skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, bitcoin doesn't really benefits Venezuelans, the only thing that benefits venezuelans is the localbitcoins escrow service, but this is not because its cripto or because its bitcoin, it's just because noone else offers an escrow service to sucessfully exchange currency, that's pretty much it.

This is the argument. I dont need to address anything. BTW, not that it matters but I dont hold bitcoins , I am not a trader and I dont have any association with localbitcoins, I even agreed with the points presented in the article (check my post history) now check OP's.
You’re kind of sidestepping my point.

Yes, it’s a good idea to keep your coins off the exchange, for all the reasons you’ve provided. The issue is that keeping your money off exchange is far less convenient, which is exactly why most people keep their couns on exchanges despite the risks. If the Bitcoin community in general wants people to stop getting hacked on exchanges, they need to provide more convenient alternatives rather than just continuing to say “keep your coins off the exchange” and blaming users who get hacked for not following this advice.

It’s a bit like recommending that everyone not drive to avoid dying in car crashes. This advice is strictly speaking true; the less you drive the less likely you are to die in a car crash. But it completely ignores why people drive and therefore most people won’t listen. As a society we’ve decided that rather than asking people to not drive, it makes more sense to focus on making driving safer per mile travelled. This is a much more effective strategy at reducing driver deaths.
It’s not clear why TikTok and IG expose this content outside of their apps. Why would they do that?
It is interesting how all the date codes are 2 weeks apart. It almost looks like part numbers with the pattern (at first glance).

As this calculator is 20+ years older than me, can someone enlighten me as to why the dates would be like that? The only thing I can think of is that the manufacturing runs were done sequentially instead of all at once. Was that a common thing for ASICs back then?

I’m also curious why calculators were such a common thing then, yet they still cost over $1000 (in today’s money). I get it makes calculations quicker, but $1000 just seems excessive. Was it just the cost of manufacturing justified by the cost savings (in time) for businesses who bought them?
No the real problem is that almost nobody use Linux desktop computers, and the ones that do don’t want to pay for games. It would be crazy for a game developer, who has to spend a lot of $ on art etc. to focus on Linux.
I thought BitKeeper was the main repo and CVS was the mirror?
Man, I loved things like the Game Genie and Gameshark. They gave me my earliest understanding of how software runs in memory and the nature of the memory. Was great to just poke at parts of the memory with it and just see what happens.

I didn't need to be reminded of another reason to hate Nintendo. I think I air my grievances in every HN thread about Nintendo. But this does add to the pile. Around the same time I lost interest in Nintendo, games like Halo became attractive because Bungie explicitly wanted people to mod the PC version of the game. At the time, it was really cool for a game company to embrace the creativity of their players instead of putting a lock in their imaginations like Nintendo wanted.

Nintendo's misguided hatred of memory editors goes beyond just punishing players. They essentially against the nerds who one day might have become inspired to build their games. The only kids I knew who had the Game Genie/Shark were nerds. Average people didn't really have them and being able to "cheat" in the games wasn't really going to ruin their experience.
> Your assertions are simply not borne out by historical truth

What assertions?

> there have been periods of history where there was no inflation or deflation, where there was plenty of investment and growth.

That...doesn't contradict anything I've said. I have not stated or implied that, in the absence of inflation or deflation, one would not expect productive investment and growth. I have agreed with upthread claims that deflation discourages economic activity, and also pointed out that the effect you praise of deflation discouraging consumption is an example of discouraging economic activity.

> For example, post-civil war US.

You mean the 1865-1867 recession (which also featured significant deflation, not “no inflation or deflation”) or the 1869-1870 recession (ditto), or the Long Depression starting in 1873 (ditto, again.) The post Civil War 19thC USA is actually a pretty good example of the association between deflation and poor economic performance, and definitely not an example (for good or ill) of a period with “no inflation or deflation”.
People are using bitcoins price to justify its value. Price is not value, certainly not on a short timescale. Consider that in the short term a market is a popularity content but in the long term, it weighs actual value. This is another way of saying that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

If you actually attempt to assess fundamental value of Bitcoin based on anything comparable it’s value approaches zero. It’s pretty much worthless at anything it’s ever been positioned to achieve except crime and speculation.

Frankly it’s not even good at crime.
That surprises me. I think of graying out more as “the poster hit a nerve”, quite often a good thing and thus a good post. Graying out to me isn’t the same as striking through someone’s text. In polite conversation, the poster would “self-gray-out” their comment in some way, after having made their uncomfortable point to the relevant audience.

Agree with the comment about somehow getting greater refinement in negative feedback. The idea should be to create a cultural norm that a downvote is about relevance, clarity, accuracy and not personal taste, political affiliation, cultish taboos. But much like the everpresent need to change someone’s copy, there should be a way to allow certain people to vent that irrepressible urge to say “You’re wrong!”, just in a different manner.

