jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Does this exchange offer insurance against catastrophic insolvency?

Someone went from millionaire to poor overnight when Mt. Gox failed, so it's a real concern. No one should keep their coins in any wallet except their own, and they need to make sure they have the technical understanding of how to properly manage their wallet. If your personal wallet isn't encrypted and backed up, it's not managed properly.

If you want to store coins on someone's exchange or webwallet, never store more than 25% of what you're comfortable with losing. (It turns out that "what you're comfortable with losing" is way, way more than the reality of waking up one day and realizing you've lost it all.)

This is an interesting move, but I'm worried that these new exchanges will increase the attack surface of Bitcoin's reputation. If the new ones fail, it will shake the public's confidence in Bitcoin yet again. Not that that matters, since Bitcoin seems to go along fine whether or not people are confident in it.

I don't know whether it would even be possible to insure against losing all cold storage reserves, but nobody should trust large sums to any webwallet (including Coinbase's current website, BTC-e, Bitstamp, etc) until protection against that worst-case scenario is in place.

EDIT: From the paywalled article:

The exchange could bring needed legitimacy to the currency, which isn’t backed by a central government and is traded over virtual exchanges, primarily overseas. Coinbase said it has insurance, offering traders some assurance that their money won’t disappear.

Until details about this insurance are released, do not trust large sums to Coinbase or anyone else. And unless the insurance protects against every coin disappearing tomorrow, never trust them at all. Trusting them is equivalent to gambling your savings for no benefit.
I don't think you understand how small the chance is. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than something like this happening.
If you are a Beatles fan you have their music on (much better quality than mp3/aac) CDs. You have probably also ripped the songs to mp3/aac at a higher bit rate than iTunes will sell you (or maybe to a lossless format). Given that, I would expect some second day stories about how much better the CDs are anyway.

The only reason I would see a Beatles announcement as worth much is if it signaled that iTunes was going to sell music at above CD quality. At that point I could see some really big time sales.
That sounds like a useful thing to do. Does Urlteam have a website somewhere? A quick search didn't turn up much information.
Agreed. To clarify my previous point: when technologists work in supporting roles to businesses, the business-people-first management hierarchy mostly makes sense. After all, the parent business is the end customer.

Where engineers feel most repressed is when they are the ones directly making money for the company, but are being taken advantage of by "business people" who aren't making the company money.

You're right -- the people who work on products that makes the company directly are generally treated (and compensated) better at good companies. Imagine if these same engineers weren't treated well... I doubt they'd have much respect for their business-y colleagues/bosses.
Have you tried the stonesoup cookbook? Premise: 5 ingredients, 10 minutes cooking time per dish. I've tried a couple, and they seem brilliant so far.

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/06/a-free-e-cookbook/
I wish there was more than one upvote button to click.
Bingo. We all must point out this saturated fat fallacy when it shows up in society since it is so dominant and the belief in it leads to so many bad choices and outcomes.
My brother lost two fingers trying to stop rotating part of powered off machine by bare hand 25 years ago.
He mentions "small source size" competitions as one of the reasons for doing this and they all count the size of the raw js file, not the size of the gzipped file as sent by the server.
Can I ask: What is the motivation of trying to limit the cost of your food to such a low (for first-world) amount? I am really weirded out by the number of me-too responses, the philosophy of such extreme saving on food is alien to me.

For me, delicious food is near the top of my priority list. I really do not stint at all, my grocery bill is abt $40/day for 2 people... that is $15k/yr, such a bargain considering: rent+utilities on my modest apt is $35k/yr, 2 cars (Subaru+Toyota... not fancy) abt $20k/yr all up (I live in Australia).

Good food is such a bargain.
it looks pretty decent on Ubuntux64. Can you show an example?
Aren't those called "breatarians"? People living on air and sunlight.
I mentioned minimum wage in another comment. If a driver has the app open for four hours, they need to be paid a minimum of four hours of minimum wage.
https://ocs.yale.edu/get-prepared/illegal-interview-question...
Yes... at this point, IMO, there are no VPN providers that can be trusted to not sell you out (or your data). It's all very shady.

As I have said in previous comments, I currently use ProtonVPN, but my use case, like many others, is simply avoiding geo-blocks and not leaving my real IP everywhere.

Though, I do think, that if they make money off my data, and they probably do, the service should not charge a subscription (indeed ProtonVPN has a free plan, but it's a bit limited).
> ... it might contain a glass relocker, or any other relocker ...

Explosives?
I'm not sure the muslim is a requirement per se, it's just that in practice there's an overseer. Many/most Muslim clerics accept kosher meat as halal, for example, even though the supervision is not necessarily Muslim.
Ah, very nice! Not sure it'll work, but you can specify any port for a website you want to check manually. See if https://www.haveibeenexpired.com/ssl/app.srsc.ru:8443 (replace the host name and port with what you need) works for you?

