skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sorry, I should've added more context.

The standard decentralized setup is this:

1. Developers write a smart contract that does something. For example, a token exchange to trade tokens, or a derivatives exchange to trade exposure to tokens/real world assets/etc.

2. Developers publish the source code for this smart contract, deploy it to the chain, and, with the leverage of basic cryptography, make it impossible to change the code --- make it immutable.

3. Anyone who now comes along to use their smart contract does not have to trust the developers because they can 1) read through the open source code and 2) verify that the open source code they are reading is the same as the code deployed on chain. Of course this does not eliminate the risk of unforeseen bugs in the smart contract, which is known as "protocol risk."

If you say you are building a decentralized exchange, that is what you're doing. Otherwise, you're arguably committing fraud.

Many companies want to build financial primitives like decentralized exchanges, hopefully because they think that's where the future will lead and ultimately because there is a lot of money to be made. However, companies must comply with the rules and regulations of the jurisdictions in which they operate. These regulators nearly always insist on the ability to intervene. This creates a slightly different setup:

1. Same as above

2. Same as above, but strikeout the "make immutable" part and leave in an "upgrade authority" backdoor, which allows the code of the smart contract to be replaced (avoiding semantics). This upgrade authority can be gated by a multi-sig, requiring m of n keypairs to sign for new code to be deployed.

3. Often the code is still published, but there are many cases where the code remains closed-source.

The original commenter said this, in paraphrase:

> If you get access to the deploy keys to a decentralized exchange, can't you just deploy new code and take all the funds?

The answer is "no" because a decentralized exchange is immutable. If it were not immutable, then it would not be a decentralized exchange.

If, however, the exchange was not actually decentralized, but fraudulently claimed to be, then yes, you can do exactly as the original commenter speculates.
Get a job on a farm. As a side bonus, you won't need that gym membership.
I turned on Stage Manager around the time it was implemented in macOS, to try. I never turned it off. It has addressed pretty much every window management woe I had.

Furthermore, I am impressed how they nailed it from the first time: there were no changes since it came out that I noticed, nor would I want any.

There was a slight learning curve, you need to have a good mental model of how it works, but after a day I cannot imagine going back.

(I hate using it on iPad though.)
> Because information can only be true to an extent, from a perspective, and for a purpose. If you change the scope and purpose of a discussion and look at it from a different perspective the truth will appear completely different.

I can't speak to how universal it is, but there is absolutely an effort to teach these skills in American public schools, especially through history classes and analysis of primary sources. As an example, here's the paraphrased techniques from a Library of Congress quarterly for Teachers about "Teaching with Primary Sources":

> Think about a document’s author and its creation. Situate the document and its events in time and place. Carefully consider what the document says and the language used to say it. Using Background Knowledge: Use historical information and knowledge to read and understand the document. Identify what has been left out or is missing from the document by asking questions of its account. Ask questions about important details across multiple sources to determine points of agreement and disagreement.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/teachers/about-this-prog...
> so we agree facial recognition will be dramatically amped up

It may be. Not that it will be.

> we agree AI-based polygraphing will exist

We didn't mention lie detecting, but no - I was saying liar detection, which was the thing from the article, also sounds like fear-mongering.

> you don’t think AI-identify-bad-intentions-button exists currently

Yes.

> therefore we are supposed to doubt that AI is a major surveillance hazard

No, that's a category error. "Major" and "hazard" are far too vague to decide upon. Will AI be used in surveillance in some capacity? Of course - it likely has been for decades, depending on how you define AI. But implying that you'll walk into a shop and be classified as a liar based on a video feed is not right. I understand websites need emotion for clicks, but I don't think it's right to do it this way.
We're all irrational actors, though. Various life events drive people towards drug use. It doesnt have to be a rational decision: a split second moment of desperation is all it takes. And heroin is just _that_ addictive.
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In those terms, if you're young and you do something high risk, and you lose all your money (or just spend 5 years not making money), you still have plenty of time to recover and make enough money to be comfortable when you're older.

The counterargument to this was exactly a point of my reply: if you are not able to recover, there exist less years in which you have to live poorly when you are older. A little bit macabre, but true.
This is horrible. As someone who started using a PC in the early nineties, GMail's Basic HTML view was the only way to get a decent information density without wasting 75% of the screen real estate with whitespace. But I was expecting this move sooner or later -- time to return to an external application as if it were year 2000, I suppose.
> So far, EnerVenue has been operating a pilot production line that can manufacture 100 megawatt-hours’ worth of batteries per year—and they’ve deployed small-scale test systems. But, says Heinemann, the company already has over 7 GWh, or about 400 million dollars’ worth of purchase orders...

