skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah.

Let's put it this way: OKI900's and all that were around before 1992. And that phone was favoured because you could easily reprogram the ESN/NAM/MIN for cloning as well as turn it into a scanner by turning on it's speaker and had control of the frequency. It was a modder's dream to hack on. But the same could be done with Motorola phones with a few more button presses.

That was 1992.

1997: AMPS system is waning against D-AMPS and even that is getting pressure from a new standard - GSM - which is also digital and ENCRYPTED. Newt gets caught and to show what a great prick him and Bill Clinton were, they passed a law that was obsolete before it was even passed into law.

https://www.wired.com/1997/11/ears-of-the-airwaves/

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This is why the election system, process of creating lawmakers (congress) as well as judicial system is retarded. The time lag doesn't stop the flash pan crime trends nor does it do anything to improve the situation due to the abuse of absurd laws like this one. This law is rendered null and void by technology long before it was ever enacted...
There is a way to regain access to your Paypal account.
I used this when I forgot to change the 2fa phone number before they started enforcing it, thus leaving me no way to log in.

Use a browser / computer you haven't ever used for Paypal.
Incognito/Private browsing mode will probably be sufficient.

Go to the normal Paypal login.
Try to reset your password via "forgot my password".
Follow the instructions; security code etc.
Set a new password and confirm it.
Paypal will now log you in.
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Long-term, there's little reason to think that the dollar will remain (arbitrarily) stronger than other currencies. The currency manipulation (non-pejorative) that does take place should, in fact, raise concerns with holders of the dollar: the government is willing to dilute the value of the dollar to support domestic businesses close to k street at the expense of every other holder of the dollar.
What can I do as an individual to see less of this stuff happen?
I recently built a side project using bash scripts only. That helped a lot and was very fun, except for dealing with errors.
Familiars: A multiplayer game in a Twitter “video” embed
I agree with some of your points and disagree with others.

The human body is exceptionally awesome, but also so very fragile. I think we can do better with well-thought-out design, and a part of that that I embrace is the value of simplicity.

My thoughts can be best said with a quote (especially the part about a complexity budget):

> I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective, though. I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when it's well isolated, well documented, well tested, and necessary to make things simpler overall at other layers for most people. For example, the Go runtime is relatively complex internally but it permits simple APIs and programming models for users who then don't need to worry about memory management, thread management, blocking, the color of their functions, etc. A small number of people need to understand the runtime's complexity, but millions of people can read & write simple Go code as a result. More importantly, Go users then have that much more complexity budget to work with to build their actual application. I would've never built Perkeep had I needed to fight both its internal complexity and the complexity imposed on me by other contender languages/environments at the time.

>

> All that is to say, simplicity is not only refreshing, but it also enables. Go made me feel productive in a way I hadn't felt in many years where everything just felt like it was getting more complex. Ever since finding Go, I've been regularly hunting for other technologies that provide simplicity as a feature.

https://bradfitz.com/2020/01/30/joining-tailscale
I always found it a bit confusing why US citizens don’t just get their degrees in EU, should cost much less.
Well, obviously. Every underground resistance has resisted a government that is enforcing laws. That's why they're underground.
Hmm...I now see ones with 2018/19 dates. Maybe I need glasses (I do, but that's a different topic).

Still, I haven't seen any real USB-C hubs. I'm assuming that they are too difficult to make.
No, I was just being sarcastic because the double-standard mystifies me. I completely agree.
Would be interesting to know the total number of active users out there.
Language doesn't need an institution to maintain its value, though. This is definitely required for a fiat currency. There's possibly more of a parallel here with distributed currencies.
Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI
I feel that English probably is the most effective language for anything science/engineering/business related. It’s so much easier to express yourself in good and convincing and clear ways (plus as the lingua franca in many of those domains, there isn’t necessarily a great German translation). So I actually prefer having any conversations in these fields in English, even w/ German colleagues.

In Law though, nothing seems to beat the preciseness of the German language. It’s very good in expressing exactly what the relationships and rules should be. Some people love it from the “literalistic” point of view - but I just like the efficiency of the English language and the distinctive humor that a lot of english speaking authors put in their writings; so I can’t speak to that. The German language feels to me like it wasn’t made for science, engineering or fun but rather law and bureaucracy.

