skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can say the same thing about gold - it’s just a shiny rock.

it’s an inflation protected asset, perhaps even more so than gold since there’s a known quantity of it that will never change.
Recycled polypropylene isn't particularly marketable is what I meant. It's worthless, even when it is clean. From the POV of the recycler, it's an unwanted byproduct of collecting #1 and #2 bottles.

And it's pretty much the same story for every other plastic I did not explicitly mention in my other comment.

Mandates banning bad packaging would do more than trying to train consumers.
IMO "My income is more important than the environment" is not the correct summary. The actual situation is this:

1) A youtuber needs a certain amount of income to be able to afford the time to create their content.
2) Selling merch works way better than asking for donations
3) The positive impact of having the informational videos far outweighs the negative impact of creating and shipping the merch.

You can of course criticize the viewers for (2) and if you think spreading information has a low impact, you can question (3).
A bit into the game, Cyberpunk starts to resemble Altered Carbon in some ways. I'm not super far into it, and I don't want to spoil anything, but it definitely has some things to say about transhumanism and at one point I felt like it was sharing some vocabulary with AC.

You are right in that I think the universe could explore those themes more thoroughly, but then maybe it will and I'm just not there yet
1. Majority seems to be two accounts consolidating into one
2. Not a lot of interconnection
I read through that thread and it really is baffling. It seems more like a legal CYA wording than a technical/security wording. Really poorly handled on githubs side, either remove the wording or do a better job explaining the technical distinction.
I'm considering getting a mining rig to heat my house as an alternative to gas.
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The Mozilla foundation owns the corporation, so it's not 'run by shareholders' in the normal sense. Any profit it makes stays in Mozilla. I think they set it up like this because some things are legally easier to do as a for-profit corporation than as a non-profit.
This would affect all email types including emails like receipts, shipment confirmations, password resets, account verification.

Plenty of critical communications get caught in this storm...
Would you say that Rust is an appropriate language for learning Machine Learning and Data Science? Does it make the learning of it simple, difficult, other?

I'm new to the three, and Rust is a language that I'm working on now as it (to me) seems that it will be around for a long time, like Perl.
Most forms of municipal power generation are much lower emission than a piston engine. Hydro, wind, and nuclear especially. Just having the generation take place with a near-constant RPM steam turbine is vastly more efficient than a stop-n-go motor.
If this caused anyone to be interested in what happens to snowflakes after they fall on the ground, The Snow Grain Photo Library[1] has a library of photos of snow in various states of decomposition and metamorphosis.

[1] http://www.snowcrystals.it/index.php
This is wild speculation but just to highlight how FTP could be leveraged to get a signed DLL. Imagine SolarWinds has a "sign everything in this directory" script. Attackers gain access to that trusted directory either directly via FTP or by pivoting off FTP access. They just plop their DLL in there and let SolarWinds auto-sign it. No cert required.
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This is great but I really hope they get into the more popular uses like IP to location, autocomplete, etc APIs. There’s tons of small providers and some big ones out there that do this but it seems like an easy add for Amazon to do.
The explanation I've read for the difference between Fedora and CentOS Stream is that RHEL branches from Fedora at major releases, but those are so far apart that there could be years and massive divergences between today's Fedora and the RHEL 8.x release that's about to come out. So CentOS Stream is the dynamically updating "thing that will become the next RHEL 8.x" and Fedora is "things that will go into RHEL 9 one day". Basically CentOS changes from "whatever was in the previous RHEL point release" to "whatever will be in the next RHEL point release".
This is the CoreOS migration story, all over again.
CentOS was acquired by RedHat because it was eating into their market.

So, I'm sure that many customers who have been using CentOS just because it existed have no problems upgrading to RHEL because it's such a small part of their budget that it doesn't matter.

Meanwhile, CentOS did serve a purpose and those who absolutely don't want to upgrade to RHEL or are looking to start out without a subscription will be looking at other providers such as Project Lenix or Rocky Linux.

I think this could have been handled better by IBM. They've made a complete mess out of this by introducing CentOS stream and dropping CentOS. There is value in keeping non-paying users in your own ecosystem. Canonical handles it pretty well.
They reported the arrest, they didn't say that it was justified. The volunteers were released and cleared some time after that, which you may also remember. Brazilian police is shockingly corrupt and largely aligned with the equally corrupt Bolsonaro government and this ridiculous arrest was an attempt to sell a narrative.
A decade latter and it's still a hobby currency. Price is not a sole indicator of faith in a currency.
Obviously the biggest country to pioneer modernization will have the most historical emissions. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.

