skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was interesting to see the various give away schemes that used to exist for bitcoin, and how they have dried up and disappeared.
Thank you, that was a great read. As someone that's only ever been interested at the periphery of Bitcoin (though generally interested in the applicability of blockchain tech and the technical problems with same), I was not aware of any of this. Would this story be considered common knowledge among the Bitcon literati? I find it hard to fathom how anybody could rationally invest in BTC knowing this story. Surely this level of influence (if not control) by Blockstream and /u/theymos goes against the very promise of decentralisation that Bitcoin promises?
There is Manna, formerly GrantCoin, which is about basic income. They issue every person with an account about $0.006 every week, so it's inflationary.
Did they ban it in Copenhagen and Berlin? In general? Or just not enough demand so they threw it out?
Just wait till you find frozen kefir
That's not what happened here. They did extensive infiltration of computer networks, including the US military. They exfiltrated source code from those networks and sold it and used stolen hardware schematics to make clones of unreleased hardware.

They did not attempt to let the targeted companies know so they could improve their security. They were hacking for profit.
Lights in the garden/living room come on automatically based on sunset time and weather. Fans ventilate the house/shed based on moisture and CO2. I'm in the process of automating the sunscreens on our windows.

So, mostly domotica stuff.
I took some AoPS classes in middle school, they were entirely online - 2 (? maybe 1 or 3?) hour online lesson once a week with weekly problem sets as well (10 questions, the last few very hard). This was almost a decade ago so things may have changed
While i agree with most of them, i would strongly recommend against “Work backwards”. While this has helped me initially in mathematics, it took extreme effort to get rid of this habit.
Watering my plants. Nothing fancy, just using an automatic watering system.
I'm inclined to agree that people who commit "crimes of skill" are better able to repay their debt to society by using their ability for good rather than rot in a cage.
No marriage is perfect. Every couple fights sometimes, if both people are being real with each other, and if they're not, that's a huge problem in itself. (I think everdev is probably right: they didn't let you see them fighting.)

The goal is not to never fight; it's to always fight fair. Sounds like your parents didn't show you how to do that — which is too bad, if they themselves knew, because most people don't. In any case, you now need to learn how, and any relationship you're in is a great place to start.

If you reach a point where you know you're fighting fair but your spouse isn't, and doesn't seem to care that they're not, that's a reasonable time to give up on the relationship.

Reread everdev's reply too — it's really good. Good luck!
Nothing Runs Like a Deere.. to court.
One idea I’ve had and heard similar descriptions of elsewhere is to give people grants for various things. Ie. If you’re diagnosed with skin cancer you’re given a grant to fund the treatment. There’d have to be an algorithm in place to settle on the optimum grant - and I don’t claim to know it. Maybe it’s a grant that establishes a reimbursement contract between the service provider, the government, and the patient with an allotment for a maximal amount of profit. But giving people blocks of money is compatible with the capitalistic market. They would still have to choose how to spend their stipend(s) and the associated trade offs. I liken it to filling in missing data with the average value. Making sure everyone made at least the average per capita income wouldn’t change inflation, I think.
TL;DR: sort and reverse are the tricky mutators in my opinion. Everything else is more obvious.
I don't think so. If someone put 5K BTC up for sale on one day the price of the whole market would be disrupted, but similar sales happen in London and New York every day and the market seems unbothered.
Excessive dynamic range compression wasn't done at that time and many records were well mastered. Other good examples are Pink Floyd and even Led Zeppelin records. Not generally considered audiophile quality, but they just sound great.

Back then these records were made to be played back on big hi-hi systems. Big speakers that filled the room and were placed far away from the listener. This is not a standard setup today. You're more likely to see music played from wimpy TV speakers, headphones or earbuds.
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It could be said that a non-zero percentage of bug bounty hackers are not actually white hats, but rather blackhats with poor connections or limited ability to fence their vulnerability.
Right. I agree. I am also going one step further and arguing that crypto is more of a fan club then a cult. There are cults way stronger that illicit a far greater emotion reaction that crypto.

Even now, when the price is in the toilet, a lot of really smart people are having sane discussions across sub-reddits. And those very smart people are still checkin in code and making improvements.

This has happened before. During the BBS era and ARPA Net era, a lot of people said those things were "cute" and only used by underground cult figures. They said that people who believed in the "internet" were dillusional that a global network would ever happen. They also said that it would have limited impact on society. They said it would stay largely with universities. Newspapers laughed. Television networks laughed. Music companies shrugged it off. But the one thing I learned from both those eras is if there are a lot of smart people working in it then it is not to be discounted.
Ask HN: How exactly do you learn anything related to SAP?
I am a self taught person. Recently, I've been hunting to learn stuff around SAP and the more I look, the more I find shady companies asking for money. The firm I work for is evaluating ERP systems and I am looking for answers and a hands on feel of the system before I (and other members of the team) give recommendations.

