skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big balls, surely, but are we waiting to see that happen, or haven't we seen that happen? The stock market has settled around ATHs, not pushing too far down or up. Meanwhile, 40% of all US currency ever minted has been printed in the last 365 days [1], and Bitcoin is worth nearly $50k.

Maybe it's just me, but it's clear to me that markets crashed, the shockwave just hasn't been felt by everyone yet.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
It broke my heart, but I got rid of the quirky mars condition.
While I think technically there isn't anything stopping you from buying a house with hard cash in the UK, I very much doubt that either side's solicitor would agree to it without extensive documentation as to where how and when you got that cash.
I'm sitting here in a tshirt despite it being near freezing outside. Call it what you like...works for me
Diamonds are mostly consumption. Used diamonds always sell for WAY less than new, unless there’s some other factor.
Wow, not sure why you're getting all the down-votes. I don't necessarily agree with you, but it's an interesting perspective regardless.

You also touch on the Amish approach to new technology. Each new thing is assessed for impact on life/tradition/etc and adoption is limited accordingly. For example, phones might be considered useful enough to have one per town, but distracting enough to be kept out of individual homes. Or, a computer might be allowed in the back-office of a wood shop for purposes for managing online sales, but nowhere else in the community.
And it's the biggest(by operating revenue) market in the world, what's your point?
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The part about reading but no longer comprehending sounds very familiar. If it happens twice that I’m looking at the words, but my mind is going somewhere else, I judge myself ready to fall asleep.

Then after closing my eyes I go through the stuff I just read (to avoid getting stressed out over real-life stuff), and after a while will have one or more thoughts that make no sense.

That’s the sign that falling asleep will happen very soon. From there on I don’t know what happens next.
The same could be said it FIAT currencies. It’s all an illusion/religion.
If you want more, use gitpod.io
Nice screensaver!

Reminds of the powers of 10 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Also, for mysql and postgres, are only socket connections supported? No TCP connections?

https://xeus-sql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/PostgreSQL.html#li...
>with insoluble routing problems

can you elaborate on this?

>a need for always-on nodes

AFAIK if you're not a payment hub (ie. you want to route other people's payments) you don't need to be always online.
Thanks for this great article. I can't stop laughing.

Yesterday, I was completely puzzled by Terra Quantum's claims, their press release was written in an extremely confident tone and it almost fooled me (I didn't realize they "worked on" on MD5 or Quantum Demon...).

> the company said its research found that even the strongest versions of AES encryption may be decipherable by quantum computers that could be available in a few years from now.

Everyone knows 256-bit symmetric ciphers in general are post-quantum secure, I had a discussion a week ago (and someone also reminded me about the caveat of block size, the blog author also commented [0]). Then, yesterday the news hype sounded like they've discovered an efficient quantum algorithm to attack the internal structure of AES, and it can break even AES-256 (despite 20 years of research in post-quantum cryptography, nobody found one).

I said "big if true..." when I read it. Unsurprisingly, it turned out that it isn't just not true, but not even wrong. The company doesn't even understand the basic of cryptography.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997192
No, the expensive mining process is required to build the block chain and prevent double spending. It is also used to determine who gets block rewards (transaction fees). Bitcoin will continue to consume more and more power forever
Sadly, Microsoft Teams is also an Electron app and boy is it sluggish. Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to optimize it past a certain point.
there's still a fee for just verifying transactions.
Many interesting SDKs come with C++ APIs that aren't necessarily translatable to C. Choosing Rust for engine development has the potential of severely hamstringing the team. It is the same tough uphill battle for all languages that aren't C++. Even more so now that the smoke is slowly rising from the battlefield of licensed engines and only a few contenders remain standing. And all of them have a massive C++ codebase and litttle incentive to toss that out.

If there will be a transition to any other language in that space, it'll take a decade or two.
Trump was historically unusual in this respect. So unless Trump comes back for re-election and wins, I don't think you need to worry.
We rented a donkey for a Zoom meeting. It was a blast. https://dangrooster.com/
I can't see Tesla BTC as anything more than a marketing gimmick for their computer geek clientele and fan base. Even if it's a logistical disaster, they probably make it back in stock purchases from true believers.
>International wire transfers take multiple days

Not in the EU they don't. A SEPA transfer takes max 1 business day and is usually free. More info: https://www.gbm.hsbc.com/solutions/global-liquidity-and-cash...
Your argument sounds very similar to the "let's abolish timezones" argument so let me post this again: https://qntm.org/abolish

Changing your schedule works for you and your boss, but does not let people in other parts of the world know when they can reach you. Officially shifting something is necessary, and then you might as well have timezones.
I've got it down to a science. I just read a page or two, put the book down and let my mind wander over what I read. Blink - its morning.
I think you’re being very short sighted.

