skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fifteen years ago I spent three weeks in Pakistan (as part of a significantly longer trip) - entered from the Indian side not far from Amritsar, went to Lahore, spent some time in rawalpindi then off to the Hunza. I also got the nastiest bout of diarrhea I had ever had in my life, most likely caused my bad meat (I still remember the faulty kebab...).

The locals where very friendly. When I was in the bus on the karakoram highway, we had a brief stop (bathroom break, food, etc). I was chatting with someone who was asking where I came from, when suddenly he snapped his fingers. A can of coke appeared on his hand, and he handed it to me, saying 'welcome to Pakistan!'.

As to the landscape, I still remember it many years later.

A truly extraordinary place.
Those don’t bear any similarity to this situation. Region codes allow effectively the same DVDs to be sold at different prices in different markets. iOS and Mac apps are different products altogether; it takes twice as much effort to design the UI for mouse vs touch, write code to use both AppKit and UIKit APIs, etc.
Don't know about local, but The New York Times is server-side-rendered React, ditto The Intercept, or Latvia-based Russian media called Meduza. The Times seems to be using server-side-rendered React and graphql/apollo as well.

In 2014-2015, React was eating the world, and newspapers didn't want to get left behind.
Actually, k8s was written in Java originally. Then basically verbatim copied to golang. That’s why you have this ObjectMeta stuff - it was trying to implement an OO system in golang. Lots of weirdness can be traced back to the Java origin.
https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter

> On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee.

What an absurdly passive corporate euphemism for GitHub wrongfully firing one of their employees.
> Bitcoin mining would itself encourage greater energy production

Bitcoin does not generate energy - it consumes it.

And the world does not benefit from any encouragement to produce and consume more energy.
> Android is why it is clearly wrong to intervene in Apple’s secure store.

Why is Android wrong? The sky hasn't fallen over on the Android side.

Android's security woes are caused by lack of updates from carriers (which frequently delay or block Android updates), OEMs (which frequently don't bother to port security updates because they want to sell the newest devices, shenanigans similar to those pulled by Apple until it changed its stance about 2 years ago or so).

I don't know many people side loading apps or installing alternate app stores. The big alternative app stores are Chinese, which are there for obvious, non security related issues, and Amazon's app store, which is used primarily on their devices.

So I don't really see the problem. I do see a solid Stockholm syndrome.
Nobody was "worshipping" it, and nobody has asserted that it's infallible; that being the case, your comment is entirely content-free.
The low end tablets will meet the same fate as the low end android ones. Applications developed using the high end devices in mind will run painfully slow or perform miserably on the lower end ones. The higher end tablets might come with extra graphics support and such which would leave developers flummoxed on which devices to target.

Of course gaining traction as a closed source Chinese OS would be very difficult and unless we can see some code ourselves and run it locally, its all just speculation.
There definitely is an obsession with Apple in a subset of the "design community" - I've seen lots of aping of aesthetics with no functional justification (such as web sites with brushed aluminum and linen textures which became popular after OS X releases that featured the same cues)
Couldn't the same be achieved without a currency that encourages mining?
Comparing Bitcoin to a credit card payment isn't really a fair comparison. (Since if people really like the credit card model so much you can build credit card like things on top of the Bitcoin network) A more apt comparison would be to an international wire transfer which costs $15-$40 and takes a few days to complete.
Yes it is. You can have empty block or full block and energy expended is the same.

Cap is irrelevant in this context.
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I got my MobiScribe last week after trying out a ReMarkable (v1) for a bit.

The screen isn't as nice to write on, but the software works better for me (I hate to say that; it's Android (4.4!)) and it has a backlight.

There's the option to sideload apps, but there is a browser installed when you buy it. Downloading books and apps can be done over WiFi.

I have to say I like it. The option to replace the reader gives you flexibility, as did the community offerings on the ReMarkable.

MobiScribe costs less, and is smaller.
That's why most people here agree it has a purpose but that it should be opt in rather than opt out
Because economic pressures are much stronger than humanitarian pressures, so standardized things are optimized to be as small and cheap as possible. Hence slums, standardized testing and junk food.
Two things:

1) Our knowledge of physics is still very small. ~20% of the universe is 'dark matter'. All we really know about it is that it falls down. It outweighs the stuff you, I, and the all the stars in existence are made out of by ~4x. The other ~75% of the universe is 'dark/negative energy'. We know even less about it beside that it seems to fall ... up (?). And it's the super majority of what we know it out there. Give it another 200 years, and even this understanding is going to be embarrassingly outdated. Any other civ that is just 10k years ahead of us is going to be working in physics that we can't even imagine.