Not sure if SAP intended the entire learning ecosystem this way, but I find getting information and clarity around SAP is a very convoluted, secretive, confusing and an overly exhausting process. Is it designed to be this way? SAP sales guys seem to use buzzwords and marketese and seem to only interested in closing the license sale.

How did you guys learn anything around SAP apart from using it after it's been implemented?
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The op said ‘dying’ and I was referring to the use of the current tense.
Ever since I learned that Persian is related to English (with near identical words for mother,father,daughter,brother…) I enjoy thinking of direct word-correspondences (similar to most English-German pairs):

yakh chāl ~ ice hollow / Eis Kuhle/Halde <> hall ~ Höhle

yakh meaning "ice"
chāl meaning "pit"

chāl <> cool@Kuhle
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I actually thought about leaving out “as it should” when I wrote it. I knew that stating my opinion was going to be taken badly, but then I thought why censor myself? I should say what I mean and mean what I say.

Unauthorized hackers are not good guys: The type of guys who break into systems for personal gain or satisfaction without permission. I know around here we tend to romanticize these people but let’s not forget they are still criminals.

There should certainly be prison time if they are caught, don’t know how anyone could disagree with that. Death is debatable, but in some cases fully warranted.
Regarding Civilization or savagery, which is this: Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Iraqi children:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8#
Conversely, if you steal my money and then interact face to face with someone else in the transaction the money potentially becomes seen as their money and you are seen as an overhead at best. I am irrelevant. You may become irrelevant.
It really reminds me of this article: "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" ( https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths )
The idea is that clueless execs force mastering engineers to heavily compress the recordings to make them "loud". This shows the execs that if they do that, the streaming services will undo any extra "loudness" leaving them with just a compressed record.
I can definitely see how those innate technological advantages can stack up, and it's definitely a good theory. I can't think of anything that couldn't be explained by it, though I still believe there were a number of other factors working in tandem with the domestication of animals (I am generally curious as to why horses became extinct in North America as well as the general lack of native domesticated mammals, if there is any known reason for it; the climate seems well suited for them to thrive, but perhaps the size of the continent and it's general isolation didn't contribute to the selective pressures that benefited Eurasia, I'm just speculating outloud).
This should go higher in the thread. I personally didn't know this behavior.
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I don't believe that Lizzie Wade is arguing that "we can't morally judge what they did". Rather, she's arguing that being judgmental is not very useful for archeologists. Because it blocks understanding. As she says:

> But the Mexica would not have seen death when they looked at the tzompantli. They would have seen life.
Wasn't there an established (startup maybe, but which had been around a while) company that announced they're going remote only because their office space simply doesn't get used?

Unfortunately I forgot the name, but maybe some other HNer remembers.

This doesn't answer your question, but it's a data point that it has happened before. Unless you work for them :)
it wouldnt make for a good interface, but I wonder if there is any value to having up/down vote for karma and i agree / disagree to allow users to express their level agreement with the comment.
Intent matters. Hacking systems for the purpose of finding vulnerabilities to report is within the spirit of authorized edge cases.
Looking at the official numbers of desktop Linux installed systems looks like it.
Hallway lights come on automatically at sunset.

Heating comes on at 4.30am in cooler months, turns off when we leave to go to work (along with the bedroom, hallways and kitchen lights which come on at 6am)

Heating comes back on at 2pm if outside air temperature is below a certain threshold.

Bathroom floor heating and towel rail switch on and off at various times during the morning, afternoon and evening depending on the day.
Just curious, why is this such a bad habit?
What is HN’s opinion on the legality of these types of scrapers? Instagram’s robots.txt disallows this kind of scraping, same for their ToS. Legal precedents have been mixed - the recent LinkedIn vs HiQ case is a good signal, but it’s still in appeals court.
> The headline reads like it's only a cult, which isn't the case.

Bitcoin sold itself as a cult from the very beginning so it's no surprise that all manner of cults have congregated around the technology. Bitcoin is an interesting example of a paranoid technology: it purports to be "trustless" and perfectly "fair" and it requires only a "faith" in math. The reality is very different but it's no surprise such a marketing pitch would appeal to the paranoid style that dominates these groups.

