jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How do people in those broken countries get Bitcoin? To buy Bitcoin in a first world country I need a valid ID, an online exchange that operates in my country, access to the internet and a bank account. And it can take days if you've never done it before. Is that realistic for someone living in a third world country? What does bitcoin give you that you don't already have if you have access to all the items listed above?
How is this for tax efficiency? Is rebalancing a taxable event? Or can you rebalance without selling by just redirecting new contributions to the underrepresented issues? Over time a buy-and-hold strategy with etfs gives a large compounding bonus since taxes are deferred.
Not sure if we're looking at the same photos and specs, but it looks and seems thin and light to me - 16mm thick, and 1.3kg according to the specs. I'm aware you can get slightly thinner, but not much lighter. IMO, anything thinner that this is making horrible sacrifices elsewhere, for little more than diminishing aesthetic returns.

Let's not forget that this is repairable, upgradable and expandable - when I first saw the HN title, I was convinced it was going to be a brick. It actually looks great, like a premium laptop from Dell or Lenovo. But supporting up to 64GB or memory, and repairable etc. Pretty amazing, I think.
On your aside, I'm amazed that smaller energy producers have not already become crypto miners. It would be so easy and incredibly lucrative. They could simply flip a switch any time the sale price of their generated power is less than the price of the coins their mining facilities could produce. They would get an instant profit increase. Almost all the costs associated with mining are fixed.
Some ETFs also allow easy investment in stocks of foreign countries without requiring additional brokerages on behalf of the end user. I presume this does not offer that functionality?
> It makes absolutely no sense for them to have that built into the laptop. 99% of people who own Macbooks or whatever don't own an SD card dongle because they don't need it.

That's the issue - you are speaking only from an Apple user perspective. Android (and other non-apple) phones allow us to extend our storage with sd cards, and they are mostly used to store and transfer photos and videos.
>but to me this is like complaining about a case being glued shut or requiring a special driver to access.

Both of those are fairly valid complaints though. Intentionally making a device hard to access or repair is almost as bad as not allowing it at all. That shows an actual concerted effort to stop or make it as difficult for consumers as possible.

That's basically the definition of anti-consumer practices.

It in no way benefits me to not be able to use a standard screw driver to open something and have to either purchase an expensive proprietary tool or at worst take it to an 'authorized' repair shop that has the license to use the proprietary tool.
Yet, isn't all markdown more or less "malformed", as long as there is no real standard for the syntax? It can lead to weird and hilarious problems further down the road when a new or different Markdown translator is used somewhere else. :-)
You can suffer from your misery. It's your choice. Homeless problems are your choice. Drug problems are your choice. High housing costs are your choice.

Don't pretend you didn't want this.
Side note, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised with how far Linux has come. I recently returned to it for the first time in a decade, and it's pretty remarkable how mature the operating system is. Almost all of my "essential" apps have native versions (eg. Matrix, Spotify, Discord, Steam) and the ones that don't can be pretty easily emulated through Wine. It only took 2 weeks of playing around with KDE on my Macbook before I put it on my desktop as well. 2 months later, I'm still loving the decision.
They have your name, address and credit card number. That's more than enough identification.
I wonder if such an undertaking could be crowd-sourced somehow? Something like a wiki-fallout?
Even in an ideal situation where a mutation has a "pure" benefit to the group, with no other drawbacks to the mutated gene, it will not be selected for. Selection pressure is a scarce resource. It protects existing adaptations from the ever-present entropic decay of mutation. Genes that are not selected for, relative to the other genes in the population, will reliably fall apart due to lack of maintenance and their effects will disappear. A gene must continually justify its survival by outperforming competing mutant alleles. It's just not true that group selection is merely weak, or a secondary effect occurring only when genetic selection allows it. The aggregate contribution of group selection to a gene's survival is literally zero.

I'm not arguing that music isn't adaptive. It's plausible that its adaptive value is to display to potential mates how well one's brain processes rhythm, which is useful for any number of physical activities as Pinker points out in the interview. But that's different than being selected for because it makes the group more cohesive. It may even, in fact, make the group more cohesive, but this will have nothing to do with why it was selected. This would have to be a happenstance byproduct, and thus not a plausible explanation for the existence of a complex adaptation like music. It would no more explain music than having your flowers watered would explain why it's raining.
Netflix also has this documentary available for on-demand streaming.
And it [a college degree] is an advantage again if you need to switch careers. (Which is becoming very common.)

