skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university dorms didn't allow XBox 360s or other gaming systems on the network, so I did the same thing by spoofing my laptop's address. I wasn't much of a "HACKERMAN" growing up, but this was one accomplishment that really drew me in and caused me to start studying OSI.
Two domains registered at two different places, then cross-connect them at the registrars. To keep it fully distributed, you'll want to host one domain at one provider and the other one at a second one. (I do this - it's ~$10 USD/mo for both providers email hosting and ~$10/year to register each email domain, usually big discounts if you purchase for many years at once)

A second hosted email domain has an additional benefit - it allows you to also control your recovery (secondary) email, such as you'd add to your banking/financial website, etc. and not have any of your email options where they can be taken away like this post. It's trivial to have one of the email hosted providers do an IMAP pull from your GMail account, so you can still keep it around just manage it as an external account (such as for your Android login needs).
I don't get why bitcoin is worth so much.Bitcoin is called a store of value like gold, but gold has inherent uses. If the price of gold went to zero then you could still use it to make jewellery or use it for electrical conductivity. If the price of bitcoin goes to zero then it's worthless. It's also not environmentally friendly and bitcoin mining uses up 0.21% of the world's power supply. And all of this energy is used to calculate billions of hashes per second out of which all but one will be discarded. There is also increased regulatory focus from governments who see it as a threat , with India even going so far as to suggest they would ban it.
> There is no way that I can get the same information you get to show up in my facebook feed.

Yeah this is the crux of the problem I'm identifying, it's a blind spot in social networks today. Everyone sees their own unique feed, and there's no way to share them, so everyone is in a bubble of size one. RSS is great because you finally have control over the content being recommended to you, but you still can't share entire feeds, so each person is still in a bubble of size one.
I was curious as to how a certificate could be issued to an IP address and not a domain (I didn't know that such a thing was possible), and learned this:

X509v3 Subject Alternative Name:
DNS:cloudflare-dns.com, DNS:*.cloudflare-dns.com, DNS:one.one.one.one, IP Address:1.1.1.1, IP Address:1.0.0.1, IP Address:162.159.36.1, IP Address:162.159.46.1, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1111, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1001, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:64, IP Address:2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:6400

You can inspect the certificate yourself with:

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 1.1.1.1:443 < /dev/null | openssl x509 -text -noout

Too bad Let's Encrypt will not issue certificates for IP's at this time.
Relying on something like paketo may or may not be a great idea. I decided to give it a go on a little PHP 8 project. I get an error saying PHP 8 isn't supported as it's using 0.1.0 of the PHP buildpack. Then I go to file an issue (especially since PHP 8 has been available for several months), only to discover it was released 4 days ago[1]. This kind of turns me off to relying on it. What if there was a vulnerability in PHP 8? Would I want my software to wait at least 4 days before I could update my dependencies?

You give up a lot of control for "simplicity" but I'm not sure simple is always better. Sometimes it is, but often it's deceptive.

[1]https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks/php-dist/releases/tag/v...
Long ago, when Datomic was only recently released, I saw blog posts (not from Cognitect) claiming that Datomic's transaction log could be used to create a subscription system for arbitrary datalog queries. Basically "tell me when the result of this query changes". In practice, I've yet to find a general way to do that, except for wildly inefficient stuff like keeping query results in memory, requerying on each transaction, and comparing. How does 3DF handle a query like this?:

[:find (max ?num) :where [_ :attr ?num]]

It seems like Datomic's transaction log can only tell us that the result of this query might have changed. Does differential dataflow solve that problem?
Well, and Huawei users.
I'm a crypto hater, I consider bitcoin to be a pyramid scheme.

And also, I think that it is a positive thing that an institution that I can influence (government) is in control of deciding how transactions work.

This might also be a cultural thing, since I'm scandinavian, and "we" generally consider government regulation as something necessary.
Re: loss to culture

Anywhere with a thriving local music scene and a community is a loss. Many of my favourite life time memories are live music venues.
I think there's enough evidence from 2020 that your views aren't cynical, but instead realistic. The feasibility of world-wide coordination should no longer be expected regardless how high the stakes.
While Google Lens does the job for the most part, we created a free privacy minded security first app - https://dhiway.com/seqr/ This app plugs in to Google's anti-malware lookup service to flag harmful content from making it to the device.
Did you figure out how to send Spotify a like this track message? I'd really like that on a key so I can like stuff while working without breaking the flow.
I'm not so sure we should be allowing challenges to expert witness, with no evidence. That sounds like a rich source of abuse of the system, like a big company filing thousands of briefs to delay a case.

It's important for experts to use validated, tested equipment. That's clear. And by the sound of it that is happening (stories of how code was tested and found wanting confirm that; stories of double-blind testing).

