be laughably one sided.
> we watch sports matches to spectate top-of-the-class athletes doing their best, regardless who or what they are.

Then wouldn’t be more interesting if a variety of players with different top-of-the-class physical profiles moved the game through strategies optimized to their strengths and weaknesses ?

To take a concrete example, the addition of the 3 point rule expanded the category of players that could have a critical impact on the game. I personally wouldn’t see that rule addition as a dilution of the game or a pandering to physical diversity, it genuinely makes the games more interesting.

We could imagine other rules that bring in even wider physical profiles and change the game in interesting ways.
A captcha doesn't keep out harassing users; they're human, after all.

Changing the communications policy of the organization to only allow people a communications forum after they've been vetted might. That's a significant change that puts an OSS project at a severe disadvantage towards gathering support / interest. Also, it wouldn't even work in this situation; the actor in question proved willing to use every communications channel they could find to attack project volunteers.
The chaos monkey doesn't simulate an attack, it simulates system failures.

For substations these are rare, for computers these are common.
>(BIPOC or otherwise)

This is going to be kind of tangential and I apologize for that, but allow me to say that as a person of Japanese heritage I fucking hate the term "BIPOC" and any related terms thereof.

I'm a man, not a political object of convenience. If you must refer to my race for actually practical reasons, you can just refer to that than use a stupid term stemming from identity politics. If you need some generic way to refer, just refer to us as the minority because that's an objective fact.

"BIPOC" is insulting, both to the individuals and their heritage.
This is so helpful thank you. I'm assuming opnsense competes with OpenWRT? What are the pros and cons?
The abuse of statistics aside, it's weird that the charges/convictions (at least as described in the article) jump straight to outright murder. Did prosecutors in these cases present any evidence demonstrating intent? If not, then do these legal systems not have concepts of negligence? Unintentional homicide/manslaughter? Incompetence?

In any case, do these legal systems not presume innocence until actually proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? If not, then these cases seem like perfect case studies as to why said presumption of innocence is mandatory for a society to be considered free and just - and if they do presume innocence, then I'm baffled by how these cases not only resulted in convictions but upheld convictions given the abundance of reasonable doubt.
Literally none. The same number of my coworkers that post online about diversity hiring being equivalent to a particularly insidious fatal disease!

edit:
I’ll add that as someone that has been in the room when my family had to make the decision to move a loved one with cancer into hospice more than once, I’m sure what you’ve (the posters talking about race cancer or whatever other grievance) seen is definitely the same thing!
Yea AFAIK the whole "bullet gun fingerprint" idea is total bunk. You cannot tell if a specific bullet was fired from a specific gun.
You can use https://linux.die.net/man/1/edac-util
If sharing is a problem I’m unsure why you didn’t think docker was the solution. I can’t think of an easier way for both the provider and the consumer than docker.
> They invented the blueprint for western civilization

Ahem.

The debate between Mary Beard and Boris Johnson convinced me it was the Greeks.
A friend once said, in the future they'll be mining out dumps for the mix of already refined metals and minerals.
He's literally saying what you want him to say and still you're triggered because it doesn't mention "BOTH SIDES" or "NO SIDES" enough? What even is the point of your post?
> tying the behavior to the person behind the behavior and bringing proper consequences to bear is the only regulatory system that actually works

nope. trolling online is not a crime, so no regulations are needed. its the same as if someone walks up to you in real life and calls you a jerk. you dont get to do anything about that. you just move on.
Apple is built different as a tech company. They will keep everything a secret more closely guarded than the nuclear codes, then come out of nowhere with a mind-blowing product that leaves everything else in the dust, just like they did with the iPhone. A Quest 2 with an Apple Silicon CPU would, alone, be a game changer. There's probably some advanced head and eye tracking and SLAM AI in there too that makes Meta's stuff look like that clunky Virtuality gear from the 90s in comparison. Probably a thinner, lighter form factor.

You think I'm exaggerating, but Apple has the best engineering talent in the world, a commitment to deliver revolutionary products, and first bite at the supply-chain, er, tomato. Betting against them is a fool's move, no one else will be able to even TOUCH them.
Beautifully done CD and vinyl packaging is worth keeping physically even if they're sitting on the shelf 99% of their lifetime.
Why do you say there aren't that many major transformers? This one covered 45k people, so I'd guess there are 5k-10k similar ones nationally.

(And that ignores that there are likely lots of other points of infrastructure that are similarly vulnerable.)
Does this count? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
But he said "right" not "mandate". My point was only that I currently do have an implicit right.

ECC memory isn't that much more expensive. I was fortunate to build my current machine a few months before memory prices doubled. Previous generation Xeon CPUs aren't very expensive. Same with motherboards. And another option is to just buy a used server. These are super cheap now as so many companies are moving to cloud computing.
No way, a company that is greedy. I'm more amazed by how much restraint some companies have shown during the pandemic; they could've milked the public even more than they have.

