skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin isn't the only game in town. You can do more with something like Ethereum or Stellar. Unlike cash, it's also much easier to track the flows of crypto.

The real is issue is how long will the US dollar retain its status as the reserve currency? and what will take its place?

Facebook is trying really hard with Diem
Its probably all the "Good night" messages being blasted in India
(For those who didn't click, note that What-If #120 is "Excerpts from What If articles written in a world which, thankfully, is not the one we live in")
Well, I worked with BLAS as well, but it was just something we linked in (IE, it's a stable library with a stable interface with a limited set of functions). None of this should be surprising- in my opinion, computers mainly exist to do linear algebra efficiently.
I hope the liquid mode works out. I might have read a PDF on my phone once or twice, out of sheer necessity, but it's painful. But the mobile device I most want to have a better reading experience for PDFs – and documents in general – is my eReader. I'm not especially impressed with the ePub format, though I can see its attraction in making possible ereaders with very limited hardware.

Yes ereaders all will show you PDFs, but by design the layout is fixed. In most cases, to get the text big enough to read I can't fit a whole page, so I end up scrolling around painfully. Sometimes I can show a full page and, with my glasses, am able to read the text. Sometimes the document is in 2-page landscape mode, which never works.
It can still make a difference in people's lives, especially to the poorest people.
> Chinese money leaving China and getting funneled into the West.

Not that I don't believe you, because that looks very plausible to me, but do you happen to have any source/article on that would go into more details?
Your flowbase.org domain redirects to a different domain. I thought that perhaps you had a typo in the URL or forgot to renew your registration of the domain, but upon a closer look I think it’s probably just a misconfiguration in your webserver config causing it to redirect to another one of your projects.

My guess is that you forgot to put the definition of the domain sans www in your webserver config.

If my guess is correct then this link should work:

https://www.flowbase.org

Edit: doesn’t work either. Perhaps you don’t have a TLS cert for that domain? In which case maybe this link will work instead:

http://www.flowbase.org

Edit 2: Without https it works. And like the person responding to this comment said it redirects to the GH repo.
Android version planned?

love the idea!
In that case, cause-effect is turned around: it went down because it hit the frontpage.

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I've had some of my blogpost hit FP of HN: the traffic spike then is huge; HN feed is widely spread over internet. Hours after FP I started getting referers RSS readers, intranets, reposters etc. Running a static file blog, my €5.00/month shared vps hardly missed a beat with the traffic spike; but it's so big that "going down" is pretty normal for anything "dynamic" I presume.
http://jkhome.nic.in/orders.html

search for "temporary". this is from the govt. What fearmongering is this?

students have been unable to attend schools since 5 august 2019 and you make 8 million humans suffer because of a boogeyman which doesnt exist?
hasn't the recent arnab leaks suggested that pulwama was a false flag along with arnab getting prior info about something like balakot? if this is true and factually it does look like it, so who is the boogeyman? if allegedly india did pulwama attack on its own people and blamed kashmiri militants for it and pakistan for aiding them which has led to the crackdown on militancy in kashmir and this supposedly "anti-national" elements which in reality don't exist so why are we suffering?

if modi wants to fuck himself over the blood of indians to stay in power, do it but why am i suffering?
I wonder what the calculus was on the Microsoft side of the equation.

"It'd take more than 10-SWE-years to build a clone, so we should take his offer"?
Here is quote of IT minister:

"The sanctity of personal communications needs to be maintained.."

LOL. Seems govt IT cell has freaked out seeing one of their propped journalist whatsapp chat leaked.
It is straight out of Metroid, where X is a parasitic virus, and SA-X is the main antagonist of Metroid Fusion. https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/SA-X
Because often the HN-Hug-of-Death means that a link only stops to function after having reached the top?
The first and fourth require like-minded people around you. The second requires some measure of personal political power. The last one requires both. The third requires you not to have been disenfranchised.

There are many people in the US who can't do any of those. I'm not sure how that compares to East Germany, since I have lived in neither country.
I am aware of that. But I was expecting Trump to issue a blank commutation for all "patriots" involved in any way in the Capitol riot. With the purpose of making it harder for legal consequences of the indictment to reach him.

For a previous example, Bush Sr commuted the sentence of everyone involved in the Iran-Contra affair which prevented that investigation from potentially reaching him. (Given excerpts of his diary released after he was in office, it seems likely that the investigation would have been able to nail Bush in time.)
I would suggest being a bit patient with them.
I wish they were better prepared for this surge in popularity, but now that we are here, it will probably take weeks for them to iron out all the core issues to achieve proper scalability.