We should soon see if this is a viable business then.
Dot is Amazon. Do you have a Google or Amazon device?
I think GP intended to convey "under the price in the article" ($83/kwhr).
If productivity doesn't equal hours, please explain how a family, assuming that to be the main difference between young and old, would have any impact on productivity then.

Obviously so, with experience people are less likely to fall for productivity porn and are less likely to be abused by companies asking for 60 hour weeks, crunch time and the like.
Is this something that could be researched with the UK's 20-year old Diamond Light synchroton facility?

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

I notice a major £500m upgrade was recently announced:

https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/LatestNews/2023/060923.h...
LLMs should indeed be very good at finding vulns. It is a safe bet state actors have already done this, and have added to their stockpile of zero-day exploits. I suspect you are right that collectively we are whistling past the graveyard and the current "solution" is to make widely available LLMs explicitly not provide that kind of capability.
I think OP’s point was that Google Maps prioritizes profitable POIs over useful POIs. Profit over UX. Whereas Apple Maps seems to do the opposite in this case. If I’d have to choose between seeing ads by default or the content that I actually need right now, I would pick the latter. You different?
Looks like an LGA-style connector except with alignment pins and screws for tension instead of an ILM.

Edit: The basic connector design appears to be very similar to Samtec's GMI range: https://www.samtec.com/products/gmi including the actual contact array apparently being double-sided, so it would appear that the base board for these would also just have a land pattern. So if you damage some of the contacts, the "compression interposer" should be cheap and easy to replace.
I mean, you could use pass, which stores all your passwords in a gpg encrypted file. It works very well out of the box with syncthing, or anything else that can move around files, like git-annex.

https://www.passwordstore.org/

KeePassX works fairly well with syncthing as well, if I remember.

https://www.keepassx.org/
This bugbear has never made sense to me. Such a loan has to be paid back. With dollars. Presumably, from income that is taxed. And, with interest.
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This is why I scoff at folks who want rcs to be adopted everywhere. How can google be trusted to maintain anything past what seem like pretty consistent expiration dates?
Honestly I prefer the google version. I know the airport has all the security checkpoints and gates I'll need, and I know I wont be able to avoid them. I don't know what food options are available.
C# isn't used in isolation without standard library.

Also, "it depends" isn't the same as "If you feed 10 year old C# to a modern compiler it will compile it fine."
I'm guessing that most people who visits a website called "My browser fingerprint" with a domain of "amiunique.org" has at least a fleeting interest in privacy and making choices around that. And that group is most likely biased to using Firefox instead of Google Chrome, at least compared to a general section of the population.
> ISPs have had the opportunity to "turn the Internet into subscriptions for different cloud providers" in the United States for not just the last six years, but rather throughout most of the life of the Internet.

The FCC was acting under net neutrality principles in broadband actions starting in 2004, when its initial non-regulatory enforcement approach became legally problematic, it immediately turned to regulation around the principles (the most recent to be repealed was the last if series of regulatory packages, with lawsuits over the orevious ones each shaping the next one.) And by the time the last repeal was finalized state level NN regulations were already coming into play, as well as the clear likelihood that federal rules would be restored with the next Democratic-majority FCC.

Aside from maybe the period between the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the FCC articulation of net neutrality principles as a guiding rule for case-by-case action in 2004, I’m not sure what time you are talking about, there hasn’t been any period where there was a clear, stable situation where it amde any sense to make long-term decisions to structure business in a way that had a major conflict with neutrality.
Alas, every metric that isn’t “paying more money” can be horrendously gamed and corrupted. This is why despite all its flaws, the “price signal” is still the tried and true “least bad way to allocate scarce resources” for most cases.
Creating a Kessler cascade is almost impossible for the Starlinks in 340km orbit. It's possible but very difficult for the 550km orbit. 550km orbit technically takes a few years to naturally deorbit, but ASAT weapons create small debris and eccentric orbits, drastically decreasing the deorbit time.
President Biden to Join United Auto Workers Picket Line in Michigan
> Cue will also say that Apple has revenue-sharing agreements with competing search engines Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia

Wait, what? These search engines are being forced by Apple into revshare deals just for being on the platform without even being the default?
REST API Calls in Swift: iOS Networking Architecture [in SwiftUI]
Is Google even serious about YouTube Music? The entire music experience, especially on TV with the YouTube app, is downright awful. On the Apple TV YouTube app, they don't even have proper music controls like repeat, shuffle and so on.
> conversion to residential is a mixed bag: it is increadibly costly, major code issues abound, and from sales records has a high failure rate in the market

And it would mean living in a downtown area, which most people don't want to do.

In my town, the downtown area was a train wreck for decades, but they seem to have fixed it. They started by putting residential units around, but that had little effect. Since then, though, they've build quite a lot of boutique and fancy hotels. That did the trick. Downtown is lively now.

