skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with bitcoin is that the amount of energy needed to secure the network isn't actually necessarily well matched with the amount of energy people are incentivised to put into it. The amount people put into it depends on the mining rate (which decays as a slow exponential over time), the price of bitcoin, and the price of energy and mining hardware. The amount needed to put into it to secure the network depends on the price of energy/hardware and the amount of money you could make from a 51% attack (which is functionally a double-spend: not only do you need a substantial amount of bitcoin to pull this off, you need to be able to get the cash out somehow. Or you can try shorting it and assume the market will panic when it happens). At the moment the price is high and the mining rate is also quite high, while energy is frequently available below-cost (certainly below environmental cost) due to a combination of factors including corruption and freeloading on subsidies intended for other purposes. At the moment I think the energy use of bitcoin is far higher than is necessary for the network to be safe from a 51% attack, but also in the long run (because the transaction rate is so low and the mining rate dropping over the next few decades), I think mining will not be enough to secure the network, and either it fails due to a 51% attack or the transaction fees become truly ludicrous.

I think cryptocurrencies are a good innovation as a whole and it's likely something like them will be used to provide great value in the future, but bitcoin is most definitely not that, and it's position as the first, most valuable, while also the slowest and least efficient makes it not only harmful to the crypto sector by strangling others but also just bad for humanity as a whole. The sooner we can move on from it the better (etherium might be a good option in the longer run: moving to proof of stake removes the big energy waste and they actually have some scope to evolve the system, unlike bitcoin which basically got fossilised in a half-complete state).
Did you know Signal, like Tor, was financed by an offshoot of the CIA?

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https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spoo...

Now if I were an Iranian dissident, I would be reasonably confident Signal is designed to withstand the Iranian regime’s interception efforts (but not necessarily traffic analysis). If I were someone on the US government’s shitlist like Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, my calculus would be entirely different. (Yes, I know Snowden has endorsed Signal)
Surely meaning is foremost dictated by context? English does not have a context free grammar.

I can say the actual n-word without meaning to enflame or diminish - it is very easy in fact: take a sentence where I would have used the literal n-word, and replace it with the actual n-word.
That doesn't seem to make any sense as gender is determined by the sperm cell reaching the egg. Unless gay-dna sperm are somehow faster...
> Hugely important for me, hiring for marketing.

Exactly. Where I used to work we wrote tech reports aimed at non-tech readers so good written explanation skills were essential.
Another great pair of interviews with one of the creators of ORCA (goes into a lot more detail):

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045.html
I love the specialized instruments. The "Astrology Slide Rule" for calculating horoscopes and the "Bio Dial" for biorhythms. What a wonderful cross-over between hard science and fantasy.

One thing I've learned over the decades is it often benefits the craftsman to use a specific tool for a specific job. Sometimes a general-purpose digital computer is not the most appropriate tool when a simple hand-held analog device will give you the right answer every time without batteries or reception, in the rain or damp or cold.

I learned to use a slide rule as a youth because it was an important part of the high school science curriculum (how else were you going to calculate all those Ksp values in chemistry? Long hand?). I also have a pile of them I've collected over the years. Long may they, uh, rule.
Tesla invests $1.5B in Bitcoin, will start accepting it as payment
> Saying the actual word is meant to inflame or diminish.

How could you possibly know this? Also, it's obviously just not true.

You're saying that the intent matters, but what we're seeing these days is that the mere mention of a word is enough.
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The refund would be a fraction of a dollar that people would have paid for the incomplete part of their final month, no? So perhaps it's hardly worth refunding, or perhaps they did.

A cheap low reliability non-spammy service is a pretty good niche for hobbyists. Who cares that it shut down. It did a job while it lasted.
My first thought. While there is definitely major hype in infosec for ICS and other physical hacks, this sounds like either a disgruntled former employee or current employee going postal. Feds probably went along with this press conference for additional funding.
Seems a stretch, publishing was costly pre steam as well and there were always a cut
Right, that’s the classic neutral source model: report what the person on the left thinks, report what the person on the right thinks, and expect the informed reader to make their own decision, which will probably be somewhere in the middle.

