skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pat's a great guy and first class engineer, but I think it's just too late for him to turn Intel around at this point. The problems have become too entrenched. They needed someone like him at the helm 10 years ago. Apple's M1 shows that the world has passed Intel by.

I wish him luck, though.
I don't see how Tether can influence the price of bitcoin when bitcoin's market cap is more than an order of magnitude greater than Tether. Even if every single piece of tether out there was fraudulent, it would only have a tiny impact on bitcoin.

People downplay bitcoin because it can't be used as cash. It's not supposed to be. It's a store of value. And, in a world where fiat currency is being printed endlessly like monopoly money, there's really only 2 asset classes left: Stocks and Bitcoin, and maybe gold. Do you really want to put ALL your money in equities? No, and neither does anyone else. People want diversification. And Bitcoin, is a great way to diversify your portfolio with a store of wealth.

People call it a ponzi scheme. but, it's just metcalf's law. the usefulness of a network is based on the size and amount of participants. is facebook a ponzi scheme? is the US dollar a ponzi scheme? if no one believed in the dollar then it wouldn't be worth anything either -> Just ask all the countries with failed fiat currencies who underwent a period of hyper inflation. I'm not saying that's going to happen to the US dollar. but, i'm saying, fiat money requires people to have faith in the US dollar, just as people are now gaining faith in bitcoin. that's not a ponzi scheme, that's called Network effects.

This is not 2017. 2017 was a period when people in their underwear were speculating on bitcoin. there's 2 types of bitcoin investors: the hodlers (which know what bitcoin is for and hold it for almost forever), then there's the speculators. It just happened that in 2017 very few people understood bitcoin's purpose and so 80% of it was speculators and 20% hodlers. This year in 2020, the perentage of buy and hold investors is much greater, which means the drop from the top will be much less than last time. there will always be some speculators, but as bitcoin ages, the percentage of hodlers to speculators increases and thus these large price spikes will also decrease.
I mean, the issue is some people don't want to run a whole desktop or laptop with a 20+ watt power supply to provide the occasional wifi to a phone/tablet. Unless you're running a media server plus other services (or you have a lot of end users on a fast connection) I feel like a pfSense setup is a bit overkill, and this is where OpenWRT on your ARM+Switching SoC-of-the-week excels.
Join Google and move to Switzerland. It isn't that easy to join Google Switzerland but it pays like Silicon Valley.
>”Sure, you perform really great and all, but if we give you more we'll have to reduce pay for someone else based on the agreed upon average increase."

You do give up some agency by going through intermediaries.

Good thing you are not forced to stay
Cool! How do I enable MySQL support?

This issue led me to believe it's not implemented yet: https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/4904

And search for MySQL or MariaDB on extensions marketplace gives me zero results.
I'm going to disagree as someone who reports issues to open source. Often the templates request info I know as an experienced user of the software to be completely irrelevant to the issue, and if provided would only confuse the cause of the problem. Templates often assume a stupidity level of issue submitters. If there is a github template, I'll usually heavily modify the template and delete sections, which then gets flagged by a bot if such a bot exists. This only slows down the process of getting something fixed, not speed it up.
Let's sweep all the dirt under the rug and then act surprised when we find it's so much grosser than the rest of the floor.
Couldn’t one argue that we have had a (gnarly) A/B test in the past few years— Twitter, FB mostly let different groups use the platform as the latter see fit. End result is (mind you not theoretical): erosion of civil discourse, platforms being used to organize illegal activities, proliferation of misinformation (during a pandemic) etc. We are kinda beyond what we could happen if company X did not allow Y to begin with. It has already happened.

I am more worried about where are we heading as a society? Why the heck is a regular joe (me) lying awake at night about armed unrest in the most powerful country in the world. Just beyond depressing.
Do the developers not have an internet connection? Why can’t they just hit a database running in the cloud or your own server somewhere?
We open sourced our entire product
Turns out trying to overthrow the government is quite the coincidence
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

Stop judging yourself, others instead judge the action, and you shall be free from the hypnosis that many never wake from.
Well, yes, but that is not what elastic means. Elastic means not fixed. The demand for housing can vary quite a lot even for a fixed population, so it is quite elastic. Demand for food on the other hand is much less elastic, but even there, I wouldn't call it completely fixed as people can change what they eat even if they can't drastically change the number of calories they consume.
> I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office

Impeachment may prevent him from running again: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-exp...
I think it’s good if you are selling 1 or 2 items an hour. If you are trying to sell 1000 in 1 minute the checkout process does not queue well so bots skip ahead of real users
Please apply your own advice to your own original comment.

