skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the price, but the rising difficulty[1]. Since last month the price of ETH dropped by more than 50% (from a record high bubble). In the same time span, difficulty - how much ETH you can expect to get per whatever your GPU's hashrate is - has nearly doubled.

A whole bunch of people bought in last month when mining profitability calculators were saying you could make $X per month per card, where X is a significant percentage of the card's retail price. Now it's $X/4, the difficulty continues its steady rise, and the fiat price of ETH is totally unpredictable but appears to be on a downward trend.

Unless the price of ETH returns to record highs, the cards people bought last month will never pay for themselves. That's why they're flooding eBay.

[1] https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/ethereum-difficul...
No, but if you want people to switch to it, then ignoring complaints is the first way for people to just boycott using your OS. I also work as a free software developer, and I don't understand why you would act that way when someone tells you they don't like the state of your project.

Responding to a reasonable complaint with "as developers we only scratch our own itch and we don't owe you a 'perfect OS'" is just hostile for no reason.

Also, nobody said they expect a perfect OS, but I also wouldn't call this a laptop install if everything that GP said didn't work was correct.
> We can outline a simple recipe in just three steps for success as an IT startup:

You might as well put a sticker on your forehead that says, "SUCKER."

Four of my investments (including a startup of my own) were absolute slam-dunks according to your process: large, well-established markets, orders of magnitude price-performance improvement over the competition, good IP protection. They all failed.

Like I said: unless you are very, very lucky, you will be absolutely be shocked by the creative ways the universe will come up with to screw you.
Every successful company will have a list of early investors. But not only is the list of those successful investors inconsistent (some startups were backed by Founders Fund, some by Sequoia, some by KLCB, some by Benchmark), the list of companies within the portfolio of a single investor (Founders Fund, to pick your example) is far from being 100% homeruns.
It's interesting and definitely worth the read, but if anyone is interested in a cryptocurrency with privacy, Monero is a better choice.

(Monero doesn't require a trusted setup, doesn't have a founder's tax, isn't run by a US company, and address balances are private.)
https://realpython.com/blog/python/learn-python-the-methodic...
If you really believe that, then put your money into a short position and profit handsomely. But I suspect you are just talking, and don't believe what you say enough to risk a dollar.
Paragraph 6 (but no, I did not get into specifics)
Yes. Started with Stronglifts 5x5, since it didn't have power cleans like SS does.
There's a GSM hardware switch - https://hackaday.io/project/19035/log/60071 - so this is the way to go then, simple as that =) So far, the software is going to assume that the modem is on at all times - however, I'll solve that in the next PCB revision.
KDE is not a customer but it is possibly the largest project that uses qt, I wouldn't call it "insignificant".
This reminds me of a quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann!.

When you're young, you have all these things to worry about - should you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but then something else comes up. It's much easier to just plain decide. Never mind - nothing is going to change your mind. I did that once when I was a student at MIT. I got sick and tired of having to decide what kind of dessert I was going to have at the restaurant, so I decided it would always be chocolate ice cream, and never worried about it again - I had the solution to that problem.
Your firmware was flashed in China. At the end of the day, everything comes from China and if you're worried about Huawei firmware you should also be worried about Macbook firmware. For reference, some time ago it was discovered that Lenovo firmware also had Chinese backdoors[1].

[1]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/lenovo_accused_backd...
Ask HN: Is anyone using Total.js in production?
My manager's put this framework (https://www.totaljs.com/) on my plate and there's a chance it may end up being pushed for a major project. I can't find any good write ups of people's experiences with in enterprise production applications so I'm asking here. Anyone used this framework?
Are these numbers about the source (where VCs are located) of capital or destination (where the funding goes)? Many SF startups get funding from Menlo Park but they are still used in SF. Is this counted as SF or Silicon Valley funding?
The real world tends to have a diversity of hosts and an automation system that only partially applies is in many ways worse than none at all.

I ended up with Ansible because it seems to require nothing on the far side but python2 and ssh. Everything else needed a specific version of a specific client software. CFEngine was particularly awful in a diverse setup, fighting SSL to make puppet work was never fun. I haven't found anything Ansible won't talk to, or can't be made to talk to eventually. I used Puppet for a bit less than a decade before switching to Ansible maybe two years ago, and I don't miss fighting its SSL at all. I miss when the puppetmaster would randomly crash and I'd find out when a deployment failed or worse failed partially, or when the puppetmaster process would take 5 minutes to start because, well, I donno why, but it sure was annoying.

