skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, there's normally a postbox serving a whole street that people can put letters in to send (distinct from the letterbox in each house's front door). GP's nearest postbox might have been inside their local post office, or they might just have needed to buy stamps.
I find the most frustrating issue & the most compelling part of this argument to be the last: there are decent crypto alternatives that don't have this problem.

You can find all sorts of people who will justify bitcoin for all its thrilling advantages over traditional finance, and explain why this ecological garbage fire is a good idea. I'm yet to find a single person who even tries to argue that bitcoin's advantages over other cryptos are worth the huge comparative cost.

At the beginning of crypto, bitcoin was the only option. Today, bitcoin is successful purely because it has the highest price, and so the most opportunity to make random investors rich, rather than any technological advantage. When that price eventually crashes so that there's serious competition between crypto alternatives for usage & investment, I don't see how bitcoin can possibly survive without a huge reinvention.
You don't need robots. Just enough face tracking to know where political enemies gather. You can then just let your thugs take care of the rest.
Software engineering is about state management and team dynamics.

I'm fairly poor at the second so all I'll say is that being good at the politics/communication becomes more important as you become more senior and is ultimately more important for your career than being good technically.

Technically, the most important thing I learned after I graduated is that state is the most important thing in production systems. Programming paradigms, system architectures, and design patterns are all rooted in managing state. Almost always by constraining it.

For me the critical talk on this was Rich Hickey's "Are We There Yet" but I'd been writing functional code for a couple years when I saw it. When I've directed people to it they find it weird/confusing and have more success with "Simple Made Easy" which I find similar but less insightful. A focus on state first has been the cornerstone of my development philosophy since 2009. It's not universal (e.g. data oriented design) but it's my one weird trick.

I'm a visual thinker and visualize a piece of state as a gas that leaks through calls and variable scope. If it's in the database it leaks through queries accessing the table and the services that expose it. The fewer things state touches, the better because people fundamentally are terrible at understanding interactions over time (e.g. three body, double pendulum). Seeing the state flow through the system tells you how well it's designed/built and where the problem points are.
In the latest industrial disaster, 6 Chinese Bitcoin miners were trapped by a cave-in when their data centre collapsed on top of them.

What do you imagine bitcoin mining is like? It seems a bit weird to compare it to actual underground mining.
Sometimes impostor syndrome feels like people correctly identifying that they are not as good as they should or can be for a particular position.
> "suddenly we don't talk, suddenly I'm strong, suddenly we're good, suddenly sister powah"

From what I can see as a father: that's basically sisterhood :D

TBH I hardly remember Coco's story although I watched it entirely. I do not remember it was bad though, rather unremarkable story wise. Frozen may look as a kindergarten movie but there is clearly an attempted murder in it (Hans over Anna) which is only prevented by a magical intervention (Olaf). I would say, although I may use too big words here, Disney is closer to naturalism, whereas recent Pixar movies are more transparent and explanatory. You would have guessed I prefer naturalism (in literature at least, I don't know if it actually extends to cinematography ;)
I kinda wish they’d do it where I live. Or at least let me turn it off from my feed.
Why do this on a new MacBook? Is there a security concern?
Going through the trouble of implementing CGNAT and skipping IPv6 seems like a partially degraded service for the end user though. It's becoming common practice for ISPs to slap all the users between two layers of NAT and calling it a day. You can't run essentially anything on your network (not even an SSH server) without having to have a server on standby and reverse tunnels. I know there are not enough IPv4s but at least let me having the option to pay for one. Or, you know, give me an IPv6. Otherwise it's practically a networked content consumption service at this point. It's 2021, the "IPv6 is complicated" excuse must stop at some point.
That's an unfair summary of the situation. They push ads against 3rd party content shown on their site.
I was kind of shocked at how hard it is to factory reset a MacBook. I had one at work and I had to pass it on and the guide is a multi step process which I messed up the first time and ended up reinstalling with my user account still there. Had to start again which takes hours.

