skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might have it the wrong way around. Gold is valuable despite being used in electronics.

Unlike most other metals, gold is suitable as a currency partly because it doesn't get 'used up' in industrial processes in any significant way (where it is used its malleability ensures only tiny amounts are necessary - one gram of gold is enough for a square metre of gold leaf). Similarly, its use as jewellery is not so much to create beautiful objects, but as small portable stores of wealth[1] - in the world's biggest gold jewellery market (India) the price of jewellery is pretty much the same as the price of the raw materials (i.e. gold).

[1] Funny story. I once had a colleague who married an Indian woman in India. He came back to work wearing a lot of gold jewellery (watch, bracelets, rings, necklace or two, etc). Even he thought it was ridiculous, but he felt obliged to wear it. I had to explain to him that he wasn't given all of it with the expectation that he'd actually wear it - it was basically his wife's family's way of giving them money.
None of their wealth is solely controllable by a private key and 24 words.
What percentage of the value of gold do you think is due to its “inherent” value in jewelry or electronics? I’d wager it’s incredibly tiny, and I don’t understand your argument that gold is a reasonable store of value only because it has some tiny bit of “inherent” value.
I bought a laptop with BTC a few months ago. Also MDMA.
Title makes it sound like people are getting shipped drugs and at risk of getting into trouble, not basically empty envelopes.
>If you leave your key in your front door lock and I blast out on twitter your address and tell people about it, I think I have some responsibility.

That's not a faithful analogy. Apple isn't your neighbour. They are the landlord. The scenario is more like that the landlord uses bogus locks in your complex, and you post it on twitter. You could complain to them privately too, but given your past experiences perhaps, you thought that twitter would be a more effective medium.
Bitcoin crosses $10,000 milestone
No, but DRM is at the container level, so nothing prevents you from adding it.
What about the other rather important attributes like discharge rate, losses, temperature stability?
It can also signal that you have enough money to buy what you wanted to buy in the first place... while encouraging saving. Maybe not super bad. You're right that if its function is as a currency then it should be used but it's hard to make that case for Bitcoin. For Monero, it's very clear: Monero's anonymity is strongest when it is actually used – when there are more transaction outputs from which to choose, and so usage of it is to be encouraged – especially when the alternative is the influx of hordes of speculators who merely hold or trade and don't contribute to the technology nor community in any way. Well, except perhaps in providing comedy material…
Gold industrial demand has virtually remained unchanged (probably because there is higher volume of goods produced even though lower usage per item)[1].

Gold usage %:

- Jewelry: 52%

- Govt holdings: 18%

- Investment: 16%

- Industrial: 12%

- Unaccounted: 2%

[1] https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/answerson/gold-industry-dev...
Being browser-based, you wouldn't be waiting to download 100MB+ if it's correctly designed

You'd download a 1-2mb core script bundle that then dynamically lazy-loads resources as required. For example, if Hearthstone were converted to a browser game, you would initially only load the base client, all the metadata and media (e.g. hero SFX, card data, effects, images) would be loaded on the fly as they are required, or pre-loaded at determined points (e.g. load all the data for both players' decks when beginning a match)
If it harms the company then they will take it more seriously and it will protect users more in future. If it doesn't harm the company then they have no incentive to change.
Once the word "bot" is used, I pretty much discount the entire experience. A bot cannot "be more effective than good documentation with good search functionality."

Messaging has potential as a channel, but "bots" are a misstep. Faking a personality makes it even worse. Pretending to understand the user is just utterly transparent.

Messaging is good at collecting data, prompting response, reminding people and triggering actions like calls or clicks. None of the strengths are bot-based.
The IRS doesn’t care about money laundering, they just want you to pay your taxes. The FBI in the other hand...
You can use a Bitpay Visa card and just send bitcoin to it like loading up a debit card. It has my name on it and my employer can pay me in bitcoin if they like this way as well, it's very easy actually.
Do You Love Any Dead People?
Wow. Can't believe it. It's true.
Locks don't nag you to decommission them quite as aggressively as OS X asks you to patch it. And an OS update was going to happen anyway, so including this patch doesn't really burden the user with an extra task they wouldn't already be subject to. Therefore, coordinated disclosure has a lot of value in the OS update ecosystem and very little in the physical lock ecosystem.
Makes sense. Completely failed to understand that.
Drugs are inherently valuable -- you can ingest them! Bitcoins are not. A bitcoin that is harder to buy or sell is a bitcoin that is necessarily worth less.
Freedom fighters always pick the wrong battles. They get sidetracked. See the identity politics during the last elections. Forgot about working class? Yeah, Trump is now President.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of...
I think in the context of world war 2, the nuclear bombs were just a more powerful instrument of destruction. If anything, they saved humanity from more devastating total war with conventional arms, which would have killed millions more.