More interesting to me is the psychological impact of the downvote. Folks, especially the young, can take it much more seriously than it was meant to be. This might be their first “adult” conversation, so to speak, and the idea is not to squelch them but not to drag down the general tone of discussion either.
How can we know if something has yet to be explained, or is in fact inexplicable? Obviously, we can't.

To declare that something is inexplicable is equivalent to saying it's supernatural.

Naturalism is the philosophy that everything is ultimately governed by physical laws and is therefore explicable.
Good points. Centralized mining and existing wealth inequality really don't allow us to escape the fundamental problems with big banks. BTC is an emergent bank where the first and wealthiest movers who own the most mining real estate act as the new big banks.

It seems that, asymptotically, bitcoin will just end up suffering from the very things it meant to fix. The whole idea behind proof-of-work was rooted in "one cpu, one vote", but we clearly see that this does not imply "one person one vote". Proof-of-stake suffers from centralization as well, albeit being a green solution.

Proof-of-I-am-a-unique-human does not exist yet and is an unsolved problem in the intersection between biology, physics, and engineering. Neuralink comes to mind as the closest existing thing that might be relevant here, but it's not even close. Until you can really guarantee that a single human can only represent a single vote, blockchain doesn't seem viable as a "fix for banks", it's just a reincarnation. Even then, nothing stops people from coming together and forming vote schemes.
A number of Indie game developers have published their sales numbers. All show close to no sales on Linux.
Free advertising. The TikTok logo is on every video.
This means you can typically change every codon into one of two others, and still code for the same amino acid.

I wonder if the authors have also steganographically encoded something in there...
You’re describing the people who came here for the money, found SV boring, and colonized SF instead. Those parasitical shits are the ones assailing you like two-legged tree roaches (yes I lived in Austin...in the early 80s)
Longing a company means that you'll benefit from value of the company going up. In a post-truth world, this results in over-investment in poorly ran companies that have good investor PR, but aren't actually solid businesses, compared to their peers.

This results in an unoptimal distribution of resources, except for the people who took a long position, and then cashed out at the top.

Nothing stops a company from creating value just because people are shorting its stock. Musk's complaints about shorters aren't because shorters are bad for Tesla- it's because they are bad for him, as he dips heavily into debt (backed by the value of TSLA shares), to finance his lifestyle.
ltsc is the solution, and even though all the MS sychophants will tell you it's for ATMs/medical equipment only: I've been running it on my 2019 gaming box for a year, and had no issues at all

... I hear keys on ebay are about $2
The Pandemic Is Pushing Millions More Boomers into Retirement
I think part of the all caps thing thing is world building and relates to the graffiti influence in hip hop. All caps being and hand style used in many graffiti tags (and the MF DOOM tag). With DOOM a lot of the time you have to infer the meaning of a rhyme from what you know about DOOMs influence and his other works.

"He write "VIK" in a sick demented handstyle" -Viktor Vaughn (another alias), Raedawn.
Just compare the economic growth per capita of Norway (not in EU) with Sweden (in EU). It's at best an exaggeration that leaving the EU is going to have a significant deleterious impact on the UK.
But not the whole ecosystem. How about SQL Server or thousands of third parties?
I guess I need to finish this series. I only got about half way through the first book. New Years resolution here I come.
Downvoting makes me think about bunch of demented hounds chasing after anything that deviates from a party line
I’ve realized after building a small amount of competency in 2-3 narrow fields over the years how wrong most people are about those same topics online. Since becoming aware of this several years ago I’ve slowly limited my surfing to higher quality sites such as this one. I’ve always wondered how many completely incorrect beliefs I have about the world due to the compulsive surfing/reading of my younger years.
How would reading release notes help in the case of the Solarwinds attack?
Life can be defined in terms of entropy. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says it's always increasing, and it was once lower. The law only applies for closed systems, so if we generalize to any system sometimes entropy increases. Life is a system that consumes low entropy and transforms into high entropy [negative entropy]. From light to other life, life is consuming lower forms of entropy to then use it in its information processing systems.
Holding enough currency to have a small amount of hedged safety against risk of that currency changing in value is not really a good enough reason to say that a country would be able to "force" "taxpapers to be subject to its currency".

