skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true.

Generally speaking cryptocurrencies are a scam for the purpose of sending currencies because their prices fluctuate.

They can't be an investment because they are a speculation.

They can't be a speculation because even before doing the speculation like gambling , you would most likely be scammed.

Its a scam.

And this is me after I have created something on top of Nano cryptocurrency just recently. Though I did with 0.000001 nano which I got from some one time captcha.
Basically nanotimestamps.org (still not created the website because I am so lazy and I have only done it with the server client model , not sure how can I do with real people funds and without a server / wasm in client) where it creates blockchaine-d timestamps which you can verify.
I have created another where you can store data on the nano blockchain by routing some transactions (like 3-4) (but you don't lose any nano 0 nano lost in process , inefficient can work for only 3-4 characters)
I have created another where you can store data on the nano blockchain by losing 10^-30 that is the lowest point of nano , something which you get a lot of , even from a free faucet that you don't have to do another captcha again and it moves it up to 32 characters)

I think this is the purpose of blockchain and this and this only. I don't want to create / work on this because I feel that just because I am writing this on nano , people are going to get all hyped up on nano and I buy it and indirectly I become part of some scam.

I am okay with if a cryptocurrency is equal to so people don't buy more than 1$ but for anything more , I genuinely wonder.

Also I think I like the concept of monero from the process of anonymous transactions and that only. But still I won't treat it as a store purpose but rather temporary.

I hope that these stay stable and scams go away.

I have 0.000002 nano that I got by doing two captchas and I won't ever "invest" in crypto , only if I want to buy something anonymously or sell it , will I ever use monero and that too I would mine it myself,

I would invest only & only in index funds.
>I was allowed to use any programming language because they knew them all (allegedly).
brainfuck time
> I don't consider this to be a lie, per se, is because they make promises around goals with incomplete understanding

They didn't even try to formulate an understanding. All of their actions show willful and deliberate disregard for how the system works. That's not "incomplete understanding" or a good faith effort.
Oh fully agreed. But there's a large contingent of folks that are well represented here who think that it's inherently more intelligent to act like/be a centrist, that "both sides have something to offer," which isn't strictly untrue, but in practice especially with American politics just results in mealy-mouthed acceptance of pretty brutal status quos.

Like even left and right in terms of the mainstream here is nonsense. We don't have a left party at all, we have a conservative party, and we have an authoritarian fascist party. As a lefty none of my values are represented at all, I just get to vote each election for the conservative party that doesn't want my friends dead.
The comments here seem mostly against DOGE, but I have seen the waste in these organizations firsthand, and we all pay for it. Musk hopes to cut spending by 10%, but that is only because he is limited in what he can do. A Twitter-style cleanup would at least reduce it by 50%, but it is not feasible. Know that those 10% or 50% directly map to a percentage of your income and lifestyle directly (higher taxes) or indirectly (higher inflation).
What a more sustainable tourism industry could look like
If something costs more to fix than it costs to leave sitting around, fixing it is less efficient. In this case it's already been investigated prior to DOGE, and deemed not worth the effort to clean up [1].

[1] https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf
Funnily enough, I did a quick search and immediately found an E8 processor - https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andescore-pr...

Wasn't quite as strong a match for "G8", but G[n] does show up in a lot of product descriptions to indicate what generation of the product is involved.

LG also put out a phone named the G8 Thinq in 2019.

I would generally agree with the speaker that it's hard not to collide when using a 2 character name. The "for a CPU architecture" narrows the collision space substantially, which does affect the full accuracy of the statement. But the spirit of "2 char IDs are collision prone" is true.
> - Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again...

This made me smile very wide, thank you for sharing :-)
Google's web-based development workspace Project IDX new Interactive Chat
MagSafe is just a branch of Qi that was merged back into main.
No, they're hiring people with no relevant experience who in one case was fired from a previous job for leaking confidential information. Another is an unapologetic cartoonishly not-subtle racist.

It's amazing to me how every time DOGE is challenged its supporters come back with "I'm sure they're doing the right thing" despite all evidence to the contrary.

I'm starting to think this ends with DOGE cutting like a few hundred million dollars of random stuff, taking out even more debt to cut everyone $5000 checks, swamp every media channel with bogus "WE CUT FIFTY TRILLION DOLLARS TO GIVE BACK TO THE PEOPLE!!!" and you guys will just lap it up without question.
Yeah, I’m really glad the Culture series will not be tarnished by amazon as well for now.

Honestly I’d want a studio dedicated taking these long, beautiful series and making long, beautiful TV adaptions true to the books. Probably wouldn’t make enough money though.
Perhaps. I'd even say it's part of what is taught as part of a PhD.

