skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First and foremost I think it will stick around. It's too useful a tool and it would be very hard to kill. It's money for enemies, no one controls it, everyone can use it.

China might currently be the only country in a position to attack Bitcoin as a protocol (not from a legal angle) but I think it's not in their best interest to do so. They are a rising empire, eventually they will have far less problems with capital flight than others that are declining, so it might make sense for them to let it go on, potentially causing a speculative attack on USD [1]. China's dominance in mining is shrinking, so at some point that won't be a problem anymore imo.

If (which is a big if) a "speculative attack"-type scenario happens the hyperinflation and resulting turmoil will leave a shock and I hope [2] we could actually see new hard currencies emerge. Some of them might be BTC backed as it is a harder money even than gold (at the expense of being younger, not as lindy). If that happens in the form of federations as I mentioned or well-known centralized solutions: who knows? I'll work towards a future with many different, but freely interchangable, uncensorable, private and fully backed BTC-based "currencies". I still like gold in case we nuke ourselves into the stone age, but I try to be an optimist.

Even if Bitcoin doesn't become a predominant store of value (because it gets widely banned, unlikely at this point imo) I think it will at least establish itself as a means of breaking economic sanctions and fleeing failing states. While I don't mind the upside potential in price I'm primarily in it for the freedom, I think either way Bitcoin will increase personal sovereignty by giving people the option to opt out.

That being said, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I'm a libertarian working in that space and quite young. While I try to compensate by reading about history and economics (Dalio has been a great influence) my life experience is very limited. I just try to navigate the uncertainty of this world the best I can, preferably at my own terms.

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/

[2] I know that "hope" might sound cynical given the prerequisites, but given the direction we ("the west") are headed it seems inevitable. So the best I can hope for is a better state afterwards: given that too much debt and printing money got us into the dire situation we are in in the first place, my hope is to take this capability away from governments for the foreseeable future to hopefully enable a more sustainable, less leveraged growth.
Honestly the Russian vaccine and possibly the astrazeneca Vaccine appears to be the safest bet.

No mRNA just the old school modified cold virus delivery mechanism.

Method been done for years .. easier and cheaper to manufacture and distribute.

Call me a cynic but I think the US (and UK) will push through a somewhat experimental version by Pfizer because “money”.

Hope I am wrong. But I would imagine in a year or so we will “discover” that the cheaper vaccine works great (after giving Pfizer plenty of time for $$)
Yes, I definitely am much descriptive for the config file on my personal computer. The configs I'm recommending here is more for ephemeral machines that you are using just to look at files (such as sshing into a VM that was created to run integration tests). For those cases, being able to quickly type something into the .vimrc and improve your experience is nice.
The 3 week delay was most likely because this was Moderna's first Phase 3 ever. They didn't even know what forms to fill out and needed FDA guidance the whole way. Pfizer on the other hand has the former head of FDA on their board and hundreds of other trials conducted successfully.
Well, maybe Canada is pretty unlikely I concede. But it seems possible that it might be some other first world nation that has friendly relations with America. I mean, America spied on Germany, right? Maybe Germany spies on America. I really haven't the foggiest clue who did it, but I wouldn't limit consideration to overtly adversarial countries.
So if literally every known billionaire in the world decided to convert $1 billion of their assets to BTC in the next five years, which in many cases would be most of their assets including control of the businesses that actually made them billionaires, then BTC would be a bit over a tenth of the way towards Raoul Pal's prediction. I'm not sure that makes it sound more realistic.

Market cap doesn't equal actually invested funds, but two dudes swapping one AMZN share for 30k USD doesn't actually make AMZNs market cap when other trades are happening at normal prices either. BTC's current market price is obviously more subject to manipulation than AMZN, but its price isn't dictated by two dudes swapping one BTC at an absurd multiple of what everyone else is willing to sell for either.
Fourth paragraph in the article:

> Two of the people said that the breaches are connected to a broad campaign that also involved the recently disclosed hack on FireEye, a major U.S. cybersecurity company with government and commercial contracts.
> I think in order for the opposite thing to work, you have to approach the material with the understanding that "There are people who believe this stuff as firmly as I believe the complete opposite. If you asked them, they say, with absolute conviction, that I'm nuts. How might that happen? What if they're right? What could I have missed?"

Always spoken to a person as if they're wrong. How about seeing this problem from yet a different view too? One in which the answer is, "You first, show good faith before you're critical of my views"

You don't go into a board room telling the CEO he's a fuckwit and that you're right without first getting how they understand something. You're never going to change any mind with this program unless it's compulsory and even then you'll only drive people to be more certain of their views.

