skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probably has to do with Apple charging 30% for any in-app payments so Audible didn’t bother implementing any payments / subscriptions functionality on their app.
Why is it that these articles never mention halvings?
> If you assume institutional investors do their homework

We're talking about predicting the future here. "Doing your homework" may not be the relevant factor in predicting the future compared to "luck" or "power to manipulate" (insider trading, SEC in the pocket, priority at exchanges, CNBC market manipulation, etc).
Im not native english speaker, so i'm curious is word "notoriously" is used here properly. What i know "notoriously" means "known for something bad".
You posted a quote without context. If you wish to refute a point or support it, do so. Just posting the quote without stating your own opinion is meaningless and doesn't lead to any valuable discourse.
I am not sure I understand your point.

What I was saying is that bank secrecy in Switzerland, today, is the same as in, say, France or Germany. It means that in any of these countries the operations you mention would raise red flags immediately (in France for instance a bank must inform Tracfin about any cash transaction above 10k per month, and any other that they see as suspicious (including wire transfers, typically any above 10K that is not typical gets flagged)).

In other words, Swiss banking is not anymore the one described in movies where you could come with 1M€ in cash, open an anonymous account and be done.

Even in the past it was not that simple, but it was at least possible.

EDIT : there are also many misunderstandings regarding how some accounts work. The most typical one is the "compte à numéro", a type of account where the owner is identified with a number, instead of their name. It is seen as a way to make your account anonymous but this is not the case. The bank has the mapping of the number <-> name and they have the obligation te release it like for any other account. The difference is that this information not known outside the bank. You get account statements for the name 7636536536 and not "John Brown", same for wire transfers. It is just to protect the privacy of the account owner, not to make it anonymous.
I'd also dare to bet the author's favourite pizza is Hawaiian/pineapple
> Did the hobbyist licensing [1] get resolved? I was inspired by the work of Andrew Back [2] getting VMS clusters working on Raspberry Pis.

Not sure which issue you are referring to specifically, but VSI provides hobbyist licenses for Alpha and Itanium, and plans to provide them for x86.

Unfortunately, there will be no hobbyist licenses for VAX in future since VSI can't redistribute DEC/Compaq/HP versions of VMS, and they have no plans to make their own VAX version (HP killed VAX support nearly a decade ago). Now the only legal way is to try and buy a VAX license from someone who is still selling them.
Traceroute work by routers decrementing the ttl as the packet passes. If a router doesn’t decrement, or if your packet gets bundled into an mpls, the hops may be hidden.

Then you’ve got the buffers - you could feed 5x100M streams on 1G carriers into a 1G uplink port and have plenty of bandwidth, but if all the packets of those 100M streams arrive in 100ms, then have no packet for the next 900ms, your outbound traffic will have to either delay your packets upto 900ms, or drop them.
Does anyone here know of canceling Wired is also this difficult? I was considering starting a subscription after seeing a compelling offer from them, but if it will be this hard to cancel this puts me in the fence.
"strongly opinionated [Oxford] academics" - the best sort!

As always, truth is not absolute but if you stop at the blandishments from that Geoff bloke off of Monmouth or that Walter Scott geezer, let alone whatever bollocks us English come up with, then it's downhill all the way to ... erm the present day.
Tether USD is a token. If you short Tether, you already got paid. If Kraken is legit, then Tether should not affect its operations.
The economics of the situation seem to point towards the owners of the mining operations making a fairly slim margin. The amount of electricity required to mine must rise until the mining input costs are close to the current Bitcoin price, because for as long as there are outsized returns from mining Bitcoin, more mining businesses will get into it and cause the difficulty to rise.
> as people died in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold.

That is not true, wind turbines failing is not the cause, that is a lie.
> Opposition to Nuclear Power

I feel a lot of people think of this as pro or anti, but for me, most of the concern seems to be about nuclear waste and meltdown, and the half life of nuclear waste is changing, and we have tech where switching the power off stops meltdown.

What was true in 1960 isn't true in 2020.

I think we'd be better served by asking people what their concerns about nuclear energy are:

- Nuclear waste
- What is an acceptable half life for nuclear waste?
- 10,000 years
- 1000 years
- 100 years
- 10 years
- 1 year
- No waste is acceptable

- Nuclear meltdown
- Do you support Nuclear technologies that do not have a risk of meltdown?

I have hope that we can work out what people are concerned about and address it. Sometimes that may require further scientific development, but sometimes it may require more dispersal of knowledge.
US military power still has it's limits. Imagine for example that China refuses to trade in USD, demanding payment in physical gold for all the goods manufactured there. Or Russia refuses USD payments for oil and gas. No way the US Navy would be able pull of an invasion.
I have no comments about this particular font. But if your marketing department has any say in your terminal fonts, you should quit this creepy place as soon as possible!
Oh I can see those dynamics too. The thing is that people want stable pricing. And when they don't get it, they look around for somebody to blame. From what I read, I get the impression that they understand they're the suckers in a racket but can't get out. One customer even hopes to get compensated for out-bidding their neighbours over the privilege of heating.

