skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only speak for myself, but to me Bitcoin exists in a weird space where it's both 1) a legitimately interesting piece of technology that a "hacker" should find interesting, and 2) a magnet for hucksters and pseudo-philosophers to hype up as the way of the future and profit (ethically or not) without understanding or caring about what's happening technically. When I see many people who fit into bucket 2), it makes me not want to spend any more time around the Bitcoin community. Maybe that's a shame. I'd probably be more willing to put up with 2) if I thought 1) was super interesting, but I'm not that excited about it, for whatever reason.

Alternatively, if you subscribe to the "geeks, mops, and sociopaths" theory of subcultures [1], Bitcoin seems to me to be well into the "mops and sociopaths" part.

[1] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Deploy what? Hasn't HN been the same for years?
Yes there is. Happens all over the world.

And frankly, sometimes there is no basis for solidarity, and thus no union.

Resolving that is a discussion that actually does determine whether there is improvement for everyone, not just some blanket statement or other.

Finally, yeah. A few people may not give a fuck. Consideration due is consideration given.
Your arguments have failed to sway me. Not every secret is antidemocratic and terrorists Snowden and Assange are still terrorists who put me in danger and I didn't learn anything particularly new or important from their supposed revelations. When these guys get gassed please know its not the evil faceless government its everyday moms and dads like me signing their death warrant.
> Previously I worked from home a couple of days per week.

That's very different from working from home every day. If it was an option, I'd love to work from home twice a week and from the office the other 3. That would be a nice balance.

> This year many of us combined working from home with a restriction on all of those "safety valves" and in-person socialization in general.

Definitely an interesting question. Would I have enjoyed working from home if I could still go out and socialize every day? Impossible to say but I'd love to find out some day.
These activists forced Google to oust a black women out of AI ethics (Kay Cole James), and are now complaining that Google doesn't care about black women in AI ethics when someone woke gets let go. It's so transparent that they only care about their political goals.
Britain takes a gamble with Covid vaccines, upping the stakes for the rest of us
> Michelin 3-star restaurants don't reach the top used in world either.

On the other hand, Michelin 3-star restaurants will typically give you cutlery along with your dinner, instead of telling you that you've got a drawer full of cutlery at home anyway. I'm not at all convinced this is the right analogy ;-).

The more likely reason is the one Macha mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632710 . Apple's environment has a tradition of paid, closed-source development, and any cross-platform tools that also support macOS or iOS are unlikely to be built with Apple's macOS/iOS-only tools.
It's a logistical nightmare. It won't be improved. It could be, but it won't. At least, not in time for it to matter.

We're only about half way done with this.
Thanks it was probably the FUSE driver. I haven't had a problem with it but I'm not a heavy user.

On the other hand I've been a heavy user of exFat formatted sd cards on Samsung phones for long years and had no problems with it, so hopefully the new Linux driver (which Samsung upstreamed) will be solid.
>It also repeats typical nocoiner fallacies like "it has no intrinsic value" and "gold is used for jewelry", ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV.

They're not fallacies; you _hope_ that someday it will be able to accomplish the goal you've described, but it certainly doesn't today, and it's price is completely based on the greater fool theory. Gold is desirable; crypto is not. It's a "currency" that isn't one and has ZERO intrinsic value.
> they know how to use a native webview.

I have never liked Windows embedded webviews and don’t think they actually know how to use them well. They’ve always seemed like suckier interfaces than their native interfaces. I think their new control panel stuff is web controls and seem clunkier and slower than the old windows control pane widgets.
Whim, when you do eventually find out you are wrong, come back and upvote my last comment, lol.
I could see it used for fixed-load low-power uses; maybe a trawling motor?
The Fair Code site doesn't really explain how it works, but the Commons Clause site[1] has an FAQ.

I agree about the problem: it's hard to run a business supporting a project if a competitor can come along and resell their code without any compensation.

The commons clause says a company can't sell "a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software."

I like the idea that a company could create a plugin that works with existing open source software and then sell that. I like the idea of creating a framework that lots of people can add plugins for, because I could make my living offering a few handy plugins for it and I don't have a problem if others are also making a living selling their own plugins. In principle, it makes a lot of sense.

I'm not clear if it's kosher for me to write product X that's using a lot of Apache licensed software, but to which I've added the Commons Clause.

And it generally seems problematic... Suppose a company sinks a decent amount of effort into some widgets they add to a commons clause licensed software, but only 10% of customers really use the widgets. Are they in violation of the license?

