skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dream of using bitcoin as p2p digital cash does seem to be dead for now, the fees are too high for that[1]. Lightning hasn't really taken off for that use case either, the number of bitcoins in Lightning channels appears to have stopped growing.[2]

But it looks like bitcoin can still be very useful as an alternative settlement layer for international payments. Either directly for large payments, or under the hood for something like Strike[3].

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

[2] https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity

[3] https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90...
AWS uses Gandi for domains
Again, there are some institutional investors dabbling in this, but I would like to see evidence that this is more than a rounding error in terms of Bitcoin's total market cap.
Have you bought a new laptop recently? Because I just switched from 7 years old decent laptop to a new decent in December. And I have completely different feelings than you: I didn't know my software stack can be even faster than it was but it is!

System load was 10 seconds and is 10 seconds again (Linux here) but for example starting phpstorm is like 2-3 times faster.

I had a few GB big project which was scanned for 30 minutes when loaded first time in phpstorm. Now it takes max 10 minutes.
They are a thing in gaming. There are companies that will handle the micropayments for you as an indie or small developer. The overhead costs are high so the $0.01 will become $0.007 or sth. Importantly, those companies act as merchant of record which makes accounting much simpler for the developer.

I m not sure why this model is not being adopted by blogs , i guess it's because those companies don't want to go into the content moderation minefield. It's all fun when coins are paid for virtual sheep, but if people start being activists with the micropayments vendor it's a really bad

I don't think Ads are a bad model for content monetizing, they have been the dominant way to monetize newspapers since forever. HN's constant preaching against advertising is illogical, and discourages people (willfully?) from creating more ethical , better forms of advertising.
I wouldn't say it is "unsubstantiated".

Sharing bookmarks, is not the same as "sharing it with anyone in the world" - without any notification.
no need to make up reasons to drone or invade a nation if they decide that your money is not worth using or keeping reserves in to settle debt.
There's EV West:

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40

These don't include batteries or battery boxes. The former are expensive and the latter are generally a huge hassle to make.

CanEV makes motor-transmission adapter plates and couplers for a surprisingly wide range of cars.

https://canev.com/motor-adapters/

There's Zero-EV in the U.K. I only know about them because of a Youtube video series where they convert a Miata. Looks like they're selling a Porsche kit at the moment.

https://zero-ev.co.uk/electric-vehicle-conversion-kits/

There's probably some others I don't know about or have forgotten. I don't think anyone is doing this on a large scale.
Ha ha. Time to regurgitate all the “private suppression of information isn’t censorship”, “facebook is a private company free of kicking anyone out of their platform”, “facebook shouldn’t be compelled to carry speech it dislikes”, etc.
List view, a UITableView equivalent in SwiftUI
The newest version of NextCloud is perfectly fine, not sure if you have tried that.

It is fast, extensible and due to its status, many clients and apps can sync to NextCloud. At this point it is known enough, that it can replace sonething like iCloud for anyone looking to switch.
i don,t think it is a myth, i do it all the time, living almost entirely without currency.

digital technology only makes barter more easy and accessible.

converting every trade into numbers and back is an outmoded method, which i think will become less used with time.
> Sec/ops doesn't normally involve looking at live network capture snapshots all day. ("Eyes on glass" monitoring exists, but that's not for common services) You're not distracting people from spotting exfil

No, but if the people on call are being drowned in alerts because everything is down due to the DDoS, an alert saying there's anomalous traffic ( if it's even capable to detect that during a DDoS, when all traffic would be anomalous depending on infrastructure) could be easily missed.
*food insecure, the calory defiency number (undernourished) is given as 820M people.
You want individual freedom at all costs? Go to live in a jungle. Take the complete freedom with the dangers it brings with itself.

Otherwise you want the benefits of living in a society? The only way is you're going to sacrifice your freedom.
I sure love gvoid and gint.
I also love my program crashing instead of returning an error when I use glib lists and its internal malloc invocation fails.
On the site it says """Identified - We are still targeting by a DDoS.
Our teams are starting to push mitigations."""

they are the target of the DDoS, right? If so, it should be """We are targeted by a DDoS.""" It is confusing to read...
'Why would anyone go to parliament to talk, there are so many other buildings to talk in'.

I don't believe you are really that clueless about online social networks.
Presumably they are cashing in on their name so you’ll get more exposure to your idea if you publish on Rolling Stone vs Medium. So what they are selling you is eyeballs and legitimacy for content & money. Makes sense.

