skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep your money in a bank and basicly they owe you a debt. If the bank goes belly-up, you stuck hoping FDIC insurance covers you.

Not your keys, not your coins. If one has significant savings in bitcoin, one needs to hold the private keys oneself, not trusting any third-party like Coinbase or a bank. Ideally in a geographically distributed multisignature setup to mitigate against loss, user-error, or theft.

Do we know if the OP's 96k was coins sitting on Coinbase, or if he had a linked bank account and the attacker used the SIM card swap attack via Coinbase to drain his bank account?
It's the main point of the (excellent) book "Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World" by Dan Davies: That the optimal amount of fraud is above zero.

The optimal amount is the one where you lose less value from fraud than you would have lost with overly-strict checks and false positives.
It's a bit different. Manual vs automatic transmission doesn't fundamentally alter what you can do with a car. You can still drive from A to B in either type. The only place not knowing manual might trip you up, is if you need to rent a car and they don't have automatics at all.

Desktops vs phones is a very different proposition. There are a huge range of tasks that phones/tablets don't do and won't do any time soon. If you can't work a desktop computer then you're going to be unable to achieve many things that society has a critical need for. That's why universities are needing to teach students how to use files and directories but not how to drive manual cars.

I read your other comments, you're right that files/folders were never a great metaphor. Recursive objects are unnatural and basically never encountered in real life, so even people who learned how to use files/folders will very often not use nested structures. Tree view widgets don't exist on phones/tablets for the same reasons, more or less, they have famously terrible usability study results.

The problem is though, that iOS/Android/ChromeOS simplified their UX not actually by finding ways to make things simpler, but just by getting rid of the ability to do those things at all. Simple things are simple and complex things are out of scope. If these newer platforms represented pure progress in usability we either wouldn't see or wouldn't care about these articles because universities and companies would just use tablets for everything. They can't, primarily because of the choices made by those operating systems. Instead they have to give remedial classes in how to use Windows.

It may not matter in the end, these are skills people can learn, it's not a big deal. But I don't think we should see this as being like with cars. It's clearly not. The industry made progress in some areas (simplicity, robustness) but only at the cost of abandoning large parts of what made computing so useful to begin with. It'd be more like if people didn't complain about oil changes anymore because cars had been replaced entirely with public transport. How to build a better "desktop" OS is still an open research problem, in my view.
This is an excellent resource for small teams who want to create a startup without spending too much money. It can help them quickly create a decent landing page that attracts users to their service or product.
On iOS I can recommend sideloading uYou app for YouTube which includes sponsor block. AltStore is the side load app provider that I use.
It was a temporary limit by precaution to not reach the limit of the OpenAI API, I will increase it later this week. Also I calculated this limit with the previous davici model in mind that I used when I started building this bot. I later moved to chatgpt-turbo that is cheaper, so there is not reason I cannot increase the limit.
Some quick googling indicates that it’s very rare in the U.K.
Brian Krebs book, Spam Nation, which dissected 2 leaked Russian "online pharmacy" databases, has the same sort of breakdown for US drug orders. European orders had less health related drugs and more "recreational" drugs like erectile pills. If I recall, the online pharmacies would throw in a handful of Viagra in most orders.
I was in telecom and IT for 35+ years (Bell Canada, NorTel) and worked with on-prem and CO-located step-by-step and crossbar switches at the tail end of their prevalence. It was a joy to be able to take the time to properly lace cable harnesses which were abundant in these installations. There were also PDP-11's, teletypes and such involved in network/switch monitoring which had their share of laced wiring harnesses (and wire wrap!). Also Datapac/Dataroute equipment cabinets and back-planes. It seems to me that the job title of "craftsman" fit in those days as there was often an almost artisan quality and craftsmanship to the work involved. I'm glad to have had the opportunity to experience it. Compared to my later datacenter installation experience (compute and power) it was night and day different.
While the RaQ 3 had an x86 cpu, it doesn't have a normal PC bios. completely custom board and firmware made for booting a linux kernel which I think would be very-challenging near impossible to boot Windows on.
It’s amazing just how few EA games I have purchased in the last 10 years!
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Lots of disturbing things in the report, but I’d like to highlight a slight parallel elsewhere in the hopes that people can see where this could be headed if it’s allowed to proceed without opposition — India and its deeply flawed Aadhaar system. When Denmark lands on biometrics and 360° surveillance by linking various accounts and documents, it will get far worse.

This “unique” number in India is assigned to residents (not just citizens) based on biometrics (probabilistic) across a population of more than a billion people (which magnifies the effect of even tiny error rates). Aadhaar is claimed by the government as saving money, but its results have been denial of benefits, including causing deaths due to starvation and people not getting pensions that they’re entitled to.