I don't really get the outrage here. Barely anyone still needs the vaccine and there's at least one good alternative, so who are they hurting except for themselves because nobody will buy their vaccine now?

Now if Pfizer/BioNTech were to raise the price to a similar level, there would actually be somewhat of a problem (.. for the US government, since they still pay for it, right?).
This is interesting. I'm curious how do they achieve the opposite, i.e. deleting dozens of legitimate reviews from legitimate accounts when they have angry customers?

What's the mechanism they use to convince Google to remove them?
Now we teach them Python, because the ecosystem and mindshare is there. But why didn't Perl or Ruby (or Tcl) win? It seems like Ruby didn't get the right ecosystem around it, but Perl has PDL (which does seem to predate much of the Python scientific ecosystem), and had SWIG support before Python. Maybe there's a lesson there for the Rust scientific ecosystem?
In exactly what way is this conflict actually heating up lately? I've certainly noticed the increase in news coverage, but don't know of, e.g. military actions by CN/US that indicate conflict coming closer.
I believe not giving you a fair price is the goal there. A fair price would mean leaving money on the table. Your money, which you probably should not have, especially when it's something they're helping you make.

Some businesses think of you from the perspective of partners. Others think of you from the perspective of farmers or ranchers, where they try to pen you in and extract what they want, but understand the necessity of at least some investment on their part. And then there are those who are more like poachers.
Local contractors driving by your home can do the same thing.
There's actually a comment about this on the YouTube video—it seems like upgrades happened extensively throughout California, including concrete walls, armed patrols and automated gunshot locators, but not in other states.
Continued harassment and stalker-like behavior over years with obviously no intention of stopping his behavior.

It seems to me issuing a public warning about this persons "paper trail" is probably the only real option to shut down this behavior that these OSS projects can see.
Patriots draw fire. If the Russians are focused on nullifying the patriots, then chances of Russian missiles hitting something further back are lower.
15+ global car brands test StoreDot's extreme fast charging battery cells
We are not in meaningful disagreement about these things: the question is not whether the government is justified in banning anything that can be used to do crime (which is everything), but whether the government is justified in banning something that have an efficient cause in crime. That's what Tornado Cash is, and no amount of hemming and hawing around other potential uses meaningfully changes this.
Unlike the CPUs, I think the AMD APUs that support ECC (the "Pro" versions) aren't available through normal retail channels.
It has 1/3 the mass of common motorcycle helmets. Its not heavy, just large.
Aussie, can confirm. They have Vyvanse, Dexamfetamine, Adderal and Ritalin.
I didn't mind reading this one though, was a novel change to see sentences starting without capital letters.
I see a lot of people talking about firewalling in this thread...

Apple owns the whole IP range 17.X.X.X, so you can just put the below line in /etc/pf.conf to block all talk with those IPs

block drop from any to 17.0.0.0/8

Also for an additional layer of protection, you can add these domains to the hosts file:

https://gitlab.com/intr0/AppleBlock/-/blob/master/AppleBlock...

Also I see a lot of people trying to defend apple in this thread. Imo life is too short to defend a corporation this large (unless you have a financial incentive to maintain trust in it, obviously)
I'm Japanese-American and have, thankfully, never experienced being a diversity hire. If I were presented with such a situation though, I would take that as an insult and refuse the offer or quit ASAP because I want to be judged for who I am rather than what I am.
Harassment can be, in fact, a crime.

If your position is "Well they should involve the courts first," we are probably reaching agreement, but we're all aware of how weak the legal system is regarding online harassment, right? Most cyber-crime falls way outside the jurisdictions that are traditionally designed to handle harassment (as harassment was traditionally a very geographically-localized crime).

I'm personally willing to let the bar for "Disclosing enough information about someone's handle that they can be found IRL" lower than "a warrant is out for their arrest."

(This does raise an interesting question: perhaps we do need some kind of new cross-jurisdictional legal organ to decide when harassment raises to the bar of "doxxing acceptable" whether or not it raises to the bar of "prosecutable." That'd be nice to have; then we could have a generally-accepted standard for when it is and is not okay).
What is the logic behind this? How can a bank just refuse to transfer?
The Schwarzschild Defence
As the other commenter noted, mcmaster is my first stop, after that MSC, grainger, fastenal, hi strength fastener, etc.
I would recommend starting with Idris. It has all the power of a typical theorem prover but feels like a cool programming language. It also has a great book to bring you up to speed: “Type Driven Development”.

It will blow your mind.
Heck, it might even be both. Ecofascist acolytes of Ted K, they exist too. We won't really know until they're caught.
You need SWIFT to get into and out of crypto, right?

aka

bank -> exchange/crypto (in/purchase)

then sell crypto on exchange, transfer to bank
I wonder if the perpetrators are thinking about the people they are blacking out. Because if they are trying to incite something it will most likely be their hanging.

I highly doubt the populous are going to rally behind their cause when their heat and lights are out. Even worse if there are people who depend of refrigeration for diabetes medication or oxygen generators, etc.