skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to think that in 10 years, Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency would be one of the reserve currencies held by central banks.

But there's no going back. Cryptocurrencies have their place, and they're here to stay.
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For a couple of hours, then it's forgotten.
Man Planned 9/11-Style Attack After Training as Pilot, U.S. Says
Nearly 8M Americans have fallen into poverty since summer
Apple and Forced Labor in China
True. Unfortunately many still think a centrally planned system of picking winners and losers is superior to the free market, but luckily the past 4 years was enough to send capable entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk into the stratosphere (and beyond).
With bitcoin you can send funds peer to peer. No trusted intermediaries. Routing through a network of exchanges is more like routing through SWIFT or ACH.
Trend data on the SolarWinds Orion compromise
Windows 1.0 was a tiling window manager!

https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/4_wxRAsOvukqwxpkQ-2SAZTx4ro=/2...

2.0 added floating windows

https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/qXTZ7Mk9cLKSc3wpEP2wK14oT8I=/1...
DeskPi Pro and 8GB Pi 4
This raises the question, why acquire it to begin with?
>Much of the land in the United States that is currently occupied in grazing cattle was formerly inhabited by vast herds of American bison, an animal so genetically similar to domestic cattle that they can actually interbreed, yet the methane emissions from the bison didn't bring on a global climate crisis. Why not?

Bro, I'm answering your question as to why cows cause a global warming crisis and bison did not.

You're intentionally being obtuse on that point though, right? Like yeah, cows may be just like bison in a very very narrow frame of reference, but bison did not get their food trucked to them & they did not cut down trees to graze (both of which are things cows require now).

That's why. Period.

EDIT: If you want to narrow your frame of reference even further & just talk about methane, then 1) It's not the main culprit so I guess we agree there. But again, Global Warming is a cumulative thing, so they fact that they product that methane AND require carbon emissions to exist is pretty bad. 2) Yeah, it's a crude estimate, that's why I almost doubled it to give you the benefit of the doubt.
> Maps – Amazon Location Service lets you create maps that make use of data from our partners. You can choose between maps and map styles provided by Esri and by HERE Technologies, with the potential for more maps & more styles from these and other partners in the future.
I have another reply to you that engages with all of your points. Feel free to respond to that. As of now, you haven't given any principled reason for which services should be provided free by the government and which should not.
>Why is holding one Bitcoin appreciating so much faster compared to the USD? Is it because us as a society is perceiving the value of Bitcoin to appreciate (even though it’s illogical IMO to think so)?

Same reason why asset (stocks, housing) prices have skyrocketed even though there's a pandemic going on: money printing.
Yeah. I think you were looking at it near the end of the "smug lisp weenie" era. Looking at some content from the early 00s does not give a favorable impression of the CL community or its attitudes. I came into it about the same time, but started paying attention to the community proper circa 2008. By then, I think the efforts to popularize the language and grow the community had tempered it quite a bit.
Please try out https://www.screener.in for Indian stocks. It is Bloomberg for common man.

We provide 10-15 years of financial history in a simple interface. Plus lots of tools for finding and analysing companies.
Indeed, I'm surprised that large corporations are buying in at this point. I wonder what their corporate social responsibility departments think about it...?
Eh not for $30 a pop though.. it's not like you take it once and say "Yay I don't have it! back to normal!".
Stock valuation of big oil companies like Exxon and RDS (Shell) and BP is slightly below what it was 20-years ago but they have paid handsome dividends ~10% from old investments.

At least RDS and BP have started transformation into generic energy companies and are gradually abandoning oil. They are using oil income to grow in LNG, renewables and other energy related business.

Exxon just doubled down on oil. Exxon is perfect example of people drinking their own cool-aid. They are just humans. Cynically spreading big-oil propaganda without believing it is not easy.

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I think best Exxon could do is to start selling parts of itself. China, some other Asian investors and Gulf countries would be willing to pay good money if they package it properly.
It's still very early if you are comparing this to the 2017 bubble. Bitcoin moved from the old all-time high to around x20 higher. That would put bitcoin price around $400.000. A really frightening amount of money has to be moved into the ecosystem to make bitcoin worth that much.
Do you know how difficult it is to translate Matlab into Julia? I have a bunch of Matlab code I'm needing to refresh and honestly I could go either to Python or Julia. Python is more mature, but Julia doesn't seem like it's going to die or anything.

I haven't had a lot of time to look into it but my hunch is it would be magnificent to code numerical routines in Julia and access them from Python. There was some work for adding that sort of an interface with octave but it never seemed to work well.
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i don’t think it has anything to do with more use cases

institutions are now buying bitcoin as a diversified asset class
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...

tldr: git low-level commands are considered API and called "plumbing" (eg `git cat-file`, `git upload-pack`), otoh stuff like `git push` is porcelain: it's an ui layer.
> Or just nobody to write the RFP

Then look no further than public institutions, where (leaving everything else aside) almost every tender is public [0]. You'll never see Thunderbird in any of the submitted bids because there's no company behind it to write the bid and put its weight behind it.

