skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling Nostr a social network to me seems like a category error. It's a messaging protocol. People might build a social network on top of it, but it's not necessarily going to have any of the properties Nostr has, the same way Facebook is built on top of html.

If you want to solve social issues at a protocol level, there need to be social mechanisms in the protocol. That would honestly be kind of interesting to see. But Nostr is just a reinvented networking stack.
> Finding and dominating a niche is the best business strategy.

I think that if you're a small fish swimming in a big, shark-infested pool, it's the only viable strategy.
Loved capsela too. So easy to use. With the floats you could make great motorized boaty things. Didn't work so well as a submersible though, lol.
I disagree, it is the baffling romantization of plumbers and tradesmen as some kind of a social panacea that is the problem. Here you have already predefined for yourself what plumbers are and how they should function, and so you employ this biased construction of plumbers for your post, where it is nothing but fantasy.

Don't be too hard on yourself though, you are only subject to the current shibboleths of pining for these fantastical tradesmen (possibly a result of some kind of desire for a safe simplicity), and so you only regurgitate these popular sentiments (that feel so good!) without being able to consciously check your delusions.
The guy on the cover of Inventing the Future:

https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future

is Jeffrey Smith, the son of Dave Smith, the inventor of icons and one of the designers of the GUI. He's playing MazeWar on a real, working Alto (I have the raw photo in the book). There's a guy in the Seattle area who has two of them in his basement.

The family story is that Dave's wife was pregnant and overdue with Jeffrey, and they dropped in on PARC and looked at MazeWar. The little eyeball gave her such a shock that she went into labor. So Jeffrey was eager to reenact his origin story.
> Either I'm the one person who isn't seeing this, or this person has a very deranged definition of "white supremacist."

I honestly have noticed no changes whatsoever in my feed. A lot of people I follow are griping about how bad it is, but I'm not seeing it. Perhaps they are sunsetting this site because it's not all doom and gloom, as much as they may have wanted it to be?

I have no opinion on the entire matter other than it's the same for me, outside of Elon Musk making more frequent odd replies (as you mention). He seems to respond with "we really need to look into this" or "this needs further investigation" on things that border on conspiracies or are easily proven/disproven.

Am I just an outlier for some strange reason?
German EMS use QR technology to discourage illegal photography
I played chess against ChatGPT just yesterday, and it got into a winning position against me. After 24 moves it tried to play an illegal move and then when I told it that's illegal it played a bad move, and after that it didn't manage to find any more legal moves (I gave up after asking it to try again about 10 times).

But it's very close to being able to play chess.

My prompt was:

> we're playing chess. only send chess moves.

>

> 1. e4
Why? Signing up for FastMail or Migadu and redirecting your mail is very easy. If you use a custom domain, you don’t even have to change your address when you migrate to a new provider.
You speak as if corporations are separate from governments.
It's like dating apps. Letting people buy reach, rather than relying on "merit," can make people's feeds worse. And yet you have to make money. It's a balancing act. You want to turn the ads spigot on just enough that people are still happy with the service.
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As a Canadian, right next door, I'm continually amazed that we can have two polar takes on healthcare and both get it so wrong. In Canada it is an incredibly expensive way to pay for a universal public system in case you personally need it, at which point it's pretty poor quality, especially for new approaches or preventative, non-emergent care. Then in the States you have so many with absolutely zero safety net or primary care, at which we do a better (but still bad IMO) job of, while the well-insured or very wealthy have the most amazing health options in the world. We should both be able to come up with a solution that prevents rural mothers from dying related to childbirth AND gets someone a hip replacement in less than a year so they don't irreversibly deteriorate. Governments on both sides of the border just dig in their heels for political motivations, actual health outcomes not a consideration.
Krebs doesn't report on that kind of stuff, he has a different focus. Dan Goodin has been covering tech for decades and does a really good job.
Yup, Kiki is a cybersquirrel, so an android. For a fuller set of ex-splashes, check https://krita.org/en/about/kiki/ . The current splash was inspired by https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61379.html .
Rewriting things in Rust doesn't always guarantee memory safety, especially in writing optimal performance for OS where you are forced to use unsafe blocks.

