skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the extent that Texas has such a reputation, it's entirely unearned. The state loves sticking its nose into pretty much every area where it doesn't belong; they want to tell you on what days and from whom you can buy groceries; in many fields you're not allowed to start a business without permission from competitors; their gun laws are about as restrictive as they come while still being shall-issue; marijuana and gambling (except for the state-run numbers racket) are still illegal. The city governments of any political leaning aren't any better; Austin still hasn't legalized building housing other than detached single-family in the overwhelming majority of residential-zoned land.

It may have low taxes, but Texas is the furthest thing imaginable from a small-government state.
> With full remote, the physical boundaries between work and home disappear. It no longer feels safe to tell someone you'll follow up on something when you're back in the office tomorrow morning, because now technically you're always in your office.

I've been working remote for many years; started out part time remote in 2010 and been full time since about 2016 (across 5 different companies since). What you're saying has never been true for me.

I average 40 hours a week. If I go over 8 hours one day, I'll do less hours the next. I have no problem telling my manager or anyone else that I'll follow up tomorrow. I don't give them excuses, I just simply state "I'm signing off, I'll follow up in the morning" once that clock hits my 8 hour mark.

You (the royal "you") are in control of your own destiny when it comes to setting these boundaries. If your company is truly forcing you to do this, it's time to look elsewhere. Don't blame it on remote work. This is not a remote problem, this is a problem between you and your company.
Gëzuar Vitin e Ri! Happy New Year!
Thanks for writing this; it definitely helped me understand MimbleWimble better. Unfortunately Grin looks fairly dead and scalability improvements in Zcash may eliminate Grin's remaining benefits.
I also use Bitcoin as a currency (via Coinbase). I love the reactions. It’s not commonly accepted in my area so I’m only using it for haircuts and holiday bonuses, but would gladly buy more with it. Excited about Etherium’s DApps but having trouble creating viable ones in my industry (insurance). BTC’s transaction cost is worrisome (who is spending $6 in transactions fees for small purchases). Monero has some serious advantages over BTC (privacy and transaction costs).
what if the free credits cover 24x7 tenancy
Yeah, no arguments from me. I'd rather watch someone read a book than use Jira.
Maybe Bitcoin is a disaster from the perspective of solving all of these problems, but alt-coins have solved a lot of them. The idea of Bitcoin as a digital gold has always made the most sense to me. While the initial goal may have been to use it as a literal form of digital cash, what it's evolved into isn't exactly a failure imo.

It seems that instead of wiping the slate clean, it'd be better to more actively promote Bitcoin as just that, gold, not cash. Then, on the technical side, focus on making the conversion of that "gold" to a more cash-like cryptocurrency as easy as possible.

I'm not terrible well-versed on the technical side of Bitcoin (just a high-level understanding), but this post seems kind of fatalist. Bitcoin is a success purely on the basis that over a decade later, after countless claims on its death, it's still chugging along. That resiliency deserves credit.
That’s not true when the buyers of the debt include the Federal Reserve using new money, as is happening here.
So did Enron
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Didn't this happen 31st of January 2020 ? That's what wikipedia says.
I think its a no brainer and possible doom scenario. Is it possible? There are common operations like... the L1L2 norm that are used across machine learning. Is there a way to craft an operation like a regularizer that is both useful and profitable? Or could up you use a block as an initialization parameter and somehow make use of it? A prediction task itself might work - solve this provably hard problem and you own the cash. I don’t know but it seems like what is needed.
> t buy things in crypto only because of the reporting burden.

There's an easy solution to that problem: spend BTC when you buy things, and then every week-end, buy it back to get rid of whatever monkey money (fiat) people gave you (salary,payments,etc...)

That seems like a lot of work, but it's easy to automate.