That model worked fine when people had things in common other than their views on policies, and could politely agree to disagree on many things. But it’s another matter altogether when both sides literally think the other side is trying to destroy America. If you have a paper that tries to show “both sides“ of issues that illicit opinions from OAN, Newsmax, Fox and literal Chinese state propaganda and put it next to commentary by people like Ezra Klein you just wind up with a publication that is intellectually incoherent.

The “both sides“ model of reporting assumes that both sides exist on the same planet and share a basic understanding of the axioms of reality. And they don’t anymore. Any publication that attempts to do this is just going to elicit outrage from both sides on a routine basis. And the NYT frequently does now. Nobody who supports BLM he’s going to feel “informed“ by an editorial by Tom Cotton about how troops should be called in on protesters, and vice versa.
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Absolutely! The article conflates hobbyist and professional web development. Having a play as a teenager in your free time? By all means, use single html, css and js file. With javascript modules, it's much nicer these days than it used to be in 2007 anyway. Working on a project in a company? You probably want all the guiding rails that package managers, type checking or bundling will give you anyway. Frameworks? With web components, you might not need them.
>So a better advice would be "be exposed to the sun often, every day if you can, and don't wear sunscreen when you do it".

Unless, of course, you have any degree of vanity.
> crowing about the death of Ron Wright

This man spent the last few months of his life fighting against any medical, scientific response to COVID, claiming that it was a hoax.

Half a million Americans are dead - and they died in a truly horrible fashion.

What exactly do you expect the response to be?
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Unfortunately we know the answer and we have data to back it up. EA earned 2x more on FUT and Apex Legends than on normal "full games": https://s22.q4cdn.com/894350492/files/doc_financials/2021/q3...
Theory: data lake

Reality: data leak

I'm also tired of all those hyped technologies. Sure,
containers, "serverless" etc. are neat and powerful things, but
in most cases it reminds me of Top Gear's kitchen blender
powered by a V8 engine. Yes, I could use TypeScript, React and a
couple other libraries to build that website. But then I also
need to handle 3 configuration files and their interactions,
wait for the incremental compilation to run through after every
change, waste time debugging because the incremental builds got
the whole amalgamation into an undefined state and deploying the
project now requires its own toolchain and scripts.
I could have sworn I saw a comedy one time in which a uptight racist lady said about some other character something like "I don't want to say anything but they are just a real n-word if you know what I mean" with the pursed lips and nodding that one would assume such a character would do - late 80s early 90s movie.

So obviously one can imagine a scenario where the word is used to inflame or diminish while at the same time trying to make the speaker seem (in their own minds at least) better than they actually are.
In the high school computer programming class I teach we use headless Debian on a Raspberry Pi. The idea that you can rename files, move them, and organize them is mind blowing to about a third of the students. When I ask how they organize their school files, they either use Google Docs for everything (all in one folder) or, if they use Word, they have one folder with all their documents named, "New Document", "New Document (1)", "New Document (2)", &c. When I teach them Chemistry as juniors and insist that they use a spreadsheet (or general purpose programming language) for their complex problem sets, about 90% of them have never seen a spreadsheet before. We now have the "talk" with our juniors about backups, as more than one has lost their entire junior thesis because it was stored on their laptop and nowhere else.

It's frustrating that we spent decades developing fantastic tools to help ourselves with all sorts of intellectual work, and have more or less abandoned teaching people to use them well.

As the tower of abstraction has gotten taller, there's a temptation to teach near the shiny end; ML for high school! But that leaves students with huge gaps in their understanding of how things work under the hood, which impairs their ability to connect what they learn and build on it.
I don't think that "sort of feel" is a bar high enough, when the consequences for an individual can and have been so severe.
What interests me more, is Signal's principal stance about censorship. If non-tech people ever come to Signal in numbers, the moderation problem will inevitably arise. Would they censor things that we currently have public consensus about? Like CP, terrorism etc.
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That'd still break the distinction between hotlinking and the user using a bookmark or copy/paste to directly open the URL in question.
> 1kg is not exactly 1000g, that would be 1.000kg

Really? Why? I would have assumed that 1kg is in fact exactly 1000g, and that the trailing zeros in 1.000kg indicated a rounding to three decimal places: i.e. 999.5g <= 1.000kg < 1000.5g
I don't think this paper is very good.

