skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hits even harder when he repeats and switches it up :(

> Doomsday

> Ever since the womb ‘til I'm back to the essence

> Read it off the tomb

> Either engraved or unmarked grave, who's to say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfv0SOjvRs
Szczęśliwego nowego roku!

A round of applause for 'dang for keeping this place in order. And another for all of you here, contributing things that gratify intellectual curiosity and maintaining a level of discourse that's atypically high for Internet communities.

For me, HN was an important part of keeping sane in this disaster of a year. Let's hope the next one will be boring.
While speculation is mostly bad, I'm just seriously hoping it wasn't suicide. Given the fact he had his wife and another child I'd presume it's highly likely that it wasn't though.

I remember finding out about his kid dying a bit after it happened. Mainly because every few months I'd check in to see if there's any word on anything new coming out - things had come to a bit of a lull. Then around a year after his kids death, once again checking back in for anything new - I'd seen somebody say something along the lines of "His teen son fucking died man. For all we know, he could seriously want nothing to do with rapping anymore after such a big and shitty life event"

For whatever reason, that logic definitely struck a chord with me. Pretty much cut my expectations for new material and left me with being thankful for everything he'd made.

While I'd enjoy knowing the cause of death, I respect the privacy of his family more and understand it may never come out.
I live in a city that dropped speeds from 30 to 20. The change didn't happen overnight, but the average speed has dropped from >30 to >20, which is a world of difference
> Early adopters weren't enthusiastic about bitcoin because they hoped it would end fractional reserve banking

Just to amplify your point: There is a weird idea that that monetary multiplication (like fractional-reserve banking) is not possible with bitcoin. However, anytime someone lends bitcoin or shorts it on an exchange, they increase the bitcoin in circulation past the base count of 21 million btc (or however many have been minted at the time).

The idea that bitcoin would somehow escape fractional-reserve banking was only held by people who do not understand the difference between M0 and M1/M2 in elementary macroeconomics.
They won't benefit because that will tank the price like nothing else.
I felt that way but I’m on book two and it’s totally worth reading them. They’re even better. Not that the show isn’t good, the books are just fantastic.
The article mentions embarrassing photos, for example, that you might value but not want someone else to have.
As a Scotsman, this is a sad day. My only hope is that we leave the Union and that Ireland can work out it's differences and pursue reunification. There is nothing else left for it. A tragic time to be British and nothing to celebrate here.
Norway is actually not a member of the EU, but Denmark and Sweden are correct.
I really dislike the way the finance industry has been conflating two notions that - while related - are actually different: that of volatility and that of risk.

Volatility results from the fact that the markets have a very hard time pricing an asset (because the asset's properties are hard to understand and its future behavior is therefor hard to predict).

This results in the creation of noise on the price signal.

It does not mean the asset is inherently bad. It just reflects lack of knowledge.
I think one think urban planners [and HNers] get wrong about bike usage is bike lanes and mixing bikes with cars. That works in overcrowded coastal cities, but for the vast majority of the country, a different approach is likely optimal.

Bentonville, AR I think has cracked the puzzle. They built mountain bike trails... literally everywhere. You're hanging out with your buddies north of town and want to grab a pizza for lunch? Awesome, hit this rad piece of singeltrack and shred your way to to za and beer. They even replaced a bunch of sidewalks with singletrack. This is not only better for the environment (it's literally just tamped dirt), but easier to maintain (a tamping machine and water truck vs a fossil fuel burning asphalt paver).

Another success that's been less explosive, but worthy mention is streamway buffer trails. Rather than tossing bikes into traffic, which intimidates casual riders, and probably isn't safe where bike culture isn't a thing... municipalities put asphalt trails next to watersheds that need erosion control. The benefit is two fold, a shorcut throughway that's dedicated for pedestrian and bike traffic, plus civil engineers can use the bike pathway itself as a durable flood zone.
While HN pundits have clearly been much more successful at it.
Except that bitcoin books are open and they don't describe the thing, they are the thing.
Καλή Χρονιά!!! Happy new year from Greece to all fellow HNers and extra thanks to the mods keeping this small part of the web running smoothly.
It's been 12 years.
Google trends shows major spikes in "black lives matter" searches around election time https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

It's foolish to assume that is a coincidence.
No, but setting up more agencies to do the work in-house and follow guidelines to this will fix it.
for almost 1/4 of the population of the US that isn't actually true.
Can we have "cash you can email" that doesn't consume as much electricity as several nation states combined?
The difficulty in criticizing Bitcoin and what it could have been is that everyone willing to engage you on it is quite literally invested in being right.

Zealots betting the house can't afford to be wrong because it would often make them bankrupt.
That could go either way. Not having any teardropping there at the four-way junction will lead to etch traps. Those aren't such a problem any more, but they sure were 50 years ago. So any competent layout person, no matter the method, would have eliminated them.

