skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is great for tech people that want to remain online and transact online for most or all things. The trend is more things moving online, so the value of Bitcoin logically increases. What is true "value" of Bitcoin? It's simply what the next person says it is, no more no less.

Cash/currency is great for people that want to remain offline and transact for physical things. Most electronic banking are still based on currency, so it's useful for now. How will this play out in future? We'll see.

Bitcoin is not an investment vehicle. Never was never will be. It's a belief. As more people believe in Bitcoin, it will gain value.
So just start charging for service, and keep a non-refundable deposit for spam/abuse.

Let every abuser requests those explanations, if the decision doesn't change, the money is still kept, which funds that service.
It's a nothing code. It's so vague it's a rorschach blot - it's whatever you want it to be.
There's another post making the rounds on HN at the moment: "Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?"

this. this is why. bots, chat or otherwise, are not competent enough to replace humans.

Actually, sometime humans aren't that great at this either, if poorly paid/motivated/trusted.
> You wouldn't lock up a human either for having the capacity to harm someone else.

If a toddler could rip your hands off, I wouldn't imagine it would be free to roam society as usual.
Microsoft Joins Rust Foundation
WSB wasn't all that alt-right/Nazi/whatever before the GameStop insanity, but after some clickbait articles equating them with Trump supporters, something like 6 million new people descended on them, some noticeable number of them being Trump/QAnon cultists. I suspect it was a self-fulfilling thing.
They didn't change the world.

They didn't "do" anything.

Google will be forgotten the same way any company that rides off coattails does.

Google changed the world - you legit made me spit my drink that's such a fucking joke. They were the search engine that went big
In the 90s there was a very campy TV Show called Superhuman Samurai. It was an Americanized Super Sentai show--think off-brand Power Rangers.

The very scenario was the plot of one of the episodes. Here's a link, if anyone remembers the show and wants a dose of nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJRumVVe10
Sure, the lineage of declarative UI is pretty long. I'm aware of Windows resource files and the Mac's resource files that inspired them; there may be earlier antecedents on 8-bit micros.

SwiftUI provides a fundamentally different way of thinking about UI composition and managing data flow in your app. Much of the GUI logic simply disappears. Syntactically and functionally, it seems like something structured like it would be a great fit for a cross-platform Lisp UI framework.
Using various combinations of option for a single trade allows the risk/reward of the position to be more finely tuned based on changes to the underlying.
Microsoft also joined the Rust Foundation [0] [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072627

[1] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/micro...
Yea, a hierarchical system for organizing data seems useful even if its stored on the same physical medium as main memory. Your profile is Highly Appropriate btw.
Also, encryption is illegal over packet radio.
A more formal description:

> If a gene copy confers a benefit B on another vehicle at cost C to its own vehicle, its costly action is strategically beneficial if p_B > C, where p is the probability that a copy of the gene is present in the vehicle that benefits. Actions with substantial costs therefore require significant values of p. Two kinds of factors ensure high values of p: relatedness (kinship) and recognition (green beards).

The Selfish Gene is probably the most famous way of looking at that concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio...
It will if it's reverse osmosis (RO), but not all filters do that. That particular brand sells both RO and non-RO units. If it's a vast excess of NaOH, you'll have other problems besides your water filter failing, like chemical burns.

Most US tapwater is fantastically clean and drinkable, and doesn't generally need a filter. The Safe Drinking Water Act is pretty powerful stuff.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/regulations...
NHS app has told 1.7M to self-isolate
To the people who didn't grow up with 4chan: do not search for this image, its pretty disgusting.
There's another benefit to hiding the answer paragraphs down - it will likely be enough to trigger more ad loads (and a new page load if infinite scroll).
Ironically the commercial I enjoyed the most wasn't one of the official Superbowl ads but one of the regular tv ads that happened to be playing during the pre-game stuff; specifically "Becoming your parents" ad where they are threw away the "Live, Laugh, Love" sign
Commander X16 – A new modern 8-bit computer
Firecracker is written in rust and is from Amazon.
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Tesla invests US$1.5B in Bitcoin, ready to take cryptocurrency as payment
Why downvoting? It's undeniable that some people are lured in bad investments practices because they share many characteristics with gambling. I'm not complaining about morality or ethic, it's just clear that these platforms are making a lot of money from trading addicted people.
> The attacker demonstrated intent and capability to inflict public harm.