Because of the huge age and co-morbidity influence in covid mortality, the very large number of excess deaths correspond to a comparatively (eg compared to median death) small number of QUALYs. But as a functioning western society it's a bit unclear how you could action this fact, as "just let the old die" has severe logistical problems ignored by this paper - even if you buy the argument that the cost of the pandemic response exceeds the cost of the pandemic itself in QUALYs, I don't think you could action their advice.
Due process is not really a thing in Iran. If the Government wants you in prison, they will throw you in on flimsy pretexts. Which is why journalists need to be extra careful: they don’t just need to hide their activities but need to hide any trace or hints of participating in those activities. Outspoken people will be monitored closely, and even an attempt to access signal (say) could be used by the Government to imprison the user.
Side note: I thought the press conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXDSOgLQ6M) was very well done. I'd differ on some minor matters of opinion, but overall Sheriff Gualtieri stuck to the facts, focused on the important matters, and generally treated the room with respect.

Nice work.
Slower perhaps, but it has definitely accumulated its share of complexity and ceremony along the way.

Much of it is basic CRUD, built on top of a tower of complexity, crammed into a container and served by whatever cloud provider.

I spend most of my time plugging and praying/crying.
Discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071982
You wont find a sound setup that will work in all Linux distros, it is how the sound landscape in Linux is. However in terms of API availability, ALSA is available everywhere, is the "native" sound API and people can use it without installing anything extra. This is why i say 'in practice' - with anything else you'd need to rely on dependencies that may or may not exist. ALSA is the Linux sound system.

BTW what i describe is how Debian was for years when i used it by default, not just testing. It is possible that the version of Debian Pinebook Pro shipped was altered. Or something else wasn't configured as i had it, who knows.
>I'm not a native English speaker and I was not talking about any specific word; my argument was general. What word do you refer to by "the n-word", precisely? Can you write it down, please?

I’m sure if you genuinely don’t know what the n-word refers to then an English speaker will be happy to explain it to you – although given your existing command of English it seems odd that you couldn’t find out the answer using Google.

> It seems to me that these two extremes are quite wrong. A moderate middle-ground seems to be better: "anyone should be free to say any word, as long as they are not using it as a slur to insult another person".

As a standard of acceptable behavior (rather than a legal standard) this seems obviously too lenient. For example, it means I could roam the streets shouting the n-word at the top of my lungs as long as I wasn’t directing it at anyone in particular.

Given the existence of a universally understood euphemism (’n-word’) it is generally difficult to use the n-word without showing a certain level of disregard for black people (and indeed anyone who’s offended by racist language).
It's the same for hydro, the lack of political stakeholders in decomissioning process. I wasn't suggesting that it's physically impossible.
A year of people like this in our faces telling us that there's no pandemic and we're all sheep, and we lose our patience.

Four years of Trump screaming lies, hatred and incoherent abuse at us, and we lose our patience.

Conservatives go out of their way to be hated - they literally talk about "Liberal tears" all the time - and then they get offended when it works.

I'm not even in the United States anymore. The level of contempt that Europeans have for Trump would just stagger you, and the same is true for the few Asians I know.

If you tell everyone you want to be hated, you act in a hateful way, and you cause tremendous destruction, you can't act all surprised when people end up actually hating you.
Probably person who built the platform left long ago and they've been running on autopilot since.
Perhaps it didn't make much money prior to the hack. And you would have to operate at a loss until enough new customers came in. With probably lots of bad reviews from the prior customers.

My guess is that if it was worth starting fresh, they did so with a new brand that makes no mention of the old service.
Feels like there's something very serious they aren't telling their customers.

Do hackers have a copy of all customer data?
To the pub.
Web link [1] (vs. PDF):

> In this article, we aim to develop a political economy of mass hysteria. Using the background of COVID-19, we study past mass hysteria. Negative information which is spread through mass media repetitively can affect public health negatively in the form of nocebo effects and mass hysteria. We argue that mass and digital media in connection with the state may have had adverse consequences during the COVID-19 crisis.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/4/1376
> In hindsight, I just didn't enjoy writing code for money.

