skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's really not. Bitcoin isn't anything special. If there were any real-world use cases for it (which there don't seem to be), this would have been done long ago or would have been done organically. As it stands, interest in bitcoin was largely null, until people realized that it's a great investment opportunity where everybody can get rich (tulips, anyone?)... The rest is history.
Now alt coins were popping up like mushrooms because you can make even more money when you own the coin and can keep half the stock or more for yourself.

1. There is no use case for crypto currencies, except fraud and crime.

1. There may be use cases for centralized ledgers, however it seems like people are desperately trying to "find" use cases just the same way they are trying to find machine learning use cases. It's a marketing hype.

If crypto currencies were actually "required" to solve any major use case, the implementation would follow easily from the requirements. The things its being used for right now are essentially crying out for crypto currencies and it doesn't take a genius to derive a crypt currency implementation for those requirements. However I would argue that 99% of these "use cases" are made up and would work as well or even better on a centralized architecture.
> On a large scale, the wrong results from such tests don't matter if you test people often enough (say, every day).

But is anyone going to be getting the test every day? Particularly when it apparently costs $30. At that price, once is fine but nobody is going to be doing it over and over; they'll just treat whatever result they get (positive or negative) as binding.
Packt, this gesture is incredibly helpful.
You guys are doing a real work out there for the community.
I personally was blown by the defined content in "The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation"- By Bill Schmarzo.

Link here:- https://www.packtpub.com/product/the-economics-of-data-analy...
Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, Google services, and now Telegram. All of these facing outage in a single week.

Something fishy smells.
French detectorist accused of looting at scale after haul discovered at home
Exactly.

Why shop at all if we can just have a stream of door-to-door solicitors come to the front door of our homes with there wares and pitches? Something I think we can all get behind.
Project Oak (at Google) are working on Tink Rust: https://github.com/project-oak/tink-rust, although with this caveat:

This is not an official port of Tink, and is not supported by Google's cryptography teams.
Speaking from personal experience doing user support in firefox IRC channel on freenode and formerly moznet, the vast majority of "resource hog" complaints are due to the user running AdBlock with a million block rules (or some similar addon). Occasionally it is a particular long running website with JS memory leaks though. Like a gmail pinned tab.
In terms of performance, until recently a common issue was lack of default graphics acceleration on linux, requiring manually enabling layers.acceleration.force-enabled
Lightning and similar are making steady progress which would reduce the carbon footprint somewhat

I'm more interested in the variety of "energy recovery" startups out there - eg https://www.crusoeenergy.com/ - that are harvesting wasted energy to mine cryptocurrencies
I think GP is saying that the energy can come from non-carbon-emitting sources, which is technically true but besides the point. Bitcoin mining currently incentivizes tremendous carbon emissions, higher per dollar than other forms of money.
On the top they have US, Europe, Asia, Currencies, Crypto. Crypto? They should have interest rates well before crypto. Commodities are also far more relevant than crypto.
>It seems to me these things should be considered unsafe by default, tested at small scale for years, proven to be bio-degradable and if used at scale introduced very slowly

That's no way to create shareholder value.
> What do you notice?

Formation of large aggregates?

[edit]: pretty blinkenlights?
> Do DVDs in the last (~10?) few years still have non-skippable adverts at the start?

I honestly don't know, because I rip all my content and play it on Plex. :)

This could be the answer and once you're ripping content anyway, Plex is a decent way to stream it to whichever devices.
I have always wanted this "privacy box", but in a portable form -- a brick that your phone/laptop/TV/&c. uses persistent storage. No more cloud.
Github auth's wording SUCKS!

If all you ask for is "user" scope it will says this:

> Example App by Company would like to permission to

> * Verify your Github identity

> * Know which resources you can access (WTF!)

> * Act on your behalf (WTF!)

Image: https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/github/optimized/2X/b/b7744a5...

If that was actually true it would be horrible. Apparently it's not true but github has been entirely unresponsive in fixing the wording. They claim

1. this is more appropriate wording

2. scopes with github vs oauth are exactly the same

3. oauth uses different wording

Those 3 things can not all be true. If oauth scopes are the same they should have the same wording. They don't

Here's a thread about it. Super frustrating

https://github.community/t/why-does-this-forum-need-permissi...
Highly sophisticated attack that only nation state could have accomplished or leaked FTP credentials that any script kiddie could have used?
What do you notice? Not sure what you are trying to allude to.
I'm not suggesting "blaming" ourselves, per se. Sitting around and wallowing in our own guilt won't accomplish anything. But I do think we should accept that our own nature is part of what has led to this and be honest about the problem. I couldn't have put it better than you did: we should think about how to support humans as they are.

