skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is it a scam if the people buying it know exactly what they're buying, and the code is all open source? The word "scam" implies someone is being misled.

This is astonishing mental gymnastics. Take the average crypto investor and ask them how the blockchain works. Not marketing fluff: the actual steps in pseudo-code for literally any step of the process.

"The code is all there bro" is an astonishing amount of bad faith. Yeah, it is. Big deal. I've been a software developer for my entire adult life, but I don't work in cryptography, so I can't tell you a single damn thing about how blockchains work. The average investor in crypto, the influencers that peddle it, the whales that flooded the market with money? None of them understand it even slightly. I'd bet my life savings on it.

> How is cryptocurrency any more of a scam than fiat currency, ie. digits in the computer of some private bank or central bank?

A short, non-exhaustive list of differences:

- Crypto has basically zero consumer protections and makes the implementing of them extremely difficult by it's nature

- It is "anonymous" (actually pseudonymous) unless you are technically inclined enough to interact with the chain yourself, with your own software. "Normies" get to use platforms built by... somebody? Who maybe did it right? Probably. If they did it wrong though good luck getting your money back!

- Complete lack of any oversight of any regulatory body, which is a selling point, up until there actually are those, which are the large miners, stakeholders and exchanges

- Runaway deflation is not only a possibility, it is the goal of all of these projects, it's what "TO THE MOON!" means. They WANT that. After which and during their attempts to achieve it, the currency is useless as a currency because of the volatility in value.

- The system has demonstrated multiple times that all the "ownership is truly yours" rhetoric is thrown out the window when the real monied investors in the background have their assets taken from them, in a way that is not against the rules, but no worries we'll just rewrite history for them because they're rich, they can't lose or this whole scheme falls apart
The Windows 9x series (and earlier) were tightly coupled with x86 (and DOS).

The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) which helped with porting the operating system to other architectures.
Stand your ground.
Maybe they should consider not operating in countries where they unmonitored presence may lead to genocide?

There's no obligation to operate everywhere. Instead, as discussed in previous parts, they invested heavily to get a monopoly in third world countries.
As an example he claimed in 2022 that in 1970 Soviet Citizens could access the BBC, citing historical records of broadcasts in Russian. He neglected to mention that the Soviet government jammed the signal.

This is just one example.
I know that it's only one of your examples, but I have never seen speech censored on Discord.
You’re right that gold isn’t used as a currency and that it is a speculative asset. But 99%? Hardly. The majority of gold is used for jewelry or in electronics manufacturing.
Anyone can make “truthy” statements that sound plausible, and feed into an anti-business conspiracy. Without evidence, such comments are mostly noise.
> I'm surprised they all don't drown every time they see rival elk inside a calm lake.

They probably figure the rival elk is already drowning, so why bother.

Whereas a rival elk inside a car or house is just plain aggravating. Who does he think he is? A human?
Sometimes, because you Just Don't Care™ about any particular manufacturer spec, and you're unwilling to pay egregious Digikey/Mouser markup times 24.
Install the .deb from https://www.kicad.org/download/details/ubuntu/
People on hacker news are smart, but not about everything. It takes some effort to really understand our central bank dollar based financial system. It's takes effort to understand Bitcoin. Most of us here are focused on other things and only take a cursory look at Bitcoin and dismiss it's "slow transaction times" (which are actually incredibly fast settlement times), high energy use (which actually uses marginal energy that would otherwise be wasted), and conclude "this is not worth my time to understand, and I wish everyone would just shut up about it."
> Ultimately the only way you can check this is to give someone the original and the signature to compare. Want to blur or censor a face? Tough. Want to crop? Tough. And the person doing that verification would want to be able to look at the photograph to tell how extensive your edits were.

Well of course they would. Otherwise what are you even trying to attest? Otherwise someone could take an image from a camera, replace literally every pixel with whatever they want and then claim it's the same image.
I have not noticed anything like this.
This can get old fast when debugging things and when piping through jless or something. Having a nice app that stores the request make it easier to come back too after a few days away. But Insomnia and others went wayyyyy overboard with all the sub sub sub projects. I'd like to have something in the middle.
for the curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
>I hate when someone says, "Oh, Schwarzenegger is the perfect example of a self-made man" because I'm not. I'm a creation of my parents. I'm a creation of my coaches, my teachers. I have been helped by my training partners, by my friends. Especially when I think about coming to America, it was Joe Wheeler that helped me to come over here, got me the airline ticket, helped me get the apartment and the car. The people of California voted for me to be governor of California. So I didn't become governor because I'm self-made; I became governor because people voted for me.

