skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By design, Bitcoin is scarce - there will only be 20999999.9769 bitcoins ever made.
Contrast that with USD where more and more money is being printed or added to the system via:
quantative easing
increasing federal debt ceiling
So that is one factor.
The other is simple supply and demand - more and more people want to invest in bitcoin for speculative reasons, not as a means to buy goods and services but to heard in hopes that the price is going to continue going up.
That removes even more bitcoins from circulation, driving the price even higher.
To sum up: supply of bitcoin is limited by design, the shortages are made worse by speculators.
It's not too different from speculators driving iPhone or Nintendo prices up on secondary markets.
Same can be said some cars and many luxury good in general - look up veblen goods.
Just so you know, that warning broke Openstack builds in CI which fail for warnings like these. Other users have reported it elsewhere and I have users begging me to release SQLAlchemy 1.1.15 so that it can fix "the bug" ASAP for them.

Unfortunately, "database suddenly emits a prominent, unconditional warning upon upgrade to 5.7.20" is a breaking change in many situations.
From what i've read, probably people selling their alt coins and buy bitcoins to get "free money" when the hardfork happens this month. That also explains why almost every other coin is going down.
No idea and yes. Any number of things could cause the downfall, but it may come out that some party has been pumping the value or a big sell off might occur. /comments of a bitcoin hater.
Some of this comes down to "what counts as secret souce"?

Did the "secret sauce" of mouse-gui originate in the 70s with Bell Labs or Apple in the 80s? Did the secret sauce of early aggricultural civilization (Hati, Sumer, Hindus Valley..) start the first time a person grew stuff for food or when a larger scale grain economy first emerged?

There is plenty of evidence that paleo-humans from well before that 70k ybp cutoff was special, unique in the animal kingdom. Knowing what we know about people, a lot of that behaviour was almost certainly cultural and probably language-based. Very complex tool use, hunting and gathering methods, shelters, fire. Perhaps even fire-aggriculture practices.

Regardless, 70k ybp (or 40 or 100) the "secret sauce," whatever it is, begins to yield fruit. There are artifacts with symbolic expression, what we'd call art or even politics. The human population grows. We inhabit more (almost all) ecological zones. People get everywhere, including australia by 40-50k ybp. Maybe earlier. Tool invention gets faster...

something happened.
Wave would have made a nice additional to that suite. I miss Google Wave.

I've built 3 projects that relied on Google services/APIs; none of them exist anymore. I will never build another Google based product as long as I live.
After working from home for 10 years, I am now seriously looking for opportunities where I can commute to work. Have to get out of the comfort zone.
It's contemporary art, not modern art.
I actually commute by public transport. The 30 minute walk is something I do because I find it a nice way to start the day. Instead of changing busses, I just walk the last 2-3 km.
You can request your service to be whitelisted:
https://www.sk.ee/en/services/validity-confirmation-services...

Pricing is here: https://www.sk.ee/en/services/pricelist/certificate-validati...

So it's not quite as simple as Google or Facebook oAuth. But the government does support the idea that if you want then add this as a login option to your forum for dogs or an e-store for sweaters.

The main value is still in the fact that the authentication gives you the ability to create legally binding contracts that get signed online.
I'd fall into that category. While I dislike the amount of time I spend travelling, I'd much rather do that than sit at home all day by myself. Honestly, I'm far more productive in the office where I can communicate face to face, explain things on whiteboards, ask quick questions and get some social interaction.
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The biggest factor behind the rally was the announcement of Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s decision to offer Bitcoin futures.

In an earlier rise, coming after the Aug. 1st fork, Bitcoin hit a massive rally that was attributed to Wall Street flooding into Bitcoin once the heat was off from the so-called ‘civil war.’

https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-what-and-why-bitcoin-pric...
Thanks, much appreciated :)

I was flabergasted as well, its crazy to think that we need so little excersise. Maybe the problem is that people think they have to hit the gym once a week for a few hours, while a few minutes every day is much more effective.

I mean you wouldn't learn an instrument or a language that way, why should your physical response be any different.
you also have disabled important security features. Or can you encrypt your LineageOS device and update it without problems finally?
CME has announced they intend to introduce a Bitcoin Futures product. If this is allowed it will allow institutional investors (think pension funds, hedge funds etc) to legally indirectly invest in bitcoin.

The amount of money in the hands of institutional investors is huge, multi hundred billions. If a minuscule numbers of these investors put a tiny amount of their portfolio in bitcoin, the price will rocket even further.
It's rising because people worry that if they don't get on it soon they won't be able to get on this newest "get rich quick scheme" later.
It could also be the "normal" stuff has been asked many times over and he might be into a very niche/obscure topic.