The automated monitoring (once you sign up and add domains/hosts) only checks HTTPS, so no dice there...
As a redhead, Valentius' ironic pamphlet taken seriously has echoes in the "gingers have no souls" meme that came from South Park.

I still occasionally have grown-ass strangers in bars bring it up to be funny.
I think that’s already possible using git smudge.

Example here: https://bignerdranch.com/blog/git-smudge-and-clean-filters-m...
tidying up the finances for an eventual acquisition. as far as shareholders are concerned, looking as good as possible on paper is priority #1.
strictly speaking as a consumer, I would rather ride an old scrappy bicycle in the great outdoors, rather than an in-door bicycle that costs 2000$ and 40$/month. I was rather surprised to see it go on as long as it did.
This part has always kind of worried me. It feels like indentured servitude a bit. People will end up paying too much or be on the hook for more than they can afford because they are desperate now
awesome! Yeah the list is super cool!
My recollection of Four Hour Work Week was that the core of it was dropshipping.

I don't really need to outsource most of my daily activities, which was the rest of the book. The big win of the book was to serve as a middleman, but that kind of rent-seeking quickly fills up the niches.

If he's saying "discover a brand new market and develop it before everybody else does", yeah, that's pretty much what we're all doing on HN. It takes a lot more than four hours per week until you find it, and very few people find it. The rest of us labor 80 hour weeks in our startups, or give up and work merely 40 hours.
Yes - and I'd say WebSockets have been sucking the juice out of the DataCenter if your clients are mostly idling!

I'm not disagreeing with you here. Our point was that HTTP 2's features start doing amazing things after the first request, now that they have a connection going. Do read that we are excited about what it brings - just not for the very first request itself. And honestly, if they changed that, we'd be a happier lot.
It has happened so infrequently that it rather highlights it as an unusual choice of question - why not a terrorist incident, foreign war, natural disaster or incident with a Royal?

You would almost suspect that they are trying to select individuals who have a natural instinct to maintaining current power structures, but clearly that is nonsense and what they are looking for is a carefully reasoned response.
Me too. This was 5 years ago, so perhaps it has moved on per the other comments, but it definitely was the best of the lot when I was dating.
There are many options.

1) ping6 ff02::1%eth0

2) Advertise the device and it's services (such as ssh) via avahi.

3) Set a static address such as fe80::1 (link local), fd00::1 (ULA), or 2001::1 (your prefix).
From the homepage: "every Pika package also is published to NPM"

This is not a fix for NPM. This is tooling, convenience.
It's not obvious to me that knowing everyone's gender at all times is important. In fact, as you say, there's a variety of languages where that isn't the case.

When I'm talking about someone I bumped into on the bus, why is it relevant what gender they are above pretty much anything else you could choose to encode there? I'd much prefer to encode, for example, my relationship with them - whether I'm close to them or not, whether I see them as equal, inferior or superior.

Gender is mostly a thing that becomes relevant when talking about relationships and sex or healthcare, and even then not always.
Not pretending to be able to answer for OP, but one answer would be that it's because lynx is a browser, and Google is a web site. Traditionally you read web sites with browsers, rather than requiring special tools for every particular site.
If the solution to a hard problem is that obvious and people aren't doing it then it's not really a solution and/or you haven't correctly identified the problem.

Those comments are unpopular because most people can see they're just smug self righteous twitter tier mic drops.
Seems to be working for Groupon so worth giving it a try
it's rejection therapy
If you're looking for a Delicious alternative, then also worth checking out is:

http://www.shareaholic.com/services

(a list of over 50 bookmarking services)
> Mg isn't new, in case that is what you are thinking (it's at least 10 years old).

Mg is based on MicroEmacs, as far as I know, which makes it roughly 30 years old.
The OP's comment was conditional: on a similarly resourced x86 machine.

Windows, let alone Quickbooks is not going to run very well on a machine with just 512MB of RAM.
I can attest to that 100%. I work at a medium-sized startup, but we've got leadership from Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, and MSFT so I think it's pretty universal.

You can progress to a pretty decent level and pay as "the best programmer" up until a high senior role, which most talented folks hit after about 8 yrs of experience. After that, promotions start to depend on the extent to which you influence the direction of your group or even company, which is all about teaching and leading others.

I think of it as three stages:

* Learning: you may be good at completing well-defined work, but you generally need a mentor to guide and help you. in other words, the company at this point is investing in your growth.

* Building: you are now self-directed and able to work independently, capable of being assigned a possibly ambiguous product requirement and being able to solve it yourself.

* Leading: you are now at the point where you can be given a large, complex project with possibly ambiguous requirements and trusted to deliver. you can work with management to form a team, and can design the technical / architectural approach and break it down into smaller pieces which you can delegate to the rest of the team.

