skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The purpose of a head of state is to act as a personification of the state, so what better symbol could you pick?

There's no universal answer to that question. It depends on what you think the state represents.

In your case you attach a lot of importance to your state's longevity, in which case your rationale for the monarchy is consistent. But the defining feature of republican states (US, Ireland, France, most of South America) is definitely not their longevity. It is the idea that the state is a creation of the people, and that all power - real, ceremonial, even trivial - derives from the power of the people. In this case a monarchy is the wrong symbol, and the correct symbol is an elected head of state. (The head of state doesn't need to have power, e.g. Ireland's president.)
Why would Facebook need to raise all this cash? Don’t they have plenty of profit? Aren’t interest rates high enough to discourage borrowing against future profits like this?
This is a solution against botnets, but not against humans who use AI to enhance/write their comments for them, like the ancestral poster was accused of doing.
The laws don't really stop it either. The 4th amendment in the United States hasn't prevented huge dragnet style data collection and partnerships with private entities to provide access to whatever data the government wants.
"anti competitive" "not really like a free market" "China vibes."

Logical reasoning suggests that the author believes that the Jones Act is un-American. I'm not stating my personal opinion on the Jones Act itself but pointing out that the regulation of international and interstate commerce is, by definition, as American as it gets. It was uncontroversial back then and it is uncontroversial now. The Congress can pass these laws. There aren't a whole lot of things that are spelled out in the unamended constitution, but this is one of them. Whether they should maintain this particular law is a totally different issue.
You realize the legislators are the ones asking for backdoors because - “terrorism“ and “think about the children”.

When has the government ever wanted less surveillance power or less control over the internet.
Does Nostr use ActivityPub or is it a proprietary implementation?
Well Meta owns WhatsApp anyways
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698547

Even at the hardware level we have real examples of exfiltration.
Clearly this growing number of folks know some financial angle that I don't. Its a exclusive club and I ain't in it.
Meh. No new insights in this short article.
In the UK every Tesco supermarket (at least) has a battery disposal box. I never see it used.

I'm not sure even ready access to disposal works.
Against the combined militaries of the rest of the planet? Yes.
The $250k depositor insurance cap was suspended in favor of all depositors getting bailed out.
> Other businesses.

Outside Soviet Russia, there has to be an end consumer in there somewhere. There isn't such a thing as a truly "non-consumer business."
Someone's got professionals pumping it, for sure. Along with the recent context-free appearances on the front page, note that this is the 2nd post from submitter @throwaway689236.
I've read news stories of people caught, charged and everything, just for discussing those things.

So, no actual act is necessary.
Wait until you get to the Xeons. Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
I am not against the general AI hysteria, but I don't think we should let it jump the line. There is plenty else that will likely get us first: the internal combustion engine, micro plastics, forever chemicals, nuclear weapons, social media, radical-media, inequality (radical capitalism), etc.

Hinton's first threat sounds like an extension of social media. Motivated bad actors already create quality fake stories and images and spread them far and wide. Our growing skepticism is out-pacing the technology, however, our growing polarization and confirmation bias has created more people that want to be fooled. But let's hold Facebook to account first.

Hinton's second threat sounds like inequality. It's not so bad when technology eliminates jobs, but if the income becomes further concentrated in the hands of the few at the top, we accelerate political corruption resulting in more yachts, more homelessness and fewer eager young minds that can afford the education needed to reach their potential.

Hinton's third threat is killer robots. But robots lack motivation, whereas a motivated bad actor could wire an explosive drone to easily target a gps location today. A more likely scenario would be an AI 'scammer robot' - but again we have to worry more about a motivated person than an app. And we do - and an entire industry has developed to address it.

I think Hinton's announcement is more like Eisenhower's farewell address, warning us against the political industrial complex (another threat still trying to get us). Perhaps the headline should have read instead: After a long and distinguished career, tired 75 year old man says, "Take this job and shove it".
California Financial Regulator Takes Possession of First Republic Bank
Datomic always seemed like a really cool thing to use. However, I'm not familiar with Clojure or any other JVM based language, nor do I have the time to learn it. And I can't find any supported way to use it with other languages (I'm not even talking about popular frameworks), or am I missing something?

It doesn't feel like the people behind Datomic actually want to have users outside of the Clojure world, which will be rather limiting to adoption.
On the last HN thread about Nostr I've mentioned Bluesky, and talked about its qualities, including the separation of various duties, like the feed, moderation, storage, etc. into different entities that can be pluggable.