You could say that that was just a newspaper fishing for quotes. That most Griddy customers are not like that and happy how it works. But that would be a different argument from saying they should want it.

> You do care about the planet, don't you?

You like asking loaded questions, don't you?
Even if I don't like Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency (I think it did a great job but now really should be put to rest) I completely agree with that. That paragraph is plain silly, trying to avoid a stronger word.
>If the past had predictive ability, historians would be billionaires.

It only takes one person to become a billionaire. The historians that could become billionaires surely did and thus exhausted the potential for other historians to become billionaires. So this argument is pretty weak. I haven't even considered the fact that in practice there is no way for an individual historian to make billions without also being good at business and being good at business is not a unique quality of historians.

There is also the problem that nobody claimed to predict the future in an economically viable fashion. Did historians ever claim to predict the future (human nature is not the same as the future) at all? What you have built is a straw man. There are so many holes in this argument, can't you think of anything better?
The deal-breaker with all the Model M keyboards and clones is the scarcity of modifier keys.

I mean, you get only three on the left side, plus a giant spacebar that you will only ever tap with your right thumb in a single spot. That's good for Tim Cook, I guess, but any self-respecting computer geek will want to have more modifiers. My Ultimate Hacking Keyboard has a small spacebar on the right half, while the left has: Control, Fn, Alt/Option, Cmd/Super, Mod, and a special "Mouse" (emulation) key below the other keys, on the keyboard frame.

Some of the older keyboards are even worse in that they only have TWO modifiers on the left, which is a complete showstopper.
Yes, it's a weird use of notorious. The commenter could have said 'famously generous' instead.
thanks, after putting in the service address all I see is a $99 deposit and no mention of a monthly or annual fee...
People just throwing numbers. In the very long term, everything will go back to 0. Thus, not putting a timeline for your predictions is useless.
I've spent some time reading the docs and still don't understand what Dapr is. Is it something like jBoss Fuse but for cloud era?

Of course, I'm not entitled to good documentation for open source project, I realise it. But let me just share my personal preferences.

When I encounter new library/framework/service I want to know 2 things:

1. What problem(s) does it intend to solve?

2. What are the closest alternatives and how this thing compares to those alternatives?

In most docs I encounter it's either hard or impossible to find this information.
I had a Unicomp Spacesaver M about 10 years ago. I absolutely loved the typing experience (I never used an original though) and gaming on it was also fine but I had it connected over PS/2 so afaik, key rollover was not an issue with that.

But other than that I didn't like it very much, it felt and looked very cheaply made and became completely unreliable and died about 2y later.

For me the sound was a big part of the satisfying typing experience but I can get something similar ("good enough") with more modern switches so I'm pretty happy with my keyboard from WASD Keyboards.
One thing a bit weird about the following people concept, is there is nothing predictable about what they will talk about or how much they will post on any give day. I usually follow someone after reading something they wrote about X and then find them talking about about Y or Z for the next N posts.

Following keywords/names mentioned in posts maybe more interesting...
Athens -- a city built by slaves with riches obtained by military conquest, for the exclusive benefit of men. A poor model to emulate; we can do better.

Nevertheless, I think Sortition is a very interesting approach we should consider implementing.
What's the point of flying a helicopter on Mars? What scientifically relevant data do you get? Its fun and cool but why?
It does have that aswell: https://blitzjs.com/docs/cli-console
Bank accounts in Shell companies around the world. They are pretty good at this game, but it's pretty risky one.
I don’t understand. If AOL and telcos were scamming people, how did you make money off of their scams?
Is oh-my-zsh still dog slow? I've been using zgenom and just picking the plugins I want and it's blazing fast.
> Does any of that apply if you compare bitcoin to other crypto alternatives, rather than traditional finance?

Not necessarily no, other cryptos might fill the gap fine as well.
I'm not arguing that Texas having an interconnector to the other US grids would be bad. I don't have the expertise on climate, power distribution or future energy need projections to have a strong opinion on that - though I can see it would have certain benefits.

Just saying that it's fallacious to argue that relying on an emergency solution instead of improved infrastructure to handle extreme cases is per se more expensive, without considering how often the extreme cases are hit.
What a load of shit. Your libertarian preening sure coughs up blood when faced with stacks of cash.
What a load of shit. Your libertarian preening sure coughs up blood when confronted with stacks of cash.
I find, besides all the extremely exciting, technical challenges, the following sentence incredibly fascinating:

> "This [is] the first time we’ll be flying Linux on Mars."