2) That leads to the larger issue: Time. The difference in our lives and the lives of the earliest humans is literally astronomical, in that we have people living up in space now. That same rate of difference separates us from any neighbors out there. Their understanding of our universe is likely to be so vast that we're essentially amoeba to them. Though intelligent life may exist out there in bushels, we're still infants in what 'intelligent' means. We may be surrounded by olde gods rendering us effectively alone all the same, and those gods themselves surrounded by yet grander deities rendering them alone as well.
>presenting you and me with a lot more space on our screens wasted showing ads for things you don't care about.

As opposed to the ads for toilet seats from that one time I bought a toilet seat online 6 months ago.

If anything forcing adds to be dumb will mean that we get high quality publications in niches again. If you sell model ships advertising on model-ships-magazine.com actually incentivizes a quality site that is interested in furthering the hobby and keeps your dumb smart ads from clogging up the rest of my life.
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> In the post, GitHub COO Erica Brescia said: “To the employee we wish to say publicly: we sincerely apologize.”

How about offering the employee a generous severance package and their job back?

edit: Based on their blog it seems like they did, the linked article just didn't mention this.
In an alternate universe, the etymology of “ZIP” would be derived from Ziv, plus a P for Phil Katz.
I'd love a newsletter that tracked what patents were expiring on any given week. I'm pretty ignorant of what's coming down the pipeline from a legal perspective.
Very true, life is a never ending chicken egg problem
As a mob attacked the Capitol, Wikipedia struggled for words
Yep it’s fud. For those who aren’t aware let me let you in on a secret. Some people who hold crypto push fud for the coins/tokens they hold to make others not buy them. This seems counter intuitive but gives people whose cash flow is low a longer period to get a decent stake. Then you have sad 4channers who do it just to be mean. Beware the fud. If people are pushing a negative view in something always ask what’s in it for them.
> I'd be curious to see if anyone here can actually present a site that doesn't archive in the Wayback Machine or archive.today.

* Reddit: https://web.archive.org/web/20210106020050/https://www.reddi... and https://archive.vn/https://www.reddit.com/

* Youtube videos are understandably not archived because of their size; but the rest of the website (comments, collections, ...) is barely usable because of the consent popup https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024051if_/https://www.yo...

* Microsoft support: https://web.archive.org/web/20210109125722/https://support.m...

* Instagram, even before it was all login-walled

* Facebook

* Amazon product pages are partially broken (no images, the rest loads without JS)
The US is under siege but hardcore leftists bent on the total and complete destruction of the US.

They lied about covid.
The burnt down all of our cities last summer.
They stole an election.

This is really nothing short of war.
> Perhaps you should explain your objections against big companies paying for open-source software?

My own objection is against non-free software. It's alright that companies pay for software. In my experience big companies are really happy to pay for free software (regardless of its license), as long as they can steer the software towards their needs, have an assurance that development does not break their tests and use cases, etc.

The GPL has no provision against entrepreneurs using it for bootstrapping their businesses; I do not understand your remark in that sense.
Is there more to this story? It is not clear why it mattered that the employee is Jewish and seems like that could have happened to anyone else as well.
Even better would be to get better thermal isolation of your house.
Actually, there are still rant on women subs on reddit. And rant on left reddits. And anti masks anti lockdown subs on reddit. They all also exist on Twitter.

The people who want to rant hatmlessly without brigading other subs and without harrasing users of other subs are still there.
I see
I have been using Arch on my Dell XPS 13 running i3wm I’m kinda hesitant to switch to mac as I would loose the power to customize my environment compared to linux
Welcome to progressive politics. Science and logic do not matter. They will use climate change to take your chosen store of value. Because your chosen store of value reduces their power over you. Pretty simple, really.
How different is it from Freecycle?
Nope. People are not taking advantage of anything. Do you live in Iran?

Majority of bitcoin is mined in containers. Civilians do not have access to megawatt power supplies. Civialns also can't import such containers. Electricity may be cheaper but graphic cards and ASICs certainly are not.

TDLR; people don't have access to mining equipment or power source required. Rulers do.
I'm not underestimating stone age humans -- I've spent much of my life learning and using stone age skills. Not enough that I can actually live as a stone age human, mind, and there's the rub. In that learning, I've met a very small number of folks (like [1]) who are actually equipped to survive a stone age. Judging by my experience, by watching other "good" students in those classes... with good training by masters, we still fail hard on our first few times out. And we're well-fed, moderately well-equipped, and not suffering from radiation poisoning.

The real question isn't "how badass were stone age humans", it's "can the smartphone generation re-invent stone age technology quickly enough to survive"?

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411125/lynx-vilden-stone-age-...
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Those are very special and seems most of them are fixed/possible already?
Overall, a very good and thorough analysis with a completely comprehensible explanation why she's preferring a 100% BTC, 0% ETH strategy.

I have only some minor quibbles.

GPUs are very much not abundant. Gamers were complaining a lot during the last bull run that those crypto nuts were buying up all available high-end GPUs.