I love this humility and wish more people would have it. Even if you weren't supported by individuals, it is due to the society around you, its infrastructure, its structure, its technology, that you are able to be a "success". We are the product of things we had no control over initially. Yet people still say "self made" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meta says they remove 95% of hatespeech and neglects the “of the 5% percent of hatespeech found” part in their public communication

I thinks it’s adequate to not accept anything at face value here.
It runs as root.
That's kind of the point of censoring things
I can do meetings ... so 2/3 hours a day.
Marketplaces are under no obligation to stock things just because someone is dumb enough to buy it and someone else unscrupulous enough to make it.
You can claim that anything is a civil rights issue by selectively distorting statistics in your favor. Let’s wait until courts weigh in on this.
Paying attention isn't optional in a car without a half-baked autopilot feature.
You would wipe Israel and Ukraine off the map?

Israelis generally want to live in an Israeli-run Israel, and Ukrainians generally want to live in a Ukrainian-run Ukraine.

Why would they move to the US and lose their national identity?
The tech itself isn’t scam. A way to certify ownership is important if you’re going to build a future where work is borderless, digital, and copyright enforcement/royalty collection has to be automated.

Scams get built on the tech, but that’s always been the case with any new tech.

That said, crypto culture and the speculative energy it breeds definitely incentivized scams. The culture needs a massive overhaul
Thank you for your hard work on this site! Probably my favorite find on hacker news of the 2020s so far.
I am still looking for the photo of the spider-filled server to add to this article...
Firefox have no way to support Tab Groups like any Chrome does by default. So is a no-go for me.

Any suggestion that Firefox do support Tab Groups will be met with ridicule. It just doesn't.
In 2008, who lost deposits in the US? Can you explain how, for example, Apple or Exxon are just pumping their stock and what the accounting tricks are?
Sorry for off-topic but does anyone else find that for some reason archive.* addresses occasionally refuse to resolve only on Comcast? If I switch to mobile data it resolves.
> You just described the modern banking system. Yes, the government will give you guarantees for your stored funds to some extent, but when shit hits the fan, you are on your own (example 2008 financial crisis).

How much money did your savings account lose in 2008? Or your checking account?
Give up having two allied nations in parts of the world with lots of US adversaries? Not to mention telling people to leave an area that has a _considerable_ cultural meaning to them?

I’m sure you have great intentions in your thinking but it is wildly unreasonable.
Wouldn't most people love to live in the US?
> I wonder how far one could take it with just ligatures?

Very, very far...

https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2sn2DXjlA
> That would totally break the basic conceptions of line height and font size though

So do [combining characters], yet they're valid Unicode.
Don't forget to consider adding ipv6 support since you are lacking it.
If it doesn't, whats the best suggestion for another browser that is based on Webkit and which takes privacy seriously?
> Blame the market, not the Whole Foods

I blame the regulations (more specifically, the lack thereof)
Forget the art world, I come from a country known for fradulent degrees, land records and academic certificates. Simply being able to certify them globally would be very useful.
I am surprised there is zero audit trail for a good purchased at Whole Foods to be honest.

City water in Flint was poisonous, buying drinking water from a respectable retailer should not be risky.

If you sent a a sample to a water testing company, would they have detected the hydrazine, it’s not like it’s a common contaminant and I’m sure it’s is very small quantities which while still harmful are why it wasn’t obvious??
Then they shouldn't operate there if they can't do so without their users being harmed as a result
It does have one PIO block. That datasheet does not look finished yet.
Crypto only has an opening because all the other functioning currencies are actually just electrons with no intrinsic value whatsoever too.
The stock price is a number representing the recent bets on its future price. It really doesn’t tell much more than that.
Holy shit, this article is such garbage.

And not only is it incorrect, it is obviously incorrect. The website owners do not pay Google for clicks on the "10 blue [organic] links"; so it gives Google no business advantage to make them more commercial.
Yep…

I really think the calculus is about integration / immortality, and the staggeringly few humans who might have that opportunity.

I hope I am wrong.
Wouldn't making all these people US citizens and having them live in the US end two major wars?

Probably not. Many Ukrainian women and children have already fled to other countries including the US however males of conscription age 18 to 65 were required to stay and fight. I am not sure if extracting their soldiers would in itself be an act of war? Even if that invasion ends and Russia takes Ukraine, do they then move on to Poland, Finland and others?

Neither Israelis nor Palestinians would leave voluntarily. They are in a century-long territorial dispute over the Holy Land. Getting into the middle of a holy war will just make it worse in my opinion. Men, women and some children are soldiers in that holy war so I am not sure who would want to be extracted nor do I have any idea what would happen. Would the war just spread to the US?
I don’t understand the Pi and button part. I also have a Fujitsu ScanSnap and just configure it to save to a Samba share.

