skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But neither currency has ever done a roll back of this nature again.

Maybe not a rollback, but Ethereum has proven it is malleable time and time again. As one example, compare the issuance of ether to Bitcoin. Eth's issuance is a dog's breakfast, indicative of changing opinions by those who call the shots... just like a central bank.

Bitcoin's issuance? Predictable and steady as a rock for 15 years.

Another example is replacing Proof-of-Work with Proof-of-Stake. A core part of how it works, important for censorship resistance and accessibility, and they removed it for something permissioned that makes censorship far easier.

Bitcoin? Still on PoW and never going to change. If you think it will change, you still don't understand Bitcoin. But never fear, there's already a PoS Bitcoin out there (that no one uses).
Stone Toss, the forbidden xkcd. :)
The whole concept of "ban" (like removal) is stupid. Wikipedia should be a tree of various interpretations. With single topic, I want to see texts from all sides.
I'm not talking about 10k bikes, but also not supermarket bikes.

I said complexity and materials. An iPhone is extremely complex but it's only so cheap because electronics scale extremely well, probably only software does better.

Logically there should be more bikes than cars so the economy of scale should be in their favor. Bike maintenance isn't cheap either. Cars need to go through much more certification etc.

The more I think about it the less sense it makes. I think there's crazy competition on cars, but not on bikes.
this reminded me of the /KLINEs on the IRC servers. you'd first /KILL someone then you'd KLINE their username if they didn't behave, then you'd KLINE their IP. then there's /GLINE which would effectively do the same thing but for the entire network.
I agree. In 1982 I got a Lisp Machine running InterLisp-D, and it was “batteries included” like Racket.

If you don’t mind Smalltalk, the modern Pharo ecosystem is also amazing.
Thanks for explaining, this makes a lot of sense.
I'd like to see the divorce proceedings of a marriage solemnized by this bear. Almost certainly your prenuptial is not going to be binding because you cannot reasonably believe you were actually married by a bear. Any good lawyer is gonna rip this one apart.
I'm currently in the process of a late 30's ADHD diagnosis. As is becoming increasingly unsurprising, I'm unsurprised at how relatable the article and all the comments here are.

I'm writing this just to say, it's ok. I'd like to be able to tell myself that and believe it but I can't yet.

It's hard to even express how painful ADHD is. I have had first hand experience of multiple major traumas as a child and none of them come even close to a life of undiagnosed ADHD.
There are many timelines without spacex where something like starlink isn’t achieved for many more decades, possibly centuries. Very few thought this was possible.
Random hardware bit flips can cause invalid RSA signatures, which baddies can use to deduce private keys.

Edit: Don't ask me questions, i don't know shit, i just rephrased stuff from the linked paper.
I think animals get drunk much easier than humans because we have an adaptation that allows us to process alcohol.
^ This: I just spent the ~20 minutes necessary to watch that part of the talk at a reasonable 1.5x speed, and that's the summary. Ffmpeg was suffering from 20 years of incremental change and lack of cleanup/refactoring, and that's what he's spent two years doing.

A couple of great lines including "my test for deprecating an option is if it's been broken for years and nobody is complaining, then definitely nobody is using it".
That's... not really it. Do you really think there are backdoors hiding in firmware blobs from reputable vendors?
Aussies fume over being asked to use QR codes at restaurants
Actually withdrawing too much cash was one of the reasons cited in the article for banks closing down people's accounts ;)
It does have a much better work/life balance than most driving jobs, though.
Fraud was certainly a feature of the industry as a whole, e.g. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
I don't know why, but this all reminds me of when I was in secondary school, and many of us were in IRC channels of local ISP's and sites, and things like being channel operator or admin, or getting kicked, banned or k-lined could all give incredible feelings of power or despair. The political structure in the IRC channels and servers could change dramatically any evening, and some would boast about their mIRC war script skills, or things like knowing the cousin of a server admin, the next day in school
OTOH I do hope a bank is allowed to go full stop on the brakes if needed. I had my CC blocked 4 times because of fraud detection. All done by the CC company and it never cost me anything but inconvenience.

