skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mind has a way of tricking us into remembering many of the good things and fewer of the bad ones(or sometimes even rationalizing bad things into good ones). Not to say that the regret here isn't valid, but just to be careful how much stock to put into missing the 'good ole days'.

"The people who questioned my decision to become an extronomer were right. I was wrong. It seems too late to get back in."

This mindset irks me because this individual strikes me as being bright, talented, curious, and hard working. You are not wrong because you took a leap in life and it didn't work out perfectly, its a valuable learning experience. It is different if you assess the opportunity costs and risks and rewards with going back to astrophysics and decide that it is not worth it and move on...but to say it is 'too late' is you pouting and trying to let yourself down easy.
Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst became IBM's president.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst (not CEO but President)
You can't actually. Gold holds a unique spot on the periodic table. Another element isn't going to come into existence and compete with it here. Bitcoin on the other hand is in the fight for its life with the rest of the cryptocurrencies. I think that the one that's most useful will win out in the end... not the one that was most popular first (think myspace).
where have you been my whole life? Raindrop looks amazing. Thank you!
So you read two sentences, but not the rest of the page? They explain everything pretty clearly.
If a payment channel is still open, then the blockchain hasn't confirmed anything yet, the only speedup is to reduce roundtrips to the blockchain in the case of a series of transactions. So you are still limited by the speed of the blockchain, unless you decide to trust parties in the Lightning Network.
I have a degree in economics.

Have a nice day.
In those days there was a lovely LuaJIT based tensor manipulation language torch7 [1,2] developed by Leon Bottou. It later became basis for PyTorch. I still believe that Lua in general and LuaJIT in particular are much superior to Python for Deep Learning.

[1] http://torch.ch/

[2] https://github.com/torch/torch7
I bought in late (at $79, so..) and not nearly enough because I knew eGold’s history as well. I then later lost some on btce. I suppose I should be happy that’s my biggest regret in life but this year in particular it really hurts every time I think of it. My business was hit hard by COVID and my wife and I started IVF after 3 years of trying.

It’s crazy how a bit of knowledge can drastically alter your life.
Every single thread on HN is filled with the same cynicism. It's getting boring and I consider myself to be a cynic.

What are you even complaining about in this comment? You are complaining that you can't learn what a company does in a single sentence? Or are you claiming that vercel is a bullshit company (because it isn't)

Also, if you scroll down just a little bit in that page you learn exactly what vercel does.
If the company pays you exactly what your labor is worth, how exactly are they supposed to make money?
Most of the "new" features are just eye candy, but usability is still very poor and way behind what they had 10 years ago. You can't do even the most trivial things, like sorting stocks in your watch-list by market value or P/E ratio, comparing two stocks side by side etc.
Who would have guessed that kneecapping the service industry would be bad for the service sector?
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World
My understanding is that a major hurdle was the FDA requiring test results be reported back to health authorities. Or at least there has been a lot of disagreement on the issue [2]. It's a bit unclear if the reporting via the app is 100% mandatory but I would bet on it sending at least something indicating positive/negative by default.

This would be a dealbreaker for me. If I'm buying a test kit it's because I want to know, not because I want the world to know.
This is why I can never switch off i3 (well, Sway). I just use tabs too much. I even hacked Firefox to hide the tab bar and open every "tab" in a new window so I could use Sway tabs for browsing. BSPWM/DWM/etc all look cool, but no built-in tabs.
It also doesn’t really bring in that much money, it might even sell customers from RHEL.
That's correct, the royal we is a case where you use we to mean I.
What is the altitude of where you live?
Ledger.
It seems absurd that transfers between two accounts you own at large financial institutions take 3 days to process. There are obvious safety concerns, but there should be provably safe and faster ways of transferring value at minimal cost. People should be able to specify their security level; you could even gate-keep it with licensing, but we should make it an option for people.
My statement was less analogous to working at FAANG vs you being a FAANG shareholder and telling everyone to buy FAANG stocks.

I’ve worked in crypto in for 5 years, it’s disheartening the number of industry names that just talk up their own book/holdings.

Be bullish on crypto, fine, I am to a degree. Also why not spend some time being honest about risks so Joe Bloggs investor doesn’t get wiped out through fomo.
Gold isn't free to transport. Bitcoin shouldn't aim to be either. We don't want starbucks transactions in the same database as people saving for their pension. If you're transporting large amounts of money (digital gold) scaling isn't an issue.
Thanks for the suggestion.

We're thinking about this feature, trying to decide whether it would be best as part of 33mail or a separate sister product.
It's always nice to see a project succeed! How much time does it take you per week to manage this service?
Yeah me too. Google's cloud APIs especially the location related ones have always been a royal pain to use due to limits and really weird policies around how you are allowed to use them (for example, you have to provide attribution, you cannot use them in vehicles, you can't cache, you can't scrape, you can't create content from Maps content, you can't use it near a non-Google map, you can't use it in certain territories, etc.)