I'm not sure what I said is a straw man. I was being a little flip, but I think it's a normal human impulse to blame "that thing" or "those people" and to feel that a problem can be fixed by just eliminating whatever that is. Maybe nobody is explicitly saying "if we eliminate Facebook the problem will go away," but I do think some people implicitly feel that way.

The deeper problem, in my view, is that network technologies encourage our tendencies toward runaway group think and villainization due to their effect of disinhibition (making us react to something more quickly than we can rationally think about it).
Why is this flagged? I get that it is potentially a flamewar topic, but I don’t see an actual flamewar, and it’s fair to say this question gets asked every time there is a negative piece about Facebook.
Read about financial independence. There are reddit communities dedicated to it.
The Abbot rapid test is approved for use in the US, in fact I had it done on me this morning.
It has almost entirely been purchased by the government for distribution to the appropriate settings (mostly healthcare/long term care settings).
All I want from Pine64 just now is to be able to order the soldering iron, Pinecil.

It went apparently instantly from "coming soon" to "out of stock" Anybody know what happened?
SpaceX moving specifically to Brownsville, which is the point closest to the equator in the USA other than Florida. The spaceport will be closer to the equator than Kennedy Space Center.
WOW! Everything at a flat $5. The right time to upgrade the skills.
Building Android Apps in Python Using Kivy with Android Studio
Yeah, and Outlook is available on Android/iOS so it's something many business users are already accustomed to. Then there's the entire domain integration thing (ex. Intune) which is a bit more cumbersome to set up/manage for sysadmins for OSS.
> If there was a massive government initiative to manufacture such tests and subsidize them so that everyone got them every day this pandemic could be effectively halted in very short order, even without a vaccine.

Absolutely, except that people need to be willing to take the tests. Here in Austria they did a round of free mass testing. The plan was to test the whole population, however only 17% of eligible people showed up. They just don't care.

In fact, acquaintances asked me "why did you get tested if you didn't have any symptoms?? don't you have anything better to do with your time?".

For the next round of mass testing they are considering paying people €50 just to show up!
You've made so many mistakes in one post that it would be useless to respond to them. Take an introductory course in economics and come back to this issue when you understand how supply and demand set rental prices.
Yeah, the Apple users opt out making it easier for everyone else to do so. Facebook is on shakey ground.
Ignore the tether fud, old news. Lots of stable coins out there now that are fully regulated and partnering with US government (USDC).
Patent trolls suck, but the top comment was just wrong.
Mainly hackernews, for great hardware related projects hackaday.com.
> business model depends entirely on the invasion and flagrant abuse of privacy

OP’s acknowledgment is not entirely valid - their business models don’t rely on ads per se. Rather the nature of capital and free markets leads to them being snuffed out by bigger ones.
> 1. There is no use case for crypto currencies, except fraud and crime.

So you have found a way to protect your wealth against inflation, I guess?

Would love to hear what that is.
I mean, I don't think (2) is controversial -- the issue is that there are many dimensions you can measure to determine "best". There's not a settled single definition.
It's not that Firefox isn't an excellent browser on its own, but on macOS Safari rises the bar very high if you care about details (most people don't).
I'll try NsCDE[1] at some point. What I'm really waiting for is prismWM[2], I don't think I'll ever look back after this (on Linux).

[1]: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jvnzkb/prismwm_in...
i'm also exploring this, and have found my mirrorless to produce noticeably sharper images than the Epson V600 but not quite as sharp as an Imacon Flextight.

to save time, i have saved some presets for colour correcting using a single curves layer. since i end up tweaking every scan anyway, it speeds down the workflow by cutting down on the process.
> The Paris agreement was a big step moving humanity towards sustainable energy

How so? That is a non binding resolution where the world's greatest polluters are still allowed to increase their carbon footprint. Countries receive all sorts of praise for signing it and their so called commitment to "battle climate change", even though it's still business as usually, but at least they signed it I guess.

And since a lot of mining is done in countries where the majority of their energy comes from fossil energy sources it has a footprint.
Thought for sure this would be an article about the great smog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
I believe this is the best account: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
The Little Schemer series is a good introduction to Lisp/Scheme parenthesis-style recursive programming.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer-fourth-edition

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasoned-schemer-second-editi...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer-second-editi...

They’re written in a Socratic way, as a series of questions and answers. A good way to learn is to follow along and answer them yourself using Racket (before turning the page and seeing the answer). Racket is quick and easy to setup and use:

https://racket-lang.org/
Ethereum [sic] is moving to PoS from PoW, but ETH doesn't suffer the same growth issue that BTC does because its hash algo is effectively tied to its hardware. It can run on PoW indefinitely and will likely do so for several more years until PoS is fully ready.

There are a few asic's for ETH, but the hash algo is fundamentally executed through memory. Even if you build an asic for ETH, you are always tied to the speed of memory.