Communities that don't value trust accumulate paranoiacs and then become prone to delusion. This is the self-defeating logic that dooms cults in the end: delusions can persist for a while, until they don't, and the real world wins. With Bitcoin I suspect the real world will win once the miners, having extracted 95% of the value from the trade, leave and turn their fleets towards more profitable ventures. This is the real bubble [1] at work, after all, and compared to this all the schemes and schemes and wacky delusions promoted by the holders is nothing.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=all
Book was Crichton's, movie was Spielsberg's
That‘s very little data. And besides it could, of course, be done completely without blockchain even if the data is stored decentralised.
Funny enough, possibly because I work on embedded software for automating random processes, and also from home, I don't feel the need to automate anything not work related.

When you spend most of your day stuck in front of a monitor, it feels good to get up and turn lights on/off.
Pretty biased story, sounds like it was Blockstream against everyone else (it wasn't). Most people on the mailinglist thought it was dangerous to increase the blocksize, not just people who worked for Blockstream.

> Some of the employees of Blockstream also put forth some proposals, but all were so conservative, it would take bitcoin many decades before it could reach a scale of VISA.

I hate to bring it to you, but no big decentralized network where everything happens on a single chain will ever reach VISA scale. I'm not sure why people think Bitcoin can do this. I do not work for blockstream and I think just scaling this up is a terrible idea. I only know a handful of technical people who disagree.

> After this free and open source software was released, Theymos, the person who controls all the main communication channels for the bitcoin community implemented a new moderation policy that disallowed any discussion of this new software. Specifically, if people were to discuss this software, their comments would be deleted and ultimately they would be banned temporarily or permanently. This caused chaos within the community as there was very clear support for this software at the time and it seemed our best hope for finally solving the problem and moving on.

IMO the chaos did not come from content moderation but from different groups of people who all claimed their software (bitcoin XT, bitcoin core) was the real bitcoin. And not many people understood what was going on. There was definitely some support for bitcoin XT, but it was always minuscule compared to bitcoin's IMO. This has nothing to do with either Theymos nor Blockstream.
It's worth noting that this basically gives you competitive tips - how to be more effective at solving a problem after it's been given to you. I think it's much more valuable to be good at recognizing important problems that others don't believe are important.
Where I work this gets you fired.

We have a benefits tracking requirement, you put in a 3 gets you 9 case (borderline fundable - probably too small and not sufficient payback, but you might get it) and they go back and ask for another 7 over 2 years and you will leave on the ask. If you put 3 gets you 30 and then ask for another 7 you may well leave on the ask, you may get to stay for the realisation of the 30, but then you go. Probably you go on the ask because someone else will be parachuted into the project (if it's believed that the 30 really is on the table).
Had you never lived together before marriage and maybe hadn't been together very long beforehand? Or did getting married actually change something? Or maybe the marriage was a bandage for an already failing relationship?
It's not stating your opinion that's taken badly, it's your opinion that's taken badly.

I think everyone in their right mind can agree that in most cases it's bad for society if you break into someone else's system.

If you take it on a case-by-case basis, it's a little hard to make that statement. E.g. would it be bad if someone broke into a Chinese network and use the information to help/warn human rights activists? To break into a company that's conducting unauthorized experiments on unwilling or uninformed subjects and leak that to the press? It's easy to say that vigilante justice is never a good idea, but the victims who can't get any other kind of justice might very rightfully disagree.

It's hard to even agree that it's always wrong to break into a computer system. To pronounce a minimum acceptable sentence of jailtime, and maybe even suggest that death penalty would be a good idea, too, is not something that's going to be taken well in the civilized world.
I guess you haven't been around since the beginning of .NET and never heard of J# or IKVM.

https://www.codeproject.com/articles/1440/introduction-to-vi...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=471...

https://www.ikvm.net/
>basically useless

It is how container types are done in Go.
In most countries there are no hoops. In most places in Europe it's harder go get a bank account than to get bitcoin. Does that mean only morons go through all the hoops of obtaining bank accounts?
Blockchains aren't searching for a reason to exist either. Decentralized currencies/conmodities not controlled by any single entity are an obviously useful thing.
All relationships boil down to two life-forms trying to pull one another over the counter to archive goals that are detrimental to the short term interests of both individuals. For that to work, both sides got to have mental bugs, exploits and hooks.

Have fun on your next date, finding out what emotional responses are part of the long term bonding, why they are important and how they act directly/ indirectly against your interests.
Only makes sense in modern game engines if it comes with a JIT.

I can go for a coffee when Blender does some kind of data transformation, I can't do that in a middle of a rendering a frame 60 times per second.
WaveNet is actually a bit more complicated than that. But its still probably recreatable if you read the paper.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719441 - Here is a good HN read/thread from two years back about Qanats. Yakhchals was mentioned there.
OK, this sounds reasonable. In my case, there was a single broken key on the keyboard (either the cap or the scissor was broken, I ended up replacing both with a used key from ebay), and the Apple authorized service provider told me they could only replace the whole keyboard. Good to hear that this is not an actual Apple policy, because it seems ridiculous.
This is not that atypical. I am on the same situation: PhD in physics (particle BTW) and left for industry.

