skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (...) but I have a hard time watching any platform (...) get targeted because of politics.

Inciting mass assassinations, or even directly plan and coordinate them, is not politics.
The sad thing is, if it were me, I'd factor in my personal safety and that of my family, employees etc before voting to impeach.
The EU makes a big effort to harmonize law across countries, so there might be some sense to talk about European startup scene. Though, of course German-speaking countries scene would have its own different as Germany itself.
Late payment is not limited to European startups. Even large European companies do it. My personal undersampled data indicates a negative correlation between latitude and days until payment. South of 45 degrees, expect 180 days regardless of terms.
I mean originally all EC2 instances were ephemeral by default. Shutdown and all your Bitcoin goes bye-bye.
Insert Eddie Murphy meme image here.
Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats
Might as well through TSLA into the absurd valuation sphere...PE ratio north of 1000 and projected to be >100 for at least the next 3-4 years. Competitors with PE ratios of 10-40 that produce 50X the vehicles...TSLA market cap higher than the top 9 car makers combined. Musk went from being worth 27B to 185B in a year. The valuation makes no sense...sure long term they could be a giant, but so many other car companies are producing electric vehicles and new battery technology now their competitive edge in the space may not last long.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/tesla-valuation-more-than-ni...
Frankly, I think the only thing that is broken are the people who are quick to write off something as "broken". It's been this way in software engineering for a long time, too.
Sahin: You moved from Turkey to SF - what last year? I don't think you know anything about the First Amendment. Please fuck right off.
There are many anti fascists in Russia too. In general anti fascists face repression from every nation state
There’s a weird edge case at least in US courts where the process of suing for lost wages is greater than the wages lost. This creates a lot of gaps for fraudsters, unfortunately.
Give Krispy Krunchy a go. They're usually part of a gas station, and are legitimately great. I go for it over Popeyes. https://www.krispykrunchy.com/locations
Christianity has been a great brain hack for me. I recently converted after reading through a modern, literal translation of the NT (Hart). I was previously an atheist my entire life.

Distilled down, with all the noise and controversy cut out, one's left with an existential God who only asks that we submit to him, be good to everyone, and work our hardest to just be our authentic selves.

A nice side effect, as you alluded, is that one instantly gets a family of 3 billion people who are basically forced to like and accept them (as long as they're 'good' - which varies with Christian sect).
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CNN, explaining grade school civics to adults. This is why the rednecks hate these people--and rightfully so!
Why don't people just stop payment? I remember when an insurance company tried to not let me cancel. I copied some boilerplate termination letter from the internet, and blocked payments from my card. They cancelled very quickly. Then again this is in the USA, so Germany may work differently.
> But who is selling his Bitcoin for Tether in these volumes? Miners need to sell for cash to finance their operations.

I suspect there are exchanges where the BTC/USD pair does not exist, only BTC/USDT (Bitmex comes to mind).

In which case, if you want to trade in and out of BTC/USD, Thether isyour only choice.

I'd love to hear if people can easily withdraw actual USD from semi-shady exchanges such as BitFinex, Binance, etc...

[edit]: and I agree with you, I wouldn't buy a USDT even if my life depended on it.
Facebook doesn't have the ability to watch every livestream on its service, but they absolutely do shut them down when people report them, and, moreover, proactively reach out to law enforcement when violent activities are being livestreamed or posted to its service.

And that's the difference from Parler: Parler revels in attracting those types of posts, and per Amazon's court filings, Parler does nothing to remove violent posts on the service.
Thanks for this, I've heard of this option but assumed it was unavailable to my account.
That's what happens when you offer tax cuts, business loans, 0% interest and other corporate bailouts as a means of economic stimulus instead of just direct payments to people who need it the most and will spend it on essentials.
What about a crypto that is working to change from PoW to PoS like Ethereum is attempting to do. I agree Bitcoin is wasting country like amounts of energy right now...
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I think the point is the horizon of payoff has previously been a lot more confined. A company was worth a multiple of earnings for example - because you were fairly confident that it would continue to earn, and if necessary could pay out dividends (and shareholders could vote to make that happen). That has gone out of whack in the past, but those were bubbles, and corrections happened.
DarkMarket, the Web's Biggest Darknet, Just Got Taken Down
Right, completely agree. We have the example of Orange telephone in France (previously France Telecom) : A company that needed to reduce workforce, but because of the strong labor laws (skewed in favour of the employee) the executives decided to make life miserable to employees to push them to quit... the result was tragically pushing them to suicide ( https://www.dw.com/en/france-orange-top-bosses-caused-employ... ).

