skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've confused a critique of your rhetoric for a critique of yourself. There's no need to defend a turn of phrase so vigorously. If you'd just led off with, "No, I didn't mean it like that," as you've done here, then I'd have shut up. I mean, come on, surely you recognize how "Do you have a citation?" falls into the camp that both of us apparently dislike.

Anyway, back to the topic of Bitcoin. I think your assessment is right in that the bulk of Bitcoin transactions are speculative investments. However, given that the value of Bitcoin as an asset lies in its assumed eventual use as a currency, the original comment might also be correct in that non-speculative transactions are predominantly related to illicit activities. I'm unaware of any common legitimate purpose beyond financial speculation.

When one thinks of world trade, there's (these numbers are from a faded memory of an international trade class about 2 decades ago, so they're horribly wrong) something like $50 billion in goods exported daily. That's the world economy. Then there's $500 billion in currency derivatives traded daily to ostensibly enable exports across currencies, but it's really just speculation. It's not real trade. So when someone talks about the Bitcoin economy, it's hard to know whether we should be talking about just the actual economic activity conducted using Bitcoin as a currency, or whether we should include the speculative trades as well.
So use the last sale date for both. Your point makes no sense.
Who could disagree with this?

"But if SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab to cause the pandemic, it will become critical to understand the chain of events and prevent this from happening again."
So, allow the GFA to hold the rest of the country hostage? Maybe such considerations should have been made when britain joined the EU - I voted for brexit, but I had no choice on whether to join. It's been argued that the current generation has no right to make such an impactful action as brexit, but why is it such that a single generation can sign up to such an alliance without an exit plan in the first place?

> expert politicians could act on the public's behalf in complex arrangements

And yet do they? How much does the public trust the motivations of their politicians? It seems to me that the public inherits an old and cludgy system, and you'd have to spend multiple lifetimes fighting it to have a chance of change. That the majority needed to accept the leadership of a clown like Boris shows how little the political class represents its public.

> funded heavily by a Russian

As opposed to public funds? Or English oligarchs?

There are many factors that could affect the vote; having a goverment that represents, rather than manipulates, the public for instance.

> without simplistic populism

What about simplistic dismissals of brexit as racist/xenophobic. So many characterisations of the EU as the spirit of cooperation; where is the scepticism towards large political unions, democratic divide and conquer, and the forgotten fact that the EU is still an elitist institution despite whatever diversity you might think it has.

> economic experts, the scientific experts, the political experts, the legal experts

There are winners and losers in brexit. The biggest losers tend to be lower paid, lower class demographics who where fed promises (lies) about how joining the EU would help them somehow. The biggest winners are businesses who can squeeze those lower classes, and middle class professionals (who started off with greater mobility in the first place). Guess which camp economists, scientists, politicians and lawyers fall into...

> Convincing people through lies to vote against their own interests isn't democracy

Who convinced people through lies? And since when is that acted on? I dont recall anyone suggesting we be able to kick out Thatcher when she turned on the miners. The issue is, the public don't seem to get to decide when to hold a referendum, nor control the narrative of whether it is appropriate to do so; hence thd suggestion yhe Brexit is based on lied, when in fact any/all referendums are.

In any case, how does brexit relate specidically to that. For whatever democracy is worth the EU will fix nothing of the rot in britain or its politics, but joining the EU is likely to make it worse. Reforming the electoral system might be a start, hopefully both Tories and neo-tories aka labour will die, but that's a scope beyond.
What's the alternative? Y'all?
I'm a product designer at Sourcegraph... you definitely want to take a look at this opportunity.
The lockdown is over now. It started in the winter and that is when the majority of reduction from the peak occurred. The temperature did not hit 30 degrees at any point before we had a day with zero cases.
It's not the setting it up that's preventing someone like me from self-hosting these kinds of tools. It's the maintenance, security, accessibility, etc.

More time on all that (or risking hacks and having more downtime) equals less time actually working on the projects being tested.
Imprison the executives, for a crime tantamount to theft. (Though umprisonment for fraudulent DMCA takedowns regardless of whether or not they own the copyright would be justice.)
One thing you can't do in vim (that I'm aware of) is write code using proportional fonts. I know I'm an outlier here. An HN post actually converted me.

I use Input Condensed proportional font. I love it. I have a hard time with vim because everything feels so ... wide and spaced out.
What distribution are you thinking of?
This. I am willing to pay but there's no way I can spend my yearly "save for a new laptop every couple years" budget on one SaaS for projects that generally contribute $0.00 to my bottom line.
I am rooting for the SourceHut CI[1][2][3]. Along with other services it has proven useful even at the current (alpha stage). Also it's the only one that supports both FreeBSD and OpenBSD (NetBSD support is unfinished [4])

[1] https://builds.sr.ht/

[2] https://man.sr.ht/tutorials/getting-started-with-builds.md

[3] https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md

[4] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/tree/master/images/...
Flash LineageOS 17 and microG on a Nexus 5
Asset inflation is less useful for currency.