I swear HN is about as academic as reddit is, which is to say zero. There is no actual critical thinking about the hypotheticals. Immediately, without provocation, it's that one side is right and wrong and feeling strongly is ultimately equivalent to being that wrong. I'm ashamed I even bother posting on here at all, not that anyone responds of course since this is a dead account.
I feel it's hard to comment this without getting political but trust me, I am not the type to force anything on people.

Just imho all systems are flawed and a big centralized system is flawed in a catastrophic way.

At the same time I want humans to work together. That's why federation seems like the best way. Not just how the fediverse speaks between AP instances, but also how nations speak to each other in fora like the EU parliament and the UN.

Just like IRL I want us to keep our little bubbles of sub-cultures online, but to federate with other bubbles and sub-cultures.

For example I do not believe Mastodon did the right thing by implementing a hard coded ban of certain instances.

That's a discussion for another day but I've met several converted neo-nazis who might not have changed if it wasn't for activists making contact with them and not giving up. Something made impossible by a global ban. Each instance should be allowed to ban what they want.

A centralized anything suddenly means we're making big decisions centrally on who to exclude and who to include.
I love the art page (gurlic.art). But for some reason it doesn't work reliably for me, many of the links go to "about:blank#blocked". Doesn't happen on every reload, and seems to happen less on gurlic.com/art.
Kinda derailing the thread but might ask anyway, does anyone got recommendations on dot files synchronization through personal devices? I'm currently using a git+ss repo on a personal server.

I wonder if there are more convenient ways to do this.
Yes. Or you could use a system of weight categories, for example one category for cars and one for bikes.
It is probably airgapped, running on vacuum tubes and sprayed with DEET as part of regular maintanance.
I would modify your point #1 (decentralization must never be promoted to be a feature) to state: Openness, be it via a public API or freedom to take data out, should not be a central feature. Looking at the history of successful applications (Spotify, Facebook, Twitter) they have all offered a simple and well crafted experience, with open APIs at the start. I realize that they still have some form of APIs but they have been severely curtailed from their early days in all of my examples.

The openness of the APIs offers those interested the ability to create their own features on top of a base (Facebook games back in the day, Spotify's song previews on NYTimes "Best Music of 2020", etc) while still maintaining a central point that normal users can come to for the default experience. By letting power users build on top of it more users can be drawn in by the interested developers experimenting with new features and experiences.

In a way, these hip, modern, and flashy companies remind me of the ancient and dual unix philosophies of: "Do one thing, but do it well" and, for the power users, "give them just enough rope to hang themselves".
'I Hate C Testing': a minimal testing framework for C would be a far more useful title.
This is very broken on Firefox on my machine.

Everytime I click a key, it loads up a blank white page with a constant tone in the background. I have to refresh to fix it up.
If your IT department cared, they could disable the app notification MFA method in AAD and force you to either use passwordless or a TOTP code, both of which prevent you from blindly approving a sign-in you aren't involved in.
"Volkshochschulen"

Volkshochschule are "low level" community training courses. Yet many people successfully learned Languages there. It is far below a University or a poly-technical college. It has nothing do do with a real degree.

FUN FACT: I read once a Serbian guy took a course there in Economics, had the certificate translated into Serbian and the translator translated "Volkshochschule", to "Peoples University" and became an Economics professor with this certifica in Serbia until the whole scam became public.

To give you the perspective: Basically every guy here on Hackernews could give a "Python course" there or something. for 2 hours every week for 6 months and one of the attendees would manage to become a CS professor with this.
I stopped in a bike lane to take a picture of an illegally parked Uber driver. He used his vehicle to try and plow me out of the lane and cut short my window of opportunity for a photo.

Reaction from police and Uber to a photo with the plate and the car making contact with my bike? "meh"
British author John le Carré dies aged 89
Also see: The many lives of John le Carré, in his own words. [Piece in The Guardian from 2016.)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03...
You should. Some of his books
may take a bit of patience to appreciate, but there's plenty that give you a great ride with a good conscience of having done something to improve your vocabulary. :)
False, one of the big players will either rip them off(snapchat) or force them into a buyout by under cutting them (diapers.com)
The US helped out with putting El Chapo in jail in the US. In Mexico every time they locked him up he'd got out again. Seems a similar problem in the story - you find the killers and they just break out of jail and come for you. Maybe the US could expand its prison for Mexicans service? If they imprisoned fewer Americans there'd be loads of room.
The problem is, there's a line between "things I don't consider because they're out of my comfort zone / I don't even know they exist" and "things I don't consider because I consider them to not have quality".

You give me a novel from a niche author from the middle East, I'm game; you give me a cash grab book signed by a teen youtuber and I'm probably out.

I'm not sure this site can tell the difference.
> You can't count on project managers to do that.