I have a question that I was my own answer on. It was pretty obscure (pageant/cygwin specific) and when I finally found the answer I cited the 2 sources I used hoping it would save others time in the future with an easier google than what I went through
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-Own the development lifecycle and architecture of the frontend team
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In theory, both capital (money) and labor (people) can move freely around. Since capital is virtual, and labor real, it would make a perfect economic sense to move capital where it's needed instead of labor where it's needed.

But in practice, it's the other way around. Capital is lazy and concentrates in places like SV. People have to commute or even migrate to get better working conditions.
I like remote work, but the benefits of searchable text barely materialized for us. There were a few times we needed to find some piece of information, especially from colleagues who had moved on. However, any moderately discussed topic just generated too much text to be quickly search able. Wed usually get thousands of results for any search term and whoever was looking for the necessary information had to not just look at those results, but the context they were in, to get the info they wanted. One time it took the course of a day
But that's not communism.

Socialism is about workers rights, sure. Communism is about abolition of property, the proprietor class and abolition of family (since it's a wealth accumulation instrument).

> The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.

Notice how it is very specific about "working-class". It's not coincidental.
I'm pretty sure that belief in a "young Earth" is not the mainstream Christian belief. I'd guess it's held by a sizable minority (maybe ballpark 30%).
It's not really scarce though because you can divide up bitcoins into tiny pieces. It's more of a mental scarcity.
The point is that it's entirely up to you how many google apis you want to use, and at what terms. You aren't installing an opaque google play blob as a system app.
Just like you need a valid e-mail to sign up somewhere. Except that here you won't need it afterwards (even if your ID is compromised, it can be blocked and the other systems provide secure identity.)

All of this is backed by the "single basket" of people actually showing up in the population registry office...

PS: I see, you have just joined HN to write these unsubstantiated comments.
The signature spoofing in this ROM can be granted only to system privileged apps (so, built in or installed through a ZIP in recovery): the user can't turn it off (why should he?), but no app other than microG can obtain it. In this way you can't even accidentally give this permission to a malicious app.
Pushing of apps onto mobile users viewing sites inside browser has really gone evil. Reddit makes you click 'No, I don't want to install reddit app' or similar at least 3 times before letting you view the content.

Unrelated to that, as a HAM I've long (since 2000 or so) been preaching that if you want to know how internet will be changed by commercial and government interest, look into early radio history - it has many parallels with development of internet: an open, free to publish network primarily ran by enthusiasts that got progressively locked down until you had to be a major player to publish content on it, turned into ad-driven economy etc.
From http://www.space-invaders.com/about/ :

Are your mosaics being removed or stolen?

Lately, I have been facing this issue. A large number of the pieces are removed, damaged or destroyed by individuals who seek to resell them. Given the type of tiles I use, to steal the work is impossible. These individuals by removing the mosaics destroy the piece and then have to buy ceramics to repair or recreate the work. They even try to add a patina to make it look vintage. They then try to sell these bad replicas! I have hard time believing that anyone would buy any unauthenticated mosaic tiles as people could simply go to home depot and do it by themselves …I can only hope that soon enough nobody will be tempted to buy or steal pieces in the streets and therefore that this nonsense and painful destruction will stop.

Also insightful:

Is it possible to own a Space Invader? How do people acquire one of your works?

The most economical solution is to buy tiles and to create your own at home. It is not a very difficult assembly work and it is possible to find similar types of tiles I use.The second solution is to purchase an "invasion kit". It is a ready-to-use limited edition of a Space Invader. They are produced at the studio and sold in the Space Shop. It is at the same time a conceptual and functional object. Finally, for people who wants a unique art piece, they can seek for an Alias, which is the exact replica of the unique work in the street. There is one and only Alias for any past or present works present in the streets. Every Alias comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. Art Collectors should contact Over The Influence for any available pieces.
Actually, it's not that you'd be surprised or betrayed, as the company is expected to clearly note that you'll be talking with an AI-agent and not a human one
Working from home is often touted as a solution to all problems but it's just not that simple, and many people who do actually work remotely will tell you that.

Allowing remote work is not enough. It requires effort from both parties. The company needs to provide money for home office setup, and the employee needs to spend time and though setting one up, which might be tricky in places with insane real estate prices. Working from sofa is not really sustainable for long.

Although work from home eliminates distractions such as constant movement of people (although this is not unique to working from home and same could be done with private offices), it opens a plethora of new distractions, be it running errands, playing with pets, or just goofing off instead of TV while keeping an eye on instant messenger.