Therefore, a GPU is going to be the most ROI efficient mechanism for a long time (asics cost more to build than a commodity GPU) and even more so, older GPUs work just as well from a ROI perspective because newer GPUs are more expensive.

This means ETH does not see the same hashrate growth (and energy usage) as BTC, while maintaining the same level of security.

The vast majority of energy usage for blockchains, is green energy hydropower using excess power from facilities that already exist. Why? Because this is the lowest cost and prior to this current bull run, was the only way to be profitable.
A fair trial requires the labor of others, and I have a right to that. No guns to head involved.
Point taken, as far as the scale of his theft. Myhrvold is still a villain in my eyes, but OP overstated things.
It's funny that I've been using Emacs on windows 10 for years, and I would say that my work flow has only about 5% in common with the stuff in this repo.
Lot of comments here, many good, so I'll try not to duplicate, but:

1. Emacs is a hurdle, but one that's worth it when you use SLIME.
2. I went through Barski's "Land of Lisp" and enjoyed it, but couldn't get the web server to work, so I tweaked it to use Hunchentoot[0]

[0] - https://github.com/npsimons/land-of-lisp-using-hunchentoot/c...
How can someone determine this? I wonder Firefox itself does not tell me the resource issues are due to an extension.
Hi, thank you for the feedback - yes, we do get quite a bit of positive mentions in online forums, we try to keep an eye out for them but we could be better about that.

Syften looks interesting, I don't think I've received an email from you yet though - did you send to ian [at] 33mail [dot] com? We can also be reached at support@.
I think this is incredibly naive. If bad PR worked, there would be a lot more companies going bankrupt.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the sentence mentions both macOS and iOS, whereas url schemes are an iOS-only concept.
> Lightning and similar are making steady progress which would reduce the carbon footprint

They might bring down transaction fees, but most of the money in mining is from block rewards, which depends on the market price of Bitcoin rather than transaction volume.
Of course this is satire. For your information, there is a tiling WM which is more radical than my preference. It's called 'ratpoison' and it literally doesn't have mouse support, by design. I don't use it because I think having mouse support is useful as a fallback, when the application can't be effectively worked with otherwise. It is for real, it's written in C was developed 2000-2017. Got any arrows left in your quiver?

I speak a language which is often considered harder to learn than Chinese. It uses latin characters but has a great deal more accumulated grammar complexity. (Spoken) Chinese doesn't scare me. Not saying this to boast - my point is that people from my country find almost all other languages easy after what they went through in school. Perspective matters.

Things change. i3 continues being popular. People will refine the idea and make it more accessible. If that catches on, you'll see more and more apps written with keyboard control in mind, initially for Linux. Other operating systems copied features from Linux in the past, like user accounts or central repositories. Web interfaces will continue to change too. Today the elderly struggle with the web, because it's so inconsistent.
I did not find any obvious screenshots in action when clicking around on the site. So, I won't bother investigating further. Maybe others would also like some prominent screenshots that show off why we may want to use/try this.
Tether is still a scam, and the music is still playing. Don't be the last guy.

As for lightning, it adds a layer of trust into a system whose reason for existence is trustlessness.

If you don't care about trustlessness, you can already have fast and scalable transactions through normal banking.
We (https://tagnifi.com) offer standardized fundamentals based on the XBRL data. As others have stated, XBRL is complex and full of corner cases. Our standardization process softens these sharp edges.
Some things lock out Firefox as an accident of implementation.

I don't recall which site it was for me recently, perhaps Sainsbury's, but I reached a card payment screen and it just would not accept payment - it kept getting stuck with a spinner making no progress at the payment stage. Opened exactly the same page in Safari and it worked fine quickly. Next time it happened again, and I remembered that I needed to switch browser.
>On a large scale, the wrong results from such tests don't matter if you test people often enough (say, every day). If you get a wrong result one day, it'll probably be corrected in the next day or two with more tests.

Huh?

Continuing to accumulate bad data just leads to a higher accumulation of error.

If you have a high percentage of false results and you continue to test over and over the data are still not reliable. How would you know which the correct results are?

Say you test 14 days in a row, over those 14 days you've experienced no symptoms, yet 6 tests showed positive and 8 showed negative.

Do you have any better idea after those 14 days of testing as to whether you've got covid or not?
Dec 2018 and Dec 2019 were both relative low points. It's also worth noting that bitcoin 15Xed in 2017, whereas it's only up 1.5X over 2020.
Not to mention half of Mozilla's board of directors at the time quit because of him.
There are also fast molecular tests, using RT-LAMP.

https://www.lucirahealth.com/

Also when thinking about accuracy, I think it's helpful to distinguish between testing for public health, and testing for medical diagnosis/treatment. Antigen tests tend to be cheaper and have better sensitivity when the person is most likely to be contagious, for example, which, likely make them more suited for public health-oriented frequent, mass-testing.
> The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation and is of course more difficult to implement.

