skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I'm sending crypto to a friend, they can see my account balance, and my entire account history. It's perfectly reasonable for me to want to hide this

I never said there aren't reasonable reasons to want to mix. Just that it's also reasonable to cast that activity as suspicious.

It's not an enforcement priority to parse through just yet, but both bank compliance departments and law enforcement are buying Chainalysis et al's mixer decloaking data for a reason.
> Even when we look at the crypto donated, most of it was dollar denominated [1].

Have you at least read your source? 120 of 225M were BTC + ETH.

> Crypto, much less crypto from Russians, hasn't been a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine.

Crypto is there barely since the Second Maydan, of course Ukrainians managed to survive without cryptocurrencies.

If you look closely on your arguments, you will find just a rejection without any arguments. Didn't you observe the recent news about Xenia Havana who donated $50 from her American bank account being in Russia and therefore went into jail?
Indian bank's IT is so shabby it's been banned from opening new accounts
I really hope that Shortcuts gets a UX overhaul. It feels so painful to write and test new shortcuts.
ClockClock 24
It's Shareholder Driven Development, the guinea pigs to whom these changes are A/B tested on are irrelevant.
The key facts, for me:

> Since it was first identified, the H5 strain of avian influenza and its variants have led to the slaughter of over half a billion farmed birds. Wild-bird deaths are estimated in the millions, with around 600,000 in South America since 2023 alone – and both numbers potentially far higher due to the difficulties of monitoring. At least 26 species of mammals have also been infected.

> Relatively few people have caught the virus so far, but it has had a high mortality rate in those that do: more than 50% of people known to become infected have died.

and from https://www.sciencenews.org/article/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-milk-... :

> ...the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that fragments of the bird flu's genetic material had turned up in grocery store milk. Initial results indicate that about 1 in 5 samples contain bits of the virus's RNA, the agency announced April 25.

The question is whether this animal pandemic can evolve into a human pandemic.
Swapping constantly kills SSDs though, this is not a good argument. The reality is that power users who should buy an upgraded model like to complain about the base one and the ones petty enough to deliberately go with the 8GB report quick SSD wear because they are overloading it with processes
AI Designed a More Precise CRISPR Gene Editor for Human Cells from Scratch
8GB ram is fine for browsing, messages, excel (the way 95% of people use it), word, photos app, video calls, and watching media.

That’s the use case for a large majority of the population.

I even do all of that with a 2015 MacBook Air, and it doesn’t even have M1.
In addition to ApiFunctionA and ApiFunctionW, introduce ApiFunction8? (times whole API surface)

Introduce a #define UNICODE_NO_REALLY_ALL_UNICODE_WE_MEAN_IT_THIS_TIME ?
You’re assuming you even could buy a home at $200k/yr. You can’t in several places - usually places where those $200k incomes are achievable.
For some context, my brother won't even use FSD because the driver monitoring system nags him SO much. It literally tracks his eyes and if he's not paying attention for a few seconds (even glancing out the window, looking down at his phone at all), it has a loud annoying alert.

Feels hard to say their being complacent with their messaging. You still need to pay attention all the time.
This already exists. Channels like Freakin Reviews are experimenting with deep fake product review AIs. Bit different because their entire channel purpose is product reviews, but the results are so compelling that it will certainly spread.
Like someone else has mentioned, I can imagine that this will spawn new trends in videos to get people to pause.

I dislike youtube shorts, and wish I could just not see them. I really hate that a lot of short creators have very packed shorts that then "seamlessly" join with the start of the video, so people watch multiple times.

I pay for premium, but I still feel like a cow being milked.
The Mac could originally only run one major application at a time - although you did have 'desk accessories'. Andy Hertzfeld relatively soon wrote 'Switcher', a hack to allow multiple applications, which was released some time in early 1985. That wasn't virtual memory, it was real physical memory. The Mac wouldn't officially get virtual memory until System 7.

A more official solution wouldn't come until MultiFinder in 1987, and that was originally limited to one foreground and one background application. Wikipedia says:

"When an application is activated, all of its windows are brought forward as a single layer. This approach is necessary for backward compatibility with many of the windowing data structures that were already documented."

"With the release of System 7 [in 1991], the MultiFinder extension was integrated with the operating system, and it remains so in Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. However, the integration into the OS does nothing to fix MultiFinder's inherent idiosyncrasies and disadvantages."