Regardless, I have a small hunch that Windows as we know it is on its way out. Microsoft fully embraced open source. I would put a small wager on Microsoft rolling its own custom linux distro for future versions of Windows. It will play extremely well with everything they are doing.
In World War II, German spies used a technique called the "microdot" to embed secret messages within seemingly innocuous documents. The microdot technique involved shrinking the text of a message to the size of a small dot (about 1 millimeter in diameter) and then placing it within the text or image of a cover document, such as a letter or newspaper article. The recipient would need a microscope to read the tiny message.

The Least Significant Bit method is used frequently for the legitimate use of watermarking image, video and audio IP. It is a simple technique that embeds the watermark data into the rightmost bit of a binary number (LSB) of some pixels of the cover image.

It is also very common for malware to hide it's configuration data or payload within image files. (ZeusVM, Zberp, NetTraveler, Shamoon, Zero.T)
Which version are you currently using? I used to have the same setup back in the days when 1Password was only a standalone app, before it became a SaaS as it is now.

Can you please explain how you have organized your current setup?
I'm more worried that the wall outputs the wrong voltage and kills my phone. Maybe an unfounded fear, but even if I trusted it, I'd still have to carry a travel charger in case there are no USB wall ports. So there's not much point in using the wall ones.
There's little spam at the moment. There will be. But at that time the relays (pieces of server software that relay nostr messages) can step in and implement spam control via whatever they see fit. Perhaps some smart filtering, perhaps pay a few sats to have a message relayed or perhaps some real name policy. Clients can pick a (set of) relay(s) which fit their preference best. Or not, and accept the default.

The protocol is surprisingly simple to read [1], many relays and clients exist already.

I exchanged messages with a friend of mine who was using a very different client and it just worked!

Personally I like the fact that you can 'like' posts by sending a couple of sats via Lightning. I think it is a great motivator to write thoughtful, quality content.

Currently nostr is radical, weird and unpolished. The Amethyst client is slow at times. But the pace of development is incredible.

[1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md
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While I'd definitely want a huge win for privacy, the current (that we need to avoid) suite of tools is extremely convenient (especially the collab/social ones) and are affected by network effect.

We should be aiming for a solution that is private while also convenient as the centralized ones. Otherwise even if we (HN audience) switch, many others won't and only a niche set of users will be using the private technologies and services.
people doing dumb shit, because they can instead of asking "why" ?

literally short-terminism.

next thing you know - all those educational videos on youtube gone. the only other content will be 3 minute garbage snippets on tik tok.

read books
Federal Privacy Legislation Moves One Step Closer to Enactment
Good question. I'm not sure! My first reaction is "elegance", but I don't think that's quite right
“The expectation of clean water in wealthy countries is enabled by technology and infrastructure; like effective sewage systems and water treatment facilities. But to a large extent it is also enabled, and was initially bootstrapped, by sound policymaking and regulation.

Regulation requires verification.”

Regulation of water does not require verification. We live on a planet where clean water is abundant and cannot escape the planet’s atmosphere. Why you think we need to measure how this is verified is beyond the beyond’s.

Here’s a wiki page reference if you need help measuring how much water exists on Earth:

While the majority of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, those oceans make up just a small fraction of the mass of the planet. The mass of Earth's oceans is estimated to be 1.37 × 1021 kg, which is 0.023% of the total mass of Earth, 6.0 × 1024 kg. An additional 5.0 × 1020 kg of water is estimated to exist in ice, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and atmospheric water vapor.[20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth#Ear...
> ChatGPT can't play chess, for example

Out of pure curiosity I tried this a while back. At some point it tried to move a knight from d4 to f6, and it was the most stubborn and obstinate child when I tried to correct it. It was the best fun I had playing chess in a few decades.

Excerpt:

_Me:_ Can a knight move from f6 to d4?

_ChatGPT:_ Yes, a knight can move from f6 to d4, as long as there are no pieces blocking its path and the square it is moving to is not occupied by one of its own pieces. In fact, the move Nxd4 that I suggested earlier involves moving a knight from its starting square to d4, capturing a pawn in the process.

_Me:_ Which fields can a knight move to from f6?

_ChatGPT:_ From f6, a knight can move to six different squares. These squares are: [... lists: d7, e8, g8, h7, d5, e4 ...] [...]

_Me:_ You forgot g4 and h5, but no matter. Is d4 in that list?

