skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cash-equivalent monetary commodities are, by literal definition, illegal to create

No they're not.

Next time you get a token for your local arcade, note the obvious "not redeemable for cash" that every single one has.

The same reason is why Gift cards/store 'credit'(read: literally legally debit) have the opposite - that they can only be redeemed for its cash equivalent - but are "not transferable" - those words explicitly dilineate a currency from a store of value - it's economic interoperability.

You can have internal representations of value that you accept - and even deny, such as Casino's, if warranted. But you must treat them as a debited cash account, must accept USD regardless for any services indebted, and if you allow infra-structural transactions ( like between users) or accept a large enough amount of fiat, you must Know your Customer, or run afoul of more laws.

Eutherum's ICO and the subsequent secondary shovel-selling scams saddled the SEC with the need for more stringent guidance.

>U.S. dollars are illegal to forge.

without a charter/license/permit and your 10% tax, effectively making it nonviable.

It's also illegal to drive a car without a license, sell untaxed alcohol, and offer redemptive fractions of future swap's possible `price.

The difference between a fine and a tax is semantics (see: Obamacare)

> 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.

This is moreso an artifact of companies being people and money being speech; which is legally/politically irreconcilable with the needs of modern governance.

> 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.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20220808
Bitcoin was intentionally modeled after the literal economics of the scarcity of a resource vs. it's production rate and it intrinsic utility - Gold.

Aside from a trivial privacy oversight (really from a lack of applied math at the time), Bitcoin is nearly perfectly analogous to cash, and therefore would likely be reasoned as such. Even each token having a unique serial number, and those presumably being connected/correlated constantly, make it a near perfect analogy - especially in contexts.

Bitcoin is a currency, currencies must be controlled by the State for stability and institutional continuity.

Even if it's not "de facto" illegal - given non-production, a regressive tax, and a mote of regulation, it is essentially illegally to horde value for others without 'oversight', as the risks you expose others to could systemically impact everyone's security/stability.
Unions in the US make for very high costs and long production schedules.
The Case of an Astronaut's Missing Omega Speedmaster and How the FBI Got It Back
If Mother Nature wanted to roll us up as a failed experiment she could eliminate us overnight with one virus. Lighten up.
Someone, a one day old account, wrote and then deleted this while I was writing a reply:

> No other engineering discipline thinks this way. You design circuits for performance, manufacturing, and cost, not other engineers.

Yeah, that's why we don't produce schematics, diagrams, and blueprints or maintain those things over the years.

Software development is a design discipline, not a construction discipline. The analogs in engineering disciplines to source code are not the circuit, the car, or the bridge artifacts, but the schematics, diagrams, and models that go into their development.

And yes, practitioners in engineering disciplines absolutely care about communicating with other people (including other engineers), that's a substantial portion of their job in fact.
> loss of the diverse viewpoints necessary for a robust society

This isn’t wrong but let me put a finer point on it: when BigCompany Inc starts dumping sludge into your town’s lake, you need independent journalists to figure that out. Corporate talking heads aren’t going to do that. And certainly not the people running a link farm.

What news is reported is as important as whether the facts are true. The easiest path to propaganda is to simply report other, more convenient, facts.
Meanwhile:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hun...
Lovely story
I also wrote TCL scripts for a IRC client in the 90s, and it was awesome. For that purpose the language was awesome. On the other hand, my other language at that time was x86 assembly so I didnt require much to be awed I guess!
> Are you sure you didn't use your mother's credit card instead?

No, 100% sure it was a debit card, as that's the only thing she ever used, and same for me, never owned a credit card in my life, still only have debit cards.

The debit cards my mom had and the ones I have now are identical to a credit card (including the 16 digit number, CVC and so on) except the fact that the money gets taken from the account directly instead of paying it at the end of the month (as I think credit cards do?).
https://archive.today/IVJjW

FOIA Responsive Records: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r6_K6hva...
Manual review is just fallible, period. The App Store has dealt with extremely high-profile phishing apps as well, even imitating Lastpass and the like: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/a-password-manager-...
That's the $50,000,000,000,000 question.[1] Are they adapted? Will they adapt? Who knows?

1 - https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/cost-to-end-climate-chang...
Hats off, you really did in fact a deep analysis of Rust conceptual errors by searching alternative ways to fix Rust async. Also by understanding and describing the decisions you made and what are their architectural implications (I liked the good, the bad and the ugly part).