This is one of my pet peeves when it comes to software development. I _really_ think that software development project managers ought to be able to spot the difference between a good architectural decision and a bad architectural decision, a good design decision and a bad design decision, a well implemented function and a badly implemented function. It sinks my heart, as a software development professional, having to work for project managers who, in many cases, would be hard pressed to explain what a byte is. It's just so wrong.

It's like working for a newspaper editor who does not know how to read or write. It does not mean that you cannot produce a newspaper, but it depends upon the workers stepping in and doing all the strategical technical decision behind the project managers back. As an engineer you can live with it for some time, but eventually it ends up feeling fake, and like a masquerade.

I'm much more in favor of hands on leadership types like Microsoft's Dave Cutler, with the technical skills to actually lead, and not just superficially 'manage'.
For person to person stuff Venmo seems to work ok for me.

If you're running a storefront I've had good experiences with Square, but this is just one datapoint. Their fees are a bit higher than you can get elsewhere, but if you're a small fry doing a handful of transactions a day/week they're fine.
Now days Wayland compatible DEs seems to support everything the average user needs while supporting quite a few modern features that were apparently too difficult to support in X11 like monitors with different DPI scales.
Please fix the title, it is absolutely wrong. “Electronic amoeba” finds approximate solution to traveling salesman problem in linear time
They want to get more dollars because their liabilities are denominated in dollars.

So when things go bad, and the price of dollars goes up, everyone who's "short" dollars (via having liabilities priced in dollars vs local currency assets) sees the value of their debt appreciate, and it's painful.
We are getting to negative interest rates. A USD Hyperinflation event is absolutely possible.
The fines probably do scale up as the class of the vehicle scales up. In large because you can lose your job if you are a bus or truck driver and do this.
If humanity succeeds to inhabit the solar system, these low energy manifolds will become the primary means of navigation, transport and material commerce.

Edit: these pathways have previously been known to be slow, efficient pathways, it is encouraging to see further analysis showing how they can lower transit times as well.
Not yet, but soon. It's very hacky at the moment!
I can say the same think about any stock ever. That's the point.
> but not the German national alert app

You are in a way complaining about not getting a false positive. Surely, if you had received an alert when nothing happened, you would take the next alert less seriously.
Do you have any details on how those others are more consumer-friendly than paypal?

For buyers/consumers, PayPal is relatively friendly. Getting back money from an uncooperative merchant is pretty simple and hassle-free, just need a few days wait for the response time.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look.
What’s the national interest? Weakness is the fact that a moron like Trump became POTUS by some accident of history, and that he may have wanted to attack a country with nuclear weapons because he heard some lunatic talk about it on TV.

Military planners and diplomats are ultimately amoral. But the realpolitik of the devastation of Iran is a shift in the balance of power that doesn’t benefit the national interest, or creates bigger problems.

Weakness is the 101 other cuts that impacted US standing. Everything from the insanity of Brexit and failure to exploit, to the betrayal of US allies in Iraq and Syria, to the rise of a dangerous regime in Turkey, to damaged relations with Canada and destruction of the power of the US passport to the epic, historic incompetence of the COVID pandemic and impending depression.
Many many years ago I started as a junior employee in a big company together with a close friend. I was in finance, she was in HR. From time to time we had a drink to catch up and while I was doing unglamorous grunt work she was dealing with things like compensation packages for VPs, a short-list for a new regional CEO, the yearly ranking of all employees, etc. From time to time she gave me morsels of confidential information (like the salary a VP was getting or where they were planning to move the offices).It was a totally different ball game. That's why (among other things) it is very very unwise to cross off or even to confess stuff to HR, they are at a different level.

A petty thing I noticed with the years is that in HR, even very junior people will treat you with condescension and a sort of disdain. They know your salary and know where you were in the corporate ladder,they deal with the CEO packages so you are just a mediocre fish in the pond for them.

Skillful HR people also create a pretty solid network so if they leave the company they usually land sweet gigs in other companies or they can start a consulting agency. Out all the places of a corporation HR must be one of the best to be. (Cue hundreds of actual HR managers refuting me)
Accusing people involved in accidents of murder might not be the best way to make them sympathetic and gain their support.
This is why fzf is so great in my mind. The longer a file path is, the better chance I have of finding it later (whereas deeply nested file paths make it harder to find files using something like Finder or ls)

These days I hardly ever bring up file naming in code reviews—fzf just makes it so easy to find everything.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Maybe that should be in the FAQ. I had to search the HN thread to figure it out.
Where I live it is illegal to use dashcams for this purpose,
whether on cars or bicycles. If you do it and give another
reason that's fine, but it will still not be accepted as
evidence in court. The rarity of good bike lanes does not
improve the situation either.
I advocate for combating hate speech using the same methods that are used to combat any other form of abuse, such as spam or malware. On the centralized platforms, that role is filled by the centralized gatekeeper. On a decentralized platform, whatever plan you have to deal with manual spam can likely be used to block hate speech just as well.
I tried Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto, got Why Does He Do That: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men as the third result, which I also got as the second result when I tried the King James Bible and The Satanic Bible
I do use htop occasionally; however, I am not really a fan of keeping around a terminal for something that could be a well-integrated native app. Plus htop is missing a lot of information Activity Monitor has, as well as the ability to do things like run sample or spindump.
Isn't this a consequence of attempting to use PayPal as a bank account, something you shouldn't do in the first place? (Assuming they're not doing nefarious things).