Why does the recovery not just have a button called factory reset which unlinks your apple account, deletes the volume and then sets it all up like new.
Don't chase the latest and greatest shiny thing! Focus on mastering the fundamentals, they last far longer. Someone wrote on HN the other day "When in doubt, study maths". You needn't go that far, but I think the principle is sound.
Australia's government slams Facebook's move to block news content
The NRC already requires that.
Last weekend two of my team were working hard getting Inmarsat beans up in Myanmar. Those tend to be illegal imports though - I’d be very surprised if countries that turn off in greener would license satelite ip modems
I consider it a stalemate. Nothing changed.
> Personally I do feel there is very much an economic justification for Bitcoin to exist and to a lesser extent a social justification (privacy).

Does any of that apply if you compare bitcoin to other crypto alternatives, rather than traditional finance?

Is there a justification for using Bitcoin over Celo, Stellar, Cardono, Ethereum (with proof-of-stake), etc, which don't have the same environmental impact?
I have their Battlecruiser 122-key model working with an unpowered hub off my Dell and it works OK, even on battery.

The model is the latest one from Lexmark when the factory was sold, so it's less solid than earlier models, but it still feels and sounds perfect.
Direction regarding this help info would be appreciated
It's subsidised by eye watering fees on unarranged overdrafts. When the FCA and CMA looked into it several years ago, the banks claimed they couldn't reduce overdraft fees or they wouldn't be able to afford to offer free bank accounts any more. Some challenger banks wanted it to be forbidden to describe such accounts as 'free'.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...
Does the NYT not allow you to pay via iTunes in the US? One of the main reasons I tend to sign up for things like this via Apple is how easy it is to cancel from within iOS
How to cross compile and static link on Linux with Clang
Why bitcoin specifically? Why not newer, technologically superior proof-of-stake coins?

I can't think of another case where supposed technologists cling to a terrible, inefficient protocol even when better alternatives are available. It's not like we still use token ring networks.

The only reason I can see for people to love BTC so much is that they are hoping to get rich from speculation.
LastPass to only alow Mobile or non-Mobile for free users starting March 16
total generated data set is 144mb,

number of tiles that has smaller size than 100bytes is : 321796

number of tiles that has size between 100b, 1kb is : 13693

number of tiles that has size between 1kb, 5kb is : 8486

number of tiles that has size between 5kb, 50kb is : 5275

number of tiles that has bigger size than 50kb is : 279

empty tiles occupies 32 byte each and avg size for non empty tiles is ~4kb
>In 2021, most Bitcoin is produced – mined – in China by massive computer servers solving unnecessarily complex math problems where subsidized coal-fired power plants produce some of the cheapest energy in the world. It’s a not-unlikely coincidence that a huge amount of Bitcoin is mined in Xinjiang province, the same place where Uighur Muslim minorities have been inflicted with horrific human rights abuses mining the very same coal used to create Bitcoin.

The salty tears taste better with the rise of value of the coin.

China is the biggest users of renewable energy in the world. For Bitcoin, they're using abandoned hydro plants and solar, for the most part. In Xinjiang, they're using wind power.

China has a lot of minorities. So why are they targeting Uighurs? The Uighur Muslim minorities were radicalized by Middle Eastern allies of the US to act against Chinese interests. So, they had to intervene. Which is most likely what the US expected them to do, so that they could use this as a political propaganda by omitting obvious information.
If the refresh rate was improved I would buy it in an instant. I would probably buy a monochrome one. Maybe the refresh rate would have been improved by now had they allowed more innovation in the space.
How to prevent cyber attacks on connected cars using Threat Modeling
Why would you post a paywalled link to ft.com lol. Nobody's paying for that shit.
Interesting article. I’m from an Indian family but I’ve lived almost my whole life in what was Danelaw so the Viking side of history is much more apparent to me.

Nice to know that the football chant of “Ingerland” is historically correct though.
Appreciate the moral support. I wish I could be nicer, more respectful, and take the high road, but some of these comments...
Should I use a linear narrative structure for my online course?
The Spectator is usually classified as centre-right. Amongst my peers ("creative" millennials in London) that makes it a bit of a non-starter, unfortunately.

