skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use a service to pay Amazon shopping with bitcoin.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/how-to-buy-on-ama...
Wikichip doesn't list AVX512 as supported. Am I missing something in the spec sheet?

Maybe compilers are emulating AVX512 behavior with other instructions when targeting Zen/Zen+/Zen2 directly?
El Al, anyone?

https://onemileatatime.com/el-al-security/

https://www.chronic-wanderlust.com/how-to-survive-the-el-al-...
Same with Slack/Discord vs. IRC. I think geeks tend to underestimate the power of polish, ease of use and integration of populist new social media features(auto expand/play gifs).

The flip side is handing over control over everything to Silicon Valley which is slowly coming to roost. Wonder what'll happen if the Discord store doesn't make enough money to pay for servers and investors demand RoI?
I found this contradiction on thoughts about BASIC quite interesting. First:

> The idea that only one language or any particular language is critical to learning what it means to program is false. If that is your goal, to teach people how to build programs, BASIC is perfectly satisfactory. There are some things you can’t do in it; therefore, you invent constructions for doing them; and the invention of these constructions is learning to program.

Then later:

> But to get people into that world, to get people into that world from universities and high schools, it’s imperative that they learn APL before they become contaminated by BASIC. And I say that very seriously.

Maybe the point is subtle: that it's important to teach both APL and other programming languages, but definitely APL early on or that way of thinking is too hard to reach. Or maybe there is just some cognitive dissonance there and it's actually a contradiction in this talk.
Books on technical topics establish authority and are incredibly useful for advancing your career. They open doors and teach you how to tackle big personal projects. Your dollar for dollar analysis is probably close, but isn’t the whole picture.
Who manages that list? Why do you trust it?

edit: I looked through the site and most of the "scams" seemed more like basic phishing sites than actual blockchains or cryptocurrencies
I used to believe that generalization is about some nice concentration bound that one can design carefully in terms of the optimization algorithm. After many years practice, I began to firmly question about the basic assumption about data distributions. For many real applications, assuming the data are from the same unknown true distribution is fundamentally incomplete. In the real world, information is always partial and adversarials always exist. It never is a closed world where adding samples eventually has diminished value. Instead, it's an open world where long tail phenomenons are often observed. It never is about a single objective that the optimization algorithm cares about. Instead, it's entangled with many coupled but conflicting interests.

The existing statistical learning theory is having a hard time on addressing questions like combinatorial generalizability. Hopefully, the new stability analysis and adversarial analysis can lead us somewhere theoretically.
Really nice. If an eVisa is available for my selection, consider offering me a link so I can sign up direct... and, as an alternative, possibly wrapper a service around this to submit the application process on my behalf (making clear this is a paid/premium service).
I believe there are few countries in the world where you can stay 3+ months on a visa-free entry no matter what passport you hold. Usually you need a visa to stay longer than that.
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The Internet has value, sure.

But what value does the WWW have, if all the content on it is worthless?
> I’ll happily pay the “apple tax” so I can live my life and not have to deal with all the bullshit you did just to listen to some music.

This. All of this. The author calls apples products pretentious and berates anyone who owns one for not knowing how their phone works. You know what? I don't give a flying fk about knowing how my phone works. I have a million other things to worry about in this world. It doesn't make me pretentious to spend extra to have an experience I don't have to think about.
I think of it as the governmental make work program. It’s only been digestible, politically, when it’s tied to this sort of project. Without it, my home state would be severely affected.
>'ll bite. "Digital native representation of value" isn't a problem, it's a solution. Cryptocurrencies are a medium of facilitating that solution. No one would think to themselves, "I have a problem: I need a digital-first store of value or currency, now how can I do this?"

How about HTTP 402?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_...
And where do you get such price?
As an American who visited all those countries and conversed with multiple citizens from each of those countries, they do remind you of the "Central Europe" thing..

However, they don't understand that for Americans, "Eastern Europe" isn't geographic; it's geopolitical... essentially, Europe east of the former Berlin Wall

There's South America the continent, but for some Spanish people (and possibly other peoples), "South America" is everything south of America (starting with Mexico)
So if I make a proprietary application that only runs on, say, Ubuntu, does that mean GNU/Linux is no longer really free, since you can't replace your distro with Arch without losing access to my application?
> I am living in Germany and I stand by my observation that few people have a credit card.

That's why I said it's mainly an issue in physical retail due to many retailers not wanting to go through the hassle of getting a CC system in addition to their already established SEPA direct debit system, the fees charged by CC companies is another factor as they are much higher, on a per transaction basis than what's being charged by SEPA direct debit [0].