If they are still having issues a month from now, then I would be concerned.
The Fediverse is an interesting social experiment testing the hypothesis of whether the ad revenue/profit motive of twitter, and the subsequent algorithms that maximize engagement, are the primary source of toxicity and other negative qualities of social media that have been documented recently (social dilemma et al)

Interestingly, the* (see edit) Fediverse data point seems to show that really none of Twitter's problems are solved when its the user's paying and admining the servers themselves.

EDIT: only my conclusion based on personal experience and expectations, encourage anyone to look for themselves
The link is now a 404.

> Anthony Levandowski – President Trump granted a full pardon to Anthony Levandowski. This pardon is strongly supported by James Ramsey, Peter Thiel, Miles Ehrlich, Amy Craig, Michael Ovitz, Palmer Luckey, Ryan Petersen, Ken Goldberg, Mike Jensen, Nate Schimmel, Trae Stephens, Blake Masters, and James Proud, among others. Mr. Levandowski is an American entrepreneur who led Google’s efforts to create self-driving technology. Mr. Levandowski pled guilty to a single criminal count arising from civil litigation. Notably, his sentencing judge called him a “brilliant, groundbreaking engineer that our country needs.” Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210120111121/https://www.whiteh...

https://archive.is/H8vD1#selection-435.0-437.714
Not sure this applies but I’ll just plug my super early stage CLI task manager (github.com/ardunn/dex). It’s FOSS, kind of like taskwarrior but it tells you how to prioritize your tasks. It fills in the “personal management” space for me quite well, but doesn’t integrate with any online services like Amna does.
What a childish and selfish thing to say. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Interesting. Is there a distinction made between actual political party affiliation/membership versus holding political views?

I ask because it may be permissible to deny someone employment based on them having republican views but not on the basis that they are a registered republican. I know virtually nothing about this law, so someone please correct me.
Connect to Ubuntu 20.04 Remote Desktop with X2Go
Yeah, but for a lot of modern art, I think the claim many people are making is both that "anyone could do it" and "people already have and just didn't make a big deal of it". Ex. When people say "my kid could paint that" they mean "something very similar to that is already hanging on my refrigerator".
My comment wasn't really related to opensource, but in general to their new way of doing business.
Nothing wrong with changing the company's direction and trying to go full profit mode, just don't try to pretend everything's the same as before.
Maybe in addition to offering immunity to covid-19 it also changes your immune response to a type of cancer cell. Then it's found that people with this change almost always suffer from the same type of cancer.

Some viruses are known to cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_causes_of_cancer#Vi...

Right now our best guess is these vaccines are safe but there is no guarantee of that.
After years of owing all kinds of Apple gear I think it makes sense to assume any Version 1 product from them will be vastly eclipsed by Version 2. It seems to me they usually sandbag Version 1 such that a waaaay better Version 2 is easily achievable. Lesson here - be wary of a V1 from Apple because a year later a much better V2 is going to be available.

The reality is that Apple knows you will probably buy both.
> There is no easy way to stop the Bitcoin network so if they really wanted to kill Bitcoin

I think you underestimate how much pressure the US government can put and how centralized the web is.

If:

No legitimate business will accept Bitcoin.

Twitter, Facebook, Reddit ban all mentions or advocacy of Bitcoin

All public Bitcoin exchanges are shut down.

This would severely curtail Bitcoin and likely actually cause a drop in value.

Yes it is probably impossible to ever get rid of something, but for the government, reducing something to a fringe can be beneficial and is definitely something they can do.
He was arrested and charged with ~30 felonies and plead guilty to 1 in a plea deal and was due to spend over a year in federal prison. So what exactly did he win?
If you see an ad for an item you just purchased, that's definitely targeted. By "wildly off base" I mean for something unrelated to any of your interests or site where it runs.
Star Wars PDP-11/45
> Do you think people on HN want to engage with your comments when you're saying they're foolishly clinging to a religious belief?

To be fair you inserted "foolishly clinging", and are now blaming them for something they did not actually say.'

Capitalism is highly akin to religion - they're not the first and will not be the last to draw that comparison, and plenty of words have already been written on the topic. If your response to reading "capitalism is a national religion" is to assume you're being insulted, perhaps consider that the statement may be more true than you think.
TBH, I haven't dived into the stall detection in Trinamics, but the goal is to eliminate end stops on my scope.
>Oracle has "somewhat" terminated a platform, Oracle Linux for SPARC, which was only supported for two minor releases. The Linux for ARM64 and AMD64/x86 seem reasonably healthy.

You're forgetting:

* They killed OpenSolaris by making it proprietary again

* They effectively killed Solaris (formerly OpenSolaris) without the formality of making it official dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
I still can't fathom why people would risk a deadly respiratory illness to save... a beard. I broke out laughing when I was reading a 3m respirator review on Amazon from someone with a beard that was verbatim "works great with thick beard, just have to spread half a tub of vaseline on my face to achieve near air-tight seal".

