skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make any sense. Can only preordained organizations print the notes? Then we’re back to centralized cash. Can anyone print the notes? Then they can also print duplicates. Do we verify electronically when we transact to prevent that? Then we're back to electronic transactions.

What am I missing? How is this not fatally flawed?
I would say it’s a better opportunity to encourage users to use the corresponding language documentation to help ensure more accurate understanding.
Buying by the bag is the problem right there. All these things get so much cheaper if you can transport 1 tonne bulka-bags. 20/40kg bags of anything all cost about the same because the bagging is the cost.

The trouble unless you're tooled up for it, 1 tonne bags are near impossible to move, and double in price to have delivered, where they are still impossible for you to move except incrementally.

Interestingly the 1.5 tonne tray capacity on the Cybertruck would be appealing for exactly that reason - you'd actually have a vehicle which can actually carry that (ute I borrowed from my inlaws caps out at 750kgs).
It depends.

In the case of an EMP it depends on how close you are and how much damage it does. If it is close enough to fry the electronic circuits of the disaster radio, then it's toast. Then again if you're that close everything that could connect to the disaster radio would also be toast. You'd be OK if you kept the setup in a highly shielded bag and only deployed it after the disaster (EMP) struck... however you'd still have the problem that your only device to connect would also have to be stored in the shielded bag.... and it's not much use of a mesh network if everyone else got fried too (because they didn't shield bag storage).

As for Solar storm. I presume you're talking about something like the Carrington Event ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 ). So again, it depends on the scale. Based on the research I've seen, the equipment may keep working - but the radio propagation is a different story. GNSS systems will likely be toast, so that's not going to work at all. Radio propagation, depending on a lot of factors, will likely be affected. If you're in a heavily populated area with lots of notes - it may not make a different at all. If you're out in the fringe areas and only have a few nodes barely within reach - then your mesh might get cut off. However in theory with varying "jamming" by the storm, and retries built into the system, your messages could eventually get through.
I happen to be a computer architect both professionally and as a hobbyist, but the basics of it really aren't that complicated. All of the _hard_ parts are people being terribly clever to eek out the last bit of performance in a given technology. Getting any modern <$100 FPGA board and designing a really simple processor is definitely do-able as a complete novice. I haven't read it, but I've heard good things about the Nand2Tetris book someone else in this thread mentioned.
My home state Kerala in India is subject to rampant sand mining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20dlI0_ZtU
Ironically, we fuel this via demand for coarse sand in construction.

The impact is immediate. Rivers are drying up and water beds are going deeper down: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/sand...
It probably happened when we decided to start doing cost benefit analyses on doing the right thing.

I'm glad the tide is turning.

It's time for the comfortable to help carry the burden and for the concerned to have their anxieties validated.
I’m your biggest fan!
Nope, I'm sorry you're not quite getting it here. Minimum Ethernet frame is 84B on the wire - it's simple enough from there.
Different areas/regions/countries have such different norms.

Where I'm from if someone said a property for sale had no power in the garage I'd be genuinely surprised and wonder what went wrong during the build. The same level of surprise as if there was no roof. Power in the garage is so useful. 240 volt power at a minimum as well. That level of expectation goes back several decades.

I don't own a Tesla or EV.
Ok, what about the closed source hardware in the phones?

Would you argue against all encryption because clearly the CPU maker has a similar access to all decrypted content?
Which then results in higher costs later, which they also cannot afford, but if they collapse (or similar) leading to someone taking them to hospital they’re bankrupted anyway.

That also increases pressure on emergency departments (which is already an expensive treatment system for anything)
Much of the world has contactless payment (no pin, no physical card insertion).

It is more or less instant. Common in .au, .nz at least.

I'm actually noticing some cultural changes as a result of this, cash is starting to seem "dirty" since you often have to touch other people's hands to exchange it.
No, you do not need a license.

Wifi is 2.4/5ghz.

"LoRa uses license-free sub-gigahertz radio frequency bands like 433 MHz, 868 MHz (Europe) and 915 MHz (Australia and North America)." -Wikipedia
Yeah, giving away money scales only in the short-term like a negative price product, increasing demand that usually doesn't translate into recurring users or revenue. I think they need more freemium and related paid services, and integrations. Like why aren't they also the "gravatar" of GPG fingerprints and keys? They also need a widget generator to spread the word on websites.
> [...], interprocessor communications system called the "conveyor belt"

Is that where the Mill architecture has the belt concept from? I think i heard some belt concept in the Mill's architecture's context.
> Williams hid the fact he was preparing to leave Apple to start his own business while still working at Apple, and that he drew on his work in steering iPhone processor design to create his new company

1a) "Hey boss, I'm preparing to leave Apple and found a competing company, but I want to keep my job for the next year, OK?"