Just my personal two cents.
... and what evidence do you have that bitcoin will retain it's value over time?
Im confused how anyone can think its a good inventment to buy an asset at 19k when it was at 4k a few months earlier.
Not really. I have personal savings that helped me a lot this year.

If you want to see what happens when the treasury is empty, just look at how hard it was for Tesla to survive the Model 3 launch: they were heavily shorted, and oil companies attacked Tesla on every front they could to destroy it.

Now that Tesla has enough treasury to survive a stock crash (and a little bit profitable), shorts went away.

Btw MicroStrategy was attacked the same way and its stock crashed by 95% in the past.

Also just look at 2020 how many businesses that didn't have treasury went bankrupt.
As someone who has rationally argued against epidemiology based on finding a constant stream of severe errors in their papers, I can assure you that epidemiology is almost entirely pseudo-scientific. I don't think I've ever encountered a field as disastrous as this one (though I've never really looked at climatology).

Epidemiology has so many massive cultural and methodological issues you could write an entire book about it, maybe one day I will. It is absolutely de rigueur in this field to make predictions without ever bothering to go back after an epidemic played out to study how well those predictions matched reality. They cherry pick data at an absurd rate: if they can get a more dramatic paper by using data that's 8 months old and based on a sample size of 7 people when they could use data published last week and which has a sample size of hundreds of thousands, they'll happily pick the former every time. Nobody in that field will notice or care, and they'll throw in a misleading citation or two to disguise what they're doing. There is no code quality control: these people happily publish papers based on models filled with memory corruption errors that can't even replicate their own output.

As for ideology, the fact that you can't explain what climatology sceptics believe should give you pause for thought. You appear to be projecting: a blind devout belief in "scientists" (they aren't really) is itself an ideology. Rather than engaging with the concerns of people who are pointing out problems in the published literature, you're just blowing them off as irrational.
By all means go vegan, but I do wish people would just learn to cook with vegetables, grains and pulses instead of supporting this new world of industrial, highly-processed fake-meat bullshit.

Not only do we know that highly-processed foods are not good for you, but also, no matter how much marketing puff you put behind your fake-meat, I bet anyone with half a taste bud will be able to tell the difference between "meat" and "not meat".

Rant over. ;-)
It cannot but currently dollar cannot as well.

Right now central banks are printing money and giving it to already insanely rich people, how does that help economic growth and quality of life?

At least bitcoin will be a little more democratic so that it will grow the economy better than current fiat system.

Normally best system would be a nationalised central bank that is actively trying to increase quality of life of citizens but as you can see we are not living in an ideal world.
PgMiner botnet attacks weakly secured PostgreSQL databases
Perpetuating racial stereotypes isn't inappropriate?
@kingdomcome50, The “problems” do not change based on which language is chosen to solve them. That is, if you actually understand the “problems” in the first place...

I couldn't say it better myself :-)
You should add that to Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_(computer_progra...
I guess it's dangerous to use words like "nobody" or "everyone" or "always" or "never" on the overly pedantic Hacker News. I would hope that the sentiment of my point came across either way. If not, let me clarify: it's generally preferred to spend engineering effort on building new features and optimizing code to improve performance etc. over e.g. rewriting code from scratch to simplify it's maintenance. I would venture to guess that an overwhelming amount of engineering effort is spent on effectively adding complexity to code.
What's even more depressing to me is that this is the experience that most students get when they first learn debugging. It's no wonder that so many professional developers don't bother using the debugger when they've had such an awful experience using it.
Same ways that exist with other securities: buy and hold, I would presume?
You should use HN as a gauge for mainstream acceptance instead of relying on it for giving you an edge.
Extreme performance (namely, low latency under heavy load) is the principal requirement. I have yet to see anything that can touch my approach, especially under mixed read/write workloads. I am able to write (small, <4k) business entities to disk at a rate higher than the drives themselves are able to write blocks. This is not something that is feasible in any multithreaded storage architecture.

A secondary requirement is extreme simplicity and safety. My entire implementation is written in managed code and can be understood by a junior developer in one weekend. There is not a single line of code in support of a database feature that we aren't actually going to use.

The final requirement is zero external cost to employ this code. If I own my database implementation, Oracle cannot bill me.

The nice-to-have is being able to follow a breakpoint all the way from user tapping a button down into the b-tree rotation condition logic in the database engine. It also makes profiling performance issues a trivial affair. I like being able to see the actual code in my database engine that is causing a hotpath. This visibility is where additional innovation is possible over time.
Taking that to it's logical conclusion, who would you think the good actors were on the Eastern Front.

