skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As evidenced by the replies here, most people don't understand Ethereum, much less what is being done with Ethereum atm. Most people still don't know what DeFi means, or know that Ethereum has more nodes, processes more transactions per day, has thousands of more devs building with it, that real estate shares are issued on it (https://realt.co/), or that tokenized digital art is selling for millions on Ethereum (https://usaherald.com/beeple-an-iconic-digital-artist-sells-...). etc. Most don't know that $2.3B (0.62%) of BTC is locked in custody to be traded as an Ethereum token (https://defipulse.com/wbtc) as to get access to financial istruments built on Ethereum.

Eventually this will be common knowledge, but it isn't yet. It's early days.
> But at the same time, if you don't already know Emacs and you want to learn LISP, I don't know what I'd recommend.

Here is my attempt to make it easier to get started with vanilla Emacs + SLIME + SBCL without hiding the underlying details like a starter pack does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440690
>Dow breaking 30k isn’t Hacker News either

Not sure about dow specifically, but stories about stock market performance occasionally show up on the front page eg.

Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet (axios.com)

S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt (bloomberg.com)

both on https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-03-09
Might be doable to reverse transactions on exchanges, which operate like banks and will do 'shadow' transactions, because e.g. the Bitcoin blockchain can only handle a handful of real transactions per second.
SaaS Sales job: Failed to make sales quota, put on probation, failed to make quota again the next month, was ushered out the door. First adult job (ignoring the non career jobs) and first job firing.

Another SaaS Sales job: My sales were fine, highest in our department, new director came in, i didnt really want to be there anymore, invited the whole department out for burritos, execpt for the unlucky 10 of us whobwere prompty canned by HR lol. This was a blessing in disguise transitioned into software development after.
Nitpicking slightly, but "OP" is whoever started the thread in the forum where it is being discussed, not whomever wrote the original article. Only saying this because it keeps getting misused here on HN.
"just cranking out variations of that formula as papers."

You'd be surprised how often variations on a formula are all it takes to destroy security. Security is enumeration at the end of the day. If it takes a paper mill to "count all the ways" then I'm grateful.
UK '00s kid here.
If your parents weren't the type to to waste money on ringtones (directly), you were probably on pay-as-you-go, you'd buy a top-up from a newsagent/supermarket with your pocket money (or "sorry mum I couldn't reply, no credit" until she gives in).
Then it was up to you whether you wanted to spend £1.50 on a java game, 15 texts, a phone call, or WAP data. Your parents would never have to agree.
I am not going to try it. I just restored data from a backup email server these emails get duplicated to.
That’s not at all what they said. Read again.
Yep, you're right on this one! We went with Rust because we wanted to make it embeddable in other languages.

And on the policy language. Polar is indeed a prolog variant. You can see pretty early we took the decision to diverge from a more familiar prolog syntax [1] because we wanted to make it a little more accessible.

1: https://docs.osohq.com/changelogs/0.2.0.html
Can someone ELI5 who has/owns the $50k worth of crypto now? (I don't know what the GHST staking contract means.)
Heard good things about GMG performance[0] ordered one today, might worth a look

0: gmg-performance.com
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It's really very simple. Tether is meant to be designed such that you can buy 1 "tether" (USDT) for $1 and sell for $1, initially the suggestion was that every tether in existence was backed by $1 in a bank account owned by the issuer. But that doesn't seem to be true. So how do you manipulate BTC using USDT? You just print USDT and use them to buy BTC. Everyone thinks that 1 USDT = $1, so they're willing to receive it. As long as no one actually tries to cash out the USDT, it's fine. And why would you cash out? Bitcoin is going to the moon!

So as long as there's a net inflow of cash into tether, the issuer of tether can just pump the market up using unbacked USDT.
This is fixable with escrows (which etherum has on-chain I think). It's just not very used right now. Although this is about participating in contracts themselves so this is more akin to a bug in the escrow.
Yeah, there’s a core of “just enough” desktop support that I wish I could get with i3 and Sway that I didn’t have to painstakingly do myself.
Lol this is sarcasm, right?
Ooh, another NixOS user! I'm curious about your setup;

Do you use the same NixOS configuration across machines?

