skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not applicable. I don't feel any need to answer a complete non-sequitur.
About tax revenue. We like to think the more you make the more you pay.

But using programs like these just turn the most vulnerable into revenue for the state -creating wild conflicts of interest. Additionally these types of revenues tend to replace other sources of funding rather than supplement.

Like sports betting I know that lottery players skew low income - making the state effectively tax low income households at a higher rate.
cat filename > /dev/null

Reads the entire file into the OS buffer.
How many people actually understand Paxos?

The assertion at the time was that only a few people understood it well enough to make a correct implementation, the others were full of bugs.

The problem we have with Lamport is that he’s very good at talking to computers but not so good at talking to humans. I think the world would be a better place today if someone had forced him to learn to speak human.

He did a presentation at MS just after he won the Turing Award. He prefaces it with how important writing is to thinking, and how you don’t really know what you think until you write it down. Those are the words and thinking of an introvert. Writing is still the shallow end of understanding. The deep end is teaching. If you understand something and you teach it to others, then you have proven that you understand it, and caused that understanding not to be lost to posterity. If you only write about it, it might work as instructional material, or it may require some very clever people who can teach themselves using your words. But they may also get it wrong, and not have you for feedback.

The latter is where seem to be with Leslie’s works. The consensus is that few people actually understand what he’s talking about well enough to implement it correctly.

I had a coworker once who was shocked to learn I read the ACM SIGPLAN proceedings. “You can read those??” I knew what he meant and yeah, a lot of those were very unapproachable and I understood two thirds of them and only half of each of the rest. Before I committed to using Raft I gave Lamport’s paper a try. It was a slog and he doesn’t sell the why of each part. He’s just giving you a very, very long recipe without the mental models necessary to reproduce it robustly.
I am in the minority who thinks Raft is overrated.

I tried teaching Raft one year instead of Paxos but ended up switching back. While it was much easier to understand how to implement Raft, I think my students gained deeper insight when focusing on single-decision Paxos. There is a lightbulb moment when they first understand that consensus is a property of the system that happens first (and they can point at the moment it happens) and then the nodes discover that it has been achieved later. Exploring various failure modes and coming to understand how Paxos is robust against them seems to work better in this setting as well.

I think this paper by Heidi Howard and Richard Mortier is a great way to move on to Multipaxos:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05074

They present Multipaxos in a similar style to how Raft is laid out and show that Multipaxos as it is commonly implemented and Raft are almost the same protocol.

Raft was a great contribution to the engineering community to make implementing consensus more approachable, but in the end I don't think the protocol itself is actually more understandable. It was presented better for implementers, but the implementation focus obscures some of the deep insights that plain Paxos exposes.
Maybe they can stammer like the swift compiler on type annotations or that Bachman turner overdrive song you ain’t seen nothing yet
People are really consistent on needing both of those. And practice, and studying again after practice.

How much of those things they need varies from person to person, but they always need all of them.
> but I'm slowly starting to suspect that most of it is just covert shilling by vested persons.

It's almost as if the horde of former kleptocurrency bros have found a promising new seam of fool's gold to mine
We've made a bit of a family thing of visiting spy museums, and would say: Visit both! (And if you have the opportunity for some reason, the CIA museum is also fantastic, but not open to the public).

The Spy Museum has better flashy interactive exhibits for kids, but underneath all of the sound and light has a _very_ impressive collection. The National Cryptologic Museum is, as one might expect, more focused on the cryptography side of things as opposed to the more general spycraft collection in both the Spy Museum and the CIA's museum, and is a better one if you're particularly interested in ciphers and codebreaking. The Spy Museum & CIA museum have more exhibits of hidden microphones, weapons, communication devices, etc.

The German Spy Museum (Deutsches Spionage Museum) in Berlin is also quite good and also good for kids. It is, unsurprisingly, particularly deep in Stasi-related materials. They have a fascinating exhibit of a car whose door had been filled with infrared lights for taking covert nighttime photographs, at really mindblowing cost.

Also note that the NSA's collection has an online portal: https://5099.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/Default.aspx?lang=e....

And the CIA Museum's collection is partly online: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/

(Sorry. I don't know how we became spy museum fans but the kids adore them. :-)
This is the most succinct summary of what's been gnawing at me ever since LLMs became the latest thing.

If Ilya Sutskever announced tomorrow that he'd achieved AGI, and here is its economic plan for the next 20 years, why would we have any reason to accept it over that of other human experts? It would literally be just another expert trying to tell us how to do things. And we're not short of experts, and an AGI expert has thrown away the credibility of computers as deterministically better calculators than we are.
I personally love sports betting and I’m glad that it’s legal to do and I don’t have to send money to the Caribbean to do it. For me $10 is enough to get me interested in a game and I don’t gamble compulsively.