[1]: https://commonsclause.com/

[2]: https://fosspost.org/fair-code-open-source/
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It's pretty startling, but yes, that non-crufty version is "Rust #8" that tops the n-body performance lists:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

It looks like the autovectorizer did a really good job on this one.
Any military decision that could trigger nuclear war has that potential.
I think in USA, it's 60/40 in favor of Apple.
Globally, 70/30 in favor of Android
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
> It doesn't feel like it's a part of the U.S. government

From my perspective, this feels very much on brand. It's a strong design playing on the "cybersecurity" feel. My 2c, as with anything related to design, YMMV.
If you're using gsuite already, it's a usable failover. I send all my alert notifications there, as a fallback already. Dragging people in was trivial. It's better than the group SMS that one person tried to use.
The same thing I do on nights/weekends now: writing sci-fi novels.
It will be interesting to see what algorithms like the one in the linked article will reveal about the people and organizations behind those conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns.

We already know that Trump is secretly colluding with Vladimir Putin, the Koch brothers and homophobic nazis like Milo Yiannopolous, and recieving behind-the-scene support from far-right capitalists like Fox News, Breitbart and the proud boys. They are practically running the hate-filled cesspits like 4chan, and we saw the results last summer when they burned down the inner cities to stop the peaceful protests against white supremacy and George Floyd.

When I've tried to bring attention to this, right-wing extremists have called me a malicious collaboration hypothesizer, but I just report them to the mods and that's that.

Hopefully under Biden, and with new technology that respects people of all backgrounds, all this disinformation can be dealt with legislatively once and for all, so that you'll be able to trust the news and what you read online, and never have to deal with any racist fascist misogyny ever again.
Have a read through the section 508 guidelines [0] from the US government, they link off to a couple of good sites detailing what the text should be.

[0] - https://www.section508.gov/content/guide-accessible-web-desi...
There are many better options than Coinbase. Some user friendly options include Swan, River, Casa, and Cash App.

https://twitter.com/blockbain/status/1333864682122137601
Probably because their parent company is in Italy.

> Owned since 2002 by Italian bicycle saddles firm Selle Royale
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I find it ironic you rail on the US thinking unions are bad when you spend half your post talking about a union you think is bad.
x86 Instruction Reference
In its early startup days, BorderWare firewall used to be called Janus, until they tried to market it to their partners in Sweden, who kept pronouncing it like Anus.
For what it's worth, I'm using Evolution (which uses GTK3 now) on KDE and it uses the Breeze theme just fine. It also doesn't use header bars.
> but this reeks of a strange "pro COVID lockdown" narrative I've been seeing lately.

Along with phrases like "the new normal" and such. There does seem to be a push to keep people from wanting and expecting to go back to the real normal anytime soon.

Though who stands to gain from this alternate reality? It would seem the liberal left wants to normalize it (even post-vaccine), but I don't understand why.
Thundering herd. If you can avoid it, don't connect.
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Hooray, more linkrot... I hope their SEO plummets because they don't even redirect to the new page.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

is now found at

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bouvet-isla...

Another example:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-...

is now found at

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-pro...

with no functionality (notice the missing breadcrumbs on the left-hand side).

This is what that page used to look like: https://web.archive.org/web/20201223175226/https://www.cia.g...
The entire point of all of the engineering we talk about around here is to produce services with inhuman capabilities and resilience.
I'm getting intermitted outages on a ton of different services including Hacker News right now
Thanks (and to parent comment); I did not know this is how it worked.

So then this appears to be the difference between the Manning/Assange and Snowden/Greenwald cases: both Manning and Snowden held security clearances and violated them by sharing with Assange and Greenwald. But while Assange may have solicited and/or assisted Manning's crime, Greenwald just passively received the materials from Snowden's crime. So Greenwald is innocent and Assange is prosecuted.
Amazing, the first page of these comments only has a single top level comment, with 550 replies. What is the typical distribution of comments on an HN post?
It's on a single computer, with a second as failover, but it's in a colo center, not under a desk. Well, I suppose it could be under a desk.
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Who pays money to show ads on shared.com? At first glance it looks like generic adsense, probably opted in to any available ad exchanges.

So presumably facebook is miffed that it pays better to take eyeballs away from their feed and point them at google ads.

It does make one wonder why FB doesn't stick adsense on the feed or increase the price of their ads; clearly there's plenty of room for arbitrage.
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Selfie sticks on subway trains present a far bigger privacy risk than fish-eye lensed sport-cams strapped to a flying lawnmower.
For Brooks, they clearly have a UK subsidiary already, because they own and operate a manufacturing facility. It's probably just a bit of time to digest the trade agreement and figure out what the best thing is going forward, shich I would guess is probably finding a way to ship UK destined saddles within the UK to avoid customs.

For some of the other bicycle companies mentioned, it seems they don't have UK operations, so they may not want to have formal relations with the UK government. They'll need time to figure it out too, but probably worst case is they'll end direct mail order sales to the UK, and you'd have to buy through a retailer. But, again after some time to understand the new rules.
> Economics is not a very difficult subject

I can't believe its possible to be so wrong.

