skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people here are asking the same question and I can't find it addressed anywhere: how does this product not heavily pollute the environment? Since the bricks contain plastic they are prone to flaking and the formation of microplastic particles, which can last for thousands of years and get into the digestive systems of animals and humans. Also, the plastic might crack from constant UV radiation under the Kenyan sun. Could somebody explain what the rationale might be for putting 1000 plastic bricks/day into the environment or if there's something I'm missing?
Sometimes a little prodding can lead to more learning. Your answer on the other hand is so coddling that it could lead someone who's not paying attention to believing that the government pay scale actually does apply to contractors.
That is a general defense of the form of the statement, but not a defense of the statement itself.

The dollar is not the largest cause of perpetual US entanglement in the Middle East. Oil dependency, on the other hand, may be.
They are doing that. But it doesn't seem to be in order to capture market share. It is because of the extreme spam abuse coming from so many unknown domains.
I appreciate your ability to walk into the middle of the bee hive to knock it over with this comment.

It was amusing to read and I don’t disagree with what you said but I don’t feel super qualified to judge either.

I’ve only seen that silicon valley start up culture from the outside when my partner worked at a YC company while they were going through a later stage fundraising round.

It wasn’t as cartoonish as you make it sound at all but your impression at least seemed in the ballpark of true.
On Hugo
It's just a tradeoff between opsec and ease of use. Monero is harder to turn back into cash, precisely because it carries a worse reputation.

Note that my argument was pro btc - I can see underground demand sustaining its price in the long run.
Poetry has been great, for both local development and for deployment. I recommend using direnv (which has a Poetry recipe) to automatically activate your Poetry virtualenvs locally.
Haven't you heard? It's not a currency any more so it doesn't need to be actually used. It's now an asset like no other, with zero use value but infinite exchange value.
A Dutch Pfizer representative said it was far too early for such passports because it apparently is not clear at all yet if you can be infectious or not.
I just block Facebook.com in NextDns together with the graph.facebook.com and connect.facebook.net domains.
Messenger and WhatsApp still work fine.

The same can be done in a hosts file.
Disclaimer: before reading this and forming an opinion, please consider I am part Jewish myself.

The current situation is that you have: 1) the Jewish faith, 2) Jewish ethnicities, 3) a Jewish state (Israel).

Those 3 are connected: most practictioners of the Jewish faith belong to a Jewish ethnicity, the Jewish state was founded by Jews, and the Israeli law of return states that every Jew has the right to become an immigrant. Today, most people do not have a problem with 1 or 2. But 3 is a different story.

There were ancient kingdoms in the Eretz Yisrael (land of Israel), such as the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. Those kingdoms eventually stopped existing, and the Jewish people lost administrative control of that territory. Many Jews continued to inhabit Eretz Yisrael, but did not have administrative control over the territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt#Aftermath

About 1800 years later, the Zionist movement identifies a need for the creation of a Jewish state, and successfully creates a new Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael. A large portion of the first Israeli citizens are members of the Jewish diaspora, that is, peoples who already had left Eretz Yisrael for 1800 years.

To my [limited] knowledge, there is no precedent for this in history, and that is how many people scratch their heads trying to understand the legitimacy of Zionism. Especially, the pre-Israel inhabitants of Eretz Yisrael.
The oldest timber frame house in the US dates to 1637.

Wood easily lasts 200+ years as long as it’s thick and dry. It tends to sag over time, but most buildings end up being fairly temporary on those timescales.
> As if you can create a secret communication channel that members of the public can join but the FBI is unable to infiltrate.

Back in the day people used to, hilariously, have MOTD notices on all of their illegal servers saying the internet equivalent of "You have to tell me if you're a cop".
The first Gulf War began in 1990, and the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979. The causality may well have taken place in the reverse of what you suggest.
The Data Observability Universe
Fennoscandinavians are very good with their wood. (Pun not intended.) When other nations try to imitate their know-how, the result is usually subpar.
As far as I understand, the isolation between basebands and the main SoC has also been improved (using IOMMUs etc.)
Maybe! The font on the magazine appears to be Broadway Engraved[1], but similar fonts were extremely common in the book's time period, making any of them an obvious choice. The logo looks a lot more like the C and O in Secret Agent NF[2]. Could be inspiration, or could easily be coincidence.

[1] http://www.identifont.com/similar?2AG
[2] http://www.identifont.com/similar?9TR
That's why I mentioned zCash. It's a better choice for this.