But we are talking online here, and in that context, many people do have PayPal accounts [1], that happened regardless of the massive controversies which surrounded PayPal a couple of years ago. The ven-diagram here is quite easy: People who like shopping internationally online are more versed in online shopping and thus more likely to have a PayPal account exactly for that reason.

People who don't shop online as much, or not at all, do not and people who only shop online at domestic companies, make use of the established SEPA systems.

> Sofortueberweisung is a security nightmare that nobody should use. Just offer SEPA direct debit.

SEPA direct debit can be its own security nightmare issue because you are essentially giving a third party allowance to just charge your account, for whatever amount. It also does not replace the use-case of Sofortüberweisung because Sofortüberweisung allows "instant fulfillment", which SEPA direct debit usually does not.

Because SEPA direct debit requires time for processing, time during which no product/service will be delivered. That's where Sofortüberweisung comes in: It allows payment with instant fulfillment because Sofortüberweisung is like the "man in the middle" who confirms the transaction actually took place, allowing for fulfillment before the payment actually arrives at the seller.

Note: I'm not saying Sofortüberweisund or PayPal are amazing services, I'm merely pointing out the difference between Germans shopping online and German physical retail because it's the latter that suffers from a lack of CC support. But plenty of Germans are fine taking other, CC-less routes, like PayPal or Sofortüberweisung, to get their online shopping done.

In that context, you won't be missing out on a massive customer base due to your lack of SEPA payment options, Germans who want what you sell will have/find an alternative way to pay for it, without using SEPA.

[0] https://www.thepaypers.com/expert-opinion/sepa-directdebit-t...

[1] https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434296/5dbc531d88cd738eccbe2e9...
If your premise that the purpose of the TSA is to prevent collapse of the air travel market then why can't this service be handled privately by the airlines?
Anticompetitive practices designed as strong security.
Regarding solar placement, we can place panels on housing and commercial buildings and parking spaces. Check out canopy style parking covers(sun protection)in the southern US.
I agree, his tarnished reputation casts a shadow on anything he says these days about the "open web".
I addition to the OKCupid study, here is some other data:

* 2007 Chicago Booth paper about online dating (https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emir.kamenica/documents/rac...): One important (probably unsurprising) find was that "Females exhibit stronger racial preferences than males." Also from the paper: " Finally, we can reject the hypothesis of equal preference against partners
of other races for white, black, and Hispanic subjects, owing largely to the greater preference
against Asian males by all other races"

* If you prefer anecdata, here are some Asian stories from the frontlines: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/asian-americans-dating-.... Asian women are desirable but they find that this cuts both ways, i.e. the desirability comes with unwanted fetishization on the dragon lady (O-Ren Ishii, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_1) - geisha scale (Suzy Wong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Suzie_Wong_(film)).

* If you're interested in the above fetishization of Asian women, here's an interesting paper on how they have been portrayed in Hollywood by analyzing four movies that span 20th century: https://web.uri.edu/iaics/files/07Wang.pdf
Randomware doesn’t care about the exchange rate. They just funnel cash through crypto’s because it’s a simple way for them to take digital payment.
In the down market they can’t cash out as many dollars per bitcoins, but the victims also get way more bitcoin for the same amount of dollars.

A low valuation might affect coinminer malware though.
Serious question: do you have a personal financial or professional stake in blockchain that may be colouring your view?
Ah, I miss my good ol' Sandisk Sansa Clip+. This device with rockbox firmware and a MicroSD-Card had an amazing interface, enough storage for lots of music, supporting FLAC and other lossless formats, all while being small, lightweight and providing high audio quality. For about 40 bucks.
Also: “Proof if Weak Hands” was successful in making a game out of spamming the network to the point of DoS.

When ETH was hundreds of dollars, the cost of running code on the blockchain (gas price) could get up to $50 during these attacks.

Imagine adding a column in a database table cost $50. Forget about it.
Understanding the go scheduler
It did become more expensive to use (on the order of 10x), but it didn't go down.
I don’t think it’s safe to call the UK a “petrostate”
Interesting, i havent thought about it yet. But i guess then i have to build a company around this as it wont be a microstartup anymore!
Try loading the article again, Ctrl+F Apple, read what's there, and then come back and re-read this thread.
There is only one valuation principle in finance. It's present value of future cash flows. All other methods are approximations or this
Yes okay, its about having the choice and the option. Its rooted in the fundamental instinct to cling to freedom and seek it out.

Even if you don't make a choice, having the option to is still empowering, because the absence of a choice tells you someone else made it for you.

For many, that could be the same choice they would have made. That doesn't give any condolence to those who would have made a different one, but weren't given the option.
> HN almost seems Luddite in it's treatment of the underlying technology

HN dislikes the never ending and unsubstantiated breathless hype surrounding cryptocurrency, this is painfully obvious if you actually engage genuinely instead of pretending that everyone is an idiot because they don't fawn over what has amounted to a novel and interesting but mostly useless technology.