It's a good canary to see if a service or product has anyone capable of supporting it, or if it can be monetized in any way. This doesn't have to be the developer, just any company that can realistically push it into the corporate world.

[0] https://ted.europa.eu/TED/main/HomePage.do
Complexity? All these different terms eventually turn into lines of code. If they aren't that different or nobody cares (which they don't, look at how many USA-only services are used by Brits) then it doesn't really make sense to add extra complexity for no reason.
Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that marginal electricity usage was bad for the environment. However I think that thought has persisted with us even though it is no longer true 100% of the time.

With renewables sometimes the marginal cost of electricity to our environment is near 0 or even negative (eg, during periods of higher winds and lower demand.)

I predict that in the future as bitcoin mining becomes more and more of an efficiency game that you will see bitcoin mining be kind of a load balancer the grid, effectively turning off during peak demand (or low supply) times and contributing to the base load during regular times.

For example, it may even help the economics of building new wind plants. Eg, currently it may not be profitable to build a new wind plant because base load is too low that the excess power generated would need to be sold off at 0 or even negative prices. However if bitcoin mining could be turned on during these times and off during periods of high demand, there will need to be fewer peaker plants in operation and it would positively affect the economics of opening a new wind plant.

Bitcoin mining only cares about the cost of electricity at a given time, it is not like most other electricity demands that are very time based. With the large variance of electricity generation by renewables, I think bitcoin can in the future help smooth demand according to the real supply/demand curve.

It's kind of like a different implementation of the Tesla utility grid batteries.
Instead of deploying power, you force the grid to build more renewable capacity (that the miners are paying for) that you use except in peak periods, where you turn off and effectively provide the grid with more power.
So, thinking about surveillance in e.g. schools.

If your choice is to test all the students monthly -- e.g. 3% of them per day -- with a molecular test that has a couple day turnaround... This works pretty much only well enough to detect rampant, uncontrolled spread, and will not break a transmission chain very often.

Or to test all the students weekly -- 14% per day -- with an antigen test that returns results in 30 minutes... Even if there's some false negatives, you'll still interrupt many transmission chains and effectively lower Rt.
Physicists attempt to unify all forces and rectify Einstein's biggest failure
So why did they buy it in the first place then?
I never quite understood this either. The original model where CentOS was not affiliated with red hat did though.
Could an independent group do the same with the latest RHEL sources?
> otherwise the innermost rings would have a far faster rhythm.

Think that over. On a 33 1/3 LP, the outermost groove takes 1.8 seconds to complete a rotation. The innermost groove takes... 1.8 seconds to complete a rotation. Hence, over the entire record, every single groove lines encodes 1.8 seconds of information and lines up exactly with its neighbor in terms of time elapsed. The inner grooves have less space to cover but they compensate by moving more slowly. It's weird but makes sense in a way that's reminiscent of Aristotle's wheel paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_wheel_paradox )

On a perfectly mastered LP, any song whose bpm is a multiple of 33 1/3 would have these lined up rhythmic patterns. E.g. a song that clocks in at 100 bpm would have exactly 3 beats in every rotation. You could make a faster dance song line up by speeding up the motor to a fractional degree.

>Incidentally, a lot of sound engineers at the time would put tracks with less frequency dynamicism into those innermost rings to prevent records from skipping.

True, since the innermost grooves have less space to encode information, they have to wobble more in a given distance in order to maintain the same dynamic range. IIRC sometimes they would space those inner grooves further apart to give them more wobble room.
As I understand it, these tests rarely produce a false positive, but often produce a false negative. So a positive test result on 6 occurrences is a much stronger signal than a negative result on 8 days. If you get a positive result from a rapid test, you should either self isolate or take a PCR test to confirm.

Think about what you would do if you wake up with cold or flu symptoms these days - there's a chance you don't have covid, but you still need to be extremely careful. These rapid tests should be thought of as a more effective version of the "do I have symptoms" test everybody does subconsciously every day.
I mean, it was confusing to see it owned by Red Hat, and these changes to effectively remove a RHEL substitute are surprising only in that it took so long.
I guess what I'm saying is that if you use a single site to stereotype a group of people, that stereotype will be wildly inaccurate. I'm sure there are Trump supporters (maybe better phrased as non-Biden supporters) that don't believe half the stuff on that site.
There are German and French indigenous? Do you have any more info? I'm super curious to learn more, but I'm not sure what search to start with.
The -coin and -currency terminology are skeumorphs. these assets have nothing to do with currency while they absolutely do inherit the transfer mechanics like a currency. they inherit some aspect of every asset class that has ever existed while having none of the limitations of any one asset class. Any limitation they do have now can be addressed in a software update.