The people making these products are grifters, and bad grifters at that being this late in the game.
No I think perhaps you are misreading the announcement. Thiel, Luckey et al were backers of the pardon for Levandowski and involved in the process, not recipients of pardons themselves.
Yes, we will need to fight to keep our crypto money alive.... these communist suckers will try fuck everything to control us... be prepared!
> All of the ISPs merged with media companies, instituted data caps, and then exempted their in house media from the data caps.

All of them? From your link, looks like it's ATT who did that.

Cox, my ISP, instituted a data cap before the repeal. Furthermore, data caps have zero to do with net neutrality. Preferential billing and routing based on source or destination is certainly more possible with a data cap but data caps are net neutral by themselves. Data caps are cancer but they aren't going anywhere unless there's competition. Competition may also make net neutrality, as a political issue, obsolete.

Net neutrality seems like a red herring to keep the telecom regulatory capture off the front page.
https://texts.com - it's not released yet but you can sign up for early access.
> your point relies on the assumption that neoliberalism is left wing, when this is not true

I didn't say that all neoliberals were left wing.

I said that there were some people on the the left that were neoliberals.

Please understand this difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States

> Early roots of neoliberalism were laid in the 1970s during the Carter administration, with deregulation of the trucking, banking and airline industries,[144][145][146] as well as the appointment of Paul Volcker to chairman of the Federal Reserve.[21]:5

> During the 1990s, the Clinton administration also embraced neoliberalism[130] by supporting the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), continuing the deregulation of the financial sector through passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act and the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act and implementing cuts to the welfare state through passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.[147][149][150]

You seem to presuppose your claims are de-facto correct; I don't think that is true.
1) IEMs can be custom fit to your ear, for half the price of this pair of cans.

2) Comply comfort tips, in an appropriate size, have worked for everyone I’ve ever chatted with about IEMs. Those who don’t like IEMs never tried to change the tips (and honestly, most people don’t realize you can; defaults and all that).

3) A strong seal does not imply a vacuum. IEMs are not hermetically sealed; air is allowed past.

4) IEMs are used by musicians of all shapes and sizes, which kinda puts lie tot he statement on how they’re unforgiving.

5) Based on some impromptu research (walking down the streets of NY), the most popular headphones are actually earbuds. IEMs are a lot closer to earbuds than cans are. In fact, if we’re looking at, say, AirPods pro, an IEM is barely different (though you get more choices in tips).
I addressed this in my OP. It would kill off the legal ecosystem that earn them tax revenue but would have little effect on the illegal ecosystem they intend to stop.
Maybe I’m prematurely becoming a pedantic old man, but “harmful”? Come on!

Smoking is harmful. Having permanent tasks may be fatiguing, but if that constitutes being harmful it would seem life has become too good (which is surprising given the current harmful pandemic!)
Well, the voters don't seem to agree...
It’s not so much Bitcoin going up as the US dollar going down. An unprecedented fifth of all US dollars were printed just last year.

As predicted just two days ago[1], Bitcoin (and decentralisation in general) will be attacked under the guise of it being a vessel for circumvention of financial establishment right-wing censorship. "We must regulate it to prevent fundraising for another insurrection".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815634
> Chrome has features to dissuade users from installing extensions from outside the Chrome Web Store. If you load an unpacked extension, Chrome will issue an ominous warning (something like “this extension is untrusted, click here to uninstall”) on every launch.

I've been sideloading vimium and thegreatsuspender for years and I haven't seen this message ever. Not on Mac nor Linux.
In fact SSCC is simply and unique identifier for particular logistics unit (ie. the one indivisible thing that you send from point A to point B) and does not in any way describe some kind of class of things sharing the same geometry. In the global logistics context GS1 managed SSCC namespace tends to be used only for "large" items (ie. pallets and LTL outsize boxes) while typical package services use either completely proprietary labeling or something that vaguely follows UPU rules for labeling of registered mail. IIRC the Code-128 barcode on FedEx packages contains GS1-128 datastructure that purpotedly encodes SSCC, but I'm not exactly sure that it in fact is correctly formatted SSCC and not just some kind of fedex-proprietary number.
I don't see this as prevention. I see a desire to prevent tax avoidance/evasion.
"Stable" doesn't necessary medan that it is secure, from an end-user perspective.
Red Hat has provided free RHEL downloads and licences for development use through their developer programme for nearly five years now. They do require that you sign up for an account on their website.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-d...
Their point (I think) is that plastic is a better material choice in this context.