The cat is out of the bag with sports betting, any teenager can open up a Bovada account with no verification.

I’m happy to talk about advertising and reasonable regulation but banning sports betting at this point seems silly.
Open Source Pass Converter for Mobile Wallets
> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it?

There are minor downsides in theory. Proof-of-stake is a bit less "democratic" and gives more voting share to those who have more money, vs. just are mining. In practice, proof-of-stake coins seem to be doing fine. The main one here is Ethereum.

The main reason Bitcoin hasn't is due to inertia and the interest for miners (who do proof-of-work) to use their democratic power to keep bitcoin invested in proof-of-work.
> We spent a whole week learning about all the clever tricks Harrah's data scientists found to keep people in the gambling halls.

What sort of stuff are they pulling? Like sending down a five dollar cocktail to keep someone spending 20 bucks a hand at the craps table?
Students of raft say they understand it but when they have to implement it they make as many mistakes as students of paxos. The simplicity is misleading.
but most national currencies have long since abandoned of the idea of being backed by physical resources, and have shifted towards promises, belief, and trust. are you saying that de-centralization introduces unique aspects that make physical backing a necessity?
This is what made them ask why CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978 and
CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020.
I don't know if people are picking up the context shift here.

It's true the UN is unanimously anti Israel for most of its existence. This isn't a change.
And of course Israel ignores the UN, also not a change.

The Lebanese/Hezbollah better wise up. The Israelis outgun them by inconceivable degrees, and like the Palestinians, were only saved from the usual historical result of annihilation by the politics of oil for the last 75 years.

However:

1) the USA is oil independent with shale oil, and has no functional interest in the region anymore

2) the Saudis, who no longer have the us military as de facto mercenaries on demand and longtime funder of anti Israel groups, need a military power against their biggest threats (Iran and turkey), and are now allies with Israel.

3) yes saudi oil is still important to China,Japan, and Europe, but EVs and alternative energy are poised to make oil a strategically insignificant product in the coming decades, one that can be easily sourced by major militaries without caring about the muddle east.

Anyway, so people arguing about who is the terrorist and who is the valid nation state are arguing from the context of an international trade system that gives a damn about the region being stable.

Israel knows the new rules: nobody cares, just like nobody cares about the Tigers war and nobody cares about Armenia Azerbaijan and whatever other hotspots around the world. Hezbollah and Palestinians need to wake up to this reality, even though the sad fact is that they won't as long as Iranian funds are the only thing that keeps the lights on for them.
> Those are the thoughts that the blog post provoked in my mind

I didn't have any of those negative thoughts. Even though I'm nothing like the guy in terms of either data collection or dressing myself.

Ask yourself why you are being so triggered by a typically HN-geeky blog post that hurts no one.
> Linux doesn't distinguish between trusted LANs [...] and public untrusted LANs

Gotta be the annoying and point out here that Linux is a kernel. Fedora Workstation, for instance, has firewalld installed & enabled by default, which does apply different policies to different network zones. Hook a default system up to a hostile coffee shop, and TCP/UDP ports <= 1024 are blocked by the default FedoraWorkstation zone. NetworkManager connections have a 'zone' property that the user can change to 'home', 'trusted', etc.

> Also, the fact that your printer infra can run arbitrary code as root, code supplied by the remote printer itself, is another level of crazy

Only, it seems, if non-default legacy printer drivers (foomatic) and discovery services (cups-browsed) are present. And doesn't cups run backends as an unprivileged 'lp' user? And confined by MAC (again, in the Red Hat world, SELinux confines it to the cupsd_t domain). So not _that_ crazy.
I can't actually remember who is the person who I requested the invite from, I think they were given out somewhat freely by some users.
Just steam some sushi rice, choose a filling, maybe salt the rice a bit if you want and form it into the shape with your hands. If you want wrap it with some nori, salt or put furikake on it. No need to pay the foreign Japanese food tax! It’s dead simple to make, and whoever is selling that ripoff onigiri to you is probably not even Japanese anyway.

(Admittedly the rice here does taste better in my opinion, but so it goes…)
Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
On a related note, I know somebody who owns a complete run of PHOTO magazine (the original French edition) and is looking to donate them. First published in the 1960s, with approximately 10 issues per year, his collection has approximately 580 issues. Contact me if you know an individual or organization that would be interested.
When I finished the book, I was so disappointed that it was over.

Supposedly the original manuscript was like 40% longer. I hope thats published some day.
That’s fine, the winter after this will be a productive one, because even a simulacrum of intelligence that GPT is, is useful to some extent.
> But is that a sustainable model?

For me, it is.

But YMMV. I write native Swift apps, or Web stuff for a pretty small demographic.