It has also suffered a lot of scope creep where it is now the only document that the government as well as private entities demand as an identity document for various purposes.

> Armed with questionable data on the amount of benefits fraud taking place, conservative politicians have turned Denmark’s famed safety net into a polarizing political battleground.

> The perception of widespread welfare fraud has empowered Jacobsen to establish one of the most sophisticated and far-reaching fraud detection systems in the world.

Same thing happened in India. The “savings” were also debunked through information obtained from the government (though the Supreme Court of India just took the government’s words on savings at face value and eventually decided that this whole program is constitutional).

> The bill was backed by all of the major political parties in Denmark and became law in April 2015.

In India, though the opposition political parties opposed the bill, there has been no difference on the ground. All the state governments, including those where the opposition parties (centrally) are in power have embraced this number. All of them have a standard formula:

a) link Aadhaar with everything

b) deny subsidies to beneficiaries due to network issues, biometric issues, etc. (Aadhaar is a centrally managed database that requires network connectivity for authentication)

c) deeply cut or remove the subsidies entirely after some time

> Jacobsen says her algorithms don’t actually cancel benefits—they only flag people as suspicious. Ultimately, it is up to a human fraud investigator to make the final call, and citizens have the right to appeal their decisions.

In India too, the law says that nobody shall be denied any benefit for want of Aadhaar. But the reality is that nothing moves without it working.

At least Denmark would have to consider privacy issues and privacy laws. India does not yet have a privacy and data protection law. It’s been open season for a lot of private companies (and probably other countries) for a long time with the amount of data that has leaked and/or is cheaply available.
Oh nice! Unicode is definitely something that's on my mind when thinking about derivatives and how to deal with them, but it sounds like ocaml-re is doing pretty well outside of Unicode. I would love to hook it up to my benchmark harness. (It isn't public yet... Hopefully soon. But it supports regexes in any languages. So far I have Rust, C, C++, Python and Go. I hope to add .NET, Perl and Node at least. But this might be a cool addition too.)

If anyone wants to add this Ocaml engine to the harness (or any other engine), please email me at jamslam@gmail.com and I'll give access to the repo. The only reason it isn't public yet is because I'm still working on the initial release and iterating. But it's close enough where other people could submit benchmark programs for other regex engines.
Cable Lacing is still mandated by AT&T and (I think) Verizon in their facilities. I think AT&T only requires it for power cabling, but I'm not 100% certain.
Boulder Dash
> My dishwasher isn't so that I have clean dishes before the next meal. It's so that I have a clean kitchen after.

So much this! My first act in preparing a meal is to empty the dishwasher so that I can rinse stuff and put it in the dishwasher as I go. Sometimes, it gets full between meals, so having the "fast" cycle lets me get dishes clean and the washer emptied before I start the next meal.

This article is a great example of the "I don't understand who might want it, so therefore it's not worth doing" mentality of many folks.
opus can do good audio even before transparency bitrates (without both the very annoying mp3 metallic ringing or ogg muffled sound)
I follow aviation related accounts so I see pictures of planes on my feed. I did have to stop following hashtags because people tend to spam bikini pics there
Aren't a host of the more popular languages case sensitive (C, C++, Java, Python, etc.)?
You'd need to ask the woodland trust that question but I get the feeling it's because it is rare thing to see wild in the UK.

It could also to be something to do with the Plant Health Act 1967 which is aimed at stopping the spread of <insert thing you're trying to stop>. Inadvertently Introducing new fungal varieties into a woodland may cause damage to the woodland.

I don't know for certain though but probably down to a different take on policy approaches to ecology between our two countries.
They dont even know what they look like. My teenage nephews look at my self-build and think the Monitor is the desktop. I had to show them the guts of the tower and point out the various components.

They more clued up now and have ambitions to build their own machines, for gaming of course.
https://archive.is/PT5tJ
The Creeping Threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
The illustration is drawn by Diana using Adobe Illustrator + Wacom tablet.
It is called a PlexShare.
SQL has some positives but it is not composable. At all. This is because relations are not first-class values in SQL.
> People don't want a computer or smartphone, they want the things those devices afford them.

They're entitled to it, I say. Hell, I even think other companies are entitled to make it for them.

What they cannot do is turn this layer of abstraction into an excuse for infinite profitability. People don't want coffee makers, they want coffee! That doesn't mean Keurig is necessarily allowed to stop other people from selling pods, though. Especially if they become the primary way that people get their coffee. We have a democratically controlled legal system that holds these people in check - particularly when the market doesn't behave. You can still be right here, but if Apple is taking advantage of this situation to fleece people beyond what can be considered reasonable, then we have to litigate them regardless. Hopefully in the future, Apple finds a way to prioritize things like security while also respecting the user's choice and agency.