And once you hit "leading", it will grow in scope.
Regarding crime. A huge factor in that is "eyes on the street." Car friendly streets massively reduce the eyes on the street for two reasons:

1. Cars travel fast and they obstruct the occupants' view in all kinds of directions. So the cars themselves don't really count as eyes on the street in the same way a pedestrian would.

2. Streets designed for cars are less pleasant to be in as a pedestrian or cyclist, so fewer people will be out on the street. You only walk on those streets if you absolutely have to be there.

Look at some YouTube videos of "open streets" in New York during covid.
Great content man! Love the home made "bon appetit" vibe
We only have freedom of speech because the laws are stark and absolute.

Where's our freedom of privacy?

If we stop being freedom of speech absolutists, I can already tell you what's going to happen.

edit: I do not for the life of me understand why someone would downvote this. The opposite of freedom of speech is fascism, and it is a tool that can be employed by any ideology to oppress and impose.
Can you link to any of that? I lived nearby and it felt more like a street festival the times I went by. I know this stuff happened, but I genuinely never saw what it was like.
Public transport would like a word. The fact that public transport, which is probably way more important than either bikes or electric cars is not even mentioned in the article is wild.

Obviously it doesn't have to be either/or, but I think the largest change would be widely accessible public transit (which is also a multiplier for the effectiveness of cycling, if well-designed - you can move your bike on the train or the bus, and it takes cars off the road). And I'm happier for other people to cycle; this eases pressure on the roads, reduces pollution and noise and accidents, etc. Yay cyclists!

I also have already thoroughly (if unconvincingly) been Eurosplained at over "how age, disability, weather, kids, cargo, population density, topography, etc. etc. are all non-issues for cycling" and "how it's the one size fits all solution for everything" in terms of accessibility so would be happy to avoid rehashing all that.

[ although if you have some anecdotes about 80-year old Swedes riding their cargo bikes uphill both ways every day through winter and summer that you absolutely must share, go for it ]

Despite all this, I still somehow feel that emphasizing cycling more than a combination of transit+walking is hopelessly ableist and not really very practical for a lot of the urban layouts we actually have, particularly in the west. Amsterdam's population density, for example, is 10x higher than Sydney's, and it's way flatter.
Plenty of jobs for remote COBOL devs in the 120-160k range, still. I wouldn’t call “live-where-you-want” at 150k/year woefully underpaid. That affords a great living in a lot of America. ‘Specially if you take two.
I quite like this thought, though art is about combining known patterns in a novel way. Here they create unknown patters to evoke associations with known but unrelated patterns. It's kind of reverse-art.
These sorts of tricks aren't anything new. If you're interested in them I highly recommend:

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini
This is exactly why many, myself included, are frustrated with the ever-growing mandate of the national government at the expense of federalism.

When politics is local, you and your friends have a much better chance at swaying decision makers. And if all else fails, you can move to somewhere more to your liking.

When politics is national, you must get attention through professional lobbying.

This erosion of federalism is strange considering there's a Constitutional amendment (the tenth) that explicitly protects federalism.
> average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. (Emphasis mine.)

I think independent is the key here. Often by chance, mishap, or a large, well-backed player legislation has the happy misfortune of seemingly stemming from normal citizens' actions.

How should we proceed since it seems that what many of us suspected is true, i.e., we have little to no affect on our government's policies, even though it fundamentally affects us?

Or can anyone provide a counter point? (I'm thinking of net neutrality being a half-counter, seeing how many of the teeth were removed.)
Thank you for posting because I was wondering how much of it is generally accepted vs a teased out hypothesis by one author.

I didn't see it as voyeuristic or hateful, but it's definetely something that should be portrayed clearly as either reporting or opinion.
Business value does not equate true value. People have become rich doing things that have left the world worse off.
I have a fairly large code base (80K LOC). When the size grows, lack of typing can become a problem. 95% percent of the time, the code is explicit enough. However, when you end up with meta code, then it can become really difficult to track the types down in the n-th level of recursion...

Python2 to 3 migration is not easy. There are tools but the problem is that they don't see everything and therefore, you end up with 95% of your code converted. Then it's up to you to figure out the last 5%, which is an order of magnitude harder that the first 95%... So I ended up having a fairly long transition of migrating Python2 code to Python2+3 code.

For bothe these issues, the common discourse is : have proper test coverage. But well, we live in a real world, and maintaining a code coverage strong enough to allevaite the problems (around 90%) is just very hard. If you're coding alone, that may be just too much (my case). In a team setting, with money to spend, that may be possible, but you'd need a very disciplined team.

But anyway, AFAIC, working with Python is just super productive (I compare to Java). It also feels much more battle tested than, say, Ruby.

