skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that for the use case where I want to receive a soda, we don't need digital payments at all. There is no need to involve the internet, because whoever gives me the soda must necessarily be in the same location where I am. The only thing wrong with the cash payment model is that someone went to special effort to disallow it.

In other digital-payments-in-China news, I just ordered some milk today from the store that is across the street from me. It's no great hardship for me to cross the street and buy the milk myself. However, the price of a third of a gallon of milk is 32 rmb. (USD $4.50). If I order it delivered, a courier will show up, buy the milk, and walk it up four flights of stairs to hand it over to me, and besides paying no delivery fee, my price per carton of milk falls to 22 rmb.

What really bothers me about this is that the bag came with a big receipt stapled to it showing that the delivery service paid the store 26 rmb per carton of milk. So the service was nice enough to cover the courier's fee for me at the same time that they paid me for everything I ordered through them.

Something somewhere is orchestrating a huge forced push for online payment. The economics clearly do not work on their own.
I give it to them that Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled is a nice touch.
> Their enthusiasm on just discovering how to be a professional in the role they have been half assing for decades

that is literally an entire genre of fiction - amateurs who have no idea what they are doing get a wise old teacher and shape up into a killer team. i suspect a lot of the enthusiasm for the book comes from the popularity of "people level up and the magic happens" stories.
Any decent 4-6" monitors can do a wonderful job. I have a PreSonus 4.5" version connected to an USB audio interface — this works great with both Linux computers and Mac laptops.
> They should stop just short of regulating the underlying cryptocurrencies themselves.

The problem with not regulating a currency at all, is that it implies a permission for someone to print it at will. Cryptocurrency is no exception to this scenario; you are asked to trust the developers (technocracy) and node operators (50%+1 attack and all the usual power dynamics of the rich having more say than the majority) to not do it. The most important question you must ask yourself is, how long will the interests of that elite continue to align with yours (if they ever did).

The dream of a decentralized, community-run, grassroots infrastructure died sometime around the first GPU PoC - Satoshi themselves expressed discontent, saying GPUs would trivially out-mine the common man.

Communities can self-regulate because they run on trust; it's extremely difficult to build trust in a system designed around distrusting every single one of your peers.
Probably on average actually true (microprocessors and the internet come to mind, creation of "modern" cash back in antiquity, the formal code of law, sanitation, etc.), but with some colossal disasters in there, too.
Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion
Critical bug in ownCloud file sharing app exposes admin passwords
Interestingly the "Creaking From the Tires or Brakes" has a second or two of some random words. Wonder what that was. Any others with extra audio?
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It’s interesting how the market’s reaction to this was basically - nothingburger, tick tock, next block.
Not really. True cryptocurrencies were tried. They even work. Monero is the truest cryptocurrency, it's what bitcoin should have been since the beginning and it already works.

The tragedy is nobody's actually using it because everyone's too busy feeding their money into literal banks and speculating with it.
All of those are popcorn. Even Alien - which is a jump scare creature feature expanded with some token politics and superb horror aesthetics. And Star Wars, which is a fantasy for ten year olds in space (according to George Lucas), but with ground-breaking special effects.

Dune - the book - is not popcorn. The series is probably the most brutally surgical examination of power, politics, religion, and economics ever to appear in print.

There are giant worms and weird drugs and such, but they're all metaphors.

If you're looking for the literary equivalent of CGI, that's very much not what it's about.
If you're interested in the subject, the book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel (mentioned in Resources) is a very good read with lots of historical perspective on how these clocks were built.
The only thing that might 'horrify' me in code review for that is the assumption that it only evaluates true when test failed.

(And I might quote '^hello$' personally just on principle for having special chars, especially dollar, and to help syntax highlighters.)
I'm telling you the old way was for security.

The shopping-in-captivity experience is not shared by any other business-- not your bank, not your pharmacy, not your doctor. It's inefficient as hell, yes, because if you picked out $5000 worth of product and tried to snatch it and run, you wouldn't make it through that door-- they have to buzz you out. Mental hospitals and prisons work like this, being high-security facilities.

There's nothing in the room at my local dispensary that you could throw through that glass, assuming it's even glass at all.

For a while, they couldn't even get payment processors to take cards for them, so they'd be sitting on mountains of cash. They couldn't get insurers to cover cash losses from robberies.

