skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been relatively modest with their scam for quite a while, e.g. they printed less than 5 billion in the first three years of their existence. Then another 5 billion in just 6 months, and then it went completely off the charts and now they are printing billions weekly, 2 billion just in the in the last 7 days. If they kept it reasonable they probably could have kept it on for a while, but at this scale it'll have to collapse.
There is actually some good evidence for this. Balance and motor control issues (two-handed water drinking, weird stance, the “very steep” ramp thing, later covering the ramp to navy ship), body jerking, slurred speech, lack of impulse control and empathy, etc.

The surprise Walter Reed visit was questionable, and the fact that he was administered a cognitive test only given to those with suspected dementia—then bragged about his results and claimed it was a difficult test—only add fuel to the speculation.

EDIT: Not claiming authority here or that others should conclude what I have, especially since I don’t have the time to reference all the things that convinced me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person,_woman,_man,_camera,_...
Neural Network Library for Javascirpt – Dannjs
Bitcoin the new gold (or store of value - hint: did you know? gold is a mineral - that's not subjective but objective)!? Sorry, Bitcoin is comedy gold! The internet of money! LOL.

The bitcoin ponzi and the austrian economics bullshit (e.g. value fluctuates based on demand - it's all subjective!) to the max lies get ever bigger. For a good summary published just a couple of days ago of the "state-of-the-fraud", see Why Bitcoin is a Ponzi (Learn how the Investment Fraud Works) [1]

PS: The damage to our planet is not subjective but objective and very very real [2]. Of course, you find nothing in this "Bitcoin Changed My Mind" about the CO2 footprint or the electronic waste etc.

[1]: https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcoin-ponzi
[2]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Maybe the stone that the moon is made from
Depends which government and where this person resides.
Read product barcode in supermarkets and display additional information.
More Dangerous Than the Capitol Riot
Fedora have been shipping on RISC-V for about three years already. Last I saw, around 95% of packages work. The main exceptions have been thing that need some JIT that hasn't been ported yet -- gcc and llvm have been working for years.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V

Same for Debian, where the percentage of packages that build on RISC-V is second only to ppc64 out of the "minor" ISAs. https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-ports-week.png
In my view, understanding all sides of the following question is central for anyone who wants to understand the implications of modern social technology.

> To cut a politician and affiliated organizations off from payment processors, Web-hosting services, and e-mail providers is to halt them at the level of infrastructure. It is a different game than the moderation of user-generated content, and raises different questions. Advocates for net neutrality have long argued that Internet service providers should not determine who their users are, within the bounds of legality; in this view, Internet service providers are akin to public utilities. For Trump, arguably, it’s as though the electric company has permanently turned off the lights.
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. It’s a lot of precedents. And there is nothing that suggests the temperature will cool down in the short term. I agree that big tech companies may do a lot more collateral damage but in my opinion they also already painted themselves with a bull eye on their back. Republicans will get back to power sooner or later and I think we should expect a regulatory backlash.
I once met a new colleague in China. We went to dinner and halfway through I complimented him on his accent-free colloquial American English and inquired if perhaps he’d gone to school in the US. He said no. I asked how he’d learned to speak such polished American. He said friends. I stupidly said... you have American friends in Beijing?? He said, ‘No, Friends... The TV show.’
Boom. You nailed it.
I use the same system (a JSON file protected with a mutex) for an internal tool I wrote, and it works great. For us, file size or request count is not a concern, it's serving a couple (internal) users per minute at peak loads, the JSON is about 150 kb after half a year, and old data could easily be deleted/archived if need be.

This tool needs to insert data in the middle of (pretty short) lists, using a pretty complicated algorithm to calculate the position to insert at. If I had used an RDBMS, I'd probably have to implement fractional indexes, or at least change the IDs of all the entries following the newly inserted one, and that would be a lot of code to write. This way, I just copy part of the old slice, insert the new item, copy the other part (which are very easy operations in Go), and then write the whole thing out to JSON.

I kept it simple, stupid, and I'm very happy I went with that decision. Sometimes you don't need a database after all.
How efficiently bitcoin can be mined has absolutely no impact on the power consumption of bitcoin mining. The difficulty adjusts.
The Solar Eclipse of SolarWinds
AT is the same. The laws are very business friendly rather than consumer friendly.
> “But Nick, Bitcoin doesn’t have any intrinsic value!” Well, guess what? Neither does gold which has a $10 trillion market capitalization!

Gold has many applications beyond its monetary association. Its electrical and chemical properties make it a key element in building circuit boards, ironically, for the machines that make Bitcoin possible.
If it isn't in an offline wallet it's likely with a legal entity registered somewhere or at least doing business in the US giving US courts jurisdiction. Even if not in the US, whatever jurisdiction they are under can enforce US rulings or court orders if allied or under treaty. If the FBI/etc follow the process to get a judge's signature saying the entity is holding illegally obtained or fraudulent assets of any kind, the entity can be liable if they do not cooperate.