Saying that company A cooperated with bad entity B in the past does not in any form show that website C using product D of company A does any dangerous thing to your device.
Bitcoin isn't legal tender and never will be. The primary reason is that the govt (and its in our best interests) needs to able to execute fiscal and monetary policy. No one wants uncontrollable inflation or deflation -- there's a reason why we use a fiat based money system today.

The IRS has classified BitCoin as a commodity. That means whenever you transact in bitcoin (if you do it legally) you have to record the fair market value of the coin in USD so you can report and pay capital gains or losses. It's not practical to use it as a currency for legal transactions.

Businesses have no interest in a money system that are anonymous because they have to deal with potential audits from the IRS.

BitCoin similar to gold, except for the fact that gold has intrinsic value as a material input to manufacturing and it has to be acquired at market price.

Bitcoin is a system that requires current holders to encourage new people to come in and purchase Bitcoin because that's their only viable exit strategy.

So, Bitcoin is a commodity. It'll never be used as money and no major nation will treat it as legal tender. It has no intrinsic value. It's viable for black market transactions but that's it. The closest analogy I can think of is that it's like Beanie Babies (with certificates of ownership and authenticity). It's a Beanie Baby pyramid scheme.
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Congratulations on getting funded! Openbase looks cool. What worries me though is how secure are NPM packages. Is this something that openbase will address in the future?
True but I still think there is a limit to how much one can influence a population’s opinion. My favorite example is Poland which after 60 years of communism, is the most conservative catholic country in Europe. Elections are often won at the margin (and this one was particularly tight in the key states), and therefore a marginal influence may be enough to tip the outcome. But I think it will do nothing to a broad base movement.
> but they can't force Signal to publish it via the store

Is there not a suspicion that Google, another US-based corporation, may have some agreement with American national security to supply malicious APKs to individual targets via the Play Store? Having Signal’s signing key would allow the state to present that custom-targeted APK as an ordinary Signal version update.
The EFF is dedicated to it. You should donate... no matter what your political affiliation.
> Just like anything worthwhile is done: through free market competition.

Dont know where to begin unpacking the falsehood of this. Maybe a counter question serves best: how is non-competitive behavior not worthwhile?
If I go and buy an Apple M1 (speaking as a Linux guy who never owned a Mac...), will you guys promise to stop posting benchmarks here? Pinky promise?
At a macro level, sure. At a personal level, it's not easy. As far as I know, only Mexico, Canada and Australia have preferred access to US visas for their citizens (though I'm hoping the UK will join them during trade deal negotiations).
I feel like you're ignoring the competition aspect of it.

If one party finds it 100 times easier to spread their message than the other the latter would not be heard even if their message is twice as appealing. If both parties found it hard to spread their message the ideas would be competing on their merits, but the higher the cost discrepancy the less impact the merit has on the outcome.
Palmetto bugs in Florida can fly. Or glide at least.
Oh, I know about them. In fact, I'm trying to introduce ZIO in my Scala-mostly company. The problem is that a stray UUID.randomUUID() can destroy any and all guarantees. (We're already using Monix.)

That truly is the singular reason that I still prefer Haskell over Scala. I can get over syntax awkwardness, etc. etc. The impure-in-pure is... difficult when you can't just grep for unsafe*, etc.

EDIT: Fwiw, ZIO is definitely better than Haskell's IO. Better than RIO? Perhaps. Is it better than polysemy, tho? I don't think so. Btw, I know about polysemy's issues as well... hopefully lexi-lambda can get her GHC runtime changes merged so that we can have a true "free" effect system backed by a tailored runtime. Interestingly, Project Loom is also heading in a similar direction (first class continuations) on the JVM. Interesting times!
> Though the article doesn’t mention the coordinated and active censoring of the NY Post story, even in private conversations, which was already a heavy stroke of interference in the elections.

You packed a lot into this one sentence.

Please share your evidence.
The "Uplift" books by David Brin basically use this idea. They were popular I think in the 80s-90s.

In his books, an enlightened species "uplifts" an inferior one that has potential and after being helped...they sortof serve a period of time as pets/servants until they demonstrate that they can be part of galactic civilization.

Humans blunder into all of this by accident when they begin exploring space. Normally the knowledge of physics required for space travel is a side-effect of being uplifted. It's not discovered, it's taught. But we didn't do it the normal way.

If I remember correctly humans after learning this is sortof how it's done begin "uplifting" dolphins. The uplift process involves genetic engineering and education, etc.

One of the core mysteries in the books for the other enlightened species out there is did someone uplift humans?