I'd much rather have a service that I just pay for and I can then use however I want.
Multiply that by seven billion people.
Yes. But I've never worked for a company that didn't provide coverage for that as well. My current plan provides $1500/yr for routine dental coverage, $15k for dental emergencies and accidents. $30k/yr prescription coverage. Massage, chiro, accupuncture up to $1k/yr. Counseling for up to 6 sessions free, then 50% coverage. This is not an unusual benefits package as far as I can tell. My last company even provided a $400 wellness spending account on top of all that. Anything I could justify as 'wellness' was covered to that amount. Running shoes, ski passes, recreational classes. This isn't some special package for high value employees. This is standard for any FT employee.

My out of pocket expenses this year for all health related stuff is around $100. That is made up mostly of prescription dispensing fees ($10 for a 3 month supply), and massage fees that were over the per visit limit (they only cover the first $100/hour. My massage therapist is $115/hr)

Benefits in Canada blew my mind when I moved up here.

The downside is that I make $80k ($62kUSD) as a mid level web dev, and that is not really considered low for the position.
Injured wild elephants have been known to go to human camps for first aid:

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/mwende-s...

Maybe this is less surprising, though, because elephants exhibit near-primate levels of intelligence.
That's the problem and a sort of inadvertent way he actually justified my argument. There really aren't much "ethical" for-profit endeavors in capitalism. I can criticize near anything with valid criticism. The fact that he casually chose a mass-polluter, anti-union, low wage, government subsidized mega business as "normal" says a lot of the normalization of oppression, or at least extreme apathy for workers, under capitalism. Not to mention its not good for customers either as the level of quality you get from the cheaply sourced Walmart-like inventories isn't good and if it is good, its also good at a certain level of planned obsolesce.

I think from an ethical perspective being a marketer who helps keep a business afloat by convincing people to sign onto low-cost monthly subscriptions for a service and keeps white collar professions with good jobs employed is vastly more ethical than a low-wage, anti-worker, no benefits, etc retail monster like Walmart.
Your question contains a false assumption. What made you think the account wasn't banned?

You guys all must have 'showdead' turned on in your profiles to even be seeing those submissions. The way HN works is: if you want to see all the things that software or moderators or user flags kill, you can do that by switching on 'showdead'. Conversely, if you've switched on 'showdead', then you're going to see all the posts that were killed. That's not people "abusing the site with impunity", that's you asking to be shown whatever abuse is out there.

(Also, the site guidelines ask you not to post like this, but rather to email hn@ycombinator.com. Can you please review them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
What the author appears to be describing is the experience of being a PhD student/postdoc that he misses. As faculty you are (usually) no longer running experiments and analyzing data, but managing people/projects, writing/reviewing papers, teaching, sitting on committees, and constantly applying for grants. While it is indeed unlikely he can find a faculty position after 7 years of being out of academia, he may in fact be happier looking for a senior scientist position at a university. As long as he is okay with the salary that is.
Yea, if that works for you, but in my experience marijuana helps relieve pain, CBD didn't really do anything for me.
sounds like an Unraid appliance.
In the age where we might see asteroid mining in our lifetimes, or possibly even economically transmuting elements, gold seems like a bad investment to me.
I hope the bluetooth analyzer can be used more than once. It seems incredibly wasteful to trash an electronic device after every single test.
First, this is a great idea, and congratulations on hitting $8k/mo in revenue. The fact that you've stuck with the business for this long and grown it is great, and better than most people do.

I Strongly recommend engaging directly with your customers whenever/wherever possible (Twitter, Slack, Discord, etc). One thing I immediately noticed on Twitter is that your name overlaps with a email newsletter published by @Doctor_V

Lastly, I would do a quick read over of your site and content. If you're going to start advertising, make sure everything is professional. For example, when I opened the link, I immediately noticed this:

"with ...@joesmith.33mail.comwill be" - that missing space between .com and will is super glaring for someone like me. Make sure you clean that stuff up before you start advertising. When I see that kind of stuff, I go from "this is a professional service I might pay for" to "this is not a real business." I know it seems small, but just being honest.
coldcard if Bitcoin only. Trezor for crypto.

Avoid Ledger if possible.

I own all three. Currently using Coldcard + Casa.
Any time there's a successful, young, fit, good-looking person who accomplishes something, the socially-backward awkward-looking folks on Hacker News start hating.

https://www.wired.com/story/air-gap-researcher-mordechai-gur...