Same thing as any order to seize or freeze financial assets but perhaps with more scrutiny given the pseudo-anonymity of digital currency. Same for acts by Congress that route through the Treasury to freeze assets like the Magnitsky Act.
No Congressperson should miss an opportunity to bargain and Mitch is great at it.
Not all cold wallets exist in meatspace.
Tangentially, this article makes me so very glad that our own work projects are all making use of the Django ORM. Database migrations and general usage have been a non-issue for literally years.
> Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Trump called on his followers in a statement to remain peaceful. "I urge that there must be NO violence," he said, "NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for."

If that is really the case, it sounds a lot like Trump was the scapegoat here. What do they hope to achieve by impeaching Trump when his term is almost over and punishing him for the actions of extremists?
X-Ray app using neural network to produce realistic fake x-rays in real time
The OOM killer makes running out of memory on Linux not fun. I've found that turning of overcommit avoids this problem.

Then again, I've seen BSDs handle it even worse.
> I fail to see how the President's comments are any more inflammatory than hers.

There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
My pet peeve about all these small single board computers is that none of them have multiple ethernet ports, which severely limits their usefulness as networking hardware. They'd otherwise be very well suited to being various kinds of packet routing appliances.

You can sometimes hang a usb ethernet dongle off them but performance on those tend to be somewhat limited.
Well known in academia, but what type of industrial applications is it used in? To my knowledge most mainstream software suites run plain old RANS finite volume schemes.
Bitcoin the new gold (or store of value - hint: did you know? gold is a mineral - that's not subjective but objective)!? Sorry, Bitcoin is comedy gold! The internet of money! LOL.
The bitcoin ponzi and the austrian economics bullshit (e.g. value fluctuates based on demand - it's all subjective!) to the max lies get ever bigger. For a good summary published just a couple of days ago of the "state-of-the-fraud", see Why Bitcoin is a Ponzi (Learn how the Investment Fraud Works) [1]

PS: The damage to our planet is not subjective but objective and very very real [2]. The CO2 footprint or the electronic waste is going up.

[1]: https://openblockchains.github.io/bitcoin-ponzi
[2]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Guoxuan unveils a cobalt-free LFP pouch battery cell with 212 Wh/kg
What you need to know about AWS Lambda Container Images
> But the general pattern nowadays is that people value the consistency over customisability.

Personally, I value both. I want all the modern so-called 'tamper proof' features that an OS has, but I also want myself to be in control of all of them. I am fine with switching them on so that only signed code is executed and let the OS maker handle certificate revocation and all that. But if I want to use it as a dev box, I also want the option to turn it off.

Ditto for customization - I want the ability to tweak and change tuning/configuration parameters for performance reasons, for productivity reasons, for aesthetic reasons, but I also want a 'force defaults' and/or disable customizations option for when I'm setting up the computer for a family member, etc.
Neat! Possibly you already know this but "pitch detection algorithm" would be a good search term for looking for alternatives to zero-crossing or FFTs.
I completely agree with you regarding Signal. The main knock against Parker, at least at the beginning, was that it was used to plan violence, and that is too dangerous and public safety trumps “free speech”.

I can foresee a lot of the people who were on Parker before going to signal. I am sure there is close to a 100% chance that there will be messages advocating violence like death threats on there. Some enterprising investigative journalist will gain access to a private group and publish screenshots with vile threats. Of course, Signal is unable to do any moderation, and the calls will come for it to be de-platforms as well. Their hosting cut, their domain registration removed, their GitHub account locked, etc.
Probably. I can't think of any other reason to want him to leave so badly a week before his term is over, especially when he has repeatedly been saying he wants a peaceful transition.
He's probably the biggest scapegoat of the 21st century so far, a la Girard
The Only M1 Benchmark That Matters
I didn't know prevalence to be up, or that an increase in prevalence could be easily disentangled from better diagnosis due to increased awareness of autism. Do you have data on this increase?
Even if power is free, you still get only a limited amount of it to turn into hashes. Power sources like plants or dams only produce so much. Even if you have bribed a corrupt grid operator to give you 100% of the output from a X megawatt coal plant for free, you're still limited to X megawatts of hashing. If you can turn that X megawatts into 10*X megawatts' worth of your competitors' hashing, well, you just 10xed your profit.
Looks like a clear case of migration to postgres. A single table with jsonb. You can do indexes on jsonb and a few plpgsql for partial updates, and forget about it for a while.
Agreed on the stock market valuations being crazy, but then: where would you park your stimulus money instead?

Bonds?

Gold?

Real estate?