It's been a while so I probably butchered that.
I don't think there's a point in arguing about these things anymore. If people still don't get it, then it's unlikely they'll change their minds now. We're riding the wave whether we like it or not.
I think he meant "iPhone models" when he said "devices". I'm not the op, but they definitely do optimize per model, not individual device.
That's a stupid reason. He's not dead (or at least imprisoned) yet because USA doesn't have an extradition treaty with Russia. What does a chat app have to do with it?
Signal is signed with a key that's held by Signal, not Google. Android won't install app updates unless they're signed with the same key as the currently installed version.

(I work at Google, but not on Android)
I would imagine that a person who wants multiple ethernet ports on an SBC would be interested using the SBC as a router or firewall.
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It’s a failed code sign of some sort. E.g. and typically, the developer used an installer cert for an app.
Ability to attract and retain talent better than their peers?

Alternatively: What's the incentive for firms in the US to pay high wages?
Yeah, to me this is the key point in the whole debate: to what extent are the private internet "giants" providing infrastructure and/or operating as a public utility?

I was concerned when Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms started the mass deactivation of accounts they no longer wanted to host, but in the end I don't think these actions are wholly unjustified: nobody should be entitled to a megaphone for their speech. And as many have said, "if you don't like it go start your own social network" is an acceptable response.

The real issue is at the next layer down, the service providers which collectively operate what we know as "the Internet": what if you can't go start your own social network because none of the server hosts or domain registrars will provide their services to you?

But do we really want to mandate (and regulate) that hosting providers must provide service to anyone that asks, no matter how undesirable or troublesome they might be? Should there be a "provider of last resort" for those that are unable to find a willing host? I'd like to see more discussion and debate on this topic.
Yeah, I wasn't really talking about that sort of thing. Just trying to speculate on how you could build a platform that supported user-generated content and resolved the difficulties and bias inherent in moderation mechanisms -- a vibrant digital public square that wasn't overwhelmed by bad-actors.
Yes. And GlobalFoundries has basically bowed out of leading edge nodes, saying they won't have the R&D or money to go below 12nm
It doesn’t matter who wins, they’re united on that point. They’ve seen the power of the platforms to filter the information people get and the willingness of the folks who control it to put a thumb on the scale in favor of Democrats.
Several of the boards from Friendly ELEC have dual ethernet: https://www.friendlyarm.com
Not a bad intuition, mapping is certainly one of the foundations of information on a mathematical level.

Information has to do with entropy... measuring information is a form of measuring entropy. Low entropy information is less random than high entropy information.

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says __closed__ systems tend towards disorder, which means they tend to increase in entropy.
As a quick example a bunch lego blocks (let's say they magically stick together) thrown together, will most of the time create clumps. Most of the time it will be clumps, but if done enough times eventually more interesting structures are made that are by definition lower entropy, they are statistically less probable. A lego dinosaur is less probable than a clump, and also lower entropy.

So the question remains what exactly is Information, and the best answer I can think of is that it's the Universe's 2nd Law in action. However it does it, we move forward in time, this in turn creates non-random structures in space, eventually leading to more complex systems like life, but it's all just structures transforming into other structures (including energy structures), and as astrophysics is saying in the future the Universe will be at a very high entropy state with little information processing left to do.

This is a descent intro BBC documentary on information and entropy -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7HH0PCqIE

It may be tricky to grasp at first, but it all builds from there, information structures become complex creating lifeforms, which in turn create their own structures like language. In our attempts to understand our own patterns of communication, we discovered information processing at every level of reality, from DNA molecules that store information down to atoms and particles that create the substrate on top of which all other information processes take place.
I'm 50.

We had cassettes and vinyl. I didn't have a Sony Walkman but my first personal cassette player was similar. It was too big to go in a pocket and was generally worn clipped to a belt or on a shoulder lanyard under your coat. By the time I went to Plymouth Poly (UK) in 1989 your cassette player was small enough to fit in the breast pocket of your sleeveless denim over jacket (over the leather jacket that is!)

My first home PC was a ZX80 with 1Kb of RAM - not all of the 1Kb was available. Later I had a C64 which nowadays has a USB interface - I re capped it, sorted out a few other details and got it going again. The first game I played on it in 2018 when it sparked up was "attack of the mutant camels" - a Jeff Minter classic.
This is more appropriately labelled as counter evidence.