While I can't appreciate the entirety of this language because I can't grasp all the technical subtilities, I really like the core ideas at the basis of Yao and the spirit you put into it. I hope I can play with this language some day. And wish you good luck with this nice project.
Glad I waited before starting with Rust. Now I can just jump straight to Yao. Rust is so early 2020s.
As a former military aviator, I will say that there might be something here. A skill that's praised in that community is "compartmentalization," or being able to put away distractions such as the argument you had with your spouse, the kid being sick, or the late paperwork sitting on your desk that's irritating your boss, and focus solely on flying the mission while you're in the cockpit. That said, at least in my time, they did a crap job of actually teaching students HOW to compartmentalize.

That said, one of the steps in being qualified to fly any given aircraft is having to occasionally get in the simulator and fly a "Kobiyashi Maru" type sequence of multiple compounding emergencies over and over again. You're being graded not just on being able to follow the checklists, but knowing enough about the aircraft to know what to do when multiple systems fail and the checklists contradict each other, or you're in a corner case where following a checklist blindly is a dumb idea.

In cases like these, being able to be calmly present in the moment is a very valuable skill.
> People who go to a museum and throw paint at a work of art (which is protected behind glass) are routinely condemned and sent to jail.

They're condemned because their way of protesting is worthless. Protesting only works if it either inconveniences people enough to trigger action or if it targets the people actually responsible. If they truly believed that climate change was a critical issue, then they should take a page from how union strikes used to work.
This is just floorplanning, which is a problem with fairly well defined quality metrics (max speed and chip area used).
I find the formulation in the abstract slightly confusing. As far as I understand EG-Walker is a CRDT, an operation-based one.
I have no problem with gambling. I used to frequent gambling boats that would go to international waters to do their thing. I have a huge problem with how sports gambling has been marketed lately (at least here in Florida).

Its basically the same as smoking/vaping for me. Allow people their choice. It should be illegal to market it in 'cool' / 'sexy' ways, which is what I am seeing in todays advertising.
Won't apply to everyone (most?), but some compliance assurances your customers may require can't be fulfilled by Cloudflare. And personally, I would hope their laissez faire attitude towards protecting hate speech should damage their business, but I suspect most people not targeted by such just don't give a damn.
I'll need 7 5 gigawatt datacenters in the middle of major urban areas or we might lose the Bubble Sort race with the Chinese.
I wish I could upvote you twice.

I decided on my values because of bcantrill's talk. Everyone should watch it.

A more complete list of my values is at https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/docs/adl/00... .
Tired of other developers? ifdef your code with your Windows username
I like that the religion of teams is going away

That part was weirder to me
When I make them at home I usually stuff them with teriyaki chicken
> People pointing out problems are not obligated to provide solutions.

And nobody said they were obligated to. So I don't know what you think you're responding to.

I assume it's OK to ask people what they think a solution should be, though?

Seems like a pretty natural, conversational follow-up, if you ask me.

Presumably if you know a situation well enough to criticize, you have at least some ideas of what alternatives might or might not be better. Or can elucidate why you think there might not be any better ones.

Or do you think the entire act of asking questions is "just wrong", to use your phrase?
Do you think the police, when they raid your house on some pretext, will accept your argument that it wasn't to prepare for a crime?
I like the idea of Zed. I have always been against Electron consuming the desktop platform as we know it, but on the other hand, I am in a group that is a massive beneficiary of Electron consuming the desktop platform, it is a lot better, now that we have native platforms that let you write code once and compile it to Mac, Windows, and Linux, but if we never used Electron, we would likely be unable to use discord, VSCode, Spotify (technically CEF but my point still stands), Etcher, and so many more. Zed is a great idea, I love moving to native apps, but I still dont think Zed has enough traction at the moment.
If you've had a major outage or security breach, small claims court will probably not help you much against someone who may not even be in your country or be incorporated.

>but you need some sort of warranty, then either find an entity willing to provide that for this specific piece of software, chose another project, or fork it and provide your own warranty yourself.

Totally agree with this though. As someone who worked for a commercial open source vendor for a number of years, if you're dependent on Linux, Kubernetes, etc. for your business you should have a commercial subscription.

>or fork it and provide your own warranty yourself.

Realizing you're now on the hook to do your own development/support ad infinitum which is usually a bad idea.
It's transclusion-based/index-based so essentially you crate a master-index (a shelve of books) and start develop books chapters, you can split them in as many pages as you like, combine pages by transclusion, linking subpages etc still maintaining a kind of tree-like structure. Of course with full-text search, multi-user support etc like MediaWiki.
I am shocked to see the "let's make writing vulnerable code illegal" take be so popular on HN. If you have written any meaningful amount of code, you have written vulnerable code.
I thought the "Al Gore flies first class so let's not do anything about global warming" trope was dead, but I guess not.

That said, it would be refreshing if public figures led by example. So if we're serious about changing public perception, maybe we should create viable alternatives to jet airline travel and encourage them to use them. Here viable means getting there with comparable travel time and cost but fewer CO2 emissions.