My dispensary's guards used to be armed. They no longer are. They stopped carrying around the time the place started taking debit card payments. Liability for guards shooting civilians over property crime is not a risk anyone accepts willingly. (I don't even think my bank's guard carries a sidearm. Retailers are told by insurers to give robbers whatever they want to make them go away without further incident.)
I think the “Bond villain” label is more to point towards the way of doing the operation. Which is pretty fitting imo, from the point of view of being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
> I was a huge advocate for these streaming services,

It was always going to go this way. Once you have a captive audience the next strategy is to milk it to death
Isn't that feature the exact one being discussed in this threads in order to not overheat the engine though?
>Tons of journalism just ends up being dead wrong, misinformed, or missing a ton of key context

FIFY
That cannot be right.

10 kilobits per second would only get you some awful telephone quality audio. Even super low res video would be orders of magnitude more than that.
You're asking the wrong guy!
Changing World Order: Rise of Bitcoin
What are you doing when you’ve been self-studying linear algebra? Reading textbooks?

Finding a textbook with a good collection of exercises (a good mix of difficulty ranging from trivial to requiring serious contemplation) is probably the best way to get immersed. Buy yourself a white/blackboard if you like. I know I’ve spent hours sitting (or standing) trying to find proofs or counterexamples to various little statements, and the time passes in much the way you describe.

If I’m honest, though, I think programming is quite possibly uniquely magical in that respect. I love mathematics and have spent years of my life studying it (often of my own accord), but I’m not sure I’ve ever quite recreated the same sense of flow I used to get when working on programming projects as a teenager. The only thing that comes close is music production.
We could’ve gotten something more like a simpler Swift if some attention was paid to state of the art in language research and implementation. No nil, composable errors, integrated generics, sum types, etc.
Because I also know people who've failed and got fired. Quite a lot of them, in fact. As in "they failed and subsequently got fired".

The fact that there's some sample of "failed and fired" AND "failed and not fired" - even if this was 80/20, one still has to conclude that there's more than just failure at play. Inconclusive evidence to say it's only failure involved..

My experience hasn't been 80/20, it's been more 10/90. My whole company has people failing and founding around the place, I've only seen two people fired:
1 who blamed anyone else but himself, and another who never asked for help and wanted to save face at any opportunity.

Failures are a part of life, if you are at a company that doesn't acknowledge that I suggest perhaps finding someplace else for your own good
I operated an email forwarding services[1] and have research this area extensively because eventually customer will keep asking for IMAP.

When hosting email, receiving is easy part. But storing and fetching it is hard.
Sending out, on other side, is hard to configure but easy to store(there is not much to store except DKIM config).

But the hardest part is actually getting providrs to accept your email. I always had issue with ProofPoint and Outlook(Microsoft 365).

I also have issue with 800 emails per hours on fastmail.

Lot of thing like that come up when hosting your own emails.

However, it's worthed it, it open a lot of amazing thing once you own your own email.

With that being said, I recomend Maddy https://maddy.email/ it's a very simple deployment that handle pretty much everything. No need to glue multiple system together.

For spam filering, just use RSPAMD.

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https://mailwip.com
_language_ data.

Humans get a lot more input that just language is the point. We get to see language out in the physical world. They have the (really quite difficult) task of inferring all the the real world and its connections, common sense, laws of physics, while locked in a box reading wikipedia.

How capable do you think a child would be if you kept them in a dark box and just spoke to them through the keyhole? (not recommending this experiment)
File-sharing giant uloz.to bans file-sharing citing EU's Digital Services Act
> Car engines heat up when you park, because the air cooling and circulation of the coolant

A further reason is no movement = no wind speed. I used to have an old Pontiac grand am with the ram air. I had overheating issues sometimes that were literally solved by going faster.
Very nicely done. I like the simplicity of the page and interface.
> Libertarian ancap bros

Resorting to insults is not very conductive to intellectual honesty. Your comment equates libertarianism to "wanting to keep all money" which is an extremely cartoonish understanding.
Definitely not what I was expecting but hilarious.
We can always install a 50cc two-stroke ICE in every electric car. Would be perfect for warning pedestrians ;)
This was def a noticable thing in the M3 before they added the dedicated heat pump.
Well sort of, it allows government to create a falsified certificate for other sites like Google sites (man in the middle attack). When the browser forum/certificate authority wise up to it's use, they've then got to prove it's causing harm and get approval from authorities to remove it (authorities can take their sweet time responding to the request).
Note though that the fraud that the prosecutor addresses here doesn’t have anything to do with crypto per se. As in, it’s not about securities laws, or even AML stuff.