By the time that OS X came out in 2001, the menu bar being at the top of the screen, and switching with the current app, was fully entrenched. After all, OS X initially had no native apps, still emulating the old OS 9 environment, and Carbon (essentially recompiling a "classic" Mac OS 9 app with relatively minor changes) would be the dominant API for some time too. Indeed Carbon wasn't removed until macOS 10.15 Catalina in late 2019.
The first is probably more debatable, but I agree with the second. And liability for self-driving is a contentious matter that I would not say is legally settled.
Is there no revanced equivalent for iphone?
Why not utf-8-sig, though? It handles optional BOMs. Had to fix a script last week that choked on it.
This is the same organization that passed the absolute hack Microsoft lobbied for as an international digital document standard. Never assume anything ISO does has any value, at the risk of locking yourself into some large organization's grift.
Apple's refusal to make RAM upgradeable is something that many have tolerated because of the other strengths of the hardware platform.

But it is not without cost to Apple's brand reputation. It is painful to upgrade to a new machine when a few hundred dollar RAM upgrade would have given the old machine 1-2 years of additional useful life.

Some customers don't realize this, but for those who do it makes Apple seem greedy and not concerned with value or the investment of the customer's dollars in its ecosystem.

Apple sells under-powered machines to naive customers who then need to upgrade sooner. It's really sad that one of the great tech companies employs used car salesman style deception into its pricing structure and aims it at the least informed of its customer base (grandmas and people who can barely afford it anyway).

This is why people hate capitalism, but it's actually greed and shortsightedness that they should hate. Competition should make tactics like this unsustainable, but Apple has a lof of entrenched advantage and employs many questionable forms of anticompetitive behavior to create lock-in. Overall it's bad citicenship due to tremendous greed.
It would be far worse to silo everything off to "experts" in their field. Usually such deference is just a cop out for not learning what they learned.

Often the best work is done when combining the knowledge of people from different fields. Humility is important but more collaboration is needed, not less.
I mean, there's plenty of snark on both sites' comment sections. You are allowed to feel sympathy for the victims while also wondering WTF they were thinking. Both are possible.
Amd your Premium prices keeps going up. What has YT done to take 20% more than they were a year ago?
I've installed KeePassXC on my Mac and Linux machines and it stores Passkeys. Low-tech syncing is by Signal Notes to Self. If there were an audited app for iPhones I'd still be using that method; there isn't, so I've moved to Bitwarden. Passkeys seems to work fine on Bitwarden.
> Another big problem is lack of transparency: we don't always know what they're tracking.

And thats where it gets messy and infringes on personal freedoms: if you're required to purchase a risk-adjusted product but you don't know what risk factors you're being judged on, how do you know you're not being discriminated against unfairly? How do you know there's no mistakes? How do you know the person you sold your car to isn't accidentally affecting your rates because the insurance company's data broker never got the transfer-of-sale? How do you know the insurance companies aren't colluding and deciding you're on the wrong side of a Red Line they drew on some map?

With credit scores, there's been a long fight to get a half-assed kinda-free basically-complete credit report so you could at least see what you're being judged on. Where's the "credit report" my insurance company is making choices on so I can at least try to correct inaccuracies?

I get insurance companies make decisions based on information, and better information is just market efficiencies at work. It gets real messy real quick when the information affects something you're often required to purchase and you have no recourse.

Go ahead, get the market efficiencies from better information, but if you're being forced to participate, the government forcing your participation should also force the other side to present the information that judges you.
There’s always a chance it’ll put out something better than your greatest work.

Humble yourself to chaos, evilduck
what do local shop closures as reaction to union movements prove?
JIRA obviously allows one to customize workflows as well, and I frankly don't really care about the visualization of it. The problem is that at many companies, there is one group that is allowed to change the workflow and they are more interested in conformity than allowing teams to work well.
Let's say you have Spotify, Slack, Discord, VSCode for starters up and running. Or even Teams on top of that. 10 year old machine couldn't probably handle that.
There are 84 independent charges, the majority were overturned by a judge, and at least one mistrial has been declared due to misconduct by the prosecution.

This looks like prosecutorial abuse to me.

Wrongful convictions in the US are way too common. With that many chargers and cascading retrials like this, I'd expect at least one false conviction regardless of who is on trial.

If the guy's guilty, fine. They should have charged him with things that were supported by solid evidence instead of stuffing charges so they can keep trying him for the same things over and over until they get a guilty verdict.

This sort of case is the reason double jeopardy is supposed to be illegal in the US.
On the Relationship Between Memorizing and Understanding (2022)
I'm well aware of the procedural votes that occur before something goes before the entire House or Senate...which serve no other practical purpose than to slow things down. It should not be possible under any circumstances for a single vote -- in an instance where that vote would not make or break a tie among the majority -- to doom a bill that a majority of the caucus supports.

Glares in the direction of the Freedom Caucus, many of whom should have been expelled from Congress after 1/6

In addition, the shitshow that is the amendment process demonstrates that our representatives have long forgotten how to craft comprehensive legislation that has even a chance of addressing all potential concerns.