With the advent of the B29, the US was dropping napalm and phosphorus on Japanese cities to create massive firestorms. The glow of Tokyo burning was visible for hundreds of miles. On the scale of horror or inhumanity, I’m not sure how to compare different types of aerial bombardment targeted civilians as instruments of war production that needed to be eliminated.
The dealer just needs one that looks like a watch so he can tell when a particular card is coming up.
>I think one big reason is that regulators don't want the US to miss out on a large wave of value creation.

There is no value created, it is just redistributed through rent-seeking. The US might hope that the redistribution goes in its favor if, as you say, more early adopters are in US rather than abroad.

The global effect of rent-seeking is that money gets pulled out of productive enterprises and into non-producing assets, lowering GDP.

Whether or not the easy access to money laundering channels makes up for the lost GDP or makes it worse, I am curious to see.
At this point the arguments for or against the idea of cryptocurrency are pretty irrelevant. Bitfinex has injected millions of dollars of fake money into the ecosystem, users are reporting an ability to withdraw money from it on Reddit, and their Twitter account's last message was reports of a DDoS two days ago with no updates.

https://twitter.com/bitfinex
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitfinex/comments/7fx9z9/bitfinex_w...

Perhaps Bitcoin will recover from this fraud or another cryptocurrency will take the lead in the space, but we are headed for a crash.
Ya, but only inferences. Anyways, it’s much harder for discovery than a complete conversation.
DRM is usually implemented at a completely different layer.
This is happening to a coworker but the packages are from Amazon. The stuff inside is mostly junk.
Much easier to steal a private key than liquidate a billion dollars from many banks and other illiquid sources. Especially when most of those transactions can be reversed, or otherwise raise immediate red flags.
Before you do that, remember that they choose your retirement home.

My father deliberately didn't take those sort of photos for exactly this reason: he knew my mother would use them to humiliate my brother and I as we got older.
You can load shared libraries in Emacs and Rust can expose a C ABI so it should already be possible to write plugins in Rust. In the same vein, this is cool: https://github.com/janestreet/ecaml
As the shaders are basically only good for post-processing whatever output you get from your renderer, you'd definitely need to use an infinicity-esque approach for everything interactive in a game, but you could still leverage shaders in conjunction with that for non-interactive stuff like weather effects, animals (birds flying around etc), pedestrian and vehicle traffic and so on
It has a lot with it to do, because a lot of today's asset value is based on pure emotions of investors and their feelings and if something is actually physical, which you can see, hold in your hands, which has a very shiny appearance, is being worn by rich people around their necks and is used in the most sophisticated electronics (which itself is required for the world to function nowadays) influences one's feelings a lot - so yes, the fact that gold has these attributes plays a huge role IMHO.

On the other hand a BTC is literally just a made up hashsum which is not only extremely volatile on the markets, but could also very easily just physically disappear through loss, theft or just malfunction.
This is basically all of the worst arguments against Bitcoin collected and thrown together in the same comment.

First of all, the industrial and jewelry value of gold is so far below the current market price, that if suddenly everybody decided that gold was only worth its utility value people holding gold would lose almost everything. The difference between 95% and 100% is really negligible.

Secondly, on power consumption, the whole "one transaction requires more energy than a house" is basically sophistry. Even if this number wasn't overstated, it's stated in a way that assumes that this is static, that buying a coffee costs a house worth of energy.

No matter whether you are a Bitcoin person or a Bitcoin cash person, the number of transactions per unit of energy in no way will stay the same. If you are a Bitcoin person, you will see the lightning network, which will increase transaction throughput by several orders of magnitude, and if you are a Bitcoin cash person, the block size will increase continuously, shoving more and more transactions per block.

Thirdly, the claim that you can't convert Bitcoin into cash is simply stunning. I use Gemini as an exchange daily, and I've witnessed $1 million being liquidated into US dollars in a couple of hours without much slippage.

Finally, I would ignore the final paragraph because this person has shown that he knows absolutely nothing about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.
I think this is a very interesting move from Microsoft. Although it is a good multitasking innovation, I cannot help but notice the fact that - this integrates Edge on every application there is, and with a search bar right there, people might start using edge more often than what they currently do now. At least I never open edge voluntarily.
I don’t know exactly what your situation is, but I had hundreds of sites saved in FireFTP. It won’t get you FireFTP in Firefox 57 but I wrote a utility to help move them over to FileZilla. Maybe it can help you too.

https://github.com/myspoonistoobig/AtomicFire
I've had negative experiences with Meetup.com. I've attended multiple meetups around a technical subject with the hope of meeting peers who self-educate and work on side projects. Instead, I have been subjected to sales pitches for SaaS. I get it. Hosting a meetup is work, especially for introverted technical types. People only do work when they expect an ROI.