I agree that this doesn't look quite like the tape layouts I'm used to, but I only did tape on bare copper for one-offs, never tape on photofilm. Of course, the rules for those processes are somewhat different even if the basic mechanism is the same.

Also, those aren't "7044" and "7042" chips -- those are the date codes, weeks 44 and 42 of 1970, respectively. The IC marks are the top lines, "NRD2256" or "AC2261".
I think there's still a fairly dangerous element of colonialism which will get phased out as that whole era drops from memory. Here's hoping, anyway.
Did you watch basically any cable news in 2016? They literally started the Russian collusion special counsel investigations from allegations Russia hacked the DNC and released the emails to help Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-t...
As an Englishman, I'm entirely in favor of Scottish independence. It would save us a considerable amount of money.
You're describing memes.
Fentanyl, Meth, Shrooms, Credit Reports, child abuse videos, guns and gun parts, credit reports, scamming the elderly out of their lifesavings with BTC ATMs and strong arming hospitals into paying tens of millions with ransomware during the pandemic are "keepsakes"?

Please fix your time machine and join us in 2021, Its awesome in here!
I figured a timer usually counts down and has a start/stop button. A stopwatch counts up, but also has buttons. A clock it is.
Of course! It was a pleasure to build. If you ever want to contribute to this project, let me know and I’ll add you as a contributor.
A Pakistani coworker told me once that mint was a very common houseplant in her country, because it repels pests.
Why is it obvious that no amount of tech can solve it? Tech can also influence policy. If something is nearly impossible to stop, it likely won't be stopped. The policy will be changed instead.
> I read 45 books in 2020

He’s claimed to have read a fairly large number of books in 2020. So not on the basis of his writing swift, rather his taste as a reader.
It's a synonym for "it doesn't impact me in my life so I don't care, and people who are affected by it should just shut up"
Ah, that's an interesting option. The car remains the property of the manufacturer who can control modifications and maintenance.
This is pretty silly. Source code for Cisco and Microsoft products has been circulating since the dawn of the Internet. Meanwhile, Microsoft has some of the most meticulously reverse engineered code on the planet. People who want to illicitly mint zero days out of Microsoft products already have the tools to do so.
https://blockonomi.com/channel-factories-bitcoin-lightning-n...
You might actually be the assembly line robot if your work is so simple that you can do it without any sort of planning, design or collaboration.
Such a waste. A once great nation dragged into obscurity by OAPs, handout addicted farmers and racists.
> Good riddance to [...] bureaucracy

Oh, you ain’t seen nothing yet, in terms of bureaucracy. Behold these wonderful documents that the UK government cleverly sneaked out on on NYE when no-one was looking: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-border-operat...

Small businesses with EU customers or inputs are going to have to deal with bureaucratic crap on a scale that most of them will never have seen before.
The labor theory of value doesn't seem to match how people actually assign valuations or make transactions.

The cost of labor (and other inputs) obviously affects prices, but there are many other factors. The main one being if anyone is interested in actually paying the amount in question.

It doesn't matter how much labor it took to make something if no one wants it. On the other hand, if others can't produce a comparable product and there is significant demand, then the price may easily be much higher than the cost of the inputs.
Another Feliz Año Nuevo from Poland! Argentinian's first post after years of following up on whatever happens here.
Thanks for all the good reads and conversations and cheer up, it'd be hard to get worse than this! :P
Yes because the dollar is still the king of, well, money. All the Bitcoin fraud and money laundering ends up being dollar fraud and dollar money laundering, otherwise nobody would care.
It wasn't so much Bitcoin that saved the day, but a choice of payment processor by the seller that caused the problem to begin with. Heck, PayPal works in HongKong. Ultimately bitcoin made your transaction much smoother, but it was a sufficient, not a necessary condition in making it smoother.
Incredibly hard to find a mechanic capable of fixing a Honda Civic
New Year’s Resolutions That Will Lead to Happiness
Um. Finding it hard to parse this..?
Bitcoin ain't sold. Gold had it's value being tradeable offline.
The ones that could are probably too heavy to be 50 stories up.

Figure the typical sporting-goods store gun safe weighs about 350 lbs (159 kg) and isn't really all that secure (a sawzall with a metal blade can open them). They don't do much better if you drop them from "only" 200 feet up (61 meters):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFppQZRdqY
Why aren’t there any mention of highly popular alt-coins like Litecoin? It’s less volatile for real use as a fiat alternative and transaction speeds are a lot faster because of the low service fee to speed things up. I kinda regretted keeping funds in Litecoin but it was one of the first to fix Bitcoin’s shortcomings.
It is ironic because the economy in Venezuela is fucked, but almost every crypto-service or novel online pay modality is a huge hit in Venezuela.There are many FOREIGN apps where the customer base is +70% Venezuelan.