It’s a shame because I grew up reading Spin & Rolling Stone and they have become unsustainable and now irrelevant empty shells of themselves.
Pokemon or Big Data? https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
This thread does not answer the predominant usage of waste electricity by Bitcoin miners. Can't take it seriously without any mention of that. Bitcoin is mined where it makes profit, and you can't make any profit without using waste electricity. Today's mining hardware is smart enough to turn off when the powerplant signals there is too much demand and no waste (thus increased prices), and turn back on when convenient.
I remember when the DXVK prototype was reported to beable to render a single triangle. Cool, but far away from completion. A few months later it was running Witcher3.
Pre-pandemic I was commuting to a large bay area employer. About a ~hundred or so chargers in the parking lots.

The choices were to either arrive very, very early (<8am) or you missed it. Then had to wait until around 4+pm when the early risers started to leave and move the car to a charging spot.

I mostly left after 7pm so it was ok but on days when I had to go at 5pm it was a big problem, didn't have time to get enough charge to get back home.

Also, there's not enough power available to feed all the chargers simultaneously. So when all chargers are used and charging, the power delivery dropped to ~1.5kW. As cars started to get full and stopped drawing power only then power delivery would rise later in the day. So there's no way to install a thousand+ more chargers, there's not enough power delivery available.
it should remain in john's account at rysolv so he can contribute it towards a different issue.

rysolv is holding money to solve a particular issue, until that money is claimed. if the issue is never solved, the money won't be claimed either. the problem what happens with the money is the same as if the issue is solved without anyone claiming it.

so presumably there needs to be a process for unclaimed money regardless.

brave was collecting money to give to the project as a whole for work already done. they didn't expect that it would be rejected or remain unclaimed.
You pointed right in the middle, but try to rationalize with someone who is a crypto advocate? I bet that it will be a completely usefulness conversation. The crypto money rely purely on USD exchange and that's why suddenly appeared so many crypto startups, because their "value" is speculative.
mpv eats a lot of memory even when you use it to just view images.
In terms of conversation you got a point yourself, however you cannot compare food with currency. Food is connected to us on a biological level, currency is a construct of society.

They are not compareable imo.
No, it's like pointing out that you don't startup a startup, ten years ago nor now.
> The benefit of Bitcoin (or blockchains generally) is that you don't need to trust anyone. In 2009 this was considered important, but today, does anyone care?

I dont see how this is any less relevant today than it was 12 years ago.
Mozilla tries to changes this with their "Grant for the Web" (https://www.grantfortheweb.org/), we hope to participate in the second round with an open-source tool that gives people the choice to regularly pay for websites they like in exchange for zero tracking and advertisements. 1 cent for an article wouldn't work though as the numbers just don't add up for most sites, 10 cents to 1 USD/EUR are more realistic.
This is a simple untruth. Vegetarianism is possible in specific ecological conditions (e.g. the Ganges Delta) and in those conditions it wins, economically, because as you note it is notionally ideal. In a non-tropic or desert environment, vegetarianism is a wasteful use of resources that typically involves transport of goods from remote locations in the service of performative consumption.
"It is a hyperbole indeed"

I'd say it was a lie.
Thank you for the reference, and I look forward to understanding what you mean by myth.

Barter is literally my life. I teach other people’s children about life and Computer Science in order to buy potatoes. The children’s parents make medicine and build houses to pay for their children’s education. Is your point that barter is about goods, whereas most people provide services (time, labour?)

Or perhaps you mean that the majority of the economy in terms of wealth is engaged in the investment of capital, and we potato eaters are but a percentage of a percentage?
The biggest one I know of that's meant for your example use-case is Flattr but as you can tell by needing to ask, nobody's heard of it or really cares much about it anymore. These days it seems to be a bit more similar to Patreon.

https://flattr.com/
BAT is a cryptocurrency which can be traded for another coin which can then be traded for USD or other etc etc. It's not a lock-in
Answer: The user.
nobody cares. I hope bitcoin really does end the earth so I don’t have to live with people like you. but unfortunately, it will not.
That clown is still around?

Surprised no-one has put a hit on him yet.
No strictly related to Bitcoin, but to the cryptoworld in general: https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cos...
I realize the issue is even less people having it. But there are chains like Tron that have the fee issue basically solved.
you just wasted electricity posting
"No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers."

The way to make people pay for software components is not to ask them for money at runtime, but to do so much much earlier in the development cycle: at design time.

In the instances that I have seen this business model work, the components are usually bought as part of a collection [1]—think source-available components similar to the model made famous by Apache Commons (Commons Codec, Commons Util, Commons Lang etc). The Apache Commons OSS project emerged on June 20, 2007 [0] as a way of standardizing the need for reusable Java components and libraries, slowly killing the market of paid components.

Or, components are bought as part of an ongoing subscription to a large catalog containing thousands of components [1][2]—think of it as a company-wide Safari Books subscription but for software components.