Maybe what is needed is, an 'underwriters lab' certification for such devices. To forstal the inevitable gaming of the 'right to challenge'.
> the more likely conclusion about these products is that they were better products

But here's the million dollar question for someone making those products. How do you convince your target audience? With the old business models, you'd spend a few million on advertising and hope for the best. If you have a generous free plan, you'll get people signing up, and if you're lucky they'll use it. Of course you need a good product. A good product is not enough in most cases.
I’d forgotten about that. That certainly seems suboptimal, from an environmental point of view.
The trees vs graphs debate is one that constantly comes up.

I'm obviously a tree guy, but of the things that I am most uncertain of, this is one of them.

To me it seems when you dissect things, you can always make a tree, and trees are simpler, therefore everything is a tree.

However, trees don't come to life until you have motion/time, and I could see maybe how the graph is the ultimate data structure.

You can't dissect graphs into 2 dimensions like you can trees however, given the constraint that wires cannot cross. You can create models of graphs, but not arbitrary graphs themselves. Whereas there is no tree that you cannot create in 2 dimensions.
Probably Elon Musk has friends who own Bitcoin, and now they can exit at a high price.

I'd be surprised if this turns out to be more than a celebrity endorsement pump and dump.
This includes attempting to use ubuntu studio. Still no joy, I have never gotten jack to work properly with relatively vanilla audio gear.
Also worked a lot with both Sketch and Figma and what eventually won me over (together with the company I worked with at the time) was the ability to run Figma no matter what platform, as long as there was a browser available.

It helps everyone in the company since we had marketing usually being on windows, developers usually being on linux and designers usually being on mac. With Figma anyone could browse the designs and before that (when using Sketch), we had to export designs from Sketch to something like Zeplin just in order for others to view the updated designs. Then designers need to remember to update the exports every time they changed anything.

With the introduction of Figma, we didn't just get the ability for everyone to browse the designs directly, but also make smaller fixes directly in the design together with the designers, remotely or not.
> the only way to resolve a cultural difference

Can you explain your theory in the context of the American West “frontier”?
It’s about more than privacy, for example, in the past they’ve secretly experimented with manipulating users emotions and weren’t even self aware enough to expect pushback.

They’re manipulating who you see content from and how much and you don’t know how they’re prioritizing it.

It’s one thing to expect this with ads or editorial, but now you’re letting an incredibly untrustworthy company filter your friends and family in the way that they prefer. Most people aren’t even aware this is happening.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28051930
When you spend Bitcoin you move coins from one public key to another, and you use your private key to sign the transaction. However, in Bitcoin you don't actually reveal the public key that the coins are being moved to, instead you reveal a hash of the public key.

The actual public key isn't revealed until the time those coins are spent.
Please enlighten us.
The government forcing me to lose my job by shutting everything down and then giving me a little boost in unemployment does not make me greatful. It makes me resentful that i am forced to rely on them.
Partner is not a customer. They don't care about any human on their platform because their platform is not designed to care about humans, only exploit them.
We cover 70+ resources across AWS and GCP (the tool you mentioned only covers 12 AWS resources) and we support a number of integrations including GitHub Actions and Atlantis (https://www.infracost.io/docs/integrations/) so you can see diffs in pull requests. We're seeing a lot of users who are using multiple tools for deploying their services, for example Terraform + Kubernetes or CloudFormation + Serverless. In the future we want to work across multiple tools so we can support these use-cases as well.
Don't understand much about corporate finance. Why would they park $1.5B of their cash? Don't they need it for other stuff? Or will they just borrow an equal amount to use for whatever they need?
I don’t think he’s saying it discounts anything; he’s saying that’s when he lost respect for Musk.
Quantum computers can't find preimages of crypto hash functions, but potentially can recover private key if public key was disclosured. Your address is the hash of public key. When you reveal your address, you don't reveal your key. However, you do reveal your public key when making transfer from the address.

So if you change BTC address every time you receive a tx, you will reveal only obsolete public keys which point to empty addresses. Almost all self-hosted wallets do that by design, it's an official recommendation to wallet security and privacy for several reasons (this one is just one of them).
Well I am getting censored by you for pointing out your bias (my comment is being flagged). I also mentioned some don't live here anymore.

As to being a whiner. Most of these post when South Africa is mentioned has the whiner replies heavily upvoted.
“clearly prove people will vote against their best interests if properly influenced”

The only way your statement can be true is if you hold the position that you know what is in their best interests and they don’t.
>Source code is a red herring here

If there were a way to ensure that the test suite applied to these forensic labs was all-encompassing w.r.t. the genetic variables at play, then maybe. But that sounds impossible. What if there's a coding error that causes the software to operate differently/incorrectly only for people with a certain (rare) genetic abnormality?