But where's the educational correlation between a degree in a specific discipline and a change to what is presumably a different discipline? If I have a degree in Literature, I'm an editor at a publishing firm, and I get fired and then get a job in, say, the biological sciences, how is my degree intrinsically an advantage other than as a barrier to entry (a weeding-out tool) to the professional class, which is not purely educational in nature?
The advantage of an iPhone/Android/WebOS app is the marketing that you gain if you're high in the rankings for your category. Also, having your app as a native app on a user's phone give them more felt "ownership" of the app and the content. Generally native apps feel faster because you can speed up loading of pages through native controls and assets.
Holograms? Who did they buy that gave them that kind of traction. Seems like the corner that Oculus had been gunning for.
I really enjoyed the 4th photo in the series. The strong white background really helps evoke the scene.
> Ever heard the phrase "my right to extend my arm stops at your nose"?

Great idea. Easy to misapply, because with speech people are very bad at knowing where their nose actually is. Having hurt feelings from something someone said? Not being hit in the nose, but I know plenty of people disagree.
Did Microsoft hit the "jump the shark" moment with holograms?
I think the system works as designed even in your case. By not accepting loans you haven't proved you will pay them back if you get them; you've simply proved that you don't like loans. You might assert that not taking loans demonstrates some sort of fiscal responsibility, but I'd say the hard data collected by the credit rating companies trumps your anecdotal evidence.

Think about it; if someone who hasn't taken loans their whole life suddenly wants a loan, isn't that a bad sign for their fiscal situation? Why shouldn't they have a lower score than someone who has proven they will pay back loans by actually doing it many times?
I distinctly recall, c. 1983, that 'read' was called as part of the NFILE protocol.

The reason I noticed was that I had created a package that did not use 'lisp:', and therefore 'nil' was no longer 'lisp:nil', which broke the NFILE client.

Maybe this got fixed sometime between then and 8.3. (Or maybe NFILE was ripped out altogether?)

I also recall that Jeff Schiller found some remote vulnerabilities. I don't know if they involved 'read', but they certainly could have. Again, this was long before 8.3.
This trick is often seen in language interpreters. Two widely used examples are Emacs Lisp and Mozilla Spidermonkey Javascript.
interesting idea but completely impractical for normal humans. if i want to buy an ipod on ebay for 0.5btc, i'm not going to stage another 0.5btc to protect against fraud where the potential outcome is I lose double, and the fraudulent seller loses 0 or whatever the staged contract amount was.
Right, I'm not saying that suicide necessarily comes exclusively from depression. Obviously there are other cultural factors at play in Japan that may lead to higher suicide rates. Just that the massive discrepancy between suicide rates and diagnosed depression rates is suggestive of the fact that the actual depression is at least somewhat higher than what we see.
Stigler's law of eponymy?
Is that a threat? Who is "we"?

Obviously I have no way to show you Facebook proprietary source code, but equally obviously Facebook can make their code do anything they like, including MITMing on an account-by-account basis.

That is always true when all the code in use is controlled by a single closed organization.
No, it's % of adults.
So if you're on the no-fly list can you travel by boat?

It seems this might be an improvement in lifestyle.
And prisoners. USA has a lot of them.
We have a couple times this week. It sounds corny but we figure it’s our way to try and help out others.

We’ve asked delivery drivers to leave food on ground by door and we get it after they leave.

Any little bit helps I hope to at least some of these businesses afloat.
Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar. We don't need that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn't this risk exist with all types of food factory?
256k mp3 using youtube-dl. Works for me. To me 192k is borderline, 96k is very low. Prefer high quality lame vbr encoded, but I'll take what I can get :-)
If this is true, and I have anecdotal confirmation that it is, then this should be broadcast to the world as rapidly as possible, through every possible medium. A cheap, available self-test that identifies even a fraction of asymptomatic carriers is a huge win.
I wonder why Amazon, Rackspace, and other major hosting providers that are sitting on a ton of hardware haven't contributed resources to efforts like this.

Or have they?
What's amazing to consider is that the United States produces so much food we have to throw much of it away... and yet, there may be no way to purchase it! Insanity.
I trust bloom filters more than SGX. I assume they stopped using bloom filters because of performance or reliability reasons?

Also, aren't most mobile processors not Intel? How would SGX be used?
As far as I can tell, there's no pressure at all unless you are asking for help with a problem that a newer version solved.

I love that they maintain a page with links to download all the older versions. Today's news reminded me to try one of the legacy 32-bit builds on my Puppy Linux netbook next time I'm playing on it, because Blender is a really fun tool once you learn the ropes, and has been since I started using it (2002-ish).
> I don't see how the taxpayers should pay for this [...] I don't care if he wants to become a girl, but he should wait until his/her time is served.

Gender identity disorder / gender dysphoria is a genuine medical condition classified in the DSM (IV and V). For many sufferers it is not a matter of simple "wanting" to change their gender.

If you accept that gender dysphoria is a medical condition (as most in the medical and mental health professions have), then the question becomes "should prisoners receive treatment for it?"