1b) "Tell us what your plans are for the next 5 years" Oh, I want to work for Apple to learn as much as I can about processor design so I can quit and found my own company. Will you hire me?

I wish companies were more OK with alumni leaving to start competing companies, and it might be less of an issue in countries with different labor laws, but in the US it's a quick road to unemployment.

2) Requiring employees not to learn from experience is laughable; I also think it will be hard to prove that he steered iPhone processor design away from Apple's interests and toward his own competing interests
This was a terrible idea from the start. And I've been hearing from lots of folks that the influx of "users" attracted to scammy stuff like this have been harassing other Keybase users via DMs. Congrats on ruining your service, Keybase.
I can't help but notice how few upvotes this has received. If something similar was done in Firefox it would usually be the top news on HN. This much hatred towards Chrome on HN is both unbelievable and justifiable (given Chrome's recent changes which affect the privacy of its users).
I mean... would that not be cooler?
Once again 100% validation that 5G and Huawei are part of the CCP's imperial designs.

We can't blame China for playing hardball, but this is proof-positive that the government is acting in concert with Huawei and that is enough to put major tariffs, bans or at least heavy scrutiny.
That’s why we have physical cash.

It already has all the benefits of physical crypto with less headache.
Photopea has been my quick-n-dirty photoshop app of late... though pixlr has some nice features e.g. liquify.

Ivan and Ola deserve a huge thank you for releasing these tools!
Unsplash for Brands
Yeah I don't usually find "suck it" to be a compelling argument it's more expressive.

They didn't quite price in the current zoning restrictions in that they were as changeable then as they are now. If I was particularly motivated and persuasive (or let's be honest good at grift) I could still convince my local city council to rezone my neighborhood to allow said sale. My formulation just doesn't force me to go through a middleman who, most likely, really doesn't care about my neighbor's concerns are just what their cut will be.
> Otherwise the parts can only be sold as a kit and stuff

Yeah. Disaster Radio does not look like a "kit" at all. Not for "an average user" at least. I'd be cautious building and operating hardware that can potentially get me in trouble with authorities.

Still great general idea though, to build a solar-powered kit that's easy to setup and operate, a kit that makes sure there is a "plug-and-play" solution in case of a disaster (natural or not), kit that also delegates legal responsibility to the "creator"/manufacturer.
> We're putting it out there as a toy.

And that right there is the honesty that the rest of this thread is missing.
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You're doing good work, thank you.
Instead of starting with a bulky image and guess and remove unnecessary stuff at the end, I would prefer the opposite: only include necessary packages for the executable in the first place.

I am happy with my current distroless + docker multi-stage build.
Right, but the same article also is saying that thieves are using bluetooth scanning apps, so you should be safe until thieves upgrade to high sensitivity SDR scanners.
This comment is wrong on so many levels.

It is absolutely technically possible to provided communications with the ability for a government to read them. No one debates that.

Many claim that the security and privacy trade off in doing that is not worthwhile.

The technology industry needs a template reply referring to the obvious examples of the two pillars, mathematics and history of security breaches, to dismissively reply to any further such requests now and anytime in the future. We shouldn't need to get caught up in any of their cleverly constructed strawman arguments and appeals to emotion.

This is absolutely the wrong response. This is a political argument, and the correct response is in the field of politics, not a glib template argument that appeals to technologists view on security trade-offs.
Some of the opinions reflected in the linked materials
are presented as if they were obvious best practices, statements like "never do X". While it may be initially helpful to beginners for someone to provide guidance in such absolute terms, it can also lead to adoption of cargo-cult approaches and impede deeper understanding and growth. The linked materials are also problematic in their one-sided and outdated perspective on "separation of concerns", claiming CSS belongs exclusively in external stylesheets. Which ignores completely the emergence and widespread adoption of modern component-based architecture. Not just in frameworks like React and Vue, but also standards like Web Components.
Maybe an unfair criticism given it's "introductory"... but I'd urge anyone who seeks a better grasp of the power of CSS to look instead to the axioms and layout examples on https://every-layout.dev for its much more rigorous, up-to-date, "first-principles"-based, expert treatment of this thorny subject.
It always makes me chuckle when iOS updates tout Memojis as their headlining feature.
Why do these laws exist? If I want a house with no parking why can't I have it? The market should be able to work it out: if buyers and renters want parking lots and otherwise won't buy the house or apartment, then developers will make sure to have parking. As much as demanded. If that's not enough, someone can make profit by constructing a multi storey or underground garage nearby.
Programmable means something can have bugs. I prefer my celery bug-free.
If I can't take your space money down to the diner and buy a plate of bacon and eggs with it, then as far as I'm concerned it's not real.

There's a chicken-and-egg problem that I think goes missed or unmentioned by all these crypto startups trying to piecemeal a "solution" to the centralized banking problem: in the monetary system, individuals have absolutely no power, because we're at the bottom of the hierarchy of spending.