And the list goes on. But that's not the point. Sure, working from home has a lot of advantages and at the end of the day I am very glad that I made the switch. It's just not as simple as some might make it appear as.
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This seems a slightly more upscale (but also less insightful) version of the classic analysis of "chum box" ads: https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
I had the reverse experience of you, that is, I always drove automatics and then learned to drive manual later on. I actually felt I was more focused on the road in the manual because I needed to plan ahead for gear shifts. In an automatic everything is taken care of so it's easier for the mind to wander. I thought I was a better driver in the manual. I guess if I drove a manual for years it would probably go on mental autopilot more.

At the end of the day I think manuals are great fun but automatics are more practical. An automatic will never stall out in a safety critical moment, as I always worried I would do in the manual. I've also pondered that if I was ever to sustain a serious injury to an arm or leg, I would probably be able to drive an automatic in an emergency. Driving stick with a broken arm would be substantially more difficult. The fuel economy advantages enjoyed by manuals seem to have dissipated at this point as well.
> the failure of which would have meant utter devastation of a scale probably not seen... ever

Well, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
Some reasons behind bitcoin rising so fast:
CBOE announces plans to launch futures and options trading for Bitcoin[0]. Amazon buying cryptocurrency domains[1]. Bitcoin segwit2x hard fork coming[2]. Snowball effect

If you are looking for an investment advice for cryptocurrencies then a Fortune Teller may be your best bet, but please don't invest more than a couple % of your savings.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4118265-bitcoin-cboe-trade-... ,
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/amazon-buys-crypto-domains-b... ,
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/10/31/what-will-...
This fork is Segwit2x, and is considered to be an adversarial fork -- some even consider it the first battle in a civil war. The 'dividend' of getting free money does not apply here. In fact, a lot of folks in the Bitcoin community think that the price of BTC is actually signficantly _depressed_ because of this uncertainty. It's almost certainly not contributing to the price rise.
I've said this before, my non-educated analysis of the situation... There is no reason for it not to go up..there is a finite amount and people are buying because its going up. Each time someone buys bitcoin it goes up because typically people are only going to sell above what they paid. It's not a stock, there isn't a huge company behind bitcoin trying to satisfy people. It's a store of value and a way of transferring value. The only reason it would go down is if the network gets hacked or the government makes laws against it or some pure panic situation (which has happened before). Other than that why would something like bitcoin drop? People stop being interested but with the price going up and the news coverage it advertises itself.
Comparing many things to the US is setting a pretty low bar.
With all due respect (truly!), you are missing the point.

The point is: scientific arguments fail to convince because the issue escapes the scientific domain. The question is not "do we naturally tend to do X, Y or Z", but rather "at what point and to what extent are we ethically obligated to seek out people different from ourselves?"
Folks in Indiana certainly have them for breakfast.

Outside of breakfast, they are generally just served as something to go with coffee and so on, but they are definitely not dessert. A snack.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was a little miffed about that. For those you are like "huh?" in Art (big A) Modern imo is ~1900-1960. Wikipedia starts it about 40 years earlier which I'm apt to believe just not familiar with.
And then, we'll discover that ecdsa is also vulnerable on these chips?
The article woefully goes on about how the artworks are being stolen by thieves in high-viz jackets, but that's kind of the point of street art - it's ephemeral, it will get damaged, lost, etc, and in fact it's placed illegally in the first place. The author probably expects it to happen and doesn't mind. Of course, when people start spending 200K on the works it becomes a different matter, but then he should put his work in a museum - you know, something that has security.
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I've thought about this in the past. What if companies had to pay for the time you spend commuting? They'd have an incentive to hire people as close as possible, and support local policies that make it easier to live closer to work.

On the other hand, employees would have an incentive to try to stretch out their commute as much as possible, to get extra pay for time "not working". I don't know how rampant that would be. I like to think most people hate commuting enough that it wouldn't be worth it to make an extra $20 sitting in traffic when you could just be home faster, but who knows.
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Dividing is not same as 'printing' for regular currencies. It won't drive the inflation.
Face to face means seeing the other person's face. You have instantaneous feedback when their face shows signs of confusion, excitement, boredom, maybe unhappiness at your words. Misunderstandings can be cleared up immediately.

Searchable conversation history is certainly extremely useful. But today, that's at the cost of needing to regularly go back and redo text discussions from 5 or 15 minutes ago because it becomes clear that we initially hadn't understood each other at all.