More important are our current post-modernization emissions.
Inflation will be a couple percent points. TSLA is up 900% this year...
Every day, about 900 bitcoins are mined.
So computing power for about 900*20k = $1.8m per day is "wasted". The more the price of bitcoin, the more energy is going to be used. Every 4 years, the amount of bitcoin created per day is divided by 2.
I’ve been using tig for years and never did a push / pull / checkout with it. The git CLI works fine for that, so I understand the authors priority here.
the energy consumption is my biggest criticism, so the answer is "no" (even though you try to sidestep that). buying a pack of gum with bitcoin could power a whole house for 2 months, that's awful and irresponsible.
He's not an employee, but a customer of Vercel.
About the editor:

In general you can use any editor, but there are some features which your editor should have to make your life easier. I wrote a blog post about it some time ago: https://klibert.pl/posts/tools_for_lisp_syntax.html

Basically, syntax highlighting, automatic matching paren insertion, ability to jump to a matching paren are the baseline. If you can get those with a plugin to VSCode or Vim, you're good to go.
Slight deviation: does anybody have recommendations for hardware wallets? Pros/Cons?
I think passion rules everything for most of us - unless we have passion for money :)
Can you provide evidence of no debate, and reasons on why the soft cap is a bad idea when transactions burn eth anyways and the eth inflation rate is around 4% per year, and slated to drop to 0.5%-2.0% with the transition to ETH 2.0?
Their "free-tier" drives me nuts. It's always extremely convoluted and unless something has changed it's more of a 1-time "trial" for a period of time rather than a "tier" like GCP. Also their "free-tier" lasts different periods of time for different products. Like EC2 is 1 year but this is 3 months.

A baseline "free usage" everyone always gets and then if you go over, you pay, would be so much easier to understand. I understand it's not in Amazon's financial interests to make such a change but it always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
> What I don't miss from Ubuntu are the PPA's,

I have just looked into the extra sources to see if I have any PPA there but I was surprised to see the only one, which come with a Pop_OS! to bring some custom tiling manager and other tweaks.

Frankly, era of PPAs has ended. I don't find many software packages shared on Launchpad nor I won't trust PPA owners to install anything from most of PPAs. There are better ways to share software and easier to set own APT server. Today, almost all software distributors I know (Microsoft, Slack, Sublime, Spotify, Hashicorp...) have their APT repository on also their server or on a packagecloud[0] / JFrog Artifcatory[1]

> If you plan to do any gaming in Linux.

To be honest, I find KVM with GPU pass-though a better idea overall (I can use software like Affinity Designer thanks to that). KVM is a really top-notch software if you know to configure it properly :) However, proton and wine can be installed without any problem on Ubuntu.

> And, I'm biased a bit because my installation is always quite minimal. I only have i3 and my tools for programming, and whatever is needed to run proton games.

I have a complete range of various programming tools and SDKs that hardly can be packed in 240GB disk. My current setup is rather small: Jetbrains IDEs, Unity3D, Qt Creator/Designer, emacs with orgmode, vim, various chat apps, Spotify, Syncthing, Sublime Text & Merge, rofi, pass, fossil, nginx, flutter, nimrod, nodejs, deno, zsh, golang, chicken-scheme, milena+ivona, orca, backup tools, terraform with terragrunt, multipass and some dotfiles and private scripts. It takes about 3h to complete format disk and install OS and provision all software I need (thanks to terraform). My DE is GNOME with a taskbar (Dash To Panel extension) instead of a dock. Is it minimal? Likely no, but it does its job.

[0]: https://packagecloud.io/

[1]: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
You need to understand the point of money in the first place. For most of human history economies were structured around trade without money. You would trade spices for cattle and things like that. Once we started mining gold and silver it became convenient to say, hey, these metals are useful for certain things but they're also very convenient to use as a medium for trade. So instead of you always needing another asset to trade, you can sell your asset for gold or silver, and then later on you can trade your gold or silver for a different asset. So let's say you wanted to sell your cow badly but there were no spices to buy yet with it. Well now you could sell the cow for gold and then later when a new shipment of spices came in you could use some or all of that gold to buy the spices. Hence money was born.

This is basically how all money works, as a medium for productivity and assets.

Enter modern governments who print paper currency because it's far more convenient than gold but for the most part it was the same principle. When the US was still on the gold standard the idea was that the US government stored all the gold and any US dollar technically represented a share of gold in the US vaults. In fact if you were a foreign country with USD you could redeem your USD for gold. We abandoned the gold standard ~1971 and started printing fiat money which isn't technically backed by anything. There's a bunch of controversy around this but the undeniable fact is that now the Fed can and does manipulate the USD to cause inflation and deflation at certain times.

So why is holding one Bitcoin appreciating so much faster than the USD? Because the Fed is TRYING to cause inflation with the USD. They've said themselves that they are trying to target about 2% inflation I believe, (I could be wrong on that target). You do this by increasing the supply of USD whereas Bitcoin has a fixed supply so it's inherently deflationary.

