skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they were right; it has been with us all the time. Look at health care and food.
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Bitcoin has done a great job educating me as to why we have the rules we have regarding financial orgs, and currency.

Every new scam or venture that runs into regulatory issues is a fascinating trip that often results in "well yeah that's a terrible idea..."
To believe that everything can be explained is an expression of faith not reason.

Our brains are very good at tricking us into thinking they are universal understanders. They are not.
> But it's not for them. It's for managers and stakeholders who have to report progress and who are responsible for budgets.

Yeah. The problem is they now have to report at least 50% less progress because half of s dev’s mental power is dedicated to ignoring or updating Jira.
What impresses me is that this digital clock works just fine in Internet Explorer 11 from 2013, and even works in IE10 from 2012 (doesn’t work in IE9, but, then again, not even text-shadow works in IE9). It doesn’t use any modern CSS, but stuff which has been implemented by browsers since 2012.
If there is going to be a debt fueled bubble I would prefer it to be in Bitcoin over something that actually matters like housing or education.

If Bitcoin prices go up 10x nobody really cares. If housing prices go up 10x then people can't afford shelter and become homeless.
https://youtu.be/uT17W8CmX4g
Last time I checked drugs were still pretty popular in 2020 and no one wants to hang around big Daves dirty house to buy some weed
A few of these examples are great reasons to Google - but also to remember that for many new-to-you activities, you'll be very bad at it at first. And the feeling of being bad at it often causes people to drop it before getting past the initial pain, to the point where they are basically competent enough to actually enjoy it.

But getting past that initial time hurdle isn't enough for you to be basically competent either - you might no longer be put off by the overwhelm of a new thing, but you might still be really really lousy at it. A more methodological approach is called for, hence:

https://lifehacker.com/learn-anything-in-20-hours-with-this-...
1. Deconstruct the skill: Break down the parts and find the most important things to practice first. If you were learning to play a musical instrument, for example, knowing just a few chords gives you access to tons of songs. If you want to learn a new language, learn the most common 2,000 words and you'll have 80% text coverage.
2. Self-correct: Use reference materials to learn enough that you know when you make a mistake so you can correct yourself.
3. Remove barriers to learning: Identify and remove anything that distracts you from focusing on the skill you want to learn.
4. Practice at least 20 hours.

Personally - I tend to get lost in over-analysis without even actually starting! Googling the thing isn't step 1 for me, but all the steps - an end to itself. I've got to constantly monitor myself on that one.
Felice anno nuovo a tutti!
Happy new year everyone!
Capitalism isn't about endless growth, it's about growing as quickly as possible. The dark ages have their name for a reason. We simply did not have a societal model that rewarded improving ourselves. We were simply stuck in the status quo. The Renaissance was purely about changing this mode of thinking on a societal level and capitalism is the most effective way of rewarding growth. Communism tends to fall behind because the system is built around people willing to accept their current life as is. If we for some reason end up in a situation where we have done everything that is possible capitalism will cease to provide growth beyond inflation.
Very cool to see some thorough, but "beginner" friendly documentation. The [SelfHosted](https://selfhosted.show/) podcast is great, but it's hard to search back through.

A couple points I'd like to see more on:

1. WireGuard on a VPS seems like a great option for services you want to access externally from your network. If I'm on my network, I'd like to access the services using the same method as externally (e.g. going to nextcloud.example.com) without having all my requests go through the VPS. Any recommendations for doing that (I imagine some local DNS redirecting would be enough, but I'm not sure)?

2. If someone had the budget and space to do so, would running two separate boxes, one for data storage and one for services make sense (i.e. if you could get a 2.5 or 10 Gb connection between them, would their be enough of a perf impact to make it a bad idea)? I like the idea of separating the two (can keep just the data server on UPS, focus on stability with your data, make it less dangerous to play around with the service box, etc), but not sure if it's worth the headache.
The US government would not accept BTC as payment for anything, so it is definitely NOT a fiat money.
https://www.irs.gov/irb/2014-16_IRB#NOT-2014-21

It's reported as a security - other, which is laid out like the stock trades 1099. Your taxable amount is the difference in price between what you paid for the currency and what you "sold" it for (both in USD).
I'll admit that I do buy bitcoin for use as currency. It is still the easiest way to remain pseudonymous digitally. To me it's similar to gold. Most people use it as an investment vehicle, some use it because it's an efficient way to store value that is hard to track.
Inflation is a loss of value and it hasn't happened until it has happened, and when it happens, you notice very much instantly.
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases
PyCon makes a sizeable profit, which supports the staff and grantmaking activities of the PSF.
I stopped being annoyed by crypto generally when people stopped pitching me insane scams of how the entire internet 2.0 was going to run on blockchain (its not) and they accepted its a fun gambling vehicle.
So much this. Man's the GOAT. And learning about his death months after is so DOOM. Condolences to the family. I like to think he was a legend at home like he was in the booth.
Oh, I guess I take it as a given that most media is not engaged in adversarial truth seeking, so it doesn't land as a point.