For what it's worth, I'm totally unversed in genetics, though I have a great deal of experience writing software tests (and seeing them come up short in adequately modelling real-world data).
The value provided by this "AI" solution is that it diffuses accountability for a decision away from any individual making a hiring decision. Would it be ethical if it were used to operate a food rationing system, or maybe a vaccine rationing system, and at what point does the level of plenty make it acceptable? I could convolve or convolute any scheme to make the attribute I was selecting for seem "random" and then refuse to acknowledge the views of anyone who couldn't explain gradient descent as well. There may be a general principle here where if you are mediated by machines, you cease to be a person and just represent a sample in a set of samples, and hiring processes like this indicate an economically inferior-good kind of employer that people select away from as soon as they can afford to.
The sessions are up, I listened to all of it, but 99% of it is really boring.

https://www.microstrategy.com/en/resources/events/world-2021...
This stuff is maddening. We need to stop rewarding people who merely speculate or otherwise provide no value.
Thanks! Yeah we've been in the same situation. Looking forward to your feedback.
Just because it's new doesn't make it good or valuable. If I was looking for a new way of finance, I'd prefer it to not be a massive electricity sink.
Who knows, perhaps an alien threw out a cosmic cigarette butt and its discovery by us completely brings us into disarray, like the villagers in the movie 'The Gods must be crazy'.
> Why should I use your tool

I don't think you should use my tool.

I do think you should use the Stamp pattern, however.

It's solid.

Not too much code to write a Stamp Reader/Writer in your lang of choice.

P.S. Of course if you do use my tool, I would be more motivated to make it better, but really I think the idea is the important thing to use.
The link is actually a reply to his first message...
The start of his thread is: https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661841220730882

The message reads:

My phone has lost access to thousands of dollars of apps on @GooglePlay
. I had just bought LOTR 4K and can't finish it. My @googledrive
data is completely gone. I can't access my @YouTube
channel. The worst of all is losing access to my @gmail
address of over 15 years.
What's a technology company?
It's not the size/volume that matters, but the mass. Even with our limited science and technology, we have designs for interplanetary ships that drag hundreds of meters of radiator surface with them. It's not hard to imagine - and it has been imagined many times - a ship that consists of a core with a gigawatt-range powerplant, reaction mass, efficient engines, and kilometer-long radiators to dump the powerplant heat into space. If anything, based on our knowledge and assuming no magitech breakthroughs in space propulsion, you should expect interstellar ships to be large but light, maximizing surface area while minimizing mass.
They're equivalent to a first approximation, and the numbers we're talking about are from a poll where respondents could make only one choice.
People dont use dollars because they choose to. They use dollars because they have to. The US government doesnt need to earn dollars to spend them. It simply has to require for us to earn dollars to pay it taxes to enforce the use of its currency.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the history of Bitcoin also exposed issues with not having a central bank? Theft that can't be reversed, digital wallets that can't be unlocked, value that can't be insured, etc.

Currency fundamentally requires trust - at the very least it requires trust that the asset you are receiving is roughly equivalent in worth to the asset you're giving as part of the transaction. In the case of centralized banks, you have to trust the bank to help ensure the value of the currency. In the case of bitcoin, you have to trust the network, its participants, the exchanges, etc. Knowing that your transaction itself is secure is only a part of the actual, practical issue. You also have to be confident you can then use that asset to purchase an item of equivalent worth in the near term future. Trust doesn't stop, it simply moves. Centralized banks have made mistakes most certainly. They have also been around for hundreds of years. Bitcoin has perhaps fewer disappointments (although certainly not zero). It has also been around for a tiny fraction of that. How much of the extra confidence in Bitcoin is purely attributed to its otherwise relatively limited history as a store or exchange of value?

I won't opine on which one is "better" (if such a description even makes sense). However, it does seem at times that people rail against central banks while turning a convenient blind eye to the challenges of decentralized banks. Is it the case that only decentralized banking problems can be solved, and centralized banking problems cannot?
Then they get hired by the defense.
I get people being upset about speculation events, and I'm fine with that. What I find upsetting is the FUD that is spread. Inferring that people who use it are criminals and such.

It's interesting because if a congressional bill comes up to ban encryption and uses FUD about "save the children" and "anyone who uses encryption is a criminal" HN is quick to notice and call bullshit. But then in other situations, like this one, many resort to the same rhetoric =/
This implies it would be possible for deaf people to learn to hear by sight with an app on a Google Glass.
I completely agree with you.

> One has to look at the whole picture, and that incident was an anomaly.

My point is that this episode was not an anomaly. There are dozens of examples, where Elon personally tries to "take revenge" on whistleblowers, critics, and journalists.

