skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Saying that it's "legal" doesn't change the fact that if someone were to come up with a private currency, gigantic forces, government and not, would be arrayed against them to put an end to it.

Thousands of private currencies exist right now.

Nobody would care about your currency, since it is useless, and as such worthless. A centralized currency is an enormous social asset. Nobody wants private currencies.

>who could be trusted to do it in a way that doesn't favor some at the expense of others?

Just try to imagine a currency controlled by amazon. Do you think they won't do some hyperinflation making you poor once a decade?

The controller of a currency has enormous power. If the government can't handle it nobody can.
I did the same thing. Then the lightweight, elegant, user-friendly, not-Salesforce CRM system that I had convinced the company to depend on (Highrise CRM) was mothballed by 37 Signals. Yes it's possible to export data, but there are usually things that we couldn't export (like notes and files/attachments) and it was a nightmare I will forever avoid at all costs.

After another client found that their Batchbook CRM solution was also being EOL'd, I started to feel like going for the biggest most well-known market-leading CRMs ends up being a good choice just from the point-of-view of data longevity and peace of mind.

I really wish 37 Signals open-sourced Highrise, or that CiviCRM or any of the other open source CRMs managed to get to a level of polish and ease of use so that I could ditch Salesforce, but I've yet to find anything that could justify such a move away from the Salesforce behemoth.
Rebuilding a Cassandra Cluster Using Yelp’s Data Pipeline
I'm not sure that I agree.

My brother tried to set me up with a girl last week. She has a pretty uncommon name. Googled her. Found... a lot of stuff.

I have a VERY common name. Think multiple (relatively) famous people (photographers, US Medal of Honor winner, enough lawyers to choke a court system for DECADES), but if you google my name and the city I live in (1,000,000+ people), my LinkedIn is like the second result.

For everyone saying that Google has gotten worse over the time they've been using it, these two use cases (which are pretty challenging) do really still work.
Kinda...

DuckDuckGo allows for supplement of Google Search, as does Brave, and other search engines. Google freaked out after the ChatGPT release (rightly so) and padded their hand a bit.

Impact would probably be Ads via Google Search Engine. Which, great, because Google Ads-generated results remain a huge vulnerability in terms of active phishing attacks. Maybe it's gotten better in the last month, however I don't really use Google Search anymore, to avoid phishing attacks.

And, this is one reason why I like Brave, because I can control what content cannot appear in my search results, to better mitigate phishing attacks.
Not only that. Now precisely because multicore is the only path to follow when we reach the end of the Moore’s law, we need more than ever functional programming. Is no coincidence that there are so much new languages that are trying to use those concepts, including a big revival of Lisp.
Someone is forcing you to use Discord? An app that I personally have never used?
Holy strawman Batman.
How is any of their IPs in jeopardy? Emulator doesn't contain any firmware code (at least not Dolphin as far as I'm aware). The encryption key is not IP and isn't copyrighted.
> outsource the complexity

Honestly the bulk of complexity seemed to emerge from the mismatch between what we thought would be a good e-sign API and what APIs were actually available.

The way our product works, we need to have access to the raw signature specimen at various stages of the signing process because we have a document generation feature that dynamically inserts the specimens into the appropriate fields. Put differently, we don't show the documents until we first have a signature (and initials) specimen collected from the e-sign participant. This is basically the exact opposite of how most vendors work, but our customers really like it this way.

We also needed a way to in-line bank-specific e-sign consent documents into the experience, giving the e-signer a way to decline consent and have this decline kick off an appropriate back-office workflow. The other reason we went in house is we wanted to completely close the loop. After the last e-signer completes their piece, our product detects this condition and submits all final documents to the institution's long-term cold storage system. Getting this to work with a 3rd party API looked like a total non-starter to me - We can't just send the docs right away. There are time-of-day constraints on when those systems will be available throughout the week.

Our e-sign solution ultimately turned into a workflow-style experience with 6-7 steps.
By linking to your Amazon account, you get a 10% Prime discount, if you're a member; it would be like any grocery store loyalty program.
Second that recommendation. Kiczales is a great teacher, IMHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Kiczales?wprov=sfla1
> I for one don't see myself using any of such tools unless they are actually reliable, competitive and trusted by many corporations and individuals.

People said the same in 1999 for online banking.

"According to research by Online Banking Report, at the end of 1999 less than 0.4% of households in the U.S. were using online banking. At the beginning of 2004, some 33 million U.S. households (31%) were using some form of online banking. Five years later, 47% of Americans used online banking, according to a survey by Gartner Group"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking#Internet_and_cu...
Just to add more, TSMC hires cohorts of US college grads to move to Taiwan for training for their first (2?) years. Then they are sent to Arizona for another 2 years of work.