It's time for armchair analysts and AAPL investors to take a hike. Some of us want Apple to succeed regardless of their monopolistic intent, and helping them requires us to prune their ugliest branches. We staved off half a decade of change with this "free market will fix things" mantra, and nothing improved. If Apple won't do what's right, then we'll be forced to.
My bank still forces me to rely on 2FA via SMS. I would live to find a US bank that would let me use a OTP 2FA app. Any suggestions?
The challenge I, with limited knowledge, see with developing detailed algorithms in SQL is a lack of good testing, abstraction, and review tooling. Similarly for a lot of the user-defined-functions for the larger data warehouses (redshift, bigQuery, etc.)

dbt solves a lot of it, but I'd love to learn more about good resources for building reliable and readily-readable SQL algorithms for complex logic.
I mean, pretty much all code is just strings subject to certain parsing constraints by the compiler/interpreter/lexer. What GP is talking about is semantic difference, which is super important in programming.
No, that's something you've invented.
You don't like Amazon/Echo and that's fine. I'm not coming to your house and forcing you to install one. No one is.

Server in China? I use Home Assistant with total local control of all of my smart home devices. On a separate VLAN and SSID. With no internet access. Echo is on a different VLAN and uses the (excellent) Home Assistant integration. AWS data center of course, but see my other comments[0] about the near-total uselessness of any local devices and implementations for wake word detection, ASR, and NLP. Speaking of Home Assistant, see my other comment about the graphing and notification system I built for Echo/Alexa[1].

Yes, I remember commercials for "The Clapper". I've been in bathrooms with motion activated lights that turn off while you're on the toilet (you know, the move where everyone starts frantically waving their arms).

Not only are these solutions also imperfect, you conveniently ignored my other use cases about checking the time in the dark, checking my calendar, setting alarms, etc.

I like my Echo. I like my "smart home" configuration and I've minimized the security issues and blast radius. I understand your concern and it's not without merit but you have the choice of whether or not to use internet connected devices in your environment. So do I.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041435#35051644

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35041435#35051766
Go exists in a weird space. It's not the top performer but is respectable (as long as you don't pressure the GC too much) however it's also not very expressive.

This leads to it not being favoured as a high level language because it lacks the primitives to write very concise code. On the other hand it has a big runtime and a GC so it's too high level for many true systems programming tasks. This lack of high level language features coupled with it's higher level runtime means that it finds itself occupying a space between systems languages like Rust and C++ but "lower" than Python/JS/Ruby/Kotlin/Swift/etc.

Essentially it ends up competing with Java on the server and supplanting C/C++ for systemsy tools in fields it got to before Rust arrived on the scene.
I'm a little confused here. You say being in the US without permission is not a crime. But that means you crossed a border illegally to get here which is in fact more than a non-criminal civil case.

It is stated in the first paragraph. "for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both."

You don't go to jail for civil cases.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
> Neither. I find this a weird notion. The message belongs to both sender and recipients.

If only we could admit that about copyrighted work.
I love to see all these new languages coming in with some form of pattern matching. I know some people don't like it but I also am partial to allowing the omission of curly braces in loops/conditionals/etc.

That said, the pattern matching syntax is a little strange and stood out to me. Why does [a::b::c] match an array with three elements? Why does (true, false) match an array with two booleans?
Fungus affects brain... hmmm...
Why a “coastal” tech employer?

The wages in SV price in the cost of living to a certain extent. I’m assuming if the remote work pattern continues, we can’t be expected to make coastal salaries while living in rural Wyoming any more that we would expect a FAANG company to pay an overseas employee SV salaries.
It isn't the voltage that causes interference, it's the current. A flowing current creates a magnetic field which can induce a voltage in nearby wires that run parallel. It just happens to be that the wires that carry the highest current are your power lines at high voltage.

If you have a wire carrying a very high voltage but no current at all, you shouldn't get any interference from it. Likewise, you could have a low voltage cable carrying lots of current (though why, I'm not sure), and that would cause interference.

Your point about code and safety is separate, valid, and very sensible though.
“Get cookies.txt” Chrome extension has been exfiltrating cookies
not to mention a better chance of securing a new position elsewhere if you are one of the first out the door.
Unfortunately, browsers don't seem to be interested in native support for much of anything. It's all just javascript APIs where the websites are incontrol of the experience instead of your user agent. Video streaming is extremely limited without client-side javascript. They even removed the minimal RSS support that we had.
The fact that Coinbase offers 2FA via an app is already potentially more secure than most US banks.

