skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the scheme described by the article really exists, then it represents a substantial fraction of the demand for BTC.
It's true that such a scheme collapsing would drive demand for BTC from USDT holders up. That's of course assuming they could still trade their USDT. Tether (the company) cancelled $30 million worth of coins stolen from them a few years back which suggests if the company was seized the ability to trade USDT could be disabled.
But it's also true that such a scheme collapsing would instantly drive demand for BTC from Tether (the company) to zero. If that demand really is almost 70% of all the demand for BTC then BTC's price should decline significantly.
The editorialised title is both accurate to the beginning of the article, and more informative. I would have ignored the original title. Thanks to the editorialised title, I now know that magnets can mess with pacemakers.
"<CR><RET> is an implementation detail from an OS nobody has used for decades"

Yeah they're taking the piss. You can make the same argument about GUI tools too. We're gonna be dealing with "implementation details" for awhile lol. This thread is wild. Makes me understand why all the juniors I work with suck so much.
People are still using dropbox in the age of one-click nextclouds in aws, freenas, digitalocean, etc? Interesting.
At a minimum, you have to define max correctly. That’s not 100.00% of RAM bytes or CPU cycles and is probably under 25% of Ethernet networks for example.
I use a mix of syncthing and seafile. Syncthing is very simple to setup and pretty much set-and-forget. Seafile is more involved but the end result is closer to the classic Dropbox experience.

If you’re not interested in self-hosting and just want a straight Dropbox replacement, I’d look into Nextcloud providers.
Games Workshop still struggling with ERP project
well, yeah. Every path and name ever in all of history is arbitrary. As is the seperator between the components.
Too many to list. Currently working as a senior programmer for the user-facing client for a company worth hundreds of millions, with an app store rating of 4.9.

Previously, I've developed open source software that got 5000-10000 downloads a day, and a few private commercial projects that pulled in a few thousand dollars a month.

A recent open source project on github has 8k stars.

Is that enough credentials to listen to what I say?
>As one of the original co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi knows a little something about keeping controversial services online. Kolmisoppi and his colleagues spent decades battling a global coalition of corporations, governments, and law enforcement agencies intent on wiping the file sharing website from the face of the internet. Unsuccessfully.

This implies that he was unsuccessful. As we all know, he was not
In addition, you are limited to the few providers which are being supported by the platform. So you can't simply create your own authentication provider as it was possible with OpenID.
Also check out the book (not the movie) "Non-stop" by Brian Aldiss. The first 2/3 of the book is meh - uninteresting characters, motivations, a bit above average setting. Then it really takes off and you see the writer hasn't been wasting your time.

Also The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It's much slower paced and more about the mood and immersion.
I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion. You are comparing people protesting against a constant threat to their lives from law enforcement - ask any black parent about "the talk" - to people protesting losing an election fomented by lies.

On one side you have a real issue impacting the life of millions of people daily, on the other you have an issue artificially created based on lies, falsehoods and misdirection.

These are not even remotely similar events, not by any measure. The response to these events from law enforcement was not close, nor comparable.

Stop this false equivalence.
I moved to Tresorit, and so far it’s been great. It’s end-to-end encrypted/zero-knowledge. The service is a little bit enterprise-y, but really solid. I’ve done all I can to test and and haven’t been able to flaw it. Merge conflicts end up as duped files, just like Dropbox, which is great.

Their Mac app is good. It’s native and doesn’t use a ton of resources (I haven’t used it on other desktop platforms). AFAIK, it doesn’t support APFS extended attributes, so Finder tags won’t get synced. It does use the Finder sync extension API though.

It works slightly differently to Dropbox — rather than just being a single folder that syncs, it’s more like selective sync, where you have multiple folders that are optionally synced. This confused me a little during setup, but I think I prefer it now.

I tried pretty much all the other alternatives and didn’t like them. I’m already paying for iCloud Drive, so I’d love that to work, but it’s chewed up files or taken hours to sync on too many occasions, so I don’t trust it any more.
It is false that we as an industry cannot make robust software. We have made lots of software I would classify robust. E.g., in aerospace (yes, there are always exceptions), defense, and automotive.

My washer's, dryer's, and oven's software has proven quite reliable, too.
Fabien Senglard made a similar point [0]
[0] https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/index.html
I haven't had problems with files , but that might be just me. I had an issue in the past that it would crash . i removed and reinstalled and it s fixed now
That would be welcome. Although I must say that I very very much enjoy the 'one cable' lifestyle. All peripherals either hang off my screen when at home or off a single dongle when on the go (in the latter case I use a separate power cable)
Does python have anything like this?
I tried about half a dozen cloud backup solutions and Dropbox, so far, is the only one who can deliver the only thing that matters to me: Consistency. Dropbox actually works and it works well. It can handle suddenly having thousands of tiny text files, it can handle a 5GB PDF, it handles foreign letters in file names and it has a sane way of determining which file version is the current one when switching between platforms.