But if someone was ready for your exact question by having the right interview practice/experience, or they just don't care about your job so there's no stakes. Then you still aren't measuring what you think you are.
> Without advocacy, conferences, documentation and tutorials, Matrix would become a niche protocol used by a few enthusiasts for side projects, whilst big proprietary and siloed networks continue to hold the world’s communications.

Advocacy and conferences aren't going to move the needle on mainstream adoption; those methods almost by definition are targeting the enthusiast crowd. In my view, the only factor that matters to attracting users is UI/UX. Streamlining the user's experience will do more for user adoption than any number of bridges.

It's possible that growing the community is the primary goal of Element.io rather than the Matrix Foundation, but in that case, it seems that there is a tension between the goals of the foundation vs Element. I'd like to understand the breakdown between the responsibilities of the foundation vs Element more clearly.
The fact that the President was granted that immunity in the first place by a so-called "conservative" Supreme Court should make it abundantly clear that the "conservative" movement fully intends to take it as far in the wrong direction as they feel they need to. The goal? to secure absolute power and therefore a future in which the ultra-wealthy rule America with an iron fist, and dissent can be crushed easily. The techniques are all fascist, but the film Metropolis is the end game, not another Holocaust -- but if a good old genocide helps rally the voter base, then so be it.
still no brackets mode
Blair Witch Project had ~$250 million box office on less than a million dollar budget including marketing (>250x) but the record holder is probably Deep Throat (1972) which had a box office of $30-50 million on a budget of $50k (>600x).

That the record holder is rape porn I think says a lot about our civilization.
They don't have an ideology.

They just parrot talking points aimed at stripping their rights away.

Even the 1A is on the block because of "misinformation, hate speech, etc."
Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes
Pegasus spyware infections found on several private sector phones
So, the guy who held off a genocide to get trump elected and the people who are in direct cahoots say its ok, big "All my black friends I can say the N word so its ok" energy there.
I don't have anything to hide but I still close the door when I take a dump.
> I'd bring up some very interesting theorems (related to some deep algorithmic topics) that I proved in my PhD thesis. [...] I switched to industry because of the bad job prospects in academia - this is not what interviewers want to hear.

In my experience you'll be fine giving that answer assuming you're going for the kind of programming job that hires PhDs.

You remind them you have a PhD - and in something deeply algorithmic. You can successfully answer any follow-up questions from them, as you literally have a PhD in the topic they're asking about. There's no shame in entering industry because you want jobs and money - in fact, those things are precisely what the hiring manager is able to offer you.

You'd rather be in academia but it doesn't have the pay and job security? Well, the hiring manager would rather be a snowboard instructor in Aspen but doesn't for the same reason. So you've got common ground with them.
This story is featured in episode 1 of the Scam Inc podcast series from The Economist. Pig butchering scamming is a huge business, well worth a listen.

https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc
This is a good change. Most people using it at work do it individually and don’t pay. But they do potentially pay for sync services.
Cohttp vs. libcurl: Why Terrateam switched to libcurl
I think as an American, "food" should be in quotation marks
What a moron. This explains why private equity is so successful. Small town businesses are good businesses but they’re often run by morons who inherited their stuff. Once you buy them out you can drive costs down and be efficient and just not send your money to Nigerian princes.
I wonder if they will shift production away from Pinewood Studios?
Way ahead of you, pal. I am my own grandpa.

https://youtu.be/eYlJH81dSiw?si=NNPDjaWV-OzrP2JU
iPhones are getting more repairable according to Failing the Fix scorecard
Costs money (travel) and time (company's) plus a lot of this is outsourced to agencies to do the screening.

Yes, it is disgusting. Sadly also very common.
> There is no such thing as "two spaces" in HTML, so good luck with that.

Code point 160 followed by 32. In other words `&nbsp; ` will do it.
But what if there's no YouTube tutorial for the exact AC unit you have and it doesn't look like any of the videos you checked out?
Yes, of course. Same with herniated discs - you need to keep walking, no matter the pain.

If you stop moving, you die.

A ton of biomechanics at play, but walking is the baseline of all human activity. Not running, not swimming.

It's why the 10k steps thing is both a myth and absolutely true.
Modern day Blofeld
MagSafe was a branch of Qi that's been merged back to main.
You are both correct. It's not an either-or.
What timeframe are you working with, as in, when do you expect to see this reduction in GDP?

I just want to know so that I can set a reminder and check back on your comment when the time arrives.
Are you just mind deleting the LOTR trilogy?
No, it means having a security clearance. It has a very specific meaning.

Having been thoroughly investigated by the FBI to not be an enemy or a threat to the United States.
No argument, it was terrible. :) But still I had good times and started learning to program.