_ChatGPT:_ [...] To answer your other question, no, the square d4 is not one of the squares that a knight on f6 can move to directly. However, as we saw earlier, it is possible for a knight to move from f6 to d4 via an intermediate square, such as e8 or d5.
I've thought about this now, and I think that:

- the scientists people know about are generally older

- older people are often thought of as wiser, or may indeed be so

- when a famous scientist - who is already likely to be older, and who has a history of getting things right - gets something wrong, then it's more jarring and noticeable

My theory then is that it isn't true, but we notice such cases more.

Also, examples of a theory being true doesn't prove the theory right. Bayes' theorem seems instructive here.
Lets be glad it was someone with the foresight to imagine it as an open protocol from the beginning though. Interoperable and free to use things around it.

The fact that they didn't try to monetize the underlying tech is almost a miracle.
Much of inflation is being driven by corporate concentration and failed tax policy:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/

While much of wage growth is being driven by a plague-induced labor shortage and in response to the above. Cranking the interest rate dial to 11 solves very little besides impoverishing workers to preserve the dysfunctional status quo for the wealthy and business owners. This is quite obvious in how they’re handling all these bank failures.
Yes, our government is not a single homogenous entity. We can theoretically (and sometimes actually) use our legislative representatives to change the behavior of other parts.
That’s not how a non-disparagement clause works.

It puts restrictions on what you’re allowed to say. It doesn’t require you to correct what other people say.

If your badly thought through assumption was correct, the logical response from him would be to simply say nothing.
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It is annoying that you submit post after post on the same topic.

* 3 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770876

* 3 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770764

* 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770705

* 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35770592

And many more: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=upwardbound

Is there a specific reason for doing this? I get that the topic is ultimately interesting, but a post from you 2 days ago was already on the frontpage and still didn't get much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35744974
It was written down by Arthur C Clarke who was an author. It's just a rule of thumb really. I haven't looked into data on it but it seems like a common enough thing that there's something to it. As to why? I have no idea. Something lik: Older scientists are more conservative, therefore if they say something is impossible, they might just be out of touch with new developments. But if they say something is possible take it seriously because they don't use that word lightly.
> how is using Thunderbird for email supposed to "opt you out of PRISM and XKeyscore"?

The mail client may help improve privacy if you configure it to erase data in the server as it is downloaded to the client (POP), instead of letting it stay in the server for a indefinite amount of time (IMAP). If people are going to break into your provider, a empty mailbox would limit compromise.
Here Comes the Bride, with AI-Generated Wedding Vows
For those living in the bay area, you should know that the groundwater in many areas is contaminated with TCE due to computer manufacturing industry which used it as a solvent. Dry cleaners are another common culprit of contamination to the groundwater. These groundwater plumes can extend for quite a large distance from the original site of contamination and seep into the first story of residences and buildings through vapor intrusion. The TCE solvent is directly linked to Parkinsons [1].

Take a look at where you live on the California waterboard website [2] and look for nearby groundwater contamination sites. TCE / PCE contamination sites anywhere near your residence or workplace would put you at risk of getting Parkinsons. I know someone who got it and indeed they lived near a dry-cleaner that was leaching TCE into the groundwater decades ago. The solvent entires your residence through vapor intrusion, especially on the first floor or basement.

[1] https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/common-dry-cleanin...

[2] https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/map/?CMD=runreport&mya...
This, given these NSA programs have had 10 years to evolve and expand, and that the NSA can easily get access to effectively the entire planets’ mobile devices by showing up to just two American companies’ HQs with guns and gag orders, it seems almost a certainty that they’ll have OS-level access. So I’d highly doubt any standard mobile device is NSA-safe.

In terms of dimensionality, I actually do not think it would physically be possible for the NSA to warehouse all the raw data they could Hoover (haha get it) up, so that might be a bit comforting. And certainly whatever data they do Hoover up will mostly never be directly seen by a human due to physical constraints on eyeball time available to spy vs produce content. That yields one answer to your question which is to just not attract enough attention they decide to turn on full logging and comb through your life
Central banks aren’t needed to keep the economy running, you really just need some areas of law (contract, commercial, etc) and an effective court system for that. The economy ran on its own prior to the Federal Reserve being created in 1913.

Central banks may be useful in preventing banking crises every ~20yrs as happened back in the 1700s and 1800s. But even that’s not a certainty since the two most severe banking crises in history - the Great Depression and Global/Great Financial Crisis - happened under the watch of central banks. Some even argue the latter occurred because of the central bank keeping interest rates too low too long.