If the bank would be liable, we all suffer. How much will banks charge if we would be both secured from fraud risks and indemnified from account closure damages? I would think 1% of your cashflow would not be unreasonable.
Would you rather live in Gaza right now or your “dystopia”?
Gitea, Gitlab and Sourcehut are all making money on open source. However, they themselves are open source projects and contribute to a wider ecosystem.

Github makes money without producing open source software. <rant>Well, that is if you don't count a sluggish electron-based text editor.</rant> Github is not open source, Github Pages is not open source, Github Actions is not open source. Sure, they offer free hosting for open source projects, but that kind of charity creates a hard dependency on Github for many projects, which is not healthy for the ecosystem.

What happens if Github closes? Or stops free offers for open source projects? To make an analogy from another ecosystem, if Mac Donalds started offering free meals to homeless people, that would not solve the problems of poverty and would not contribute to healthier food for the people or a more sane/ecological agriculture. That'd just be charity for their own gain.
Let's not discount folks just because they are patriotic. A lot of people (including ones you probably do respect) fall into that pit - it's like religion, just something people also do. It doesn't change anything else they achieve.

That said, the license on the AI they produce is not open. Calling it open is dumb and for that a certain measure of disrespect is warranted.
I think it's safe to assume that those instincts habe been dialed in long before the current state of relative danger fell into place. Fear of wiry bipeds that aren't actually that big but might carry sparkling stuff would be a far more specific, younger and thus variable fear.

But then on the other hand train speed is dangerously difficult to assess even for us humans who in theory know full well what a train is. I believe that this is because much of the perception of movement is in terms of "size-units over time", which is why a fly at walking speed appears fast whereas big ship at 25 knots appears almost stationary unless you are too close for your own good.
Some of it is pretty controversial. Some of it, pretty sensible.
While I don't like the phone use just as much as you do wouldn't they be adding to the event in their own way based on their outfits? You may not like it but it is a unique form of expression that adds to the experience.
This is already possible if you look through the revision history and talk page. Outside of very rare circumstances, contributions don't get redacted.
For most workloads, setting the number of threads to the number of vCPUs (i.e. count each hyperthreaded core as 2) works. But GPU acceleration is much better if it's available to you.
The price recently found support at $34,650 level after failing to clear above $35,820.
If the price goes below $34,650 level, then it will likely decline further to test $34,190.
Defunct crypto exchange FTX has submitted a petition to the Delaware bankruptcy court for the liquidation of trust assets held by Grayscale and Bitwise estimated to be worth $744 million. Statements from FTX and its debtors indicate that they expect this approach to facilitate preparation for payments to creditors in USD and speed up the sale of trust assets by the debtors.
> How is it defendable? How do you defend 10x?

Uncertainty. Given incomplete information it is common practice to make assumptions about things to give us some starting point from which to act. In this context a round integer value pretty much implies: They are estimating, and they might be completely off.

I guess you could say, "Instead of making assumptions with uncertainty, let's not assume anything", but that makes progress in new and uncertain areas really hard.
I don't know anyone who uses Debian and actually sticks with their packaged apps. The most important programs they're using on their computers will be installed either from third-party repositories, or some other tool (whether that's snap/flatpak/nix/etc., or a language-specific package manager like NPM), or built from source themselves, because Debian's "native" packaged versions of everything are chronically out of date.
Is there any chance of the account being hijacked? It would make this act of self-destruction even more bizarre due to the massive opportunity for abuse, though.
Computational propaganda: Concepts, methods, and challenges
Seems like a much better framework than the disinformation, misinformation, and fake news nexus. Also doesn't forget the history. They also allege that the main money-backed purveyors are politicians, political parties, and other political actors, like they've probably always been.
I think this is partially caused by the frankly anemic standard library some languages come with. Take node for example, it tooks years (almost a decade?) for "fetch" to be available and you still can't connect to a database without external libraries, so you need to install those which then bring in their own dependencies because the standard library is so limited...
Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
I thought this post[1] from exactly a year ago was a nice type of post and so to celebrate it I thought I would start another to show the diverse interest of the HN community. Cheers!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488891 (thanks mckirk!)
About 2x faster on my 4-cores ARM server, without any significant parallelism overhead:

$ time ffmpeg_threading/ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ar 1000 -vn -acodec flac -f flac -y /dev/null -hide_banner -loglevel quiet
14.90s user 2.08s system 218% cpu 7.771 total

$ time ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ar 1000 -vn -acodec flac -f flac -y /dev/null -hide_banner -loglevel quiet
14.05s user 1.80s system 114% cpu 13.841 total
How is it a career dead-end? In the Marine Corps, becoming a recruiter or drill instructor are good ways to gain rank more quickly because they boost your cutting score. I had friends who did recruiting and they loved it- it's comparatively easy work with a high level of autonomy
The gas industry sponsored Julia Child's TV kitchen
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_States
Here's my 3rd world country perspective, from someone growing in the 80s:

We never had intel chips. They were expensive. I had a Texas Instruments 286 and a cyrix 486 years later. The computer in my Dad's office were all "pc compatible" . This was a university (biology department in a God forsaken poor small city in Mexico). Someone got it bought because it was going to "change the world" (oh boy). We played TDCGA.EXE and PRINCE.EXE from its 2 51/4 floppy drives. No HDD.

We heard about apple's, commodore's and other crazy computers, but they were for "gringos" or rich people.

At the same time, we shared (pirated) software as if there was no tomorrow. Spread like wildfire. As and played the heck out of ID shareware.

Then you had the Mexican middle upper class: whose dad bought Macintosh one of those others. They NOW had to spend all this money to get it to do something (buy software). Nobody was pirating/sharing programs, and the PC ones just didn't work.

So a virtuous cycle continued and we kept buying x86.

Great memories! I'm glad I was part of that dawn of PC.
This is quite interesting.
Nikon started off as a defense contractor making rifle scopes and artillery sights for the military. Camera lens was a side business that took over after the war.

While no longer on the cutting edge, they still have a significant presence in the semiconductor lithography business. So they will survive in one way or another even if they stop making cameras one day.
Controlling AI is just a subset of controlling humans; while US policymakers might like to dictate detailed policy to China to constrain competition, they're not going to be able to do that.
It seems strange that administrators hide behind anonymous accounts on Wikipedia. I know providing who you are in real life has privacy issues for many, and regardless it is not clear there is even a reliable way to make sure someone truly is who they say they are. But it seems that at the administrator level Wikipedia could make an attempt at this.

User Beeblebrox, Wifione, Lourdes... It's weird reading this — like it's some kind of secret club in grade school where everyone has code names.

I know I am not typical in that my user name is my own name. Part of me cast off anonymity on the internet though if for no other reason to keep myself honest in my postings — a deterrent to allowing some kind of alter-ego to shit post and such.
I think it's more or less similar to the cultural shift that by the 80's most hippies turned into yuppies working at big corporations and one of the nastiest materially and status obsessed people.

Even the most ardent woke/eco/[insert flavor]ists" need daddy to pay their rent, vacation and iPhone bills.
If someone's never had a lucid dream, I can totally see how it could be alluring.

As someone that has lucid dreams nearly every night, it's just so tiring. You never get any rest. I wish I could make it stop.
He doesn't mean AI will rewrite the apps, he means the apps/their UIs will be rewritten to use natural language input.
Seeing this gave me the idea to use Julia's metaprogramming to create a package for this... and of course someone has already done it: https://github.com/anthonyclays/RomanNumerals.jl

Amazingly, R actually seems to support Roman numerals natively: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/rom...
Limited numerical range, but seems to have full support for treating them as normal numbers!