That being said, Bitcoin can exist without the IRS. USD cannot.
You don't actually know this unless you have run an A/B test. Pricing a book is like software, you might very well sell many more than twice as many copies at half the cost, off hobbyist sales. (background, I worked in the book business years ago). If you really want to know if you're doing it right, run a time limited test of different prices and see what happens. I doubt this is nearly as much a niche as you think.
There you go: https://asdf-vm.com/

Doesn't support fnt yet, but after this post I give it a week or so.
Erasure vs. Reification
Noam Chomsky has some excellent books and talks on YouTube about how dissident voices are silenced in mainstream media exactly like this. You'll only get hired as a journalist if you seem to agree with the political views of owners and advertisers. And if you publish a political view that owners or advertisers have a problem with, you get fired.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Cons...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194805.Understanding_Pow...
Is generics akin to overloading functions?
I cringe every time someone send me an email that says "I can meet at 10 PST" no matter what time of the year it is. But what can you do.

As far as the unix utilities go, the behavior is non-intuitive for sure, but can probably never be changed without breaking massive amounts of existing systems. The behavior is also reasonable considering the system constraints at the time it was written. Consulting an ever changing tz database every time the command runs was not an option, and maybe isn't even today.
A long way off-topic, but any talk of incel is likely to be taken as an insult (although some use it in a positive way). The word definitely doesn’t apply to me! Personally, I have never even heard the word used within my own social circles (some of which are geeky).

The hn crowd seems to be particularly international to me - making assumptions based on SV seems wierd. I am in New Zealand with a normal ratio of genders, and plenty of social situations to meet women since we have no lockdown, however I have heard that NZ has far too many sheep.

On topic: I am acquainted with one world-competing female body-builder. She comes across as extremely competent at the other parts of her life (good artist, good at running her own business).
This "bureacucracy" is very necessary if security is at all a concern. Solarwinds is hot to talk about right now but it has always been the case that having a build download code willy-nilly is a recipe for getting attacked.

In any security conscious organization the only way to pull dependencies is from a local trusted repository. And the only way they get placed there is through a review process.
Without a doubt, and it's a trade that I would make, but considering how important London is as a labor market, and how expensive it is to live there, I still think that UK business underpay their tech talent.
What about reviews and review certificates then?
If you review a the package foo@1.0 you could publicly certify that it is not malicious and maybe earn some money with it.
In turn, you back your claim with a financial security that you pay in case the package actually contains malicious code.
Intelligence is what the tests test - is often quoted out of context. A correction is provided:-

"Boring famously wrote in 1923, “…intelligence as a measurable capacity must at the start be defined as the capacity to do well in an intelligence test. Intelligence is what the tests test.” That much-quoted last short sentence was not Boring’s opinion; rather, it was his saying that that is what one would think if one did not know the research findings."
It's important to make a distinction between price volatility now, when Bitcoin is a speculative asset that might become useful in the future, vs. the price volatility if it actually does become useful. They have different dynamics.

Imagine that AMC launches a promotion where they announce that once COVID is over and theaters reopen, you will be able to exchange acorns for movie tickets. You'd expect a mad scramble for acorns, because a useless nut will suddenly become tradable for something of value to many people. When all the acorns have been snatched up, you'd expect a trade to commence in acorns themselves, with people paying for them on the expectation that they're convertible to tickets worth something in the future. Moreover, AMC didn't announce a price for this conversion, so there's a lot of uncertainty about what acorns are actually worth. If AMC then says "Oh, by the way, acorns will be the only way you can pay for movie tickets in the future, and we won't accept dollars", then you might see acorns bid up to totally brain-dead levels, because there's no ceiling for how high it might go, and you know that you won't be able to go to the movies with dollars anymore. Only when theaters actually reopen, and you find out how many people have acorns and how many people want to see movies, can you put an accurate price on them.

This is analogous to the scenario where the dollar loses its reserve currency status. You don't know what the eventual valuation of each country's local currency will be against Bitcoin. You do know that the dollar is going to be worth less. So you can get wild price swings as people FOMO into Bitcoin but have no accurate data to base their purchase price on.

