skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, Britain decided to hide everything behind the Official Secrets Act, which workers proudly maintained.

Fun fact: GCHQ still refuses to talk about some of the earliest computing work on Colossus and enigma decryption. I was quite surprised to hear this when I was on a tour of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park[0].

I hope that if/when they do decide to declassify that information that they'll hand it over to TNMOC.

[0] https://www.tnmoc.org/ - It's well worth a visit so when they're open again post-COVID see if you can get down there.
You can be a subject of outrage without being one of the baddies.
Same thing here: I don't have to work anymore but I chose to, with a bit of VC on the side. There are many interesting projects, and having full freedom is priceless!

I try to favor project that only take crypto, not fiat, and price their products in crypto. I see that as an indicator of "understanding" the new wave.
The value of a valuation may go down as well as up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-valuation-falls-47-bi...

(I don't think WeWork was YC, but it does drive home that achieving a valuation is primarily a reflection of your ability to convince investors to give you money)
I've been there. It doesn't work. I've been applying all those tips and tricks, but it didn't improve performance that much, but I have lost data.

Sqlite is full of locks, and any writes are single-threaded stop-the-world, and there's no way around it. It's Sqlite's philosophy. Write-heavy databases just need something like MVCC, and Sqlite won't have that.
What is payed for bitcoin has nothing to do with the value. When its worth $100k or 1M its just a bigger bubble.
I kick myself over not putting more effort into getting bitcoins when I was first reading up on it. While I don't think I would retire, it would be nice to have the financial security to work on more meaningful but unprofitable projects rather than grinding my daily job.
For me the pandemic has actually allowed me to spend more time outdoors and with my children and as a result less time online. We have been taking walks daily and started gardening. I've cut down social media time to almost nothing on all major platforms (HN is my last "addiction"). The author claims the pandemic forced us inside and on social media--do people find this true for them?
It helps to think that odds for not selling during the first peak are quite close to 0%, at least for me. Other outcome would have meant very stressful last years.
Querying filesystems is extremely primitive when compared to what sqlite can do.
And for that purpose it's nice, but as good as any other semi-modern laptop. Over quarantine I amused some coworkers by doing an entire day's work (not ML, but not stuff that's run locally) on an old VT220, with very little change in workflow.

Being able to do light stuff on one's own consumer hardware without having to buy something new is still incredibly helpful to students and other people trying to learn, as well as hobbyists though.
True, however that earlier attempt was quite restricted which limited its usefulness.
That's exactly how I feel. But is there a way to actually cash out? I mean, suppose you had 2 BTC for years. Can you literally get $100K right now in your bank account and can you actually exchange them easily for the fiat currency?
The page is so heavy now it makes it a chore to browse.
Influencing people has always been a goal of many (see Dale Carnegie).
It means being powerful.
Influencing people to do a good thing is amazing. Being paid for any influence presumably feels also pretty good.
Anyone know when transaction fees will get cheaper?
I think this is an inherent problem with the internet. Amazon has an incentive to show products having tons of five-star reviews, or to push their own branded products.

If you buy something and it doesn't work, you can always just send it back. But most of the time it's fine. I found for more expensive items, I feel much safer shopping with Best buy. The prices are generally the same, and there's much more control over what you're actually purchasing. Buying a laptop off Amazon is like reading through a catalog of every laptop ever made in the Last 5 years.

Best Buy has a great selection, and I was able to get my laptop within a day or so.

To be fair to Amazon, they blunt a lot of the really negative experiences with store credit. For example once I purchased a table, didn't know how to put it together, and sort of broke it. I told Amazon I didn't really feel like sending it back because it was heavy, and I got a full refund.

Once you get your money back you're much less likely to complain, I don't have any real incentive to write a negative review about the product now
It hasn't costed me anything though since I never spent or gained a cent on/off of BTC.
Namecheap user here
The author is not describing China, but South-East Asia, where Chinese are a small but conspicuously successful minority. The blog series is an exploration of possible reasons why this is so.
This is very cool.

No frameworks, no compilers, it's FAST as hell, and you can view source and learn exactly how it works.
It seems to me the way the UK went about this was not very efficient. Australia had changed from a nearly identical £/s/d coinage to its own decimal system five years earlier, with less wastage, by changing the name of its currency from pounds to dollars. This let them renumber the paper banknotes.

