skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to do something with a bank in a branch office.

Clerk: can't do anything about it, the system doesn't let me. I can get you the manager.

Branch manager: well, I can't do anything about it, "the computer says no". Let me make a call to regional office ... (10 minutes of dialing and 30 minutes of conversation later) ... The system clearly says X, and the process is such that Y cannot be done before Z clears. Even the regional office can't speed Z up.

You: explains again why this is all bullshit, and Z shouldn't even be possible to be triggered for you

Branch manager: I can put a request with the bank's IT department to look into it, but they won't read it until at least tomorrow morning, and probably won't process it earlier than in a week or so.

At this point, you either give up or send your dispute to the central office via registered mail (and, depending on its nature, might want to retain a lawyer). Most customers who didn't give up earlier, will give up here.

Was the system wrong? Probably. Like everyone, banks too have bugs in the system, on top of a steady stream of human errors. Thanks to centralized IT systems, the low-level employees are quite literally unable to help you navigate weird "corner case" scenarios. The System is big, complicated, handles everything, no one except a small number of people is allowed to touch it, and those people are mostly techies and not bank management. In this setup, anyone can individually claim they're either powerless or not in the position to make those decisions, and keep redirecting you around from one department to another until you either get tired or threaten to sue.
For Germany, you can get a check secured by the central bank. It is costly, but that check is as good as cash. It cannot bounce.

But it’s really only used for things like real estate auctions where the buyer needs to pay 10% or so on the spot.
HN will never let facts stand in the way of good FUD.
They're usually not secret. You want to sell a product in California and lie in your advertising - you should probably check the laws about false advertising in California. The bigger you are, the more you can afford to hire a lawyer to know that for you.
In a few years there will be someone, probably much smarter than me, that figures out how to automatically bypass the checks for the certificate pins and solve 99% of the cases that don't work today.
No, the judicial branch which is supposed to enforce the law regardless of who was voted for…

Yknow… the branch that’s supposed to check the power of the executive branch…
The financial transactions are also shared by the both sides, EU can also request data from US, as clearly stated in the document.

Both document clearly define the uses cases that are applicable for the data sharing, and the second document linked by you also explicitly states that US has to put same effort to provide same capabilities to EU as well.
Apple lashes out at iPhone porn app maker and EU rules allowing its download
It’s hard to pass an audit when unfettered access has been granted to a billionaire without access and cronies installing unauthorized software and strong arming everyone they encounter.
I just heard of it from this thread and took a look. It looks great! I'd love to get one, but from the FAQ:

> "The only apps that won’t work are ones that require the full Google Play Store and all it’s requirements. This includes some banking apps"

Sigh. It looks like I'd have to carry two phones.

Banking and credit card apps are essential daily apps for me. I can't even log in to some of my accounts on a desktop browser without their phone app to authenticate, and quite often individual payments require phone app confirmation. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to switch accounts for a freer user experience.

Separately from finance, I also have to use the Google suite for my main job, and I've had to use Discord for another job. I guess those can run in a browser with reduced functionality, though. Not so for the banking/credit card apps, unfortunately.

This isn't a complaint about Waydroid or FLX1. I appreciate the work and creativity! I've long dreamed of owning (and building) a completely FLOSS phone, and seen how much work is involved. I owned two Nokia N900s back in the day.

But times have changed, and I wish and hope a way can be found to run the apps or protocols daily life seems to require now, on top of (or side by side with) a base FLOSS system.
> […] and thus liable for arrest?

If these are federal statues they can be pardoned by the President (like the January 6 folks were).
That the comment bots are getting better at phrasing things as clickbait?
Thing is that's overly simple thinking IMO, throwing off the cultural legacy literally means replacing it with something else. Culture has a legacy, what comes before, and it's literally impossible to not have one. So that Mohawk is replacing a "normal" haircut, replacing a "normal" culture. There is nothing ironic about showing your child that it's ok to choose something outside the mainstream normal culture, especially if you have done so. It's the whole point. The Mohawk said and meant "I reject your culture and choose my own", it would be ironic to have chosen that and then teach your kid to be in the mainstream culture.
I think you're specifically referring to the Pentagon. I'd like to see Elon attempt to force his way into that building next.
Out of curiosity... what does "ugly" mean? Is it deformed, or just not conforming to a cultural beauty standard?
You know they had many years before to pass one…
AI-Generated Slop Is Already in Your Public Library
Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year
indeed. I've changed my title to "Staff Software Conductor" since I just wave my hands in the air with little sticks called cline and aider.
"free sex changes for illegal immigrants" is a campaign slogan. That you are engaging with this topic at a slogan-level means you are not here to really here for curious inquiry. You sound like a election ad.
“Pass” as in “conduct one”? Because that’s a huge massive expensive undertaking that has very little upside and a lot of downside.
> Eg they could sacrifice some street parking spots for the bins.