The original assertion that one product in better because they use "premium materials" like "metal" falls into the same trap of "Things made of metal are better than things made of plastic", which is a nonsense schtick that Apple's been selling people for years.
I was surprised by this, so I grabbed an image from one of those kitten placeholder sites and ran two tests with imagemagic at 50 and 90 quality. I also see no visible degradation of the image after 100 re-saves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850671
My point isn't so much that private sector can do things efficiently (certainly not always), so much as government generally can't, especially starting from a point of inefficiency.

Yes it's a matter of incentives. The problem is saying incentives for government work could change, is very different than them actually changing. Some of those incentives are inherently rooted as part of what makes government... government.
I live right in the heart of this brood's range (Cincinnati, Ohio) and was about 10 years old the last time it emerged. I'm super excited for this spring/summer! It is an incredible sight and sound to see so many cicadas everywhere!
Does the site you linked purport to have total awareness of all illicit wallets on the blockchain?
> To this they I still can't wrap my head around how can data on an Android phone be considered secure without requiring a long password at boot. Veracrypt style.

it is considered secure only by Google. Android has DOS style security: an app which has access to storage has access to all your files.

> Storing it on a security coprocessor is no good when the entity you want to protect against has most of the world's chipmakers wrapped around their fingers(in the case of US citizens). Software based solutions at least have a change of being verified.
Reminds me of the Japanese art Kintsugi/kintsukuroi which is the name for repairing broken pottery with lacquer and gold silver or platinum powder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
Texas is only slightly smaller. But perhaps splitting both in 3 (or whatever) would be a good start. Or split any state that has more than 4% of the nations population (that would include FL and NY).

Practical hacks like that might mitigate the imbalance, but really - the senate needs proportional representation too. It's OK that small states are slightly over-represented, but the current state of affairs is pretty crazy. Also, the amount of people per senator is unbelievably high, making them less approachable than they once were.

If the senate were proportional, we could simply abolish the electoral college with little loss; just let congress elect the president and be done with it.
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Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, someone who spends a lot of time and energy trying to help people in economically repressed circumstances, clearly disagrees with your assessment:

https://time.com/5486673/bitcoin-venezuela-authoritarian/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340836877595594752.html
The track record of a practice should be taken in account when considering removing them. As mentioned, this one in particular is part of a very well designed system of checks and balances. As with any power, it can be misused; the president, however, has many other powers that can be misused in much more spectacular ways.
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Buying drugs, paying ransom to hackers, paying for vpn services, and paying for pirate sites.

Also I guess making simple transactions complicated for cool nerd points.
I believe that the biggest problem with Self and later Squeak was never releasing a useful (killer) app that could demonstrate the advantages of the system. If you nowadays go to Squeak and open a standard image, there is nothing that you can say: this is an useful app that I would like to use. Even Plan9, which is by comparison a very esoteric OS, has managed to create useful apps such as Acme.
How dare you remain on topic.
Well, for one because it was posted on an outsourced auth provider's website :) . (Full disclosure: they are my employer.)

Seriously, though, while the headlines (cost, maintainability, etc) are applicable to any non-core software functionality, the arguments below the headlines are focused on authN/authZ. Security, standards compliance, auth breach consequences: these are all factors that matter more for outsourcing auth than they might, say, outsourcing your brochure website hosting, or outsourcing analytics. All outsourcing decisions will involve some of these dimensions, but with a different emphasis.
Not only that, but crypto users would eventually end up resolving disputes through the legal system, both because they must and because there is no practical alternative. So you come to depend on the system you are trying to undermine.

If you want to set up your own currency, you also need to set up a legal system to resolve disputes, a law enforcement system to enforce judgements, and a military to ultimately defend all these other systems.

Crypto seemed like it had to reinvent the wheel of the financial system, with all its pitfalls. Turns out the rabbit hole is much deeper than that.
While that might cause the USPS dismay, the question was whether FedEx would accept/ship the package. Would FedEx reject the package for fear of frustrating USPS?
They have already began preventing tax evasion using know your customer regulations & blockchain analysis, but this is not possible with protocols which obfuscate wallet addresses, their contents & transactions with cool cryptographic tricks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature
The term "murder of crows" contains a clear message to those who are attuned.
> Interestingly, the Fediverse data point seems to show that really none of Twitter's problems are solved when its the user's paying and admining the servers themselves.

It doesn't really tell you that until it becomes a more dominant form of social media. Otherwise most of the users there are also users of Twitter and Facebook, where they go to get radicalized and pick up nonsense conspiracy theories and vitriol which they then bring everywhere they go.

Also, you're wrong and most parts of the Fediverse are already much less toxic than most of Twitter.

And notice that you would otherwise expect the opposite of this if the major platforms are booting off any significant number of actual asshats for legitimate reasons, who then move to invade any alternatives. The relative success with which most decentralized alternatives have fended off this onslaught is a very good sign.
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