But regardless of that, I find it so incredibly cool and inspiring that during my lifetime, a human flying vehicle will fly on Mars. I was a space nut in my childhood and youth and love to see this.
Well, you may be able to get places a rover can't. But as they say in the article, this is just a demonstrator to show if they can fly on Mars at all.
(Psst, it's tether, not teather. Carry on.)
Here's a nice tool for sporadic terminal users like myself: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

It sometimes has some minor issues but a very responsive maintainer. Also integrates pretty well with other tools/scripts.
I find the average already pretty expensive. You can find here the market price in Europe from the French dispatcher [^1] and it's around 30-40% cheaper depending of the country

[^1]: https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-donnees-de-marche
Well written. I don't know how you manage to muster the energy to debate naive libtards.
That isn't enough for me to accept the "equally bad" part.

Also, as a european, I see both american parties as being on the government is bad side, even if one of them are obviously more so than the other.
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I think a lot of the hype around mechanical keyboards in general is overblown. I had a period of transitioning to mechanical keyboards. I couldn't get used to the high-rise keys and long travel times which made my wrists hurt and made typing a chore. I kept convincing myself that I just had the wrong type of switch, so I changed keyboards every few months seeking that perfect feeling. The closest I got was low-profile blue switches, those were actually fun and something I could use for a daily driver. In the end however, I went back to a chiclet keyboard. It's quiet, travel time is short and I can type on it comfortable for long periods of time.
That could be “infamously”, no?
Don't be one of those arrogant guys who thinks he knows everything better. A lot of software engineering wisdom seems to come purely with experience. By all means, offer your perspective! But also take the old grey beards seriously. They have seen a lot of things before.
Proud owner of a Model M2, a more compact layout: https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product/1994-ibm-model-m2-ke...

This is the keyboard model I learned to type on, never found plain M that impressive.

Note that layer M2 are rubber domes, so be careful out there!
Looking at the USA from European eyes, there are no leftist publications, nor any left mainstream politicians there!
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I also just canceled my NYT subscription (or, more accurate: I am in the process of doing that) and it is just terrible.

I am in Germany, and basically they do not accept your cancellation via writing to the customer support, but require you to call a callcenter, which is extremly hard to reach (either they do not pick up, or the connection quality is so bad that they don't understand what you're saying). In short, I did not succeed in that.

Rejecting the written cancellation and requiring to call is both borderline illegal, and an insult to the customer. Everyone involved knows that this is a just a maneuver to nudge you to give up on it, and that this requires me to waste vast amounts of my time trying to call a shady callcenter – that is just an insult to me, and it also destroys the NYT brand.
Blitz.js basically "compiles" down to Next.js, which can be deployed fully using serverless functions, which basically means infinite scalability (for the application, the database is another point).
I agree with you on that but JS still keeps surprising me :)
> At which point, it then gets sent to Binance and converted back to clean fiat.

Not sure this is going to work for $100m+ amounts.
>> New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard

> As an EU resident, when I see that I think I'll have to deal with customs if i buy one :) Not much of an incentive.

Weird nationalism play there for me as well. For some reason japanese keyboard sounds artisan(given how many limited edition keyboards their scene builds) to me and american-made keyboard just sounds like grandure posturing. Especially since there are so many expensive japanese custom keyboards and none of them market themselves as being special BECAUSE they are japanese.

That said, QMK running decent quality mechanical keyboards nowadays are a rabbit hole with so many choices and price ranges that I find both this and the System76 announcement strange.

Edit: American-Made when used as a label to say how great your product is, absolutely IS appealing to national pride. Shipping cost is hardly relevant there.
I did. I used some mechanical keyboards, could never get over the high-rise keys and long travel times. The closest I got to a perfect keyboard were low-profile blue switches. But in the end, I went back to a chiclet scissor switch keyboard (are those considered rubber domes? technically they are).
Just to consider: for your first job in tech, you actually do not want to work remote (since the first 2 years you learn how things are really done in that industry, and learning from coworkers). Then you can do remote work (if you do not need to think anymore to do the work). I understand you have different constraint, but if you find a good tech position, is it possible for you all to move for like 2 years?
> Contrast this to Bitcoin where it has already been established in other comment threads that the vast majority of Bitcoin trading volume on dozens of exchanges might be fake ( see Bitwise/SEC presentation) and that a huge amount of volume is via the BTC/USDT pair and USDT may be fraudulent. Sounds pretty unhealthy.

You do realize that most gold and silver traded on the COMEX is also "fake" in the sense that they're trading in amounts of underlying gold and silver that could never ever be delivered at the COMEX prices?

JP Morgan even got a tiny "still worth it" fine for blatant metals price manipulation: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/jpmorgan-to-pay-%24920-mln-f...

Note that the fine for JP Morgan was so tiny compared to profits made that there's 0 incentive for them !and others! to stop this behavior. Sounds pretty unhealthy.