“Retail” is just the part of commerce that’s somewhat moved online today. “E-commerce” is any type of commerce moving online.

I really struggle to think of reasons as to why people will pay for software if it doesn’t ultimately lead to commerce.

EDIT: For context, BABA used it e-commerce lead in China to become the largest gateway for utility bill-pay. Very much not retail, but still e-commerce. The internet is a tool run by humans to serve humans, & if humans aren’t transacting using the internet, everything else about the internet is inherently less valuable.
Those companies have grown way too big. Their in/actions can and do affect people's lives way beyond reasonable. I think they should be regulated, at least the way they do dispute resolution. One of the things governments could do is to tell them to shove their EULAs to a proper place and allow people to sue them for refusing proper dispute resolution process. Especially in small claim courts. I think that would straighten them right.
This was fun and frustrating.
Parallelism is hard in both Rust and C++. When I think about low level parallelism, like in the case of rendering, I believe that Safe Rust will only get you so far perfomance-wise. To get the best speed you will still need unsafe. I'm wondering how their engine fares compared to Chrome.
I think that depends entirely on the delta between "cheap" and "normal" electricity.
Another idea is to watch Doctor Who crew performing five hundred miles song, as there is a funny dancing Ood in that video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c6qENWh2jQ

Or may be the video about how that design was made, as David Tenant describes that their heads are very nice to touch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X79GXlpIfM
Restoring the internet would be a pretty geeky and tinker-y mission on its own
A lot of mining is done close to hydro dams, this power was in some cases waste power that would be unused. So it is swings and roundabouts, I don't think any new coal power stations are being built to mine bitcoin but bitcoin miners have taken advantage of excess electricity production to site their mines where power is cheapest.
> Unreal, on the hand, is C++ top and bottom.

They have Blueprints[1] (visual scripting) and had a scripting language. However, they have removed it since then.

1: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/...
How does this compare to Octotree browser extension in terms of main uses?
Surprised that DejaVu [1] is not mentioned. Besides that I've come to enjoy JetBrains Mono very much too.

[1]: https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/
curious. how old are you?
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Oof, here in the NC triangle, AT&T fiber is $60/mo for 1 Gbps.
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If you are buying and selling real estate in a functioning jurisdiction, hiding your identity by making the payment opaque is not going to do much for you.

There are title deeds and tax rolls. In many jurisdictions you have obligations like building codes that need to be inspected and an owner needs to be held to account. If you need privacy, you have to set up shell companies to act as the legal owner, not hide the payment from your bank or government.

Speaking of showing the source of the money, if you bought my house from me with bitcoin, I would have to speak to a lawyer about not running afoul of money-laundering regulations. And no, I won’t take the internet’s word for it that somehow, those laws only pertain to fiat currency.

Something tells me that the cost of fighting my government in court would far exceed the value of my home regardless of whether I was technically in the right not to fill out all those same forms.
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It's hard to have a cocktail party on Zoom, but there is a new "breakout rooms" feature that we used at our Holiday party to set up a bunch of different topic rooms (and some random ones) where people could pop in and out of. It was better than 50 people in a room where only one can really talk at a time.
Your house is not necessarily heated with electricity.

Running an ASIC 24/7 would use up like $285 worth of electricity per month if you pay 12 cents for each kilowatt-hour.
That's not surprising if you consider that tokenized BTC is often used for collateral in difi.
> Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity

Why would (a) my bank want to do this, and (b) why would I want my bank to do this?
> The bigger it gets, the more stable it becomes.

To be clear, there is no mechanism, logic or reason (at least revealed to me) why this would be true. Vice versa, increased amount of trading typically increases volatility.
So......exactly the same way it works with a bank nowadays? When I did it it was just a printed statement from my bank(that I printed myself), showing money arriving from X account, Y amount paid for tax, document from solicitor confirming inheritence, 3 copies of my payslip, done. How exactly is that easier with bitcoin?
I'd rather use Whisky as my store of value. With that you can still have a party when the power goes off.
this is beyond stupidity. first we waste all that material and brainpower in stupid wars where we destroy what we build, and kill those who remember how. and then comes captchas and passwords which steal so many hours from all the humans alive. and now things like this, it really pisses me off tbh. this should be used to find cures to peoples suffering. like the value should be real.
Actually no. On mobile I use termux with coder's code-server and chrome/vivaldi as there is no electron for Android. Not aware of any Cordova based one's.
Absolutely. It's just funny that many cryptocurrency advocates reject "fiat" currencies for being fake and arbitrary, but bitcoin is even more fake and arbitrary. At least USD has the non-illusionary property of keeping me out of jail when paid to the IRS. ;)

Why is BTC worth more than BCH?
Any reason.
Hi, OP here! The depth-of-field effect is pretty much unattainable with CSS. I have toyed with the idea of an API as well, to sweeten the deal for subscribers (and also it would be neat as heck!).
Possibly related:

"The Fourth Phase of Water: Dr. Gerald Pollack at TEDxGuelphU":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-T7tCMUDXU
And gold is useful.
> They are paying for development, why they shouldn't have authority to dictate the priorities?

