skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirically, the former.

We've since hired many employees who just learned about our database today from this blog post but had been happily testing against it on their laptops for months.

3-4 of us know about it, and that's sufficient.
Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow over Big Tech
Yes, and follow the latest work of Alexander Mordvintsev, e.g.: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
Me to, I’m considering a UDM-Pro for my 10Gbps internet upgrade coming soon but I’m a bit afraid that it won’t play nice with multiple external IP-addresses.

Microtik is certainly interesting but I’m lost as to which model I should choose.
I personally would recommend against making a lot of custom classes via @apply, especially when pairing with a component based framework like React.

React makes it easy to avoid the need for duplicate naming such as 'btn' css class and a <Button> component.

I would also recommend twin.macro, though I'm still on the fence about using it.

At the very least, it helps with difficult things like style overwrites, ensuring utilities are spelled correctly, conditionally applying utilities and bailwind (one-off styles)
I'm guessing this is to stop him from leaking info about COVID 19's origins, or his supposed final attack on Big Tech?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/us-report-covid-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-tech/trump-says-bi...
Pig Painting May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art Yet, Archaeologists Say
Why is that an issue? That's exactly why people buy shares.
I use Hydra and have had nothing but good experiences when asking questions.
I'm glad it's not there. Having been using Ember for the last years, it's the worst JS Framework I've used since touching Backbone years ago.
The only problem is that the value of said money fluctuates drastically over time. If Bitcoin were stable in value it would be immensely useful as a currency... alas it is not.
> The landauer limit at 4.2K is 4.019×10^-23 J (joules).

At room temperature.
Oh, really works
At least the article didn't say, "I'm not bullish on bitcoin, but I'm bullish on blockchain"
The challenge I happily took is to grow the city. I'd expect if the layout of resources is not balanced, people will move out. But it turned out people move out because of the traffic??
> Bitcoin is not unseizable. A quick google search of “bitcoin seized” will uncover countless instances of governments’ confiscating bitcoin from illicit businesses, including Silk Road. This reality contradicts part of the old narrative about bitcoin—that it is useful for criminals. Bitcoin is easily trackable on the public bitcoin blockchain, making it a bad choice of currency to use when committing crime.

Could someone explain this to me? How would a government confiscate bitcoin held in a cold wallet? I get they can track it and potentially seize it if it was held on an exchange, but presumably anyone buying Bitcoin because they're worried about the government seizing their assets would not hold it on the exchange and would store it on a cold wallet?
That's great but nation states and large institutions have access to far more energy than the common man. It's hardly democratising money.
I did not hear about that one. It does sound interesting. Is there some sort of of study discussing it you could link?
Overlay of construction blueprints on reality would be amazing for foremen, site engineers, etc.
With RPKI, what happens if the RIR (i.e., ARIN, RIPE, etc)'s Certificate Authority decides to revoke the certificate for the netblock?

Does the netblock "owner" suddenly see all of its traffic dropped?

If so, this is a far more powerful takedown than simply a domain or CA takedown or revocation and takes immediate effect across the globe.

It's basically a giant "kill switch" and centralizes enormous power in the RIR's, which still have to operate according to the laws of the jurisdiction that they operate in, but span country laws.

Follow up question. What happens when a judge in (any country) issues legal notice to terminate the certificate to the RIR of a region for a netblock of an entity in another country?
This so much. I absolutely believe in digital currency and blockchain (albeit not current implementations). However, they need to tie it to something tangible and it needs to be completely detached from USD.
> and it's an increasingly difficult case to make for a home user, as all of the alternatives are pretty good.

I think this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article.

I very recently signed up for Apple One, for Music/TV/iCloud (family photos in particular)/all the rest and the fact that I now use iCloud sync instead of Dropbox bothers me nil. Prime also comes with Photos, unlimited photo backup. Used to use that just fine. Google Photos is like $1/mo.

