skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dying with as much money (i.e. power) as possible is very much the endgame for many people

At which point, if they didn't provide their private keys to their heirs, the UTXO become unusable, and everybody is a bit richer thanks to these thrifty people generous sacrifice.

> Fractional reserve is also about reinvesting money instead of letting it sit idly in a coffer

Environmentalists seem to dislike investment for investment sake. I don't think they will be too sad if we collectively think it's better to have fun times and let money sit idly in wallets.

> probably the best evidence as to why they're doomed to fail

Doomed to fail, yet continuously succeeded, for over 10 years now, from less than 1 cent apiece to over 10 grands apiece.

It took me a while to realize HN is not fundamentally different from other social networks, like facebook. There is social pressure, and external reality doesn't matter as much as conforming to what the peer group says. Here, ever since BTC original announcement, the majority opinion has been mostly negative, with people actively trying to steer other away from BTC.

The majority has been consistently proven wrong, but social pressure has made that a non issue.

Meanwhile, those who learned how to dissent and did the opposite of what everyone else recommended are set for life. A few people tried to warn us. There was someone who announced here many years ago he put all of his retirement savings in BTC, after which we never heard from him again.

Yet the sour grapes keep complaining. Just for fun, try to read this 2013 thread, and ask yourself what state of reality it will take to consider the possibility you may be wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6927637
I learned of par2 from usenet but I continue to use it for FEC on my local backups.
GoT season 8 is something that happened to me, not something I enjoyed. Like a bully ruining your sand castle after a long day at the beach.
> nothing

nice :sunglasses:
Tether is probably not backed 1:1, but at the same time I believe it is closer to 1:1 than it is to 0:1 just because the entity that runs it is literally a money-printing machine (Bitfinex is extraordinarily profitable) and there is evidence for some large quantity of people using Tether (they had 500m seized no?)

End of the day imo crypto is still a small fish when we look at the absolute numbers comparative to stocks. Manipulation is expected to a certain degree but I still lean towards a positive correlation in perceived value and price. Also I believe it is treated the same as every other market, fake it until you make it or implode.

I mean I view it very much like Tesla in that in only gets is value from the "possible end state", but the reality is that BTC doesn't need much capital in the schema of the financial world to multiple even at current levels.
Of course, for a Japanese person coding in English that's the least of their problems....

I'll admit the benefits of color-coding things are less if you are using words as opposed to actual colors, but I still think an argument could be made for using green and red, since deny/block and allow/pass seem a bit too closely tied to a specific expected action. I could imagine uses of the terms in the future (not necessarily in linux code) where those descriptors don't quite work, but where the colors names communicate the concept in a more general way.

It reminds me of the issue with the idea of calling black people "African Americans." It wasn't all that well thought through, because it is overly specific and doesn't work for, say, a black person who never lived in America.
How good are query optimizers, really? [pdf] (2015)
Parallel construction is still used in the UK. That's my point - it is used to conceal sources in a wide variety of circumstances, and is orthogonal to any issues regarding illegality of evidence.
Fortunately so far we don't need to sign a license agreement to use an Intel CPU, yet. OpAmp EULA doesn't look like something currently on the horizon. But if an EULAed CPU ever became true, so will an EULAed OpAmp...

> In a darker scenario, all OpAmp designs have been bought by Apple, and you can't even use one if you opened your iPhone because the function has been integrated into the CPU.

Scary, because many microcontrollers already have OpAmps built into them...
"The Top 1% alone is making more than enough in earnings. The fact that billionaires exist at all is proof"

No, this is an ideological statement, not a factual statement.

The 'earnings' (not wealth) of Billionaires would not move the needle that much.

But even the wealth: if Jeff Bezos gave $100B up his wealth, it would be a one-time check to every American for $300. That's it. And just once.

Take up all the billionaires and it wouldn't amount to much for Americans, and it would be shortlived.

"China's wages aren't even that low anymore."