The assembler cartridge was nearly as useless as the BASIC cartridge for the Atari VCS. (Not that I ever tried the latter, but similar problems of very limited memory holding text you'd typed in, the assembled program, and whatever data it's processing at runtime -- and needing to save to cassette tape before you can start on anything else.) However, the CPU architecture actually did give you a nice clean assembly language once you had enough of a system to really code in it.

Being away from the mainstream... isn't an advantage but I'd have to call it part of my development as a programmer. I had to get into Forth for a reasonably powerful system.
I heard Trump was voted in because people were angry about the high price of eggs (among other things) which Trump promised to fix "on day 1".

Trump cultists will find a way to excuse this and blame it on DEI/woke/immigrants/Marxists, but those who voted for him because they thought he would bring prices down are in for a rude awakening when they discover they were misled (though I can't feel sorry for them, there were so many signs).
Yeah, except that future doesn't need us. By us I mean those of us who don't have $1B to their name.

Do you really expect the oligarchs to put up with the environmental degradation of 8 billion humans when they can have a pristine planet to themselves with their whims served by the AI and these robots?

I fully anticipate that when these things mature enough we'll see an "accidental" pandemic sweep and kill off 90% of us. At least 90%.
> He does have to be a guy

why?
My wife complains bitterly that she cannot go see the movie here in the Netherlands. According to [1],

> As there are currently no screening plans in Western European countries like the UK and France, some netizens have even spontaneously formed groups to travel to Greece for a screening.

Is this lack due to European movie distributors, or to the Chinese publisher?

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202502/1328274.shtml
There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias
Multiple folks in my family have broken their collarbone (myself included). None that ride mountain bikes 2-3 times a week have broken it biking.

(More anecdata to persuade you to buy a bike. Great fun.)
> Having studied physics does not allow you to evaluate studies in completely unrelated field in any meaningful way.

I agree! Before one may touch the pink sceptre, they must be permitted through the gate, and kissed by the doddling sheep, Harry, who will endow them with permission to pass and comment on many a great manor of thing which are simply out of reach of the natural human mind without these great blessings which we bestow. And, amen.
OK I think we're on the same page, and just had a semantic issue.
Imagine they bring one out to a construction site and they treat the robot as a new rookie guy, go pick up those pipes. That would be an ultimate on the fly test to me.
The profiles of scam victims aren’t always what you expect. A lot of otherwise successful people reached their positions through networking, trust, and risky bets that advanced their careers.

A lot of businesses operate on trust networks at some level. The difference is that successful operators in this space will only place calculated bets and will rapidly update their level of trust when someone fails to follow through. This person apparently didn’t learn that lesson.

There is also a tendency to keep digging once a victim is deep in the hole. They know their job is already lost if they stop now, but just maybe there’s a chance that a little more digging will reveal a turnaround that covers up their past mistake. Scammers exploit this to encourage incrementally more digging into an already deep hole.
Did you happen to look at caddy? It at least used to have some degree of support for plan9: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1093
anyone have any good tips or plugins so that I can have browser plugins on all my devices and save web pages from multiple devices to it? It's basically the only reason I still use Notion. (As a former emacs guy, I like a lot about Obsidian, most of the plug-in ecosystem, including it saving my data as just text.)
> Wiping out customers' purchases when you've got $100 billion in the bank, though? Kinda a dick move.

What you call a dick move might actually have made sense financially for a business. If MS Music was losing money with no hopes of ever turning a profit, why should they continue to operate a charity music service subsidized by all of the other MS businesses that are making money?

Same thing for Amazon. If it is something that shows no signs of paying for itself, why continue to operate it? You have to stop the bleeding at some point. What was the attraction to a dev to use Amazon over Google? Lower percentage of the take? Maybe that explains why it was a money loser?

At the end of the day, it was a bet on a losing horse.
Do you have cause to believe "nothing to hide" is a partisan position? I'd expect that half of such people are on the left and are critical by default of the new administration. Seems to be supported by the second chart here: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/10/18/how-american...
so true.

which is why crypto increases the lucrativeness of scammers.

Fun fact: north korea is dabbling very much in crypto hacks , north korea is possible for so many of crypto hacks. (not scams though , but who knows ? )
I agree. But what I mean is: that's not how it's perceived in the current interview structure, which lasts maybe 45 minutes or so. Ultimately, going down a dead end means you'd now have 30 minutes to find the right solution and code it up. So the oracle (the interviewer) would probably help you realise sooner that it's a bad idea, so you don't waste your time. That's assuming they know the problem and solution well; if they don't, you'll just lose them and burn through your time.

In a 2 hour pair programming session on an 'unsolved' problem (like an open issue / minor bug / minor feature in a public repo), yes, it will likely not matter if you tried a bad idea, and would both be more realistic and a positive signal.
I feel like this game feels endless if folks just aren't curious and panic.

Yeah I got rows (or documents or whatever) in my database ... that's not bad, that could mean anything.