The fraud that scam bank man fraud got sentenced for was plain old theft. Taking customers assets (mainly crypto assets) and using it as his personal piggy bank.
You're also leaving out the biggest issue. Journals generally don't want to produce negative results. If you spend researching [shocking possibility] and it turns out that [shocking possibility] isn't true, you're not getting published. It motivates everything from HARKing [1] to outright data manipulation. By contrast if negative results were seen as valuable, then none of this is an issue.

On the other hand, it really is the case that there's just not much of any value in learning that [shocking possibility] is, as everybody would naturally expect, indeed not the case. And filling up limited journal space with such discoveries would seem to be counter-productive, at best. And when you have limited space/funding for researchers, one guy who keeps proving everything everybody knows to be false, to be false, is always going to be perceived as less valuable than one making [shocking discovery] [... which ends up being proven false years later].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARKing
Here in Switzerland we have SwissID and it's absolutely terrible.

It doesn't run on my phone because it's supposedly "rooted". I have a new Pixel phone with AOSP and the boot loader unlocked. The app behaves like malware or spyware because they make assumptions about end user devices.

Then they only support SMS based 2FA, none of the standards like TOTP or HOTP.

There is this weird sense of superiority or superior quality with the "Made in Switzerland" label. It may be true for a watch, but it's far from true when it comes to software and technology otherwise. Everything is mostly trash.
how is this gonna compete with ph itself?
By my understanding of words, even the best 10% of cookie popups are mostly not really "freely given consent".

But I know I'm not a lawyer, and my lack of understanding of the technical jargon in law is likely to be similar to the lack of understanding of technical web jargon in the old screenshot of someone looking at the JS console by accident and thinking it was a secret police thingie: https://images.app.goo.gl/4SPUwbQ1uY2r5oHcA
Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions
Also yes, duh, my point is that the prior bias in question is the common one that's being reinforced by the title
Where will the sound come from? I mean, from the motherboard (mb)?

Some MB have terrible sound as they pick up electrical noises from the power source (psu).

Having a good MB, or an external audio (getting the audio from your computer via USB) makes a bigger difference than the speakers.
It is extremely unprofessional to leave your computer unlocked at work and I consider it a sign of gross incompetence
I think people dismiss how much AML regulations are directly linked to preventing crime from being efficient. There’s a reason that scammers ask for gift cards, and it’s not “just” because of traceability reasons (mules have always been a thing)

Countries have varying levels of fraud and organized scams, and I think stuff like AML compliance flows play a bigger part than people appreciate
Yep. I found one of my developers doing this once. I had a quiet word with him and told him to stop it, and that we would be actively monitoring. He got the message.

He could just as easily have been fired, or possibly even prosecuted, if someone else had caught him doing it. Maybe he should have been. He was a very good developer though!
What's your concern with Galileo? Many experts consider it to be the best GNSS currently available:[1]

> The US constellation isn’t as accurate as the newer networks, said Roberts, the Sydney-based professor. “It used to be GPS was out in front,” he said. Now, though, the EU’s Galileo is in the lead, with China’s BeiDou close behind, he said.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-20/russia-s-...
I am late to this thread... but have years of experience as a volunteer for blind people.

My tips:
1. iPhone
2. The best help comes from other blind people! They all work with the screens turned off and use voiceover. This is a different way of looking at menu's and navigating the phone than what seeing people do. But they perfectly understand each other when explaining navigation of apps.
That's something you could philosophise about but not research unless you already have a human level intelligence to test. We won't know if it's even possible to replicate in silicon for a very long time
> Sure, you can't look at them and positively measure their identicalness, but they're being generated with the same hardware.

But to continue your analogy, after so many years of experiencing the world differently—different pasts, upbringings, worldviews—are they being interpreted by the same software? And that's the question that the paper really poses: are qualia real, and if so, is it ever possible to conclude that two individuals experience qualia in the same way?
I think it might be a small misconception that an MVP is the product with bad design.

In the most literal sense it's the minimum viable product, the minimum product that is viable [to sell/to test/to get feedback]. Which is still very much alive.

Most importantly your MVP should focus on the core functionality, this is often where you save most time. Products usually can branch out into many directions adding a bunch of cool, useful, but not essential features. For your MVP you should focus on the minimum functionality needed to make it valuable. Less features also means less work making them look good.

The same applies to design. The standards are higher today, so a bootstrap app might not be sufficient anymore, but you might not need an amazing experience with for example amazing graphics, animations, and delightful micro interactions to sell your product.

It very much depends on your situation and audience what your MVP might look like. For example if you target enterprise customers in an old industry the standards are much lower than consumer apps, and that bootstrap app might still work.