It gives me cold sweat to read headlines like this since there aren't enough alternatives to Dropbox that "just work". Similar to what happens to Apple. I have no idea why Dropbox is fucking around with their shit so much. I'd happily pay a dollar more here and there (and they just increased pricing!), just don't do bullshit in the background.
Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don't want ads. But they don't see it that way (don't get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).
Message archiving and analytics for Amazon SNS
That is because it is not good for large general purpose systems. But it is good for specific domains.
Why do we in the UK have politicians and public servants who have such a scant disregard for “IT”?
They turn off/disable the pacemaker. They are used in situations where the pacemaker is not functioning as intended. ERs have ring magnets specifically to activate this designed feature. Imagine if a pacemaker is triggering the heart out of sequence, or if an installed defibulator is constantly shocking the heart. The external magnet is a simple way of turning it off temporarily.
Ok, just make sure you record anyone who says something that you do not agree with. You never know when you might need it.
Yes, but usually in that situation, the misunderstanding is intentional. This seemed a genuine inability to understand why I would quit over "a simple upsell".

I am sure the inability to understand that it was a dark pattern to have no [X] or [SKIP] button was intentional :-)
You've hit the nail on the head here. The only arguments in favour of these are money-oriented and therefore celebrating the fundamental move towards a dystopic future (insofar as it isn't already here, which is debatable to a painful degree).

Nobody wins here, except for a very small group of already outrageously powerful and rich people. Any regular human being will at best gain nothing from this and at worst have all of their information inserted into the Google silo.
We gotta keep beating this drum though. You get people saying programming is just learning Node.Js or learning X or learning Y, and you end up with bootcamps and no computer science. Just reading this thread has been a true journey.
ETA PRIME video : Odroid Go Super First Look, Test & Teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-FjshTM1c
Hobs output >2 kW, phones just... don’t (edit: i.e range of magnetic field is longer)
Did you feel the same way about the Summer riots as the Capitol riots?
Even hardworking developers will sometimes don't care about the user experience. For example, Linus could have spent a few hours polishing the git CLI. Instead we have had millions of developer hours wasted in making sens of the CLI inconsistencies...
Sorry to be that guy, but if you didn't already know you're describing an MMO called https://screeps.com/

Although I do love the idea of a single-player version!
A while back, I met a fashion designer who is also an expert seamstress. And I do believe most music composers can play the piano. You have to learn to walk before you can fly.
I am starting to understand your client a bit.

"In no way dependent" actually does mean _absolutely not dependent_. How often do you conflate meanings when dealing with this client? Are you/your company offshore? from another culture(Asia) perhaps? Some people have no patience for soft lies.
The question which need to be asked about Chrome clones and mods is not what additional features they have added or removed. That is still "addons" territory. The question which needs be asked - did you (developer) made any different decision at all about Google made decision. E.g. Google decides to abandon some protocol, or add support of some protocol, or whey decided to abandon some core option which adblockers depend on etc. Did you (developer) made a different decision at that point, forked code and maintain your decision independently from Google. Until that happens all the Chrome mods are just that - slightly lagging behind Chrome versions with addons.
> /usr/local/bin is an implementation detail from an OS nobody has used for decades

Linux, MacOS, the BSDs... They're very much used today, not just decades ago. the /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are very simple to understand after around 10 minutes of looking at the contents of / (root).

*/bin/ has binaries,

*/lib/ has libraries,

*/include/ has headers.

Its as simple as it gets, I dont see a way you could make a "better" system, other than maybe renaming "bin" to "binaries" for the 5 people on the planet with an irrational fear of common abbreviations.
You can absolutely buy it as an end user, but the catch is that it doesn't pass the grandma test, you need to be a bit more tech-savy.
Did you forget about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII? That’s not that long ago (he was an uncle of Elizabeth II, wasn’t he?)
While for contacts and location that would be a good feature (I agree!), I'm not so sure about storage. It may be nice for certain rogue apps (or ones that request permissions they don't actually need) to give them /dev/null without them knowing, but that may actually result in bugs and unstable behaviour if apps are written to expect working storage.

Storage doesn't have a built-in failure mode like contacts and location have.
At least I hope it was...
Probably meant Twitter. Sci-Hub is not a company.
Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images
Not even the government uses backups... crazy. Imagine other issues like privacy, I do not expect them to be compliant. They do not look to be that different than an average citizen at least in IT terms.
MIT Proposed Electric Plane design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95%
The banking lifestyle: working alone with no sleep
16-20 hour days.
>just a minimally invasive off switch.