Again, if I had a magic wand for a day to fix Congress, I'd dissolve it and reconstitute the chambers as a parliament...but how exactly to do that is an argument for another day.
Same here - I've bought 5 of these exact devices for family & extended family. All are super happy with their laptop. In fact, my main hobby laptop is an M1 Air (my beast Intel MBP 16" isn't snappy enough - relegated to games).
Truth lacks facts. The author supplies no numbers, no benchmarks, no evidence.
Author is here.

Tables occupying more space than expected is a common complaint from Postgres users. I explained in simple terms what could (or should) be done to avoid this in real working conditions. And what kinds of workloads need special attention.

But, nowadays disk space is cheap, so most of us can relax while Postgres does what is needed.
Substance Designer is a defacto industry standard in procedural texture creation. As of 5.4 UE also has a texture graph editor. They're all node based editors combining a bunch of PCG techniques and patterns to produce textures in parametric, non-destructive way.
there is almost an anonymous, decentralised version of Github, and it was invented before Github.. it is the git software core. One major difference is that a commit must contain an email address identifier in the commit. The intent of the git software system is absolutely to prevent the seizure and gatekeeping by "law enforcement" or others
I have gone from systemd on RedHat to OpenRC on Alpine (have used both for years). Systemd is much more unstable and frustrating to work with.

I do wish something like s6 was the default on Alpine, it’s been quite nice when I have used it in containers.
> "And the really crazy part --- even the least educated manual laborer can immediately grasp that giving his work away for free invites exploitation."

The funniest part is that this outcome was obvious even in the 1990s. Evangelists were begging businesses to start using FOSS with slogans like "free as in beer and free as in speech" and hailing every corporate adoption as a victory. Meanwhile, business were belching contentedly and asking for another free beer while pointedly not giving a rat's ass about giving back or software freedom.

I'm absolutely amazed that it took reality this long to catch up with FOSS.
Doubly for EV SUVs.
How Not to Release Historic Source Code
Git hosted on Nostr, a pseudo decentralized social network and web-of-trust/public key distribution system. https://github.com/gnostr-org

Jack Dorsey is donating 10 bitcoin to a successful project of this type:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11hxcyf/jack_dorse...
That article supports the claim that some retailers expanding. This could be shifting market share, and have regional differences as well

to understand the trends, we would need to understand total changes for the retail sector, and location data.
It's incredibly easy, we have examples of dictatorships and fascism in living memory.
For me it absolutely doesn't, that's why 16 GB is the bare minimum for me. But setting me aside, my fiancee only does basic office work and web browsing (elementary school teacher) and she had to upgrade to 16 GB too since 8 GB wasn't cutting it with more than a couple dozen browser tabs open.
Why wait!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awX_tAf3BaQ
https://www.rembrand.com/technical-overview
You're absolutely right, all of my complaints are about ads.

I could also complain about the incentives Youtube gives creators to make phenomenally irritating thumbnails, video structures (everything is 20 goddam minutes long now), the list goes on.

Also, when the ads are this aggressively bad, I'm somehow less inclined to pay for Premium. It's like paying a "protection fee" to be saved from their own terrible UX.
That website calling CNN moderately left instantly destroys its credibility
By ChatGPT, do you mean ChatGPT-3.5 or ChatGPT-4? No one should be using ChatGPT-3.5 in an interactive chat session at this point, and I wish OpenAI would recognize that their free ChatGPT-3.5 service seems like it is more harmful to ChatGPT-4 and OpenAI's reputation than it is helpful, just due to how unimpressive ChatGPT-3.5 is compared to the rest of the industry. You're much better off using Google's free Gemini or Meta's Llama-3-powered chat site or just about anything else at this point, if you're unwilling to pay for ChatGPT-4.

I am skeptical that ChatGPT-4 would have done what you described, based on my own extensive experience with it.
That is not a "very" specific way considering that the government has monopoly on violence by definition of the government.

Actually most of the governments are exactly on that ground abusing the fact that only few countries allows the citizens to own firearms.
Usually my windows work machines last about a year before they basically burn out from all the security stuff running on them. They always run hot even over the weekend.
It's not ideal, but generally these tools aren't used by web developers. I did some stuff with Jasper reports and dashboards that took this approach and was then acquired by Tibco so may be merged with that toolset now. At the time I also evaluated Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI etc. Now had the best "look" but it just about worked for the business. This is a difficult market to get into though full of huge companies with dedicated solutions and then other large cloud providers. How would you differentiate yourself, gain sales and attract users?
Good find- I was on my mobile at the time so couldn't dig this deep so I am happy to see someone figured it out.
> we saw strong traction from the introduction of a pause ads pilot on connected TVs, a new non-interruptive ad format that appears when users pause their organic content

That's an interesting interpretation of the phrase "non-interruptive" right there. I guess interruptive is the new non-interruptive?
Retail E-Commerce AI
Is there any YC companies doing retail e-commerce AI? Amazon's CreativeX Program is looking for partners.
> 120 of 225M were BTC + ETH

Sorry, meant to say half. Corrected. Thank you.