And if enough people do this, this will strengthen the BTC economy and weaken fiat, so you can feel good about yourself when you go to bed.
Always Vim
Looks like you're right.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55502781

> The UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT
They are not printing any more 500EU notes, but they do remain legal tender for now. They might start being worth more than 500EU over time. Seems like a good note to keep your cash savings in if you live in Europe.
> Google was never able to build or buy a social platform to build their walled garden higher.

Does buying YouTube not count?
Cash transactions over 10,000 lakh are illegal in India [1]. Spain, France and Greece have all recently introduced limits [2]. Germany [3] has tried to introduce similar limits but have failed (so far). Australia's introducing a limit soon [4].

[1] https://babatax.com/cash-transaction-limit-in-india-cash-pay...

[2] https://wolfstreet.com/2017/01/28/europe-limits-on-cash-tran...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/german-plan-pr...

[4] https://www.accountantsdaily.com.au/business/14087-governmen...
Do any simple technical analysis and you will find an upward trend over its existence. You don't look at a narrow window.
Most of Monero is actually paid for in Bitcoin via online exchanges. WH stopped doing auto-exchange just few weeks ago, but many other exchanges are still up with barely any kind of validation, not even an e-mail.
I like to take the other perspective and take some time to appreciate what they gave to the world.

It's not so much a loss as it is a chance to celebrate what still remains, and to not take it for granted or keep expecting more.

For anyone reading this news, MF DOOM's work takes on a new life as people come to experience it for themselves, for the first time.
Scarcity only matters if there's demand.

I could take an A4 sheet and draw a triangle on it. It's scarce (there's only one A4 sheet with that precise badly-drawn triangle), but since nobody wants it, it's worth as much as the paper it was drawn on.

The same happens with both Bitcoin and gold. Since they are scarce, as long as there's enough demand their price will increase. However, there's a difference: gold has industrial uses for which there are no replacements with the same characteristics, and this provides a baseline level of demand. For Bitcoin, that is not the case; for any use case, there is (or can be created) another cryptocurrency which can be used instead of Bitcoin. This means there's no floor for the Bitcoin demand; for instance, if everyone decides that Ethereum's proof-of-stake is the best thing since sliced bread, the demand for Bitcoin can almost completely evaporate, and its price will go to zero. (There's a small intrinsic demand for Bitcoin as a collectible, since it was the first proof-of-work cryptocurrency, but that by itself is not enough to sustain its price.)
Arahaba tratry ny taona!

Happy New Year!
MF DOOM was a master of his craft. Sad to hear he's passed.
There was a transition period through to 31 Dec 2020. That has now ended.

Happy new year.

:’(
The thing is, for the vast majority of civilized human history, currencies have been commodities.

Cryptocommodity does have a nice ring to it, though.
I rode around Vegas in an automated car at reinvent last year. It understood signs just fine.

they have thousands and thousands of miles of autonomous driving across California and Nevada.
> If you're instituting policies that result in Walmart cutting its workforce, those same policies will absolutely cause the same to happen in competing chains.

Fair enough. I'm not from the US, I don't know the US retail market that well, beyond recognizing some brands. I assumed, by the tone of the comment thread I replied in, that Walmart is unique in being a big retailer on the wrong side of the size of wages - but in retrospect, that was a stupid assumption.

> How and why do you think new grocery stores that don't even have the established presence or infrastructure other chains had already built will be able to thrive once these other chains have disappeared?

I handwaved the risk of total societal collapse here :). But companies folding doesn't mean the infrastructure is gone; it can be reacquired and reused by new companies.

> part of the workforce that was laid off in the first place will still be out of work!

Fair enough. My assumption here was that the demand for grocery store workforce is driven by the demand for food, which would not change in this situation. But perhaps there's a surplus of workers.

> Do you think the families who were on the cusp of needing welfare before the prices on groceries rose will magically have their food budgets increased? Of course not.

A good point.

I agree with your analysis. Thanks for breaking down and simulating the consequences of my idea in larger context, and thanks for calling me on my bullshit. I'm not particularly proud of that comment.