The Wolfram Language has some support for converting to and from Roman numerals [1], and Common Lisp's `format` takes a `@R` modifier to print a number as its Roman numeral [2].

[1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RomanNumeral.html
[2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_c.h...
RSA digital signatures can reveal a signer’s secret key if a computational or hardware fault occurs during signing with an unprotected
implementation using the Chinese Remainder Theorem and a deterministic padding scheme like PKCS#1 v1.5.
[...] In this context, a passive adversary can quietly monitor legitimate connections without risking detection until they observe
a faulty signature that exposes the private key. The attacker can then actively and undetectably impersonate the compromised host to intercept sensitive data.

And they say crypto is hard, sheesh...

Seriously though, almost every time I hear about some new (to me) attack, I get amazed at the ingenuity of people.
That's not wrong, but still some parts wear out and it's harder to find them nowadays. Although to be fair there's still some production for the most popular cars (eg. 2CH, 4L).

But it would be interesting if we took that old "built forever" approach (remember washing machines that last a lifetime?) and used it to build modern low-tech cars with the newer higher safety standards and efficiency gains. It's a shame how everything that comes out of factories nowadays has a 10 year lifespan.
> Elon is a crazy shitposter on “X”

Does anyone care beyond internet drama points?

The man's efforts to engineer societal-level technological change toward sustainability seem to matter more in my estimation.
Citizen scientists in Singapore add needed buzz to bee research in Asia
What did you base your storage cost calculation on? LCOE doesn't account for nuclear running much longer than 20-40 years. And 100 years is not ludicrous, 2 units in the US have been approved to work for 80 years, 100 is not far off if properly maintained.
Thought I might have accidentally navigated to Slacker News for a moment there. Logging in, I can see that there's a big blue button that says "Request Free License".
I think he meant that "it showed the world another way to work" (what op said) was not worth the cost of the lockdown (ie. "abuse children")
You seem to be asking for a prediction of the future once the current roadblocks are lifted.

Would be cool if people had actual answers, but it would have been hard for instance to assume that Microsoft anti-trust ruling would make them miss the boat on the mobile trend and give an edge to Apple. In that respect, I kinda hope we see something that wasn't obvious, but has a huge positive impact on our landscape that would have been delayed or anhilated if nothing changed.
In an era where reality can be edited and authenticity is cloaked in a digital guise, the deepfake video of Rashmika Mandanna reveals the strange spectacle of illusion.
> Banks hide behind Bank Secrecy Act and other regulations in order to debank people.

Banks do what the government tells them to do.

They are more than happy to launder drug money, they don't care. You think they close the account of some random person who made too many cash deposits to protect themselves from the customer?

No, they protect themselves from the government who will hit them with massive fines when they "fund terrorism".
Either we completely get rid of the idea that everyone has a bank account which they use for everyday transactions, going back to cash as default. Or we guarantee everyone an account which can not be closed for any reason whatsoever, at a state run bank. What we have right now, is untenable and a true sign of a society which has lost it's bearings completely.

A bank account nowadays is not some kind of privilege which can only be granted citizens which hold the correct political beliefs and have never upset whatever stupid algoritm they have in place to check for "money laundering". A bank account nowadays is simply a modern prerequisite.

Let me be clear, if the bank "freezes" someones account, I think they are in moral right to use violence against bank officials in self defense. The bank has attacked the individual in a meaningful way, akin to digital sabotage, but way worse.
I'm gonna start myself with something I got into again recently.
I got back into game development as a hobby a couple of weeks ago (sadly just after Ludum Dare ended) and have since been learning Godot to make the switch away from Unity permanently. So far its ease of use has been a real game changer for me, although I miss having my IDE on a different screen. The goal is to know Godot well enough to take part in the next Ludum Dare next year.
Men behave differently around women, compared to an all-male environment. It's mostly subconscious, but men (especially the older generation) would instinctively put up a tough front while women are present, and would be hesitant to show signs of weakness, so some would have trouble truly opening up. No doubt there are also male health concerns that men would feel more comfortable talking about to other men.