Until then, without viable alternatives, criticizing environmentalists for traveling the way everyone else does is not a great look, and I think we're entering an era where we'll be seeing influencers and politicians called out for it in real time.
There are unfortunately very rarely consequences for academic fraud. It's not just that we only catch a small fraction — mostly the most brazen image manipulation — but these cases of blatant fraud happen again and again, to resounding silence.

Ever so rarely, there may be an opaque, internal investigation. Mostly, it seems that academia has a desire to not make any waves, keep up appearances, and let the problem quiet down on its own.
Awesome tip. I made a Kagi lens with these settings:

https://kagi.com/lenses/0MqOTt5t5MajrIkHAqHEgDeoKzF1a4TS

(Can’t share example results since Kagi doesn’t let you share results from lenses)
"Coercion" by Douglas Rushkoff is somewhat dated but by no means out of date.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/348346/coercion-by-...
Please don't jump to Yao! The only thing it's good for right now is to replace shell scripts.
You can look on your user page, or search for your username on the user tree page.
500,000,000 years of my understanding of atmospheric CO2 concentration is what I was referring to as "Historic".
>But the flip side is kids can get totally emotionally distraught or enraged over tiny things.

Oof isn't this the truth. The tiniest things will drive my son into full meltdowns right now.
You're still using Yao? Pfff.
Why are WE distinct from Earth?
> Nobody told Israel they had to be in the desert, their barbaric and outdated religion told them to go there.

First of all, most of the new jewish settlements in the beginning of 20th centuries were in the coastal swamps, not in the desert. Second — how about a cultural and practical connection to a region which had a significant Jewish community continuously for the last few thousand years with close ties to the diaspora.

And finally — most of Israeli Jews come from the Middle East. Why would they go into a completely different region instead of their homeland?

> Britain gave them the opportunity to establish Israel anywhere they wanted

This is false. Britan gave false promises and then actively worked against attempts to establish the country. They turn the blind eye to massacres of the jews, and actually turned back jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Founders of Israel had to go to literal war with British authorities to achieve their gains.
They have gone hard on Kotlin. Very hard. For example, in all of Spring/Boot's documentation, you will find Java and Kotlin examples, but not other JVM languages.
Yes, he says 'What do they get. Well, in exchange, we agree to integrate our ice breaking supply chains so that they are interoperable at every stage of production', but that doesn't actually benefit Finland

Furthermore, suppose that it actually was something substantial, some kind of deal that NATO icebreakers are to be made by the US, Canada or Finland, then you screw the Aker group in Norway, who also make icebreakers.

The way I see it they expect that since the Canadians have been able to nab the shipyard after the disorder caused by the sanctions they can transfer all the knowledge from the Finns and make the icebreakers themselves, seizing appealing high-tech shipbuilding niche from the Finns, and they offer nothing in return but bullshit.

An integrated supply chain, sure, maybe that can save money, but once you've transferred your knowledge you no longer have your niche.

I think this is very obvious in the talk because of the vagueness in what is offered to the Finns; and my interpretation is that nothing meaningful is offered to the Finns and the the US is just expecting to seize this niche.

I don't think the 'there'll be enough for all of us' talk is plausible either. Surely, there might be an expansion demand, but there's really only the Baltic and the polar area that matters, and maybe US and Canada together do need 40 or so icebreakers to keep the North-West Passage safe and open in case it is to become a major trade route, but they'll last basically for ever, and my understanding is that the US is talking about only nine or so.
Humans haven't lived on the planet on geological timescales. All of human civilization only became possible because 10k years ago the climate cooled and stabilized enough for there to be agriculture.

Without agriculture there is no human civilization, no nation states, no institutions. We go back to being hunter gathers.

With an unstable climate agriculture disappears. Billions will dies, life expediencies will crater, the modern world you know will no longer exist.

Yes, the planet will be fine, at one point it was a giant snowball, humans are fucked.
> We choose instead to condemn the people who draw attention to this.

We condemn them because what they do is dumb not because they draw attention to climate change. It’s the same thing as glorifying a teenager skipping school. Climate activists are incredibly good at killing their own credibility. That’s why most people don’t bank on them to change anything.

> But all the 'yay humanity let's all cooperate in pursuit of a solution' thinkers are demonstrably failing, because selfish people make up the largest bloc (though still a minority) of humanity.

It’s a useless way of tackling the issue. You won’t magically convince the global population to have a worse life especially considering inequalities are so high. You go tell the Nigerian that they should accept to die of starvation (the country feeds itself through oil export and its population is booming) because sadly the USA polluted too much. It’s all for the greater good after all.