There are monetary incentives to complete the 4 year contract, but many (50%?) terminate their contract early while they are in Taiwan or before transferring to Arizona.
That depends what your definition of tool is. He custom-makes jigs all the time, as those are bespoke for whatever particular shape of thing he’s making.

But saws, blades, chisels… maybe he could make them, but why? Metalworking is its own subject of mastery.

AFAIK, he doesn’t often modify any tools of that sort. He spends time selecting the one he wants, yes.
"i feel bittersweet sharing i’m leaving my job at meta in a few weeks."

I think if I made this type of announcement publicly, my company would ask me to leave immediately.
Yeah, I was explaining how you could reproduce those results without being on the Safari preview.
The utility of Blockchain/crypto is nowhere near AI. At this point I don't even understand how one could viably compare one to the other.
I'm afraid life (at least mine) is way more complicated than that.
There's much less of an adrenaline rush in an extended stakeout and cuffing a suspect when they are walking to their car to go to work, or getting the morning newspaper.

The fun is to be had in the kicking in of doors, yelling at terrified residents, and so on.
> No one is mass-sharing their safe …

They literally are though? Numerous cases of child abusers abusing their children and publishing the footage of it from their homes, not to mention the mass storage and hosting (hosting _may_ be less common now).

People physically abuse their family and children at scale (domestic violence is not rare), a really good way to stop this would be to mandate cameras and microphones in everyone’s houses.

Don’t worry though: to see/hear recordings from inside someone’s house police will need a warrant.
Sure but once again so what ? Change is part of life
At a company that large and that diverse, the biggest gain in using protocol buffers would be having an official schema and versioning for the messages. Serialization is nice (but not 60% improvement nice). But having some structure around messages is the big win.
This is very well written, and explains clearly how each AWS service works.

I have been interested in how one would deploy Wordpress in a high availability setting, and this is just that!

Thanks Lee for the great article, looking forward to the next parts.
Hmm I don't understand whats the benefit of having my notes on p2p network. Usually when it comes to notes I would prefer them to be private. Here I have some vague claim that the cryptographic key is safe enough. Well ok but what is the advantage here?

Also the local first approach here just seems like a local storage on a disk. Not great. Essentially if I move notes from notion to here I am going from a service that has a clear API and understandable storage policies to a model where the data is some binary blob on a p2p network.. Idk this to me seems I would effectively have less control over my data.
> Have you ever actually tried to convince a non-technical friend or family member to use a different platform for communicating

How many non technical people have heard of Discord?
It's from a ~daily Japanese language thread, the comment in question is simply 'reverse nihongo just dropped https://minilanguage.com/' and did not spur any further discussion. I just happened to notice it at the time and thought 'mildly interesting, maybe I should submit this to HN'. When I visited HN later in the day I was amused to see it already here.

/jp/ is not an adult imageboard but still somewhat NSFW, consider yourself warned
https://boards.4channel.org/jp/thread/44068025
> I just don't see a reason to pick a fight if the status quo is "everybody wins".

> Billionaires get to send their kids to good schools and everyone else at the school gets their education subsidized by those billionaires voluntarily.

That's not "everybody though"; most people _don't_ attend elite institutions like that, and every spot that goes to a billionaires' kid means one less spot for a kid without wealthy parents able to work the system like that. The argument being made is that having taxes instead and using them for public goods that are accessible to a much wider swath of the population would be worth doing instead; I tend to think that the answer to this question is yes, it's worth the effort, but even I'm skeptical that "it's all going to suck anyways" or "anyone who doesn't go to an elite school is irrelevant to the question of how individual wealth can improve society as a whole" are the best counter-arguments to my point of view.
> Most people who have been told that they’ve caused actual harm, probably did.

I think you might be missing the point of the story. To my understanding it could have easily have turned from a rosy past to a grim presence and it would have worked all the same.

The point of the story is that, supposedly, the difference in perception is the entire difference. Something is not true, just because it's in the past. The act of reinterpreting is the act of reshaping, what is true.

Personally, I don't know how true that is :) But it's a somewhat interesting thought.
>But our local "system" has a gigantic miasma of incandescent plasma on our doorstep. The Earth itself should not need to worry about entropy for a long while yet...