This is if you take the facts in this story at face value. In my mind, if someone can raise the level of a chemical to become dangerous, you already have a problem. 11000 ppm sounds huge to me (1.1%). What if instead of an external hacker you had an internal disgruntled employee. What if you had a leaky gasket. The system should have some multiple redundancies to not allow a dangerous level of a chemical to end up in the water supply.
I think you’re misinterpreting that remark? Probably their main point is that the water was always okay. That’s what the people who live there are going to want to know about first.
And of course, as soon as you find an issue (which you probably will given that it's 170k lines of MATLAB), you can stop then and there.
Indirectly certainly, but directly it's on the same topic and rough geography as Kensington Blues, so it's extremely likely the author is familiar.
Yet their stock was up today.
There is nothing particularly different about California’s desires from a taxation perspective. Any other state would eventually make the same decision. The bottom line is if a state is housing a 12-figure individual or company and sustaining the related damage associated with social wealth disparity as a result, they will want to recoup the damages in the form of taxes. These taxes are nothing but a band-aid over our culture of private wealth. If we didn’t have the latter, we wouldn’t need the former.
Prosecutors are shaped by an environment that equates “the right thing” to “punishing the guilty.” It’s like any profession... a surgeon will think you need surgery and a prosecutor will think the guy in handcuffs needs to go to jail.
You're version of the right thing and the prosecutors version might not align.

The right thing for them is to put as many criminals behind bars. They review cases and pick ones they can win. They will attack and find unrelated weak points in your character to win. They believe they are doing the right thing and will use whatever they can legally against you. You being innocent and going to court is means someone made a mistake. To confess to a mistake loses you credibility, to confess to an ongoing process mistake could open up other cases where dangerous people could be set free.

Is that your version of the right thing?
Having not used Robinhood, can you explain what he had to say to get this access?
The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
UAE, US and Chinese missions prepare to explore Mars
It is not a business "need". These systems have functioned without remote access perfectly well for decades. It is a business "want" and thus must be balanced against any new risks relative to historical risks.

The risk of adding remote access to critical systems is the introduction of globally accessible single-point-of-failures. Given the nature of software, such an attack has an unlimited amount of time to be perfected before deployment and when finished can be deployed at effectively zero cost and complete in effectively zero time which provides no meaningful way to respond except with already deployed automated systems. So, the risk added with remote access is the risk of malicious catastrophic total system failure.

In this case, the water treatment facility treated the water for ~15,000 residents. In a similar case many years ago [1], a similar event occurred to a water treatment facility that treated the water for ~12,000 residents which resulted in 100 affected individuals before the effects were detected. So, we can reasonably assume that undetected water treatment tampering on a facility serving ~10,000 individuals will result in about ~100 affected individuals before the effects are detected. If there exists a way to tamper with a water treatment facility that would result in deaths for the affected individuals, which is quite likely, then that means the risk of remote access to the water treatment facility is ~100 deaths. So, as a society, we should ask the question: What is the standard of care that should be applied to a system where failure may result in the deaths of 100 people? And any business that wishes to add remote access to such a system must demonstrate to the satisfaction of society that they are taking that degree of care. It is not the role of society or the people to suffer for the convenience of business.

And in this case, I am certain that they are not taking an appropriate amount of care. The fact that you honestly suggested that an IT department would shove an AP in the ceiling for their convenience shows just how low our expectations are. In any other industry, such an act would be, in no uncertain terms, criminal negligence. That our standard assumption about the standard of care taken is criminal negligence shows just how far any of these companies is from actually deploying systems that have external access and have adequate security.

[1] https://www.spencerma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1246/f/uploads...
Assuming that there are some actions that it is morally just to punish, if not the individual's ability to exert free will to avoid them, then what (in your mind) sets apart those actions from those that it is not morally just to punish?

Or are you making the claim that it is never morally justified for any action to be punished?
> But you claimed that the email can be hacked, I used an email forwarding service provided by google or apple.

I'm not arguing than an intelligent user can't get rid of security issues. I'm saying a product that uses passwordless login still has security issues. Not every user is going to do that and theyre gonna blame you when they get hacked.

> Again, I would be more convinced of real world evidence and statistics rather than theorising.

You first. You made the initial claim that passwordless login has no security issues. Systems should be assumed insecure unless proven otherwise.
> Google is generally a high-trust brand in America, so most people will find the risk tolerable

Sure, nobody doubts that. Whether the trust is deserved, that's another story.

They scan your email to find out where you traveled and what you bought. I guess most people don't know and many are shocked once they find out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19942219
Security Things in Linux v5.8
What specific issues are you having? What do you mean by "B-class players, who lead all sorts of C-, D- and all the way down to Z-class characters"? I assume in this ranking you are an A+ player yourself, which is very impressive.
46 TWh/y mentioned in this link comes to ~5.25 GW continuous usage. With an actual transaction rate of ~4 tps in 2021, each transaction takes ~364.6 kWh. Enough to send a top efficiency Tesla down the entire West coast.