Yes, they absolutely are. To the point wherein there is absolutely no way for America to compete with them on a wage-basis.

"Correct, it's not a labor cost issue at the end of the day."

Yes, it is a labour cost, you're misinterpreting my point. Nothing America can do will make the US competitive with China for things involving labour.

" As I said, companies are more than capable of finding margins that work and still pay labor what it owes them."

This is just fantasy business math. There is no 'finding margins'. There is 'increasing prices' or 'lowering costs'. So either they pay suppliers less, or increase prices in order to pay greater salaries.

And 'owes them' - is again, just made up. How much does Starbucks' 'owe' it's Baristas? What you say they owe? What the market will bear? Minimum wage?

"The labor market isn't a fair market, for what that is worth, and has almost no liquidity"

The term 'liquid' is generally not used for labour markets, you might mean to say 'fungibility'?

The US could afford to pay better minimum wages and probably better for the lower 1/3 - but again, it won't change what's happening vis-a-vis China.
> You lose the ability to remove unused code, but for people using this, it doesn't matter, because it is cached anyway.

I was under the impression that parsing (etc.) time matters as well, not just raw download time/latency?
Does this support subresource integrity?
They claim a high availability, but no data on P90 or P95 response times. There is no SLA on their free plan.

While I appreciate the free service, I work in the web performance space. I've seen third party widgets from big name companies like Optimizely, Tealium, Pubmatic, and Adobe have slow response times for critical content, delaying the entire waterfall for major sites. Its hard for the big companies to whom you actually pay money to get this consistently right in a way that doesn't slow down the page.

We've had a ton of people taking cracks at this. From Google and Microsoft with their "Ajax" CDNs a decade ago, to unpkg and Cloudflare. And yet I still have not seen any of these special JavaScript-specific CDNs ever beat a vanilla CDN dumbly serving JS packages that you yourself have bundled and optimized under normal site traffic.
Full interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps
Certificate transparency - chrome requires all certificates to have a public certificate transparency log which makes it very difficult for attackers to generate bad certificates undetected
I bet it's somehow the 35s. Those things have - hands down - the worst bluetooth drivers I've ever encountered
Only the past couple? I thought it was more or less overwhelmed by DMCA bots as early as maybe 7-8 years ago.
This is true regardless of language. There's a reason I insist on teaching what should be core CS topics to my new graduate coworkers (many of whom have been EEs with limited programming experience, their solutions tend to be brute force and unmaintainable for the first few years). These things simplify many programs and increase their clarity.
> it still baffles me how macOS doesn't even ship with a serious file manager by default in 2020

Serious question: what do you use it for? I rarely use the finder at all; when I do it’s for pretty trivial things that it handles just fine. Generally ls, cd, open, tar etc are enough for me.

I understand a lot of people consider the Finder broken so I assume it lacks “power user” features, at least. But aren’t the power users by definition a couple of sigma out so are better served by a paid product?

For example I don’t use apple’s calendar app but paid $50 for a different calendar. I wouldn’t recommend that most people do this: apple calendar is fine for the bulk of users. I just happened to have some special needs. Could your case be the same?
My undergrad would just throttle/packetshape torrents/p2p/IRC-dcc/etc so it would move at 1~2kbps. My grad school would ban your MAC address if you had any torrents running (I found that out the hard way when I got banned for DemocracyNow/Miro video player, which I didn't realize, used torrents as its backend transfer protocol).
It doesn't surprise me that someone would come up with a counterexample. :)
Not minimizing your point but I like the obvious reminder of what's possible.

Also, the what-bad-guys-might-do klaxon is a powerful tool, is too often used to restrict everyone's abilities.
Exactly there are established legal proceedings to protect sensitive information be it a source that could be endangered, classified information or a method employed, the judge can seal that information, but it has historically been the judges call and that should not be taken out of the courts hands by law enforcement.
Can’t you just scp it at that point?
I'm just waiting for whatever crypto/digital finance thing that comes along next that actually works and lead them to crash.
That is what underlies my point. Basically, I don’t think we can say that Europe or the northern US has this beat yet. It doesn’t. Once winter comes again, we get the real numbers.
When I was a teenager, during the summers (no school) I would generally go to sleep at 4am or 5am and wake up around 1-2pm.