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Using hindsight to cherry-pick historical examples of when naysayers were wrong is obviously terribly flawed logic yet it is a routinely common defense among cryptocurrency enthusiasts. It should be obvious to any engineer that this proves nothing and I personally take this reasoning as a sign that you might be arguing in bad faith.

> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted.

A base layer for apps that nobody cares about. Give one example of a useful Ethereum app. I define "useful" as a product or service that has demonstrated market success but is cheaper or somehow improved through cryptocurrency. I don't count it as useful if its a niche use-case that is impractical or has no market demand (e.g. avoiding taxes). Also, the idea that these systems never fail is laughably absurd as they have failed to the tune of multiple millions of dollars at this point (i.e. badly written code that failed to do what it claimed, resulting in funds being stolen).

> You wouldn't look at the internet in the early 90s and say it was useless because all it does is carry short messages

This absurd comparison of cryptocurrency to the early internet has been so thoroughly debunked that it barely merits a response. Please stop saying this.

> In a few years the layer 1 protocols will be good enough for something useful

Only in cryptocurrency software land is "in a few more years it might be useful" a defensible explanation of why cryptocurrency is the greatest innovation since the internet. Why can't you wait till its actually useful before broadcasting your condescendingly cliche cryptocurrency judgements regarding how HN is full of Luddites who are incapable of understanding technology? I'm sure cryptocurrency is just so complex and so new that todays engineers are just too dumb to understand it, it takes a special breed of elite hacker to fully grok the amazing potential of this new technology, Luddite software engineers be damned.
No thats not what happend. Nothing ever went down but if you wanted a tx to go through fast you had to pay more.
Would zero gravity be helpful in order to make it easier to get fusion working?
I think one of the most fascinating relationships that humans have with technology is that we expect everything to just work and that’s the end-goal/advertised dream. However it’s never been that way and for good reason. Between competing technologies and human interests the actually reality of technology is that it’s all broken.
> But ransomware! Oh man, that's nowhere near as easy nor as profitable without a high-value cruptocurrency. If the crypto crash ALSO took out ransomware developers, that's two birds with one stone, as far as I'm concerned.

That'd be great, but so long as there is some nominal value in cash to some cryptocurrency, wouldn't ransomware just ask for the same amount of underlying money? That is, just increase the number of coins required for ransom? The big benefit in cryptocoins for ransomware isn't the increasing value, but the fact there is no intermediary that can turn off accounts or rollback transactions.
You could just use the middle connection between the two batteries as a ground. I'm not sure why he didn't do it. Perhaps so that the whole thing works longer even if one of the batteries is discharged faster. That would be my guess.
But Fiat currencies also inflate/deflate. Just that that rate is slower comparatively that's why it is reasonable to rely on them in short span of time.

In long run if you aren't accounting for inflation/deflation then you are on losing end. For example, how often we hear that $10000 for that period..buy much more in today's world.

PS: I am not trying to argue but putting across a counter point. I am not an expert niether in crypto or in economics.
It's not so bad - it seems like there is a lot of magic but the library is a fairly thin layer on top of JavaScript/DOM.
Run Bash in AWS Lambda via Layers
If your application is an intrinsic part of pretty much every GNU/Linux system, then yeah, pretty much.

It's not GNU/Linux that's not free, but it makes it hard to use a GNU/Linux system that is free.
Note: reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a4dtp2/kweb_a_...
Health A-Z
I am amazed by the number of places which I (USA citizen) can travel to without a visa.
Seriously, you don't even need to spend a lot of money. If you search your local goodwill or garage sale circuit you can find some really nice old audio equipment. Pick up a CD player and a nice reciever for cheap.
I’ve always wondered if Americans can follow the Mediterranean diet with all the reports of our olive oil being conterfiets.
I have a pair of powered studio monitors (Mackie MR5), and I completely relate to this problem. Many PCs and phones will emit an audible hissing noise while plugged in. I've tested on a dozen different devices, with integrated and external DACs, five hundred dollar sound cards, massively shielded cables, practically every modern OS you can name, tweaking every audio setting exposed to me. The only devices that work perfectly are (1) my TV output, and (2) every single Apple product.

I'm wholly convinced that the computing world is, in general, regressing. Audio has been a huge loser in this fight. Today, many modern phones don't ship with 3.5mm jacks. If you want lossless audio, you literally can't find it, even though there's zero reason companies like Spotify couldn't stream it when available (even if it costs extra) (Spotify literally asks artists to upload the masters when they publish, they have that data and then throw it away). Many artists don't even publish physical CDs anymore, so its a game of luck if they have a website where I can buy the FLACs/ALACs. And if you want the actual files to, you know, live your life in a completely legal way, those are gone.