E.g. Elon called and threatened the boss of the (at the time) anonymous critic Montana Skeptic. He was going through the facebook history of journalist Linnette Lopez and taking screengrabs that he shared on Twitter to defame her. His lawsuit against whistle-blower Skabooshka is currently ongoing.
OK OK OK, hear me out. How do we know this individual didn't use the N word?
Because thats whats happens when you don't have a government, either one will come in and become your government through force, or you become a government with enough force to prevent take over.

Some entity (state) has to have the monopoly on violence to enforce laws or there are no enforceable laws.
Elon Musk Plans to Use Texas Natural Gas for His Starships
is there a term for when someone invokes galileo to support whatever theory they're pushing?
There are already multiple stable coins that exist that are pegged to the dollar.
Somehow it's hailed as revolutionising the economy, by replacing currency with a worse kind of currency.

“Bad money drives out good.” Best money is a compact, moderate/high value, easily verified, inherently useful/desirable, fungible, divisible/mergeable, stable material of a generally agreed on value. Worse money scrapes away these factors as a matter of convenience & opportunism. We’re now reduced to verbal anonymous confirmation that user X is agreed owner of number B, with a market value of V - there is no physical manifestation.
Not OP, but I wouldn't.

I consider the tools available to central banks to be actually usefull. Example: The ability to print more or less money depending on what is needed.
Observation: Any large company that accepts a given digital currency as payment -- validates that digital currency...

(In other words, newly released digital currencies -- will not have the same degree of acceptance/validation -- without a large corporate backer/sponsor/entity-that-accepts-payments-in-that-digital-currency, etc.)
Nice! I love the animated demo you have there.

I'd be happy to accept a PR adding a link to this.
The Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain mainnet launched on 01 Dec 2020; you can track its operation with e.g. BeaconScan[1] and beaconha.in[2].

Ethereum 2.0 (proof of stake) is currently a hybrid, with the beacon chain operating in conjunction with Ethereum 1.0 (proof of work).

The plan[3] is to merge Eth1 and Eth2 by 2022, though it's an admittedly ambitious plan. My bet is that it will happen before 2024.

[1] https://beaconscan.com/

[2] https://beaconcha.in/

[3] https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/docking/
Evidence from March strongly suggests that Bitcoin isn't actually uncorrelated with other financial assets. So if Tesla's concerned about a large decrease in the value of a dollar, there's not much reason to believe bitcoin will protect them from this, at least not any more than a $1.5B pile of steel would.
I can receive bitcoins but I cant buy food with bitcoins or pay my staff with bitcoins. At some point I need to convert these coins to fiat and that's subject to the same controls that GP noted.
Let me demystify it for you. It's used for drugs.

That's how I view it. A very small minority of die hards are trying to use it for other things, donations of course, but it's mostly used for drugs.

There's a "paper" on pnas claiming the opposite but if you actually read it they make massive assumptions in it. I can't believe they were allowed to publish a paper based on assumptions.
Parler Wanted Donald Trump on Its Site. Trump’s Company Wanted a Stake
As time goes on, we see the unintended problems with technology:

- drones mean you can't have accurate GPS without risks

- social media means it's difficult to conduct a fair election

- genetics testing can lead to a whole new level of hypochondriacs, insurer intrusion and LEO fishing.
None of those explain how to export literally free thermal energy from Iceland to Europe.
To me, the bans are the proof tha BTC is ofering something. Why would central banks fear something that has no value?
This is a really cool idea!

If you make it let us know. Would be cool to check out.
> Are you cherry picking numbers that you like? Because you're cherry picking numbers that you like.

Believe me, I would like nothing better than to report the UK's response had been good.

But if I'd quoted the reported death rates from China and Russia you'd have claimed they were dodgy numbers from dodgy governments; if I'd quoted numbers for Australia and New Zealand you'd have claimed I'd cherry picked remote island nations; if I'd quoted numbers for Taiwan and South Korea you'd have claimed I'd cherry picked countries with SARS experience, and if I'd quoted numbers for Kenya and Iraq you'd have claimed they have young populations and limited testing facilities.

Every single one of those countries has less than half the deaths per capita the UK has, according to that BBC map.

> Why do people feel the need to be negative

What you consider "being negative" is what I call acknowledging factual reality.

When you claim that British numbers are on par with other European nations per-capita, and you offer no citations, then I look at the numbers and I see that we've got twice the deaths per capita of Ireland and Germany, of course I disagree with you.
Nevada's new corp-building cities seemed mighty suspect originally. Tesla is the biggest employeer in Reno and yet not a single word from Tesla came to respond to the news. However, bitcoin company's responded.

Elon always seems to have some long term vision that no one is thinking about. What if he builds a city in Texas and Nevada that pays and transacts in bitcoin? This whole threads arguments about the 'Use Caseof bitcoin' Would evaporate over night. Elon is the richest man in the world, whatever he puts his mind to can be accomplished. If anyone can do it, Elon can do it.