I found that time of night (12am - 4am) really conducive to creativity. If I could go back to that schedule, I would. I don't like waking up any time before 9, and neither does my body.
Why? Every sandbox that has ever existed has been exploited/broken out of, including VMs. Only explicit security controls like RBACs (ex. SELinux) can create a secure runtime environment, if you configure them right.

It's much, much easier to just download a binary and compare its cryptographic hash with the origin's before running it. That's how all Linux distributions ship apps, and Windows has a slightly more modern version of that.
I have this issue on a new MBP 16, and it seems like something forces the Bluetooth codec to switch whenever the mic on the BT device is active.
Yep, totally agree. Python's metaprogramming is powerful enough that you can twist it into any shape you like! :)

My favorite gem, especially before python3 and typehinting were more widely in-use, is attrs [0]. It allows you to define rich data types (which python is great for) in a declarative/expressive/legible manner (which python sometimes isn't great for).

imo, it's a fantastic example of how metaprogramming allows libraries to actually enhance a language. Another one that demonstrates the power of MP is fire[1], a tool that allows you to drive classes with a MP-generated CLI.

[0] https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/examples.html
[1] https://github.com/google/python-fire
I thought for sure hubris would be something about "oh, that'll be easy to automate!" I'm not sure if it's what makes a great programmer but I do think there's some sort of Paradox of Programmers where we can somehow entirely underestimate the "Big Problem" while also being completely undeterred - defiant even - once the "Big Problem" reveals its true size.
Makes sense, 10-15 years ago I was on walk about.

Digikey got it's opening when the mainline distributors decided that didn't want to deal with piddly little orders and imposed $250 minimums. Digikey swiped a bunch of their customers.

Now days ordering off Digikey is easy. But the cost of shipping is murder unless you want to wait a week plus for ground. Same time if you know what you want places like Allied will ship small orders for not much. And Jameco Electronics if they have it you can will call from their warehouse in Belmont.
OK, so as I don't actually do much in-browser development, and because this was also two years ago, "of course" I managed to get the terminology wrong: the issue was that WebRTC wasn't supported in a "WebExtension" (not a "service worker", which happened to be the subject of a massive thread I was reading a few weeks ago on WebRTC not working there either).

Here's the bug I had referred to the libdweb person at the time in November of 2018 (due to comment #2):

> RTCPeerConnection.createOffer doesn nothing in WebExtension background script

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398083

This bug had already been resolved in September of 2018 as a duplicate of this bug:

> WebExtension cannot access WebRTC mic from popup.js nor background.js

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278100

And I now see that bug ended up getting resolved in September of 2019 as a duplicate of this bug:

> Improve getUserMedia permission model for web extensions a bit.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579489

Which was supposedly fixed? I'm honestly a bit concerned still, though, as this bug slowly got dragged from being about createOffer to being about permissions dialogs for audio/video, and it kind of sounds like there's some weird thing where a "foreground page" has to vouch for the extension, which shouldn't be required. Everyone who works on WebRTC stuff in browsers conflates it all with getUserMedia, but all of us distributed web people just want peer-to-peer data channels :/. I take it this is actually fixed then, and you can now use WebRTC in this context?
None of this jives with your above comment that Apple is “charging premium for features that should come by default”. They aren’t charging for any of this, they just don’t offer some features you want out of the box.
I've had two replacements on my AirPods Pro so far because of this issue.

First time the issue started after 6 months of use. The second time was within a week of the original replacement. All good so far after the second replacement (about a month).