Do you use i3 with another desktop environment or by itself?
I have waded into crypto twice. Both times I have lost access and the funds are gone. I don't care what happens with Bitcoin, I'm staying away from it.
When I see how much they raised I wonder how long it will take before they get acquired and shutdown by Google or another big predator
Someone in my company committed an AWS credential to GitHub public repo and AWS actually emailed within few hours saying that the access key has been deactivated or something alike. AWS seem to be scanning the public repos pretty actively for such instances.
Just a warning based on the past.. those who buy now will see huge drop in value. Setting a record usually is a good time to cash out a bit.
Facebook just opted for the easiest solution.
>If you wire money to the wrong place, and that person won't return it, that's theft.

maybe, but good luck prosecuting/recovering it if it's outside your country's jurisdiction.
I recommend you get Noita on Steam. It's a falling sand style game where you are a little wizard whose wands are built from a little Programmingesque component system.
The devs implemented a halloween theme just before losing their SSH key for the production server about 10 years ago.
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434854
RIP SWI: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SWI:NYSE
In that case, just contract with skilled infrastructure consultants (whether as individuals or through multi-person consultancies) to share on-call duties with your infrastructure employee workforce on an as-paged basis rather than hiring them full-time.
Some additional context-- you have to engage in a system where you get paid to kill people for the police. And then there's this, https://twitter.com/TurboBurpo/status/1338945708200656896?s=...

Remember that Night City evolved out of LA and imagine that description applied to the LAPD.
It sounds dumb to you (and to me for that matter), but plenty of people have made a lot money like that (and plenty who have lost it). Regardless, neither me, you, or the down voted commenter are in a position to tell him he's dumb for doing it. Maybe there is good reason, maybe there isn't, it's not up to us to tell him he's right or wrong in this scenario.
I think I’ve made that mistake too once or twice.

Do we have a good word that covers both the author of the post or the OP of the linked thread?
Back in college I enrolled for a digital image processing class. Unfortunately the uni did not have licensing for MatLab so the professor instructed us to use Octave.

Fun memories, I implemented every basic algorithm of image processing in it.

Later I ported the algorithms to JavaScript and created a image editor:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/photoEditor

Thanks to the awesome people from Octave.
Symmetry of Crystals
> It's better to just write a client app for the customer that's easier for them to use.

I think you are vastly overestimating the capabilities of the users.

They are the sort of person who has been using the same version of FileZilla since 1998 to do their weekly file upload of stock data.

To them, nothing could ever be easier.

Also, I would not be the engineer to want to write a client app in 2020 with Windows XP / IE6 compatibility.
So, are there any tire manufacturers that advertise their tires as being 6ppd free? I'd buy them.
Bitcoin above $20k for first time
This was posted yesterday and flagged into oblivion. Unless new information has come out, there wasn't and still isn't any reason to believe this leak had anything to do with 2020's megabreach.

Edit: To clarify, this version follows up the flagged post with a bit more information and a lot more speculation. It does a lot of work to "not" make claims while setting them up and basically making them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419140
Nope; banks can and will reverse transfers, and if the money was transferred fraudulently, THEY will take the blame for it (because in essence their security failed, even if you are the one that initiated the transfer). Banks have a fund to compensate victims, and banks are connected to national and international banks and regulatory bodies (like the ECB) to get you out of shit creek if there is a problem.

Banks are not perfect, but at least they pay up if you run into one of those imperfections. Usually.
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Funny that this makes it to HN's front page as BTCUSD touches an all time high.

Maybe the OP is trying to do some sort of indirect PSA on the dangers of crypto?

[edit]: in which case, here's another PSA: you can have freedom or safety. Having both is pretty darn hard. However, having the illusion that you have both is fairly commonplace.
We are seeing more competition over time in social media, which is a good thing in my opinion. But fragmentation of messaging options seems far less beneficial.

I am not yet feeling compelled to pay for Matrix server benefits, but if I was able to pay for some solution like this where I got some trusted managed bridges, I'd be all on board. However I'm not sure what that trust model would look like.
Has anyone found a good beginners up and going setup for Lisp and VSC?
You can even take burnt cash to the bank and have them reimburse you, as long as it's still recognizable.
I'm using it as intended -- that stories in cyberpunk universes focus on anti establishment themes and lowlifes.
It's reveling how little the average HN user understands about security, maybe in part revealing why there is such a problem with security to begin with l.
The article is based on the book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling [1]:

> A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment — to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

[1] https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/matthew-hongoltz-h...
What difference does that make? We aren't tech support.

I do hope he gets his money back, but he deserves some chiding as well.
Not sure what you're trying to do in keyboard layouts. I've yet to encounter the flexibility for keyboard layouts that you have in linux in any other OS.

Regarding email clients, again I'm not sure what you consider feature complete, but even some of the proprietary options like mailspring or hiri exist on linux.

For calendar it again depends on what you are trying to do. I've recently started using Minetime, which is not OSS but free and is working very well for me.