Some links:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/venezuela-sets-new-bitcoin-vo...

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-adoption-venezuela-research
After the Tymshare diaspora, one of my friends worked briefly at Four-Phase Systems. They were at the corner of 280 and De Anza Blvd in Cupertino, where Apple's Infinite Loop buildings are now. The main thing I remember from a visit is how dreary the building was: musty dark interior hallways with low ceilings, Silicon Valley from the seventies.

The tech was interesting though; their AL1 processor was based on four-phase logic like this calculator chip.

https://www.google.com/search?q=four-phase+systems&tbm=isch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-Phase_Systems
> Than indeed, bitcoin would not be money.

Bitcoin is obviously not money, and among the many reasons the fact that it does not serve as a store of value nor a means to defer payments, which is a single requirement that comprised the very definition of money, is just one of them.
Happy new year! Feliz Ano nuevo! For betters tomorrows!
> Expecting a year to contain itself is what leads to this yearly disappointment everyone seems to experience.

This thought reminds me of Utah Phillips in Ani DiFranco's song "Bridges":

> Fifties, sixties, seventies, nineties, that whole idea of decade packages. Things don’t happen that way. The Vietnam War heated up in 1965 and ended in 1975. Well, what’s that got to do with decades? No, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that.

(And I say this having myself just told a family member that I'm sure people everywhere are happy for 2020 to be over.)
It's kinda appropriate (not in a bad way) to wait until 2021 to announce this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tElMTHRV2f0

I don't want to speculate on causation but his son died a couple years ago too :( https://www.xxlmag.com/mf-doom-son-passes-away/
I am so excited that Hamming's book is republished at last. I spent the day in the central library in NYC to read their non-circulating copy years and years ago. It's an amazing book.
Is this what the exhaust plume of an ion drive looks like?
Our civilization is about to face its darkest hour. We need everyone working together, not just in the EU.
Instead this type of isolationist response seems to be what we are going for, not just in the UK but the US and other places. Very sad that we don't seem to have learned much form the history of the civilizations that came before us.
I wouldn’t use their logo or their name, anywhere. Not in any internal documents, not in any supposedly private pitch decks, not anywhere.

They can remain “one of the leading firms in XYZ” forever, at least as far as anything goes that is recorded anywhere.

And I would be careful about verbally saying their name too.

What you do for your first client when trying to sign up more clients, will speak volumes to those additional prospective clients for how you will treat their names and data once they sign up.

So, don’t ever give away the name of that first client. And don’t ever give away the names of any other clients who also request anonymity. After all, who wants to sign up for white label service from a company who blabs about who their clients are?
> Does anyone know if you can tell country of origin of a transaction request? Maybe the IP sending the request is public to the network?

In this kind of setting, where the transaction is illicit, you wouldn't go through an exchange, you'd publish the transaction directly to the bitcoin network, and organizations like chainalytics do track the origin IP addresses.
Personal opinion.

Tribalism prevails, humans have no fix. Perhaps in another reality or dimension it is conceivable for people to come together and form a truly resourceful world government.

Wait till you see how the lack of world coordination keeps this virus thriving in half of the planet. While we plot beautiful statistics to show which tribe has less cases in a non-uniform response.

Hail the great UK for awakening the UKIP with their fantastic referendum promise to reduce pest immigrants to hundreds. The UK had it long coming, the country lives in the 19th century, never moved towards becoming a modern republic. And now, people are shocked we voted out of the EU. Bad news is old news.

It is the UK's tradition to be a lone fighter in favour of customary nationalistic tribalism and island mentality. Worse of it is that it ended up waking up the dormant retarded far right around the world. Hell yea! great way to start 2021 UK!.
Or provide the myriad examples of why "Don't keep it on exchange" is good advice[0][1][2]. But it's not up to the advice-giver to do the due diligence.

[0]:https://cryptosec.info/exchange-hacks/

[1]:https://coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

[2]:https://selfkey.org/list-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/
That's true, how does it relate to what I was saying?
A Guid New Year tae ane and aw!
12 years is nothing.
Looking solely at that criterial, ACH transfers work.
The checkra1n open-sourcing process: pongoOS 2.4.5
WU is very expensive though; btc, if you know what you are doing, does not come close. WU is a horrible but unavoidable evil for millions of workers worldwide. This is one of the cases that should be disrupted.
While I have it pretty good as programmer, especially in covid times I get lots of calls from clients. I suspect they do so in part because they're going crazy isolating. The pressure to pick up the phone knowing it'll significantly impact my productivity is strong.