Yup. A safety mechanism that has to be low tech. And user training to avoid magnets is safer than a more complicated interface.

The reason this is news is that not all cellphones are magnets, nor is there any obvious indication which are magnets.
The "scientists" are often far less valuable or have outright negative contribution.
I suspect the MagSafe bit may be an integrated charger for phones to charge from the laptop.
You could check MIUI or Realme which already has that feature.
Hey Rick, that is EXACTLY what we are aiming for. Feel free to join the newsletter so you will be updated when this functionality is there!
iOS almost allows this for geo-location nowadays, where one can pick whether to give ones exact position or a much less exact position, and for photos where one can select exactly what photos the app should get access to.
Skimming the comments here makes me nostalgic for the days when every Mac came with HyperCard.
And what does "usr" mean?
250 picodollars / byte-month is $3000/TB/yr, which is very expensive even compared to the already expensive S3 (~$276/TB/yr).

For reference, HDDs cost ~$20/TB, so you could buy a new HDD every 2.5 days for the cost of storing the data on tarsnap.
This will be a different advice from what you expect, but be thankful for all things you have.

Stop worrying about being more productive and making a lot more money. I'm not saying you shouldn't think about this things, but don't let worries about those things consume you and become your whole life.

Understand that on average you are living better than kings and queens did thausend years ago or even 100 years ago. Got a fridge? well be thankful for that. Got heating, a bed, bath, clothes, food that you like? you are living the dreams of billions of people who can't have any of it. Just be thankful for things before you want to get more.

Happiness is doing more and expecting less.
At first I thought this would be a paid positive troll, but then the post went so far into absurd fandom I figured you couldn't make this up if you tried.
> completely arbitrary choice with no relevance to modern systems

sounds like you never learned anything about computers before deciding you want to write software for one. It's pointless to argue with someone that has no idea about even the basics of a common OS.
If I say something publicly on an world-accessible platform, then sure go ahead and record it. I'm not sure I understand what problem you have with this.
That's not really a like for like comparison though. You could for example light up a white pixel on a black background in the browser, which almost everyone has installed by default, or using the basic OS APIs or by downloading PICO-8 which is pretty small IIRC.

There are tradeoffs being made in all three choices and each will suit a different context.
Firefox is slower with pure Javascript performance (factor 2 in my experience), but Chrome blew it with hardware rasterization. This slows down rendering large SVGs by up to a factor 10, so for our app Firefox is much much faster unless you disable hardware rasterization on Chrome. It obviously depends on the use case.
The whole point is, there is no reason to require a programmer to know them. That is an arbitrary choice we have made.

We could make a different choice, and not require a programmer to know these things. They could do everything just as well without knowing this, if we let them.
How many people put their phone in their "upper pockets"? Or even have "upper pockets"?
> The mi band might suit your needs better.

The Mi Band 4 has a 96MHz MCU and not a lot more storage.

> I’m not sure the pine time will be powerful enough to actually use.

I suspect you're grossly overestimating the compute power needed for a lot of the features smartwatches currently have because you're not very familiar with ecosystem.
Which search would you lose? Their iOS app has search, and on macOS your can use Finder’s search. I assume there’d be ways on Android, Windows and Linux as well.

Actually, I just checked and their Mac and web apps also have search.
I've used and programmed computers for over three decades.
This doesn't really answer my question. I knew the money was given for reasons. The question is who is really getting it.

Note that the same report says that excluding subsidies, farmer net income increased in 2020 over 2019, so I'm not convinced the Covid pandemic is a good reason.
Yes, the magnetic sensor allows the implant to be 'suspended' for tests or if other treatments need it 'off' for the duration.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25677717
Analysis of a Toxic Death (1995)
https://pypi.org/project/django-sockpuppet/

It's a SR clone, the maintainers are actually very active in our community :-)
My arse it can, the "covid benefit" will be a near-as-damn-it mandatory digital ID card, so mandatory mobile phone tracking device, accessible by government, police and Palantir. Why not attach a cattle-tag to our ears and be done with it.
> Programming COULD use a lot of simplification

I so completely disagree. Writing JavaScript is already so simple that almost nobody knows how to do it any more. You can download a colossal framework and a billion NPM packages to write some completely unoriginal CRUD application and bitch about how hard life is. Fearing writing original code is the name of the game.
You can literally code in most browsers by accessing their developer tools. It's a hotkey away. You can go write javascript right now.

Second, there are many tools like https://repl.it/ and https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ that let you code in browser. I have used a half dozen similar tools on educational websites that allow coding in browser.