As part of the business model, component designers and developers were paid royalties in additional to the one-time monetary payment for developing each component, with the top 25 royalty earners collectively making as much $458,792.31 over a multi-year period [3].

0: https://commons.apache.org/charter.html

1: https://software.topcoder.com/catalog/c_showroom.jsp

2: https://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=pressroom&d2=pr...

3: https://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ComponentRecordbook&c=roy...
Let me break it down for you: Welcoming dissent so it can be refuted does not work with far-right people, because they cannot be debated or convinced otherwise.
Good point, I forgot about Mir. According to wikipedia it lasted from 1986 to 2001.

I had briefly considered Skylab, but figured it didn't really count as "permanent". Wikipedia says it was up for 24 weeks.
I've always wondered if you could do 1x1 mile hexes, say centered around the washington monument or state capitol.

Something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_map

Then have some algorithm for growing or subdividing if you need a specific population.
Communism usually requires social ownership. Wikipedia is not owned by “the people”.
"Every movement has fugheads, and the fugheads will get all the press."

Can't remember who said or how the quote goes. (Any help? Some kind of eponymous law?)
As someone who lives my life in two currencies, my main hope for Bitcoin circa 2014 was that it would make for simpler and cheaper international transactions and currency conversions. I don't know if the situation has gotten any better, but around 2015/2016 this seemed untenable due to high transaction costs, and volatility.

I'm not sure I understand what would be the value of using cryptocurrency under the hood for something like Strike. If they are settling the payments themselves, why not just use a simple database to reconcile their transactions?
What I would like to know is how did this come to exist in the first place? I realized Cargill is HUGE, but an open source system that supports private sub-networks?!?!?
"Reading other people's code is like smelling someone else's shit" -- architect at my dotcom job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHjYt6Jm5j8
I bought a WRT3200ACM back in 2018. I wasn't able to get Tomato flashed onto it (Shibby or FreshTomato). I've flashed Tomato onto what feels like every other router under the sun (many dozens of models with a handful of different techniques tftp included). I wound up returning it and sticking with my RT-AC3200 instead.

Do you know if the situation has changed? Or do you still have to switch to OpenWRT or similar to use it?
> g_list_free (slist); /* corruption: sizeof (GSList) != sizeof (GList) */

Catching this error at runtime would be extremely trivial. Just add a magic number on top of the GSList and GList structs.
This guy has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about unfortunately. There is no evidence of any environmental impact.
In terms of UX and a11y, please add a <form> for the Next button, so that we can do next without having to click (pressing enter, or even allow right key). Same for the Language creator / Serial killer buttons, use a <form>
Agreed in general on using C++ over C, or C-style C++ in constrained environments. One thing that is nice about using C though is that it is quite easy (compared to C++) to expose to other languages. Glib, and most libraries built on it like GTK, GStreamer, etc can be used in languages such as Python, JavaScript et.c.. And a lot of development of applications and tools has been moving to such languages over say C++.
So C is still useful for low-level libraries, due to being the lowest common denominator. Though arguably one could today write the library core in a better language like Rust maybe, and expose a C API/ABI from that. Rsvg is growing into an example of that.
I said this back when the emissions for the UK were announced, the reduction in emissions due to lockdown show the upper limit of what could be achieved through individual choice. And the bottom line is its trivially wiped out by a few years of ordinary growth. Real change needs to come through regulatory, industrial and technological change.
* Web browsers that all use a standardized name resolution and data transfer protocol to transmit hyperlinked documents

* Email
That is basically what the book is telling. You are probably not tit-for-tat bartering, but taking on debts and returning things you owe in some more vague approach. History went through multiple cycles where currency went in disuse in favor of just tracking and settling debts.
I am very optimistic about GNUnet, which uses the decentralized Gnu Name System. It's in its early stages but already works pretty well.
This is like crusading against people using their clothes dryer, driving when they don't absolutely need to, turning on A/C when they could just put on a sweater, not to mention all the industrial and commercial energy expenditures producing bullshit we don't need. From where you sit, look around your room and contemplate the incredible energy expended to get these items where they are.

If your concern is about avoidable energy waste, you'd need to have a bizarrely weird misunderstanding of the scales here to pick Bitcoin as your hill to die on.

It's like when people complain about how much water you waste by leaving the tap on while you brush your teeth while my dad has the water rights to waste 10,000,000L/year of creek water because he owns a single cow. People have such little understanding of the relative scale of everything, so they laser-focus on whatever inconsequential, concrete morsel that sounds good to them.
> You can give someone as little as a dollar via a service like PayPal. In the world today, that's pretty small.

In theorie you can with "friends and family", but you can't charge a dollar. It costs 2.9% and $0.30 for any transaction. You end up with something like 0.68 before transfer costs to your actual bank.
How often do you actually drive 500 miles without stopping?