To give some idea of the magnitude of this draw, some reference figures: the 95 nuclear power plants in the US have a net capacity of ~98 GW of power. Two reactors under construction will add ~1.25GW capacity. Even by these fairly low estimates linked, about 4-5 nuclear power plants.

The numbers on porn's power consumption are just horseshit. The methodology was to take all power consumption of data centers combined, and say that whatever % of internet traffic/throughput is porn is what % of data-center power consumption porn is responsible for. This is just abjectly insulting bad math, presented as insightful: just absolute junk worthless numbers. Porn & video in general has radically higher bandwidth-to-cpu usage ratios than many applications, sendfile() is stupid efficient, caches run hot for popular videos, and sending the bits around is just not that costly. Running cpus and gpus is what constitutes the bulk of the energy expenditure in data centers, not switches, yet porn is getting dinged as though it's traffic is the only thing that matters. Pieces like this should be rescinded & apologies should be issued.

Bitcoin is a monster & energy wastage of this class is an abomination. It should not be tolerated in a society that has it's head screwed on straight.
HN homepage on the day it launched (Oct 9, 2006)
Liberate+Your+Device+-+Free+Your+Android
All I get is a scrolling hex editor looking thing. Maybe that redirect has been disabled?
Why does it need to be fixed? The mission of wikimedia is to serve educational content.

Edit: this is a bit unfair, if its a specific app they should be convinced to cache just to avoid unfair resource usage, but hotlinking in general should not be seen as a problem
Rust as a language is great already as it is, it doesn’t need more features to be much better than C++ (compilation speed may be an exception...). So I guess my take is that corporate adoption is the most important thing to happen with it at this stage.
They are notorious for having no human support.
> "But, of course, what could be more uninteresting than doing what everyone else thinks is interesting?"

so why define your happiness primarily on what others think? a false premise, at the very least (but one many of us do seem to fall for from time to time). as @Bakary originally suggested, interesting lives don't seem to be led so deliberately.
It's easy to say that, of course, but the fact of the matter is that designing systems with multiple redundancies is difficult and expensive.
If you've never seriously used an ML-family language then you don't know what you're missing. Lots of popular languages are in a very narrow slice of the language space; you talk about "other languages" but you only mention C and Java which are very similar languages to each other in many respects.
I'm not talking about the UI, I'm talking about the application you fill out to get access to level 2 options permissions
There's a reason your use case is difficult to do and it has nothing to do with technology. It's difficult due to anti-money laundering laws and to prevent funding terrorism.
Straw man. No one's saying that options are for investing. They're used for speculation and hedging/risk management.
It depends on what you mean by "much." If you mean "as a volume of LOC of total software development," absolutely. But if you mean "not being used for anything big" or "not being used for anything important," that is very much wrong.
Exercise regularly. Eat a healthy diet. If you don't wake up feeling rested, talk to your doctor and see about going for a sleep study or whatever.

You can never know too much math.

Read The Four Steps To The Epiphany
4chan didn't even exist yet when goatse emerged
You'd have to lie about your income and experience level, and the amount of time you've been trading
This is extremely sad. The lawsuit claims that Robinhood's shitty tech support was one of the major factors here. Between that, the numerous bugs, and the way they've been blocking people from trading in Gamestop, I can't understand why people choose to use it over the alternatives.

I've always done my trading through Schwab, and my experience has been worlds different from what I read in the news about Robinhood. Schwab hasn't restricted the trading of any stocks or options, and they make professional support as available as air. Whether it's technical issues or basic investment advice, I can easily get in touch with them by phone or email.
The other question besides "why is this even on the Internet" is "why does this even need to be adjustable remotely from a computer?"

Maybe I'm just really old-school, but it sounds like this sort of thing should really be something that's set once to the right values, and then if it ever needs changed, someone has to physically access a building and adjust a physical control --- likely alongside doing various other maintenance tasks on the system.

This is different from remotely viewable, which is a much better idea, and I dare say should even be public.
I've had this happen after getting assigned on a short leg. Massive negative balance in the UI, locked account, angry margin call emails from RH.

The messaging around this is terrifying because it is all boilerplate risk management stuff -- nothing you'd expect if you were naively engaged in a controlled risk spread.