The Nazis who had just started a genocide of millions or the Soviets, who had just finished their third genocide of millions?

>Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.
The AirPods business, if it were standalone, would easily be one of the largest 50 companies in the US.

https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/apple-airpods-iphone-accesso...
The same is true for the fx-CG50. I have one and was able to write and upload MicroPython programs from Linux. The calculator simply appears as a USB storage device when plugged in and you drop text files in the right directory. No other calculator brand I've found can be interfaced with using Linux. You can also write or edit Python programs on the calculator, although it's not a good experience, it is possible.

Oh, the fx-CG50 is also powered by AA's, thus making it an eternal device.
Agree. Regardless whether or not Tether is fraudulently backed, it is fractionally backed. 74% last year, with the remaining lent out. But I suppose that's expected. Even if Tether hadn't lent out their cash, the bank they deposit into certainly would.
It's not surprising at all that the entities which benefit the most from the money printing by central banks (issuers of corporate debt) want to convert their funds into one of the most deflationary asset (bitcoin). It is simply a hedge against monetary debasement, where the upside is much larger than the downside - as outlined nicely in the article.
I'm hitting this with internet. So frustrating that for most places "unlimited data" is about 20 gigs.
1) You can't see software, which combines with 2) a company with bad sales but great engineering is a dead company, which results in 3) decisions trickle down from sales but salesmen are blind to the software. Proposed Solution: Programmers should learn sales. (So it's diversity at the root of all problems !)
in order to actually make money, you'd still need a third step of "sell" (or you could spend the BTC directly, i guess)
You can trade on previous achievements to spend time improving your codebase (unless you have a micromanager that tracks every hour).
Money for nothing.

It is a sign of our times that one can borrow such amounts of debt and be reasonable sure to pay it back by purely investing them in so called "assets". It used to be the case that assets were things that generated tangible income but bitcoin is not such a thing but purely a handle to be bought and sold down the line to someone who is able to pay a higher price as in the meanwhile a lot of additional money has been injected in the system.
Depends on the distro you're using and the hardware you're running it on.
Isn't that the same as buy low, sell high?
All that glitters is not gold; The sound of 2020 and beyond
this has been a total mess for me (cue the xkcd about the spacebar and thermal throttling).

using emacs in terminal mode its pretty frustrating to have the gdb interface bring up windows that you aren't allowed to delete...that and I can I really do more than 2 or 3. so whatever the intent was has been well and truly lost.

this kind of modality is anti-emacs...at least why my hindbrain thinks of as emacs

working on compiler-introduced introspection annotations and writing an elisp front end. we'll see.
Yes, past performance is not a predictor of the future, but how does one reconcile with this:

https://i.imgur.com/96bngmB.png

(If seeing on mobile, use "desktop mode" to see the HQ image)

- It goes up.

- Falls.

- Recovers to last high.

- Then moves up again.

- Repeat.

Yes, period of recovery varies.

Yes, every cycle percentage highs are getting less and less.

But one thing is constant: once the price recovers to the last high, a bull market starts.
Having read other Orwell works, in which he appears pretty pinko, I'm not sure about your take, but am happy to discuss its motivations.

Certainly I believe that he could chuckle over Animal Farm being eagerly taken up and sold as an anti-communist, rather than an anti-dog-and-pig, book.
(That's unproven. Has anyone ever seen the both of us in the same room together?)
They are as different as two sides can be in a political scale.
Yep, it's horrible. I use Vim 8's Termdebug. It just splits Vim in 3 windows - gdb console on top, program output in the middle, source code on the bottom. It does absolutely nothing fancy - you still type commands in the gdb window - but for me just having all 3 windows together is enough and it's super stable. In general any program that tries to do a fancy interface on Linux will be an absolutely miserable experience, there seems to be zero intersection between people who can write solid software and people who can design UI/UX in OSS and for some reason the two camps can't talk together. C'est la vie, I've just given up and use the console.