My ass gets numb after 200 and _I_ need to stop. =)
Are they not a public company? Sure are publicly traded.
You can put a lot money into Van Gogh's painting, and you won't buy bread with it. Bitcoin is just easier to transfer than a painting, and you can buy a fraction of it. I don't see Bitcoin as a currency at all, but it does display certain properties of instruments to store value.
You might want to try Fedora for a more polished desktop experience.
It's really not a big problem, Switzerland is much smaller and we have 140-180 lynx, around 80 Wolves and some Brown bears. Yes they are some losses, but with herd dogs not allot.
It’s sad that Angular still has a bad reputation from AngularJS. Basically all the pain points the author mentions (deciding on router, DI, http client, working in multiple teams, reliable hot-reload, deciding between class or functional components, whether or not to use hooks) are all things in which angular shines. They could have saved a ton of money here by choosing Angular over react. In fact in comparison over the last 5 years, angular has been much more consistent whereas react has become a scattered mess.
> Instead, 99% of the time they'll turn your explanation into another reason to be enraged at you, or argue you need to reconsider, or even sue you because that line of reasoning makes you liable. //

Which is 'fine', let them be enraged. Transparency shows it to be fair and removes the ability to reasonably argue otherwise. Then at least one can decide if the platform is right for you, and indeed of the rules are anti-democratic we can move for changing them.

'I'm so enraged, $platform said that inciting violence wasn't allowed, then I incited violence and got censored', whose going to rally around that flag?
What I find remarkable is that all the claims of russian/chinese/iranian interferences in US elections suddenly stopped when it became clear Biden won, and we switched to “it’s a perfect election”. It seems that Trump’s warning of not interfering into US elections have worked and the said countries complied. And we were told only weeks before voting day of evidences of those interferences, so I assume they also complied retroactively.

The brave new world of “post-truth”.
Are investors usually this clueless about how things work?
Either with an app (gps location + number on charging spot) or an RFID tag you swipe on the charger.
Absolutely. It makes perfect sense, and in an ideal world this would be the direction which would benefit many, if not most, projects using C and/or GLib2. Unfortunately, there are far too many people who are wedded to the philosophy that C is perfect for every task, and C++ is the devil. Despite the fact that GLib/GObject are more complex than C++, more error-prone than C++, slower than C++ and make static code analysis impossible (due to all of the unsafe typecasting).

A few years ago now, I ported a C GLib/GObject-based application to C++. In removing all of the unnecessary typecasts I found a couple of minor (but real) bugs which were previously hidden from the compiler. Simple use of real classes, along with basic containers like vector and map, was the vast majority of the C++ usage in the whole application. It benefitted greatly in becoming smaller, simpler, easier to read, easier to maintain, and having the compiler able to typecheck everything.

Like yourself, I've also used C++ on MCUs. Some vendors even provide an "Embedded C++" C++ subset you can use, which is "safe" for safety-critical real-time code. Works fine. A lot of C embedded projects would benefit from the extra safety it provides. So long as you don't go overboard with the features; stick to a simple and easy to understand subset.
I have the MIPS version of that portable workstation. It's a beautiful piece of hardware.

Also, one NWS-1520 and another one which I imported from Japan.

Haven't gotten around trying NetBSD on these yet.
Its a few years ago, but when i earned something like $1500 in ads each month, brave paid calculated something around $2. I haven't looked into it since.
At the same time, all kids go to school these days. That is a kind of collective parenting. All kids in a country learning the same stuff. Sure, most is about cognitive skill, but you also learn social conventions, manners. And if you have a good teacher, possibly some self esteem and discovery of your talents.

It's so normal, you don't think about it, but it is less than 200 years since every regular kid can attend school. Before that this was only available for the upper class.
For tax fraud and falling into perjury traps. Not for colluding with Russia.
You've made a hell of a mess of all this. The premise presented is simple. The past is fixed, the universe is consistent, if you travel back in time that always happened.

You're saying there's a puzzle about something that the premise at hand simply says is impossible. You might as well imagine being able to create energy out of nothing and then say that's a puzzle in a universe in which we have conservation of energy. Just because you can imagine something impossible doesn't make it a paradox.

And I’ll reiterate: I accept all of these premises

No you don't. You keep saying "but what if you go back and change the past?"
With barter is meant (in the context of Graeber's book) trading tit for tat, without having a currency to go between. E.g. a farmer buying a book and paying with apples.

The book says that this barter method is almost never used, and instead people tend to keep track of favors and things they owe in a more vague way. And every now and then, these debts are settled in a communal fashion. But barter is not used.

So the farmer just asks for the book and gets it. And when autumn comes, and the bookstore owner feels like having an apple, he just goes to the farmer and asks for some. But the two transactions are not really linked.