It would be far better if Coinbase defeated to TOTP for 2FA.
Also, will AI trucks proactively move to the left when approaching a short on-ramp to avoid slower incoming cars, that maybe can’t even be seen yet because the on-ramp is curved?
Yes. I even use the chrome extension 'unhook' which allows you to hide the home tab altogether
Storage drives aren't 18-inch behemoths anymore. You can stack storage to your heart's content, or, rather, your wallet's limit. Don't tell me about how you plan to offer ten times the storage in three years, tell me about how you plan to offer ten times the storage per dollar.
Doesn't Vault self-promote in the case of single node failure?

I noticed you mention Vault lives in the US, I'm sure you've already heard of this pattern, but Vault (Enterprise) supports [multi-region clusters for performance and DR](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/tutorials/day-one-raft...)
Note how it took a decade for most people to realize that Twitter is harmful after the 2013 APIpocalypse (when Mastodon got started).

And in the mean time we even had Trump showing every day just how bad it is !
Character, Camera, Controls: A coder's guide to creating 3D characters in Unity
See following sf story about life, AI and DNA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34836772
Build more ports on the pacific? The Berlin airlift was conducted in 1948 - technology and shipping capacity has improved dramatically since.

While china may have many mines - it is not unreasonable that an open seas mission could bring up to 5 carrier strike groups to the pacific coast of Taiwan. Enough to deter mine laying operations as well as conduct mine clearing operations.

Based on the game theory outlined above, the optimal strategy would be for Taiwan Allie’s to deploy enough military power that a Chinese strike on naval assets would immediately translate to full scale war.

5 carrier strike groups is also sufficient to block sea trade into china from further out than land based missiles can reach. This was also part of the nato strategy with Ukraine. There is enough military on standby in Eastern Europe to dissuade any attack against nato territory.

China needs a fast war that doesn’t escalate to win. Taiwan needs only not to lose. I don’t think china can simultaneously target food and American aircraft carriers without triggering a full war.
Have recently worked with a bootcamped guy (although I should admit he had an engineer degree first) but my impression of that boot camp program at least is very good:

They had worked on some serious case studies with real version control, real databases, real bugs and he basically came ready to solve real life problems.
A GDPR compliant approach to assign risk levels to privacy policies
I think parent was referring to it being embarrassing.
How is this different than any other thing used in an SoC? Do you just not like SoCs?
Funny, looking at those pictures greatly reduced my interest in the genre of body-painting, if that's what world champions look like. They certainly have technical expertise, but nonetheless to my eye they are both ugly and off-putting by the ubiquity of their political subtext. And it's not even politics that I necessarily disagree with! But political cartoons are not improved if you paint them on a human body.
>Makes you wonder what Facebook has been doing with all those billions spent on VR when Sony is able to produce a better product with a fraction of the investment.

It's not though. It's essentially an Oculus 1 with better resolution. Mobile untethered is the only real future for VR, and Meta is solving the hard problems there. Carmack knew this, and it's why he drove Quest to be fully self contained. Things like PSVR will only ever be niche toys for gamers.
> What does this have to do with Danish welfare?

I meant that the government isn't particularly trustworthy, so they will spy on everyone.

They did it on their allies, they will do it on their own citizens and use it against them too.

> Allies also spy on each other to make sure they're still on the same team and not dealing under the table with non-friendlies. The weren't spying on average joe citizens, but on high ranking politicians and weapons manufacturers.

I doubt your reaction would be the same if it was Germany spying on the US.
Nicely said. I remember AWS outages (S3, EBS, and RDS) in the early 2010s when their products were younger. But given time to improve each has become more and more resilient.
> The point is to parse the input into a structure which always upholds the predicates you care about so you don't end up continuously defensively programming in ifs and asserts.

While the article is titled "parse don't validate" I like it's first point of make illegal states unrepresentable much better.
Why does there need to be a successor to Heroku?
This is exactly the reason why I uninstalled Twitter and stopped reading Musk altogether. It is just painful to see moral corruption of one of the greatest minds of our times unfolding like a trainwreck in slow motion.

To me it looks like Musk is compromised by Russia. In fact, compromising Musk is a win-win move for Russia. If I was in charge of KGB, Musk would be one of my prime targets for a honeypot. You can't really bribe him, his finances and taxes, unlike Trump's, for example, are in order. On the other hand, a honeypot? Given Musk's history of personal relationships, it would very likely have worked.

It is sad that the story of a genius of our time is coming to such an inglorious end.
Banning TikTok is such a pointless exercise. So what, it just means that another service will pop up and take its place under a different name. The government can ban it all it wants, but it's not going away. Too simple of an app.