Though it's unclear still what Bitcoin's principle role is. If it's more an asset, then yes, destroying coins is a benefit to current holders.
Exciting times. Maybe AMD will lose its crown to Apple next week?
Let those who work, pay for those who don't. Seems like a great plan./s
This will actually be nice for me! I live up in the mountains of Puerto Rico with microwave internet, so not the greatest.

Currently I can only watch partnered streamers because Twitch only allows transcoding for partners. So if they are streaming too high quality I just sit and buffer the whole time.

If I can just turn on uBlock to get transcoding that'll be awesome :)
Example of Live Streaming System
I'd imagine you could swap out your current Volvo trucks with these for supermarket DC to store deliveries in Metro areas. The DCs already have electric power on every dock to hook up the trailer's refrigerator while parked. And DCs I know of here in Australia are being covered in solar panels because of their large foot print. The suppliers who deliver to the supermarket DC from their own DCs could do the same. Long distance are usually done with road trains (3+ trailers), using much more powerful trucks, and then the trailers are split up outside of the city area and completed by towing single trailers. So again you could use the electric vehicle to complete the last leg.

As someone else mentioned, if they are quieter than the diesel equivalent, you may be able to start delivering to supermarkets in areas where they have curfews on deliveries after a certain time because of the noise.
I bet the average medium blog loads more than that.

That others are just as wasteful is immaterial; the fact that it's multiplied by every single user makes it downright hostile to everyone except those who are profiting from bandwidth use.

Every single "cross-platform solution" I've seen is basically a sub-optimal experience on every platform. Personally, I'd rather have fewer native applications than the wave of quantity-over-quality not-quite-right-anywhere that stuff like this tends to encourage.
I’ve never met him, but having read his blog (before he took it down around the time Shopify IPO’ed) and his work in libraries like Liquid, Rails, and others, he’s an engineer/programmer at heart. Nice to see he’s able to hold onto some of that even after the journey his company has been through these 14-15 years.
It still requires conversion of config files and formats vs a script that is the same everywhere.
This is the best example of “speaking from experience” I’ve ever read.

The question how representative are you of the general homeless population in SF. I would guess not much. Am I wrong?
World Airlines Suffer $110B in Losses to Date This Year
From what I know, plain WD Red drives are the only SMR drives produced by WD, and are the newest development; they just switched the names so that the old plain CMR WD Red disks became WD Red Plus.

Therefore WD Red Plus and the faster WD Red Pro models should be 100% safe, while plain WD Red ones, especially if bought less than a couple years ago are not. Corrections welcome of course.
Just google for <State> election website

I was able to find several
A colo company could change the locks or pull the cable if coming under comparable legal pressure. Depending on the colo company?

I'm surprised that Guerrilla Mail havent at least put a temporary status web page up on their domain yet though..
So ELI5 what I am seeing here. Aren't those correlations all over the place?
As Bruce Lee famously said, "Boards don't hit back"
How does the brain process fear?
Hard to win when you can't actually testify :) . CAF is such a joke. It really needs to stop (some success at that in some states). The Founding Fathers would never have allowed it.
Well if it becomes popular, holding and dealing with Monero will be made illegal and ISPs will be tasked with blocking it.

Governments can be very vindictive if their tax revenue is threatened.

If you have a use case for Monero, you're better off it remains exotic enough that it flies under the radar.
Travis has an FAQ whose URL says "open source repository migration", but whose on-page title says "Migrating repositories to travis-ci.com"

Travis Staff accounts in the travis "community forum" were linking to this FAQ as recently as 9 days ago, which still at this moment contains a question:

> Q. Will Travis CI be getting rid of free users? #

> A. Travis CI will continue to offer a free tier for public or open-source repositories on travis-ci.com and will not be affected by the migration.

https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/migrate/open-source-reposito...

This would seem to be grossly misleading, if not simply wrong info? There are still a bunch of travis users on travis community forums trying to figure out what's going on and why travis-ci.org seems to have stopped working (also different from what the FAQ says), who don't seem aware of the pricing change.

The first line of the document is "On May 2nd, 2018 Travis CI announced that open source projects will be joining private projects on travis-ci.com!", which also includes this FAQ:

> Q. Will there be lower concurrency for free accounts on travis-ci.org?