I guess on the other side of it I'm not convinced that the FBI would be effective at disrupting groups. There's lots of other things at play when you are talking about small groups of people with views outside the mainstream (a major one is that the mainstream will concede ideological ground, which can massively deflate a group, but that's the group succeeding…).
How a Single Swedish Submarine Defeated the US Navy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saCdvAp5cow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26RZdmQ2nE
> We've injected trillions of dollars of fiat into the economy this year

When the government issues debt and then uses the money to send out cheques, that money had to come from investors in the first place. So the money was reallocated, not created. (New assets did get created: someone is going to hold those bonds and count them as part of their assets. But they can't use these bonds directly to buy groceries.)
Bitcoins are digital-hawalas and therefore are keepsakes. You can find yourself or pay to get someone's keepsakes. There is no counter-party, just like gold and oil. Once I own it, there is no way to consume it other than to barter it. It could be made illegal anytime by authorities.
Most BTC holders are on exchanges that all have KYC rules in place, so there is no anonymity or privacy assumed. It is just like buying KO shares on Etrade.
> Regardless of that, the DOJ continued to prosecute Flynn for doing something completely normal for an incoming National Security Advisor to do, speak with a foreign diplomat. Only after bankrupting him with legal fees, which even forced him to sell his home, did they relent.

Just to clarify here... Michael Flynn was retained by a Turkish firm to try and run PR against a cleric that had fled to the US - he was not "reaching out" or "establishing open lines" - he was employed as a hatchet man against an American resident while employed as a National Security Advisor. When you take a cabinet level position in the US government it's generally accepted that you sever all foreign financial ties.
> [...] but it doesn't result in much change to the country [...]

I would argue that it deliberately results in no change, which is subtly but meaningfully different. Kinda like how not choosing is still a choice, suppressing change is enforcing a preference for the status quo.
Fuck, this hit me hard at 00:49 2021 :(
Thanks.

Nice link.
There seems to be a bit of a rabbit hole here. It starts with the magnetic field interacting with charged particles only at right angles to their motion, meaning that it cannot do work on them. Work is done by electric fields that are induced by time-varying magnetic fields. Then there are objections that they can do work on magnetic dipoles (eg two permanent magnets rotating into alignment). This is countered with an objection that permanent magnets are actually a virtual coil from the current sheet orbiting the magnet's surface, so the former holds and work is done by induced electric fields. This is countered by the point that elementary particles with spin can have magnetic fields. Eventually the argument is declared a draw when someone points out that magnetic fields don't actually exist, and are just electric fields viewed from different relativistic reference frames.
So is roulette if you win. A "good investment" in many contexts has a 20 year lifespan and low risk profile, so TBD.

I'm not saying its bad, but its an extremely high risk investment so not suitable for the money you can't afford to lose. I've heard of many people withdrawing superannuation to put into crypto (or using credit) for example.
For an idea to work, there needs to be a path from current state to desired state.

> The root cause of people wanting to steal cars is not a lack of police

If your idea takes as preconditions solving greed, poverty and mental illnesses, you're better of finding a different idea, one that's even remotely possible.
Computers still can’t handle the style of complex analog FM synthesis that people do with “eurorack” style modular synthesizers. You can approach it with software like https://vcvrack.com, but it will start to stutter out quickly even on a fast computer, and introduces artifacts if you are modulating with high frequencies.
Checkout the first sentence of the REAMDE
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/README.md

Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency

The keyword being "experimental"
A lot of pressure is self-induced pressure. Sure. But it comes from somewhere: a social system and specific incentives. If the system incentives you to be more performant, and emphasize other peers’ performance (for example by constantly comparing you to others), then ...
> I've been advised that there's an income tax exemption for "hobby income" ... up to 10k USD per year

If you're talking about the US, I think you're wrong: you need to declare all your hobby income, and since 2018, you can't deduct hobby expenses.

See e.g. https://www.creditkarma.com/tax/i/hobby-income-taxed https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/self-employment-taxes/4...
You're missing the entire importance of balance. Unfortunately, I'm not sure you understand what makes Bitcoin valuable.

It's a balance between: Decentralization, Security, and Speed of Transaction but still doesn't compromised on the other two.
Bitcoin is balanced with immaculate conception. There's no 'altcoin' that will be able to achieve this.
As John Oliver says, Fuck You 2020 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=122
The B-2 Bomber Looks Positively Alien in These Images
similarly, if junk physical mail had to pay proper postage, i imagine it would vanish.
Tesla UI refresh (Model 3) is bad
Bigger than COINTELPRO, an FBI program, it was largely a coverup of CIA involvement and connections that spread out like tendrils across the globe and touched other matters such as the coup of 63, the rise of Bush and CIA, etc.