The truth is, preserving wealth in 2021 isn't obvious at all.
> We may see the emergence of new business structures for communications and media platforms, or an increase in collective actions taken by tech workers. In all likelihood, this past weekend was a turning point not only for Trump and Trumpism, but for the American technology industry.

I'd like to hear about some testable predictions from the HN community. What do you think will happen and with what odds? And, to put a finer point on it, how much would you be willing to wager on your prediction if you were given $1,000 in credits for a prediction market (this is hypothetical, but pretend like it is real money if you can).
> I dream of communities where differences are celebrated, enhancing creative ferment

"Difference" is a semantically overloaded word. The kind of differences that are needed to move software forward aren't the kind of superficial differences that might signal creative diversity in other industries, like music, where cultural background is a significant influence on creative output.
Does it matter whether or not the cold wallet exists in a 14 eyes nation?
I highly recommend the book The Bitcoin Standard it dives into this question in depth.

Gist is Bitcoin was the first to market, has the biggest decentralized network, has been around the longest, hasn’t been hacked, has no known owner with any vested interests.

All other cryptos are pretty much piggy backing off of Bitcoin’s discoveries for fun or profit ... or trying to make it better.
This describes me, sort of. I feel more and more lack of control over my personal life. My parents have become demanding and mean as they have gotten old. My wife wants to get a bigger home while I don't think we can afford it. But I am too tired of arguing, so just giving in and going to get whatever she wants. My son loves and I love him more than anything, but when I am not working, he wants to do everything with me. Which is great but also very tiring. Simple tasks become super long.

So I was spending longer hours in the office and now longer hours doing work from home. Also I am starting different business ventures that take me out of home. Those are the only things where I feel like I have some control. I can push back against my boss a lot easier than against my parents or wife.
The solution I'm going for (for a similar problem, reading moisture from multiple plants on one esp8266) is tying the outputs from all the sensors together, and only turning on one at a time

Like this guy:

https://github.com/sfgabe/custom_scripts/blob/master/plant_m...
Vulnerable Driver Megathread (2019)
Thanks for pointing that out, I've edited it to clear up what I meant. Poor wording on my part.
Not sure that's true, some adventurers get old, some don't. Boldness has nothing to do with it. Shulgin, Leary and others reach high age, still bold people.
I get your overall point, but isn't Salesforce buying Slack? Just noting on the "it _will_ be a sad day" - perhaps it already is?
I guess you could but why would you choose to use javascript?
How much of that volume is real though?

Most of those calculations are based on self reported volume from exchanges no one has even heard of.

How systemic that risk really is is not very clear since it is concentrated to certain types of exchanges where the regulatory risk tends to be already quite high. A bank run on them would still be huge.
Linux ISO's Of course....

//inside joke if you dont know.... Data Hoarders only every have Linux ISO's....
> While Tether may indeed be a fractional reserve, that doesn't seem like an existential threat to bitcoin.

Depends on how much Tether's driven the current bubble. A 90% fall from peak is perfectly plausible; that's where it was 2 years ago. And it could go much further. Will Bitcoin vanish? No, but it after a whole new set of people have their fingers burned, it could become effectively irrelevant.

It's important to remember that the supply of new cryptocurrencies is basically infinite. Bitcoin has a brand recognition advantage over the others, but if its brand becomes "a giant vehicle for fraud that people lost absurd amounts of money in", there are plenty of other ways for speculators and marks to gamble.
Some Vulnerable Drivers (2019)
Thanks for the comment.

- If you're closing a rental car with a key fob you check the doors twice? The app said closed, it's closed.
Even if this was the case, how could you possibly ask for the entire damages caused by a third party? The ToS only talk about the user letting someone else drive the car for negligence, but how can that encompass thieves? They're not asking for a negligence fee or a deductible, they want customers to pay for damages caused by thieves.

- Nope, an immobilizer is an industry-standard for keyfobs and digital keys alike. All competitors have it. They don't track anything. They only check the idle state of the car. I you are driving, turn off the engine on a Share Now and We Share, then open a door, the immobilizer kicks in. That means that you need to open the app and "unlock the engine" to keep driving. Simple, extremely effective.
In two cases reported, Miles said the cars were stolen up to 4hrs after the users left them. Even if they forgot to close them (which users deny, with witnesses) they're admitting that the car was open and available to anyone for hours.
How is that not a public safety issue and a farlässigkeit of the company?
Since the one-way speed is impossible to measure can we just define it to be half of the two-way speed? There's no way to tell if that's correct or not but it makes no difference in any measurements you could make. So maybe for convenience we can just choose the one-way speed to be half the two way speed to simplify the calculations.
The threat model assumes the other party is trusted. If not, in the limit they can film their screen and broadcast it to the internet, so there's nothing you can do about that.
One can simultaneously roll their eyes about slippery slopes, argue that this is simply banning obvious illegal activities, etc.--and be at least a little bit discomfited that a bunch of private companies can basically disappear someone from public discourse if they want to.

