skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain provides the building blocks for a financial system that is independent of any legacy cruft - it's pure computation and math. Each feature added, such as stablecoins that always match $1 (google USDC), is another lego in the system that can be used by any other participant. Just as the dotcom boom crashed and wiped out many of the frauds, so too the crypto bust is removing a lot of the garbage from the industry.

I'm very optimistic on the future, and you continue to see companies and governments engage with crypto because it's simply better, whether they want it to be or not. More efficient, less expensive, faster, less red tape. Many wish it would just disappear, but it doesn't because it continues to be useful, and spider out to ever more industries and use cases.

It might take decade(s), but I work with individuals and companies that move tens of millions every day around the world without any bank interference. It's very clearly the future, the only question in my mind is how long it will take to overcome existing systems.
At some point, you gotta send cash to them or get cash out from them (unless you want to deal with randoms, but localbitcoins has its risks too).

But no real excuse for those holding coins/cash on an exchange for a second longer than necessary.
Mullvad, ProtonVPN, and iVPN tends to get recommended often.

If geoblocking isn't a concern, you could use Cloudflare's Warp, which is free. Not sure abt no-logs policy.

You could consider using Orbot, too, a tor as a porxy service for Android, if annoying captchas and broken P2P apps is acceptable.
>"you sure as hell don't need more if all you want is retire early and live frugally."

You sure as hell do need more than that if you want to retire in your early 50s and you plan on living another 30 years. At least if you want to live somewhere remotely interesting. $1 million divided by 30 would mean you need to live on 33K a year. Which is about $2,750 a month without accounting for future inflation which would erode this figure substantially over those 30 years. An average inflation rate of 2.50% would be a cumulative inflation of 109.76%. Your $2750 would trend towards half that during that time[1]

[1] https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator
I'm tempted. Do you know which model of the 5700 xt? Is it noisy or not too bad?
It is fun until you have to actually use it for development. Then it is not so much fun.
Why limit your scope to crypto? This kind of thing has happened long before it, and will happen again and again.

It's probably happening right now.
I think this is exactly the point of the developers,

First seal to see
Then seal to control

Home assistant is the "see" bit. Then you use it (or something else) to control the process
Or that he was entrapped.
Yes, the police and courts are here to serve us, the people, but that means we have to wait for them to clear their backlog from other people to get to our case. It will always be resolved within a reasonable time, like <4 years.
Good point. You’re right, they are different chips. But still, the only difference is double precision performance (that’s probably what these extra transistors do), and support of HBM2 memory as opposed to GDDR5X. Pretty sure Amazon/Google/MS would be happy to offer affordable cloud-based GP102-s, if they could.
Can there be an ethical requirement to be ethical? If you're not ethical, aren't ethical requirements irrelevant?
I’ve had this old post from Marc Andreessen pinned in my mental browser for a long time now. There are four types of luck and you can influence three of them:

Chance I is completely impersonal; you can't influence it.

Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore.

Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations.

Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.

https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html
Founder Home Assistant here. Thanks for all the wonderful comments.
You wait for the investigation to finish and you are absolved of any wrong doing. If they don't absolve you, then you ask this question to the judge in court.
The correct answer is that # is the comment character. When the root prompt is #, then the entire command session looks like it is commented out. This prevents disasters if you accidentally copy it and paste a range of the content of the terminal backlog. Or mail a copy to someone who just blindly does a paste into their terminal.
Curious... what your November costs vs September costs ended up being. Did vapor actually end up saving $$. It's probably a better user experience I'd imagine.
Would love to see how much fundraising has covered fraud on the deposit side.

I guess we need to see one go public to find out.
I do not have home automation

However I use Home assistant.

Why, because it shows me what is going on....

Its a dashboard for my house.
Not a popular opinion: Debugging and solving all sorts of horrible bugs in poorly written apps. No pain no gain.
If it uses a new IP for each new request, that's a way to block this, is it not? Normal traffic will mostly keep the session on the same IP, not have a new one for each new request.
I would guess it's from services like the Hola VPN browser extension provides. It was always clear that these services need to make money somehow. Next to providing tunnels to their own users they will sell them to others. Not sure if this is really unethical.
If anyone here knows enough about ASNs and the RIRs to set up a company whose sole purpose was for individuals to buy/lease IPs, I would gladly help set up and run such a company. The RIRs generally don't allow individuals to have ASNs, so I assume an intermediary like this would be necessary.

But between uses like setting up a personal VPN with a clean IP or just the cool idea of having a personal IPv4 address or IPv6 block... I think it would be a viable, if rather small and niche, business.
US media ramps up anti-China campaign over Uyghur “human rights”
You have to use low-level and platform-dependent calls to do low-level and platform-dependent things, yes. Seems reasonable to me?