Joe Schmoe's dollar has value because he can buy a soda at the diner with it. The diner takes the dollar because they can use it to pay their staff and buy more supplies. The supplier takes the dollar because they can pay their staff and and buy raw materials. And in between every layer, the banks store the excess operating capital and profits.

Decentralized currency can only work if it can occupy every layer at once, across the world. Anything less is just straight out worse than regular money from a usability standpoint, and that's before you mention that now we're all responsible for our own money security.

Yes, people out there have been wronged by the current system, but the average modern human's relationship with money can be essentially summed up as follows:

1. Perform labor

2. Receive paycheck

3. Deposit in bank

4. Purchase food, shelter, and netflix

So what is this kind of pseudo-money-computer-chip-paper for? No matter the fancy technology thats woven into its fibers, if I pay the Kong people for 10 Kongs, how do I, Joe Schmoe, turn 10 Kongs into a pizza? How do I, Jane Pizza-Maker, find a supplier that will sell me tomatoes and flour for 10 Kongs? How do I, Rachel Dough-Maker, find a wheat farm that will accept Kongs?

All of this has to happen simultaneously, because business owners are busy and don't have the time or the energy to incrementally work space money into their cash flow.

Yeah sure, centralized banking has issues. But a bottom-up approach is doomed to failure because we don't live in barter-based villages anymore. Every transaction is part of a hierarchy of money-transfers that extend from the local diner through dozens of entities across the planet and back again. Are you making enough Kongs for all of them?
This is infuriating. The video shows just how casual this whole enterprise is. It would be a piece of cake to enforce laws and shut this down elsewhere, the only way this makes sense is that there is deep rooted corruption?
Uummm not true....I work at Amazon and I get Paid time off, Unpaid time off, and Vacation hours as well. I mean I even get two 30 min breaks and one of them is paid!
The work really isnt bad. when i stow im standing in one spot restocking products.
I don't know if it's "scammy," but it comes off as desperate. The "scammy" part seemed to be phony users registering to grab cash.
I agree dx=x1-x0 would make sense, but dx isn’t actually defined in the code from what I see. I think that’s why the GP poster is confused.
"And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised"

The relationship between the US and Europe for many reasons is different, most specifically, the US will not use 'Cisco spying' to steal German companies IP, or to otherwise screw up Germany.'

In the bigger picture, the US provides the first and last line of defence to Europe. Putin is actively trying to 'pull a Crimea' in the Baltic states and only US led activities are keeping them out. That's the top of the iceberg.

Also the 'Cisco spying' that is done by the US, mostly in the Middle East etc. actually has a lot of security value for Europe.

Of course, Europe is way behind on many tech fronts and would be hurt badly by being cut off by America (you don't think there will be repercussions?) though Europe doesn't need anything made in China ... they need China as a customer for stuff.

There are 100 consumer related issues to be addressed between US/EU before the possibility of Cisco spying comes into question.
> I switched from 8-bit (Z-80B) hardware to 16-bit (i386) hardware once the 16-bit PC could emulate the Z-80 faster than any physical Z-80 processor could run.

Isn't the i386 the first 32-bit x86 processor, not 16-bit?
Nothing is moved on chain when the bills are transferred between parties.

Token is stored in an escrow contract. The self-generated, non-extractable key stored on the note is the only key that can be used to claim funds out of that escrow contract when it matures.

This is basically a smart-contract implementation of how promissory notes issued by goldsmiths (the predecessors to modern cash) worked in the 1600's. A big difference is that every note has its own contract. It's possibly more correct to say every bill owns itself and people transfer those bills.

Section 3 of the whitepaper[1] expands on this.

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRNRCocj4PwKMXrd1jeUGw7ASQSuEk7BDJu5Ks...
Le Corbusier in Japan
just did a port from a custom D3 map solution to OL due to mobile requirements. I can say the OL's mobile support is first class.
Looks like he actually invented the UPC (Universal Product Code) [0] (1973) vs. the barcode [1] (1951).

Wikipedia [1]: "The barcode was invented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver and patented in the US in 1951. The invention was based on Morse code that was extended to thin and thick bars. However, it took over twenty years before this invention became commercially successful."

>> "The idea was pioneered by a fellow IBM employee, but it was not until Laurer developed a scanner that could read codes digitally that it took off."

"The very first scanning of the now-ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Whoever set up the database for my current work project apparently thought that wasn't enough, because it's got a whole lot of columns called "dateTimeStamp" which--on inspection--turn out to be VARCHARs containing a string representation of a timestamp. In ISO 8601 format. The one that looks like "2019-12-11T00:04:37.754329Z".