All in all, I don't really see how "fake volume" on some exchanges would make Bitcoin any less valuable as an alternative to holding USD or other fiat?
Friendly advice, buy 20$ of Bitcoin to feel how it works before judging it. It might change your mind.
The #2 behavior (up-down arrow cycles through usages of command) doesn't work OOTB on macOS's zsh. Is it a new-ish feature or a plugin that I don't have?
> GPT along with most filesystems store a bunch of stuff at random places around the disk, for many filesystems it's even configurable.

This is not remotely accurate. GPT is at the beginning of the disk, with a backup copy at the end of the disk. Wiping the GPT makes the layout of filesystem structures within partitions completely irrelevant. Wiping the primary GPT at the beginning of the disk is usually (possibly always) sufficient to make an OS installer believe the disk to be empty. The backup GPT at the end of the disk is something I've only seen used by manual partitioning tools that are more powerful and complex than the automatic partitioning tools that are part of OS installers.

> The most usual problem with your approach is recreating a set of partition tables exactly matching the old tables, while failing to wipe out a filesystem signature buried halfway into the disk. One reboot later, and magic header bytes start to be recognized as valid filesystems by whatever OS installer or BIOS utility you happen to be using.

Rebooting and re-detecting everything between partitioning and mkfs is not part of any ordinary OS installation procedure. Do you have any evidence that this failure mode can actually occur in practice with real shipping operating systems?

Remember, for the purposes of this hypothetical, we have to assume that at least one of the user or the OS installler is actually trying to make the process work. You can't assume that they're both trying to interfere with the process and are both going out of their way to cause problems.
Sweden was very average for Europe without any tyranny from government. I would say that is success. Here in Spain we had many more of our rights taken away and still had more deaths with corona.

> Sweden wasn't exactly a success, and has done far worse than their nordic neighbors, say, Norway

> Straight up country comparison is just a fool's game
my favourite is pari/gp, that can be used as a simple calculator, but also has quite fancy math at your fingertips. For example, it is the easiest way to compute entire series: you type "exp(sin(x))" and you get "1+x+1/2*x^2-1/8*x^4-1/15*x^5 ..."
How about The New Statesman? Would that be centre-left?
No, go to the library or a bookshop.

I'm an IT bod but I reckon I could give you a reading list that would warm a historian's heart. Let's start with "The King in the North" by Max Adams.
> I've read a number historians now saying that Viking raiders were neither more cruel, nor more violent than the others by the standards of those times, just the history we know was written by the other side

Well, anglo saxon england wasn't a big fan of slavery, in fact the christian world in general wasn't and the church did a lot to combat it. And it was the vikings raiding anglo saxon england, not the other way around. So while you can always find historians to say, that all cultures are the same because of of various unconvincing whatboutery reasons, I think from our current understanding, between those two peoples at that moment in time, one side really was worse behaved.
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£439 for hardware, £89/month service, £54 delivery in the UK. The equivalent of US$611, $124 and $75 respectively at today's rates. Our prices include sales tax (VAT) though.
> Who lost money? People that bought end 2017 thinking the sky was the limit and sold in February? Sure, but that can happen anywhere.

That's like... euh,... everybody.

> You know where you loose money? In the normal economy, because the government likes inflation.

That's like... euh,... everybody.

People who are hating on Tether/Finex/Crypto are just in denial that they are getting screwed by their governments. At least in crypto, you have full claim to your tokens.
I would have thought atmospheric data that you can't get elsewhere - you'd be able to learn things about pressure and wind at altitudes that rovers can't get to.
* Scouting possible destinations or routes for the rover.

* Imaging areas from above with higher fidelity than possible from orbit, and from angles not possible from a rover.

* Retrieving samples from areas inaccessible for a rover.
Sure, that's shorting BTC in an attempt to short Tether. I agree this is a terrible idea.
The biggest reason being maintenance. If you have too many dependencies keeping them updated without conflicting versions can be a nightmare.
So many interesting details in this article. Snapdragon 801-based hw running Linux, sensor fusion from three sensors whereof some bought COTS from sparkfun (who make breakout boards for sensors, basically the sensor datasheet recommended design). 3 flights planned, but potentially more which will be planned after the three first. 30 day lifetime window, due to dependecy on the rover, which needs to conserve resources.

I would looooove to know more more more about this. What did dev of this look like (eg simulators)? What's the flight envelope? What are the most important risks and how are they mitigated? What internal discussions took place (do this, prio that, don't do X etc).

Just so much interesting stuff! Can't wait :)

edit: from wikipedia: "Each flight is planned to be at altitudes ranging from 3–5 metres (10–16 ft) above the ground.[1] In up to 90 seconds per flight, it could travel as far as 50 metres (160 ft) downrange and then back to the starting area".

"The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.2 metres (4 ft) in diameter".

Etc. Recommend the wiki page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Helicopter_Ingenuity