I would argue that yes, they should. But I live in a country with socialised medicine, where healthcare is provided to all free of charge (including treatment for gender dysphoria). In my mind, being imprisoned deprives you of liberty, but not the right to free healthcare. I imagine many people in America would feel differently - "why", they might say, "should a prisoner get treated for free when I can't afford my own medical bills?".

That said, it's not totally clear to me that taxpayers would be paying for Chelsea Manning's treatment? I couldn't find any reference to it in her letter, merely that she hopes to begin hormone treatment shortly.
Thanks for your feedback! It is really helpful.
Pakistani here. While that is true, everyone speaks Urdu. If you have a regional language you can grow up speaking both languages fluently, or just one—depending on which you're more exposed to—and even English if you were educated in it.

For example, my dad's regional language was Seraiki, and my mom's Punjabi, and they speak both and Urdu fluently. I grew up in an area where the regional language was Punjabi. But, I'm not as fluent in Punjabi or Seraiki as I am in Urdu.

However, I've never had trouble using Urdu with someone in Pakistan, even if their regional language was Sindhi, Pashto or Hindko. Also, I don't know why if it's just me, but most regional languages sound very similar—I've had conversations where I spoke Urdu while the other person spoke in a regional language.
Wearing dressy attire from any culture shouldn't get you. Singling out suits is a bit white sulremacist-y
I've had success and you're right that it is about network effects. So you gotta take into account who you can convince first. But also consider that Signal hasn't been fully featured until about last month. So it isn't a good idea to just try to convert random non-techy people. For them you'd need to use current events that highlight how important privacy is (which there have been quite a few this year). But also focus on generating a critical mass. Now it isn't hard for me to convert people because we'll be planning things and 4/5 people have Signal so you just strong arm the fifth person and then they start using it more because they realize a fair amount of their friends are already there. It takes time though and let's be real about that Signal hasn't been fully featured. Until recently it has been more a geeky app.

So tldr target the people you want to convert to develop a critical mass.
They shouldn't need to, a lot of these folks are posting these selfies and such to a certain social media site that requires government-issued ID.
If you think something does not produce value and you have knowledge to back it up (you could think something is of no value if you don't know the big picture), and you are "forced" to do it anyway, then it all depends on pay. If you get a lot of money for this, you can exchange these later to fill any gaps that this will create or simply leave the co, unless you want to be known for doing fool's errands and stroking managers egos.
I fail to see how, they fought valiantly to defend congress while heavily outnumbered by an angry armed mob.

The real question here is: where was the national guard or the various other law enforcement and military personnel that seemed so available during other disturbances?

This act of insurrection was well telegraphed, a casual look at a site like thedonald.win would have revealed the plans for the rally and the intent of its attendees. There hundreds (and many more upvoting) of people concurrently promoted the event and outwardly said that the states, congress, and courts failed them, so they were going to pick up arms and forcefully take power.

Surely, the federal government with its vast resources should have had a guy checking such a prominent website, right? I'm sure there were have darker parts of the 'Trump media'-verse with even more explicit calls to arms, if such a thing were possible.
Equating protests with riots is a bit nonsensical. We should consider how the police has treated black people for the last 100+ years, to start. Protests like these have been long overdue.
It's intended to be a catch all for multiple kernel versions. The 'mitigations=off' option was introduced with version 5.2.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-...
hey, thanks for this comment. i'm inclined to disagree, but i'm genuinely curious about your point of view.

one question i have is -- are there any topics you believe deserve to be censored by social media? or maybe i should say any "political" topics? like, i guess you'd probably be okay with some kinds of sex work being censored, but i maybe sex work is also a form of politics...

anyway, i guess i'm curious if you're a free-speech absolutist, or, if otherwise, how would you do draw a line to avoid "mass" deplatforming and have it be targeted deplatforming.
There's a good summary of why Cardno uses Haskell here - https://medium.com/@cardano.foundation/why-cardano-chose-has... - functional programming seems to have been a key influence in how Cardano's approach to smart contracts is built, avoiding centralized state - some insights in that here https://sundaeswap.finance/posts/concurrency-state-cardano

Potentially Cardano could become one of the most significant uses of Haskell in the wild, if it gets traction of course
Funny, because that feature seems to be what inspired the entire Gnome 3+ desktop, and it's now wonderfully polished there.
ARM has already succeeded. There is no "will" here. Most microcontrollers in the world are ARM. Most application processors in the world are ARM. It spans from the cheapest to the highest-performing parts. Nearly every smartphone in the world is ARM.
Nothing, it's a great skill to have, and one that I never invested in.
This is probably going back 20+ years, but given old tools like john the ripper, newer tools like ighashgpu, or just writing your own iterative tool to go through [a-z][A-Z][0-9]@<populardomain>, and the advent of high speed CPUs and GPUs, you'd be able to generate rainbow tables of millions of md5 hashes in a few hours/days/weeks (depending on length and complexity of course).