"I just said that the thing was leading into directions that were going to create potential problems because they were exploring leads that led back into areas that would be harmful to the CIA and harmful to the government (unintelligible) didn’t have anything to do unintelligible)."..."Gray called Helms and said I think we’ve run right into the middle of a CIA covert operation."..."the problem is it tracks back to the Bay of Pigs and"..."the Bureau is going on this because they don’t know what they are uncovering" - H. R. Haldeman, Nixons Chief of Staff
[1]

"Another leading Watergate burglar was James McCord, a former top official of the CIA Office of Security, the agency bureau which is supposed to maintain contacts with U.S. police agencies in order to facilitate its basic task of providing security for CIA installations and personnel. The Office of Security was thus heavily implicated in the CIA's illegal domestic operations, including cointelpro operations against political dissidents and groups, and was the vehicle for such mind-control experiments as Operations Bluebird, Artichoke, and MK-Ultra. The Office of Security also utilized male and female prostitutes and other sex operatives for purposes of compromising and blackmailing public figures, information gathering, and control. According to Hougan, the Office of Security maintained a "fag file" of some 300,000 U.S. citizens, with heavy stress on homosexuals. The Office of Security also had responsibility for Soviet and other defectors. James McCord was at one time responsible for the physical security of all CIA premises in the U.S. McCord was also a close friend of CIA Counterintelligence Director James Jesus Angleton. McCord was anxious to cover the CIA's role; at one point he wrote to his superior, General Gaynor, urging him to "flood the newspapers with leaks or anonymous letters" to discredit those who wanted to establish the responsibility of "the company."" - George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Tarpley

Another angle worth considering, especially given his actions the last 4 years, is how Woodward was former naval intelligence and an FBI asset. [2]

1. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9608/...

2. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/19174#efmAMfANh
I'm looking a lot further back than two years. What I said is true even if you ignore the current run up.

If you want to make the opposite argument, that it has a downward trend, you have to cherry pick a fairly small period.
I think it's all WebGL UIs. Maybe somehow your WebGL gets simulated on the CPU?
But they do a great deal of backporting anyway. Enterprise and Education users can run a slow path that gets bug fixes and security updates only, for feature updates as far as 30 months back. This is not offered for any other editions of Windows, meaning feature updates are forced on them earlier than they need to be.

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/win...
Doctor Faustus is such an impressive novel. I’ve always wondered why it’s not more prominent in culture. It seems somehow overshadowed by Mann’s earlier work.
> collusion

It doesn't take 100% collusion, but certainly no more than 51%, and I've read speculation (though no proof) that less is sufficient.

> middlemen

A mining cartel can't edit a blockchain, but they can choose to accept a different blockchain, which is effectively the same thing. Do you accept the premise that a sufficiently large cartel can exist, by state intervention in the price of electricity?

[Apologies for the edits. I often find I dislike my first draft.]
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There has been some work being done by the EU to make a digital euro [0]. China [1] and the US [2] are also exploring digital alternatives. I believe if these alternatives are well implemented they are going to change banking forever. Banks could become a frontend to that digital infrastructure that would only add features to the network (safety, insurance, help keep your transactions anonymous...). Naturally, everything that I am saying is 100% speculation, but I don't see a world where the current digital currencies (Bitcoin et al.) get backed by the governments.

[0]: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2020/html/ecb.pr2010...

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-expand-testing-of-a-di...

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/08/22/digit...
Authentication bypass vulnerability in Bouncy Castle
I'm sure they got linux's too.
From the description, Erdogan seems like a reincarnation of Hitler.
Inflation is a loss of value, most directly observed in rising prices.

Everything else–money supply, borrowing costs, etc are linked to it, but do not necessarily correlate. The price of a Big Mac is almost certain to be a far better approximation than any of those indicators.

This really isn't that complicated.
> But maybe you can appreciate that I don't want to have to jump through those hoops just to be able to send someone $100 digitally.

Surely you store fiat currency somewhere, and isn't there a "transfer money" button where you plug in an account number and institution and the money arrives shortly after?
I believe they can, just not freely: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/
I never claimed that.

What I'm saying is: my mother's wellbeing will soon be my direct responsibility.