Considering the "millions" estimate was extrapolated from Zenz unsubstantiated feeling of ~1200 camps existing in 2017. These recent and relatively comprehensive GIS studies have conclusively proven that ~400 camps has existed _ever_, in varying states of construction and decommission in the past 3 years, i.e not all were operating concurrently. It's always interesting that Zenz estimates gets repeated in the same studies that simultaneously debunk them. I'm sure being funded by parties with anti-China interests has nothing to do with the manufacturing narrative process. For example Zenz was alleging up to 1M was interned in 2018. Choice quote from latest Buzzfeed piece by Killing regarding situation in 2018:

>"The business owner had heard rumors that the internment camps were not for education, as the government claimed, but mass detention. “We had heard that mass detention had occurred, that people were disappearing into these schools. We didn’t know much but we knew that it wasn’t a good place,” she said."

So 1/12th of an ethnicity is being rounded up and somehow it's still relegated to "rumor". Zenz claim around this time is 1/6th. That's about incarceration rate of black youth in US. 1/6 of your social circle gets round up, and it is not rumor territory. The entire allegation chain has been a coordinated clowns show. At the end of the day, XJ is less a human rights issue than a matter of manufactured consent for anti-China foreign policy. The latter would be less effective if XJ internment doesn't even eclipse US prison industrial complex. CCP is capable of interning millions, but so far the evidence points to the contrary.
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My dad killed himself when I was 15. I found his body after coming home from school on a sunny day excited to tell him I'd finally done well on a math test. It destroyed me emotionally. I didn't come right for 5 years and it left permanent emotional scars. It was hands down the nastiest, most brutal, awful and enduring experience I've ever had.

I beg you to reconsider. Talk to the people in your life about how you feel.

Edit: reflecting on this I feel like there is a law of conservation of pain. You can't eliminate your pain by suicide, you simply transfer it to others.
BK wasn't even remotely in the same class as Gelsinger engineering-wise.
Lower social safety or unionization probably makes it a little harder for Americans.
TINA -- There is no alternative
How is it any different than if I was banned from HN or an IRC channel?

These "platforms" are just large message boards.
Interestingly, ISPs are the only part of this equation I think should be regulated to require any content to travel over them. They are utilities that have government granted proto-monopolies and in exchange they should not be able to dictate the content they deliver.

DNS I have mixed feelings about, but I’m inclined to say it should be the same.
> I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office

If a military officer commits a felony offense the week before they're discharged, I don't think the military would/should say "well you're so close to leaving, so we'll still give you an honorary discharge and a pension."

I feel like the same concept applies here, otherwise we're opening the door to the president being able to commit impeachable offenses with impunity as long as they're close to the finish line.

Also, not a lawyer, but I feel like conviction after impeachment would make conviction in subsequent civil suits a slam dunk.
The software on the server doesn't matter, as long as the encryption is solid on the device. That's the whole point, the devices handles all encryption/decryption so the server can't understand any of the data coming and going. The reason they don't store the data is because it would be pointless. The Github repos contain the device source code which, for most platforms, can be verified.
This reminds me of this post from the hostifi founder, sharing the code they used for the first 3 years:

https://twitter.com/_rchase_/status/1334619345935355905

It’s just 2 files.

Sometimes it’s better to focus on getting the product working, and handle tech debt later.
"I've found that turning of overcommit avoids this problem."

("tuning of" or "turning off")

Do you mean something like

sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=2
Not really. ISPs can still send your traffic to null0. They can still filter routes. On top of that, it will be years, likely decades, before the majority even bother to validate routes with RPKI.
While there are consequences and secondary effects to banning Trump off of all the things... There was a moment when the body count started adding up and anyone with common sense can see it is his fault. It was Trump that caused this, he in effect killed those people at the capital.

Had it gone worse someone would have been killed or hung on live TV. All of that is on him.

Maybe all the platforms did all call each other, but there is a moment where you just have to take action. And that action was to stop him from killing more people. Stop him from destroying more things.

It is not free speech ... it is at a cost. Those lives. He is a monster and does not need a platform. This is not a slippery slope. He had to be stopped.

Maybe it leads to more choices and actions and discussions as to why he had a voice on those platforms at all. In either case the right choice was made. Stop him.
Bluetooth would answer the tunnels and parking garages problem I imagine?
This is true. Ultimately, you have to multiply by the likelihood that this Dan Baum fellow is honest and has recollected correctly, using either memory or notes.
It works very well, nice job! I like it.

One idea/question, is there a way to add to the feed via an external URL, rather then exclusively within the Chrome plugin?

I would use it even more if I wasn't constrained to chrome.

For example, adding this little snippet as a bookmark would for certain work from Firefox and iOS/Safari, and quite possibly others.

If I could get it molded to work with your service I'd be pretty stoked.

javascript:void(location.href='https://audiblogs.com/add/?action=save&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))
Who said it was like locking people in prison?

Due process isn't some concept that is only applicable to government actions. IANAL, but I feel like contract law includes lots of elements of due process.