No one will get rich from my stuff.
Even as an adult I enjoy time when some other person I am spending time with is fully engaged and fully present, I’d call it quality time, but it’s just so rare…
I'm not at all worried that any of my electronics are about to explode. Same reason I'm not worried my wedding will be blown up by a drone strike - I don't let terrorist infiltrate my society. If my family gets blown up because my neighbor was storing a cruise missile in his living room - he's my enemy. Not the person that blew them up.
4K light-years away, astronomers find a chilling vision of Earth's future
Disagree, and from the way the Nard was handling the situation (basically taking it all in stride) I don't think he saw that way either.
Exactly.

At this point, AGI could mean anything, from taking the majority of people's jobs to enriching themselves and never achieving 'AGI' in the first place.

It is entirely possible that 'AGI' could be a massive lie and was all about capturing the wealth for a few people at the company.

Believe what they do; not what they say.
> ”Remote Browser Isolation provides Chromium browsers that run on Cloudflare, in containers, rather than on the end user’s own computer. Only the rendered output is sent to the end user.”

It turns out we don’t need React Server Components after all. In the future we will just run the entire browser on the server.
I took your comment "Such talk is verboten on HN" as being in response to such.
I'd be interested to see whether the Federal Trade Commission sees a problem with privacy policies and disclosures varying on the same website. I think there's a case to be made that the differences in data gathering fall short of informed consent and that the unified branding for different entities constitutes deceptive advertising.
Your account is 9 mins old. You started an account to defend sports gambling? Ok. Corporate sports gambling thanks you for your service.
Show HN: What Is "Free and Open-Source Software"?
What do you mean by this? All I see in this thread is people who have absolutely no legal background who are 100% certain that copyright law works how they assume it does and are 100% wrong.
This has become such a talking point of mine when I'm inevitably forced to explain why LLMs can't come for my job (yet). People seem baffled by the idea that reporting collects novel information about the world which hasn't been indexed/ingested at any point because it didn't exist before I did the interview or whatever it is.
The answer is an unambiguous “no”, people just don’t want to hear it. The right for anyone to resell your software is part of Stallman’s fundamental freedoms and item 1 of the Open Source definition. I’m sympathetic to the guy, getting your lunch eaten by a competitor is no fun, but I don’t think he’s in a different position than any other proprietary software dev who wants to get paid according to the value of what he wrote.
We did? That's nuts if we did. What URL were you using?

EDIT: It looks like some people may have been using ghost.blog.cloudflare.com/rss because we used to use Ghost but the actual URL was/is blog.cloudflare.com/rss. We're setting up a redirect for anyone who was using the ghost. URL.
My friend is a High School teacher in Las Vegas. He regularly has students tell him that they don't see the point in school because they make more than he does parking cars at the casinos. He tries to point out to them that those tips won't last once they can't run for eight hours a day, but the message is often lost.

However, they aren't wrong. They do in fact make about 50% more than he does just working part time on weekends.
Why do we need a so-called decentralized currency anyway? I'd be less antagonistic if its major use case wasn't money laundering.
This also stood out to me as obviously wrong in the article. Since time immemorial, we have taught math by teaching the core concepts and building on them incrementally. Since people do successfully learn how to do math, this directly disproves the author's claim that people don't learn that way.
> Why is any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering?

Ummm. Taxes?

Money laundering is very clearly accounting fraud. If embezzlement is a crime, then money laundering is just embezzlement in reverse.

I feel like you are down an absolutist rabbithole about privacy. There are certain practical limits to privacy. You cannot blight yourself from other people's vision. You cannot operate in a society (whether it be grocery shopping, owning property, driving a car) without existing in some form. "Privacy" only makes sense in the context and is not some maximalist ideal that you can apply to any situation.
Like most of these articles, it looks at open source, or rather, free software, through a purely economic lens. But free software is not primarily about economics, but about empowerment and sovereignty. I like having a text editor/browser/OS/chat client & protocol/compiler/video player/etc. that aren't closed binary blobs full of ads, telemetry, DRM, and subscription services (or printers betraying their owners with invisible tracking dots).

The concern is not theoretical, as protesters in Hong Kong discovered when "their" phones refused to run software they used to organize: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-apple-i...

The FSF is clear on the motivations: A proprietary program puts its developer or owner in a position of power over its users. This power is in itself an injustice. - https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html

The links on that page give many other examples of why free software is necessary.
I have no beef with FSL. FSL is totally fine.