So is it illogical to place value in Bitcoin? Maybe but the same can be said of the USD, moreso. Not only is it not backed by anything, it's inherently inflationary and loses value over time. Bitcoin doesn't. So if you get a paycheck for being a productive worker and you want a medium to store that value of productivity Bitcoin seems like a logical medium to store it in so that you know later on you can withdraw and it won't have lost it's value to inflation. Ofc, it could lose its value in other ways but that's the same with any asset.
What you propose makes way too much sense and would offer an actual solution.
To add to this, SOC1/SOC2 is only as useful as the security policies and standards and that assumes they were written around everything the company actually does. Auditors are only validating to some degree that you are doing what you say you are doing, but what you say you are doing may not be all-inclusive and respective of what you actually do.
and the reason why i would NEVER use fedora coreos
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Yes, if that tool were created, I bet it would be really popular. But it hasn't been. Python+Numpy+Scipy isn't it by virtue of the fact that we have to specify three different software packages, haha.

I've done tiny prototypes that I later turned into a nice little Python+Numpy+Scipy scripts, and the final Python version was much nicer, but writing it was still more like a couple hour project, compared to the real-time process of figuring out what I wanted, done in Octave.
Inflation is good for currencies / anything that's meant to be used.
> Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold?

Gold has limited value as a commodity and widespread usage in central bank reserves. People I know who value Bitcoin highly do it on the expectation that either high net worth individuals will start to hold some small part of their net worth in BTC OR central banks will adopt it as a reserve currency.

How viable those two outcomes are determines whether you view BTC and gold similarly.
From the article:

> I remember when Brendan Eich was briefly the Mozilla CEO. It was noted that a founder has a special place and ability as a leader. We never got to find out, but there was some sense to it: a founder has particular authority, without getting that authority through consensus-building. If you bring in a decisive outsider they will probably fail, lacking the authority (and probably the wisdom) to guide the company. If you bring in or promote someone appropriate for a more mature company, then the company may be operated well but the choices made will be more conservative.

When FireFox Quantum first came out, I was amazed. All the speed and performance problems started to fade and I was so happy to use Firefox again, switching back from Vivaldi. I also noticed a lot of bad information going on about Eich at the time. People were claiming he wasn't very competent, that he didn't put priority on multi-thread/cpu/quantum support (he did) .. lot's of stuff to discredit him.

I do think it was sad that Mozilla forced him out. Diversity of ideas? Not at Mozilla. Diversity based on identity and not thought has become the focus at many companies and it feels insane.

I will not use Brave. Their crypto stuff and ad injection and privacy concerns bother me. However, Firefox has continually gotten more and more unstable. I may switch back to Vivaldi, which I do not really want to do. Diversity in the browser eco system is pretty critical to an open web.
No problem! These are fantastic questions.

Agreed! And I strongly recommend to anyone thinking about doing so to join our slack [1] and come chat with us :) We'll be happy to share our thoughts on this.

All these questions are also tempting me to go and put together a demo for this too...

[1]: https://join-slack.osohq.com/
I absolutely agree with you that money printing causes the price of assets like real estate, stocks, and bonds to go up, but the correlation between money printing and the price of Bitcoin seems pretty weak. Back in 2017, when Bitcoin shot up from 900 to 18k[1], the Fed's balance sheet had been flat for the past two years[2]. The Fed was also in the process of gradually unwinding their balance sheet by increasing the Federal Funds Rate target. Over the course of 2017, they raised the upper bound of the Federal Funds Rate from 0.75% to 2.5%.

The narrative that people are flocking to Bitcoin as an inflation hedge has some plausibility currently, but it doesn't explain what happened in 2017.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARU
When will it be available to purchase? Will one get it direct from this manufacturer website?
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I'm no longer using a Mac (for employer reasons), but I had a lot of success with Yabai (free/open-source) before I switched. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
I guess my proposal is that new chemicals need to be tested at a 100x dose on 15 different species, up to primate. On lesser species, things such as number of offspring need to be measured (reproductive health seems to be the first to go a lot of times). On primates, we'd look for sperm count relative to a control group (again the first thing to go).

If any effect is seen at a 100x dose (of the amount expected to be ingested) the chemical would be dropped.
bad website, you cannot post to your followers, it makes people unhappy, advertising there is useless
Pretty sure there is an option to move the addressbar to the bottom in FF on Android.
Bitcoin is useless for any legal activity.

change my mind with an actual existing application that's not done by anything else.
How much can the unit price reduce with further scale.

The usual for chemical batches is that scale is the major determinant to price, but there are always exceptions.
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Spending doesn't decrease when investment drops. The spending is reallocation to consumer spending.
Ken Libbrecht was my undergraduate advisor and I worked in his lab for a couple summers (in fact, growing snowflakes in a tank and measuring their growth rate at different temperatures and humidities - although mine had to be boring perfect hexagons to get accurate measurements).