First the Australian scheme, because it was simpler. There were copper coins for 1d, 2d, 1/2d, and silver coins for 3d, 6d, shilling (= 12d, written 1/-), florin (=2s, written 2/-), and crown (5/-). The banknotes were 10/-, £1 and up. The elegant solution was to set £1 = $2. Then the silver coins, except for the 3d and the crown, could all be retained: the sixpence became the 5c piece, the shilling 10c, and the florin 20c. And relative to the 10/- (now $1) note, they were all still their usefully-sized selves. The crown was withdrawn – I think they wanted to anyway, perhaps because of a counterfeiting problem – and replaced by an incompatible 50c several years later. The copper coins were replaced by new 1c and 2c coins. New silver 5c, 10c and 20c coins were minted, the same size and weight as the old (so they could be used in vending machines) and replaced the old silver ones gradually. The banknotes were all replaced immediately, but as they were paper back then, banknotes got soiled quickly and replaced often anyway, and the opportunity was taken to design new ones that were better for the visually impaired.

However, the British kept the £, which meant the shilling would have to be 5 of the 1/100th units. The British pre-decimal coinage was similar to the Australian, with addition of the farthing, which was 1/4d. But now 6d = 2 1/2p so that, as well as the half crown and all the coppers, were useless, and the shilling was stupidly large for 5p. I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether 25p should have been a thing, but units of 5c and 10c make more sense to me.

Australia was now also able to change its typewriter layout from the UK one to the US one, as £ was no longer required. In the meantime, $ could be produced by overstriking S and I.
So what you are saying is that they (China?) can and do intercept shipments from Supermicro inside the US? Or how do you get the chip onto the correct piece of hardware when you don't know where each motherboard ends up when it leaves the factory?
There is also my generation where we have only recently started earning money and thinking about these things, desperately leveraging FOMO and all the other factors, trying to enter the market a bit too late but still before the next crash, wondering whether we are already too late. You could say crypto is similar to GME, but with GME anyone knowledgeable could see that it's a pump and dump because the 300$ only made sense for a very short period of time because of the shorts, while the crypto future is unclear but very promising in many regards
Yes, this is very easy to do exactly in the way you describe.
I commented on this in another HN discussion thread [1] on Blessed [2]. You might want to look at what Vermont Views did [3] to avoid reinventing the wheel of what to implement. I'm sure if you put the call out for it, someone, somewhere, reading on HN, will be able to post up the documentation if you want a detailed look, or send you the obfuscated source code (which these days could probably be re-constituted with modern re-factoring editors). I tried emailing and hard copy mail contacting them a few years back to buy the rights so I could turn around to open source it as I anticipated a resurgence of interest in TUI's because the browser-based latency issue is simply not improving fast enough, but never got a response, so as far as I can tell, they went abandonware (their corporate form is inactive [4], but someone is updating their office address as recently as a couple years ago, so I might give a shot at contacting them again).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405186

[2] https://github.com/chjj/blessed

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20091011010412/http://www.vtsoft....

[4] https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_vt/0107727
Kind of. But it's a thing with a lot of investments; if one invested in Apple ten years ago their investment would have been 10x now. If one invested in Tesla ten years ago it would be worth 100x now (I think? there was a split at some point. Yahoo Finance's chart indicates it's gone up 10x in a year).

Jumping in now is a bad idea because it's at peak hype; never buy at peak hype. It MIGHT go up a bit more, but it won't be a 10x increase at this point - you should've bought a year ago in that case.

But a year ago, nobody could have predicted it would go up 10x.
Many Lisp compilers do that.

What makes SBCL special is a) using type information as compile-time assertions and b) the level of diagnostic output during compilation. The compiler explains in detail when operations can't be optimized further, for example because of lack of type information.
Remember that pizza you bought in 2013? You could have invested that money into TSLA and it would be worth a heck of a lot more now. Opportunities like that exist today also. Does that make you not want to eat pizza?

I bought BTC at $20. I sold at $1000. When I sold I had something like 1.95 BTC (had a bit of it stolen from poorly secured exchanges, lost some trying my hand at bot trading). Still happy with it because what I bought at the time with with it made me happy (Sonos speakers and photo gear). Would it have been nice to hold onto it until it was $50k? Maybe. But I have been enjoying the benefits of what I got for far longer.

Having said that, I think XLM is in a good position to jump up in price and I still have their free initial allotment.
> First it was over 1 cent, then over $1, over $1000, now over $50k.... when will you consider the possibility you may have been wrong? At $100k? At $1M? (which most models indicate as a plausible target price in 10 years)

This is the wrong metric. A million dollar market cap bubble is not hard to sustain, even a billion dollar market cap is a footnote to the rest of the economy. The entire worth of Bitcoin is still less than half of the worth of the market cap of one company such as Apple. At some point it becomes large enough that its real value has to be considered, which in my opinion is zero.

Stocks like pets.com had long runs in 2000, subprime mortgages had long runs in 2008 and people were saying then what you are saying.

Stocks and real estate are frothy now so Bitcoin and Dogecoin have company. I would rather own a house than 10 bitcoins though.
My understanding is that a fresh Win10 install on modern hardware is actually always running in a hypervisor. So called "core isolation".