One interesting anti-pattern I saw over the years was people using puppet (or ansible or otherwise) as the worlds weirdest version control system. You can git pull a release branch, or you can write 10K custom lines (no kidding) of automation software to replace one line of 'git pull'. Depends if you're paid by hour/LoC or not. The borderline between "this is managed with ansible/puppet/wtf" and "this is managed by living in a git repo" can be annoyingly fuzzy and going to either extreme doesn't turn out well...
"Yeah, it pretty simple. If it is hard to raise money figure out how you don’t have to—get to profitability.

That discipline is healthy. There are very few companies that have the hyper-growth that allows them to forgo profitability in the short-term and everyone wrongly assumes those examples are the norm, whether it’s a Facebook or a YouTube."

I think more Silicon Valley CEOs need to internalize this. They may have heard it, but from the looks of it, they have not internalized it.
Exactly, deeds are louder than words. Can you imagine what the world would be like without linux? He and Stallman deserve statues. They have given us our freedom.

If we had to rely on microsoft and had no alternative could we get to sites that host anti-establishment views? We can never know, and need not go there thanks to these men.
ahh that should teach me to read the article :)
but I do disagree with 'the UI could use some work', and I've never found I need the marginal time removed by smart speed.
A friend of mine flipped a brand new GPU on eBay for ~twice its MSRP last month. It'd be hard to do that consistently though, as the limited availability in stores was temporary, caused by the surge in ETH mining. Also the fees and risks involved in selling on eBay quickly eat away at the profits.
Also, said depreciation is intensified by cryptocurrency mining. It's basically GPU torture and buyers in the used market are (rightly) distrustful of GPUs that appear to have been used for mining.
As an Australian, I'm not sure that I would recommend listening to any advice from us in relation to the NBN. Also from my experience working with them in upstream projects like runc, Huawei has a lot of very interesting technology in their offerings.

Also note that basically every modern piece of technology is assembled and has its firmware flashed in China (or other various Asiatic nations with questionable governments).
What if I want to work in kgs?
Ron was one of our investors in FathomDB, and that turned out to be a bad financial investment, much to my personal dismay & regret.

However, something that I think the essay modestly overlooks is the non-financial elements. The investors made a huge difference in my life & that of the others that worked for FathomDB. I like to think that we moved the industry forward a little bit in terms of thinking about modular services (vs a monolithic platform-as-a-service) although it turned out that the spoils went mostly to the cloud vendors. Many of the ideas developed live on in open-source today.

Of course, this all serves Ron's point in that it doesn't make for a good investment. But that doesn't mean that no good came of it - and it makes me want to work harder next time so that it is both a good outcome and a good investment.

So: thank you to Ron and all our investors. It is no accident that you are called angels.
We were talking about reverse-engineering someone else's design, which is in 99% cases amounts to stealing someone's secrets.
Whenever I have a stupid question or a weird problem that I google, 95 of the time I find a blog post detailing how someone fixed it. It's a small thing, perhaps, but it really is worth appreciating all the people who take the time to help point other folks on their way.
I believe there is a difference between coin seized from the personal accounts and general Alphabay account. Also, this assumes the government has private keys and access.
Use Android :) MortPlayer has that feature.
Indeed. Secure multiparty computation with large numbers assumed malicious participants to do the initial setup would've been enough. As it was, I just can't trust it - even if all the parties are honest and completely trustworthy. I may be paranoid but, in my opinion, if you have to do the same rigmarole that the CA system does then you're still fundamentally broken.
Secrets is a good alternative (Mac + iOS only): https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/

Details on how Secrets store data: https://outercorner.com/2016/08/01/storage_format.html
I think one of the biggest challenges for FOSS (that proprietary software gets right) is making an app work and look right when half of it is on a HiDPI screen and half of it is on a lower resolution screen.

Sad to say, once I could afford $2500+ HiDPI laptops, I became a lot less picky about running proprietary OSes...
You're explaining patents to someone who has a bunch of them! "Breaking the law" or "violating the law" is generally used to indicate a criminal case; patent lawsuits are not criminal cases.

By the way, my patent lawyers (both in startups and at a big tech company I worked at) tell me that patent cases are crapshoots and there's no good way to predict what's going to happen in them. This also means that I really don't have any idea if I'm actually infringing someone's patent, even if I knew about it. Which I don't, because that advice to never read anyone else's patents is good advice for any inventor.
A quick search of eBay shows no good deals on gtx 1070s. Used cards are selling for what I bought my cards new for a month ago or more (380).
Average price paid for electricity in many regions is 20 cents/kwh. Just using your numbers that translates into $300/month in costs for under $400 in ETH.