Once a switchover does occur, then yes, the price of Bitcoin will still be volatile. But this volatility is the point! The idea is for each country's local currency to float up or down until it equalizes the demand for the country's imports & exports. So if American manufacturing is uncompetitive, few people will desire American goods, which means there will be little demand for dollars relative to Bitcoin, which means that the price of the dollar relative to Bitcoin will fall. Falling dollar prices mean that foreign countries can get more American goods for a given amount of Bitcoin, which raises the price-competitiveness of American exports, which raises the demand for dollars. Eventually you end up with equilibrium prices that reflect the overall competitiveness of the country's economy within the global economy. As a country produces more & higher value goods, the value of their currency relative to Bitcoin will rise, and they can afford to consume more. As a country's industry declines, the value of its currency will decline as well, which makes its product attractive as a low-cost alternative.
Sure, the climate change problem is eased. Microplastics in the environment though are a totally different problem & having it slowly accumulate over thousands of years is actually worse because it's a tragedy of the commons scenario. Cleaning this up in 100 years is going to be far more expensive than forcing companies to deal with the trash properly now. Moreover, it's not the companies that end up paying for such a problem but the rest of us because they've externalized the problem (see all the superfund sites in the USA that are chronically underfunded).
I don't doubt that having your processor in developer workstations is helpful for driving use of your server processors.
Saves us a byte in the sqlite database
Cryptoasset mining creates demand for custom chip fab (how different are mining rigs from SSL/TLS accelerator expansion cards), which is definitely not zero sum: more revenue = more opportunities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_supply

With insufficient demand, a market does not develop into a sustainable market. "Rule of three (economics)" says that markets are stable with 3 major competitors and many smaller competitors; nonlinearity and game theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(economics)

We've always had custom chip fab, but the prices used to be much higher. Proof of Work (and Proof of Research) incentivize microchip and software energy efficiency; whereas we had observed and been most concerned with doublings in transistor density.

FWIU, it's now more sustainable and profitable to mine rare earth elements from recycled electronics than actually digging real value out of the earth?

Compared to creating real value by digging for gold,
how do we value financial services?
When it comes to truth, old != bad. The oldest profession is still around, for example, because demand will always be there.
They need to work on randomizing the left right symmetry a bit in their demos. Humans aren't perfectly symmetrical, and it adds a lot of character to faces.
Cool. Now show us the Adtech Electricity Consumption Index and see if bitcoin would add up to even 1% of ads.
I'm not being insecure for correcting someone's language. Language is important and so is its correct usage.

Dare I say the one who doesn't want to be educated is the insecure one, because he can't stand being reminded of requiring education.
This will be good for the US chip supply chain, hopefully more chip makers follow suit
> That’s fair, I suppose. They were looking for someone with a few years of experience working with a specific technology I had never used. But… they knew that from my resume

We all know very well that the company had a few other candidates in the pipeline that were more qualified, and they were simply covering their butt with a "less qualified but still maybe good candidate" while they were extending an offer to the candidate they really wanted in case they turned it down.

I would do the same thing as a job seeker. Interview with a company even though I'm waiting for an offer from a more desirable organization.
Can anyone point me at a resource where I can download the full set of packages that are in the npm registry?
Trump era work visa ban remains in effect under Biden
Zappa: It's OK to be smart (1981)
I know you're bring downvoted into oblivion for reverse ageism, but my experience mirrors your statements. I think the aggrieved HN masses just don't have similar, or much experience.
Wardley Value Chain Mapping: What Is It and How to Create Yours
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Safari Working on Support for WebM
Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft realistic faces inside a browser
> Monitoring shouldn't be the default but only happen when there is a warranted reason to monitor, preferable with a literal warrant.

In many cases, well-done E2EE like Signal stops dragnets and targeted efforts. Even with a literal warrant.
> if acquiring currency and holding it causes you to get rich, that's a serious defect. That means it won't get spent which means the economy grinds to a halt and depression ensues.

I like you was severely brainwashed to believe that inflation and debasement of a currency is great! My father's friend worked at the IMF and would dismiss my notions of deflation as childish. I studied Finance and Mathematics and never once was your view of money seriously questioned.

But it's a lie. In fact, if you think from first principles, you realise that saving, not spending, is the key to economic growth and individual prosperity.[0]

Think about what you were saying: you're effectively claiming that money should be worthless, in which case, why bother trying to earn it? You want to work for and to be paid something valuable not something worthless which you want to throw away as soon as you get it. You want your money to be good enough to save. Saving allows us to defer present consumption for future benefits.

The idea that people will never spend their bitcoin is absurd. Humans have needs that they can't get away from. They also have desires to indulge. They will buy stuff and at the same time they will be incentivised to be prudent if they adopt a Bitcoin Standard. We should want our communities to be prudent.

[0]: https://mises.org/wire/saving-not-spending-engine-economic-g...
I'm fairly sure the Synapse software is also cloud-based and requires a login to even use.
Yap. It doesn't make sense to destroy the language just to get in a particular feature. You don't need a language to do everything. It needs to be good at everything it's meant to be good at.
It's not an unprecedented situation, but I think it's important to keep ourselves aware of all the specific things which news outlets won't print. Otherwise you'll get a systematically biased view of the world. (And I don't want to get into the actual debate here, but I feel I could be misinterpreted if I don't note that I'm saying this as someone who's generally pretty friendly to Israel.)
That homepage has a lot going on
While LE is indeed vulnerable to this kind of (difficult) attack, I wanted to make the point that LE still represents, for the most part, an improvement over the previous norms in the CA industry. ACME standardizes automated domain ownership validation to a relatively small number of options that have received relatively rigorous security review (leading to one being dropped due to security concerns, for example).