I don't prune DBs aggressively because that's dangerous, and honestly business logic covers things like "should do X,Y,Z" , not the existence of a row.
Here's an example of what I meant

Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein

https://youtu.be/ePA1zq56J1I?si=7WuiRa3GNSmMXArZ
> and removing it won’t reduce efficacy, it should be purged.

This is the load-bearing idea that is made of toilet tissue.

It will create inefficiency. In the best case because it's not how the decades of built up institutional knowledge knows how to get stuff done. If the worst (and most probable) case, because what you're removing is actually needed... and we'll get an "oops sorry" later when the damage is done.
That's why focusing on prevention is the way. And let me make a counter-argument for the sake of the discussion:

Imagine a mother who had to give birth to her child and had to care until its adult life, in an abusive way, mistreating the child, hating that one human being and treating like garbage. What is worse, the “murder” of the child or raising someone in those conditions?

The hypocrisy here is that most of the pro-life movement wants the child to be born but does not care at all when it's in the world.

This video[0] shows an example of a politician how empathy makes you realize your error. Every so often, you have your view of the world, but how is important is your view in the expanse of the others?

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcGQdHj7fk
I’m using github to sync 3 instances (iPhone, desktop and one web-based instance).
It needs some upfront set up and configuration, and I had to buy a git client app for my iPhone (one time purchase), but it’s been working with near 0 maintenance for 3+ years now.
I have versioning, and full auto sync (automatic commit, push and pulls).
Surprised nobody has commented hoping they make the character less rapey.
By your logic we should just do away with cybersecurity in general. Clearly, it's all already out there so it isn't a problem!

We've already had the occasional large leak and survived, why not just leak continuously! Also leave your doors unlocked, you wouldn't want robbers to break an expensive door to get into your house, and most of your stuff isn't worth anything anyway!
Natural, cluttered environments are a lot tougher to deal with. This near future-y minimalist environment has the dual benefits of looking stylish and being much closer to whatever they were able to simulate at scale for training the models.
As someone paying personally for a commercial license that I use for work, I am not a fan. I like a clear business model otherwise I assume that I am the product being sold.

Edit: They should make it open source if this is the path they take. Then users can personally verify that they (or their data) isn't being sold to the highest bidder.
Some of the prior works in this paper[0] address noise in anonymity networks, but in general: you either add noise at the link level which malicious nodes can identify & ignore, or you add noise by injecting fake chaff packets that are dropped somewhere inside the network which are statistically identified when you look at packet density across the network.

This might or might not extend to VPN nodes depending on your threat model - I'd personally assume every single node offered to me by a company in exchange for money is malicious if I was concerned about privacy.

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_esorics06.pdf
It means pro-athletes would never recover so there would be noone left to play pro sports.

Because pro athletes get procedures that actually work, vs general population procedures that can be detrimental.
except we don't need opinions, we need proof and that is what we are lacking.

The only expert in the FT article is Dr. Sankar Das Sarma who (from Wikipedia)

"In collaboration with Chetan Nayak and Michael Freedman of Microsoft Research, Das Sarma introduced the ν = 5 / 2 topological qubit in 2005"

So you might understand why this FT article is not adding anything to the discussion, which does not discuss the theory but rather MS's claim of an actual breakthrough.

They show a chip, we'd like proof of what the chip actually does
"This Guy" is everywhere. People fall for scams all the time, and as a society, we are failing to educate them with the sense to sniff them out. That, and a regulatory environment where everything goes, means that people of all walks of life are getting suckered every day. Only a matter of time that one of those people happened to be a small local bank manager with access to millions.

If it wasn't a crypto scam, it would be a lottery scam, or a job offer scam, or romance/pigbutchering scam, or a tech support phone scam, or a meatspace MLM scam like Amway and Herbalife. There is no shortage of ways gullible, financially-illiterate people can be separated from their money.
TV Pickup aka the Half Time Kettle Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
It's difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from country-level differences like this, especially when the countries are as dissimilar as the U.S. (pop. 340M) and Singapore (pop. 4M).

Looking specifically at PISA, it's not usually administered at the state level in the US, but when it has, individual states have outperformed national scores, as one should expect.

For example, Massachusetts has scored similarly to Singapore in Reading and Science (zero or small statistical difference between) and not far in Math.[1] It would be a reasonable hypothesis that a PISA score for the Greater Boston schools (pop. 5M) would even further outperform the U.S.

Sweeping country comparisons tend to amplify noise rather than reveal a clear signal, and are often about regression to the mean as much as anything else. It's not impossible to make sound inferences, but it's difficult to avoid motivated reasoning.

1. https://www.doe.mass.edu/news/news.aspx?id=24050
I do this already. I use FF on Android and the desktop and the Obsidian Clipper works phenomenally for this.