What do you want to do? Bake in the virtual memory semantics of the Intel architecture into C somehow? No, you need to use tools out of the scope of C for this and that’s how it should be.
You took the screenshot while you were in the master bathroom?
After a logged in session, you could count the number of times an IP address changes, and if it changes more than 3 or something in the last 10 minutes, it's a good sign that they're using some sort of malware VPN.
Will be cool to prototype out a version for StarLink considering the number of satellites that will be visible above the horizon at once.
I can't open the navigation on mobile (chrome) and if I switch the "desktop version" feature on the navigation button in the top right corner disappears.
And then they did it again not even 30 years later and would have done it again if it wasn’t for the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation.

Remember that when people talk about the superiority of western civilization.
ESPHome is amazing. it makes building your own IoT sensors and devices so easy.
S.L.A. Marshall was a fraud, and “On Killing” should be read with the knowledge it was written by a fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall

Some veterans and historians have cast doubt on Marshall's research methods.[15] Professor Roger J. Spiller (Deputy Director of the Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College) argues in his 1988 article, "S. L. A. Marshall and the Ratio of Fire" (RUSI Journal, Winter 1988, pages 63–71), that Marshall had not actually conducted the research upon which he based his ratio-of-fire theory. "The 'systematic collection of data' appears to have been an invention."[16] This revelation has called into question the authenticity of some of Marshall's other books and has lent academic weight to doubts about his integrity that had been raised in military circles even decades earlier.[17]

In his 1989 memoir, About Face, David H. Hackworth described his initial elation at an assignment with a man he idolized, and how that elation turned to disillusion after seeing Marshall's character and methods firsthand. Hackworth described Marshall as a "voyeur warrior", for whom "the truth never got in the way of a good story", and went so far as to say, "Veterans of many of the actions he 'documented' in his books have complained bitterly over the years of his inaccuracy or blatant bias".[18][19]
Again, actual references to your allegations would be useful.
Gas emits less CO2 per KWh than lignite. lignite is one of the most CO2 heavy energy sources. Gas is an opportunity that we can use to save tons of CO2, right now. Also, we've been importing large amounts of energy, It's illusory to assume we're able to become energy self-sufficient with renewables. Russia is not the only natural gas exporter and in the fully-renewable future we'll probably import renewably generated natural gas.
This analysis seems correct if OSS = OSS ISVs.
AFAIK China doesn't do much black Friday stuff. Iirc they have singles day which just crushes BF in sales

https://america.cgtn.com/2019/11/29/black-friday-how-us-reta...
There is no environment when you are considering the entire universe. This means it evolves unitarily and no information is ever erased.
Startup Books you should read in 2020
You might be interested to know that the Chinese government is also cracking down on the Hui: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/763356996/afraid-we-will-beco...

"All Hui-run nursery schools, child care centers and religious schools were forcibly closed in Ningxia and across Yunnan and Henan provinces, which are also home to a large number of Hui Muslims."

"Imams in Henan and Ningxia must now attend monthly training sessions that can last for days. There, imams told NPR, they are taught Communist ideology and state ethnic policy and discuss Xi Jinping's speeches. Imams must then pass an exam testing their ideological knowledge in order to renew their license each year, mirroring how the government issues licenses to imams in the Xinjiang region."
Interesting. I tried the same thing and it always returns the same IP while I'm connected.

I wonder if this is the client doing something? I've never installed the NordVPN client, I only use their OpenVPN config files.
> (work that cannot be recovered and it lost forever and therefore worthless)

That work secures all the transactions that came before it, it's certainly not worthless.

> with not even an IOU backing it.

That is not backing, it's just a promise that you'll get your faith-based paper back.
I don’t think we ever really told them. We just let them figure it out, which they all did, probably by age 10. I guess my advice (father of three) is to not emphasize Santa after age 5, to not be the first to bring it up, but to be honest when they start asking questions. I’d also emphasize the “magic” of the season regardless of believing in Santa or any specific religion. It’s nice to set aside a time of year to visit family and friends, and to show how much you care for them.
Life is fair if you value fairness. In some places it's more important than freedom. Life's not being fair is a US value.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPe_VpvqUxM
And thank you for a great system, from a user.
Using a cloud provider means high bandwidth bills, being blocked by most sites with IP blacklists, and potentially kicked off and banned by the cloud provider for violation of TOS.

You also won't have any anonymity since you're billing details and instances are all logged permanently. It's not really a viable alternative.
I bought a cheap TV from Argos, a UK catalogue store. No smart features. Still working well after a year.
strace can disambiguate between SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE and TCGETS these days:

https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/df7aa2b19e6f69c19fbe...
It is absolutely the black guy that is 16 and is shot by the cops is a "man". But this guy that is nearly 30 is just a naive boy that was warned by the state department, but you know.. Kids being kids.
They already do. See IRS letters sent to CryptoCurrency Owners, 2019.
> Have you browsed his Twitter? Does he strike you as a criminal?