I like the safety net option. It kind of decouples it from the goodwill of the company, and (I being kind of in favour of socialist practices) it will be easier to apply to the whole population.
WHO mission to study pandemic origins is on its way to China
I think a lot of Americans are naturally skeptical of crypto because they’ve never lived with capital controls in living memory. But for much of the world, the ability to hide and move arbitrarily large amounts of money is ridiculously valuable.
These are all inevitable consequences of artificially cheap debt due to USD "printing". The Cantillon Effect has weird consequences. Bullshit companies can be worth billions, and people will rationally flee the dollar (into e.g. BTC).

Bitcoin has a much more plausible value proposition than most of these bullshit companies. Conflating the anomalously high value of BTC with the anomalously high value of companies is a category error. http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2018/10/bitcoin-and-bubble-theo... https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/04/bitcoin-is-...
Did not read the article, but the main issue with cryptocurrencies I see is that everyone is buying them so they can sell it later when the price goes up.
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The diversity pushes since last year of focused on historically underrepresented minorities in technical fields. Specifically these would be (in the USA) black and hispanic employees. Paying these employees less generally would be a very short-sided move, because if it could be shown that they did so systematically they'd be open to class-action lawsuits and lots of bad publicity.
Illusion of wealth
RPI 4 -- the original revision. Whenever I ran it off the "official" power supply, I got disk errors. As soon as I moved over to a powered USB hub, I had no other issues. This was also with a keyboard and mouse plugged in, so maybe that had something to do with it.

I was also trying to run it as a NAS, so it had a decent amount of IO.

Maybe it could have been fixed with a better power supply, but switching over to the powered hub was easier to figure out.
This is why I mentioned square, not stripe. Anyone acting more like a utility or common carrier. Stripe is good, but there are many other comparable options out there. But my local coffee shop only uses a single POS systems. The latter seems more sinister to me, especially since they would be taking an action that is potentially independent of the their customer (the business).

For stripe, the example would be refusing to process any CC payments (as a consumer) for registered republicans whatsoever. Beyond it being foolish commercially, it is much more intrusive than a refusing a direct 1:1 contract.
Someone really needs to give the New Yorker some serious credit for publishing what can genuinely be described as a thoughtful, well written, and objective article on social media and big tech. Bravo.

I'm honestly convinced that at some point this kind of big tech social media witch burning will eventually lead to private lawsuits aimed at non-combatants like Signal and Wickr. Please leave a comment if you disagree - down votes don't help sow discussion.
Same boat here. I remember all the enthusiasm users had when they were able to spend bitcoins to buy something. The excitement when a new vendor added it as a payment method. Now it seems that the space is occupied by those who would sneer at those who spent thousands of bitcoins to buy a pizza. It seems the only thing that there is to do with bitcoin is to hodl and hope you become a millionaire.
Signal: operations that involve sending your contacts (like contact discovery) use a pattern Signal invented where the client can validate the software running on the server. The server runs inside the SGX secure enclave. Before your client sends any data, it performs remote attestation on the running server code to ensure it matches the published open source code.

See the full explanation at https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ (starts part way down, with "trust but verify"). Or check the client source code yourself!

Telegram: I dunno, they.re closed source, don't encrypt by default, and have shady ownership. I don't trust them at all, personally.
On my side I've been happy with Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
Hate to be the devil’s advocate here, but aside from shitty PR I don’t see a lot of things that went wrong:

- As a Customer you need to make sure that your “Park” request goes through to the car and wait for the doors to lock. This might take a couple of seconds, but you can’t just press the button and run inside of a building where you might not have cell coverage at all. It’s not a RF key fob. I thing legally this would constitute negligence (Fahrlässigkeit).

- Immobilizing the car once the phone is not close to the car seems like a bad idea. It’s a privacy nightmare, b/c you’re constantly being tracked. What about tunnels or parking garages? What if the battery dies? Seems like a whole lot of problems if they were to implement this. Do any of their competitors really do this (Share Now, Sixt Share, etc.)?
Small discussion a few days ago on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25736147
> it's a taxable event.

In USistan
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If a router will not run OpenWrt then I will not by it simples!
Indeed. Some component of Adobe's suite will be responsible for re-enabling them, so it's just a balance between actually using the software and disabling the background tasks.
Of course, it was all just a coincidence
> Individuals who use Gmail for free are effectively just publicity for Google so they can convince large employers to pay them for Gmail.

I don't think this is accurate. Having users logged in while using Google Search is worth far, far more to Google than the GSuite sales bump from having free Gmail users.
> Netflix's product is the opposite of a feature. A feature is reproducible, which Netflix's media is not, and they are the only place to get it.

I completely disagree. Netflix creates original content, but so do all (most?) of the other competing streaming platforms. And they all compete for licenses to third-party content. Heck, notable third-party content often makes headlines for moving from one streaming service to another when the contracts expire.
Existing and shipping at all is the first step. Low price comes later, with volume.
Ask HN: What would be some good ideas for AR glasses apps?
If this is interesting, I recommend joining the Patreon for Loren Schmidt. They create really beautiful CA projects, including environments with humidity/precipitation.
From the article: If Bitcoin's market capitalization were to match that of gold, it would be worth over $500,000 a coin. This is why some investors are so bullish on Bitcoin.