What does listen for button press mean? and how?
Ethereum is essentially centrally controlled and Bitcoin is absolutely not.
This site, realclearscience.com, just says "you have been blocked", under a banner that says "realclear politics". It also appears to require javascript, and adblockers disabled. So I have no idea what it's all about.

But why does this smell like some far-right toxic crap, masquerading as "science"?
> two Europe-based organizations that drew on anarchist and Marxist writings

This article is basically “capitalism bad”
Llamas on the Edge: building an AI personalization engine with edge workers
I think that's very regional? Salary surveys usually list Europeans much lower after currency conversion.

A half decade before you, I also started at a big studio writing C++ (but with one degree) and was paid more twice that but in Canadian dollars (65k CAD). You're right that it pays lower than other programming jobs: Silicon Valley starting salaries were around 80k USD.
<< And you do not need 10 browser extension from some shady authors, that has full access to your browsing data!!!

Which extension authors are shady? I am mostly sticking to ublock origin, but this is the first time I hear that accusation.
The simple answer is:

software > hardware
You can calculate full/part time stuff from that page but it'd require a lot of number fidgeting. Keep in mind those values do not show grouped sums. Table 9 [1] is much more straight forward. Full time workers (in thousands) went from 134,189 to 134,167, part time workers went from 27,185 to 27,336. So a total of -22k full time jobs, and +151k part time jobs.

The big reported increase came from the establishment/business survey. That survey results in overcounting people working multiple jobs. And multiple job holders (also in table 9) jumped from 8,028 to 8,151, for 123k more people now working at least 2 jobs. So we saw a loss of full time jobs, a gain of part time jobs, and a gain of people working more than one job.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm
Lack of imagination?
Please write a description of "typical reality of Internet pornography" so we may all decide if we agree.

The law in this article gave it a shot and seemingly missed the mark.
Of all the monogamous people I know who have cheated on their partner, they are not practicing safe sex based on my inquires (but all have lucked out so far not getting pregnant or STD). I extrapolate out accordingly based on public STD health reporting and infidelity rates across the broader population.

The data shows monogamy is aspirational, from a sexual perspective. Poly folks are more intentional about safe sex, at least in my experience.

Of course, having no sex or being in a strictly monogamous relationship where you’re 100% positive no one is being unfaithful is the lowest risk activity. But with 40% of pregnancies unintended annually in the US, infidelity rates, STD stats reporting from state public health systems, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I am a scholar basing my thesis on the data.

(hard to take the monkey out of the human, we are simply fancy mammals)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it sure seems like this is for ad retrieval, if anything- not search results.

I've never seen a set of search results that felt like a different search.

My issue with Google results stems from them being low quality. Like all the stack overflow and GitHub issue clone sites before the real results.

I don't think this is wired getting bought or bullied- I think the author was mistaken and they retracted the story.

Google serving specific ads and optimizing that algorithm to maximize profit is expected imo
Have you thought of experimenting/benchmarking with two or three different architectures right now before you settle on one?

As you wrote in the article, you still have the old server that can support your current load. That likely won’t be an option in the future as your load continues to grow.
The US allows people to keep their culture if they want to.
You're using a lot of words and terms you think make a point, and they aren't. There is no point in logically engaging with you. As you know, there is an actual genocide against Burmese Muslims by the Burmese government and large segments of its society. It's ongoing. You are pro-genocide.

I don't even think you have anything against Burmese Muslims. I think people like you are moved to anger by others seeking to pursue good. Whoever the victim is, you have a disease of personality and spirit that causes you to attack attempts at sympathy or help towards them. Whatever the broader society or group values, you instinctively tear down.

You think whenever someone wants to shed light on an injustice, you should shit on such an attempt mindlessly. Whenever someone wants to act altruistically, you want to make it seem like they aren't really being altruistic, that they must have some ulterior motive. Because you yourself aren't altruistic, and have no good, and don't care about the suffering of others.

Why are you calling it propaganda? It's a well-documented article, whereas you spew stupidity. Who are you trying to fool by acting like the Burmese government is legitimate? Are a government like the North Korean one and the government that allows you to post the drivel you post freely alike?

The rest of us needn't do anything but down vote you and avoid people like you in real life. It's not even a matter of understanding or misunderstanding something logically; you know that the government of Burma is genocidal and oppressive, you know that the government of Iran is oppressive and rising to ever new heights of brutality, etc, and you know that normal people rightly find that all wrong. But something inside you causes you to want to launch pathetic half-baked defenses of such evil in online posts. Something inside you is rotten and causes you to call a detailed post documenting a pretty evil paper trail from a major corporation--pretty stereotypically what we think good journalism should be, and which we get little of from most major publications--"propaganda".
He funds some ventures. His tech opinions of late have shifted largely to shudder clean and pushing terrible FP idioms with no evidence like “immutable first”.