This is not how we assess if someone has committed a crime, thankfully.
The information doesn’t go anywhere. In the heat death of the universe all particles are at absolute zero due to the heat of the universe spreading uniformly in the vacuum of space.
All trucks are unsafe for pedestrians, period.
Yes, this line of thought it pretty interesting. There is also an equivalence between quantum physics and a kind of machine learning called restricted Boltzmann machines, in that they can efficiently simulate each other.
Beautiful, frugual sciences and accessible technics production (and affordable) is key to opening up biosciences to more people and possibly liberating costs to equipment making parts of biotech akin to what has become for computing when it comes to areas such as microcontrollers and others things (Thinking rapsberry pi and arduinos)
"They did a stellar job..."

Well ... yes, yes they did.

Pretty fascinating, if light, overview of what's involved in neutron detection. A case of understanding theoretical models (causal knowledge), materials, purity and processing, conversion processes (neutrino interaction -> light -> photodetector), statistics, and ultimately, a view of what was happenning inside the solar core eight minutes ago, events which won't manifest on the solar surface for another 100,000 years.
Wow. There's a similar intersection near me in the bay area, and it always struck me as an incredibly poor design. I'm sort of surprised to see that there's another such intersection in the world. Fortunately (?), I don't think CalTrain runs any more than every 15 minutes, so the gates are rarely down for more than a couple minutes at a time.
> Examining the number of electron–positron pairs at different angles of separation, the researchers found an unexpected surplus of pairs at a separation angle of about 140º.

I keep reading about this "angle" in regards to beryllium-8 and X17. Can someone ELI5 for a non-physics person what it means for particles to come off at a certain angle?
Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
I really like the idea. However, the Chinese quote on this page “千里之行” should be “千里之行，始于足下。“ with the author as “老子”, otherwise, it's incorrect. Just my two cents.
Don't forget the lifted trucks. If one of those runs into the side of my car, it's bumper directly hitting my face.
This. I really couldn't disagree more with the linked article on this.
I just checked, and Plex happily played my local media with my internet connection powered down. I'm using Plex 1.16.5.1554 running in a jail via the FreeNAS plugin and playing from a Roku Stick+.

Only hiccup was the Roku client took unusually long to bring up my list of local content; I could imagine it timing out on DNS connections.

I've never connected it to the Plex servers ("associated it with my Plex account"), perhaps thats the difference?
Unpopular opinion: Lifted trucks should be illegal.
thanks I'll check it out
Sure know his videos! It really shows that he has some operational experience. Something others covering the same subject don't.

What I am missing is an detailed view on that aspect from true, modern day experts. But for that you would need more than one person to cover it in a meaningful way.
If the phone is mounted to the electric wheelchair anyway, could one just use the chair's battery as a powerbank?
Nice -- thanks for that. Very similar approach. The "5 minutes" or "20 pages" instead of one seems to be ringing through pretty clearly. Might make that an option when you subscribe.
I recently installed hassio in docker on a VM on a fitlet2 (also running asterisk and pi-hole on the same machine each in a separate VM).
So far no problems controlling a TV and some z-wave light switches.
Well, I guess you could always define it as the events outside of the agent’s control that unfolded after she’s decided on and taken the first step towards her goal

This way a casino player would still be lucky if she wins (but not in the ‚oh my gosh, how lucky are you that there exists a casino in the first place!‘-sense) and a successful person could still have her achievements honored even though there happened a lot of stuff before she entered the stage (like, ‚how „lucky“ was Newton that he didn‘t have to start from scratch, right?!‘)
Good breakdown of why this is probably just noise https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/26/this...
Thanks for that paper, he didn't use these words but I might summarize it as predicting a merger/unification of programming language with database. Expressing programs as declarative operations over data with an optimized implementation injected by a compiler.
Regularly on Ask HN questions about "What is best practice when I join a new team?" top advice is not to criticize existing systems, not plan to rewrite them in $newlanguage and assume there's a reason it was built like that. Low budget, short deadlines certainly is a good reason. So is bad specs, constant changing specs, or maybe $language or $framework just didn't have the features back then.
Not harshly criticizing something does not mean you are defending it or completely supportive of it. Assuming this "implication" without any concrete statements is at the root of most disagreements.
Boy, how lucky I am.

The probability of me stumbling upon this informative gem would have been pretty low if I hadn’t been lurking around HN.
They are in Australia! (Where the ANCAP is from).

Or rather, lifts beyond a few inches require special certification. Same goes for larger tires and after market bullbars.
We're on track to hit around $450 this month. Includes a ton of migration-related spikes though. Comparatively, Heroku would've been $700-750.