If you are sponsoring a foundation and can dictate the direction you aren't a sponsor but an employer and owner. Then the foundation is just a way to make good looking PR or get tax-cuts.
> This project has received too many requests, please try again later.

so true...
it is, but bitcoin is a particularly stupid one
They have [semi?]official bindings for Rust https://github.com/godot-rust/godot-rust
Resistive Heating is literally the most efficient form of heating where 100% (ie, all of) of the electric watts you put in are turned into thermal energy.

Doesn't mean that the generator on the other end is efficient but that is a separate concern that can benefit from economies of scale (a big gas turbine would be more efficient than a swarm of small gas ovens producing the same energy).
I suspect transaction costs will rise when that's the only gain
Biden is a war monger if you judge his past votes in office. The war machine is preparing for it's next victim as we speak. All globalists love war. Not a fan of Trump but Biden is well known for selling us out.
Yes, that's exactly what it means. Very few people actually use gold as a value store - they put their savings in various USD-based (or Euro, etc) savings vessels - money market, CDs, etc.

Gold is generally considered a last resort for the case where the US completely falls apart. But if that happens, I'm not sure gold is going to be much use - the global economy will be screwed enough that everybody suffers, gold or no gold.
Sure. Backed by the government who has the legal monopoly of use of force. And an army.

So… there's that.
> how will Bitcoin become a usable currency?

Wake up, this question was reasonable in 2010, maybe 2015. :) Today no serious person is still thinking it would be usable :)
Personally, I find Evan Williams' quote a lot more insightful to identify what a "problem" is: take a process that people/organization already do, and remove a step, or make it extremely easy.
> filter drip coffee, which is somewhat rare to find

I disagree. Any good coffee spot that doesn't have the usual coffee franchise branding can do V60 or has batch brew. You would be surprised how many smaller cities even in central/eastern Europe have lively coffee culture.
Which city disappointed you?
AI won’t be replacing software engineers anytime soon but something to keep in mind:

While people talk up Googles ai (at least they once did) the truth is while they may put out some good research now and again most of the stuff they deploy is crap by design - they can’t afford to spend a dollar per day per customer to run a complex algorithm on your data, they can only spend fractions of a penny.

This severely limits the quality of the ai deployed by large consumer oriented megacorps.

On the other hand you look at some of the ai being deployed in the b2b space or anywhere there is a real exchange of money and you’ll see some pretty expensive and interesting ai research and deployments.
>Will anyone criminalise the US army because they use lots of energy?

Ah yes, the old trope that people use the US dollar because they are forced to.

Meanwhile, back in reality, people around the world are desperate to get their hands on USD for commerce, because it's easily transacted, accepted and valued anywhere. You know, kinda like Bitcoin purports to be, but way more common.
Not really, no? When the monetary system itself is as unstable as it is, I struggle to think of what could be a good store of value.

Maybe we should all just acknowledge that money is made up and any security it provides depends on tons of interconnected systems made up of people largely unaccountable to the layman.

Edit: I think the mistake people make is trying to create stability on unstable ground.
I think both of you agree on this one - once it is too expensive to transact, it will be a permanent store of value ;p
Ziglings
>Given that the difficulty adjusts only every 2 weeks, that means that the time to find a block will vary enormously during the day as the demand/supply imbalance varies.

Isn't this a non-issue because mining is global? Peak time in europe doesn't mean it's peak time in north america or east asia.
In 5-10 years nano or other simple discoverable text editor will become the mainstream choice in terminals, and vi/vim will become an obscure tool preferred by a small minority, mostly consisting of the veteran "greybeards". See changes in Fedora. New kids are breastfed on nano and/or MS/Apple IDEs.
Like what? For what reason would one not want their bank to know that they have a house?
> Americans drink really watered down coffee.

> Do we?

An 'Americano' is literally watered down coffee.
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Why did you only cite Prost’s win rate? At best, that’s a highly misleading use of statistics.
People/companies who invested significantly in BTC will go to extreme measures to defend their investments. Anything negative said about BTC will be faced with various whataboutisms, how it uses renewables, it's a value store and other marketing talk. It's also pathetic that Tesla and Musk are pledging $100M for a CO2 capture solution, whereas in reality Bitcoin is adding 35MT (mega tons) of CO2 per year.
Human-curated? Both Walmart and Target have unfortunately switched over to the same online seller marketplace business model that Amazon has. The introduction of this on Target is fairly new, but soon I believe Amazon sellers will be going multichannel and searches for products on any of those sites will return pages and pages of white-label crap.
No, I mean a depression. What we've seen is investors scrambling to find returns in riskier assets due to low interest rates, but the bubble hasn't burst yet.