At the national average it would be $200/month by rough math.
Tool-assisted job hunting!
Ask HN: Does success in work bring you happiness?
I read it all the time that success and happiness aren't related but to me there is a strong correlation and this makes me miserable :/

Can anyone here who feels truly happy tell me otherwise.. What is the source of your happiness? How about people making $1m+, did that increase your happiness?
> private RSS feed for Overcast

I for one would be interested in reading more about how you set this up!
Shopping list via Oscar, barcode scanner, open food facts

Aircon via temp sensors and node-samsung-airconditioner

still working on Owntracks/mqtt for useful automations on arrival home

lights plus motion sensor, lihht color by time of day (red at late night to save vision)
Guns are protected by companies that makes billions out of them, encryption? No one makes that kind of money with it.
South Carolina May Prove a Microcosm of U.S. Election Hacking Efforts
I'm partial to thinking about this with Max Weber's idea of "charismatic authority". The charismatic leader gives things away, is popular -- being in favour is what charisma is all about -- but in an extreme instance of that climate, criticising the leader becomes dangerous. Luckily, in the case of Linux, the verdict of the user base (does it work?) provides a kind of guidance to Linus. But he knows ("git") that his personality is somehow more involved with this than it should be.
2 cents, not 20.
I think you underestimate the industriousness of someone who really intends on committing tabs.
How does this relate to his point about genteelisms or using words that don't mean what the user thinks they mean?
Garfunkel and Oates cover the dilemma some women find themselves in related to suddenly realizing you have no partner and no prospects https://youtu.be/H-gfxjAaZg0
I love how the things I wish I knew about JavaScript includes shorthand declaration for objects and arrays, the Math function and how great json is. It must have been a much simpler time.
What are some of the frictions for using BTC in your view?
I think you are missing the parent's point. A CNN is a more complicated model, not a simpler one- it is better to try simple linear classifiers on bags of word or bags of bigrams or trigrams before breaking out the more complicated neural models. Note that you can do this easily with VW or FastText.
Another thing is that having large-scale successful projects make Rust a more likely language for other people to choose when creating a new project themsleves.

"It's a neat language, but no one has used it to make anything that isn't a toy" is a really common mindset for the people who make such decisions.

The only way to change that mindset is for the evangelists to write software and show that yes, it is possible to write For Realsies software in that language. If that happens to be a rewrite of a successful project, fine - it's still a large project, and it'll inspire more development than someone coming out of nowhere with a project.
Both versions of BitCoin would exist concurrently if this change was made. One network would be using 1 MB block sizes (the people who didn't take the update from the devs) and the other group using 4 MB block sizes (the people who updated their wallet/mining rigs).

Unfortunately "most" users want larger block sizes to decrease wait times while "most" miners want block sizes to stay at 1 MB so difficulty is doesn't increase, all their ASICs still work, and so they get more money (IIRC people can pay for fast-lane processing).

If the devs pushed the 4 MB change the miners wouldn't move and because of this no transactions on the 4 MB bitcoin would actually work. If the devs don't push 4 MB then all of the users leave to another coin and bitcoin drops in value.

Talk about rock and a hard place.
Feedback:

A way to rearrange exercises

A way to change the exercises I do in a workout over time (common practical point many gym trackers miss)

Tracking a down or up set (weight starts at 100lb but next set you do 90lbs)

These are all things you'll run into once you start using tracking/logging apps substantially.

I've worked on my own tracker for these reasons and more, but can definitely attest that features for a logger come best by using it yourself for months to years before committing to new (potentially unimportant) features. Some of the features you mentioned (YouTube vid links for example) are not things you really want or need (and can clutter) a tracker- whose point is to TRACK not TEACH.
Hmm, maybe I overstepped by saying it's commonly believed, but there were attacks in his own time, and there have been persistent questions. Perhaps it's all just rumor--I heard about the question from one of my professors who was a Descartes specialist, but I can't recall how seriously he took it.

One point has been that the appeals to God in Descartes philosophy have seemed rather tacked on to many readers (the way they might be for an atheist writer operating in a very theistic environment). Mersenne argued that Descartes' system gave no reason to think our knowledge of mathematics depended on God, for instance.

Edit: this is something I haven't thought about since a course a dozen years ago, so I wouldn't put much weight on my recollection (positive or negative).
Yeah, I've been trying since November 2015 to get Automattic to understand the Facebook BSD+PATENTS problem with their Calypso frontend to WordPress that uses React. Just added another comment to the issue linking back to this story:
"Replace React with Mithril for licensing reasons"
https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/650#issuecom...

Of course, that issue was rapidly closed with essentially a "we don't think there is anything to worry about here" -- ignoring that even if Automattic may not have patents to defend, any of their customers who has patents could face an issue using Calypso.

All this is made more confusing by the fact that Facebook changed the React license over time from Apache to BSD+WORSE_PATENTS and then to BSD+LESS_BAD_PATENTS. And it looks like Automattic may have started using React when it was Apache licensed. So they got the rug pulled out from under them by trusting Facebook. I can wonder if their code might be considered to have grandfathered Apache patent licensing rights?