Taking away curb parking is one of the most heated political issues in the US.

It's controversial enough to take away parking to make the road safer for pedestrians and other drivers (new daylighting law in SF), so I can't imagine how hard it would be to do it for some trash cans.
Yes, if we are counting only game consoles, now if we count game studios owned by each company, and they earnings across all platforms, it is a complete different picture.

Microsoft owns PC, and even Valve has forced to emulate Windows/DirectX to have any games on SteamDeck.

The amount of office worker typing Excel sheets on mobile phones is rather tiny.
The Justice Department, including the FBI and federal prosecutors, are run by appointees of the president.

The president can replace them.
You misunderstand how clearance works. Any one can get "read-on" to anything with the proper authorities giving them access.

It is an administrative step. It might undergo review but access does not need to be prevent until the review happens. It is all about who is granting the access.

The commander in chief has considerable authority to provide access.
No, we did not vote for this. Show me the campaign ad that said Trump was going to give Musk and his gang of losers complete control over the treasury.
Why would you trust the man who's been heavily subsidized by the government to do an audit? A significant chunk of Elon Musk's money came from government contracts his companies had with the US government.
Imagine adding intentional rounding error for a system that handles trillions. How many transactions is that? Take 2 cents from every transaction?
I think Elon Musk and his lackeys' action is literally criminal, but law enforcement work for the same team. And Congress is controlled by the same team.
Do you pay federal taxes? Do you get federal service? Does your government gets federal grant money to fund projects and services? Do you rely on social security payments? Maybe your parents does. What about medicaid and medicare?
Cell diagrams are simplifications. Cells are not like your room with a few things inside. They are more like a decent city. In human cells you have hundreds to thousands of mitochondria.
Lets not forget that's where WW2 was fought and won. With two thirds of German army committed to eastern front, the entire D-day Normandy is just a pheriphiral operation.

Even Soviet propaganda aside, Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg now) objectively wasn't abandoned due to naked greed of the elite, after all USSR was fighting for survival and had to make tough decisions. Even if Stalin didn't care about the people, the city itself was really important strategically.
> As long as you're okay renting. Ann Arbor property values and property taxes are reasonably ridiculous and Ypsi is getting there.

In fact, A2 housing prices are simply insane. Even a 1000 sq ft hovel without garage sells for upward of $500k; I kid you not. Nowhere in MI is the housing market more expensive, even the tonier resort spots like Charlevoix. A2 prices rival upscale neighborhoods just outside large US cities, but the houses in A2 are smaller and relatively downscale.

In the past couple years the fraction of A2 homes bought with cash is very high, so there seems to be an influx of emigre coastal urbanites driving the demand.
My career in IT has taught me that everyone loves to blame the box - and if not the box the person responsible for the box :)
Blue no matter who. 2024, 2026, 2028. This was preventable
>Which is fine, but dropping support for Windows 10 is just gouging from organisations who require support, and potentially leaving consumers who are ‘just fine’ with their PC and Windows 10 without security fixes - [0]

That seems... fine? Once upon a time, windows had a fixed support lifecycle of 10 years, and you had pay to upgrade to the latest version. Windows 10 was released in 2015 and will be supported until 2025. This is entirely in line with that. At least with windows 11 the upgrade is free.
It sounds like you think SOX auditing means “super secure and careful accounting”.

SOX is a specific law with the motivation of giving markets more confidence in public stocks (for example must hire external auditors, certain board member rules, how certain assets must be valued, etc).

The SOX audit is to make sure that law is followed.

One criticism of SOX is that encouraged many startups and other businesses to remain private.

So long story short, no. Our government does not resemble a public stock corporation and these things don’t have an analog.
In retrospect, much of my struggle with later math can be traced back to the tedium of trigonometry.
I've struggled with memorization for as long as I can recall.
The emphasis on memorizing the trig identities and relationships between the functions is at odds with that.
It affects other subjects as well, so I know it's not just math.
Obviously trig is a fundamental subset of math.
In any case, had trig been taught alongside or in close relationship with the aspects of math where it's used,
as a set of tools to solve problems
– when and where to use it –
not only would I have found it far more interesting,
it would have clicked better.
It's like Hacktober (where a few YouTube assholes showed a bunch of non-developers how to waste maintainer's time with bogus PRs in order to get free stuff from DigitalOcean) except substantially worse because these issues take longer to dismiss. Horrible.
The budgets for all these agencies have congressional oversight. Additionally, there's an entire agency devoted to making sure there's a minimum of grift, the GAO. For example, here's a recent report they did on NASA's large projects:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106767
>No, the judicial branch which is supposed to enforce the law regardless of who was voted for…