> Xenia Havana who donated $50 from her American bank account being in Russia and therefore went into jail?

$50 is not meaningful.
>reddit and other platforms are much worse

This can still be like being the skinniest kid at fat camp. If social media in general is bad for your mental health, I don't know if it's a ringing endorsement to be the "least bad for your health."
The metaphor might be a bit esoteric, but that's similar to wishing that Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) allowed you "get your <private keys>" out of the HSM. As sibling comment says, that's how you get phished. The whole point of an HSM (and a passkey) is that the super-secret private part never leaves the HSM no matter how nicely you ask and no matter how compromised the machine is.

A password manager, OTOH, is happy to hand out your private key ("password" in this case) to anyone that has access to it.
Wipr works for me, most of the time.
I remember hearing an interview with a woman who was doing charter school-type work in the UK (IIRC), where most of her students were thought of as "underperforming".

She was successful because they emphasized drills, lots of drills, and more drills.

Teachers and students hate drills. Teachers, because they're tedious to grade, and students because they're boring. But they work. It's no different than doing the same Super Mario Bros. level again and again until you time your jumps just right.

I've often thought that gamification of drills would be a great way to get kids to learn their math facts or whatever, but there seems to be an allergy to doing this in the US education system. What the US education system seems to be addicted to is moving from one hype/fad to the next, as that's where the money trough seems to be.
Thanks. I wasn't aware this was submitted recently already.
Thanks for that perspective. I wish there was more of a focus on people trying to improve their own countries versus running to another country, but I can understand why people would choose that option.

The problem I've been seeing in Canada is that we have A TON of new people coming from India. Aside from all our services being unable to handle things. The other problem is that people from these cultures tend to stick together, rather than assimilate. When the rates of immigration are kept lower and the people being brought in are more diverse, the problem isn't really present. But when about 90-95% of new people are coming from one country, the problem really surfaces.

People will say they are trying to get away from the bad practices in their country and that they want to improve, however in practice it doesn't seem 100% true. Many continue to operate the same way as where they came from. Especially since they can stay within their Indian communities and rarely need to interact with the existing population. Canada has now began shifting towards a more low trust society. Even things like food banks aren't save from many new immigrants as they are viewing them as places for them to keep more of their salary rather than as places for people really struggling.

And I think this is part of the reason many people start to become against immigration. When they see their own countries culture/norms/values start to get degraded. Many people even start to feel real hatred and racist feelings towards groups because of it.

To me, leaving a country for betterment makes sense in a way. But leaving to another country to copy your own countries practices just seems odd to me.
Ah, you think I don't know that? I mute and look away every time.
The comments are from 2012.
Agreed, and the fact that, when I click the X on the shorts bar thing it says "The shorts will be removed for 30 days" like no you assholes, I want it GONE. I don't want to just have to do this again in a month.
> Swapping constantly kills SSDs though

This is the conventional wisdom around memory management and swapping yet in my experience a dead SSD in a Macbook is pretty uncommon. They seem to die of about 10 other things first, well into their useful lifespan, including physical wear and tear, worn out ports, etc.
I have a LG 38WN95C (3480x1600, 144hz, thunderbolt 3) monitor that's plugged into my Macbook Pro (M1 Pro _I think_, I'm not home to doulble check). The laptop is in clamshell and plugged in via Thunderbolt 3. IIRC, I had to turn the refresh rate down to 120hz, but otherwise it works well. The only hiccup is that if I unplug it, use it for a bit, and plug it back in I have to open the lid one time after plugging it in so it can realize it's plugged in to a display.

I have a M3 Pro MacBook Pro for work that I also swap between on the display using the single cable that I remove from one to plug into the other. The laptop travels with me to work where it plugs into a 16:9 4k 60hz monitor while it's open. I have the same clamshell issue as my personal laptop where I have to open it once after plugging it in, but otherwise it works pretty well.

I do however have to do some workspace rearranging when I go from clamshell->ultrawide to my work setup of open lid->16:9 monitor. But that's no a huge deal since I'm going from 1 screen to 2 screens.
? FreeBSD ships with three different firewalls in base.
When taking mathematics classes in university I always noticed an enormous gap between what I thought I understood compared to how confusing the problems were. I am glad the author mentions that phenomenon.

For (the few) students who actually understood the subject the problems are just busywork, for those who didn't it is the most important part of the learning process. There is exactly one way to understand mathematics, which is actually doing it. This can be many things, but actually solving problems is an important part. I believe that problems should be interesting, but repeated recall definitely is important as well.
What non-circularly defines a money-transmitting business?
The statement "The Universe as a Computer" either overly simplifies what the universe is or overly complicates what a computer is ...