That said, I'm still having trouble buying the idea that arbitrarily low wages are a good thing - I feel (though I'm not 100% convinced either) that these wages aren't determined solely by what makes sense for a given job category; there's a feedback loop pushing the wages down to however low they can get, and I suspect that there are optimizations left on the table, or cashed in as profits, that could be instead used to raise the wages while not meaningfully affecting the survivability of the company or the end prices for consumers.
No, they want Bitcoin to be a "store of value", whatever that means. Poor people being able to run a full node on a low-end phone is pointless when a transaction fee due to the artificial block size limit is more than a months wages.
would be cool to pair this with AI to snap photos of specific animals or birds. As a trail camera or a bird feeder camera.
For example record only Blue Jays or Cardinals. If it could spin around to capture action that would be great too.
Recently we've been able to flip it to every-other-day, which has been markedly better.

But yeah, it's not something I can deal with much longer.
Wow, I had no idea! I was under the mistaken impression that France managed to build 57 reactors, which produce about 50GW, in 23 years, and the first of those took only 7 years to build. There's even a rumor that some were built in only 5 years. Good thing you taught me that nuclear power cannot possibly be built that fast, or I would have died believing that crazy conspiracy theory!
Discord uses snowflake based IDs to great success. It's actually been one of the rock solid parts of our infrastructure and the fact that time stamps are embedded in the ID are great. Every channel, message, stream, attachment, user, server, etc... gets a snowflake.

We originally wrote this service in Elixir but have since rewritten it in rust. Actually very similar to this crate. Maybe I should open source ours too haha.
“Countries where you do not have to disregard your childhood in order to avoid a life in poverty are plentiful.“

That’s a totally different goalpost from a country which gives everyone a good childhood.

I’m sure Scandinavian counties are better at it, but it’s not at all obvious how the US “should” be able to do better than they do.

How exactly would they achieve this?
My spouse in European and before her immigration to the US happened I would send her bitcoin or litecoin when she needed money (she was in school). It worked despite the volatility. She'd tell me when she needs some, I'd send it and she'd sell. Total flight time was ~10 minutes. Super useful for sending amounts that are less than 200 dollars.
Google is losing the war against SEO garbage but they’re not ads. Ironically for shopping results the ads are better at finding thing you’re looking for than the actual content. I suspect that the reason is that stores put more effort into actually sanely cataloging their stock for ad placements than for their main site.
little did we know when we fired the first shots that the scraping wars of 21 would lead to AGI
They are, and they have not yet done so. They have been promising to do so for a while.
Such a waste.
It depends on the target. If some rich, nontechnical bitcoin hodler announced "I can't spend my money because the government is censoring my transactions," do you think the response would be a community investigation (which would risk all the investigators' bitcoins losing their value) or deriding the complainer as a conspiracy theorist who doesn't get how Bitcoin's design makes censorship impossible?
Those analogies don't work for me. I already have "digital cash". The great bulk of the money I spend never takes physical form. And I use Linux because it's demonstrably superior for the tasks most important to me. Bitcoin, though, mainly seems to solve problems for speculators and people engaging in light financial crime. Is there a niche I'm missing?
Interesting to compare with Google's approach to the same problems: https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/

In my experience Google's deterministic subsetting usually ensures backends have even connection counts. There's one significant corner case though: a large backend service that has a large number of small clients, such that client_task_count * subset_size < backend_task_count. Then it basically degrades to random selection. This can happen to infrastructure that supports all of Google's products, many of which are relatively tiny.

Seems like their "Continuous Ring Coordinates" section onward is designed to address this same problem. I got a bit lost following it though; I might need to read through it sometime my kids are not also wanting my attention...
Assuming you own the DNS server and redirect traffic to a different IP address, how will your fake host provide the CA-verified certificate to the client?
I also bought a bike during this period and had never heard of the Coasting thing and this is exactly the things I was looking for in a bike.