Maybe it's better in Silicon Valley.
You can prosecute people for money laundering, that is very different from banning bitcoin.
In my head, CPU's have few cores (1-16) but those cores are very highly optimized and have lots of specialized hardware in them. In comparison, GPU's have many cores (thousands) that are comparatively dumber, but that's fine because we use GPU's when we want to run lots of simple operations in parallel, like image processing, etc.

With that in mind, where does this chip fit into the current space? Is it meant to replace both? It contains their two different kinds of cores, which I'm assuming are similar to the complex cores we have in CPU's and the simple cores we have in GPU's. Does this mean that if chips like this are used in the future, we wouldn't have separate processing units?

Also, how does one use an SoC like this? What are its inputs and outputs? How do I access those? Do I need specialized hardware? Can I plug it into my existing desktop? Do they expect a new system to be built around this, or is it a drop in replacement for a part in an existing system?
Improving Resiliency and Stability of a Large-Scale Monolithic API Service
According to another comment thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15802113 disabling from the GUI re-enabled the bug.

On my laptop I was able to exploit the bug from the local GUI and then disable it from happening (as far as I can tell) by changing the root password from the shell with sudo passwd root and then disabling the root user altogether with dsenableroot -d
That won't shut down Bitcoin, because there are other countries with internet.
I am currently reading the Strugatsky brothers' "The Doomed City". The history of the book and its fanfare intrigued me. Sci Fi played an important role in Russian history as authors treaded carefully with their criticisms of the State. This book was written and went unreleased for decades in fear of retribution.
"Bitfinex has injected millions of dollars of fake money into the ecosystem"

please, explain what money is "fake" and what "injected" and "ecosystem" mean.
What Is the Completely Failed UX Designer?
Is this what everyone who creates insane spreadsheets should actually be using? I hope the author is just being too modest to come out and say "Excel killer".
I’m note sure if bitcoin can be a viable currency if the price movements are so volatile. It’s all good the the volatility moving the price up, carrying it in any big amount without insurance feels like gambling right now
Ask HN: Is there a real-time site that tracks North Korea missile launches
Is there a near real-time site that tracks North Korea missile launches and has alerts?
>Let's hope Apple gets sued for the damage

How can that happen in any case ? Isn't pretty much the first line in every license waiving of liability ? Unless you have some special contract with Apple that overrides other standard boxes that you ticked, how would anyone sue ?
See: Mt. Gox.
If the value prop of Bitcoin is that it is a store of value comparable to gold (which is now what it is being sold as as far as I can tell), it doesn't need to skyrocket in price. It needs to hold value during a recession. How in the world is that going to happen when so many people holding it right now are speculators looking to make a buck? They will flee and the price will tank. How is that a store of value?
>Currency is currency BECAUSE its sponsored by government. And the payments system only works because you are indemnified. By the FDIC. By Chase Credit Cards. That is, the evil banks. How so for btc?

I'm not sure that's true. What makes a currency is it's usage. If enough people agree to the value of something, it's irrelevant whether a government sponsors it. You see this all the time with small towns using local "currencies" for specific usages [0]. It's the same idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
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If that is the extent of your understanding of authoritarianism vs. liberty, that's your prerogative. I believe there is more nuance involved than your comment indicates. If your goal is to create more trump voters, you are off to a good start.
Calculators Website became more handy
The way it is being pitched now by the community is that is isn't a currency, but a store of value.
This is actually really common. I can't remember if it's Linux or Windows specific, but it is almost always caused by code like this:

result = some_system_call(argv);
if (result == ERROR) {
do_something_else();
error_message = get_text_for_last_error();
display("ERROR: " + error_message);
}

What happens is that the call to `do_something_else()` calls another system call, which completes successfully. Unfortunately, system calls just return a success or failure code, and store the actual detailed error number in a shared global variable. So, when the handler code goes to retrieve the text message describing the error, it ends up looking up the code for the status of the second system call. But when that returned it saved the code for 'Task completed successfully' over the first error code the developer actually wanted...

I think it's probably Windows, maybe the `perror()` call, that does this?
If you believe them you must believe that they've received $250 million dollars in the month of November alone.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

This on a daily pattern that looks like a step function. Where could this money possibly be coming from? Anonymous millionaires?
Honest question: why does gold have intrinsic value?