Is that correct? I can't find any good article on this, only vague references.
The Occam's Razor for this is that you have to work harder to disbelieve it than to believe it.

You actually have to actively avoid knowing or recognizing things, and have to actively construct rationalizations to explain not taking things seriously.

Additionally, completely seperately and standing on itcs own: There is no benefit to you or me to disregard it rather than regard it.

That is a whole sufficient argument all by itself.

Additionally, completely seperately and standing on it's own: There is no benefit to Bloomberg to fabricate a story like this that they know can't at least eventually be backed up, especially not twice. It has only cost them so far. Did they not know it would cost them?

That's a whole sufficient argument all by itself.

What is the scam if we are tricked into being careful about hardware supply chains really (1)? China and a dozen others are NOT trying to hack in any way they possibly can? It's NOT perfectly possible to do everything claimed?

(1) We're being manipulated! In what direction and for what purpose and how is it against our interests?
How is this that much different to similar "concerns" about kids watching to much tv back in the 60's 70's etc.
Pretty much all rationalists are in SV???

Uh... okay. I really want to know how the hell you came to that conclusion. It's an area full of companies that have pr campaigns that boil down to "making the world a better place" while still being the most greed filled, ideological oppressive, and privacy violating companies in the country, let alone world.

Maybe you're right. Yes, they are the most rational. It is the academic and corporate elite's job to control and plunder the majority of civilization for their own benefit. So yea, best to go where the rest of them are doing it. Never mind, you're right. If you're a snake, best to go into the same snake pit as other snakes. Let that marinate.
Every time its something. Transaction malleability, segwit, tether, tether again. Something drummed up forcing people to fearfully sell their bitcoin.
* Bring a pair of socks only for the flight, and throw them away afterwards (Uniqlo has decent ones that aren't too pricy). The bathroom floors get so sticky after 10 hours.

* Boeing 777s have the loudest jet engines you can encounter. Choose an A380, 787, or A340 flight if you can manage. If you must ride a 777, the front of the cabin is a little quieter.

* If you are seated next to somebody who needs a little more space, try to politely and subtlety ask an air hostess if another seat is available. Both you and the passenger whom you were seated next to will both have a better flight experience.

* Quite a few airlines will let you choose your meals online if you have dietary preferences. Make sure to check the airline website page in your reservations section.

* Try to grab a few Ursa Major face wipes off of Amazon to freshen up mid- and post-flight. Burts Bees wipes are great too, but a little bulky.
Here ya go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod...
TSLA is high now, it might go higher but it's past peak hype at this point so even if you jump in now, you might end up with 2x your investment if it keeps going, but not 10 or 100x.
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> a classical "sysadmin" as that term was used in the 80s/90s job roles was usually not a hard-core C++ programmer

I did not work in the 80s but the sysadmins I worked with in the 90s were the most skilled C programmers I've ever worked with.

Unless you mean C++ specifically, which has always been a bit divisive that world, UNIX has always been inseparable from C. UNIX, C and TCP/IP were joined at the hip. You would have to try hard to avoid learning at least the basics.

If anything sysadmins (or SREs or DevOps Engineers) these days program less, not more. So much have moved into frameworks and yaml. As reliability expectations of individual components tends to be lesser now, things like inspecting core dumps are not as common.

The mockery of the non working sysadmin has been a running joke as long as the job existed (BOFH, anyone). But the idea of simpler times is mostly a chimera. Things have certainly changed and become more complex, but our brains are still as limited as they have always been.

On a related note, "waterfall" was also never really a development model. It's just something to call processes more rigid than you'd like. Software developers have always had to contend with fluid requirements, with the expected varying outcomes.
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Oh well, in that case I do feel a tinge of regret. :(
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I am neither a drug dealer nor an extortionist. I used bitcoin to buy a router from Newegg a month ago.
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Yeah, that's what bitcoin should have been. Too bad it also consumes an insane amount of energy and isn't able to process a lot of transactions per second. Hope that a good cryptocurrency gets more traction and will be the next decentralized "paypal / digital currency".
Bitcoin itself has its value, but the current price surge is a bubble, it can be easily explained why the growth is exponential:

1. BTC price increases

4. There is media attention about the price raise

5. More people buy BTC, because FOMO

6. Back to point 1, but now a bigger group

This loop is a pump, increasing the price as long as the loop isn't broken.

The same pump can reverse, very quickly. Once the loop is pumping there is no way out.

1. BTC price drops

2. There is news out that that the price drops

3. More people sell bitcoin

4. Back to point 2, but now a bigger group

The fact that there is a limited supply will ensure the prices keeps raising, because nobody can "make more bitcoin"..

But this part of the BTC system causes it volatility, it's inherently baked into the system.