It's not sexist to want men only spaces, just like women only gyms and salons are not sexist.
Clubs don't forbid alcohol. That was misleading hyperbole. Being visibly drunk at the door might reduce chances to get in, but clubs make a lot of money with drinks and the majority of people will buy drinks, even in clubs where illicit drugs are consumed.
I wish Opensuse's Build Service gained more traction. Automated, reproducible builds for most distributions, itself open source etc. One of the many underrated tools in the ecosystem.
Wonderful projects! I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote.
How frequently do such faults occur?
Some people - mostly anti-woke Americans - think that there is reduced freedom of speech in Germany because you can go to jail for denying the holocaust or Nazi slogans.

Not sure if OP meant that but I saw that opinion around.
Instead of DuckDuckGo and Ecosia whose use Bing Search, they should share real alternative like https://kagi.com/ or https://search.brave.com
I have two great (bad) fraud stories with TD Bank.

I once had my card declined buying groceries, which ultimately took several hours to unlock. The cause? The $1.25 transaction for the fancy air compressor at the gas station to fill my tires. No biggie, had to re-shop when my card was eventually unlocked a few hours later by their slack-ass fraud department.

The second story, I once had my card declined purchasing groceries and found my account was -$750 dollars or so. An old gym I had cancelled my membership was acquired by another firm, and this new firm apparently thought I was still a member and owed several years worth of $54 a month fees. Now, instead of doing (3 * 12 * 54) in a single transaction, or $54 transactions 36 times they just started hitting my account for $100 in serial, then for some reason switching to $50 in serial, and then $25 in serial until I was comically in the hole. The bank manager was able to freeze and deny further charges from the firm, initiate a fraud complaint, and ultimately had my money back in a week. Thankfully I had some cash in my safe for the duration.

What boggles me is they were unable to interpret a company for which I had never made a prior transaction jackpotting my account as a fraud, but Thank God they stopped my $1.25 tire pressure refill.
I have no clue whether it's a piece of shit or not. But the specs you mention seem fine to me.
> The Debian model of an artisanal handcrafted build for every library is just not sustainable.

Yet it has functioned for 25 years (apt turned 25 this year). There has been mistakes, like the OpenSSL "fix", but not many. One issue that I, now that you mention Javascript, is stuff like npm, but to me that more a sign of npm being badly broken by design, or at least designed for a different environment. Build Python projects on Debian, using apt as you dependency manager works pretty well for systems that you expect to be stable over time.

One think so seems to forget is that you can often pull in newer versions of libraries and other packages from Backports. That does mitigate some of the issues with packages being to old.
One trick I have heard is to force yourself to develop a habit in your waking life where once every couple of hours you consciously asked yourself "Am I awake right now?", paired with something physical like looking at your hands or something. The idea is that if you develop this as a habit eventually you will do it in a dream, at which point you will realise you are dreaming.

Generally it seems that very light sleep, (like when you wake up in the morning but snooze the alarm and go back to sleep) is more conducive to lucid dreaming. Some people set alarms at intervals throughout the night to achieve this but that can be very destructive to sleep health.
Google is paying 21B because they expect to lose more than that if they stop.

Which suggests they don’t think people would choose them.
How Teachers Are Using–Or Not Using–ChatGPT in the Classroom
Going off of this article at least, it can take a few weeks for a bank to either reopen your account or send you the balance. Having around a month's worth of emergency cash would make sense to be able to handle an account closure like this.
Wikipedia has always been a secret club. I've always felt the admin's are required to follow a specific social and political mindset. It's not much different than Reddit. Like HN, moderation is only as good as the person doing it, and transparency is next to non-existent.
You can also go to jail in Germany now for expressing support for Hamas.