Not everyone needs to know how to code, how to be good at it, or have the temperament for it. And the fault rarely lies with the environment around programming.
I have one, and I think it's progressing fast. Being nearly on-par with Mi Band ~4 is not far. The more people join the community, the faster the progress gets.
To me, this looks like one of the few real ways out of the madness that is modern frontend development. Excited to see the approach gaining adoption!
IME all recent cell phones contain fairly strong magnets in their speakers. They tend to clog up with iron filings/dust in my workshop.
I second the tabs on the side. This was the main reason I even gave Vivaldi a try. I’ve been using it daily for over two and a half years now.

In addition to a lot of awesome features (one of my other favorites is side by side tabs), it’s a browser which treats me like an adult and gives me control over how it works. The configuration section can be overwhelming at times, but they provide a lot of knobs and switches to customize the browser how I want.

I definitely recommend giving it a spin!
How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
Yes wtf, I'm already paying and trying to watch a series I enjoy, stop pestering me. Just one of many dark patterns at Amazon, cancelling Prime is so difficult that Norwegan Consumer Council and 15 others yesterday started a legal fight with Amazon: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/amazon-manipulates-...
The video there is quite aggravating.
There have been some general purpose visual programming environments which have had some degree of uptake. Prograph is one (http://www.andescotia.com/products/marten/) - it is certainly niche but apparently there are users.
I think I can sit in my car with a foot on the brake pedal all day long and it won't break the car.

Your proposed problem will probably only affect bad spellers, who have a break pedal.
I like how they mention KHTML and Gecko/Quantum as it gives a good perspective, but I feel like the reasoning behind 'chromium' is the defacto internet standard is pretty weak.

I mean, having one dominating browser engine is a sickness (it weakens the standards) and not something internet companies should embrace. But I understand their reasoning about resources.
Cloudflare Dashboard Is Down
iOS has started doing this, at least for photos.
Just because the title is editorialized doesn't mean that is a bad thing, the first line of the article is:

> The Heart Rhythm Society has issued the following information regarding the use of the new iPhone 12 Series and ICDs.

The original title is, in classic British style, quite understated, some editorializing is justified.
> The PineTime is a huge downgrade from pretty much everything on the market.

Not really, no. Very popular Mi Band 1 up to Mi Band 5 are very much on-par in terms of hardware. The software just has to catch up and that's probably coming.

If the project is successful, a PineTime 2 with some minor HW upgrades would be doable. Then it would take much less time because now there's a community and software out there that can be reused.
I think the magic word is seems.

My experience with Firefox got much faster after I installed a local DNSMasq server.

Things got noticeably faster after that point.

For details, see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877330

This comment was when I first installed DNSMasq on a very low powered OrangePi Zero (512MB) on home network. I worked a lot of kinks and this situation holds truer when compared to that time.
TLDR: "the new functionality allows users to disable echo cancellation and post-processing, and get rid of compression, and increases the audio codec quality from 22kHz to 48kHz, 96Kbps mono/192Kbps stereo"
Since I currently do not own a Windows PC, I could only test using the web interface, Android and iOS app. All of them seem to work fine (~10MB .pst file), at least upload and download works and the hashsums match afterwards.

If you want to test this yourself, Onedrive has a free tier you could try.
you dont need to understand $path to start coding in javascript.
Just open a textfile with .html ending in an editor and in your browser..
You don't have to set up anything to get going.
All command line tools are by third parties. There is no first party.

And it brings no good things. This is entirely superfluous complexity. You could have all the benefits with far less complexity if you just put in the effort to build and design things.

But we don't. We've decided that it is impossible to do so. And many people have decided that knowing all of these obscurities makes them smart, and they will look down on anyone who doesn't.
Does anyone know if magsafe is still patented? I checked many many years ago and it was, which was why I couldn't find other vendors offering it, but has that patent somehow last over 20 years?
Is the sector more louche than any other?
> Spain is a country with huge problems

Any sources or further reading?
That's cherry-picking the number from the upper range of estimates, and is glossing over the fact that hydrocarbon fuels also have production costs that can be measured in CO2e before they're burned and become tailpipe emissions.

Source: https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...

Additionally, Tesla's relatively cost-effective (and hence energy-efficient) manufacturing of battery packs will bring this down, probably to well under 100 kg.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pa...

Another way to look at this kind of thing is to directly convert dollars into CO2. This is assuming that all "economic activity" directly or indirectly uses energy, and that most energy is fossil-fuel based. This is actually a good way to estimate the maximum energy usage, because energy is fungible but businesses aren't a charity. They'll sell you something for the energy cost plus profit, but not less than the base energy cost.

A Tesla replacement pack costs roughly $15K and a matching solar panel to charge it would cost about $10K. That's the equivalent to burning $25K of a fuel such as petrol. Even before the pandemic, my fuel costs were quite low at about $1.5K/year, so it would have taken nearly 17 years to break even! An Uber driver might be able to achieve a net benefit for the environment in under a year.