The thing to keep in mind is that RH won't let you engage in infinite risk positions. So, if this happens, take a deep breath and maybe re-read a few sections on Investopedia.
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> We can be confident that our galaxy has not yet had one

How can we be confident of that? For all we know the Cambrian explosion was precisely that.
Seems like something that $100M would be better spent to research, rather than held back to reward.
I think it's clear that there's a strong relationship between all of these methods. Papers proving that Neural Networks are GPs came out a year or two ago, for example. Deep learning is more useful in the end because kernel machines and gaussian processes (classically) store all samples in a dataset and require expensive pairwise comparison. Deep learning/gradient descent doesn't.
Ehhh options really kinda kick ass, but only when you know what you are doing and understand the max profit and loss of a trade.
"I could whip this up in JavaScript in about NaN or [object Object] hours over a weekend!"
Ask HN: How to gracefully handle competitor mudslinging
My side project [1] has recently started to grow so I took out a few Google Ads on companies in the same space. One of them recently left a review in the App Store calling my app a cheap ripoff of his product (the iOS handle matched the company's CEO's instagram handle). I'm still only at 20 reviews including from one family member who uses my app, so the mark looks kinda bad.

I've been thinking long and hard what recourse would look the best and generally be the best for my app. Should I respond to his review? Should I try to be nice? Should I ignore it?

Sincere thanks for any insight! I've learned so much from HN.

[1] https://getcho.app
I'll just be looking forward to the follow-up post on HN announcing when they figure out what the culprit was!

Per the comments, right now the top suspect seems to be the app "Josh" or another TikTok clone because of how traffic surged immediately after the TikTon ban:

https://twitter.com/bwaber/status/1358915338637873154
They are personally liable. That's what their stamp means.

And are you claiming that insurance should not be permitted? If so, that seems... Silly. People make mistakes. If a single mistake has the potential to ruin your entire livelihood, you'll quickly find that you're lacking anyone willing to put on their stamp without putting up enough money to cover all the liability. That is, instead of them pooling together to get liability insurance, each individual will instead have to pass on those costs to their customers.
I think this makes sense; it would seem natural selection should drop this as an _inherited_ trait.

Regardless, everyone should be treated equally and with kindness. I don't think that's up for debate.
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Every request at FB is handled in a new container. This isn’t absurd, it’s actually pretty neat :)

Edit: I don’t know what I’m talking about. Happy Monday!
Yep, jwz has had a change of heart and sees today's HN as a born again breath of fresh air.
And what would have happened if you hadn't?
>You have to go out of your way to trade options (they're disabled by default), and the only way you can get options enabled in Robinhood as a college freshman is to straight up lie on the application.

If all it took was a lie on an application for Robinhood to grant someone the ability to use extremely risky trading strategies, that's still Robinhood's fault. Robinhood isn't absolved of responsibility just because the student did something dishonest.

Given the fact he was 20 years old, his options application should have automatically been under a heightened degree of scrutiny, if not immediately rejected. That it wasn't indicates Robinhood is not responsibly implementing KYC controls, which is a huge deal.
RH's entire schtick is to be the amateur's investment broker. Their barrier to entry for margin and options is practically 0. When the only thing you need to do in order to get access to level 3 options is check a couple boxes, you're practically encouraging this type of activity. RH is breaking a ton of rules atm and there is a reason why most brokers are high touch for margin/options and unfortunately the Kearns' family is first hand evidence of this.

Most other brokers WILL NOT allow this. When I applied for options Schwab had a broker call me and make sure I knew about all the risks involved for the level I applied for.

RH was also down a couple times in March, which lost me a good amount of money. A week is a VERY long time if you're playing short-term options. There's also other issues where they were holding customer shares in margin when they had cash to cover, and when they've allowed customers to leverage 5k -> 1M of positions (a huge nono).

The conclusion here is that RH is a toy broker following the mantra of move fast and breaks things. Good if you're casually investing, but for options and serious investing with real amounts of cash it's worth getting a broker that is serious at providing reliable service.
it is profitable 1. at scale and 2. when you are not paying for the electricity. Tesla covers both of these
Unexposed Orchestration Logic in Neural Network Libraries
Presumably they are paying for the servers/bandwidth to support that, and that money is coming from donors.

It's a waste of donors money if someone is using this image as some kind of "is this thing on" test using hacked computers...
Yes! Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZnqjHkULc.

It's a bit odd to hear, as it goes against conventional modern wisdom ("you hear a lot about work life-balance, work smarter not harder, and that's all fine, but there's is a quality to obsession, that is really hard to match"), but it's understandable from a position to somebody who's really trying to be "aiming to be the best in the world".
Google already knows what you look like. And, more importantly, what you look at.
Well any time you start yanking levers and spinning dials you'd better know where the breaking points in your system are.

If you care about the traffic because you're already having trouble with that many simultaneous requests, then you are definitely not going to solve that problem by increasing the response time by a factor of 10.

But an important property of reverse proxies is that once the proxy sees the last byte of the response, the originating server is no longer involved in the transaction. The proxy server is stuck ferrying bits over a slow connection, and hopefully is designed for that sort of work load. If the payload is a static file, as it is in both of these cases, then it should be cheap for the server to retrieve them.