I find it funny, because I would say I have seen more floating window manager, when I was browsing GitHub, so I assume it is also quite easy to create a new one from scratch. Such floating VMs usually have 200-1000 LOC and die after 1 month after initial commit. Recently, xwm has been on HN [0] and it is small in terms of SLOC. There is smaller one called tinywm[1]. When we would compare them to i3[2] and sway, we can see they have thousand times larger codebase but they also bring a lot more features.

I keep my fingers crossed for more sophisticated WMs like PaperWM[3], which is "tiled scrollable window manager" to take off. They might synthesize ideas from floating and tiling managers and provide a better tool to manage windows on a screen.

[0]: https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm

[1]: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm

[2]: https://github.com/i3/i3

[3]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Let me explain a bit more. I don't suggest raising prices for early customers who are receiving the same product they signed up for originally. They can stay at the same price, which is grandfathering them in.

More typical though is Customer 1 signs up in 2015 when the product had features AB. Then in 2018 the product adds feature C. Is it fair to raise prices on them? Maybe, maybe not. In this case, I would still recommend today doubling prices for all new customers. You can go back to Customer 1 and say either:

1) we raised prices, but since you are an early supporter you get the current price for life with features ABC (if feature D is added, don't give it to them for free, they have to upgrade to the new pricing).

2) we raised prices since adding feature C is providing more value, but as an early supporter we are going to keep you at the original rate for 1 more year.
I know quite a few (older) people who are familiar with Thunerbird and use it instead of the web interface. None of them is particularly tech savvy.
Indeed but I’d argue it’s always been an essential skill. When it comes to film, people were already doing tricks to modify the image. Many photos people think of as right out of the camera are “photoshopped”. This applies to photos even from the 1800’s... I mean, the famous full body shot of Lincoln standing up is completely fake.
Except that this isn’t true. Bitcoin currently uses 80-90% renewable sources or opportunistic power capture, which is effectively zero-carbon. The incentives of bitcoin mining drive this, since carbon-neutral energy sources have lower marginal costs.
I notice that this looks like the type of thing you'd put up on a big monitor to impress investors/PHBs with when they walk by.
No, you were absolutely right calling it crates. I will be the first to say, when in Rome be a Roman. I was more ranting at the community for eschewing existing terminology and inventing new one. Sorry, didn't mean to direct it towards you.
"In fact, acquaintances asked me "why did you get tested if you didn't have any symptoms? don't you have anything better to do?"."

This is a simple matter of educating the public.

The government has done this effectively in, say, wartime, when the importance of acting a certain way (ex. "Loose Lips Sink Ships") is emphasized.

You can get nearly everyone on board if the government is competent, on the same side of the issue, and determined.

Sadly, in the US we have bickering, incompetent, and ignorant government officials which are often making things worse by ignoring the science or acting directly contrary to it.
We'll take a look for sure, although at $8k/mo in revenue our budget is fairly limited. You're welcome to send to ian [at] 33mail [dot] com.
Yes, there's the Lem editor (unrelated to CMUCL or the SBCL project itself): https://github.com/cxxxr/lem/ (also works for more programming languages) (and also, rather ipython-like, cl-repl: https://github.com/koji-kojiro/cl-repl/)
My understanding is that a great deal of Bitcoin mining takes place in corrupt jurisdictions where power can be obtained for free from power producers that have been captured through bribes and other forms of revenue sharing with officials. That power is not necessarily carbon free.

It seems to me that the nature of Bitcoin as a pseudonymous currency actually facilitates and encourages illicit power stealing arrangements like this. In other words, it’s pretty easy for me to just send you some of my freshly minted BTC from the mining farm your company is powering, and nobody is likely to ever find out.

Unless corruption can be rooted out (highly unlikely), there will be no incentive for Bitcoin mining energy to come from legitimate sources, never mind clean sources.
I'm a lawyer turned programmer. Generally agree with the above but would add:

- NLP applications, many practitioners and judges may not trust the software especially if implemented by a hobbyist and prefer many paralegals review manually. I'd pursue this more out of interest or to solve a personal workflow issue but be wary of generalising unless it becomes your main focus.
- Integrations with word/excel can definitely be useful. I wrote a bunch of simple VBA add-ons in Excel to help with mundane parts of managing a large e-discovery. But I found it a real slog to learn the word/excel specific stuff, so wouldn't recommend it as a first hobbyist project.
- Learning how to ingest various docs and do regex saved me the most time. If you do a lot of e-discovery and your firm's platform of choice supports regex just learning that grammar is probably the best bang for buck. Downloading and searching a smaller number if files locally can also be good. Was always disappointed when the files I wanted were in a "secure" dealroom so I couldn't legitimately download or scrape them.
Are you running extensions/adblockers in FF?