I think it's a mostly respectable magazine with a high degree of journalistic integrity (e.g. the recent High Court case). They have some fantastic contributors. Like any publication there are some that are a bit "out there" for my tastes, Delingpole comes to mind, but they pale in comparison to some of the opinion pieces the Guardian publishes. But because of its mild association with the word "right", I know many of my peers would be unpalatable.
Must be an ft.com employee
Is the service accessible from underdeveloped or isolated regions like in Africa?
Very true. I'm seeing an average of 100ms to the first hop (and about the same to 8.8.8.8) during the day on mine, with lows of 50-60ms, and the occasional 10 second peaks.

At night it's something like 10ms.
This is a good point and I'm hard pressed to think of anything, but maybe concrete? It's actually very environmentally friendly, it just makes up like 30-50% of all things produced on earth so sums to a large CO2 footprint.
How do you prepare / avoid / protect from that ? I mean most people don't have USDT it's simply what exchanges us as a pair. Or are you afraid that any exchange using Tether as the main stablecoin will go under with tether and users won't be able to withdraw assets ?
>It abstracts most of the gnarly parts of K8s away

Jesus Christ, it's an abstraction for an abstraction for an abstraction… you get the idea.

Are there any abstractions for Garden, to hide its gnarly parts and operational complexity?
This is 100% not true whatsoever. These sites barely make money and are being mostly eaten by FB/Google anyway.
Indeed and his predictions were quite accurate: WW1 devastated the empire's involved. No one came out on top from a war of conquest and it was the end of monarchies in Europe.
Similar debate has been going on about “Celts” for many years. Broadly labelling cultures is just a helpful method for making sense of a very messy and complex history. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were completely distinct groups of people.
That wasn't so bad compared to some other services. But I agree it should be easier.
I'm aware that a lot of people think that "SJWs" have taken over tech companies and are forcing them to hire certain groups of people. I was sort of banking on the OP not being one of these people and getting a different kind of answer.

I doubt we can have a productive discussion of what you've posted that won't descend into a flame war that's been had a thousand times before.

The phrase 'diversity hire' is usually used prejoritatively to hint that the person in question is not really qualified for their job. If the OP simply meant to say that tumblr was quite successful at hiring a diverse range of people, then I think it was a slightly off choice of wording.
... or me: A mixture of all the the four nations hereabouts, plus German (whatever that means) a dash of Spanish etc etc ... all the way back to somewhere in Africa, depending on what the archaeologists dig up tomorrow.

I dare you to define what Turkish, French and old England actually means. For starters: where/when does French stop and German start and vice versa? "Turkish" is just as complicated.
> To get access to a wealth of libraries, support, documentation and tools, that D is sorely lacking in.

That's certainly a big factor of the network effect. Although, I have to say that I'd probably rate this higher for almost any other popular language than for C# and Java, as with the latter it's quite often that your corporate overlords don't just let you use any library willy-nilly.

Then again, if you're in such a situation, it's quite likely that you don't have a free choice of your language, either. (Unless in weird corner case situations where you could deploy a binary but not depend on a current C#/Java runtime, and your company wouldn't shell out for an AOT C#/Java compiler just for this lone project.)

I do miss Design-by-Contract in every language that doesn't have it, though. And using D might be slightly more likely than using Eiffel…
And then you have a slam dunk FCRA claim.
Enums are coming to PHP 8.1
CentOS Alternatives
You're worried about Elon manipulating the Bitcoin price when Tesla eventually owns < 0.1% of all Bitcoins (assuming he buys at 48000 USD and assuming no other large parties like Apple buy in)?