Since that I got an invite (thank you, Sam!) and I'm even more bullish now (though I'm not much of a social media poster myself).

Compared to Nostr it seems like there's a first-party "base" app that most people can use, which has UX very similar to Twitter, with the assumption that people will be able to make their pick of app/moderation/feed/... later based on merit, not lock-in.

It seems like in the recent days/weeks a lot of non-technical various public figures have onboarded Bluesky, thanks to this ease of getting started. Folks that I wouldn't expect there for a while yet.

To any Nostr users - how's that developing there? Based on my cursory look onboarding looks quite a bit more daunting.

Anyway, the Twitter blue checkmark seems to be a blessing for decentralized social networks.

EDIT: Since I already got an email about it 5 mins after writing this - No, I don't have any invite codes, sorry.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692378
Many 2FA implementations are user-hostile. I wouldn't blame the users.

IDK about Android, but iPhones are now randomly generating passwords and storing them in Keychain, which has its own user-friendly 2FA. Solves the password-sharing problem. There's also authentication via Apple. Yeah it's first-party proprietary stuff; there are third-party solutions too, but they're harder for regular people to deal with.
Meta has ~$40B as Cash-on-Hand [1]. Why does it need to raise this money via bonds?

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/cash-on-hand
Not all entities the government sanctions through extralegal pressure campaigns are actually illegal (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point)

Now perhaps you don’t care if a gun dealer can’t get a bank account but every 4 years there’s a presidential election and maybe the next person wants to cut off abortion clinics from the banking system.
You are missing the point. Cloud gaming is not a thing. Almost no one plays it.

The experience is terrible.

MS only has that position because it is thrown in as part of Xbox Game Pass. No one is buying it on their own.

I have it as part of Game Pass. It's terrible. I never use it, outside of once or twice a year to verify it still sucks.

I am not convinced that cloud gaming is anywhere near being a thing. We could be talking several decades away before they figure out a way to get lag under control.
> Nostr is a discovery powerhouse that enables content to be easily discovered across platforms without gatekeeping. For creators this is great news because they can just publish in one place and be in all (willingly) participating clients/apps.

Beyond the marketing barf, what makes this a "discovery powerhouse"?

From the description, it doesn't sound any different from Mastodon, or having an email newsletter, or publishing your own website.
> Under the current regime this is not a breaking change because the authors do not intend `Point` to be serializable and do not want its consumers to serialize it directly.

If there's a central part of Rust that will prevent it becoming as ubiquitous as C, I believe its this philosophy. It's not just a focus on "safety" but this absolutist position on some idea of correctness, which may or may not even useful.

Preventing programmers from doing things like, gosh, printing struct's because it might possibly somehow create a compile time issue. There's plenty of ways to let a programmer handle ambiguity issues, even on a per crate level, etc.

Glad to see some folks are at least considering compile time reflection. Rust for me feels like an archaic language due to its weak compile time programming. It prevents many powerful safety constructs where a programmer can add compile time checks specific to a program domain.
Jack Dorsey funded some of the early development through a grant. Nostr has no co-founders or CEO. It's a protocol, not a company.
If you ask yourself why the banks were buying what most people would consider the least risky asset ever and somehow ended up failing you’d understand why this was really a failure of regulation and not cowboys avoiding responsibility
Until these companies turn around and sell that data to the government, which doesn't require a warrant since the company is volunteering to provide it, and if they don't want to sell it, the government will happily use one of it's loopholes around warrants to demand it anyway. The government does this constantly with location data[1], browsing history[2], license plate scanners[3], and more.

We should be pushing to close these warrantless search loopholes, but in the meanwhile the only pragmatic way for an individual to maintain privacy is to prevent any and all third parties from collecting the data to begin with. After it has been collected, you have no control and no reasonable expectations of how it will be used.

[1]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government...

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/can-government-look-yo...

[3]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/cbp-does-end-run...
As we saw with newsrooms, when faced with existential crises, even the most traditional firewalls will get scrapped in the race to find nickels in couch cushions.
https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction might help.
> the reality, that there is a natural, built-in, constant pull or push toward entropy and dissolution of the shape of an "orbit" should be essential

Again, what are you basing this on? What theory or evidence tells you that "the reality" is what you say it is?
TBH I'm not sure; I used Notion for a few months a couple years ago but unsure about "multi-view dbs" in particular. But I will say, the breadth and power and extensibility of Obsidian w/ its massive OSS plugin ecosystem is hard to overstate. If you like a Notion feature, I'd bet heavy it's doable in Obsidian.
Isn't the answer then to require small banks to conform to the same rules as big banks? Instead of allowing them to fail and be acquired by big banks?
I guess I can see that perspective yeah. Certainly there is no speaking during the game, since it's a game of concentration after all.