Mind you. Historically most people didn't have access to a platform anyway. And the record from at least some players like AWS is that their ban bar is pretty high. But it certainly suggests that big tech can decide to cut off some slices of discourse if they feel it's convenient.
This is a rehash of a previous post of mine regarding electricity consumption:

Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that marginal electricity usage was bad for the environment. However I think that thought has persisted with us even though it is no longer true 100% of the time.
With renewables sometimes the marginal cost of electricity to our environment is near 0 or even negative (eg, during periods of higher winds and lower demand.)

I predict that in the future as bitcoin mining becomes more and more of an efficiency game that you will see bitcoin mining be kind of a load balancer the grid, effectively turning off during peak demand (or low supply) times and contributing to the base load during regular times.

For example, it may even help the economics of building new wind plants. Eg, currently it may not be profitable to build a new wind plant because base load is too low that the excess power generated would need to be sold off at 0 or even negative prices. However if bitcoin mining could be turned on during these times and off during periods of high demand, there will need to be fewer peaker plants in operation and it would positively affect the economics of opening a new wind plant.

Bitcoin mining only cares about the cost of electricity at a given time, it is not like most other electricity demands that are very time based. With the large variance of electricity generation by renewables, I think bitcoin can in the future help smooth demand according to the real supply/demand curve.

It's kind of like a different implementation of the Tesla utility grid batteries. Instead of deploying power, you force the grid to build more renewable capacity (that the miners are paying for) that you use except in peak periods, where you turn off and effectively provide the grid with more power.
If it exists outside of someone’s memory, it exists in meatspace and can be seized.
Yeah I think this is a strong take.
Containers, and cattle-vs-pets, is about making dirty system state disposable and making apps cookie-cutter and repeatably deployable.

But that's not the same as saying containers are only suitable for ephemeral workloads/data. With persistent storage it's not just possible, but I think makes a lot of sense to run something like a database inside a container. My default is to run Postgres etc. in Docker instead of 'apt install postgres', because it's so much easier to get the right Postgres version with Docker than tracking down whatever unofficial apt repo has the Postgres version I'm looking for.

The key is I do this in Docker, with a basic folder bind mount on the exact same kind of machine I would use if I installed Postgres via 'apt'. I don't do this in Kubernetes or use cloud storage volume adapters. Kubernetes brings a lot of complexity and risk into ops, and that's not what you want for a database. Docker is mostly a layered filesystem format plus a cgroups isolation wrapper around native Linux processes. So as long as you're not mixing in some other tool that e.g., adds on network traffic routing or something, it's basically just Linux with convenience features.

Switching from 'apt' to Docker with maybe a basic docker-compose.yml is an underrated infrastructure pattern. Operating Postgres from Docker feels about as simple as apt-installed Postgres, with no downsides I've seen besides needing Docker at all. It's also great for deploying in-house apps; moving workloads from vanilla OS processes with systemd and Ansible or whatever over to plain ol' Docker (or maybe Dokku) simplifies things every time I do it. It's fancy tools that build on top of Docker that make things complicated or risky, but someone rejecting vanilla Docker because they don't want to use K8s feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
> Republicans will get back to power sooner or later and I think we should expect a regulatory backlash.

It depends which type of Republicans, right now it looks like the party is de facto split in two. Even though today's vote showed that they still think the Trump side will win out in the medium to long term, otherwise I can't explain why they chose to face the media storm directly and voted against impeachment.
Looks nice but your website lacks any information about you and I have problem with trusting "faceless" websites. You should provide some info about who's behind this project. I understand that you might want protect your privacy but at the same time potential users deserve some background info.
Hmm that's interesting. At lower temperatures, would the limit also be lower? Or what's the relationship between temp and Landauer?
I wonder if the $50 million PAC to support Rs who vote to convict will sway any of them as well

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/anti-trump-group-go...
They have actual reporters. The number of US news sources with a sizable reporting staff is rather small.

Weirdly, Fox News recently exited primetime news. Their 7 PM news hour is being replaced with another opinion show.[1] This was before the riot; it was a decision based on ratings. It's a concern in that it disconnects a sizable fraction of the US population from any source of information about real-world events. Fox will still have a hard news show, but at 3 PM.

[1] https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2021/01/11/fox-news...
It fluctuates drastically over time with a bias to the upside as time goes on. And I agree due to the fluctuations it really isn’t a currency but a store of value... assuming it never gets hacked or considered illegal by all countries lol.
I would like to see Vue.js in Web Worker (https://github.com/niutech/vue-in-web-worker) officially supported in 2021.