But it's also still not a place that people who live in the city go. It's for tourists. Good as a profit center, but it certainly didn't make the area a part of the community.
This line stood out to me too as very dismissive of something that can absolutely bring you to a standstill.

It's not a small thing and it's not something you should be dismissing out of hand.
Usually yes. But it does depend on the air quality outside and how leaky the building is - in certain places with very poor air quality you'd need a very serious flow rate through your purifier to keep up unless you have a positive pressure system (where you filter the air coming in to the building instead of just recirculating through a filter), and keep it at a positive pressure to stop dirty air constantly leaking in (especially when running bathroom exhaust fans or kitchen rangehoods that vent outside).

In fact there's an article on the very same blog as the original post about it - https://www.airgradient.com/blog/positive-pressure-systems-f...

Of course the downside is larger load on air conditioning, at which point you can look at heat recovery or energy recovery ventilation systems. I'm quite keen to get one of those to get more fresh air in since I can't leave my front or most of the side windows of the house open at night (road gets too noisy in the morning).
Yeah, and they already buy plenty of shit food from America. They aren't going to buy more oreos to these countries just because America can't sell them to America any more.
I'm sure this is what you meant, right ;)

https://github.com/Traneptora/jxlatte
I don't understand. If I say choose to use a German Shepard to represent dogs is that a dishonest straw-man? Bitcoin isn't all crypto, but it is a type of crypto, and just like how there are valid criticisms of German Shepards that can be used to expand to all dogs, the same can be done with Bitcoin, can it not?
Does it support multiple brokers within the same projects? As in can I use both Kafka and RabbitMQ with it?
Because it kept them under the FCC's thumb as common carriers, forcing them into inefficiencies to comply with regulations. There's a ton of stuff I want the govt. more involved with on the internet: data privacy, clamping down on CSAM, section 230 issues... forcing ISPs to take a total hands off approach to every traffic source on their pipes? That wasn't one of them.

NN harmed ISPs' incentive to innovate. I have since gotten faster speeds at cheaper prices. What would the NN crowd say if they had gotten their way, something vague about evil corporations and their profits?
I actually like the google podcasts app. It's simple, it works, no ads, does everything I need it to do. Sigh. RIP.
Broader challenge to Federal blacklists filed in Boston
Starfield's second update fixes infinite money puddles, but not flying cities
I've read several comments here and elsewhere that Bethesda's Starfield is "a mile-wide but deep as a puddle", or variations on that theme. Said commenters might be tickled to know that there is, in fact, a puddle in the game's Akila City that contains infinite loot: by dint of peering into it, you'll magically gain access to a nearby store's inventory. Strip the shelves, then wait a day or two, and you'll be able to do so again, forever and ever. Or at least, that was the case till this week's Starfield patch, a small update consisting of exactly ten bulletpoints, including one that tackles "an issue that allowed for a vendor's full inventory to be accessible". Boo! Time to go looking for another convenient in-game metaphor, I guess. Perhaps there's something incredibly clever you can say about all the flying cities.
> In the case of beef, yes. ~64% of cow feed is corn and soybean meal.

Is cow feed a mixture of 64% corn/soy and 36% human-inedible stuff? If it is, is it stored that way?

In any case, I'd expect crop failures that affect human food supply chain would also hit the animal food supply chain just as bad.
It seems to me that Google Ngram isn't wrong. It's reporting statistics on the words it correctly identified in the corpus. The problem is the context of the statistics. You may somewhat confidently say the word "said" dips in usage at such and such time in the Google Books corpus. You can more confidently say it dips at such and such time for the subset of the corpus for which OCR correctly identified every instance of the word.
But you can't make claims in a broader context like "this word dipped in usage at such and such time" without having sufficient data.
What do you mean by abuse? Can you name one instance of someone's life being negatively impacted by Google's data collection?

> Not to mention that, beyond the surveillance they do for their private interests and business, even the "states and goverments" vs "Google and Facebook" are not even remotely separate from surveillance by states and police forces, cooperating, sharing data, or even ordered to give surveillance data, to both.