Once it does, we're likely to see a depression at some point [1].

Since Bitcoin is famously volatile I'd bet that once there's a scare, people who've pumped the price up to the current highs will abandon it in droves. After all, there's a huge difference in risk between buying in <$5k vs ~$30-50k

[1] https://economicprinciples.org/
No, not interested in block-level scoping in Python. Why on earth would I ask a programming language I rely on for getting important work done to introduce so massive a breaking change as changing its scoping style?

"I don't think feature X is a good fit for Python because it interacts poorly with existing Python features Y and Z" is not a tacit statement of support for changing features Y and Z. It's a statement that means exactly what it says.

Like I alluded to in my grandparent post, I use other languages that are not Python, and like their features, too. That does not necessarily mean I want all my favorite features from those pulled into Python. Nor do I want my favorite features from Python pulled into other languages.

The best analogy I can think of is a college friend once developed this sort of transitive theory of food that went, "If A tastes good with B, and B tastes good with C, then A must taste good with C." This resulted in a number of questionable concoctions, like serving cottage cheese on top of chocolate cake because they both taste good with strawberries.
the conclusion really drives home the point of crackpot cryptography being especially common in cryptocurrencies.

the IOTA devs also doubled down after being called out that their Kerl-hash function being utter garbage. After various very angry people showed proof that it was broken @c___f___b started claiming "collision-resistance wasn't really required in their case".

there was also the Voatz blockchain fiasco, the bitfi wallet scams, and many others.

As Dan Guido said:

"... It’s ok to get angry at someone trying to harm people. I was shocked that more people haven’t done the same"

so I will never not call them out. On the other hand calling them out also creates a dilemma because it gives these imposters and their scams even more oxygen and eyeballs. The best way to fight them I have actually found is not twitter but LinkedIn. On LN it pisses these people off a lot more if you fight their PR campaigns there, because they worry about how they're seen (while on twotter nobody cares). Also since most of them are sales/marketing oriented scammers that use Tech-jargon as a front for their scams you actually fight them on their turf ...
What's your point? Gold is useful. One of the most versatile metals. You can find gold almost en every electronics, or medical implants, or scientific equipment, or in space telescopes. BTC isn't even useful data. It's just a number. What an utterly disingenuous comparison.
Nobody in this thread argues that npm is not bad (it is), the current topic is: “is maven's design[1] better” and there is little evidence on this front.

Maven was (yes, I'm using the past on purpose) not a panacea that later system failed to equal: it has the usability of an IRS form and never gained as much popularity in the Java world than npm in the JavaScript one for that reason. In 2014, last time I did Java for work, the main security feature against supply chain attack was: “we are getting .jar files individually and not using maven because it's a fucking mess”

[1]: not implementation, which is what's make npm arguably a pile of shit
Does your solution have any unique features or benefits in comparison to existing solutions like Acuant, MicroBlink or Regula? Those already classify various documents and extract the data pretty well.

https://www.acuant.com/idscan-data-capture-software/

https://microblink.com/products/blinkid

https://api.regulaforensics.com/
Distance from eyeball to screen.

There are 2 things this page shows, one is the size of screen you need relative on the distance you sit from it based on how much of your view you want it to fill, the other is what resolution the screen needs to be before you have no improvement.

First decide what you want

30 degrees means you'll be able to focus on the picture, but it will fill your focus area, that's recomended by SMTPE

40 degrees is the "immersive" portfolio recommended by THX, you may lose some detail at the edge of the screen depending where you're looking.

Then it's just a bit of trig to work out the size you need for the distance you are sitting (or vice versa), to match your preferred "fullness"

Second is whether you'll benefit from more pixels. They base this on having 20/20 vision and your optical resolution being 1 arc-minute (1/60th of a degree). For comparison the moon is about 30 arc minutues wide.

Seems reasonable to me, if I take a picture of the moon and shrink it to 30px by 30px, I feel it's on par with what I can see in real life.

Then it's just more trig to work out how many pixels you need for a given size/distance combination. A 20" screen that's 10 feet away, you won't be able to tell the difference between SD and HD. A 40 inch monitor 2 feet away and you'll benefit from going higher than 4k. (This assumes a 16:9 aspect ratio).
Indeed it's waste heat (and not only in the semiconductors, the conductors/wires/traces and the metal in mosfets have minor contributions). The remark was about heating in general, hence the quote.