I interpret GP's reference to thermodynamics/entropy as generating the "arrow (asymmetry) of time,"[0]

Which exists (at least for us matter-based beings) as remembering the "past," but not the "future," and local fluctuations in entropy don't affect that at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
>> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation

If I cannot attack the honor and reputation of a person, and by extension, artificial person like a corporation, what good is freedom of speech? How can I call someone out for being a scammer, or for doing horrible things? How does one seek public redress of a grievance against a company, or an agent of the government? Does arbitrary apply to timing, or the circumstance? Who is the arbiter of arbitrary? This is not a human right. It is a nice tool for a tyrannical government to strip away rights from people. Oh, you've violated Mr. Arresting Officer by accusing him of falsely arresting you. Now you get to deal with the false arrest and a human rights crime. Likewise, Ms. Bought a Mansion with Public Money can no longer be accused because she has a human right to not have to trifle with public accountability.
It was, but curiously, they've removed the related verbiage from new issuances.

They used to carry a disclaimer:
FOR SOCIAL SECURITY PURPOSES • NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION
> (...) developers just don't do it because it's so difficult.

I don't think this is true, or at least generalizable.

I've been involved in a few tickets to turn problematic sync calls to async calls or background tasks. In all of them, the root cause was the same:

* Let's add a handler that does nothing of note, such as setting a flag or logging something or emitting a metric.

* We have another feature, and it requires something being triggered by the handler. Let's add it next to the logger/metric call. Let's also clean this up and extract a function out of this code.

* We need to tweak that feature to do one more thing. Calling that function from the handler under rare cases can add a bit of lag and block stuff. We can live with it, so let's keep it like that.

* Oh it turns out that member function can render the app unusable. We can't live with it anymore, and we need to refactor it.
The central bank digital currency concept has little to do with FedNow. It's denominated in dollars, and is cleared by all parties keeping ledgers which are compared if they differ. But between the crypto people and some right-wing conspiracy mongers, the two are being connected in some social media.
What is HtDP?
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I also used to subscribe to this advice.

But it turns out my career has seen a bunch of rewrite projects, and they were all spectacularly successful.

So as with all advice: YMMV. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> It's not my problem whether Waymo makes progress on their technology, but they make it my problem when they hit me with their car.

Have they hit anyone with their car? If they have, have they done so at a rate higher than a human driver?

What if they make it less likely for you to be hit by a car? Doesn’t that give you a benefit rather than a problem?
> As someone who also was (and still is) a crypto skeptic and (stupidly) chose to cofound a web3 startup with some acquaintances

And none of this was relevant to the article. There was no description of cult, no details about how hard it is to leave the cult. The whole article is about trashing a project I've never heard about that even someone who never cofounded or worked in the area could have written.
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past
This.

I wish I learned it earlier in my life. Before I realized what you said, I procrastinated on so many books and never started many I wanted to read.

After I realized this, I finished way more books, and learned many new things even when I didn't finish books. You don't need to finish books to learn new things that make you better.

Even you read four chapters of a book, you are still those four chapters wiser than yourself who hadn’t read those four chapters.
> I'm not a native speaker and am finding it hard with how many qualifiers one needs to put into English sentences as to avoid looking like one is making sweeping absolute statements.

Web-forum-English isn't like normal English. Well-written books or articles in real publications usually aren't written with the goal of heading off unreasonably-hostile readings or very-careless readings—in normal writing, that just means a few readers misunderstand something due entirely to their own mistakes or prejudices and that's the end of it, while on Web forums it can spawn entire useless threads and flamewars.

Clarity and some amount of contextually-appropriate precision are still important in normal English writing—it's not the case that every misreading is necessarily the reader's fault—but this kind of trying-to-craft-a-wish-for-a-malicious-genie crap isn't the norm.
I think the relevant distinction is that the fans of Professional Wrestling also know it's fake. Nobody is defrauded or misled by this[1].

By comparison, the Web3 (and broader cryptocurrency sphere) is largely predicated on two downstream sources of money: cynics attempting to profit on greater fools, and the greater fools themselves.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q
My understanding of web3 is based on the idea of P2P first, and removing cloud based services as much as possible. Effectively torrent, IPFS, etc. I don't understand why people conflate currency (which HN despises) with that concept, because it's not a necessary aspect.
Also, this post doesn't really say anything at all about the tech, or solutions they provided in their company, but simply complains that the marketing folks didn't provide anything. Shouldn't that have been their job as a dev? You can't complain about an idea taking off that you were supposed to develop and simply didn't. If it was a bad idea, then change it and do something else.

Old man yells at cloud.
That’s called bolt cutters
The clear decade-plus-of-backwards-compatibility-in-globally-deployed-software winner is XYB JPEG, a category in which neither XL not AVIF are valid comparisons at all.

This in no way contradicts your points about the forward opportunities of XL. For anyone that seeks the best backwards-compatibility for display use, there’s now XYB as well.
So, they are trying to make it possible for someone to go grocery shopping without bringing anything with them.

But the ability to drop the wallet has already been made possible with the different phone payment apps… and no one really travels without their phone anymore.