The main reasons were: I am not that good of a physicist, feudalism in the academia (socially speaking), I fell in love with IT, extraordinary opportunity in industry. All the stars were aligned for a week and I took the opportunity.

I love physics (and science in general) but what I do now in industry is fantastic (in broadly speaking IT). The opportunities for advancement other than age based are better too (not that this is a rule in academia, but it was where I was).

And money is such that my family is secure no matter what happens to me.
Explain more why this is bad. I think it's very useful. In school, I used to say I reverse engineered a problem by finding way back from solution to the problem. Solving a problem from both ends is a reasonable way to get new ideas.
I'm not sure but perhaps ReasonML is worth a look at? I don't know if you can specify property names with quotes. Lists are also homogenous but that'd be the case with most functional languages with a static type system.

You could also go to town with reader macros in Lisp or use Racket.
My WiFi router is turned off automatically at 9PM. No fancy electronics is needed for this, just something like: https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/24-hours-auto-switch-off-...
How do you deal with being the company's Cassandra (I am in that predicament at the moment) ?
It's more shocking to realise how much we've needlessly thrown away.

There's a vast selection of old architectural techniques for controlling environment that we've thrown away, preferring to bolt an AC unit to a hugely inefficient building instead. Many are free, relying on natural convection and material properties etc, others rely on movement of water like the Yakchal.

Some, but far from all, are coming back to be seen in things like passive houses, but that remains an extremely small niche.
Arduino and Pidgin C++
All true and don't forget the sex with other people that everyone secretly wants at all times. Women are ready to "trade up" for another man, men just want to mate with other women. Couples who have only slept with each other don't seem to suffer from this. Couples where one or both had a lot of sex before getting together will suffer and will usually end having affairs.
I mostly scrape public interest government data, not commercial data. Personally, I don't really care about laws. I'm not hitting PACER or JSTOR, I'm not starting a competing company, and I'm not making my scrapers available as a service, so I'm totally unlikely to be sued.

In terms of ethics I typically apply a sort of "try to be considerate" test. If I am doing personal, non-commercial scraping, only scraping public data, not releasing the data, using timer delays, respecting 429 codes, and not doing too much to mask my identity, and the servers I'm hitting are massive services handling multi-million user concurrency and I'm using a DigitalOcean droplet, then I'm not really a problem. And I trust their well paid sysadmins to block me or contact me if I am the problem. I do check robots.txt in advance. If there is one, it doesn't stop me, but it generally means I take extra precautions to avoid causing trouble for the service in question.

On the other hand, I once scraped the DPRK's English language press office as part of some research, and about two weeks later it became inaccessible from any country other than Japan, so I'm pretty sure I almost caused a diplomatic incident. Oops.

In this case, it's 40 lines of python code using a single threaded requests request, only scraping a single page, not doing any funny business with user agent spoofing, etc. I think you're right, it's probably not something Instagram wants to happen and theoretically I'm sure they could send a takedown, but I guess I have a pretty laissez-faire attitude about this: is it really a good use of their time to stop this guy?
> I find, across the board, Amazon often feels like their incentives don't align with those of a customer.

That's a strange interpretation. Their checkout flow is as little as 1 click and their incredible growth is from only caring about the customer and delivering value better than anyone else. Many people do almost all of their shopping on Amazon because it's fast, easy, and reliable, even if the prices aren't the best.
OK, here's another example. For about 40 years, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a global game of nuclear chicken. The winning strategy was Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). And it was only luck that an exchange wasn't triggered by accident.

So imagine how people in 2600 (if there are any) will see that. If anthropologists discover some artifact that brings it to general attention, anyway. "Horrific" is pretty likely, no?
Well, what are cryptocurrencies then? Besides a hyper speculative "asset" for gamblers of course.
Automatic driveway lights via motion sensor. Automatic house fan (when in saves me money on heating or cooling). Light assisted alarm, makes the bedroom lights 10% brighter a minute before the alarm goes off.

Pretty amazing how cheap things are these days, an arduino or Pi 0w and some relays can do quite a bit. Just bought a opengarage.io and considering the opensprinkler.
This scraper was written to get images and create a dataset for ML models for personal project while studying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
printing press was an improvement, not the invention of information transfer.

They were doing just fine with papyrus(paper), leather(letters), tablets, and bark
Sorry. Every response to me has essentially been "this is useless" when it is idiomatic Go. I'm sure you can see how that can be frustrating. I'll try not to be so snarky.