And top players might not do this, but most everyone else does: we discuss the games with the opponent after the game.
Club nights tend to be less formal; usually blitz will be played, banter and trashtalking during the game is common.

But yeah I guess it must look like we all hate eachother and never speak to eachother, from the outside. That's funny.
FWIW, I don’t suspect my vouching is disabled. The comment has been un-flagged now. The churn in this thread is fairly interesting though. I can honestly see why it might be enough of a debate trigger that it’s best from a moderation point of view if the thread was harder to find and comment on.
If meta needs to lay off tens of thousands of people to make their financials look good enough to appeal to investors, that suggests to a layman like me that they weren't turning enough profit per employee to justify the things those people are working on. This comes, notably, after raising $10B last year before the layoffs.

So besides stock buybacks, what does it actually mean "to build a more traditional balance sheet and fund some expensive initiatives"? Layoffs mean they're doing less (far less!). Are they gonna hire people back? Like, what are you funding if it's not the people doing the initiatives?

And a follow-up question: given the above, who exactly is buying these bonds? "We grew too fast and did too many things so we fired people. Now our numbers look good! Give us money like last year to hire people to do things!" sounds like Lucy encouraging Charlie Brown to kick the football, no?
No, a bit upper layer. You need to handle error codes, request and response parameters, naming for the API etc.

Imagine having API with 100+ endpoints. How do you add another one in gRPC? You edit .proto file and run codegenerator, which creates stub code for clients and server. You just need to connect that code to the rest of your app (say, talk to database here or display the response on the screen here). You don't write actual code for the network part.

With traditional HTTP/REST/JSON approach you would have to write handlers yourself for each codebase separately.
And there is no way to make sure they're in sync – only on organizational level (by static checks, four-eyes policies and such). I know it doesn't sound too big of a deal because most people used to it, but gRPC gives a different experience. Hence my initial comment that it's so much easier to work with.
Sure, but they also take an extraordinary amount of money from taxpayers. Also, there are issues over whether they own everything they make money from (e.g., properties, and recently a large number of official state gifts). I'd say they're doing rather well off of us ;P

The Gruanidad has been running a series on this (especially nice to see in the run up to the coronation) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/cost-of-the-crown

In particular, from here, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/07/british-roya...

> Elizabeth II and Charles III have extracted cash payments worth more than £1.2bn from two hereditary estates that pay no tax, in addition to the millions they receive in public funding for their official duties. In 2022, they received £21m each from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall respectively, despite a centuries-old debate over whether the two estates in fact belong to the British nation.
Hmm, seems that version 8 and above discontinued Dropbox sync. I haven't updated my app in ages so I still have the dropbox setup.
I remember hearing that rumour when they were building a tech center in Yokohama. But all the job listings never mention anything related to self-driving so I always wondered what they actually do there.
> My ~2000-era MS Natural keyboard has the following. (I keep it in a drawer, as an emergency spare for when I run out of MS Natural 4000s.)

Hahaha! I have the same thing. I've got one original MS Natural still BNIB, and two Elite models each with a lot of mileage on them. I've long been dreading the day that my stash runs dry. Been keeping an eye on keyboard forums for years waiting for a replacement. The popularity of high-end keyboards with the terrible rectangle layout utterly baffles me. Why would someone who cares about keyboards ever choose that layout?

The Alice layout comes close enough to the Natural layout that I think it's a fantastic replacement. My complaints are small enough that I'm already adjusting after just a few hours of usage. I'm just thrilled someone is making a split ergo keyboard with a numpad!!
Nope – it is its own thing. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Yeah you couldn’t do you job without Google because it’s vastly superior to a shelf of 5 books
"1. Nostr is not a social network."

Someone should really change the marketing CTA.