> A. As part of the shift of infrastructure from .org to .com and needing to make sure all users have equal access to resources, free and open-source .org accounts will have concurrency reduced from 5 to 4 concurrent jobs. Concurrent jobs have not changed on .com, so please consider migrating your repositories as soon as possible if this is an issue.

So... that's all not quite right, it turns out. They're providing an FAQ about "free accounts" without saying there no longer is no such thing as a free account, and "open source projects" are "joining private projects on travis-ci.com" only in the sense they can choose to pay for the same plans as private projects.

It's true that nobody owes us anything for free, and the free support for open source CI for the past 9 years has been a gift...

It's also true that they are not being particularly transparent (an understatement; if they don't fix that FAQ soon I'm just going to call it lying) or gracious in how they are handling this transition, for an open source community that has come to rely on them.
Makefiles are the gold standard there, warts and all.

But in every case, unless you encode a whole plethora of hacks in your golden build script, you still need minimal environment setup, like Python + Docker + [insert library here].

Most of my Travis files are only 10-20 lines long, but I work in a lot of different types of environments, so it's not always as easy as "three lines of bash and a docker run command".

Plus I have a number of legacy projects which did use some of Travis' more exotic features, and those will take longer. Not just for myself, but I'm thinking of tons of smaller OSS libraries and projects that are minimally maintained yet have a large footprint under more popular and maintained software!
Nobody would ever sell. They'd just use the increased value as borrowing power if they ever needed cash. Housing prices would skyrocket.

If your idea were put on the ballot it'd probably pass.
It's a fine balance. One one hand you want to let the students google material, consult books, use a calculator... on the other hand given free internet access what stops them from just asking (or paying) someone to solve the exam for them, or googling long enough until they found a solution someone posted online and just copy it, or cribbing from their mates?

A good balance, I found (pre covid), was having the students sit a test with textbooks of their choosing and/or their own cheatsheets and lecture notes. No bullshit cramming and memorisation (you can consult literature as you would elsewhere), but also no cheating.
Implement High-Speed, Data-Free File Transmission Function Using Nearby Service
> at that point you just move the problem from "how to manage the home server" to "how to manage the dev workstation"

No, you separate it into two problems that are no longer coupled to each other. The requirements for a server are very different from those for a dev workstation, so trying to do both on the same machine is just asking for trouble.

> You need somewhere where you can install not just random Python packages but also random databases, task queues etc. during development.

Yes, that's what a dev workstation is for. But trying to do that on the same machine where you also have a server, which doesn't want all that stuff, is not, IMO, a good idea.

> I guess "accept that your dev box will always be flaky and poorly understood

It will be as flaky and poorly understood as the code you are developing and whatever it depends on, yes. :-)

But again, you don't want any of that on a machine that's a server. That's why it's better to have a server on a different machine.
Why does Electoral Fraud only exists in countries like Russia, Venezuela and Bolivia?
Would just like to give an honorable mention to Google Translate, the most accessible http proxy of all time. It’s especially good for bypassing corporate access controls. I’ve used it many times for accessing solution threads on technical subreddits at work.
Astronomers trace mysterious fast radio burst to extreme, rare star
This is quite a small tax, even in the “worst” case (maxes out at 0.6%, if your top exec makes 600x the average employee). And it only impacts companies with massively overpaid executives - there’s no change for most companies, who have nowhere remotely close to a 100x discrepancy between top paid and average employees.

In reality, this will create a bit of extra tax revenue, and push down SF exec salaries ever so slightly. Both good things. No company is moving out of SF, replacing their staff with contractors, etc. over such a tiny tax. It’s a very small step in the right direction IMO.
This is where I'm legitimately confused: the city is an expensive city, land prices are high and housing is expensive, rent is high and so forth. We're told that that is the major problem, and the major reason for the homelessness issue of SF (mentioned many times below in this thread by numerous commenters).

But other cities have lower land prices and cheaper housing. San Francisco has the highest land and rent prices of the entire country. The argument that "we need to lower the price of housing to address the homeless problem" sounds very appealing, until you consider: wait, why are they going there? The indications are that they're not from there.

Is the problem that they're coming from places that don't have social programs, and drug legalization, which SF kind of has? There are needle exchange programs and if you start to convulse in the street someone will run over right away and give you Narcan. There's free food. Showers and bathrooms are ... apparently a problem ... but it's warm out. It's not Chicago in winter.

So maybe it just make sense for homeless to hang out in Tenderloin. As in, if a magic wand made us homeless, we'd just logically go there because it'd be good and healthy for us to do that.

Going back to the article. Someone mentioned the Laffer Curve: if you tax the rich to get revenue, they'll leave and you'll get less revenue. Well maybe there's another curve: if you make it extremely comfortable and desirable for homeless people in order to solve the homeless problem, you'll have a bigger and bigger homeless problem?