The history of humans might as well be "getting economics less wrong than last time"
Great tips! I particularly like the idea of creating a ritual. I think you've nailed it on the head with that one.
In India the Pfizer vaccine works out to $35 per dose, and AstraZeneca at $3

* [Pfizer Vaccine's Price May Be Throwing off Indian Government, Report Says - The Wire Science](https://science.thewire.in/health/pfizer-vaccines-price-may-...)
I personally haven't done it either, but am considering a $5-10k loan just to try it out. The 6-8%~ isn't worth it for the custodial risk to me as well.
> So politicians cave to large organized groups who can cause them problems and effect their ability to be elected?

That's not what I said? I said the general public (who are unorganized) have a great deal of deference for police officers, and the power of police unions is merely a consequence of the public's deference to police.

> How is that a surprise, of course politicians give public sector unions what they want -- they hold the cards, a huge voting block and cause problems.

It's not a huge voting block. Union membership is much lower now than it was, say, 50 years ago. Moreover, politicians don't give public sector unions what they want. Here in Wisconsin, the state legislature stripped public employee unions of collective bargaining rights. There were massive protests at the state capitol about this, but in the end it didn't matter. Afterward there was recall campaign and election against the Governor, but the Governor won the recall election.

It feels to me like many people still have a 1960s conception of labor unions and their power, but empirically speaking, labor unions have been on the decline for decades, perhaps starting with the Reagan years. Now is not the Jimmy Hoffa era anymore.
It was hyperbole ffs, today it is more difficult to use floppy disks than Github. The point is that you dont need all the fancy stuff that more established companies with 10X-1000x more employees than you use.
And don't forget the security implication that someone with access to your email can log in to your account undetected.

With traditional password reset by email, at least when I try to login next, my password won't work and I'll know something might be up and can change my email password.
We've updated the title above to match.
Subjective... I've found Slack and co's interspersed conversations far too chaotic, and temporal; threading is a great way of organising many different concurrent topics.

And to be clear I don't mean Slack's implementation of threads which is hiding it away in a separate panel and which doesn't get used by everyone either.
Hunh, I would have thought it would be "or". I'm surprised as well!
It'll take more than a vacuous web site to bring millennials to heal for the CIA.

They'd have to actually prosecute their war criminals and demonstrate that they are willing to allow free societies to live free, without interference... this is what the kids want.
Quite an analogy with an assumption that "speech" is the only thing Jack Ma could have done wrong....
I guess that's the thing; for a lot of industries, people aren't generally going to make a purchase without doing some amount of research. Maybe Tempur-Pedic was on their mind when they entered the store, but once they're in the store they're generally going to end up trying out several mattresses. I /love/ my mattress (and have said as much to friends), but I honestly couldn't tell you the brand off the top of my head; I just went to a store and picked whatever felt the best.

One could argue that Tempur-Pedic has to sell at a higher price point to make up for the money they spend on advertising.
Bitcoin is money, of course. I can buy a pizza or whatever for bitcoins (it will be rather inefficient though, so there is a great way of doing this indirectly -- Bitcoin-backed credit cards). In my country, I can pay taxes with cryptocurrencies (on municipal and cantonal levels). It is volatile, of course, but there were (and are) quite a lot of currencies no less volatile, and nobody have argued that these are not money.

This article is like those from 2017, all over again.
Also see: https://rise4fun.com/fstar/tutorial

Even though this sounds like formal verification gobbledygook, there is some information of practical value there.

How many JSON validators have you seen in python and javascript? Why can't the static type checkers like mypy and pyright do this for us?

The answer is that the type systems of these languages are not sufficiently developed. They can tell you if you're assigning a string to an int, but not if you're assigning 200 to an int whose type allows only numbers in [10, 100].

So one creates a new class with a validate() method, which is completely unnecessary and doesn't protect you against integer overflows elsewhere in the code.

F* and OCaml derivatives are our best hope in developing a type system which perform these types of common checks in one integrated framework via refinement types and dependent types.

Hopefully, one day that work can hit mainstream languages like python, javascript and whatever ends up being the system programming language of choice replacing C in the coming years.
10/10 best explanation of Bitcoin I have heard yet.

The argument for bitcoins price from even bitcoins advocates usually seems to ultimately boil down to “It’s valuable because the price of it is going up”. If you ask why the price is what it is, the answer is basically that it’s high because it’s going to be even higher in the future!

It might be even higher in the future, but this has no economic fundamentals behind it.
> Burning reacts it with air, and as another has commented, that produces harmful byproducts.

It does not. Burning in an incinerator is completely clean and releases only water and CO2. If you burn it badly you can make smoke, so don't do that.

Also, it does not make manure, that's false info. It makes CO2 and water, nothing else, even with mealworms.