"A decentralized social network with a chance of working"

I can see why people would think this.
It has been clearly reported, but in case folks are not aware: PRISM is not a system for deep persistent access into tech platforms, it is the internal NSA designation (code name) for data sourced via FISA court orders. The FBI actually secures the court order and then requests the data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

If a company stores data about you, it is possible it could be subject to a FISA request. Data which is end-to-end encrypted would still be provided if it satisfies the criteria in the FISA court order. But it would be up to the NSA to try to break the encryption. Metadata might or might not be encrypted.
RISC was intended to have fewer instructions to allow reduced execution time, and higher clock speeds. The addressing mode did not define RISC, it was a method to reach the goal. That link has a lot of wrong information about RISC.
> This is likely on the same level as horse dewormer for COVID.

That something sounds strange doesn't particularly lead me to question the likelihood of efficacy.

The evidence on something's efficacy leads me to question something's efficacy.
Millenials hold 4.36% of US wealth.

Boomers hold 53.2%.

Those figures are from 2020 - it's probably gotten worse since.

... And those wealth holders aren't just ignoring the problems of today; they're exacerbating them.

Ageism won't solve our problems - all of this is still very much a class issue.

But let's not pretend that as a generation, the Boomers didn't fail like no generation has ever failed. And let's not pretend they aren't still blaming the victim.
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Nostr is decentralized. I think a big part of the idea is that relays just dont carry spam/bad actors. The protocol doesn't, as of yet, have need to handle most of your "it doesn't handle complex social issues X Y or Z" nags because it so far handles these problems socially, not technically, and that's been working for now.

Nostr is all based on anonymous cryptographic identifiers, so it seems like you have some special definition of anonymity that you are looking for, as it seems nothing if not anonymous. Having a stable identifier allows relays to know who to send versus who not to send, and allows connecting data together. Users are free to sock puppet up to their hearts content, if they wish to further diffuse traffic.

The appeal? The appeal here is that this is an incredibly malleable & comprehensible low level tool for messaging. Competitors like AtProto or ActivityPub involve complex protocols to exchange/syndicate data around, as much as the payload of the messages themselves. They are high level visions for what a network is. By compare, Nostr's low level approach is organic & searching not a refined final product, but a thriving ecosystem of expanding ideas.

Nostr has extreme elegance as a protocol by being focused primarily on messages themselves, which start as very simple & understandable self signing devices. The transport & exchange of messages is almost incidental, and indeed, Nostr over shoebox or carrier pigeon is possible. This allows a lot more flexibility with how the network can form distributed connections, allows great offline capabilities, allows creative relays & creative/selective distribution mechanisms to form.

Nostr is an excellent base layer. The base specs are quite short & direct. It's a protocol one can happily implement in a weekend.

Nostr has incredibly wild applications, because it is a simple extensible base. There's a wide variety of interesting capabilities that have already need accepted as Nostr Implementation Possibilities, NIPS, that grow & build on one another. Nostr base protocol is just a start, just the seed of an idea, one that's meant to be iterated on & expanded, and it's so easy & direct to do so. This is the biggest advantage by far; I cannot stress this enough. Not trying to do absolutely everything & making a modular simple protocol to start building & iterating from is all the wins, is the Bazaar to the ambitious Cathedrals.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

Nostr is by far the most malleable, most open set of possibilities, the most grow able, of the social networks we have. Everything else seems to have been designed to arrive somewhat fully formed, ready to go, but Nostr's strength is that it doesn't purport to know every use case & to have a total picture of what it is. It's a much simpler idea, with much more focus on finding out the uses.
No bank in existence could handle losing 40% of their deposits in a few days. You can't possibly protect against that while also operating the business of being a bank as we think of it.
It's speculation based on marketing hype that isn't found in the product.

I have access to xCloud. The lag is unreal. I don't see how they will get the lag down to an acceptable level for the kinds of games that Activision makes.

Cloud gaming makes sense for party games, turn-based games, anything that doesn't require reflexes. This leaves out everything Activision makes.

There is no evidence that the lag issues with cloud gaming are solvable.
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The other answer is excellent, but also: waste heat from star-system-scale processes is what we can rule out with existing tech, so that's what we're ruling out.
The re-inspection in Minnesota specifically says that it's not a safety inspection. They just want to be sure you have receipts for everything you fixed on the car to prove that it wasn't rebuilt with stolen parts. Never made sense to me, but there you go.
Lots of misconceptions here. If you're interested in learning more I'd highly recommend reading up a bit, https://nostr.how (disclaimer, I'm the maintainer of that site).
Vaguely reassuring.
Meh, I have seen other versions, and this Christian one isn't even particularly interesting... though did he discuss Teilhard de Chardin at some point in one of them ?