Also comparing the hashrates of Bitcoin and Ethereum doesn't make sense. Those are different algorithms that run on completely different hardware. Bitcoin ASICs can only be used for Bitcoin (or Bitcoin forks that haven't changed the POW algorithm) where GPUs as more general programmable devices can be repurposed for mining other cryptocoins which might be more profitably to mine at any given time. Together with the fact (as stated in the article) that Ethereum has reduced the block rewards over time, it's not surprising that the hashrate isn't bigger than during the previous bull run.

This leads to the criticised monetary policy of Ethereum. This wasn't explicitly mentioned in the article but Ethereum's monetary policy can best be summarized as "don't overpay the miners for securing the network".

Many see it as a necessary evil that Ethereum is still running on POW and they are eagerly awaiting the jump to POS. It is seen as a design flaw of Bitcoin that it has a rigid coin issuance that isn't dynamically adjusting to the actual demand.
I loved generals!!!
Stephen seems unaware of the fact that his objections to bitcoin are solved by ethereum.

- bitcoin uses huge amounts of energy

- bitcoin has no cash flow

- bitcoin has no use cases

vs.

- ethereum consumes ~100% less energy via proof of stake

- ethereum has cash flow from fees ($68M last week)

- ethereum has ~infinite use cases since it's an app platform
If someone can make a very low power / overhead consensus model that can defend it self, and preferably free to use then this tech might actually be worthy.

Right now, it’s more harm than good?
World Wide Google. If a modern person goes with the flow, they wind up using Google for every facet of their online life: OS, web browser, search, email, youtube watching, personal photos, cloud storage, DNS, address book, chat, office suite, wallet... I wouldn't entrust my best friend with all that data, let alone people over whom I have zero power and have never met.
You can’t choose the kind of energy Bitcoin gets made with. It’s produced worldwide and mining moves to wherever energy is cheapest, which ends in a race to the bottom.

> What you call energy waste others would call effort

This is my whole issue with it - effort doesn’t have to be tied to wasting energy, but it is in Bitcoin. Why would people call wasting energy ‘effort’ in a system where wasting energy wasn’t intrinsic to the system itself.
The true statement is "We consumed this amount of power and were able to process this amount of transactions" but the power usage does not scale with transactions. You could increase the block size and get far more transactions without changing the power usage because the power is not used to process transactions.
I'm wondering how many people are working on Sea Shanty Tech right now
Sorry for the typo I mean to say would you suggest some resources to learn Golang
I would say you should be loyal to people but not companies.
No. If a millions of electric heaters had a bitcoin miner in them that runs "for free" the difficulty of mining would would skyroket accordingly.

The "value" of the mining is based on the sacrifice of something else, in this case energy, unfortunately.
Always browse in incognito? Eff that, uninstall the offending app when you find out they are tracking everything you do online.
Love bisqwit's videos.

For anyone curious how the mario animation is rendered in the editor: https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor/blob/master/mario.cc
Maybe we can't for now and that's okay. There are so many solutions to choose from and the only thing that would make it popular would be if the people you want to chat with or on it. There's also a big issue with any of these platforms, MONEY. People want to text, share images and videos and audio. Want to have audio and video calls over data. A proper interface, cross device sync and they want it all fre e. Most people will use free software.

So you know maybe we just can't do better for now.
An 2nd Hand Kindle paperwhite is £30.
<plug>You can us it as a monitor https://barwap.com/projects/okmonitor/ </plug>
From the original blog post: we immediately reversed the decision to separate with the employee and are in communication with his representative.

They probably can't say more than that.
I love this idea. I just watched the movie on minimalism on Netflix as well. It really brought to the fore of my mind how much stuff I have that I do not use, and reminded me why moving apartments was so difficult.
I checked--if you have turned 5x-shift sticky keys off, you don't get that window when locked, defeating this exploit. So that would be a good workaround. Many users turn it off!
The storage costs more than the energy does.

It's not worth doing except in places where utility rates are artificially inflated to make it worth doing (CA/NY).
It’s explicitly not trading - and they recommend a library or a group to find the book.

(The reality is it’s likely not their book to give away - it’s the publisher’s.)
I wouldn't publish the results of my multi year scientific effort on a platform "anyone" could make changes. Reviewer are expected to have a suitable qualification and experience and no bias. The publisher knows the reviewers and can select suitable ones. In a wiki, where anyone can publish or change anything without control, the scientific level - at least in certain areas - will inevitably level down. There is no perfect system, but there are many worse than we already have.
Patents have stalled technology in many areas since a long time. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" [1] by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine analyze the economical impact of patterns on society. They give some surprising examples, like how the Wright brothers invested heavily in patents and legal actions to stiffle competition instead of continuing development of airplanes.