That's a new feature across asset classes, and some market participants value that. Given the limited supply, there can be supply shocks as ore market participants value its attributes.
Probably the best known example of this (who I assume you are referring to) is incidentally responsible for both leaded fuel and CFCs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
This absolutely boggles my mind!

Who in their right mind pushed the Fenix upgrade for release while absolutely breaking compatibility with the whole universe of Firefox add-ons?

The whole point of using firefox is the control that add-ons and the about:config actually give you. Failing to realize that is failing to understand who you're user are.

I hope that Mozilla the company fail as fast as possible, so that Mozilla the foundation is allowed to carry on Firefox's purpose and fund actual work from people like the author, instead of ivory tower board and C-levels.
What I would like is to be able to use Firefox as a UI for my local projects. Now if I want to do it, I have to run a server and duplicate code.

The ability to create extensions for my personal use that can interact in local with my computer would be great.

I understand that a browser have to be sandboxed but there are ways that could work without being unsafe. Maybe even two separate downloads, one for people that want to use the browser UI capabilities but work in local.

This would not solve Mozilla problems, so it's a little tangent to the current discussion.
The rich tend to get richer, with or without BTC's help.
Thank you :)

Our monthly server costs are a little under $1k/mo.
Can I suggest you flip the menu and tool bar disable items to start commented-out and suggest people uncomment them when they are comfortable with emacs?

I started using slime as a lifetime vi (and then vim) user, and started using slime because cmucl's REPL was so primitive. I could not have survived without using the menu, and I did pickup some commonly used shortcuts from the hints in the menu.
In general, you shouldn't really need to pass in large input objects to oso - it operates over the application data.

What this means practically is either the data is processed through whatever data access layer you have (i.e. SQL, or an ORM). And there's more work we're doing here to make that experience seamless [1].

Or if you do have some large input data and you iterate over it in the policy, then the oso host library (the part in your app) will just iterate through it without sending the entire object back and forth.

> I presume that this is how you’d rather have users build more advanced policy than extending what seems to be a pretty lightweight language

Yep, that's the idea. I answered a similar question here [2]. You can call class + instance methods from Polar, so if there's anything you can't do you can add it that way. We have considered/are considering adding a standard library to provide common pieces out of the box, but it's not a limiting factor for using oso currently.

There are some side benefits though that a standard library would provide - like having a robust implementation of common operations in the Rust core.

[1]: https://docs.osohq.com/getting-started/list-filtering/index....

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25443354
Assuming the tests are independent, which is unrealistic. If the antigen test is positive because it's cross-reacting to the common cold or because of something unique to you, then testing more tells you nothing.
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We are seeing inflation in many assets due to QE. Probably just a matter of time till milk and gas similarly "appreciate".
I want to ask a serious question, what's a reasonable response? Every youtube channel and nearly every podcast I listen that brings up climate change also has frivolous merch they push and commercials for wasteful things.

I know that at some level their merch and maybe the wasteful things are not a major sources of climate change but ... the attitude is. Each individual youtuber/podcaster is taking the attitude "My income is more important than the environment" which is basically the attitude almost everyone takes and arguably in the exact same category as fast fashion etc.

Do you really need a Kurzgesagt calendar/poster/plushy shipped across the world to you? Flash Forward Podcast is always advertising you should subscribe to have gourmet beers shipped to you on subscription. Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast shills for Bespoke Post to send you boxes of stuff you don't need every month. Isn't there some kind of disconnect between these shows telling us we should do more about climate change and then pushing exactly the kind of consumerism that brought us here?

It was sad to watch VOX try to justify traveling by plane 10-20 times a year.
Since when is it a meme? And what do you mean that it's like the software has no useful feature?

What an awfully dismissive comment.
Maybe its time to take opensource back from these Corporate Cretins.
I suspect that in retrospect it will seem obvious that a USD-equivalent that is effectively out of US jurisdiction (for the time being) will be seen as providing obvious value to money launderers and criminals, and that the counterparty risk they take is a small price to pay.
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> As for lightning, it adds a layer of trust into a system whose reason for existence is trustlessness.