So I dream of a Black Mirror style future with an indexed video archive of what my eyes had seen.
Mainly by advocating a different style of work and communication. By teaching and coaching people how to communicate in a more organised rather than haphazard manner.

This isn't all that different from what in larger organisations is nowadays called agile transformation. How often do we hear "Yeah, that whole agile thing is nice but it doesn't work for us."?

The reason why 'agile' (or any other new approach for that matter) doesn't work in these cases often is that people are only used to doing things a certain way and are too lazy or otherwise unwilling to let go of that way and try a different approach.

Bringing about change on that scale is a long and often painful process. It's not that people are inherently lazy or stupid. It just can take considerable effort to unlearn habits you've gotten used to over a long time.

The crucial difference - at least so far - between the adoption of remote work and that of agile methods is that the latter for better or for worse nowadays seem to be largely accepted as the common approach for organising work (in the software industry at least).

As for remote work on the other hand there's no large-scale buy-in by (middle-)managers. I think this points to a larger issue at play here: Implementing remote work can surface shortcomings and waste.

If remote work requires workers to proactively communicate amongst themselves anyway what do you need traditional facilitators like middle-management for? With agile software development methods there are at least still roles like Scrum master or product owner that to some extent still resemble those traditional roles.

With remote work implemented properly we could very well arrive at a point where those roles aren't needed at all anymore.
Who ultimately pays for this congestion tax? The employees in the form of lower salaries, the customers in the form of higher prices and the shareholders in the form of lower profits.

I prefer an alternative approach: a telecommuting incentive tax credit. Telecommuters themselves get a tax credit and companies also get a tax credit.

That would be the fastest way to spur more remote friendly workplaces. Then the environment, congestion, commute stress, etc will all be reduced. The "cost" of the credit would be more than offset by reduced road maintenance costs, lower pollution, fewer accidents, etc.

Unless you're dealing with customers directly, or making a physical product, there's no reason that offices in their conventional form should exist.
That would be amazing because we've been asking for this for literally years.
I suppose this question should be posed on a linux kernel mailing list somewhere.
Maybe, since this hits Google APIs directly:
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/blob...

But then, there's no TOS at this URL, and there's no point in taking this repo down, it would only make Google look bad and give microG free advertisement.
Those issues exist even in a physical office.
I don't think that means it isn't scarce: if there was a supply of water (and you could buy it in any amount) and people were buying it up and selling it on a secondary market, it would still cause the price to go up.
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- price has been less variant (moving around between $5600-6000) from mid-to-late October, so maybe catching up to a rising trend

- up and down and back over $7000 - Bitcoin tends to do rapid swings around $1000 milestones, probably due to buyers and sellers setting their next bid for that point

- China rumors and lack of China rumors (though this can be pointed to for any movement)

- upcoming Bitcoin fork causing uncertainty (as mentioned by other commenters)
But... that's the only way in which it's more valuable than some pixel art you make yourself - because of a 'fool' willing to pay that for it.

Granted, if you twist my arm I can come up with grand statements about oeuvres and the conversation between the art and the environment in which it is embedded bla bla bla, but that's just a way to justify the inflated price for something which is just kinda neat and fun.
I don't know if the csv was meant to be an api or just giving the option to someone visiting yahoo finance (and therefore viewing ads) the ability to download data they viewed. If you go straight to the data and bypass the ads, you are sort of scraping.
Even just using Renjin to be able to access Java code within R seems super useful.
Yes, but that still means that the price _per bitcoin_ will keep increasing.
Spanish cards (DNIe) generate their keys themselves
This again seems like something Amazon should have built...it takes so much effort to extrapolate data points from various of APIs... or often, no APIs available at all.
I doubt it's just "Stupid MBA's and military 'intelligence'"...

We live in a post Snowden world. It only takes one mistake to have all your data out in the wild.

I think attributing changes away from trusting employees to simply "bad management" and ignoring issues like employee malfeasance... is overly simplistic and dilutes complicated issue conversations.

There needs to be a balance between trust and security. It's easy to take it too far in either direction.
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Why not hardcode this for microG only, and not any system app ?
I'm a huge fan of Invader. When I walk (or ride) in the streets of Paris and spot an Invader, it bring me a small moment of joy. I've trained my children to spot then too, and it's even better when it's them who find them first.

See:

- http://www.space-invaders.com/about/ for a FAQ about the artist and his project.

- http://www.space-invaders.com/world/ -> map of all the Invaders over the world (Europe, US, Asia, a couple of african countries).

- http://www.space-invaders.com/world/paris/ pictures of the ones in Paris.