So yes, literally every security expert out there knows md5 hashes are weak, hence the advent of salted hashes, and nowadays sha and variants, as well as well-known hash types for passwords like bcrypt/argon2.
Nine days before he's gone anyway? This feels like a publicity stunt.

If it's really that important, if you're worried about the damage he could do in the last two weeks, why are you waiting for Monday?
> Honestly, the riots this summer were a bunch of drunk teenagers who were letting off steam.

I also have an archive of this summer’s events. Let’s not use this moment to downplay the violence of people who may share our political sympathies.

25+ people were killed in the riots this summer. Over $2B was done in property damage. Police stations, post offices, libraries, and courthouses were stormed and set on fire.

In Portland, rioters with guns and knives threw bombs at a courthouse and tried to burn down the Mayor’s condo building. In Seattle, militants with assault rifles took over part of downtown for a month, killing and assaulting people. In DC,
a mob tried to storm the White House. In Wauwatosa, a mob fired shots into the home of a police officer. People in many cities were dragged from their vehicles and beaten. Hundreds of protestors and police were seriously injured. Many similar incidents which I don’t have the time to dig up and link right now.

There were also many incidents of police brutality, such as the clearing of peaceful protestors in Lafayette Square, which likewise should not be minimized.
It's mind boggling that the 'world's greatest search engine' does not have a series of advanced features that let's us really alter our searches in a consistently customized way.

The 'advanced search' section does allow for some things, but it's a little awkward, moreover, 'the things we want' are not on there!

The ability to drop sites - or at least discount them (i.e. quora, pointerest)

The ability to turn off Google's extrapolated information, such as the definitions that appear.

The ability to tag/highlight result from some sites (i.e. put a pin on some sites, say Wikipedia)

The ability to prefer some words over others in the weighting

The ability to actually require some words (I find it amazing that top results often don't have a key search term - I understand why that makes sense in some scenarios, but for most others I typed the term because I want it)

Etc. etc..

There are a ton of other features that would be useful, I'm surprised they haven't moved into this niche.

I feel that Google is no longer 'search' it's just 'find'. We type it as a means to 'get to that thing' and we just click on one of the first results.
They were a decade too late with their initiative.

And Mips-Imagination as a commercial entity was braindead. Look for stories of them responding to sales calls after 1+ month.

Execution was below the sea level.

I can say the same of many other "Big Semi" that went nowhere in the last 5 years. They all had underperforming C-suites stuffed with overfed big name executives.
Okay, sorry for being presumptuous.
"Never before has a platform grown as fast as TikTok" - LOL that's what they all say!! I'm not interested in helping someone build out their AI stuff by freely contributing my data to their platform. But hey highschoolers might ignorantly willing to do so. I am really looking forward to a new technology coming out next year that will give power back to the people rather than a small group of people who think that they know what is best for the masses to see or not see.
If a post is about how the web needs rescuing, and it takes years to design an actual solution, why is posting this solution considered shilling?

Fine, let’s just let the Web keep becoming a feudal society like it was with AOL MSN and Compuserve. A free open source platform to prevent it should not be mentioned, that’s shilling!

Btw by that logic isn’t Andre Staltz shilling Scuttlebutt every time he writes about the Web? He should just not mention it, right?
>I don't get why the article is treating this as an exciting new business....What's the innovation here? He has an online platform? He may be really good at running his junkyards but the article does a terrible job accounting for his success.

I already responded to you in this thread with my anecdotal thoughts, but curiosity got the better of me so I took a look at their wikipedia page. Granted I don't have another point of reference, but it seems that the founder of Copoart was ahead of the curve in his field and saw the benefits of investing in technology/internet presence early in the game. Ebay was only around for 3 years by the time he introduced online auctions. So, maybe not innovative in the grand scheme of things, but certainly for his industry.

From wikipedia:

Willis Johnson began developing Copart's information technology in the 1990s. The first main step in this process was the creation of the Copart Auction System (CAS) in 1997, which was designed to unify and support the growing business as well as allow Copart facilities and sellers to access information, generate reports, and increase operating efficiencies. The next step came in 1998 with Copart's introduction of internet bidding—a departure from the industry standard of local physical auctions. As Internet bidding grew in popularity, Copart developed its online auction platform, VB2, which it implemented in 2003. VB2 technology opened the sales process to registered buyers (members) and sellers worldwide. In fiscal year 2004 in North America and fiscal year 2008 in the U.K., Copart discontinued all live auctions and began remarketing vehicles through VB2. Copart now sells more than one million vehicles each year through VB2 technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copart