Even if we say that people would hold some of that original currency, there could still be a significant benefit to transferring most of your wealth to a deflationary currency. Therefore, people would still be able to avoid being subject to that original currency to a large degree.
Older South Asians still remember Commonwealth visa free travel and think the EU is racist in favor of white people
They're called early adopters. Thank God they exist to try out/put up with our early form products :]
You don’t come here for upvotes and downvotes, much less the entire reason. You come here for well-moderated discussion by whatever instrument appropriate. Why the hyperbole?
and technically, it’s not deflation, it’s a decrease in emission. Deflation is the expected result, but not necessarily guaranteed.
> Price discovery happens just fine in markets that don’t have short selling.

No, it doesn't. Real estate is a great example of a market where you can't short sell, and is also a great example of a market with absolutely horrible price discovery.
Vaudeville Villain is possibly my favourite work by him and i didn't like it on release. It was very much an album ahead of it's time and has grown on me massively with time.
Precautions on that or higher levels of expense and complexity, like burner phones, dead drops, networks of couriers, cell and gang org structure are standard procedures in organized crime. Un"organized" single small criminals might have a larger fraction of bad opsec, but they aren't all stupid.

A few will be caught by making mistakes, but the rest will learn from that. Criminal methods undergo evolutionary pressure.
They were regularly running stories like this:

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/13/15791744/russia-election...

"Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 Presidential election"

They would stick in a disclaimer like this:

> So, despite assurances from the Obama administration that the election’s integrity was not compromised, there was still a very large-scale Russian effort to mess with it. That means future elections, including ones next year, run the risk of being tainted.

But then proceed with an article like this:

> Apparently, the cyber intruders aimed to delete or alter voter data they got a hold of.

Last line of the article:

> But in the meantime, collusion with Trump or not, we now know that Russia has struck deeper into the heart of America’s democracy: its elections.

The whole thing is structured in the form of "nobody proved they did it but they sure tried so maybe they did/will" and leaves the reader to infer the result based on their political leanings. The polling after two years of that sort of coverage measures the extent to which those insinuations misled the public.
I agree. launch and improve iteratively. Don’t waste time on perfection. Launch only core features and build from there
I can’t see the flagged post, so don’t attack me here, I’m just going to explain the bitcoiner view.

Your presumption that inflation is good and that bitcoin needs to be able to support whatever “social policies” governments decide is antithetical to the purpose of bitcoin.

Bitcoin was created to escape currency debasement because it is how the people are impoverished. Currency debasement is the engine that creates wealth inequality. The Catillion effect means that people who get the newly printed money (eg wall street) benefit from it, while the regular people only pay the cost via reduced purchasing power.

Bitcoin is really a savings technology that allows people to escape debased currencies, like the zimbabwe dollar or the Venezuelan peso.

It also has censorship features and other useful properties, but this is the aspect most at odds with the assumptions in your post that the other user apparently disliked.
I’ve been searching for this post for what seems like years, but I’m sure is just a couple of months! I remember reading this oh so long ago, thank you for submitting it here.
> ContractPatch is Conservancy’s initiative to give developers the words they need to make sure they can continue to do the work that’s important to them and our community. Whether those words are negotiation tactics for the hiring process, or language to suggest for a prospective employment agreement, ContractPatch helps developers defend their own interests.

Instead of a reactive strategy requiring individual developers to negotiate, a proactive solution might be better.

Create a certification for employers as open source friendly based on their employment contracts. Make a website where developers can see if the company they are looking at is certified open source friendly. And it will likely be more effective if recruiters start hearing from a lot of their prospects that the company isn’t being considered because they are not certified.

This will likely go further than requiring individual developers to have to negotiate it as a one off every time. There is power in collective action.
Are you saying that you can’t harden systemd and reduce its attack surface?
Blatant capitalisation of all non-White races, and lower case for "white".

This is a racist, anti-White dog whistle and should be flagged.

You're a disgrace, dang. Whatever you think of me, this is racist. Yet you censor me instead of the article. Shame on you.
For the curious, the kanjis for Nintendo are 任天堂.
Yeah, from that link:

> But some people didn’t like BitKeeper, so a second copy of the source code was kept so that developers could get the code via another code system called CVS. The CVS copy of the code was a direct clone of the primary BitKeeper copy.
There are two distinct things: an operator ID and a flyer ID. The first is basically just a register of ownership. No test or competency, unlike the latter, which does require you to show you know a little about the rules.

For sub 250g drones without a camera, you don’t need either of these. If it does have a camera, you need an operator ID but not a flyer ID. So you have to fill out a form with your name and address, and stick the ID to your drone, but there’s no certification element like there is when you have a heavier drone and need a flyer ID too.
Only since 2016, and it wasn't really usable until a couple of years ago. Most third-party .Net libraries still assume you're in a Windows world. The reality is that .Net is very competitive in terms of development speed if you deploy on Windows; elsewhere you'll likely have to figure out stuff and suffer from being on a second-class platform.