Yes, they actually have six decimal digits of precision. For tracking boxes on a warehouse conveyor belt.
There’s another discussion here that has more upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758388
Fully Diluted Cap Table
how to calculate fully diluted cap table for pre valuation startup.
The placepuppy images on basic-html are dead, I think.
You just made your own music in a very convoluted way. Some might argue that its not even music, but thats a road I would tread.

Music is one of the few things that is truly human. The emotional, and not just tonal content, is what makes music not just pleasant or interesting noise. The constant drive to have computers make music is almost as old as computers themselves, and the constant striving to make them as good as people at anything.
>than Python, which IMO is quite the achievement

Python appears to only have date, time, datetime, and timedelta, which doesn't seem excessive when you consider that there are times when you only want date or time by themselves.
Yeah, I meant that each time you get that voice mail you'd pay a few cents. If my memory serve me correctly was 5 cents for initial 20 seconds and then 1 cent for each 10 seconds after that.

As a side anecdote, cell companies started a war among themselves with different features to lure customers from one network to another, and one of those features was at one time that initial 3 seconds were free, and after them it kicked the normal fees. So here I was a student in University campus and absolutely every single student had a cell, but you'd call your friends something like: "Hi X, it's me Y" and click, close the phone. Then call "I need this course" and click, close the phone. And so on and so forth until you'd finish your conversation. And at the end of the month when cell company was issuing the bill, you'd receive a very thick envelope that would have like 50 pages in it and the majority of it would read like this for each row: <destination number> - <begin time> - <duration> - <price>, where <duration> would be something like 1 second or 2 seconds, and <price> would be "free". It didn't last, cause companies understood they were losing money by printing those pages so it was a feature for like couple of months, but oh boy that was fun. Good times.
Mike Bloomberg owns an entire fleet of private jets and helicopters, which he uses pretty much all the time. Somehow I think climate change is not at the top of his priority list, even if he virtue signals otherwise.
I wonder what these for profit companies do with the red cells and platelets? These are both heavily regulated with short shelf lives.
Yeah this whole farce turned my 'trust' beacon away from keybase. I know that sounds like a strange thing to say, but I feel like trust is a compass and this move was quite polarising. It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco. Don't give me something, and have me live with it if I never asked for it to begin with.
I love the idea for this (and for Yousician), but it never works for me. If the note recognition by the software isn't at least 95%, I feel like I'm wasting my time and it's just an exercise in frustration. I tried using FatPick with both (1) a Rocksmith USB guitar cable hooked directly into my guitar; and (2) a microphone picking up my amped guitar externally. And for both connections, I didn't think that the note recognition from my playing was anywhere close to accurate. I tried playing a very basic 12 bar blues, which I can play in my sleep, and the software just doesn't pick up the notes. I feel like a software developer needs to make a guitar that is specially tested with its software just for practicing. The software may work for others and I admire your effort, but I'm just sharing my experience.
This is just whataboutism. I don't care if it is Windows or MacOS. Bad UI is bad UI, regardless of OS.
You must not live in a state where pot is legal; in such places $2 bills floating around everywhere, I use them all the time. The reason: cash businesses use them heavily to reduce the amount of physical cash they need to maintain and move around. Pot shops occupy a gray area legally and banks don't like to deal with them so they often operate old school: cash businesses.

I have a few in my wallet most of the time, like to use them for tips when I eat out.
That is pretty amazing! I managed to get four emulator instances running CP/M inside of Unreal Engine. Could have added more but I'd have needed to build a bigger spaceship.

https://imgur.com/Cv8HGIz

Close up of disk drives and an instance running Wordstar:

https://i.imgur.com/rIY1he8.png
I appreciated the free only-crypto-I'll-ever-own-probably? But Keybase learned that people ruin everything. I still think what they built here is really neat, and hopefully once everything settles from the giveaway, what's left will be worthwhile.

The original design of the airdrop seemed designed to reward mostly/only existing users, but with the in for existing HN/GitHub users who might join. Basically it was narrowly intended to be for developers. The redesign to "avoid" abuse involved phone numbers, and allowing anyone with one in, which was the real floodgates.
Pay with a card at a busy bar in the UK 15 years ago and everyone would sigh as the barman reached for the card terminal, did his thing, waited for you to type in your pin, etc etc. Paying with cash was far quicker.

Pay with cash at a bar now and everyone will sigh as the barman counts it up, puts it in the till etc etc. Contactless is so fast, the barman will be pouring the next drinks while you're tapping the machine.

Also anecdotally, many London cafes/restaurants are entirely card payments now. They just don't do cash.
Have you tried indie hacker? It's a pretty good community though the focus has now shifted to having the largest revenue.
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how to make sure code and doc are in sync? who reviews doc changes?
That flaw is mostly a non-issue with cash because printing it is difficult. Who prints Kong? I imagine prevalence of counterfeiting is more or less directly proportional to the ease of printing.