The judiciary has zero enforcement power. They make the laws which the executive is meant to enforce. If the executive fails to enforce a law, congress can impeach. That's not happening.
It’s a coup many years in the making and we all watched as it happened. The folks behind project 2025 have been plotting this for years and years.
I've only been able to pause by tapping and holding on the screen. And that only pauses while you keep holding. Also, for me, most reels have a progress bar you can drag around at the bottom, but there are some that just don't for whatever reason.
The only thing thats public is highly abstracted and euphamistic descriptions of where the money is going. Any FOIAs seeking more granular information would be politely asked to stop asking. After all if this information is classified and relating to national security why would it be handed out?
I've read in multiple articles that people were placed on leave for trying to require proper clearances from him and his team as obligated to by law, and this article also references how clearances impact the fact that nobody knows what they're actually doing.
If we are going to discuss this, we should be clear about the details. "Americans voted for this" is a hot take. Some did. Many did not vote at all. Of those who voted, Trump barely won those votes. It was just enough to get the electoral college votes. Even those who did vote for him did not vote for his current Project 2025-based plan. On the contrary, his campaign denied he was going to do all this.
In the metaphor then Twitter is wiggling around on the ground.

Not truly dead but a shell of it's former self.
My take is that tablets are underrated, however I'd like to see more 'higher end' applications aimed at at 'lower end' tablets.

For me the magic of tablets is that they are low cost, so I'm not afraid of losing or breaking them. They don't become a nexus of further expensive consumption: adding an expensive case, particularly one with a an expensive and special purpose keyboard, just takes something sleek and easy to handle and makes it klunky and awkward.

Go to a hackathon? Get any Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and a $5 plastic clip from Amazon Basics and you've got something sleeker and more stylish than any Macbook or gaming laptop with which you can connect to a powerful desktop computer or a cloud instance that is anywhere from 50 cents to $4 an hour depending on your thirst for power.

I started out with a B&N Nook, then Amazon Fire Tablets (amazing value for the money), then iPads, I had bad luck with my last iPad (either lost or stolen) and figured I'd use an old Samsung Galaxy tablet I had kicking around. Every time I got an iPad I looked at my options, hypothetically I thought I might like the Pro but a new Pro is crazy expensive (I couldn't afford to break or lose it) and an old Pro in my price range is old technology.

(Note I'm a little weird because I've never owned a smartphone with a plan. Carriers choose not to serve my valley, why should I get an expensive plan? My data plan is WiFi, and my phone plan is Skype)

The Pro, like the AVP, also seems hobbled by Apple's short-sightedness. A device that expensive, with hardware as capable, should be able to do 100% of what a MacBook can do. It should be able to completely outdo the Microsoft Surface, but it doesn't.
How does this have anything to do with an erratic billionaire given free rein to illegally sabotage things?
Clearance could be granted on a whim by POTUS, as far as I can tell, so that has no leg to stand on. The biggest threat would be that one of the DOGE employees is a foreign actor. Hope they did some vetting...
Trump would just pardon them.
I used to run nodes to “contribute”, but it’s cumbersome and does not really contribute to decentralization .

The only ones who need to have full blockchain nodes are the miners, and for them it’s just another disk in their data center.
Completely different, at least for DeepSeek. Most people know what data they put there and do that willingly. They also know the risks.
and it's looking like a legit CONSTITUTIONAL crisis.
Trillions of debt is a congress issue. Maybe this congress can pass some bills to resolve it. Not sure how that's relevant to 25 year olds since there are no current 25 year old congress members.
> The standard for the judicial is not "the truth", its about what you can "prove".

It's not though. Completely unprovable allegations by a single person have real consequences. That's just the way the system works.
I'm inspired. My tiny link blog, Roderick.dev, has languished for a long time as I've thought through the right voice.

To the sharing of interesting things and thoughts.
From my reading the nose is stationary - I wonder if just sitting a cut-out nose shape directly in front of the display would help some people?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41360708
Yes, they're too busy siphoning off a few trillion dollars.
>This looks 100% like personal resistance, rather than technical.

>there's no proof that it "was never going to work"

Did you really just skim the post you replied to? It said:

>Not without ample support within the existing developer base.

Should be clear enough, but I will expand: This is about pre-existing Linux developers and maintainers not willing to commit to the new language, and thus it has nothing to do with anything technical at all.

It won't work because it absolutely requires ample support within Linux's developer base to succeed, and such support is not there.

Nearly nobody, even within the core (which support is needed the most!), is willing to put any effort into this.