Also, we have over-provisioned cache & RDS with Vapor, whereas Heroku we were running on the edge.
Interesting project... What's the biggest downside you can think of by adopting this approach? all projects have to have downsides as well as benefits... what's the trade-off here
You could also edit the home automation script or block the phone on the router if remote wipe isn't an option.
It's a bedroom that we are temporarily using as a storage room for junk that doesn't belong anywhere. My wife is a Harry Potter fan.
AMD is blowing Intel out of the water with the latest benchmarks. Intel's lone remaining advantage is its MKL performance in single-threaded performance (and they've done some shady handicapping of AMD CPUs to get there), but in multiprocessing and most ML workflows AMD is the clear winner. The ThreadRipper series is an amazing product.
being good beats luck. being good allows one to to repeat successes whereas luck is often a one-time thing

people who are the most successful are better than 99.9% of the people in the same field or area. They know the subtleties and intricacies of mastery that elude the majority of people.

Zuck had been doing coding and other projects for years before creating Facebook. He didn't just overnight come up with this idea and learn all the skills needed to create it. This was a decade in the making for him.
I agree, I don't trust the US government either. But there is some irony that Mr. Freedom took significant efforts to assist a dictator who denies all of his subjects liberty and freedom (and usually in brutal fashion).

Good thing he didn't try to steal a propaganda poster while he was there.
They are in many parts of the world!
I wonder... some people claim the "negative press" of the glass shattering was by design because it creates a larger narrative, that if they handle properly, keeps the truck in the public's ears and eyes everyday (which is has) and if they "fix it" makes them look like they care about their customer bases voice.

If I agreed/believed that, this could be a part 2 to that plan. I bet a discussion will come up how government regulations don't allow the public to have bullet-RESISTANT vehicles (no such thing as "bulletproof", especially if you don't get 3rd party standardized testing to back up your claim). Along with trying to rewrite vehicle laws/standards to benefit Tesla.

Personally, don't care either way. But I always get this uneasy feeling whenever Musk does anything.
You find “hours and hours of developer agony” everywhere. Between TypeScript, React, and styled components, I’ve come to find it extremely enjoyable to build interesting and complex things for the browser. A few years ago, I’d have agreed with you we’ve been using the wrong tools. More and more, I feel like we’re finally seeing tools that help the job be creative and enjoyable instead of a frustrating, uphill battle.
Well the Man in the Moon of course.
When a Parent Dies, and “Then” You Thrive
Heck in Australia I don't think it's even legal to have tyres that come outside the width of the mud guards.
ProtonVPN seems to be involved with Tesonet as well. I'd do some more research on them.
Is there any new information in this article? I'm not seeing anything that hasn't already been reported on.
Unless you believe humans are solving NP-hard problems somehow, it seems reasonable that we learn heuristics to solve specific problems. Theoretically, so could an ML model, and indeed, if you look at recent results, using things like graph NNs on traveling salesmen problems have done very well.
The fact that the body is undentable and glass is unbreakable makes it sound worse for occupants, too. If it doesn’t crumple, you’re going to be in for a bad time in a car accident.
The cloud, too.

Think of Office365, SAP Cloud Platform. It's benefical for a closed source vendor to switch to a service model, collect monthly recurrent fees and get free ultimate leverage against the customer.
Working for money isn’t slavery. Slaves don’t get to tell their bosses to go to hell and go get another job. They don’t go home for Chinese New Year and never come back because they’ve finally saved enough money for a house or paid their sister’s way through university or heard that the money’s better in another city or factory.

Slaves are property. For all the many, many awful things that are wrong in China there is no slavery.

Minimum wage laws are not economically binding in less developed countries except sometimes for the professional managerial class. They sure as hell aren’t binding in Communist countries like China or Vietnam. You need a strong and powerful state to enforce minimum wage laws. If you can’t manage to vaccinate all the children in your country the laws may be on the books but they won’t be followed.
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That may unfortunately be true (and to some extent, is likely a problem with large & weighty road vehicles in general).

But the article points out that this one may also be unsafe for passengers, if it lacks an effective way to absorb energy in a collision.

Quoting from the link:

"Because the cold-rolled steel is undentable it does not allow for crumple zones that reduce the impact of the force of an accident for occupants."
If this lets you configure how the webhook is sent, you might not need to set anything up. Example: form is posted to Formcake, which then sends a webhook to Twilio that sends an SMS to the inserted number (for validation).

The Zapier integration, on the other hand, is even more flexible. Using a similar service, I built a fully static website for a Mother's Day campaign, where the form was processed by a Zapier action that added the info as a row to a Google Sheet. No custom backend at all.
We are a manufacturer too with a new product that brings home and industrial equipment online (smart hub and stuff). Only heard of openHAB but this looks awesome. We shall implement. Thanks HN.
Right, especially since a few paragraphs down, he introduces all the different modes, including ECB.