The Fuchsia license by Google (at least the one file I looked at) does not seem to me to be that different from other FOSS Patent licenses in that it is not as broad as Facebook's and just covers patent claims about Fuchsia itself. So I would not put it in the same category as React's much broader PATENT retaliation clause which applies for any disagreement over any patents with Facebook whether they are related to React or not. So it is more like if you sue about Fuchsia patents you can't use Fuchsia.
https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/PATENT...
Logical fallacy ToS clause addition
I put a 2-year time box on it - my guess is that that's short enough that will make most of the learnings still mostly relevant. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22things%20i%20wish%22&sort=b...
As I understand it, it's not lack of trust, but rather that if a legal dispute occurs, it's easier if only one party is the copyright holder rather than having to find hundreds of developers scattered around the world.
A week-long technical assessment? Cooking meals as part of the interview process? Jesus H. Christ. Now I've heard it all. We as a community have got to start pushing back on the increasingly obnoxious interviewing process for software development jobs. What other field do you know of that would put up with this sort of thing?
My impression is that all electronics contain components from Shenzhen. Like, everyone I know who did a hardware startup moved to Shenzhen and spent at least six months there (if they didn't move part of the team there permanently).

So you should (dis)trust all consumer-facing manufacturers equally, and find another way to verify that your system is running correctly. For example, here's how Chromium OS / Chrome OS does it:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
The Landscapes of Collectivity book has two chapters about collective aspects of the immune system.

if you are interested in a computational perspective, the classic is (Hofmeyr and Forrest, 2000).
It really does surprise me that languages come with their own package managers. In most linux contexts, there's really no need for it since linux distributions come with package managers.

Part of me feels like a better solution is to maintain older branches to give distributions opportunity to catch up.
Miners shouldn't be meaningfully exposed since they can sell off their ETH as soon as they mine it (deposit it to an exchange address and sell off every few minutes via an API, or something like that). And while ETH might crash enough to make it no longer profitable and risking your capex, you can switch your GPU to mine whatever is most profitable, so you're more diversified than it looks and insulated from the instability.
Complexity Explorer
language specific repositories worrying

What is the alternative? Every major Linux distro has its own repository, as do all the BSDs. The picture on Windows and macOS is even more convoluted. Are developers in all these languages supposed to support the packaging of their software in half a dozen different repositories?

Maybe all programmers should get together and build "one repository to rule them all"? I have no idea how we herd that many cats!
filling out a form does not allow one to try the product without signup. To deliver on that concept, would require something more akin to a demo account, with preexisting data, that they could add to or explore the existing entires for.
The security industry. A proper regulatory regime requires mandatory licensing for anyone working in the security industry, with a history of violent crime or extremism being automatic grounds for refusal of a license. You won't catch everyone, but it isn't at all difficult to weed out the obvious thugs and prevent a security industry from being "rife" or "filled" with neo-nazis.
Cash counting machines in banks scan and record numbers to find bills that have already been flagged (such as those stolen from banks/ATMs), but that process is unrelated to the crediting of money to your account. General cash tracking is hypothetically possible, but it would not be trivial to implement.
It's more that functional buttons shouldn't just disappear like that. Why not have it change to "Convert to Kgs" when the input is in pounds?
Seems to me the long standing "Java is slow" versus "that's an old wives tale, Java software can be as fast native" all converges right down to the evidence of Android - compared to iOS, it's slow. If Java was just as fast then this would never come up.
Burn-out is a thing. A CEO that isn't making time for focussed reflection can very easily get stuck in 24x7 fire-fighting mode. A tired, burnt-out CEO won't be finding creative solutions to problems.
I didn't say they were new, and I won't deny their penetration. They're great if you're into resume driven development. (I am not)
Folks, time to ramp up the racism. It is extremely political correct to fling all of our opinions onto you know who.
> I have a problem when huge efforts are invested by huge teams on huge projects which clearly have no purpose.

This strikes me as a very entitled viewpoint. Why should people work on what you want them to work on? They could be watching TV or playing video games in their free time, but if they work on a project you don't think is valuable, it's somehow a problem?
> Even if it doesn't replace emacs (which it won't)

I dunno. First of all it wants to replace the C-bits of Emacs, not all that is in elisp land. Second of all, why not? I do not think the goals of Remacs are overly ambitious: port the C-platform under Emacs's elisp env to Rust. This will probably result in a much healthier and hackable codebase for that functionality, as it: is a more modern language, has less legacy (platforms) to support, is fully open source (Rust) to the level RMS would approve of.
In downtown Manhattan, maybe. In most other places near a power station, it's not.
Not the social aspects, which was the very first (and probably most important) thing listed.
Er. Linux is neat tech and all, but we had alternatives well before Linux existed. The rewriting of history is not necessary.