The challenge is determining what is and isn't essential, which is not easy. People often don't know, and that is exactly why it's good to get your product out and test it as quickly as you can so you can adapt to reality.
Do you see any features in modern, high-level programming languages (such as Python, Go, C#) that could guide the next evolutionary step for C, without sacrificing that low-level control?

Knowing KT worked on Go, I'd guess he'd say concurrency, but that's difficult to get right without sacrificing low-level control. What's your take?
Distributed Database Design
Difficult to not think about other Tech CEOs when reading this, and most very rich people that did not inherit the money to start with. If you look IMO they all have in common that they have at least once done something morally questionable/ illegal, usually at their beginnings. The ability then is that they have manage to mantain themselves out of the reprimands, or had made enough money that they could buy themselves out of it. Name one and i promised i find something.
excellent question. I don't want to compete directly with ph. I just want to make sure that indie makers have another platform to launch their projects.

Recently, many users were complaining that their product isn't featured there. It happened with me too. So I thought why not make an indie-friendly startup launch platform.
> The problem with not regulating a currency at all, is that it implies a permission for someone to print it at will.

Not a problem. This is determined by code in ways everyone can see and understand. It's actually better than governments printing money whenever they feel like it.

The economic impact of money printing is actually minimal. Most inflation is actually generated by fractional reserve banking and their loans which is already something exchanges do. BTC maxis don't seem to grasp this fact.

> you are asked to trust the developers (technocracy)

You are asked to trust code. Either way I'm actually OK with this. I actually trust them a whole lot more than the communists in charge of my country's economy right now.

> node operators (50%+1 attack and all the usual power dynamics of the rich having more say than the majority)

The only problem with this is it turned out cryptocurrency mining is not actually as decentralized as it was supposed to be. It should have been one CPU one vote but it turned into massive operations involving custom hardware.

New cryptocurrencies need technology to fix that problem. Monero uses ASIC resistant proof of work algorithms to mitigate it.

> The dream of a decentralized, community-run, grassroots infrastructure died sometime around the first GPU PoC - Satoshi themselves expressed discontent, saying GPUs would trivially out-mine the common man.

Exactly. That's the true tragedy of cryptocurrencies.
I am fed up with cute characters and similarly beautiful looking people. Give me characters with flaws, that's how most humans are
I visit YouTube only when someone posts the link. Ads are one thing. But the recommendations next to the video can ruin the experience. I used to use YT also for music, but algorithm was gradually bringing more mediocre stuff. Another example, if I watched video made in my country, it always recommended some crazy conspiracy videos or misinformation channels. I know this speaks more about the country than YT, but still - I do not want to taint my days with constant BS.

Most of store-front internet seems to be anti-procrastination. At first it looks like it want's to hook you, ie. there is click-bait title of the article. But when you open it there is GDPR pop-up and one has opportunity to pause and realize that viewing that content is not really necessary.

HN on the other hand is just text, moderation, no pop-ups. So it is easy to get hooked.
Alternately, it’s designed in a way that almost all trucks and SUVs in the US are designed, in a way that is generally expected/preferred by customers who buy those vehicles.

I also don’t like it, but it’s not Tesla’s fault that that’s where the market is. I’ve heard from so many foolish people who don’t understand physics that they feel safer driving a big heavy vehicle and being up high.

The armor has nothing to do with the height and sight lines; it’s also not anything specific to the Cybertruck. Even midsize SUVs now are so high up and boxy that you can’t see in front of the front bumper. I was in an Escalade or Expedition or Tahoe or something the other day on the way to JFK and noticed that the center console screen has an option to view a front-bumper-cam. It’s nuts.

If this is truly a problem that needs affirmative fixing, it seems that auto industry regulation (which is already mandating cellular transceivers in vehicles, so it is definitely in scope) would be the place to address this. Expecting market participants to kneecap themselves in the face of clear market demand (especially whilst already fighting the risky and uphill battle that is EV adoption) is not fair or realistic.

IMO it could be covered in giant sharp stainless steel hedgehog spikes and be nicknamed the Childslayer and it’s probably still less dangerous to our society than something that burns petrochemicals. If you want to regulate something for safety, ban the sale of gasoline/diesel and the use of internal combustion engines.
A Light in the Woods
Looks safe.
It would be less effective than a file, since there's just the one point on the sharp edge of the laptop.

Most people are not looking to scuff up the face of their fingernails, which is what happens when you handle such a laptop naturally.