In contrast, incumbent low-budget CAs have often been a bit of a wild west of automated validation methods, often based on email, that can and do fall to much simpler attacks than a large-scale on-path attack. While CA/B, Mozilla, and others have worked to improve on that situation by requiring CAs to implement more restrictive policies on how domains can be validated, ACME still represents a much better validated, higher-quality validation process than that offered by a number of major CAs for DV certificates.

One approach to decentralized or at least compromised-CA-tolerant TLS is something called "perspectives" (also implemented as "convergence"). The basic concept is that it's a common attack for someone to intercept your traffic, but it's very difficult for someone to intercept many people's traffic on the internet. So, if the TLS certificate and key you receive from a website is the same as the one that many other people have received, it is most likely genuine. If it's different, that's an indicator of a potential on-path attack. This can be implemented by establishing trust between your computer and various "notaries" which basically just check the certificate from their perspective and confirm that it matches yours.

I bring this up, because if you squint just right you can view ACME as being a method of bolting the same concept onto the existing CA infrastructure: before you connect to a website, LetsEncrypt acts as a notary by connecting to the domain from multiple perspectives and ensuring that the same person evidently controls it from all of them. While not perfect, this is a strong indicator that the person requesting the cert is legitimate.

The on-path attack risk is almost, but not always, on a late stage of the network path to the user (e.g. their local network). The big weakness of the ACME approach is an interception of a late stage of the network path to the server. This tends to be much better secured, but hey, it's still something to worry about. There is obviously also a reliance on DNS, but I would say that DNS has basically always been the most critical single link in on-path attack protection.
Plenty of wars have been fought throughout history for stupider reasons.
> 1) TPS isn't the only thing that matters,

It's pretty important for adoption to happen. Right now most Ethereum apps with complex contracts (i.e. Augur, Synthetix) can cost $50+ per transaction.

> 2) TPS on L2 such as lightning is both extremely fast and very cheap.

That's only true if there isn't high demand. If there is opening a channel costs $15 or more.

> Ethereum is also going to have an L2 because it makes a lot of sense.

Something which has been discussed since 2017. The architecture still isn't there. Most apps have to interact on the main chain. Not confident it is going to happen anytime soon even with startups like Matic.
Google isn't forcing anyone to use ReCaptcha, but in my state many government websites use it. So I actually am forced to use it. This is even more true with Covid, where many in-person services have transitioned to online-only.

What's worse is that ReCaptcha isn't an honest CAPTCHA. Instead, ReCaptcha relies in large part on building a tracking profile. If you take privacy enhancing measures, such as clearing cookies and using a VPN, then you can't pass ReCaptcha. It will present you with a endless loop of "please try again" no matter your answer.
You underestimate the size of the used car market. It's bigger than just one country.
You can build wooden house that would stand 100+ years. Not US-style houses from planks, though, you just cut trees and use their trunks as a whole to build walls. Also you should protect it from the rotting.
>This is awesome! The US needs domestic chip manufacturing, in order to be able to effectively compete, take business from, and vanquish China on all fronts.

Have you forgotten all the intel/GF fabs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries#Fabrication_fa...
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Devil's advocste: why can't the US do that via Taiwan as it does currently?

They're an ally, they're totally reliant on the US and afraid of the PRC.

Won't we also need "rare" earth metal supplies to of it is a vital industry we can't cope with being overseas? And then there is the fact the fab machines all come from Belgium.
Datadome, Incapsula
I think there's some consideration of how prone an area is to natural disaster, which makes Intel's picks of places like Arizona and New Mexico ideal. But I think other benefits like a strong labor market or a business friendly jurisdiction will probably have an overall bigger impact on where a business chooses to build.
Iceland's 'Covid-19 passport' offers preview of debate over post-vaccine travel
What is the point of BTC price climbing if you wouldn't be able to convert it to cash or pay for goods?
Both gold and Bitcoin are stores of value with high production costs, Bitcoin gets a lot of heat for its electricity consumption but I haven’t seen anyone ask the same for gold.
We don't use bricks for structure any more because earthquakes. Wood buildings fare much better when shaken. We also have plenty of wooden houses that have stood for 150 years.
Yes, but how many of them are distributable in the way required by the constraints of mining? (I really hope I'm wrong and would love to see a counterexample of "constructive" mining!)