Perhaps this was largely a failure of marketing.
Might not be all bad if we get CANZUK out of it. Here's hoping.
You're still missing the point. It's not about having a particular API documented. You cannot run Linux with the M1's GPU without significant reverse engineering effort. Open source developers do not like to support vendors who do not make their hardware equally available for the open source community to use because it encourages people to use closed platforms. See Nvidia for another example.

Instead, it's better to provide that value-add on open platforms.
La mulți ani, HN!
Yup, it's the end of the transition period. But UK formally left EU 11 months ago. Unless of course the term "formally" has come to suffer similar inflation and inversion as the term "literally".
Agreed. The most relaxing thing I'm able to do while on-call is sit in the bath for a while - and even then, a few times my phone has gone off after five-ten minutes.
A great day for the UK, able to now chart their own path instead of obediently marching along to the neoliberal EU apparatus. The big question is whether they will do anything worthwhile with their newfound freedom.
This is the same argument Wirecard shareholders always made.
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This is technically correct - however, there were few practical changes until the end of the transition period today, and the relationship was essentially equivalent. Today is really where the relationship changes in a practical sense.
Hurricane brawls, mall gators, toilet iguanas: Tech bros aren’t ready for Miami
It was the same when the transition period started, guess it shows where the balance stood
But in bitcoin they aren't mandatory and there are essentially no borders. I'm not a fan of it personally but you can cut out the middlemen if you like. As to if that will be the case in the future as more and more regulations (and criminal precedents are set) are added on then it because much murkier.
Technical analysis has continually been shown to not work in predicting future prices.
Depends on the HR department. If you can communicate why "bad for employees" is bad for the company, then they'll help. Same with the legal department. And yeah, sometimes lawyering up is necessary to demonstrate that bad for employee is about to be bad for company.
Yay. Now we're free.

Oh wait, no, it's just that absolutely everything got harder, more expensive, more nationalistic, more pathetic and sad.

It's all incredibly depressing.

Here's hoping our kids manage to vote us back in as soon as those Tory f's are out.
Please look after our star [1]. I hope we get it back in the not too distant future.

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/brexit-latest-eu-chief-gu... (I donated to fund the projection.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewc1hixzYPY is the music video.

Madvillainy is maybe the best hiphop album of all time. I go back and listen to it often and always find something new.

+1 on changing the post title to all caps. This news also probably deserves a black bar. MF DOOM was the greatest lyricist in hiphop and influenced a generation or more of artists.

RIP MF DOOM, Viktor Vaughn, and King Geedorah.
For anybody truly serious about this field, I recommend the below book. It has some poor reviews on Amazon, which I was shocked to see, but it is my favourite book and taught me the core of probability theory and statistics, in a way most books don’t. Your understanding of Machine Learning will be better than 90% of those out there, if you can get through the principles in this book.

I topped statistics at the most prestigious university in my country both at the undergrad and postgrad level, and had no problem discussing advanced concepts with Senior PHDs in Quantitative Fields, and I thank this book the most for beginning my journey on this. But, and this is important, make sure to do all the exercises!

https://www.amazon.com/John-Freunds-Mathematical-Statistics-...
true, I guess - though those institutions tend to make assigning duties explicit, and part of the point of Duty as a concept was that it was implicit on everyone.
Despite it being flagged, I can still reconstruct the joke based on just the username
BigQuery:

#standardSQL
SELECT EXTRACT(HOUR FROM timestamp) hour, COUNT(*) AS num_downloads
FROM `the-psf.pypi.file_downloads`
WHERE DATE(timestamp)
BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)
AND CURRENT_DATE()
GROUP BY hour
ORDER BY num_downloads

Gives us 6.956 billion downloads in the past 30 days

With hour 15 clocking in at around 2,964 requests/sec -- mean. This is still not representative of peak instantaneous traffic, which I'd hazard a guess is somewhere closer to 10x that number.