[1] http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
I think the fact that the employee is Jewish just points to the egregiousness of the decision rather than tipping the scale one way or another.
Buynothing is the only reason I have a token FB account. It works extremely well. We probably gift something for porch pickup at least once a week. It’s really efficient.
I use a Kobo Libra H2O which has been quite good to me. For people that want to take it to the next level, there's the calibre-web project[1]. It's able to tie into calibre and push books to kobo devices through the built-in sync command.

[1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
One of the factors I feel in the collapse or Marconi was the obsessive penywise pound foolish attitude of its CEO.
Same thing basically. Both groups exist here and plenty of people belong to both.
Ah, I see they mentioned that on the blog but it wasn't in the linked article in the OP. Good to know!
Most of the "tokenized Bitcoin" you're referring to is just an ERC20 promise of redemption from Bitgo's coffers. It's not at all comparable to Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
I think they have offered his job back. That's the impression I got reading from their blog: https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter/

"In light of these findings, we immediately reversed the decision to separate with the employee and are in communication with his representative."
This is one of many reasons why Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake (PoS) and ditching Proof of Work (PoW). The already functional Ethereum 2.0 chain has Bitcoin's security guarantees for a tiny fraction of the electricity costs.

Bitcoin's yearly electricity consumption is now estimated at $3.8 billion. This must be sustained indefinitely, and is a huge target for regulation and nation state interference.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

Bitcoin's "store of value" has a forever price tag in the billions yearly. This doesn't make economic sense.

If Ethereum can fulfill Bitcoin's role as a "store of value" at a much lower yearly cost, I don't see how it would not eventually become more attractive as a store of value.

For a great detailed explanation on why PoS is better see Vitalk's blog. Vitalik views attacks on chains in terms of costs, which IMHO is the proper paradigm to quantify attack costs.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

(BTW, the TLS cert looks like it has an issue at the moment).

In 2011 I assumed Bitcoin would transition because PoW's weaknesses were obvious. Unfortunately, the majority of the leftovers in Bitcoin no longer share my sentiment. Electricity consumption is a reason that PoW is the most likely downfall of Bitcoin if they don't transition to another technology. To keep PoW Bitcoin will need to morph into something else, like a semi-centralized "reserve" asset which is not a technology that excites me. A scalable ecosystem where large volumes of economic value can be transferred excites me. Everyday use excites me.

You can "hide" an Ethereum PoS server in your basement. You can't hide the massive electricity usage, transportation, and manufacturing of specialized hardware used in a Bitcoin ASIC farm. The specialization also means there's a huge centralization pressure in the Bitcoin network. I personally welcome (reasonable) regulation, but if I was concerned about regulation as many Bitcoiners tout, PoW would not be an effective way of implementing regulation resistance.
Any projector setup worth having would have an HDMI cable ready for you.

A 5.25" floppy diskette won't fit an a CompactFlash slot.

What's your point? I can come up with silly excuses too.
No commission fees. $5 shares. Real estate app like Robinhood
New Directions in Cloud Programming [pdf]
The Ad matching service gets paid when you buy something, regardless of whether it is relevant, useful or needed by you. What is effective for you, and effective for the ad network are two separate things. Also, ads by their very nature are designed to manipulate you into buying a product. The more personal information they have, the easier it is to manipulate you. Maybe you're still OK with that, but many people think that this is the wrong direction for the web.
You don't need a $50 Yubikey token to do U2F, there are ones in the $10-15 range.

Most sites that support U2F support enrolling multiple tokens, so just have one in each machine.

Theft of a machine still needs your password to access the accounts, so it's not "keys to the kingdom" as the article suggests.

I feel that this article is... wrong.
Hydroelectric power destroys aquatic ecosystems [1]. Many technologists are prone to resorting to “clean hydro” power as their way of dismissing concerns about carbon footprint. I'd much prefer the story around Bitcoin's carbon footprint shift to one of offsetting rampant consumerism through disincentivizing spending.

[1]: http://www.elwhafilm.com/
Absent dads tied to stress-related cellular changes in kids
But it's wrong.

It's like making car efficiency relatable by saying that a car can go 180km/h using 5 airbags.
It is a problem anyway, I agree. It's incorrect to attribute the problem specifically to Yubikeys.
I don't have proof for the larger community but I was very interested in bitcoin at 2012-2015 and it really did seem like it was going to be a real alternative, all the big companies were starting to accept bitcoin but now its all gone.

Almost nowhere accepts bitcoin anymore because they failed to solve the issue that transactions cost on the level of dollars to process so its only useful as a speculative investment and not a practical currency.
Think of all the useful productive things that you could do with all that precious time and energy you personally waste by shilling and hyping Bitcoin. You could take a nice walk. You could pat your dog. You could take a bath. You could write a poem that makes somebody smile. You could write a computer program that solves somebody's problem. Find something productive and constructive to do with you life and the limited time and energy you have here on Earth, instead of wasting your energy shilling and mining Bitcoin.