For me python is not a scripting language but a "glue" language set in the middle of a huge libraries ecosystem.

Now, I didn't do XA transaction stuff, high performance stuff, etc. For me it's more alike a well done Visual Basic : you can achieve a lot very quickly. Contrary to VB, the language and its ecosystem are really clean.

I'm lovin' it
Grifters paradise.
If it wasn't for Haskell's IHP framework then Django, Ruby on Rails and CakePHP would be fighting to come dead last in the techempower composite benchmark https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

Django, RoR - they're almost 2 orders of magnitude behind the fastest frameworks on the composite test and they're an order of magnitude behind the majority of Java / Go - i was going to say C# here but i see asp.net is much faster than the surprisingly homogenous performing "usual suspects" of enterprise web frameworks.

And yet, if i had to launch a site tomorrow, it'd be Django i'd reach for - and with zero hesitation. Instagram, Youtube, Github, Facebook, Dropbox etc. etc. all launched on these "slowest of the slow" stacks and then optimised. Did anyone start out on a lithium (c++) or actix (rust) or other incredibly high performance stack?

This is all a big diversion anyway, I think these benchmarks measure the wrong thing entirely. Instead - show me some measure of how easy & cheap it will be for me to change or add a behaviour to my site 3 years down the road if i've stuck to the prescribed idiomatic approach.
This is key. These aren’t bad ideas. Face time is important, non work proximity is important (ie lunch). None of this requires 5 day a week presence.
> What's your take on Tailwind so far? I've found the lack of a react offering has really slowed me down.

It's working out well for the most part, but I don't use React.

I mainly develop server rendered apps and sprinkle in JS as needed.

The only weak link with Tailwind IMO is the lack of JS for doing common things like hiding / showing menus, tooltips, modals, tabs and other stuff you'd find baked into Bootstrap. I know there's some JS included in the TailwindUI components but it's not for JS libraries that I use. I prefer using StimulusJS which isn't something they support at the moment.

Fortunately there's a bunch of StimulusJS Tailwind examples provided by the community so it's not too bad in the end.

I imagine it's hard for Adam because there's React, Vue, Alpine and StimulusJS, all of which are popular enough where there's a good amount of users using them. I'm optimistic that he'll think of a way to cater to all of these users in some way, it'll only be a matter of time. NOTE: This is just speculation, I'm not affiliated with Tailwind in any way.
I had not but now have plans to! Thanks for the info. TIL.
I like your sense of humor, even if it's sarcastic in this case. :-) However, the main point of my previous comment was to demonstrate that the above-cited statement by OP is false. As for selective - at this time - use of this option in Azure, I have mentioned it, but the big difference is that, should Microsoft decide to allow it for the larger subset of users (perhaps, including pay-as-you-go plans) eventually, the infrastructure is there, unlike in the AWS case (as I understand).
For those wondering about volatility...

> MobileCoin also remains even more volatile than older cryptocurrencies, with constant price swings that will significantly change the balances in a user's Signal wallet over the course of days or even hours—hardly the sort of issue that Venmo users have to deal with. (Since March 27, MobileCoin's value has shot up nearly 600 percent, possibly due to rumors of the impending Signal integration or possibly the result of a "short-squeeze.")

> To try to tame that volatility problem, Marlinspike and Goldbard say they imagine adding a feature in the future that will automatically exchange users' payments in dollars or another more stable currency for MobileCoin only when they make a payment, and then exchange it back on the recipient's side—though it's not yet clear if those trades could be made without leaving a trail that might identify the user. "There's a world where maybe when you receive money, it can optionally just automatically settle into a pegged thing," Marlinspike says. "And then when you send money it converts back out."

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...
also... How many of those vuln. were actually found in the wild?.. How many days were the flaws open?..

This is a very-very weird article.
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Friendly reminder: test restoring from that, regularly. After your hard drive crashes is a bad time to learn that, e.g., zipping up a folder of MySQL files is not exactly backup best practice.
That's not really what Marxism is about. Marxism is about the workers taking over the one big factory from its owners, not about someone inventing an efficient cheap small-scale factory so that all the workers go home and become small businessmen.

Democratisation isn't really the right word either, of course. It's more like the Industrial Revolution in reverse -- increasing technology shifts production back from huge centralized facilities to one-man operations.
Does anyone know what kind of "prototyping tools" they're referencing?

I'm not interested in this position, but I am in the middle of creating my first Android app and I'd love to know what additional tools might be available to enhance my workflow (I'm just using Eclipse and JDebug).
Pretty big.
"Do you mean the way most male BYU students go on missions in the middle of undergrad, then finish older?"

Yes. Not a perfect comparison as you point out, but that seems like roughly the right model. That way you have some mentors and a network you can tap into while you're building your first business, as well as some basic knowledge to get you started.