Obviously I'd rather have my mom take care of herself... Less work for me. But her ability to handle money has appreciably degenerated, and now this COVID thing is proving to me that she is unable to fully analyze the news on her own.
With regard to the idea that duties are nationalistic: this author makes the case that duties are actually a tradition of moral & ethical obligations that precedes the concept of rights.

http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/samuel-moyn-rights-dutie...
I don’t know if I fully agree. Usually working remotely you have a life. These days it’s hard to have a life so you can’t just put it on the “not going to the office” (case in point: the coronavirus was a blessing for my 3 hour commute)
While the guy above is a douche, so too are you.
Lightbulbs do not generally cost millions when they go out.
Man I'm old, but give me NT 4 with modern technology support, modern drivers and GPU driven and I would move in a heartbeat.
This type of mentality stunts discussion and equally applies to your comment as well as the post. If you truly believed in what you wrote you would simply ignore an opinion piece that you didn't like instead of commenting on it.
Not to burst your bubble but assets with extreme volatility, like bitcoin, are not suitable for saving purposes. Investment maybe, but not saving. I assume "saving" purpose in this case means that it withholds its value while being easily liquidable.

If you on the other hand have a long saving window so you can tolerate huge swings in the price of the bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency) then the question arises why not diversify your investments like regular people and buy ETFs or other assets?

Maybe buying ETFs is harder than buying bitcoins, but in general the idea is (I assume) the same. However, what I feel most people are allured by with bitcoin is its random price movements where out of nowhere its price surges up and creates a total hysteria in the market.

I myself heavily dislike assets which price is mainly driven by emotional rationale and while bitcoin's idea may be good, I would not suggest anyone to put their savings in bitcoin. It would seem to encourage people to treat markets with magical thinking where the prices are set by otherworldly powers and not as tied to the revenue stream that is generated by the said asset.
It is helpful to leave comments on issues like this, by the way.
Countries where you do not have to disregard your childhood in order to avoid a life in poverty are plentiful.

Child welfare is a top priority in every Scandinavian country, for example.
Waiting for IG/TikTok to start aggregating content from YouTube...
Like this bit of bizarre nonsense which ignores the existence of HTTPS and conflates communication privacy with walled gardens and user lock-in:

"the very idea of accessing core swathes of Facebook’s platform from a web browser was deprioritised, in favour of the extreme privacy provided by universal end-to-end encryption"
Let's inject quadrillions, then!
Please don’t call working links “broken”. It links to the right place, regardless of whether you like what happens when you get there.
I agree with most of the points raised by the author but as a Venezuelan Bitcoin is a godsend. If you live abroad and want to send remittances to your friends and family it can be pretty easy in a normal country , with wire transfers,western union and so on. If your family lives in Venezuela your options are extremely more limited.

These are some of the options Venezuelans have had to use:

1. Ask the money to be sent to Colombia with WU and then travel hundreds of kms to get what usually amounts to a few hundred dollars at most.

2. Use Zelle, send dollars in the US, and receive Bolivares in Venezuela. But for that you need to have an US bank account, and find a person you can trust also with an US bank account and plenty of highly volatile Bolivares in Venezuela willing to make the exchange.

3. Use paypal, same as above with way higher commissions and the risk that paypal (and the other person) will fuck you.

4. Buy Amazon gift cards and use the same schema above, be exposed to scams and high commisions fees.

Trading bitcoins in say localbitcoins.com, you have a very liquid market and somewhat secure transactions (Bitcoins are not liberated until you check the money is in the Venezuela account). There are risks of course, especially because of BTC volatility but at least is a fast,convenient,widespread option. I wish something like that, only more stable and with less of that Tulip-craze whiff BTC has.
This is great! Thank you for your work. I'm sure I speak for a lot of other folks in this thread - really looking forward to seeing this in prod!
What systemd gives is structure + consistency; service definitions are declarative and knowledge distro portable.

To me that that is the big benefit of systemd over sysV init.

> Pounds of additional attack surface

Again, show me a major in the wild exploit that abuses these supposed 'pounds of attack surface'. As was said before, systemd doesn't actually have that much new surface that wasn't there before. It's just before it was not maintained in any sort of organized manner but rather was scattered across tens of different projects in various state of no longer being actively maintained, as I said consolekit is a perfect example.

systemd is actually pretty modular. You don't have to run the components that are not useful to you thus limiting the attack surface greatly, if you're actually concerned about it.

I know some people have an allergic reaction to Poettering, but the guy's willing to touch some of the rotten parts of the ecosystems few others dear.
Yes, logging with email alerts means that when a catastrophic error is encountered you'd know about it, instead of it being hidden for months.
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EDIT-but-can't-edit-anymore:

I just noticed that https://makepad.dev/ hosts a different version that I think is newer. Skip the .nl one.
Indeed but I wonder if one could build a platform that does this behind the scenes. User sends BTC to the online wallet, and the site hedges on behalf of the user on one of the liquid future exchanges, locking in the prevailing BTC price. People can make payments out of this online wallet with just as much ease as they're currently doing. Then they have an easy to use digital cash without any price risk.

The site charges a small fee for the service of derisking the holdings.

This does seem to solve a real user pain point (risk and the complexity of hedging) and benefits from scale economies.
In addition to a slightly modified ABI, Apple enforces W^X in hardware.