I'll grant you that, but I wouldn't call that their business. They probably would do without if they could.
I had a similar experience recently. I started working for a firm that has some legacy Perl code still in service, and in the process of Googling I was presented with one of my own answers on perlmonks.org from over 20 years ago. The emotions were complicated.
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My strategy is to find at least 3 unrelated sources that agree before I start believing. Although it seems like that strategy may also be insufficient soon.
Read the issue I linked above. There seemed to be performance issues in Firefox, and the feature was turned off with a UA string test. At some point, spoofing the UA string made the feature work acceptably but broke other things. Then the feature was enabled, back to the versions where it worked on.
learn to come to the office and read stale confluence and fight jenkins and manage contractors in mexico/bangalore and update production jars with no source.

code is the easy part i never actually get to do. ai cant do my job and neither can someone who only knows how to build a shitty to-do list webapp.

ai is a force multiplier not a leveller.
You have just described my experience with Diablo Immortal
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I would guess no, they're not being forced into a revshare deal. They asked (or were offered) to be listed as an option, and they agreed to a revshare deal. I presume they could just say "no".
I wouldn't be so sure of that....there are less filtered ways I encounter google's ad-laden results and that'd send me to Bing/Duck Duck Go poste-haste.

Apple is getting a 'crap free' google search results currently.
The EFF version also tells you for each metric how (dis)similar you are from other users/devices. Or at least it’s supposed to - for one of them which was supposed to be a true/false boolean test, it said my browser revealed -1.00 bits of information and shared its value for that test with 1 out of every 1 device they saw.
It appears so: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
As they say, those who don't understand / learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Apple learned that having them separate was more beneficial, a lesson Google and Spotify have not.
Off-topic: Would be great to have a way again to simply share links to podcast-episodes which work regardless of the used app.

Before the podcast-hype one could simply share the direct-link to the audio-file.

Now all you get are links which require Google/Apple/Spotify to open.

(But realistically, I don't know who would be willing to drive this. It would need backing from at least Google/Apple/Spotify to maintain a central catalogue, and the incentive seems to be low...)
Good luck trying to get your search engine on that iOS list.

Most alternatives, end-up using hacky safari extensions that hijack the query to Google and force a redirect.
No, you still need to "hack" the tabbar away on your own. Back then the claim seems to be security-reasons, so no malicious addon can replace the tabbar for you, and manipulate what you see. Which seems fairs, removing the tabbar on your own is not very complicated.

And Tree Style Tabs still works very well today, the early bugs are all fixed now. In the meanwhile there appeared also some other vertical tabbars/trees, but none are really on TSTs level, so not sure how popular they are. So over all, there is little reason for Mozilla to bring a vertical tabbar on their own, especially as they are still missing support for a second sidebar.
Reasons the Future of Tech Is African
> I think there's some truth. I'd like to see counter arguments.

The history of money and banking. Starting with John Law [1], and why private, leveraged money requires a public backstop.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)
This is a fairly clear case, but there can be more subtle issues. For example, consider this sentence (that I made up):

We got in the car and drove across the island.

Google translate renders this in Spanish as follows:

Nos subimos al coche y cruzamos la isla.
"We got into the car and crossed the island."

This preserves the 'across' part but not the 'drove' part, which is left implicit. That is not an accident: in contrast to English, Spanish tends to be 'verb framed' rather than 'satellite framed' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb_framing). In this particular case the translation is arguably fine because it is obvious from context that the manner of crossing the island was by driving. I am not a native Spanish speaker, but I think that there would be no way to make the 'driving' part explicit in Spanish without it sounding redundant and odd.
Still flies.

Goggle payments have done nothing but go up as
FireFox market share has done nothing but go down

Your reasoning, then, is that Google is paying Firefox strictly for business reasons but they've decided to increase payments as Firefox's share has decreased. Because they're bad at business? Or some other strictly business-y reason(s)? I mean, okay, but please be explicit about this.

FireFox has played virtually no role [in Google's
antitrust case]

That suggests it's working.

The DOJ has antitrust beef(s) with Google, but monopolizing the browser market is not one of those beefs. We can't read the minds of the DOJ, but it strongly suggests Google's support of Firefox is working within that context.

It does not, obviously, give them global blanket immunity against all conceivable antitrust shenanigans -- were you mistakenly believing this is what I was suggesting?
That's not the case (anymore). I run a NixOS based router with nftables (no iptables installed at all), and podman works just fine. It simply adds its NAT rules to nftables (unless you tell it not to).

As far as I know, this was introduced with the new networking stack (netavark).
It’s really disturbing to pass a value judgement about what kind of fans are more desirable than others, and social-engineering it into the pricing structure.
Apple Maps is actually competitive with Google Maps and has walled garden integrations so it's not really comparable to me as Google Search versus Bing/DDG/whatever. Not to say the other search options are so terrible people would definitely switch, more that's definitely not the case with maps.
Chase to ban all crypto-related transactions
I think the only two "real" differences between throwing stuff in a folder and the registry is that:

* a uncorrupted registry hive is supposed to be Directed Acyclic Graph, (while a modern filesystem can have arbitrary cycles with symlinks and bind mounts and junctions) and;

* the registry has more limited name length limits, even assuming Windows somewhat low filesystem name length limits.
lol, that's pretty good, I agree with you.