Maybe the problem isn't "high land prices" in San Francisco. Or even, "inequality." Maybe the issue is that the rest of the state / country don't have the same degree and quality of social programs and drug legalization as SF, and so SF is a natural place to go.
If you’re comfortable with AWS or any other VPS provider, there are Ansible and Docker flavours of most common tools. I’m a fan of Jenkins but the competition also offers some well defined pathways to get this going easily, and all of them offer a somewhat similar way to define builds automatically in code. My go-to is the github org scanner plugin that can watch for new repos with a Jenkinsfile, and will happily manage creating the automatic commit hooks if a new one is found giving you a very similar level of ‘magic’ integration to what the SaaS tools offer.
I’m working on building out the same thing right now (except I’m running it on a RPI cluster in my office), and the objective is my own amusement and enjoyment, (which naturally tends to lead me toward overengineering) but also to learn Kubernetes better.
I enjoyed the survey and how well it ties into the onboarding flow. There's probably better word choice for "are you willing to pay" but this does filter out users that just want the next free thing. Better word choice might be "assuming you f*cking love it would you pay $20/mo for a Daily Planner"

I'd guess as a newly launched product they care most about getting some power users evangelizing it while they iterate on the packaging. It might not even be "delightful" yet but that doesn't mean users that need it won't pay for it to just work.
"that's probably not the end goal anymore, just milking the current paying clients and maintaining the status quo."

Yep, that's private equity. I won't forget it again.

If it makes less and less profit every year even that's probably fine, eventually they'll shut it down, as long as they made back a multiple of what they paid by that point, then it was a good investment.

It's sad to me just as an engineer, that travis is actually really well-built product, it works magnificently and sets a high bar for ease of use, because of many hours of work that developers who cared put into it... and it's now just going to be allowed to slowly sink into the sea.
What would that achieve exactly?
There's a certain personality type, that doesn't necessarily want to win, but just wants their opponent to lose.

And is often willing to put in a lot of effort to make sure this happens.
If you don't want to fill them out, don't... Filling them out lets you customize your link preview on twitter. If you don't care about Twitter, why would this affect you at all?
This is what hurt the most. I knew the migration to .com was happening. And I expected the perks (like 5 concurrent jobs) to be slowly removed over time.

But to go from the status quo to 1000 build minutes and that's it in one day, with literally no lead time.

That's what caused the wincing. I'm sure many of the engineers who were laid off at Travis after the buyout are shaking their heads this week.
Thank you, your comment was more enlightening than that entire article!
My co-founder just left our company after 4 years because we basically had to pivot and restart with a new product that fit with COVID (we are in the events space).

Looking back at everything that lead up to him having to leave, I've come up with the one mistake I regret doing:

Splitting up duties.

We were technical founders but we decided one of us would handle the business side and one of us would handle the technical side.

I think this ended up isolating us rather than having us work together as a team. As we grew I hired account managers, sales, etc and he hired devs. We chose to start a company together but never really worked together.

Now 4 years later I'm working in the backend for the first time. I wish I would've spent more time pair coding with him and discussing architecture together. We worked at 3 other companies together and went to university together and I think we missed our opportunity to truly work together on something WE want to build.
I'm quite happily using a self-hosted Drone (drone.io) instance, though I don't have much experience to compare it with with other CI systems and my use case is probably not the most sophisticated one. Team is quite responsive, especially considering I'm a free tier user.
It would have made perfect sense if it was just omitted, so no alternative necessary.

I still think the parent comment was a bit too sensitive over nothing. The original poster didn't seem to mean anything by it.
Torpedoes may also be launched from naval mines. An example is the Mark 60 CAPTOR, which is anchored to the sea floor where it waits for a target to shoot its Mark 46 (chemically powered) guided torpedo.
In single core performance, for general workloads? Apple's chips are good, particularly when you factor in power efficiency, but c'mon.
I downvoted you because I am insulted by this attitude. As someone who comes from a country of starvation deaths, I can easily see how the homeless in SF would be considered the 1% of the world.

If the milk of human kindness is all about spreading the wealth..how about spreading the wealth to other countries?

Why should I pay for the homeless in SF when they live in the richest country in the world when I can send the money to Kenya or Vietnam or India and truly create meaningful impact. And so that’s what I do. My taxes already pay towards the healthcare, food and if in SF..smart phone and BART tickets for the homeless. No more tax hikes without an explanation for the $350 million dollars spent in just one year for SF homeless population.
Yep, unfortunately people living there are too dumb to see they create their own problems by excusing the elected politicians (same for decades). Maybe some people are so nice they would rather step on human waste than make someone else uncomfortable for some of the decisions they made.