I find this kind of unsubstantiated doomsday thinking rather interesting: BTC overall is an insignificant market[1] compared to the stock market or the global illegal drug trade just to name two random examples. I strongly feel the markets and exchanges that trade BTC are infinitely more "fair" and "free" than the stock markets and forex markets will ever be. I also believe this is the main reason (besides loss of trust in USD fiat) why Bitcoin is so "expensive" and will keep going up in price. Think about it: even if all crypto exchanges in the world would collapse in 5 minutes, you'd still be able to trade Bitcoin in 10 minutes. The same can't be said for digital fiat dollars or stocks that are held without physical certificate (AKA all stocks).

If the ongoing GameStop saga has taught me anything, it's that the stock markets are completely rigged in favor of "big money" institutions. They control everything from mass media (CNBC being the most blatant example) to the very rules that clearing houses, brokers and lawmakers create and follow. And they can change these rules to their liking within seconds, on the fly, without warning.[2][3] The systemic risk because of conflicts of interest/corruption right now is massive and I would not be surprised in the slightest if in a few months the stockmarket crashes worse than 2007/8 because of this. I estimate this risk is both more real, more critical in time and a whole lot of orders of magnitude worse than the negative impact BTC or USDT can possibly have on global society in the very worse case.

This is not just whataboutism: I'm not just saying there are worse problems to focus on than Bitcoin. I'm saying Bitcoin might be the only (temporary) way out of global financial system crashes for (retail) investors. Just like gold has been for thousands of years. In my opinion Bitcoin is not the problem, it's a bandaid for the common man in case of real problems.

I think this is why Elon Tweeted: "in retrospect it will be inevitable" while referring to Bitcon.

I don't think Tesla is buying Bitcoin as an investment, rather they're buying insurance against the upcoming loss of buying power of USD.

[1]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and...

[2]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bad-words-lead-gamestop-share...

[3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/sec-data-...
Most houses don't have an external mailbox, the mail goes through the front door and into a basket. A lot of houses on terraced streets have no front garden and open directly onto the road, especially in cities.

There is doorstep letter and parcel collection for less than a dollar.

https://send.royalmail.com/
Interesting. I cancelled Netflix account 7 months ago and haven't used it since. A few days ago I received "Action needed: Reset your password" due to allegedly "suspicious sign-in". After changing the password and looking into the Recent activity, I couldn't see any suspicious recent login there. So I contacted the support and they said cancelled accounts are deleted after 10 months since cancellation. So now, with 3 months remaining, they apparently send a fake "suspicious sign-in" email in an attempt to convince me to re-activate the account. The email they sent was legit (no phishing) but there was near-zero probability of someone signing in because I used netflix-specific email address and randomly generated password for this account. EDIT: I also think they are breaking GDPR by keeping the account for 10 months after cancellation.
While this is a major problem for people in your situation, there are no other reliable ways to identify a person and ensure one account per user.
Anyone know how this compares to Das Keyboard [1] that I am currently using? I have two IBM model M from the 80s that still work. They're currently assigned to my server room though not daily use.

[1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/
Gold isn't used in jewelry because it's particularly suitable for jewelry. It isn't used because it's pretty, or shiny, or smooth against the skin. It's used because it's expensive. So it's fair to say that jewelry is very much tied to store of value and speculation.
Show HN: A fast UUID generator for Python using Rust
I was playing around with PyO3 and thought of building a UUID wrapper for Python using Rust's UUID library.
RedHat/CentOS what have you done? its over for me
Well after carefully examining the RedHat CentOS move, it has caused me huge despair, finally dawning on me after 20 years of using RedHat derivatives, that this is a hugely damaging move by RedHat/CentOS to me personally and the technology I have invested years of time in, they have pretty much killed private infrastructure in one move.

Everyone will now be looking to evacuate CentOS, not entirely sure how independent hosting companies are going to come back from this and what their strategies will be, any ideas are welcome.

Why in the world would anyone running KVM with 100s of VMs for development, build, infrastructure want to pay RHEL(IBM) $$$$$$$$ ?