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that investors are increasingly bearish on the dollar.
Fair enough, I first came across the chart probably 10 years ago on Wikipedia. Here this is the original source. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067360...
Virtual Teaching Doesn’t Mean Giving Up on the Live Lecture
Sorry, I'm not quite piecing together what scheme you're proposing. Like, where are you storing things like your user/password tables that aren't persistent databases?

I'm familiar with the topics around HA and how you could ignore individual hosts going down, but the whole database?
Totally.

Having reverse engineered a bit of the drivers, I think it's because they culturally think that all of their value add is in the software. Patents have expired on the TBDR fixed function hardware blocks. The rest is just a combo of a little RISC core that does job dispatch (Programmable Data Sequencer in their parlance), and a cluster of SMT barrel scheduled cores (used to be called USSE in the SGX days, not sure now) that do the heavy lifting wrt shaders that don't really have any secret sauce AFAICT.

The value add is all in the software stack where they run a full little ukernel on the main GPU cores, and optimizing the shit out of the software that runs on those cores from their pretty clever compiler.

I bet they think that if they open source the drivers, that's giving away the one thing that makes PowerVR GPUs special in the first place.

If a IMG person reads this: y'all are wrong with that last piece. Your company is dying without opening the drivers, and you'll be able to control the hardware/software co-design in a way that nobody else can even if you give away the software. You'll have to keep doing work to have new hardware available and stay ahead of the curve, but that's true anyways and is the sign of a healthy business. Sure beats withering away as your patents expire.
Exactly :) Just pointing out the disagreement on who needs the burden of proof.

Apple said they banned them because they weren’t moderating enough, “nothing to do with what happened in DC”-esque
Yeah, startup seems quite a stretch and ought to be reserved for novel ventures and not "Yet another car rental company".
>>Containers are no more ephemeral than any other process.

You're missing the point. It's not that containers cannot be ephemeral. The whole point is that containers are meant, and expected, to be ephemeral by design. Pets vs cattle and all.
Standups, why you don’t need another status report.
Are there economic models that derive the values of assets like gold and bitcoin from fundamentals? What do they say about where the value ultimately derives from?
I read this in reader mode because I didn't want to click the accept cookie policy (clicking "decline" boots you). Then I saw all the comments here mentioning Tether and wondered if I just read a totally different article and it turns out I did. For whatever reason reader mode shows a totally different article. That's just.. not how the internet should be :(
> Funnily this is a similar effect to java culture poison-swapping into javascript after class and decorator syntax was added.

This is a great insight. I remember arguing at the time that adding that stuff to javascript was stupid, and people responded arguing that it increased accessibility of the language. It’s heresy, but I think there’s something to be said for bringing people in to a language slowly so they have time and inclination to leave their past experiences at the door. Rust uses the borrow checker. Ruby has metaclasses and it’s excessive magic everywhere. Javascript used to use prototype based inheritance and callbacks. I use classes sometimes and async everywhere but we paid a price for that syntax. The price was in our previously more cohesive identity as a community around how JS was written.
Quoting that page, "Command Line Tools can be signed, but not directly notarized".
The game theory of end-game bitcoin is interesting and doesn't get enough attention.

I haven't seen a good response to this paper: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/CKWN-CCS16.pdf
+10 Insightful
Sounds like free penetration testing!
Anybody here work for vulog? They are another European white-label car share platform provider.

I'm nearing the end of reverse engineering one of their clients android apps.

Lots of weak obfuscation, like calling certain endpoints multiple times (2-5x), which is totally useless against a MITM that can decrypt the traffic. Didn't even slow me down.

Oh, and if you miss a certain header, it will respond with invalid JSON prefixed with "[]".

Now I'm curious if they have immobilizers. The keys are kept in the car, so they must.

Not that I want to do anything shady, I just want to use the service without being spied on. Decompiling the app found a bunch of baidu libs, Facebook and retargeting shite. The state of commercial software, yikes.
That has nothing to do with the dollar. If bitcoin were to match the market cap of gold irrespective of any money printing, it would be $500k a coin. Which is to say that people consider Bitcoin to have properties similar but superior to that of gold.
Bigger font, straight to the point and no fuss. Contrary to you, I love its (non) design.
That's because this "Rising Stars" compilation is literally what the title says, a scraping of the number of GitHub stars each projects has received, and filtered by JavaScript, it seems at least. QuickJS is on GitHub, but it's mostly written in C, not JavaScript. And the authors, having the grand idea of scraping GitHub stars, didn't think of to look outside their echochambers of "dev influencers" nor just search for "javascript" on GitHub to do some manual good old research.
Yeah, I guess we could've laid that out earlier:

* our data is tiny and fits in RAM

* our data changes often

* we want to eventually get to an HA setup (3-5 etcd nodes now, a handful of backend server instances later)

* we want to be able to do blue/green deploys of our backend control server

* we want tests to run incredibly quickly (our current 8 seconds for all tests is too slow)

* we don't want all engineers to have to install Docker or specific DB versions on their dev machines
This line of thinking would lead to the of near-enough every interesting discussion. A certain amount of generalisation is required for discussions of these sorts.
That's a feature not a bug (of BTC anyway). A deflationary store of value....has value.
Imagination have said they're open-sourcing the drivers for the GPU on another RISC-V board that's supposed to be coming soon (PicoRio).

Probably those work here too.
Having worked with the CA and OH Democratic Committees the past 3 election cycles (including both Obama elections), and having dozens of friends who worked in Georgia during the runoff, I can say that social media absolutely...did not budge the needle one bit.

It all came down to in-person contacts. The Black vote didn't turn out because they saw a tweet, they came out because people knocked on their door and talked to them and convinced them to brave the cold and vote.

And just as crucially: the Republican vote didn't come out despite all of Trump's tweets, and Cruz's tweets, and all the other GOPers posting on social media. The Republican voters stayed home despite all the social media begging them to vote because the GOP didn't have the same level of in-person events for the runoff as they did for the general election.
Cherrypicking? I was referring to the daily death rate. If it had been 2k/day all year, which has been fairly common in recent weeks, then about 700k would have died. But that would be ridiculous, because the virus took a long time to reach the saturation level we're at today. The stat you picked is quite incomparable.
Googlers can go basically anywhere they please that doesn't willfully discriminate against former Google exmployees. The reason the only unions you're seeing out of Google are political activist unions is because most workers don't feel significantly exploited between their compensation and expanded career options.
In Germany if you have a contract which binds you for a certain amount of time, blocking the payment will just result in letters, extra fees and eventually collection agencies and a state bailiff. This will not just put a stain on your credit score but might also get you into legal trouble.
This is really sad, I wish the Google Calendar team had the bandwidth to pick this up or create an actual chrome app. Having a real app is something I miss with so many productivity tools, especially things like Calendars and Email.

I hope someone forks it.
"Events of August 2017 altered the trajectory of bitcoin. A little known but drastically important change occurred to the bitcoin source code with the addition of segregated witness (separating signature data, or witness, from transaction data) (Nguyen, 2017)6 and the contemporaneous decision by BTC miners to keep the block size at 1MB.7

The technical details of the change are outside the scope of this article, but the outcome is that bitcoin is no longer a digital cash system as described by Nakamoto (2008)."

Does anyone have an explanation as to why these changes make bitcoin no longer a digital cash system?
Maybe it’s real. Maybe it’s a psyop. I know such a radar technician (not one who ‘witnessed’ such phenomena)that has classified access who sides on psyop
>I have the theory that boys get into programming as a form of escapism – because the external world is frustrating to them.

of course not all are like this
Faster Poly1305 Key Multicollisions
Sometimes spending more energy is a net win even though it's more energy expensive (cars vs horses).
Reminded me of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
When will the crypto proponents realize that crypto is not taken seriously BECAUSE it is $30,000?
Your debts do not go away by ignoring them, surely not even in the US? You'll end up in court eventually for non-payment.
The current environment started around the 1970s. We went from industrial capitalism to financial capitalism. We are at the end of the debt cycle and most of the worlds governments keep trying to re-inflate it instead of unwinding the mess.
Yeah pretty much. In a world where the following scenario is actively working all bets are off really.

Buy BTC convert to renBTC (skip this by just buying renBTC on an exchange if you can) Put in keeperdao and earn ~19-30% APY. Claim profits as ROOK convert to renBTC put them back into keeperdao and compound keep your exposure to BTC.

On a personal note I was a doubter for a long time. Now not so much given the money printing of the past year. The past year every time I read about NFTs I think they are stupid. This is why I’m forcing myself to research and experiment with them as I don’t want to let my doubts about things get in my way again.
Is discussing a venue for (possible, depending on your location) tax fraud equivalent to admission of participating in tax fraud?
It took me ages to cancel O2 DSL when I left Germany. I cancelled my gym membership in person at the gym many years ago - but this year 2021 I am still receiving letters, now from Inkasso where they claim I should still pay membership. I don’t even live in the country anymore, and I did cancel it in person! (That was John Reed Fitness, stay away Berliners). Call me whatever “-phobe” slur you wish, but after these experiences and more, I am never signing a contract with a German business again. No idea if AT and CH are similar.