That's not true. That's the beauty of lightning, it manages to add a layer without needing to trust any of the intermediate party
This is the single most important use case that most people miss. Bitcoin doesn't need to do anything else.
how are they addressed? You don't know if it's 1:1 backed, if you don't know that it can collapse any moment
Can I get satellite images? Only thing holding me back from switching completely from GCP to AWS for a couple projects.
It's the same reason why stocks of companies go up and down: perceived value.
It's a git specific terminology. The plumbing is low level stuff like creating objects etc (ie. DAG operations). The porcelain is high level stuff like "rebase" which is (supposedly) designed for human use.
I bet there loads before the passing of the clean air act in 1960 ish i think. The London smog was notorious for killing people
Fair enough. You have to add taking in hardware too to read the signal.
Here is a technical talk by the founder explaining what it does: https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/2016-10-special-event/whats-n...
Can someone update the title to reflect this?
Yes, and perhaps it isn't so illogical.
Competitors section should be links to the other stocks :) Nice one!
I recommend https://herbstluftwm.org/

It's similar to bspwm.

- Both are controlled over a socket by a client program. Anything you can do to windows with a mouse or keyboard you can do with a script, and vice versa.

- The configuration for both is an rc file that's executed.

- Both are dynamic tiling managers, with a binary tree of containers.

- Both compare well to i3 by limiting the container tree to a binary tree, and eliminating keybindings to change container focus or move containers.

For examples of various window managers and accessories https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
> Maybe not the most popular opinion but one company maintaining two stable server focused Linux distributions which mostly have the same focus seems to be quite a wast of limited resources (dev time for maintaining both).

This is kind of obvious. When RH bought CentOS, everybody was saying "They will kill it". But they didn't and said, "See? We are nice folks!" The problem is they got bought themselves and can't be nice folks anymore.
Is this something for real? Packt products are always pricey. If yes, would definitely fill my book shelf.
To do exactly what they have done now.
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I think there's tremendous space for people that want privacy and doesn't want Google/Microsoft to have access to all of their data.
ClojureScript which targets JavaScript as the host language (https://clojurescript.org/) is a good option on the Clojure side.

ClojureScript is great if you're drawn towards the "production use" side as pixelmonkey said and already have knowledge of the Javascript / Node ecosystem.
Why? Because huge companies started investing huge amounts of money in it. Greyscale, MicroStrategy, JP Morgan, etc.

Also more and more people recognize that it's better to store money in a deflationary currency, not in your USD or EUR, which are regularly printed in huge amounts and are guaranteed to lose purchasing power long-term.
How's that? It seems to be the least standards-compliant browser with any significant user share.
Sure, they have other tools, but I think most users will be less understanding. NAT seems like a reasonable technological limitation, and filtering for the sake of filtering won’t feel that way.

Besides, why shouldn’t users be allowed to connect to machines on each other’s network without a central gatekeeper in the way?
> Whatever Mozilla can do to make Firefox more popular, Google can outspend them by a factor 10 and do more, or better, or both.

Firefox isn't struggling on technical grounds though. It's not a charity case, it's a perfectly competent browser. Whether Firefox outperforms Chromium depends on which benchmark you use. As far as the user is concerned, they're both technically solid browsers.
I've been doing "Morning Pages" for the past few months. I don't think I've ever had more clear thoughts. It's based out of a book called "The Artist's Way". You can read more about it here https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/

Highly recommend!
Of course not, the entire concept of the cookie warning is a stupidity only the EU could have dreamed up. Browsers already allow you to control cookies, extensions can manage them and create popups if you want them, and in fact very old browsers had a "confirm all cookies" feature in them. Nobody used that old feature because cookies became so prevalent nobody wanted to be informed anymore, so those features got taken out, but it was technically very easy to do.

The EU basically looked at that situation with a competitive browser market, extensions, the existence of the same feature in the past and said, "screw all that, the Commission knows best". Which is exactly the attitude that drove people to vote leave in the first place.
With the news around PH not accepting credit cards anymore I'm curious to see how much revenue they generate through bitcoin in the next quarter. I imagine their revenue will drop substantially.
It makes perfect sense for facebook.

You write the moral equivelent of __attribute__((graphql)) on your code, and boom, you can query it. You want mutations? __attribute__((graphql_root_mutation)). If your object is stored in TAO, everything works perfect. You can add custom fields or even custom objects implemented in PHP that can do whatever the hell they want.

You never have to think about a database. And you barely even have to think about security if you're using pre-existing objects, the rules for which users should be allowed to see which objects are written in one centralized place and enforced everywhere in the codebase, graphql included.

Of course, it only works that well because there are multiple ~20-30 person teams maintaining that infrastructure. And GraphQL was designed with Facebook's infrastructure in mind.

Outside of Facebook, I cannot see myself using GraphQL for any reason.
just so they know who to forward the lawsuits to
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826344
There a re a few heuristics for German that are very useful.
I had this problem myself and researched it deeply in this article (full disclosure: own website)
https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-noun...
Sensitivity of these tests is 95%, but specificity is 97%. So it can definitely be wrong in both directions.