He's a great guy and a very talented communicator. I would absolutely recommend his book, and his website, http://snowcrystals.com/ , for anyone wanting to see great photos and learn about the science behind them.
Calling Bitcoin a "game of musical chairs" doesn't necessarily imply it is a scam. It simply implies that the music will eventually stop and leave someone with huge loses. There doesn't need to be a mastermind behind that. The length of time the music has been playing shouldn't be any solace to anyone participating if they can't come up with other legitimate reasons why a $20k value is valid.
"you can already have fast and scalable transactions through normal banking."

I see this repeated a lot. I think you're saying bitcoin is no better than normal banking for moving value.

Do you really believe this? Yes, in the US I can immediately wire money somewhere as long as:

1) I do it within east coast business hours. Weekend? Sorry, wait til Monday
2) I have the correct information for the receiving institution, some of which require a small transfer up front to confirm the setup.
3) My bank actually supports wiring (Wealthfront, for example, only supports ACH transfers which take a few days)
4) I'm sending within the US, otherwise there are a bunch of other complications and requirements

I also need to trust that the bank actually has my money.

With cryptocurrency you can confirm that your stored value exists and is stilled owned by you, and transfer it to anywhere else within 30 minutes, in a provably secure and verifiable way.
Anyone know if someone has implemented procedural generation of 3D snowflakes? After seeing the images and stereograms, I'm thinking that would be an intellectually rewarding project.
Sorry for nitpicking, but it's 2020 and OS X has been called macOS since 2015 ;)
It's always goes how around the end of the year and crashes in the beginning of the next. Where's the news?
> Could an independent group do the same with the latest RHEL sources?

Yes. But there would be an up-front investment in effort and a slow start, as there was with CentOS itself. The people who started up CentOS and maintained it pre-RedHat will mostly be off doing other things (possibly within RedHat) so that particular source of experience is not likely to be available at all. You'd need to find enough people who are the right combination of interested enough, capable enough on the technical side, have access to enough hosting resource for it to be practical as a public project, and willing to do it for free (unless you can attract some sponsorship or other funding).

Edit: as others said in replies while I was typing the above: it looks like a group has already started working on this, so you might be in luck.
This is interesting, everything at $5 means lot of skills can be learnt or upgraded at a very low investment.. right time to grab the right deal.
This is the danger of tiling window managers :( I now fear one day I will work at a company that won't let me use Linux.

But on the flip side, it's a great testament to the power of tiling. You'll have to claw i3 out of my cold dead hands :)
Why no pictures, I'd like to see it first without installing it to my machine.
Your complaint about the xkb/xmodmap/whatever situation is dead on, so my solution has been to simply go with a programmable keyboard. Don't have to remap capslock -> ctrl anymore - no matter what distro I use, capslock is always ctrl, right from the get-go.
I mean, as soon as I read through the whitepaper I knew it was going to be valuable at least for a time. My primary reason for selling most of my Bitcoins at $200 a coin was that I thought it was obvious that the US would ban it. I made out like a bandit, don't get me wrong, but the fact that it's an accepted investment still boggles my mind. They shutdown eGold but not Bitcoin?! Crazypants.

In retrospect, I think the primary reason they haven't is a real politik appraisal of the good crypto does to our cybersecurity. Finally attackers have a way to extract money from the entities they hack, rather than selling access or information to third parties. Even so, it still boggles the mind. It's so lawless and anarchistic.
Again, use insertion sort.

I swear all the people recommending bubble sort for whatever reason are doing so out of ignorance.
ETFs are a hobby?
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In every generalisation, you're obviously going to miss some nuance.

French people have a long history of revolting against the political establishment, dating back to at least the French revolution, that makes them somewhat different than, say, Germany, where I live. So this is a fair point.

On the other hand, I would still think that throughout most of French history, and also now with the yellow vests, people rarely went to the streets to protest for "less regulation", and especially not in order to advocate for the interests of big corporations over those of the state. Yes, there was (is?) a French brand of anarchism, but that was always more of a "property is theft" kind of anarchism, and not a US-style libertarian anarcho-capitalism.

So, I think what I rather meant to say is the following:
Most people in Europe trust the idea of a powerful government (even if they violently disagree with its current incarnation) much more than the idea of equally powerful private corporations.
Here's the product:

http://www.pecomanufacturing.com/controls/hvac-thermostats/T...

The dial is a thermostat that reads room temperature and turns the heat source on and off accordingly.
> It is the thing that makes the company money

Sort of. Google basically is what makes the company money, which is more or less indentured servitude. If it were to break away and find another way to monetize I think it becomes a very different browser.
Didn't IBM put Red Hat in the CEO chair some time ago after the acquisition?