One of the weird phenomena that I find in these discussions, is that people are often happy for proprietary software (like OSX or windows) to restrict what they are able to do, and having to adjust their workflow to these systems, but when it comes to OSS suddenly not being able to match the previous workflow, makes the system unsuitable. (Note that this is not aimed at you directly, just a general observation).
The police follow their local laws and not EU laws and EU laws aren't automatically adopted by countries. And so far local politicians often refuse to enact EU laws when they don't make sense, and there isn't much EU can do about it since the local politicians are more powerful than EU politicians, instead EU tend to make exceptions for those who refuse.

Lastly unlike US countries can still leave EU. If they make it illegal to leave then I'd worry, but until then the local government always comes first, since if EU pressures them too much they'd just leave.
I've setup ZendTo for a couple of corporates..

The safe, secure and completely free way to transfer large files around the Web.

What is ZendTo?

It is a classic problem: you need to send files to someone, or they need to send them to you, and there's no way except email. But they are too large or your administrator won't let you transfer the files by email at all. ZendTo to the rescue!

Why ZendTo?

ZendTo is a completely free web-based system, which you can run on your own server with complete safety and security. It runs from any Linux / Unix server or virtualisation system, there is no size limit and it will send files 50% faster than by email.

https://zend.to/
Yes. "ADHD at industrial level", as someone said .
In my experience XMonad typically can do anything any other tiling WM can do, but the high barrier of needing to know Haskell before being able to do the most basic of configuration keeps most people from finding that out.

Oh, and it wasn’t stable for me. That might be related to the prior comment, since I really don’t know Haskell at all.
I don't really watch TV anymore, but when I did my experience was that Usenet was very good for anything English-language (movies, TV shows), but I had to torrent same-day anime releases.
How to grow and level up as a software engineer
I disagree with some parts of MMT, and with most orthodox or neokeynesian economists (i think DICE was the model that made me think "well they're mostly just idiots" and stop reading economists papers, and Nordhaus nobel prize just made me feel even less respect for the profession). So i'm really not in the economist/MMT camp. But any deflationary money can only facilitate trade, and nothing else. You can't build on this.

Crypto was exiting and, a hundred desillusion later, is still interesting for most people here, but BTC breaking 20k is (at least for me) just boring. It was interesting to know it reached the previous peak at 18k, but 20k, 25k, 30k... Its deflationnary, so of course it will go up. You can't pay taxes with it, you can't loan it, you can't invest it on the primary market. It's boring money.
You can get a mobile Bluetooth transmitter/receiver so you can still use your cabled headphones.
Automated quota management to blame for Google services outage
you could add those checks to pre-commit hooks. However, the problem with those hooks is that they need to be added locally by user. There are already modules/libraries with sets of regexes that are able to perform filtering you are suggesting.

Another option is to use pipeline to perform those checks. Sure, by the time pipeline runs, the secrets are already in the repository, but at least you caught them early. However, in this case you should definitively do secrets replacement.
Well, it is also possible to send money to the wrong account number by bank transfer. In that case the banks also generally say that they cannot do anything about it.
If idea is good plus you got the skills and you know the right people, yes.
Thankfully, accidentally transferring money abroad is not trivial. It being not user friendly is an advantage there. It often takes time to process as well, so while it's still pending you can undo the transfer.

Over here, for a European transfer you need to fill in an IBAN number, which contains the country code of the destination. The transfer will fail as well if you don't provide the right name with the number.

For international transfers, you need to provide even more information like BIC numbers, etc.

With crypto, it's a random address. If you or someone else manipulates the address by even a single bit, it's gone.
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"Me as a vegan" https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w4ggh
A robot wrote these startups pitches. Would you invest in them?
It is helpful for whoever is thinking of investing all their money in cryptocurrency and finds this on Google.
A daguerreotype was probably superior processing technology than film with paper but it wasn’t convenient or superior enough to remain an option.

That's where we are today, and that's what "better" colloquially means.
Cellebrite make the machines to get data off phones, whether the owner has asked for that to happen or not
There's also the added benefit of Software Transactional Memory being available for operations on said mutable state, in case you need to access it from multiple threads.
So what? The comment is totally off topic and contributes nothing except to call the guy an idiot. The Github issue is not the right place to do that.
You make a jump from:

"When you encounter a stranger, be pleasant but aloof. Disengage."

To

"Keep women in your friends circle"

Without mentioning how to get from A to B. I mean, how to actually befriending them in the first place, which is probably one of the biggest hurdles and stumbling blocks for most people here who have the same problem.

I.e. Women who are single, available and are my friends are represented by the empty set.