See his presentation at BlackHat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRtFgunyj4
Even though I agree with the original argument, this Table doesn't support what is being said. In Fact China and India because of Billions of people, are kind of Outliers in this discussion. Is there a way to normalize this data?

This article however was kind of interesting https://www.ft.com/content/e1c7d5e7-61da-4c20-a99b-b89826e59... including the video "How to price the Nature"
I think it is deliberate.

This is IBM signaling that the good-ole' days are in the past. If you want to run RH stuff, they will get their pound of flesh. If you're not paying, you are not something they're concerned with.

When the corporate tone projected externally changes, that usually signals more than just a product change.
I don't know if the situation has improved, but at least in past it seems about:performance has a problem picking out problems created by an addon doing a ton of DOM manipulation that chews up resources in the tab. Bisecting addons or my preference, a clean profile or safe mode, was usually what I suggested, but YMMV.
>> project was directed by an independent governing board

Of which the majority were / are RedHat employees so not really independent at all
There are vast amounts of professional drug dealers making their living from transactions using this “hobby currency”.
Thank you :) Probably between my brother and myself less than 5 hours per week on average, mostly responding to support requests.
orders of magnitude less
It depends on what you’re trying to do with the html.

Web scrapers aren’t too bad with perl regexps.
Which is why I never made either statement.

GBTC has a $14B market cap. Do any Dogecoin ETFs? No?

Then maybe BTC is more than a hobby. It's a serious long-term store of value people are increasingly using as a hedge. A serious currency with commercial and institutional investors.

When you understand why Dogecoin doesn't have these things, you'll understand what a "hobby" actually is.

> BTC is still hobby money.

Can you post a single reason to believe that?
How do you distinguish a proper currency from a hobby currency?

I can think of these criteria on the top of my head:
* trading volume
* number of shops where it's accepted
* whether you can pay taxes with it

Did you have something like that in mind? Or something else? What would lead you to say "this is not just a hobby currency anymore"?
I use tig every day! Love it!

My one wish is that when you go to edit a file from the interface (by hitting e) is that it would keep you in the directory you're in rather than editing the file as if you're in git root. Linters and other things break when I edit files from the root directory in our mono repo
Yep, when the market cap balloons to be much larger, we should expect lower volatility. Still room to grow
'Member how "Bush hid the facts" ?

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dev-cr...

> In PowerShell 6+, the default encoding is UTF-8 without BOM on all platforms.
I have been vaugely following this and I am likely going to get it in the neck here, but this seems to be people are upset that they can no longer run their commerical business on something for free, as the other business providing the free thing were getting nothing in return, so they want to change it so that at least get something back in return (which is still not monetary, but help fixng bugs).
That’s why you need an internal audit team.
How Many ways you can include CSS in the HTML page. With Example
Outlook manages to do that even with IMAP server (at least if I do not remember wrongly)
This pandemic gave me so much to think about air pollution. It puzzles me how we can have, just in Europe, around 800k yearly premature deaths caused by pollution[0] and still not care at all.

On the other hand, covid-19 hasn't caused yet as many deaths but we quickly intervened, as it should be.

Why can't we, as a society, react with the same effectiveness to air pollution?

- [0]: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/40/20/1590/537232...
There are famous short-seller investors circling IBM for exaggerated earnings projections. Redhat could very well end up in someone else's hands sooner than later.
I found this article from 2011 with some more backstory:

> In 1997 IANA, without the approval of the Niuean Government, delegated the ccTLD for Niue to a businessman, William Semich, who lives in the United States. The advisor to the Government at that time was an ex-peace corp volunteer named Richard Saint Clair. Mr Saint Clair told the Government that the name meant nothing, that it was of no value or significance, and there was nothing that could be done. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Saint Clair then left his post as advisor and joined with Mr Semich in his organization – IUSN. The Government of Niue has been working every since to regain its ccTLD.

http://domainincite.com/4357-niue-the-myth-of-the-wifi-natio...

There were also a lawsuit by the same lawyer in 2018, maybe this is part of the same process.

http://domainincite.com/23705-exclusive-tiny-island-sues-to-...

I've always been hesitant of using other countries' TLDs like .nu, .tv, .ly, since I don't know what will happen with them in three years or where the money goes.
I’m a professional photographer, so...

Even if I wasn’t, I love large prints and we always have some up in our house. Cell phone pictures are fine if you’re looking at them on your phone - not so much at 20x30”.
Honest question, because I’d love to know: are you actually a paying Redhat customer and a CentOS user, and is CentOS the reason you’re a Redhat customer?