Honestly, if Disney bundled a cloud storage service into Disney+ I'd probably give it a shot. File syncing is a commoditized feature these days for the average Joe.
The best sources of news seem to be the ones I pay for: New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
By cheering this on, many people here are supporting a barrier-to-entry that they also fall short of.
A rubber hose comes to mind.
I have been saying that two thin comfortable masks layered over each other is as good as an N95 for blocking the airflow going out. And that is the job of the masks!
Now I don't know where you live, but please don't speak for the entire world because of your own personal experience. I've experienced both good and bad of all of those things, and some places are excellent at all of them. The world has its bright spots.
Thanks for the heads up. Really excited to see a lot of folks here agree on Mullvad as a good alternative.
There are multiple reasons. You often don’t subscribe by credit card but by bank account (you authorize them to pull money from your account). This means you cannot cancel, only the company can cancel. If you want to cancel you must hire a 150€/h lawyer to take them to court and fight a lengthy lawsuit that you will lose. If you did subscribe by credit card and block it, they will hunt you down to the last cent. They have the lawyers and debt collectors while you don’t.
This has always been the case for all items of value. You might just consider some of those things "meaningful" if people have been valuing them for a very long time (like coins or other physical items which represent a standardized currency) or if the reason people value them is closely tied to features of nature which we aren't likely to change in the imminent future (like requiring scarce things such as food and shelter to survive). But at the end of the day, people are still choosing to value those things and that is all there is to it.
Who would have predicted 20 years ago that we should be more wary of Little Sister (big tech) instead of Big Brother?

I like to call them Little Sister because of how they name their seemingly innocuous digital assistants.
That’s the smart choice on their part. If they hounded you, you’d surely never buy from them again.
Ok. But your job is definitely an outlier in the European tech scene and not the norm.
What if you have to cancel this cancellation service?
After reading that I start thinking everything would be better containerized. So why not run kubernetes nodes in containers?
> Consider that computer chess tournaments do not start with the pieces in their initial positions. The first 5-15 moves are predetermined by human master players to achieve positions that are imbalanced while not having a side with a clearer advantage.

I've never heard this before, and it seems strange! Do you have a link to tornament rules with this?

Computer chess is traditionally really strong in openings because their opening book is just database lookups. What is getting a human to play the same opening book supposed to achieve?
I second “Games People Play”. It’s a very enjoyable read and it has a lot of real insight.
“There is an old story about the market craze in sardine trading when the sardines disappeared from their traditional waters in Monterey, California. The commodity traders bid them up and the price of a can of sardines soared. One day a buyer decided to treat himself to an expensive meal and actually opened a can and started eating. He immediately became ill and told the seller the sardines were no good. The seller said, “You don’t understand. These are not eating sardines, they are trading sardines.” - Seth Klarman
Building your own locking mechanism to dump out a JSON file is exactly how you would do this.

> Through this process we would do major reorganizations of our SQL data model every week, which required an astonishing amount of typing. SQL is widely used, durable, effective, and requires an annoying amount of glue to bring into just about any programming language

and

> So we invested what probably amounts to two or three weeks of engineering time into designing in-memory indexes that are transactionally consistent

Sounds to me like someone has learned a lot on the job. Good for him, but it looks exactly like what I said before.
You can't tar and feather the entirety of Europe like that. I'll provide a contra-example anecdote:

Me and two other chaps formed a start up in 2000 - bog standard IT services/consultancy. Still trundling along, we won't set the world on fire but doing OK.

One of our employees is Polish, in Poland. We pay him the same as everyone else. OK he's actually now self-employed for tax purposes and Brexit but his rate is the same as our other techies. He was working remote six months before anyone had heard of SARS-CoV-2.

When we started out our first two employees were enticed away with twice their previous pay. lol. Travel shops don't pay much here in the UK. They stayed for 10 and 15 years.

One month in 20 years we had a cash flow problem. We like to keep a decent float in the bank rather than drive fast cars. I do like to sleep at night. The Directors didn't get paid that month but all staff were paid. The next few months we caught up OK. Anyone who's run a small business will know that's not bad going for cash flow. I should point out that we have never, ever had an overdraft. We do have a mortgage but that costs less than the rent we used to pay for less than half the size of building.

I could go on (sorry). Not all startups strive for the stars. A famous French bloke once memorably described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers (ie boring as fuck): I take that as a compliment.
They're proprietary.
Openbase scores $3.6M to help developers find open-source components
It’s very arbitrary. Silver or palladium are more similar to gold than Bitcoin, but no one even tries to compare the er... “market caps” of the mined metals to each other.

It would be just as easy to say that Bitcoin had properties similar to Copper and try to back a valuation out of that. Either comparison borders on silly.
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The fact that it's only 38x the minimum is MIND BLOWING.