It's not the underlying performance of bitcoin, or the profit the system is making. Its pure viral loops logic that cause pumps and dumps.

You can impact it, if you hold a lot of assets. Just PUMP or DUMP a lot. It triggers a pump in the direction of your choosing.

Next to that, ETH is a factor better in design and utility, and still the price is lower. Why? Cause there is less news about it. Not because BTC is a better product.
Well yes, there are addictive aspects to HN. But aren't they more like side-effects?

The upvoting of submissions is needed to 'crowdsource' an interesting front page.

You might do without the karma reputation system, but that will have negative impact on the quality of discussion. After you passed the first treshold (downvote privilege at karma 500) there seems to be no value to the system (no further privileges). But (forgot the game theory name) the 'punishment' of a downvote + karma decrease is probably a great help against shitposting.

Is there a right way to set things up, and maintain high community standards and comment quality?

Edit: Was it Loss aversion?
Google has formed an alliance with Argentina's three biggest news media companies. It's troubling that Google is burying the long tail of news.
Put in some money you'd use for Netflix, Amazon prime and a few other extras you can happily do without.

Mark the amount you paid and its BTC value on the calendar and completely forget about it for one year until some out of the loop person (i.e. uncle at Thanksgiving) asks you if it's a good time to put some money into it.
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> “Why do you think any of the reviews on Amazon are real?”

Because they contain facts which anchor them to reality and act as “proof of work” in some way.

I don’t care for a review which says “this camera takes amazing pictures” that could apply to any camera and is subjective, but one which says “the cover on the sd card slot is sharp and cut my finger twice” is likely someone who has used that specific camera, and has a specific comment, and while it could be faked - why would it be? Like the difference between house adverts that say “cozy kitchen” vs “marble countertops”, didn’t Freakonomics find that specifics increase value more than generalities because people know what a marble countertop is but a cozy kitchen is filler when there’s nothing good to say.
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Yours isn't an unreasonable attitude.

Just like when you go to Vegas: put $500 cash in your pocket, leave all other means of payment at home.

You'll either come back with $0 or more than $500.

In both case, you'll definitely have had $500 worth of entertainment.

Bitcoin is like that: only invest money you don't need (assuming you have any) and meantime, just enjoy the feeling of having your stomach crawl up to the back of your throat on the roller coaster.

You're also obviously allowed to enjoy yourself when/if you become rich.
that is deprecated, should have gotten a bengal instead. anyhow this wouldn't happen with lynx.
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Not really, crazy stock market events have been happening for a while now. like. nearly 400 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Really depends on where do people live. For example my surroundings are not the best to walk around in (very close to busy main roads), and the city as a whole have shopping malls as the main point of interests before the pandemic. Parks are closed, and walking infrastructure are available but not what I'd call enjoyable (the risk crossing a main road without stop lights just for a morning walk doesn't sit well with me). I'm definitely more locked into my devices compared to before the pandemic.
DAI is your friend - always pegged to the USD, non-custodial stablecoin.
Journalism, oddly, doesn't report or even attempt to determine "facts", it reports what people say about things.
I go on more walks. But I also meet way fewer people and spend more days and evenings alone at home. Social media fills some of that time if you don't actively avoid it.
It's cultural change.
Would you considering forming an opinion about the rationalists using more than just NYTimes as a single source? I assumed its established now that they aren't unbiased in this matter...
I suppose my biggest issue is actually accepting that reality might not be as malleable as I thought. It's an extremely hard thing to accept even to this day (and I am hitting 41 y/o very soon).

Prioritizing your health is an absolutely sound advice every time. I started doing that and even if the improvements are small and hard to feel just yet, it still feels great to feel better than two weeks ago.
The only cryptocurrency that might one day become real “internet money” is nano, because it has no fees and transactions are almost instant.
While ETH is cool technology, I haven't seen it impact my personal life in any way yet. That might just be my sheltered life though.
A long long time ago, I mined 3650 coins on a single cpu in a month. Bitcoin was worthless at the time, and I thought the idea was interesting. After a month, I went back to folding at home. A little over a year later bitcoin hit a dollar and I sold it all.

On one hand I made a few thousand from nothing. However if I held it I would have been a pretty rich right now.

I truly believe that bitcoin is something that cannot work, so I have not and will not reinvest in it. But the sting of it doing so much better does bother me at times.
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> It might be, for all we know, that the primary reason someone posts on social media is anger. If a proper study was done, I bet it would show exactly that.

This is a low quality assertion.

> “How could they have just scrolled and scrolled all day? Didn’t they know what it was doing to them?” Social media is the new cigarettes. Everyone does it, it’s addictive, it’s harmful, and you should quit.

Scrolling is not different that sitting in front of your TV or consuming other types of information. I think social media is bad, but that's just my opinion, this article sounds like an unsubstantiated opinion, too.