IMHO selling .Net to unix devs is a bit like trying to sell icecream in Siberia.
The definition of insanity is submitting the same link to HN over and over again and expecting different comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> you're not allowed to downvote this comment

'claytongulick can't downvote the comment regardless: just as one can't downvote a reply to a comment, a submitter can't downvote top-level comments on their submission.
HHKB-Trackpad-Nest 3D Printing Project
A 3D printing HHKB-Trackpad-Nest project can merge your HHKB and Apple Magic Trackpad 2 into one piece. That will make you work like using a MacBook Pro keyboard-trackpad layout but with a fantastic HHKB.

This project was designed in Blender. And I am providing all the .blend files and a printable .stl model. Feel free to make any tweaks and remix. To print this project, you will need a 3D printer that can print up to 30.5 cm * 26.5 cm.

If you have any problem, you can find me here: https://twitter.com/LeaskH/ .

This project is not for commercial use.
This breaks govt and public service culture, but that's the point.

Technology really drives those organizations, just very slowly, as they've finally got the hang of those whole "client/ server" concept, and the notion of providing "services" at all.

Of course the most hilarious aspects of this are when departments foist hours of farcical forms on your projects and insist they are providing you a "service," where the service is compliance with their gating demands to fill out forms. (looking at you, infosec) Many of these organizations have evolved precisely to deflect accountability, as authority without responsibility is the ultimate measure of bureaucratic success.

I am an advocate for this playbook, but change will take time, probably until we've moved on to something better...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595865
I think there's room for it to be a little misleading without knowing set intersections. Like say someone subscribes to 50 subreddits, submits 2 posts a month, and averages 4 comments a day. On average they're lurking, but I wouldn't call them a lurker.
I mean, it clearly ends with:

"Therefore, it is determined that adolescents who played a high-level of violent video games at an early age did not show more aggressive behavior later in life than those who played fewer to no hours of violent video games at an early age."

The idea that consumption of violent media changes pathways in such a way that the expression of violent behavior is more common, is null and void. There's zilch, nada, zero evidence to support this including decades of prior research on film and television influence.

Maybe the pathways being trained have less to do with aggression and violence, and more to do with hand-eye coordination and other motor reflexes involved in the process.
Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line (Calculator)
https://github.com/Leask/HHKB-Trackpad-Nest
Bikes seem great, but they're limited. Bad weather and winter limit bikes a lot. Add on to that the worry about the bike being stolen and I find it hard to justify paying much for a bike.
The single motor standard range version of the Y would be about 200 kg lighter, and is a bigger vehicle than the Nexo.

The motors in the Model 3 are 97% efficient. 90% for the entire system is not a dishonest number
Scientifically perfect output has rarely been a primary desideratum of musical instrumentation and in fact is somewhat limiting in terms of the number of timbres you can create.
Ergo why historic analog synths included multiple oscillators per-voice with independent tuning.
The early Junos famously included a chorus to thicken up its single DCO per-voice.
Later digital Roland synths introduced the "super saw" which is many superimposed detuned oscillators.
Going back further, a full orchestra or choir ensemble is certainly not exactly in tune across every performer.

And as someone who makes digital synths for a living even 100% accurate fully digital oscillators are difficult to fully realize in practice.
Aliasing concerns abound at every stage of a softsynth- there are well-known formulas for calculating alias-free waveforms at a fixed frequency, but these start to get expensive when you also are considering PWM and frequency modulation which are essential tools for achieving a variety of different sounds.
And aliasing sounds a lot worse than analog imperfections.
your link doesnt have the word prompt anywhere, so I'm not sure it addresses OPs question.
> It encourages micro-management. It encourages more and more process.

I think it's a case of there being multiple truths, and depending where you sit on the food chain you'll sing one and not the others:

1. If you're a highly competent dev it gets in the way and wastes valuable time

2. If you're a project manager with thousands of moving parts and a diverse array of talent from almost useless to God-tier it can help keep things on track

3. If you're a rookie you can at least quantify and digest which tasks require your attention and not feel overwhelmed

4. By virtue of some common personality flaws you over-estimate how good you are, underestimate what you need to do, and work on the wrong task and still say it's a pile of shit despite it being exactly what you need
Happy New year Everyone, have a wonderful year ahead!
Of course there's a good reason. BTC is much, much easier for the Indonesian person on one side of the contract to purchase with their local currency, and much, much easier for the Russian person on the other side of the contract to liquidate into their local currency. Almost any country has a highly liquid market of local currency <-> BTC, and that's often not true for any other crypto.
Personal anecdote: A soon to be 62 year old restaurant owner I know will retire in 2021, because his income is so reduced. He can still keep the business and earn about as much as he'll make this year without reduction of SS benefits.