This is the almost inevitable path of those who started their career thinking: how lucky am I that my hobby coincides with a well paying job.
> We should have dozens, if not hundreds of contenders for "the next WordPress" that leverage Git as a foundational aspect of content management.

If you want a new CMS, give it a shot. But nobody's made a better free version of Jenkins either. It's hard to do and completely unrewarding/unmonetizeable (as FOSS), which is probably why nobody has done it.

However, insisting it leverage a difficult source code version control system is artificially restricting. Start with an MVP of flat files for content and add a plugin system. Somebody will write Git support, but they'll also add other content backends. I'll bet you a million dollars that a custom SQL plugin that does version control will be preferred over Git by 99% of users. But they may wise up and use an S3 plugin instead. Or maybe all three. They'll have choices, and your project will become more useful.

Don't start your project with an artificial restriction and it will be better for it.
He was an adult and he's responsible for his own decisions. We can't turn the world into safe space for every poorly equipped adult.

This is not to lessen the tragedy of this situation in any way. Acknowledging a tragedy doesn't have to involve trying to find a sue-able party to blame it on.
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Having grown up in the UK I was taught metric for everything, but there is plenty of exposure to imperial from older generations. The one thing I've come to realise about imperial is, it's much more "human". Centimetres, kilograms etc. seem completely arbitrary and unrelatable. Even people my age who learnt metric can eyeball "about an inch", but "about a centimetre"? It's too small to be useful, and being smaller means your error percentage is way higher. Similarly, some recipes are expressed really neatly in imperial. Shortcrust pastry to fill a 9-inch pan? 5 ounces of flour and 4 ounces of butter. Good luck trying to remember the metric equivalent. Same with Celsius vs Farenheit. The former puts landmarks at freezing and boiling of water. OK, freezing is useful, but who actually cares about the boiling point of water? It boils when it boils. Farenheit instead gives you a scale from "bloody cold" to "bloody hot".

The choice of base 10 units is also completely arbitrary. So we have ten fingers? So what? That's not useful. Metric takes the view that everyone will work with arbitrary real number measurements, but we don't. We naturally use fractions. The fact you can't evenly divide a metric unit in three is terrible. If you look at standard sizes for, say, kitchen units in Europe, they actually are multiples of 6. A unit is 600mm and therefore divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Wouldn't it be so much neater if we could just write 100mm instead of 600mm? We know humans can remember more than ten symbols because our alphabet is larger. Sigh... I suppose having one standard is better than a few competing standards or no standard at all.
Well that's really the only bar we have for offensive language, isn't it? If we need a higher bar than that then I suppose we can all just go around insulting each other and expecting nothing to happen as a consequence. Good luck with that.

If you want something more objective, why don't you just ask a sample of people whether they react the same to 'n-word' as they do to the n-word?
I don’t know the finer details but it sounds like a standard margin call. A position blows up, you need to cover as you’re over margin limits and the broker notifies you that you need to deposit a certain amount or they will sell other holdings to cover.

Was there something more to it?
> Especially since I believe ReactOS has been around long before ReactJS

More than 3 times longer. ReactOS was started in the 90s (in fact I might have even used ReactOS before I first used Linux. There certainly isn't much between it). Whereas React.js was started in 2013 (ref: Wikipedia).
Yeah, the idea is sound (assuming it was properly marketed), but simply shutting everything down because of an issue like that does sound excessive. At the very minimum, they should have a basic backup that is enough to get the servers running again even if the customers' data got wiped.
Most shared hostings work like that, they do not have a VM per user, and the professional ones don't get hacked often.
Apulse is much more cumbersome to use and not something you can really rely on - AFAIK it was originally written as a workaround for Firefox dropping ALSA support so you can still watch videos on YouTube, etc. Also isn't something that is installed system-wide, you need to explicitly call something through it.
Does it hurt their caching if you browse Wikipedia when signed in?

I recall reading HackerNews used to have that problem, unsure if it still does.
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