Meanwhile, people actually tackling the issue are making impressive strides in the right direction. You want to solve global warming? Go do research on cleaner tech. Throwing soup at paintings is a pointless waste of time.
Regarding the second link, it seems to put off climate issues as something we're mastering based on extreme weather events and other disasters like earthquakes resulting in fewer and fewer casualties despite having more and more humans on the planet to be potentially struck. They start the article with climate protests, but those protests are looking decades to centuries into the future; it's not about the type of events we've historically encountered. This amazingly positive trend is much less likely to continue if we go far beyond the Paris agreement's temperature, which we've just about started crossing afaik. That's what those protests are about, it's not about our own lives or lifetimes necessarily...

Did upvote your comments btw because your general point about the world not having been going to shit is underrepresented and was, to me, very important to learn about (about five years ago now)
Yeah its weird to me that gambling is regulated at the state level while investment contracts are regulated at the federal level and therefore have nothing in common, despite the user experience of throwing your money out the window being the same
I was never much of a Twitter user, but I have a really hard time believing that any social network incentivizing short comments and social validation through likes/shares and an algorithmic feed will ever be a reliable source for unbiased views.
What old is new again.
> What principles could be adopted to not turn this into a larger and larger bureaucracy that decides which of these industries gets preferential treatment over another?

How about evidence based policy? We've seen what happens with drug prohibition and we've seen what happens with gambling prohibition. The former leads to an extensive underworld and tons of negative consequences but the latter wasn't nearly as bad.

What were the downsides of the prohibition on sports gambling? How many fewer people lost their savings to a blackmarket bookie versus the number of people who lose money now on the easily accessible mobile apps? I struggle to think of any net-negative effects of the prohibition on gambling - all the negative effects of gambling get worse when it's legalized.
haha, same!
"tunnel that connects a larger module to a docking port" - reads like stress-induced metal fatigue, where it leaks a bit from every seam. It may not be a nice round hole somewhere.
Hahaha yes, a Chinese idea of marketing. However has good battery, good mic, and you can use if offline as mass storage so nothing lost
There are a lot of mistakes here, but for one, lower economic means correlates with more children.
They're never going to do that. To them, we are ants in their ant farm.
Adventure Driven Development (Add)
In 2005, I used to blog about PHP, Linux, and web development. I got my first software job right out of college because the senior manager liked my blog.
It's a very nice project, I hope a day they choose to support PostgreSQL and SQLite though, they are much more popular these days and chances you already use both, just need to add a DB are high.
propublica.org is pretty good.
There should be criminal penalties for prosecution or people involved with the chain of evidence for criminal trials failing to mention details that might sway the jury towards defense
Maybe RMS is wrong, though. Why is it a fundamental right that I should be able to take something you create and resell it without giving anything back? Does that benefit users?
It's pretty similar to the level of distrust in the software engineering job interview process.

Pick your poison, to some extent. Better would be to not have to do it after-the-fact, but to vet better at every intermediate step, but it's hard. Just a very difficult people problem.
This is one of the nicest, yet honest, compliments I have ever received. Thank you!
IMO it deliberately establishes a tone. This challenge is for rail fans, it’s not a generalised “use our API” hackathon type thing.

Plus the MTA has a huge budget crunch. I really don’t think they could justify spending money on something with such an unclear outcome.
Ideally because the law requires reporting vulnerabilities, and includes criminal penalties for those who knowingly hide vulnerabilities.
The amazing part about this to me is that the only reason the authors were caught is image manipulation. The fraud in numbers and text? Not so easy to uncover.

Prediction: papers stop using pictures entirely
My design would have a pivoting arm holding the PCB in the fluid and bump or rotate the arm with a cam. Why put the big container full of caustic liquid in motion when you can just move the PCB?

I've been nerd sniped thinking about this. Latest thinking: simple sliding bar clamp to hold two edges of the PCB. The PCB hangs down into the solvent tank. The bar on the clamp drops into vees at both ends. One end of the bar is bumped with a motorized cam, the other has a spring. The clamp+PCB oscillates back and forth and the arms agitate the fluid. When the cycle is complete you just lift the clamp+PCB out of the tank. The tank doesn't move. Tank shape can be optimized to minimize working fluid and agitation.
This is an interesting insight into the educational side, but now I am curious about the implementation side. Raft is easier to implement but that's just one factor. Looking at real world usages there seems to be a draw. I could easily count as many Paxos implementations as Raft. Is this just historical or are there good reasons for a new project to still implement Oaxos?
> But if the NIH had done that in 2016, they wouldn't be in the position they're in now, would they? How many people do we need to check? How many figures do we have to scrutinize?

All of them
Venus atmosphere has a very different composition.