Fortunately Apple makes the replacement process easy.
Very very rarely, and only when it is obvious. I could live without it, I'd say.
My guess is that Apple can replace them 7 times and still be ahead profit-wise.
If an index contains a stock then corresponding index funds must buy it no matter the price.
Or, you can do both. ;-)
You don't have quite enough hubris to think the automating will be easy.
do you have any other details about that, like a comparison or technical details?

it sounds interesting
I'm also interested in the quotes about some people smelling "sweet". Does that mean they don't have a scent, or that they naturally smell good?

People often act as if any body odor is bad, and I disagree -- many people have a pleasant natural scent. I wonder to what extent that perception has changed over time, and to what extent people's odors have changed over time. (Skin microbiome?)
Interesting, for the dynamicish ip my ISP gives me nothing at all. Turn on my cheapo vpn provider and rather a lot.... Virtually all video both clean and dirty, tiny amount of music, no apps at all.
Matt Stoller's posts on monopoly remind of this aphorism:

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail."
I use https://c-command.com/toothfairy/ for this issue with my Sony XM3-1000's.
Perhaps I didn't grasp at all the features you currently offer , (I'm also skeptical whether you'd want to broaden the feature set that it would become too complicated of a offering) but with what I had created, it was possible to have drafts with multiple versions, and I was preparing to make it possible to expose those multiple versions for AB testing as well.
uhhh, Sonic is all over the richmond district and the mission. It's 60$ per month for gigabit. I've had it for years now.
The space between "The dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency" and "total societal collapse" is very narrow, given how many countries rely on the dollar to back-stop their own currencies.

I think there's a decent risk that in the interim, people run out of money to pay for telecommunications links and BTC-farming datacenters.
>It can only stop fairly large droplets.

What is your basis for this statement?

If I wear a regular dust mask, without edge sealing, and glasses, my glasses fog up when I exhale. Seems to me suggestive evidence that anything at all deflects normally invisible breath that would travel outward onto the surroundings.
Because lack of those generally doesn't harm others.

And, you can be charged with things caused by lack of sleep--reckless driving, for instance.

However, there is a difference between fining someone for lack of compliance and jailing someone for lack of compliance. Jailing someone in the middle of a pandemic is stupid.
In the article the writer says that they've had to do multiple replacements so far, and having to get replacement AirPods every several months isn't sustainable or convenient.
Is Torrent still a thing? I'm not sarcastic here, just not downloading music since Napster. Is it common for you to install a torrent client on your machine?
I've had my pair replaced for this too. It seems to be an issue with the NC mics. When neither NC nor Transparency are on, I didn't get the issue. Apple will do an Express Replacement (2-day new pair, _then_ you mail old pair back) which is nice.
Huge swathes of San Francisco have access to residential Fiber. Sonic started building it out several years ago in the western half of the city, beginning in the Sunset District, which forced AT&T to abandon their failed FTTN strategy and start offering direct fiber service as well.

It's slowly coming. I've enjoyed Sonic fiber in the residential Richmond District for 3 or so years already. Sonic is still building out fiber in other neighborhoods (e.g. Marina and Cow Hollow are now coming online, I think), as is AT&T, but there are still considerable gaps where utility poles are oversubscribed. A single unusable pole can prevent reaching several city blocks simply because the replacement cost is so high it makes those remaining blocks unviable economically. In other neighborhoods with buried utilities, the city refuses to provide any assistance: no micro-trenching permitted, and no leaning on existing license holders to lease any pre-existing underground infrastructure.

Even the least dense areas of San Francisco are more dense than elsewhere in the Bay Area. Sonic provides residential fiber in many Bay Area cities, but rollouts are far slower. Regulatory costs (including review time) and less favorable RoI (less density) means it's taking much longer to build, even when theoretically profitable. Sonic doesn't have as much capital, and those with capital (e.g. AT&T) aren't very motivated to build new infrastructure, especially when they're already the incumbent. About two years ago I chatted with an AT&T linesman putting up fiber on the utility poles outside my house and he flat-out said he wouldn't be there if Sonic hadn't forced AT&T's hand.