His relevance in tech is dried up as evidenced by the parroting of bullshit without taking a modicum of a second to actually think it through. I don’t particularly care what a dude that got rich making video games invests in.

Edit:

Listen guys, funding ventures != personally contributing to tech as the user I responded to is implying. This worship of carmack is weird. Like bezos also funded a rocket company, but isn’t worshiped for “contributions to rocket science”. Hypocrites.
Money market funds broke the buck in 2008:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/money-mar...
Radars are usually tuned to ignore them because they don't have the fidelity to differentiate between a trailer on it's side and a tunnel and it leads to phantom braking.
Yeah should just be a matter of adding an AAAA record when the migration is done, since I've now got a public IPv6 range.
Dramatic Increase in DPRK-Russia Border Rail Traffic After Kim-Putin Summit
he has failed to address the most important technological domain of the hacker news crowd - making incremental improvements to frontend web technologies
You've obfuscated a good point. Open-source is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for openness. Actual human beings must also understand the source well enough to audit it and modify it. If heartbleed occurred in closed source, it would still be an active problem. The vendor would be reluctant to even admit the flaw, because it makes them look bad. And the whole world realized that one guy was maintaining OpenSSL, and he was on the edge of poverty. It was a wake-up call. Thousands of devs looked at the code, and understood it well enough to patch and fork.

It's also true that, because of historical accidents, we have several more examples of https://xkcd.com/2347/. However, that's not an argument against open source. It's an argument that we all should take ownership of what we ship, all the way down, without exception. An open CPU definition is a necessary, but not sufficient, requirement for this level of ownership.
I don't use Docker at all on any of my infra or workstations. That's why I made this.
Oof, while it's nice to see documentation, that pdf is clearly not done yet. A block diagram with one giant block labeled "Bus Fabric" is not so helpful, and all the I2C/SDIO/etc interfaces are just tacked on to the top right?

I assume that the final doc will have a full representation of all the APB/AHB/AXI buses and their topology, and also the control registers for those buses.

Still, nice to see an overview of the chip and peripherals. I could do a lot of fun things with the IO chip even if it wasn't connected to the SoC.
I'm afraid I don't remember how I found this paper, but it might be from following Dr Abeba Birhane[1], she's an anti-AI academic (which is why I followed her originally, to get reality checks / contrasting viewpoints), but she also posts and boosts a lot of interesting cognitive science (her field). I also follow Olivia Guest[2] for the same reason.

Many of the papers go over my head at times of course (despite my interest, I'm firmly a layman!)

More generally, I've had a lot of success with searching for meta-analysis papers on topics I'm interested in, since the authors have already done the hard work of researching the literature and presenting core takeaways (as well as providing terms for more searches).

1: https://bsky.app/profile/abeba.bsky.social or https://twitter.com/Abebab

2: https://bsky.app/profile/olivia.science or https://twitter.com/o_guest
Exactly, the critics love to harp on about how "nothing backs Bitcoin!"

I find that people that are not smart enough to understand Bitcoin generally respond by getting mad about Bitcoin or ignoring it.
I really don't want to ask this since it run contrary to HN rules, but did you really read the article?

No one expect Facebook to remove all misinformation/hate speech/etc. That is unreasonable. But they have literally 1 data scientist to monitor the whole non-western world.

In a year where their annual profit is $23.9bn.

Assuming 1 data scientist is paid $500k/year, surely it is sensible to dedicate $20mn, less than 0.1% of their annual profit, to hire 40 more such data scientist and literally increase their effectiveness on this topic by 4000%? At the very least, this is what I expect from a company that actually have a speck of moral.

> A strategic response manager told me that the world outside the US/Europe was basically like the wild west with me as the part-time dictator in my spare time. He considered that to be a positive development because to his knowledge it wasn’t covered by anyone before he learned of the work I was doing.
The article was obviously horseshit -- and I hate google. But if your search for "running clothes" was getting replaced with "addidas running clothes" you would see clearly in the results. Degraded as it is, I still get results that include the specific words I searched in most situations. That type of replacement would be immediately and obviously apparent.
Because IP addresses change frequently. I’m much less likely to use websites that require me to wait for a code in my email each time I use them and I don’t think I’m in the minority. Email/SMS codes are a useless checkbox in the security audit that companies need to stop implementing.
Conservatives can be prickly about swear words. I got in trouble for using that word in a church.
Same reaction. I froze for a minute and said out loud "wow, hydrazine" after realizing preconceptions led me astray.
So after 2021 Tesla got even more irresponsible?
People used to make webpages because they were driven by interest in a topic. Now they make listicles to eke out SEM traffic for little trickles of ad or affiliate revenue.