It doesn't run at room temp. The difference is much larger than 38x. It's closer to 1000x.
Would be great if it give us more than 1 free sms
I like the memory of watching Seinfeld to learn America's mostly unspoken social norms. Seems like comedies mocking these norms are great for learning about modern cultures. I'd be interested in a list of similar works for other cultures.
Hi everyone!

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what's the value in holding bitcoin versus any other cryptocurrency? genuine question here.

i've never understood the value of bitcoin because while bitcoins themselves are scarce, cryptocurrencies aren't.
Share Now (car2go + drive now) cars have an immobilizer regardless of the fact that they're keyless or not.
Immobilizers are a trivial tech from the 90s, the fact that these company even struggle to cover this basic safety measure is astounding
Do cockroaches fly? All the cockroaches I’ve lived with were trampled under foot.
The price of virtually all stocks has been inflated due to stimulus money, as some people are using stocks as a store of value and some are speculating.

The price to earnings ratio of Tesla is 1692—that’s nuts.
Energy consumption is a large red target making it easy for nation states to attack.

I cannot easily target your computer running proof of stake in your closet.

I can easy to cut the electrical wires into your proof of work data center.
Debian 11 Freeze Begins, Debian 12 Might Reduce Focus on i386 Support
Why Negotiating Is Just Like Doing Squats
I left the site because of their insistence on cookies.
What’s Wrong with the Way We Work
This is a pretty balanced article written by someone who's been in the trenches since pretty much the start of the story.

Worth a read, the arguments pro and con Bitcoin are well argued, and the fact that Bitcoin in 2021 is a different beast than in 2013 (in term of its properties) is an interesting - and likely valid - point of view.
The economy just has a lot of technical debt. Plans to clear it in the next sprint however without a management change clearing by starting over isn’t on the cards
Use Bluetooth. Vulog (white label provider) supports this.

They also support a physical RFID card so you can still get in/lock up if your phone dies.
Is there a future for a decentralized, secure, private, energy-conscious virtual currency? Right now it seems to me the options are A)The tulip-mania like we have right now, and those are the best of the lot. B) A 'boring' old fashioned currency controlled by the guys with the big guns and spy agencies.
That's what AWS claims. Supposedly you can reduce SQL Server costs on AWS with bring your own license (BYOL) deals with Microsoft.

On the other side too: Oracle has been extremely vocally defensive against Azure (it's a giant competitor with nearly as good a salesforce, and it's a possible slippery slope to companies finding out Microsoft Dynamics offers a lot of direct competitors to the corporate management dog and pony shows that gets Oracle's foot in the door [accounting, CRM, etc]). There's been rumors that Oracle has made sweetheart licensing deals with AWS as an attempt at bulwarking against Azure dominance.
Show HN: Domain Garage Sale on Twitter
I think we actually agree and your follow-up comment makes it clear that I misunderstood your point. I was focusing on a nitpick and that's my bad.
You confiscate the cold wallet? It exists in physical space, and so does the government lackeys. Once they have that, they are just missing a passphrase and you to get access and seize it.
I feel like we have a lot of discussion of bitcoin, and none of it makes me any more informed. There are a lot of people with opinions, there are a lot of people who want to build personal brands.
I wrote out a whole set of critiques of the points he raises, but I deleted them in the end- I do think we're re-hashing the same ground as before. If you beleive in the argument of collective delusion as value then that's fine, you haven't convinced me.
It is fully fully autonomous and all-electric, with a 90kW motor, a GM Ultium battery pack and an ultra-lightweight body with four pairs of rotors.

Hopefully that is just worded poorly? I want at least 6 (ideally 8) rotors that each have their own motors and at least 3 redundant controllers. A single motor to gearbox driving 4 props sounds problematic. I would also like to know the capacity of the batteries and minimum flight time. Does this have ADS-B so other aircraft can see me? Will this only be allowed in class-G airspace? Will these be considered IFR (assuming class c/d/e airspace) and will the automation assume the FAA requirements for IFR landing or is this on the pilot? How much do these weigh? Will these vehicles be designated a call-sign? Is manual control permitted or will these be "driverless" and GPS only? Will the GPS get TFR's and CFA's and automatically route around? What GPS will these have? What ambient air temperature are these rated at?