I would just prefer to have more liability protection.
1) the CHIPS money Intel received is going to the Foundry, not the products group;

2) that's not Intel's latest chips, these are:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

One fully made by Intel Foundry, the other with at least some considerable TSMC parts (which isn't unexpected for the market segment it's in and the fact it was allegedly designed by Habana before it was bought out).
I never said compression schemes have to be seekable, you were the one arguing most other compression schemes are seekable.
You can as of very recently get A6000s on Hetzner, which is a pretty good deal (but not serverless, so you need a consistent load).
Yeah definitely. Going to build out a first version of block lists / reporting this weekend. Someone else wants a firefox version too so might start there in terms of additional browser support. Thanks!
Top google result for "best pet insurance" and "best CBD gummies" are Forbes (actually Forbes Marketplace), and they've moving into sports betting.

https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/
Non-expert, pure speculator here: I cannot help but think of the Titan submersible and its minor flaw in the hull that slowly became more and more of an issue with each dive and pressurization cycle. I wonder if the 'untenable' leak rate that isn't agreed upon is the rate at which an accelerated and catastrophic runaway event occurs?
Hezbollah has fired 20,000 rockets since 2000. They started firing rockets in the 1980s. Hezbollah's stated aim in their 1985 charter is the Destruction of Israel and to help the Ayatollah of Iran create a Muslim Caliphate and kill the non-Muslims.

So yes, killing them seems appropriate. If you don't want your electronics exploding, don't attack the Jews.
An employee who left for another job or simply retired and who feels this was wrong. Plenty of lads in Meta earn enough to buy a house and have some investments that there is little leverage over them to ruin their careers.
Black market approaches to attempting to limit / control human behavior are insane and do not work.

That goes for gambling, smoking, prostitution, drinking, drugs, et al.

Education, therapy and taxation are about the only things that have been shown to work reasonably (eg not spurring massive crime outcomes) to introduce effective limiting forces or properly respond to the consequences of excess.

Outlawing gambling is just as insane as outlawing alcohol, smoking, drug use.
You have some protections with those though (usually). If you pay for software and you are not getting what you pay for, you can sue them (or whatever system you have in your country).

In the context of FOSS, it's almost always given away "as-is" without any sort of warranties or guarantees. If people end up shooting themselves in the foot even with those warnings, it's hard to feel sad for them.
Hacker News is my favorite C-Suite level support forum of cloudflare and stripe.
Secure Computer Architecture in the Post-Meltdown World: A Long Road Ahead
> Cash-equivalent monetary commodities are, by literal definition, illegal to create

No they're not.

U.S. dollars are illegal to forge. But the history of currency in America includes state-chartered currency [1], privately-issued currency [2] and even community currencies [3]. Hell, the entire theory of banking is private banks create cash-like instruments in the form of deposits.

> executive order can, has, had, and will almost certainly be passed again, imminently seizing any cache of "valued currency"

Source? This has only been done with gold to my knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
> If the underlying activity is a crime, we already have laws to deal with that.

Why should guns be illegal, we already have a crime against killing.

Breathtakingly idiotic.
All currencies are negative sum when you only consider minting and transaction costs.
I'm no different than anyone else in that I don't have a lot of time. Where I have noticed I'm different is how closely I listen, how critical I am of what I hear, and how often I question what I did not hear. The other difference is, my BS detector for editorial - positioned as "news" / "journalism" - is very well oiled. I accept opinion - I have no choice - but I don't in my mind treat it as fact.

Most people seen to get caught up in looking for confirmation bias that they abandoned critical thinking. Most people hear what they want to hear, and the media is more than happy to feed them that comfort.

Let me give you an example, a couple of weeks ago I saw a story that the Sahara Desert (Africa) is greening. I noticed that from a number of different sources and each source used the same phrase for this[1]: "unusual weather patterns". Huh? Why is greening from "unusual weather patterns" but when there's damage it's *always* from "climate change"? No one I know caught the Orwellian sleight of hand.

Along the same lines, The Washington Post ran a story last week about the science of climate. It was even shared on HN. No one seemed to notice. Odd because it effectively said, up to now there was no definitive study on the history of the earth's climate. So up to now what were all "the experts" basing their "science" on then? Hearsay? Mindless parroting? Worst was this study effectively made a case for climate change might not be human-made, simply because over time climate has been very dynamic and at time extreme. Per this study and the graph it publish there is no "normal".

These were both in plain sight. And yet crickets. Maybe I should stop thinking and put more time into keeping up with the Kardashians?

[1] The fact that they used the same phrase also told me, they invested zero resources in this story and were merely parroting the narrative provided by the news service they were using. Note: This approach by definition is not journalism.
> AI falls into the decentralized camp

I'm sorry, the worlds knowledge now largely accessible by a laymen via LLMs controlled by at most, 5 companies is decentralized? If that statement is true then the world decentralized truly is entirely devoid of meaning at this point.
Up to 600M Facebook and Instagram passwords stored in plain text
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These weren't civilian pagers, they were specifically tied to Hezbollah's comms network which is separate from Lebanese civilian infra.