Now factor in the 'usual' case where the CDN absorbs 70% of this, and you're still left with a service that is non-trivial to run and support 24/7. PyPi manages to only have a few small downtimes per year.
Wealthy investors are exactly the kind of people who (through lobbying) designed the current financial system.
Author here - great questions and I totally agree on the podcast back catalog not being easily searchable. This is an attempt to fix that in some small part.

1. I'll be taking a break for a few days as I'm totally cooked getting to this point with writing for a while, but the WireGuard pages will cover this eventually. To answer the question quickly though, a local DNS server would do the trick - opnsense has unbound built-in or there's something like PiHole or Adguard Home that could fill the gap too.

2. It depends! And there isn't a right or wrong answer for this. With virtualisation I've found that one big box to do everything has been really very stable indeed.
The only reason BTC works in this scenario is that the authorities are not chasing it down. If they decide to, it will be just as unviable as the other options and authorities have many methods at their disposal to make bitcoin transfers difficult.

BTC is cool, but no amount of tech can solve what is essentially a policy issue: overseas remittances.
>In many situations lack of KYC is a bug, not a feature.

Some people seem to be actually believe that.

You just happen to be one of them.
Maybe not "fired", but you will definitely be less likely to advance if everyone else is grinding, unless you somehow gain some uncanny efficiency and clarity improvement on your work output from taking back the hours to yourself.
Arguably the best country name trade deal abbreviation since renegotiating NAFTA to CAMUS (I know they use a different order but this suggestion is too good).
Why all caps? Is it an acronym?
I live in a mid sized town in the US Midwest. My house is on a street that has been a popular thoroughfare for cyclists, for many years. The simple reason is that it connects A and B while avoiding busy roads. My breakfast table (and now my standing desk for working from home) look out over the street and I can watch the bikes go by all day. And I love bikes, so I notice every bike and its rider.

Judging from gear, attire, speed, etc., my impression is that the vast majority of riders are what you would call "casual" and not "sport" riders. Sometimes a sportive rider goes by, but it's not the majority.

I know a lot of cyclists, including myself. Most cyclists recognize the difference between casual / utilitarian and sportive cycling. Many do both.

I believe that the stupid American who doesn't grasp cycling is a myth of the past, if it was ever anything but mythical. The most popular bikes sold in the US today have no relation to any category of competitive cycling: Hybrids, cruisers, and low end mountain bikes purchased for riding on pavement.

We're adapting to different circumstances. Now, with that said, a peculiarity of Americans is that we don't obey traditionalist rules about the separation of work and pleasure. Thus, a person might choose a "fun" bike for riding to work. I've been guilty of such a transgression. But I also own and use a bike that would not seem particularly out of place in Amsterdam.
If they decide to rejoin at some point, perhaps the EU could demand elimination of the pound.
Sure but I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap between someone who’s searching for something specific on TT or IG and someone who’s on those sites to browse.

Google is the best way to find content on Reddit but if it wasn’t there it wouldn’t mean I aimlessly browse more.
Labour were decimated in the last election. I don't suspect they'll be in power with a mandate to rejoin the EU.

Btw, things aren't as split down party lines as they may seem. Half the Tory party are Europhiles, and I know many of my Labour friends are anti-EU in a libertarian small government sense.
Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK. We can smell the fear and desperation. There is nothing in it for us. We aren't going to bail out the UK or take the influx of economic refugees.
Turkey's S-400 system was both contracted for and delivered during the Trump administration. We'll see what the US does or doesn't do when the president isn't the weakest since Harrison.
I think it's confusing to some because not much changed until this transition period actually ended, so for the casual folk Brexit only just happened
UI shouldn't be too hard (https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/8628/). I am not so sure about the speed if you'll use modern drivers.
Even figuring out the service provider is more difficult than it seems. These spam callers use made up and ever changing company names. If you ask them much of anything about the company they are working for when they call, they will usually immediately hang up.