I’m asking because I get the feeling that there isn’t much overlap between CentOS users and paying Redhat customers.
Significantly less energy per transaction, which is the only metric that matters.
Data Bounties Make money or pay for data to be cleaned using DoltHub
Honest question from a layman: what happens with the AWS-flavored CentOS now that the upstream distro was dropped?
In places. In some places it's still called Mac OS X.
Am a stalwart fan of the humor. And the cover with its dwarven warrior wielding his lambda hammer is a priceless inspiration to rise to the task and code.
Why would there be "change" in a Bitcoin transaction?

Is this: send me £10 in BTC but actually send me £15 in case the price changes and I'll send you back the difference.
It's one thing if you're "investing" money that you can afford to lose. Gamble it on crypto or blackjack, whatever you like.

But if it's your life savings, put it in an index fund and forget about it for a few decades.
Reviewing the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine Data[video]
I've never really understood the argument around gold being better because you can melt it down into jewelry. If there isn't a market for gold anymore, then the jewelry wouldn't be worth more than costume pieces, right?

I guess the argument is that you can still make pennies on the dollar if there isn't a market for it anymore?

Your other arguments I can understand, although I do think the use of cryptocurrencies will keep growing whether I like it or not.
> 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.

That is because the X11 server handles the drawing of windows over each other.

Older display protocols simply had no support for it.
Leaked Messages Show How Amazon Handled Initial Coronavirus Outbreak
You could also read the first word of the article.
Alibaba Uyghur Recognition as a Service
This has to be a contender for strangest country name origin story :

Subsequent settlers were surprised to find vegetation on the chunk of coral rising from the sea, calling the place Niue, which in the local language means, "Look, there's a coconut."
Easier and more effective to just store the hash of the video on a blockchain.
Start small. Goodwill for stuff, ebay to sell it.

The more you hustle the more opportunities you see & hear about.

The part about stocks lost me.
Review of Moderna Coronavirus Vaccine Safety / Efficacy Data [video]
It takes a little bit of time up front as you add sites to the whitelist. After that though, everything pretty much just works fine.
Do folks have .tigrc shortcuts they'd recommend?
Personally I had a good experience with the original debian arm image:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-cd/
It took building a lisp for me to finally understand them .. I recommend http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu...
I've read through all the docs and it is unclear if aerial imagery is supported. I just launched a JavaScript 3D mapping library (https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js) and would be up for trying it out if it were supported.

Also interesting to see them use Mapbox as an example of an open source library that can be used with this. They obviously haven't been paying attention this past week.
Ah hah, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.1.3 defines this. I had tried briefly to find something, but not very hard, and so incorrectly guessed it was like HTTP URLs. Thanks for the correction, this is good to know. With that, I also note that exotic IPv4 address formats (such as the 32-bit integer representation) are excluded in that grammar.
I agree that fact checkers are a nasty can of worms, but here they're only expected to flag illegal content, which I don't think is a comparable concern.
Yeah, it should be subsidized so its at least 10 times cheaper. $30 should be a pack of 10 rapid tests.

In addition there should be mechanisms to support people who are self-isolating that are sufficient so that its equally easy to self-isolate as it is not to self-isolate
The price of Eggs is up 50% in my neck of the woods over the past 6 months.

House prices are up 20-30% over the same time frame.

The stock market is up close to 50% over the same time frame...

This is not happening because the economy is booming.

It is happening because the limits on printing money have been completely erased.

>In light of the shift to an ample reserves regime, the Board has reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective on March 26, the beginning of the next reserve maintenance period. This action eliminates reserve requirements for thousands of depository institutions and will help to support lending to households and businesses.

Any American Bank can lend any amount of money without holding anything in reserve. Let that sink in for a minute.

The reserve requirements used to be 10%... for decades... and money was still being created very fast due to lending from fractional reserve banks...

Now fractional reserve banking is not even a thing... it's just no reserve banking.

I am seriously concerned that north america will experience hyper inflation over the next few years as a result of that meeting back in March.

Pens are powerful.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
>all mobile devices come with a high quality browser component which is effectively part of the operating system already, used pervasively by applications on the device as a component rather than a standalone browser.

that sounds a lot like M$'s IE before the antitrust case, no ?
As someone who is an avid emacs user and had to switch to windows with my last job change, this is super helpful. I’ve already got my own org-mode note-taking process, but I struggled quite a bit with other quality of life features on windows. This article is a great resource on getting spelling, docx exporting, and other quality of life configurations.
I often set up a temporary directory at the beginning and then clean it up in an EXIT trap. Adding ERR and errtrace (-E) would remove the tmpdir or the first failure anywhere, no matter if it's a recoverable one.

So I'm sticking with just set -eu and trap EXIT...
A Solar Autoclave
From what I can tell, it isn't approved for home use anywhere.
A landmark year of giving from Apple
Perhaps they got some ideas when they cozied up with Microsoft a while back...
Looks nicer I guess, still missing a lot. No option chains, etc. Still pretty useless in my opinion.