Its more than just audio. Watching movies sucks; you now pay full price to effectively indefinitely rent movies, and have them taken away at any time. eBooks are the same and always have been; the world's oldest technology has been coopted by companies like Amazon to increase revenue, and there's practically zero competition. Applications suck; we're puking web and electron everywhere, eating up every conceivable megabyte of memory available literally only because developers are lazy, and now you're consistently asked to pay a monthly fee to access this functionality literally only because companies are lazy. Modern operating systems suck; restricting filesystem access, exposing proprietary application APIs which fundamentally make applications unportable and thus contributing to the rise of Electron/RN.

Somehow we took systems and workflows that were amazing throughout the 90s-00s and, in the course of a decade, completely ruined them.
It really does look terrible - I wish I could have a more convenient way to read it on phone.
IRC is irrelevant in today's world. No serious, innovative community is still on IRC.
It was more useful than gaming.
You can trust it in the sense that the network will execute the code you run on it, for the most part, but most of the contract code out there is full of bugs and they keep forking the chain when people fuck up if they know the right people.
It could be as simple as they do more walking. Or walk after meals.
You’re conditioned by society to subconsciously have comfort to the idea of free will and it cannot be rational to assume likelihood to it.

People theoretically assuming quantum mechanics is truly random and it may not necessarily be true. It may in fact be similar to everything else that follows determinism. Even if it’s perceived random by outside hidden variables and which are non-observable to our universe. It can still be deterministic by variables in another universe and where the outcomes trickle into our universe as perceived randomness.
It’s obvious things cooled off around August specifically during the tariff changes. If these trade talks get worse I imagine the market cooling even more.
Git v2.20.0
Can anyone comment on what's going on with the ground channel in the circuit here?

Seems like you would want to tie the input ground to the virtual ground between the two 9Vs and then maybe buffer the output ground, but this circuit doesn't do that - it just replicates the L/R chains twice between grounds.

Also, what's the point of adding the two 9Vs and then splitting them again with the two 1k resistors? Why not just pull ground from in between the two 9Vs?
IRC is niche these days but I'd be interested to hear your methodology to reach the conclusion that "No serious, innovative community is still on IRC".
No, you've linked to something that says it is OK to use it. You are misunderstanding what legal tender is.

The European Commission says [1]:

"Within the euro area, only the euro has the status of legal tender."

"Yet...contractual parties are free to use...virtual currency schemes (e.g. Bitcoin). Although these are not official currencies and have no legal tender status, parties can agree to use them".

Germany has not made Bitcoin legal tender. Don't fool yourself.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/euro-area/eu...
Aren't its baseband and wifi drivers still proprietary?
> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted. That's something that future generations will take for granted but HN is largely ignoring right now.

The iPod was released at that point and you could hold it in your hands and see for yourself.

Can you give me some examples of real world applications of Ethereum's protocol that you think are being undercounted?

I recently looked for some using smart contracts but all I see is hype and a lot of VC/bitcoin money thrown at things that haven't been able to deliver and don't even need blockchain. I saw Dubai putting property records into a blockchain but not sure it has smart contracts. Perhaps something will come up in the future, but what does it have to do with excessive crypto-profit and hype money being put into startups that lack fundamentals? I am not saying experimentation is bad, but I felt like we were/are reaching dotcom pets.com levels of hype and mania.

If you ask me, HN mostly seems to be saying that the hype has been out of control over blockchain. I don't see people saying blockchain technology is lame or unreliable, do you? I have seen comparisons of bitcoin to tulip mania and ponzis, but that's not the same as discounting blockchain technologies.
Did you read the linked article? I think you’re overfocusing on one argument and might be missing the bigger picture. In my experience MVC doesn’t really help with the problems that extracting and reusing custom Hooks attempts to solve. Controllers aren’t composable in the way functions are. (An alternative take on this is that Hooks are controller-ish.)
The majority of cryptocurrency mining by hash rate is done using renewable energy.
To discharge the capacitor when he turns the thing off in a controlled fashion?

Otherwise the current will slowly leak through the zener diode and the 100kohm resitor and the capacitor will stay charged. So when he turns the thing on the next time it would not do the expected timed battery charge indication he wants.
A careful commit history will make code review easier
If something is going really well, they don't need or want investment from mom and pop. The only people who sell investments to mom-and-pop are ripoff artists. Why else would you chase nickels and dimes from people who don't understand your business?
Crypto being in a bubble meant a lot of capital pouring into crypto that would otherwise have had more productive uses.

>also, all that money spent on human work ended up in someones else pocket to spend further.

Broken window fallacy. There is no benefit from useless jobs. They are strictly worse than non-useless jobs.