One benefit of central banks is to depoliticize monetary policy by moving it away from the Executive Branch, and giving it a consistent, Congressional mandate that it must prioritize in its policy and operations - low inflation and high employment. That’s probably one of the few indisputable advantages they have.

As for whether inflationary or deflationary money is better, I don’t know. Both have their pros and cons. The more I go down rabbit hole on each of these, the less decisive I am about it. But this website makes a comprehensive case for deflationary money, fwiw: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Thank you, I am guilty of bailing out too quickly after I saw a fee schedule and assumed it would apply.
The old blue checks are grieving that they no longer have special treatment and their voices are no longer elevated. They are now just like the common plebs. It's an adjustment process.
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He posted this recently: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/why-is-juice-jacking-sud...
In theory every store that sells rechargeable batteries in NYC is also supposed to accept them for disposal.

I've found that occasionally true... but as you say for things like laptops without removable batteries it feels a little weird to just leave them in the piles by the door that many of these stores have.
The usual explanation is that they will call impossible something which goes against their life's work because in their mind it nullifies it, while a youngster has less or zero "sunken cost".

A related saying: "science advances a funeral at a time", meaning the old-guard blocks new theories for the same reason, they go against their life's work.
What is the "value" in that? In the UK, even with their hereditary head of state, they still had Boris Johnson who was definitely populist and divisive.

And also, of all the parts of my comment to rebut, you pick the part that isn't the bulk of it?
> Fighters from both sides of the conflict made a choice to abandon peace.

There is little choice here when you need to earn money for your family - either on the payroll of the army or the RSF.
> any military that commits to using them will have a huge advantage ?

I don't think that's true. If autonomous weapons are deployed, the advantage will go to whoever has the best hackers.
This one went over my head
They have gone through education, not training. It is just inexperience.
These low effort historical comparisons are really insidious. It turns out we can do better than an obtuse comparison of the present circumstance to past cases and increase our ability to predict outcomes. Yes, the current case of AI rhymes with past cases of technological progress. But the actual features of the cases show core differences that imply a very different result in the case of AI.

Historically, efficiency increases from technology were driven by innovation that brought a decrease in the costs of transactions. This saw an explosion of the space of viable economic activity and with it new classes of jobs and a widespread growth in prosperity. Productivity and wages largely remained coupled up until recent decades. Modern automation has seen productivity and wages begin to decouple. Decoupling will only accelerate as the use of AI proliferates.

This time is different because AI has the potential to have a similar impact on efficiency across all work. In the past, efficiency gains created totally new spaces of economic activity in which the innovation could not further impact. But AI is a ubiquitous force multiplier, there is no productive human activity that AI can't disrupt. There is no analogous new space of economic activity that humanity as a whole can move to in order to stay relevant to the world's economic activity.

Our culture takes it as axiomatic that more efficiency is good. But its not clear to me that it is. The principle goal of society should be the betterment of the lives of people. Yes, efficiency has historically been a driver of widespread prosperity, but it's not obvious that there isn't a local maximum past which increased efficiency harms the average person. We may already be on the other side of the critical point. What I don't get is why we're all just blindly barreling forward and allowing trillion dollar companies to engage in an arms race to see how fast they can absorb productive work. The fact that few people are considering what society looks like in a future with widespread AI and whether this is a future we want is baffling.

This is humanity's new agriculture moment; those that are positioned to become the new ruling class are resisting any ideas of slowing down. While the rest of us are oblivious to the approaching calamity. The tech crowd with a boner for the supposed techno-utopia imagined in sci-fi needs to ask what costs we should be willing to pay for a chance at that future.
Your link 1 specifically says the opposite,

>Held-to-maturity debt securities are reported at amortized cost. This is due to the securities being held to collect contractual cash flows. As such, it would not be appropriate for an investor to recognize interim fluctuations in fair value through a fair value model since those fluctuations will not be realized by the investor.

That is, HTM debt are not reported at fair value in GAAP. The fair value in that case would be the mark to market value (provided sufficient liquidity). The LCR requires HQLA be valued at fair value.

I think the confusion here is that HTM securities are in fact treated differently when calculating capital adequacy requirements, which are not the same as LCR! Your second link (which btw predates the start of LCR in the US) is about capital adequacy requirements.
Krebs does indeed report on this kind of stuff. With a number of citations and product examples.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/why-is-juice-jacking-sud...