Asking your non-single friends to introduce you to single friends doesn't accomplish anything, since they might talk about doing that, but it'll never happen (I've seen it multiple times)

That was the case even when I was going out regularly, before the pandemic... Since unfortunately most of my social interactions are in groups heavily biased towards male representation.

The only way around that, as I recognize... Is to get different hobbies. But it's not that simple to get yourself to start liking a new thing (and spend multiple hours every week on that!) If you have

1 - A job draining most of your energy

2 - already happily spending time on hobbies that you enjoy.

"Thankfully" the pandemic solved the gender bias problem regarding the friends that I regularly meet... Since now all in-person friend interaction over several months can be counted on your fingers

(Btw, now I'm in a LDR... Which is definitely not ideal, but at least helps a lot with loneliness)
I think it’s just gone, like he’d set cash on fire... right?
Oh don't worry -- I'm sure they'll kill it off soon enough. I'm still bitter about Google Reader.
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But that's not how sophisticated machine learning algorithms work. Without knowing specifics, it gets us in the right ballpark to imagine they ingest all that kind of information and build an opaque representation of the user/customer, which allows various similarities to be computed between users and ads, regarding how likely they are to be receptive or how likely they will click.
There's no short list of events you did. It can even contain stuff like how quickly you move your mouse cursor, whether you use the scroll wheel or the scroll bar, or who knows what else.
"you will never be able to use someone else’s computer without feeling a seething frustration that it isn’t running i3 with your config."

How often do you actually use other people's computers?

I virtually never do, and in the rare cases that I do I'm ssh'ing in to them from my own computer which is running i3, so it's not an issue.
Using it for years. Pretty good and it's even included in the latest versions of git for windows (if you can't use something else, as it was my case for a while)
This would have been terrible advice in 2017 when BTC broke past it's previous ATH of $1300.00. Not saying BTC is going to 10x from here, but a true warning from the past would be not to sell.
Don't know the specifics of this one, but crypto can be destroyed, e.g. :

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressD...
The human brain has specialized hardware for encoding and decoding language. That is why even a child can pick it up. No grammar lessons required, just lots and lots of exposure. It is also why speaking and listening are as easy as falling off a log. You put about as much thought into it as you do touch-typing.

Learning a second language, likewise, is best done the same way as the first: through immersion, if you can swing it. The high school student who spent a summer in Mexico came back far more fluent than I was even after three classes in high school and one in college. The plasticity, though, of this area of the brain will decrease over time. It is easiest to pick up a new language before adulthood.

Most people don't appreciate this or don't believe it. For more information, read The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker.

Programming? Yeah, I guess it spins the CPU more than any specialized chip. I hate how I can't be interrupted while doing it, and for a few moments trying to come out of it, I am in some kind of daze.
While this is true, it might be costly (as it has been for Citigroup)
https://www.ft.com/content/a50cd095-2811-41ab-b783-b09944691...
i3 has a great feature I use all the time--tabs. I don't use a lot of workspaces since that leads me to context-switch too much, but when I want everything visible on a single workspace, I use tabs. You can also select the parent group and move them around workspaces or displays as a single unit.
But you can? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/how-to-avoid-invoice-theft-s...

>Neither company explained to CNBC how they were able to recover the stolen funds. In most cases, they’re lost forever.
I just wrote in another comment that I wish I had a little more desktop in my i3/sway, and this looks to be the ticket.
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I've been using your tool since you posted it here. So far I like it, its simplicity really kind of opened my brain to using it, if that makes sense. I've been finding it really nice to be limited to just "content in, content out".

A couple notes:
I find the title length a little limiting. I want to be able to see my tasks at a glance.

The cards are at full size no matter the description length. I often don't have a description and it's just empty space. I'd find it more useful if the cards adapted better to the content the user chooses to put in them.

Thanks for the tool! Goodluck in the future!
Good morning HN

I initially built this just as a fun landing page for a larger AI related project. I ended up building a 2D interpolator for GAN generated outputs. Since the control was 2D, I figured it would be fun to add a fluid simulator that tracks your mouse. And now it's become a fun interactive toy all on its own.

The way it works is by taking a 3x3 grid of GAN outputs, applying a gaussian kernel for blending that maximizes total variance, interpolating the frames and then finally producing a video file. As you move your mouse, it seeks to various points within the video.

I have started with cats here because all great things on the internet lead back to cats, of course. But this can work with any GAN that can be interpolated. In this case, it is Stylegan2.

There are some easter eggs in here as well - see if you can find them :)

Feedback is definitely appreciated. Thank you for taking a look.
Wow, way to be completely rude for no reason.