EDIT: Sonic is further along than I thought: "Santa Rosa-based provider Sonic has deployed fiber to more than one-third of homes in San Francisco over the past five years, Sonic CEO and co-founder Dane Jasper tells SF Weekly." https://www.sfweekly.com/news/can-san-francisco-finally-clos...
Did people in Greece and Venezuela fair substantially better than peers that had holdings of multiple foreign currencies?
Apple replaced my left pod for this... Fast forward a few weeks and now the right pod is doing the same thing.

Meanwhile my regular Airpods are still working like a charm.
What’s your story if self driving never works.
Without global connectivity providing the opportunity to cross-check a sampling of independent nodes' ideas of the latest blocks, this sounds like a loser's game. Either you need a million independent satellites and HAM stations in range, or you are just begging to be spoon-fed malicious and/or outdated blockchain data. No way any mining operation can be competitive in such an environment.
Tesla's stock price was irrational years ago. Shorting would have certainly lost you money.
Finder is, by default, designed for your grandparents. That’s fine, a few configuration changes fixes enough of these concealments, combined with memorising a few keyboard shortcuts.

If I want to deal with the file system in a technical way I use the terminal. And whenever I want to bring these two worlds together, I’ll just type:

open .
Of course, in a post-apocalyptic world there would also not be an FCC to enforce bans on signal jamming...
The point of raising immunity is to (speculatively) make it easier to keep the transmission rate low. So other measures become less necessary. Maybe we could open schools, for example. This seems to be what has happened in the places that have been hit hardest. But obviously partial immunity in the population is only one factor impacting the transmission rate. There's masks and lack of indoor gatherings, etc. Though I hear in France, which was hit very hard, they're not even bothering with masks any longer.
How you get infected is irrelevant unless you are spending your time in a COVID-19 hospital ward. The question is how you avoid infecting others, in the world as it exists, where most people are not infected but you might be.
Writer here: Yes, they replaced them twice and currently in the process of replacement number 3. I'll just see if I can get a refund though. I'll wait for the next generation.
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Mostly for Linux ISOs. :-)
The fact that it is so smooth indicates that is has become a SOP and been scaled up.
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Sometimes the mode doesn’t “click” until you switch it to NC then back to the middle.

It’s a mess.
Mine got so bad I would get the "rattle" anytime music had any amount of bass/mids. Regardless of noise-cancellation or transparency.
I'm just not clear on how Tether usage specifically increases the bitcoin price. My understanding is it's used to transfer money between exchanges, and possibly to fund ICO's. Neither of those really lead to an increased bitcoin price.
Not sure why I got a downvote without an answer.
Fiber doesn't necessarily mean High Speed. You seem to be conflating the two.

There are plenty of areas where cable meets or exceeds the fiber bandwidth that can be sold to the home.

Anecdata, Consolidated Communications will happily sell you fiber into your business - including an MRV to convert the fiber into copper inside your property. But... the bandwidth options start out with a 10/5 Mbps line.
That's just Bluetooth being Bluetooth. You can either have good sound quality but no mic or shit sound quality and mic.

I'm surprised and disappointed that Apple, despite the proprietary W1 chip in the AirPods didn't build a custom protocol to work around this limitation.
Are there communities that, in your view, provide a discussion with fewer logical fallacies? I can easily think of communities where they are far more frequent.
> The lightning network seems to be heading toward centralization, then what it the point? Is the delta of Credit card transaction fees with lnd fees that big that it warrants it? especially if credit card fees drop with time.

There is a massive difference between temporary centralization for convenience vs. fundamental centralization. See email. Gmail basically has the entire market, but that is a world of difference from email being a proprietary private Google protocol. People can switch at any time. If a provider misbehaves they can be abandoned. The users have the power. The same holds for complaints against coinbase, the internet in general, etc.