So who is going to use this? I know I’m not, but even those who aren’t as privacy conscious aren’t going to see any real benefit… unless I’m missing something.

Maybe there is another shoe to drop that makes it valuable enough to justify the (likely huge) capital outlay? I just can’t think of what it is.
Google Messages signs onto cross-platform encrypted group chat standard
Eating less meat in UK 'like taking 8M cars off road'
I am going to give them the benefit of doubt in the case of PRISM. It is not clear whether PRISM is the result of forced/voluntary participation, or the result of vulnerabilities found in their systems. Because of the diagrams in the PRISM powerpoint mentioning some of the integration is "coming soon", I feel it is definitely not legally coerced, otherwise everyone would participate at once. Also due to the integration having varying limits from service to service tells me this not given to NSA on a silver platter. Lastly, the outright denial of these companies further tells me that they are unaware.

PRISM is the result of vulnerabilities found and purchased from hackers. And integrated together in a project codenamed PRISM. Each source has different levels of information sharing. And with Dropbox being a less integrated and more primitive resource for search, I know the entire PRISM program was a gum and shoestring project.
Not trying to start a flame war but what can you do with these that can't be accomplished with React and e.g. https://styled-components.com ?
I don’t think it’s possible for a company as big as Apple to act solely on principle. We’re just lucky the profit motive aligned with consumer privacy for once.

Untainted (without ML-generated content) human communication is becoming more and more scarce. It’s only a matter of time before they take advantage of that.

They'll forbid any app using ML generated content from providing iMessage extensions, or possibly it’ll receive a warning mark in iMessage when sent. Could also work with content pasted from those apps. Some sort of “provenance check”. They’ll pitch it as a consumer privacy thing, I promise.

That’ll also be the same update where E2E encryption falls off the the marketing.

There is very much a motivation to access massive amounts of user data, especially when you control the OS that would be the gate keeper to that data, as well as how the “choice” is presented to the end user.
Google Search was awesome until it was ruined by Ads. Such a shame. There's dorking, however Google is actively de-indexing content, so much so that it makes you wonder what (monetary) motivation Google is serving with Search because it's not "information for all" anymore. The term "sell out" comes to mind, which sucks when you think about how cool Google was (i.e., the best and brightest doing the most so you could also do the most).
Those cranky old developers, some of them are just cranky old developers. Some of them know the game is wider and deeper than most people realize. We discard and recycle more old ideas than the fashion industry.
> it (still?) remains illegal to refuse services to people who refuse to give their social security numbers

I'd love to read this, for anyone more familiar with the legislation/where to find it.
Dice Device is a touch screen puck computer that can naturally fit into many board games allowing use as dice roll or other board game functions and custom apps. Open source and hackable to simplify the board game experience.
Can you clarify what you are talking about?
Web3 was doomed from the start and we all knew it. Instead of strictly focusing on the decentralization of the web, it became shorthand for, “here’s how we turn http into another ICO/NFT grift!” It should have been a peer-to-peer document share, almost a bit-torrent for the 21st century. It could have been impactful, instead it will fade into obscurity just like the swaths of goddamn useless blockchain product diarrhea we got to enjoy until ChatGPT came along and the world fell in love with LLMs.

But I’m not mad, just disappointed.
It’s not even been 100 years and people already forgot.
> What they propose is effectively an MoE with separately learned routing as far as I can tell, with the heads of the LLM being task specific and there being a task mapper to assign training labels.

What you are describing would indeed be an MoE model, but that's not where it ends. The manuscript continues [1]: "all agents become identical after all tasks have been learned and shared, and they all can master all tasks."

That is a substantial divergence from the MoE model!

To the extent that there is an MoE-like stage in their training, I think it's odd that the term "mixture of experts" is not mentioned nor is the literature on the topic cited.

1 = https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Jjl2c8kWUc
Web3 doesn’t exist. It’s just a word people use to scam others.
Yet, the EU have their panties in a knot about having it be interoperable…
> I would love to see government IDs be available as a form of auth on the internet. It would open up the possibility of real-person communities with fewer bots and trolls.

And reintroduce all the chilling effects of knowing everything you say is on a permanent record linked to your name. I know the government wouldn't be running the sites, but they'd have activity metadata, and data breaches could be correlated to work out who the "opaque" ID refers to (perhaps it would be possible to mitigate that by having the IdP identify users to the site as a hash combining the site and the user. Not sure). There are a few types of companies that may have a genuine reason for requiring government auth, but generally we should not make it easy for Facebook or Google to require it

A community with fewer bots and trolls should be accomplished with moderation, and not just allowing a firehose of signups
I actually have a shell identity/company that I use for special projects that is a different anagram of Setec Astronomy.