My understanding is that it's scarcity is the prime driver of its value, at least in monetary terms, and bitcoin shares that quality. Of course gold does have physical qualities that are useful, but so do many other metals that are not used as stores of value.
From the US Civil War to the atomic age, there was no such thing as a non-combatant. Industrialization meant that a modern society could indefinitely sustain mobilization and fight until economic collapse.

World War 1 was where his really came to roost. The machine gun and artillery turned the western front into an industrial scale killing machine that only ended when the German economy ground to a halt. Technology improvements in WW2 enabled destruction at a scale never witnessed in history and incomparable on a relative scale to nothing except Caesar’s Gallic campaign.

The way to win was about metrics — building more arms and killing as many people as possible. Japan was no different than cavalrymen in WW1, who believed that elan and decisive victory in the field would carry the day. Sociopaths like Curtis Lemay figured that out.
Well what I find interesting here is if they are able to manufacture chips with 7nm litography. Aren't intel and samsung who I belive to be the leaders in the field, still at 14 nm? In case WD manages to beat them to the market with this technology at least there will be a lot of hype around this.

As far as binary compability is concerned this is more or less a thing of the past. The way I see it js and other interpreted languages provide for the most vibrant ecosystem at the moment. Where we have package management running not over only kernels but also distributions.

Before this developers have gotten really acustomed to compiling into platform independent bytecode. And even windows which in comparison with Linux has been ported to few platforms is by no means impossible to move over to a new instruction set. As have been demonstrated multiple times. Even C itself was developed to make few assumptions in regards to the metal. If you please, excuse me for reiterating facts well known to the average HN reader.

Furthermore with developers more or less requiring to work with open source software as it makes debugging and making use of other developers experiences easier. The probability that you will be stuck with CPU specific binaries of any given program is slim.

Now the problem is "only" to find programmers capable of programming 4096 CPU cores to operate well simultaneously, in a world where it's completely accepted and right, for a text editor to eat up hundreds of megabytes of ram displaying the source code for a hello world program. Also for this to truly make a dent the development has to span all the way from the metal via the kernel and to the actual application.

Unfortunately I am afraid that the open license will mean very little, from a freedom point of view as they take this route out of the pragmatic reasons, briefly mentioned above, not to make an ideological stand. Nonetheless it's a step forward so I'll try to supress my cynicism.
I wish Bitcoin was as decentralized as everyone says it is.

Unlike fiat cash or gold, you can't spend it without an internet connection (in order to sync up the public ledger and submit the transaction).

You're subject to miners to approve your transactions, which in theory should be democratized, but isn't really since it's based on computing power, which in turn can be bought or centralized in mining pools.

You're subject to a small cabal of developers' whims in having to use the reference client and hardforks to patch up bugs in the protocol. In theory that should also be democratized, with people free to use whatever forks they want, but in practice it's centralized with everyone fleeing to whichever fork all the mining pools go with.
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The type of organization that created it doesn't matter.
If its from amazon in the USA to a USA address, it is illegal and easily reported.
Not to feed a troll but how is doubling down on _Angular_ better for a ”transferable skill set” than React?
Sure it's straightforward enough and much better than what we had before.

But for a newcomer to JSX it looks odd.

I'm probably just missing the reason for the syntax, we're already compiling - why can't fragments be added automatically as required?
> How is your list any more remarkable than life starting on Earth in the first place?

Because the list includes that probability and adds a number of other extremely unlikely events that have to take place.
> just choose C/Java style or Python style.

+1 for this.

I must add that Haskell somehow manages to combine both, so you can use braces if needed, but normally people use indents, and neither leads to syntactic uncertainties.
I was not aware of Apollo... Thanks for the link. Looks great. Just went down a rabbit hole on offline support for Apollo, and looks like people are working on some elegant solutions.
Out of curiosity sake, Do you mind sharing what UK company you're with?
This story was FAKE NEWS by the way. Glad I lost 5 karma debating the morons who posted it / believed in it. Kudos.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/11/24/...
People in Venezuela are actively trading lots of bitcoin every day, in person. You can see this in the LocalBitcoins data: https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins
System Integrity Protection (SIP)[1] does prevent even the root user from modifying some system files[2]. It seems possible, at least in principle, to protect system logs from modification by user root. In practice, I think most system logs are stored in /var, and that part of the directory tree does not appear to be protected by SIP (but I hope I'm wrong!)

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899

[2] Unless/until you reboot to a diagnostic monitor on a special partition (which requires pressing command-R from a local keyboard during the POST), then run a command to disable SIP, and then reboot again. Continuity Activation Tool requires users to perform this step as part of the install process to allow installation of Bluetooth drivers not originally signed by Apple.
No amount of debate over the validity of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and resolution makes bitcoin any less of a fiat currency.