Doesn't the rogue, excess money add a cost to their accounting at the end of the year, similar to how companies don't like letting employees keep their vacation days after so long, because they have to keep the functional equivalent of that much money in savings, in case the employee leaves and they want to cash it all out?

This seems pretty reasonable, to me, barring a couple edge cases that should have a vanishingly small percentage and perhaps could be argued for as special cases (people in jail, for example).

Does Paypal have any sort of auto-deducting money out of PayPal and into a normal bank?
Cool, now I figured where Dune 2's Death Hand [1] got its inspiration from.

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Hand
Google CEO Mr. Pichai apologizes for Timnit Gebru controversy but not her firing
Law and order and some light treason: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/529926-texas-gop-ch...

But maybe you’ll think of a way to secede without a bit of the ol’ Burn Loot Murder, you’re a bright lad.
Actually Excel. It's sitting in COBOL, SQl, and then mostly XL. And then yes, paper.
>...obsolete tech like SCADA...

...wow. you're aware that "obsolete tech" is what basically all critical infrastructure uses, right? The world is bigger than FAANG webapps...
Yay im not alone!

I've always found syntax highlighting super distracting, but everyone i have met thinks im crazy.

Otoh i do love me line numbers.
there do exist limited access roads, but it should be super obvious that bicycles and interstates aren’t friends.
Do you want to eat pizza and garlic bread? - inclusive

Do you want to eat pizza or garlic bread? - exclusive

In natural language "and" works like a inclusive or. If there is pizza and garlic bread I can choose to eat one or both. Or is always exclusive in this sentence.
It would be nice to have more than one debugger for a given target, mostly.
Outsourcing Disinformation
I think the classic definition is from the non-derivative value.

Fiat currency has value derived from the faith in the government printing it. Gold has a derivative value in the faith that it will be accepted as a default currency, but also an intrinsic component borne of the relative scarcity as well as material properties having some use.

I may not understand what you’re specifically asking. Intrinsic value is fairly straightforward. A company may have some amount of material worth (machines, intellectual property etc.). The balance of that equity minus their debt is the intrinsic value. After selling all that property and paying off the debt whatever left is the intrinsic value. Similarly, melting down a metal and selling it as a commodity gives the intrinsic value of a currency. A borderline intrinsic value would be a currency that has very little commodity value when divorced from its derivative value (e.g., the paper stock has only a limited marginal value and essential no intrinsic value). Some commodities get most of their worth from intrinsic value (milk, pork-bellies get value from the fact the are food) where fiat currencies has disproportionate derivative value.
You're right. I'll add it to the FAQ.
perhaps someone let off 99 red balloons
I guess it depends if you are doing systems admin or coding, but when I'm coding, I've gotten very dependent on Fuzzy Search like what Sublime Text introduced.

So for me, installing CtrP or FZF is pretty much mandatory (I've settled on FZF). I know this is about config options, and this is an extension, but for me, fuzzy search is pretty much essential for coding once you get to a moderate sized code-base.
1994 Crayola Calculator
They probably don't but what better way to absolve themselves of any fault?
If it's a nation state, then the attack is so sophisticated, that surely they can't be blamed for not having prevented it and following best practices would certainly not have been enough.
What? I'm confused
4 years ago Bitcoin was $800. The low in the period between the last high and now was around $3.5k.
Lots of jobs in this recent job thread btw: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/k937mc/who_is_hiri...
yea, I am not advocating for "legislation" I am advocating for law suits. I think the proper process to make change here is

(1) Create real penalties for drivers that hit cyclists
(2) get insurance agencies and drivers themselves to want safety infra so that they are no longer exposed to the risk of hitting cyclists
(3) safety infra is built

What we have in the states now where more and more people are biking, and people are begging for infrastructure, but there are no changes isn't working.
I don't to succeed/fail resolutions at prescribed calendar dates. Good to think/talk about and institute a behaviour. My most immediate and ongoing effort is to maintain/improve cardio and build up some lost muscle mass. I'm not athletic by any means, but the stay-at-home life has been having negative health effects. Should probably add going outside for brisk walks, even/especially through the winter.