I think it's a phenomenon similar to the whole 'panopticon' idea: I'm pretty sure not picking up the phone will be fine, but because of the not knowing for sure I still often end up letting the interruption happen. We humans prefer removing uncertainty to an irrational degree, I guess?
I disagree entirely. I think it has very little potential. Fuel being cheap does not imply it has potential.
I'm a londoner, we want out too. No one likes the English regions, they're lazy and stupid. Sorry they've dragged you along on this ride to hell...
It will be "interesting" to see the economic effects of the one-two punch of Covid + Brexit.
VS Code is one of the more popular ones, although it doesn't really qualify as an IDE. IntelliJ is probably the most popular IDE for Rust development.
22% of the US doesn't have a bank account. For myself when I lost my house I also ended up owing my bank money for an almost $500 overdraft used to pay the cost of moving bam no bank account and auto denial insofar as opening another account anywhere else.
That makes no sense unless you are converting the bitcoin to dollars but then it's not being used as a currency. If it was a currency the business would accept bitcoin directly and thus there would be no need to report it on your tax returns.
Sealand? [0]

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/08/will-happen-seal...
* Hear, hear (supposedly short for "hear him, hear him")
yeah, I agree with that. Duty was definitely something antithetical to individualism, although there was very much a "you must discover your duty yourself" vibe - it wasn't mandated by authority, but determined by the individual. But very much "how can I best serve society"
I'm not anti-crypto, but I honestly don't know what you mean by "sound money". Could you elaborate?
I need a button in slack that does this.

Yes, it’s 2am in India. Yes, I want the whole thread to be in one tool. No, I don’t want to notify the person until they’re at their desk.

Slack does have a suppress notifications setting that the recipient can set. That doesn’t help when they haven’t set it.

90% of the emails I send are because this feature is missing.
I think we've lost something here. Shared delusions are delusions, but the important part was that they're shared. Unfortunately, science doesn't have the "shared" part - by itself, it doesn't build communities. In my experience, if you ignore the particulars of faith, most religions are essentially community construction kits.

We'll probably figure this out at some point - we need to, if we are to survive. Right now, the alternative community glues to religion are national identities, supernational identities (e.g. "I'm a citizen of EU" vs "citizen of country X"), and a wide variety of little identities we create for ourselves as we join groups we're interested in. But the problem with most of those is that they're detached from geography - so they're not particularly useful for building geographically-defined communities.
If he wants to go into STEM, he should totally do it. I did, and I’ve been pretty much the opposite of cool since well before age 10

Being cool is a chump thing
Why would you assume that all patterns and relationships are comprehensible by humans - not just in terms of complexity, but in terms of root qualia?

Cats can't count. They seem to understand quantity, but they have no concept of integers.

It seems extremely rash and naive to assume that humans don't suffer from some related conceptual handicaps.

And of course we're not aware of them, by definition.
Uhh, so: Python has a language library feature that allows creating contiguous arrays, and hence it cannot be done in Python. Ok.

// Pretty much the entirety of CPython is written in C, including lists, dicts and everything else, not much different than the array.
There is a subtle distinction though. When a bank lends out US dollars, they are effectively creating new money that is treated as “real” money. They don’t technically lend out the deposits. In contrast, crypto lenders can’t create new bitcoin. They need deposits to lend out. The depositer in turn is aware they don’t hold real bitcoin, just a deposit credit at the lender. This is the origin of the crypto mantra “Not your keys, not your crypto.”

It’s true that the “M1” value can increase, but unlike fiat money the distinction is (for now) visible to the user.
>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.

or just wait for a lull in the transaction volume and pay pennies per tx? eg https://blockstream.info/tx/3b9ce26a827b014e5f6cda461f5fa112... from last block only paid 14 cents.
In the context of this subthread about CANZUK, we're talking about Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, not the US. That said, sure, those countries have plenty of ties to the UK as well.
The older HTML equivalent would be to package it in a *.mhtml where the various parts are mime-encoded, like a multipart email would. It's only been around for decades. Creating it was saving a webpage in IE. Mozilla/Firefox never supported it, though, even though they already had the necessary code for doing email… possibly because they had inherited the Netscape mail codebase which was a bit difficult to reuse.
It's almost entropic really - there was a genuinely depressing YouGov graph from a few years ago which plotted the number of people who actually think the EU is an important issue vs. time: The number is almost nil (even the wonks didn't care) until the year/s directly leading up to the referendum.

Europe is a tricky problem, but the way Brexit specifically has happened (Lie, Damned Lies, and fake statistics - at best) means the only real lesson from this is that referenda are truly disastrous for complex policy decisions.
> Rather, it was incredible to see the entire financial industry quickly rebuilt on top of sound money.

What is your definition of sound money?

It has been said many times but it bears repeating that a money supply that grows more slowly than the economy it is traded in will be deflationary. Deflation inhibits economic activity because money saved is worth more tomorrow than today even when not invested in productive enterprise. Deflation enriches existing asset holders at the expense of new entrants, even if those asset holders are just stuffing their money in the proverbial mattress. Economists consider deflation a terrible outcome for an economy; Japan has experienced it for thirty years now.