I will re-state what I already said:

The best and kindest path Linus could have taken would have been to firmly reject the new language from the start.

As that is no longer possible, the second best still is: To declare the experiment a failure and conclusively remove the new language from the kernel.

The resources freed in Linux's and Rust's communities could then be put to better use, and after a while everybody would be a little less miserable.
> One criticism of SOX is that it partially nationalizes control of the organization,

If that is a criticism of SOX for private companies, then it would mean that it should be a baseline for national accounting, no?
"Nothing has changed in Facebook and Google data collection practices"

https://noyb.eu/en

Facebook and Google got sued, paid fines, and changed their behavior. I can do an easy export of all of my FB and G data, thanks to the GDPR.

"EU small software companies pay estimated extra 400 EUR/year to satisfy GDPR compliance"

WTF? no! I work with several small companies and it's super easy to just NOT store anyone's birthday (why would you need that for e-commerce?) and to anonymize IPs (Google provides a plugin for GA). And, basically, that's it. Right now, I can't even find an example of how the GDPR has created any costs. It's more like people changed their behavior and procedures once GDPR was announced and that's "good enough" to comply.
Imagine if the banks handed out pieces of plastic with a number printed on that anyone could use to withdraw money and that you were expected to hand it over to strangers especially when intoxicated.

Bank are just a social construct that we pay alot of real money for.
Everyone from Elon to Luigi want to just "burn it down". They see no benefit in following democratic processes to achieve the desired ends.

I used to respect Elon for risking a lot of his own capital on new ventures. But now he's turned into a socially conservative internet troll.
The empire comes after the republic.
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While they are absolutely committing crimes, the complicit Trump administration justice department and Republican congress are happy to let it go, at least thus far.
Can a CPU implement RDRAND however it wants, or are there specifications that constrain it in some way?

E.g. if a CPU were to put a microscopic lavalamp and camera inside it and use a hash code of pictures taken from this lavalamp as the result of RDRAND: would that be compliant?

I know microscopic lavalamp in CPU is not physically feasible, what I'm asking is if RDRAND is broken by design, or proper physics based RNG's could be used to implement if a CPU maker wanted to
Did they stop social security, Medicare, or Medicare?

What will happen when I pay federal taxes?
Hmm. If its possible now I wonder if it was happening before?
Best description I have seen yet.
It would depend on there already being beach landing craft in the lake when the encirclement happened. There weren't any other major ports on the lake at the time other than Leningrad and Shlisselburg which the was on the German side of the front and heavily contested. The German line also went to the Southern bank of the River there up until it turned North West to get into the city so you couldn't use that so the options for bringing food in via the lake were pretty limited and any losses would be effectively permanent until the siege was broken.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Leningra...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Si...

https://64.media.tumblr.com/8fcb0d31607d4cd05fbe82998afc91ef...
FWIW, you're thinking about the DoD/the Pentagon, not the federal government as whole - and yeah, the Pentagon hasn't been able to pass an audit in ~6 years.

The defense budget is somewhat more opaque, though, for national security reasons. I don't know if they are good reasons or not, but that's the story at least.
If the attacker has ring 0 outside a VM, don't they have full access to the memory and execution state anyway?
This is an interesting service, it's Twilio in the back or something custom?

The main page has generic theme vibes and needs a little better full product branding, colors don't complement each other, it just looks lazily slapped together, IMO.

BTW, you use "Gate-O-Matic" and "GateOMatic" at different times, something you might want to standardize on.
I guess I know why you're getting downvoted. Saying Twitter is at death's door is like saying that sanctions are going to crush Russia any day now. People really really want to believe it despite all the evidence. Twitter is very much alive, and it's doing exactly what Musk wants it to do.
Same could be said about health & retirement benefits
Yep, that's correct. It uses eBPF upprobes to attach to the SSL_write/SSL_read functions.
Unless the systems are so fragile that they can remove all traces of it (and I want to believe the systems are so complex and redundant that no infiltrator like these people can see the whole picture), they would / should face severe consequences for defrauding the state. They are not above the law, and if Trump pardons them for it (assuming he's still in office by then), the pardon should not apply because he'd be in on it. I don't know what checks and balances are available for that case though.
And if you wrote this comment in December 2022, Bitcoin would be sitting at -70%.

I sincerely don't know anything about monetary policy, but I can't imagine that sort of volatility in the value of your currency is considered a good thing.
It's not even that. It's because they pumped AI as actual intelligence. So when it says to glue pepperoni to your pizza the companies (rightly) look like fools.

In a similar vein they just don't want the negative press around serving "harmful" answers. They don't have the balls to just say "well, it's all public knowledge".

This all all about optics with investors (with public opinion as the intermediate step).