Options so far are:
Oracle Linux, unashamedly copy of RHEL (The enemy (oracle) of my enemy (IBM) is my friend ? long term option ?).
Rocky Linux ?? can they pull off such a massive rebuild of the CentOS model, without it being impeded by IBM (legal).
Ubuntu, have used but always gone for stability and trust with CentOS, time to reconsider.
Move to GCE/AWS, still cheaper than private hosting running RedHat, all they have done is destroyed private hosting and infrastructure as an option.

linux, is linux, is linux so bye, bye IBM you ain't nothing unique or special.

This https://centos.rip/# sums it up for me.
IPv6 really isn't that complicated compared to CGNAT!

Of course, today IPv6 only can't be considered full internet access, so providers usually need both – and given that CGNAT gets consumers 99% of what they want/are willing to pay for, providers sometimes can't be bothered to also implement IPv6.

I used to have GCNAT + IPv6 on my provider, but the v6 part of their CPE was worse than useless – no option to open ports since "port forwarding is not needed on IPv6" (nevermind the mandatory firewall that doesn't allow inbound traffic unless completely disabled).
Probably try not to call someone's work "beautiful but useless" on their Show HN. I came on here to brag how awesome my Lisp looks now. It's useful for me.
All these stories... is this an American-only thing and is common place? Because there’s no way that could happen here in Australia
What Government are you talking about? Although many people would agree that the UK has handled aspects of the pandemic badly, the current advice is very specifically spelled out on their site. If it wasn't for all the people in the media, social and otherwise continually subverting the process we might be in a better position.

https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Proof-of-work's advantage is that it was first and is thus the standard. It's not a good standard, but it'll be around for some time.

> why hasn't anybody come up with something better

In theory, anything with (artificial) scarcity could work, and not all crypto currencies are "energy credits". For example, you could trivially start a new crypto currency where all the coins already exist and from there on out it's just the energy of processing transactions.

I don't think this could be tacked on to BTC as an improvement plan though. Bitcoin being an energy equivalent is just too entrenched in its DNA.
> most plausible explanation is that they're almost completely backed with bitcoin.

Even if that's true it would be a direct contradiction to what they promise to their customers, that Tether is fully backed by USD. Any angry customer can then sue them for fraud.
We have hindered a of Inmarsat base stations and sims around the world. Rarely use them, but when we do we are happy to pay for the bandwidth, and we spend a lot each year pre-buying bandwidth whether we use it or not.

They are now moving to charge us a monthly fee per station, not as much as starlink yet, but it seems an odd choice. Perhaps a final squeeze of their customers.

Bgans still have a benefit - smaller than starlink, battery powered, movable, but this latest move has made us reevaluate our satellite strategy, and that’s never a good thing for incumbents.
Gold has been confiscated by FDR. Bitcoin clamp down is coming: we have recently learned from Yellen that it's primarily a terrorist tool, and that it also causes global warming.
The energy invested is already wasted — it is literally proof of pointless work after all. If Bitcoin mining stopped tomorrow the world would see a net benefit.

And saying 'patches welcome' is a cheap way to dismiss the criticism of Bitcoin being extremely wasteful. With the amount of money invested in Bitcoin now changing the way it works goes against the interests of so many Bitcoin investors that I doubt anyone can get it fixed even if a viable solution existed.
If you're looking to go full rabbit hole, the zsh native scripting handbook is good for a few examples. Easy to end up in linenoise if you're not careful though. A fair few really nice zsh things in zdharma's GitHub repos too.

https://zdharma.org/Zsh-100-Commits-Club/Zsh-Native-Scriptin...
You only have so much brain energy for the day. Use it wisely. Focus, focus, focus, and INTENSITY! Without these, the software biz is a slippery slope into house slavery.
Crop the parameters and you have no reason to assume it points at the same image. Good luck explaining to your customers what happens when someone finds a way to effectively poison your non-unique image cache with something offensive.
You don't understand. Human nature hasn't changed. Not even after two thousand years. It's always following the same patterns. Paranoia and irrationality spread and anger (killing intent) is then directed toward a minority. The fact that human nature is so predictable is scary.