This is not really a criticism, just an observation. I suspect it stems from the fact that both software design and interface design are very complicated disciplines, but most OSS projects are done by a single person scratching an itch, so you either have programmers designing interface, or designers programming software, and both don't work out well. I suspect if we had some GUI libraries that were as easy as dumping text to console, the programmers would be able to churn out passable interfaces without having to do design. Quite possibly Tcl/Tk is that library, based on how rough, but usable gitk and git gui are.
Interestingly your index based loop example is the opposite of how shell scripting works. That is a lot more like a human language in its construct:

candy | kids

Where candy and kids are self contained programs that already understand the operations which make up candy and kids.
"This is of course related to why the famous joke "Is it a boy or a girl? Yes." is so hilarious"

Only to IT people though. Common folks will just look at you in a weird way...
I like this tool a lot. I wouldn’t mind having a similar concept applied to YouTube. If you actively try and watch videos from a different viewpoint then your recommendations are all over the place.
it's time to step back and try to be more honest with oneself

I'm a leftist fwiw, so please don't condescend to me about being honest with myself - today's problem is from my wing of the political spectrum. It's shameful.

One of the "sides" here has been trying to "cancel" the votes of 80 million Americans to install a permanent autocratic government.

And the other side has spent 4 years trying to cancel a President they don't like elected by people they don't like.

See how we can both do that?

I think that's a red herring attempt to drag the topic away from the original point of social and cultural persecution.

It's extraordinary the way some people will do everything they can to deny the obvious - that the worst representatives of the left today are doing exactly the same as the right wing McCarthyites of yore.

It's long past time for those of us on the left who genuinely claim liberal values to own it.
Lobby your local gov rep to legalise drug trade. It's main source of funding for these groups and allows them to buy influence. Without that stream of money it will be much harder to corrupt police and politicians.
Proposed Solution: make it so that you CAN "see software". this is what I work on, but also things like Sublime's Minimap are huge trends in this direction.
Tried multiple variations of that already.

Ironically, swearing at the bot memorably just ended up in an automatically dropped phone call pretty much right away.

Not sure if that was due to them just dropping the call anyway (guessing so), or there's detection for people swearing.
Yes, we need more engines like yours.

Instead, Amazon, Spotify, etc. simply steer me toward the more mainstream genre-media that I already know about.

Oh you like Grandaddy? You'll like the Pixies.

Oh you like the Pixies? You'll like Radiohead.

Oh you like the Radiohead? You'll like Nirvana.

Please, I want to go the opposite direction.
Making software that does everything by tweaking ‘a few parameters’ is orders of magnitude more complex than the software that would do it without.

Since I’m now generally part of several year software projects, we should be fine for the next few centuries or so.
At least for internet bandwidth, it is more like an insurance scheme. You pay more than you probably need/use. Such that the seller gets to price in the risk for them that you will actually be a heavy user. And, like insurance, if you are actually a high cost user, you are probably SOoL. :(
German was not quite the lingua franca of mathematics, but something many mathematicians learned at least to some degree, before the World Wars. That's why so many German words have survived there (take eigen vector, for example).

Also Western philosophy had a slightly German-language bend.

I doubt there is a substantial body of science that can be expressed much better in English. It's probably a wash, with some words and concepts easier to express in this, and some in that.
@spdionis, All those people commenting "I have no idea who would start a PHP project today" live in a bubble, probably based in SV.

Indeed. And I would start a project in PHP anyday!
Doesn’t Apple pay a dividend? They also use it to buyback shares, which is essentially the same.
dead man's tax
Remember those few years from around 2008 to 2013 or so when open APIs were cool, mashups of different services were everywhere, the web felt just a bit younger and more carefree, and people didn’t immediately sneer when they learned that you were a software developer?

Those were good times.
It’s still a finite time to upload for any given data size.

It’s not like uploads have infinite bandwidth in the absence of these limits.
I did not read the article and agree that vocabulary is crucial.

However just trying to memorize vocabulary is not the best approach. The reason is that it's hard to memorize vocabulary without associating certain emotions and experiences with them.

Actually using the language daily, even if you only know 100 words is the most important part. You will learn and memorize new words much quicker that way.

Another good practical approach is to change your computer's OS language to the target language as soon as possible - you'll have to remember new words fast and those words will stick forever!

I don't think thats a big revelation or secret though.
If it ends then how cops will be making money on the side (e.g. declaring half of the actual drug bust and pocketing the rest or getting protection payments from gangs)
I got Mother Goose.
Yes, I would disregard anyone that supports an usurper that is still throwing tantrums about an election he lost by 7 million votes.

If that's the worldview Thiel considers acceptable, why would anyone want to be his friend?
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