Oh, I missed the most important question. How much will these cost?
It's pleasant to see somebody that's clearly part of the Bitcoin community admitting basic facts like this. E.g., "Bitcoin is not a capital asset or a store of value." and "The price of BTC is nearly certainly a bubble and likely manipulated." That's been obvious for quite a while, but there are an awful lot of people who are as invested in the myths of Bitcoin as they are in the cryptocurrency itself.
...until it doesn't.
Governments have:

- guns

- jails

The threat of either of these is likely going to help you remember the password to your cold wallet quickly.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/538/

Your only protection is if they don't know your cold wallet actually exists, something that is rather hard to pull off with Bitcoin - it is easier with some other cryptos (Monero, ZCash, Beam, Grin)
A cold wallet is not secure against a battering ram to your front door and a team of paramilitary police.
I almost lost interest in the article's stream-of-consciousness style rambling until its discussion of Section 230:

> In the United States, online speech is governed by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a piece of legislation passed in 1996 that grants Internet companies immunity from liability for user-generated content. Most public argument about moderation elides the fact that Section 230 was intended to encourage tech companies to cull and restrict content. But moderation is complex and costly, and it is inherently political. Most companies have developed policies that are reactive rather than proactive. Many of the largest digital platforms have terms-of-service agreements that are constantly evolving and content policies that are enforced unevenly and in self-contradictory ways.

I highly recommend reading from this point forward.
I've had similar thoughts but free software is so pervasive. Would this apply to stuff like Foxit Reader, 7zip, or Discord? It might be really hard to draw the line.
> They won't get there with reference designs from ARM.

This nails it! I blogged about how the expected Geekbench scores for Nuvia were better than M1

- https://singhkays.com/blog/arm-cpu-faster-than-apple-m1/

Nuvia was aiming for the server space but Qualcomm probably saw an opportunity to leapfrog many generations of in-house design and catch up to A and M series chips from Apple.

For reference - Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 888 flagship lacks behind 2019 Apple A13

- https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16325/116944.png
"Give us your Bitcoin or we hold you in a dark cell forever" is the usual way
I thoroughly enjoyed "Clean Architecture." I engage with all of Uncle Bob's work in an adversarial manner: he is trying to convince me that he is right and I am playing devil's advocate. This helped me gain insight from his work, develop my own thoughts on architecture, and avoid getting too caught up in doing things the "one true way."
You're conflating financial value and the abstract concept of value. Financial value is really just a function of supply and demand. Food and clean water may be a lot more important than megayachts, but they're also also far more abundant than megayachts.

It happens that maximizing financial value also does a good job of improving people's lives, so we treat as truth. Right now, we're starting to see this fall apart as certain valuations stop making sense and certain negative externalities start coming to light. That said, I still think in general, valuations tend to be more right than they are wrong.
Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency plan to build nuclear propulsion engines
At least in Scandinavia a mile means 10km, just a shorthand. Not sure if it’s the same in Germany
Thin clients were fun, but they aren’t nearly fast enough for modern multi-gigabit Internet connections. They can route maybe up to a couple hundred Mbps.

I’m wondering whether a mini-PC can route even 1 Gbps at line rate. Lots of people are using mini-PCs as routers, but most of them have only 1×1Gbps Ethernet interface and no PCI slots. The Minisforum DMAF5 has 2×1Gbps Ethernet interfaces, but that’s an off-label use and I haven’t seen any benchmarks.

Of course, if you go all the way up to mini-ITX, then there are plenty of options for various performances of CPUs and network interfaces.
Rust is extremely exclusionary (to non-progressives). The "niceness" is mostly a facade - a lot of the people in the Rust community are extremely passive-aggressive and back-stabby. OTOH, I've contributed to a lot of "rude" projects where they'll treat you with respect and won't try to pull weird bullshit if you actually come in to make a contribution rather than to do political activism or something.

Even if you've never had to interact with them, it's easy to see that social signaling is more important to the rust community than doing good work. Last time I was in the Rust discord, their channel logo was literally the rust logo over a the gay flag with lines for black and brown people added. Wtf?

I've submitted probably >100kloc to various open source projects over my career, and the weird politicking and immature behavior of the Rust community soured me on contributing to the Rust ecosystem almost immediately.
Clicks can be short for KM in some locales. Equally ungoogleable though.
Slides on the Pacific Northwest Tech Market
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Nebraska legislators introduce a bill to fund students instead of systems