skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a hypothesis and it is not about the US. It is a fact that the current global currency is USD and it is enforced thanks to the role of the global policeman and unquestionable military might. However over the (many) years it has caused growing problems both inside and outside the US.

P.S. I think that the US was playing this role very well over the past 76 years and am perfectly happy with 90% of what has been done.
I'm curious if you've tried Goodreads? It has both personalized recommendations and tons of lists, as well as social aspects that you can choose to use or ignore. Not exactly the same as Pageturner, which looks interesting, but it's definitely been a part of helping me get back into reading.
Starlink explained: Elon Musk's satellite internet venture
Geisinger researchers find AI can predict death risk
Advanced Git Features You Didn’t Know You Needed
> blog or a book.

Never heard of any in popular culture, you question prompted me to search.

I found a good article about of the communities I mentioned above.

https://nextbigwhat.com/marwari-business-principles/
Ripple's C++ Team Cut Rippled's Memory Footprint Down to Size
Why would a government have created Bitcoin? (2013)
On the flipside, many physicians complain that patients come to them convinced that they absolutely suffer from the disorder advertised on TV, and they need it prescribed.

Besides, while direct to consumer advertising is a more recent phenomena, pharma companies have for the longest time targeted physicians. So if there's a new treatment for your condition, your physician knows about it. Are you a suitable candidate for the treatment? That's for the physician to determine.
Wait, Cisco stole it's first router, with the founders being forced to resign from Stanford as part of how the criminal charges got dropped.

Or are you talking about the Stanford Blue Box?
Strange, I don't. I remember HN as a page where many blog posts had a chance, independent of the pseudonymity and ridiculousness of their author's username.
> they are proving the point of his comment

Except my comment had nothing to do with downvoting on HN, nor was it a general attack of "the left" (fuck, I am on the left myself) so it isn't really proving anything.

Unless, of course, this the NYT staff raiding HN downvoting comments, but something tells me that's neither the case nor what you're talking about.
Memories of my Vespa in the 80s!
"Bitcoin is powered by a shared belief in its value."

The nuance in this is that its value also includes a financial incentive - the MLM structure inherent to Bitcoin, and that is truly what aligns everyone in Bitcoin - it's not for whatever other positives may exist as the primary glue, arguably 99%+ is the financial gain and potential that is the glue.

But yes, pro-Bitcoiners have been good at refining their narrative, the propaganda, conveniently ignoring the MLM structure whenever writing prose of how amazing Bitcoin is - while avoiding answering questions related to its pitfalls like with Bitcoin how do you implement policy and mechanisms like the Magnisky Act to block money of known bad actors as an economic punishment and attempt to sway their bad actions - before needing to perhaps (hopefully not) escalate actions into the physical, destruction-violence mechanism?
I assume you are joking about the weather, but either way... Before weather was freely available on computers or phones, it was useful to know what the weather was likely to be so you could plan local and/or national travel accordingly.
I'm not sure how it looks under mobile platforms but on mobile most apps seem to be using HTML-based interfaces that tend to have their own look anyway. However my comment was about the desktop targets (FWIW LCL itself doesn't really have much in term of mobile support) not mobile - if anything, i wrote that it looks "mobile styled" meaning that it looks something like i'd expect to see on a mobile device as opposed to a desktop.
US cyber command – Valentine’s Day cryptography challenge [pdf]
It more like "I need a promotion to make sure my compensation keeps up but with no new responsibilities!"
From the article:

>"In our case [...] R ≈ 50% based on what happened after MtGox collapsed."

He is counting on another MtGox. Black swan events are not certain, by definition.
> without giving malicious actors useful information

What kind of useful information?
I'm using Keepass2Android Offline; it supports the auto-fill service that was introduced in Android 8, so it shows up anywhere a password manager is supposed to show up and yes, works with Firefox for Android.
My guess: Someone who is not into management (or not good at it) may be powerful when they work on a problem but naturally narrowly focused — management can help them prioritize, see the bigger picture, and shift their focus when needed. Autonomy and independent critical thought are important, and so is relevance to business priorities.
I think the comparison is a little unfair, as it's comparing two fundamentally different technologies - and crypto is in it's infancy. I'd be interested to learn about speculation driven volatility in currencies of the past (perhaps when the fed was first established, or with currencies of ancient civilizations), but I also think cryptocurrency is the first of its kind in many ways.
> What I see as critically important, as absolutely key to a vital, alive civilization is progress & exploration ... Which future? Any of them, all of them.

Agreed.

I don't like to live in the country of giants because their sheer scale means they end up crushing the delicate innovation that sprouts up around them, usually more out of indifference than actual malice.

Depending on your predilections you can pledge fealty or fight them but it's also reasonable to find the niches where the giants don't fit and new ecosystems are able to flourish.
That is correct. We're targeting that work for RHEL 8.5 in November-ish, so you'll likely see that drop in Fedora and other Linux distros sooner.
I don't think you deserved the downvotes as I felt somewhat the same way. Part of that comes from the reporting, which appears to have been done by someone who doesn't understand the things he's reporting on (or, at least, some of the people quoted are saying things that are nonsense that someone outside of our industry wouldn't necessary recognize)

i.e. "had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that would record all the data"

... one does not simply ... encrypt a chip ...

With these kinds of explanations or statements used as evidence, it's frustrating trying to figure out what "really happened". Personally, I don't doubt there's something to all of this. It's a "real threat" as has been reported; whether or not it's "theoretically real" or "actually used" isn't that relevant: if it's a "real threat" someone has figured out precisely how to do it or has seen it (or close-enough variations of the "it") being done that it's worth taking action.

My hunch is that it's a firmware-related hack; no hardware added to the boards. The article talks around BIOS and such, indicating that some of the code involved was inserted by employees directly connected to the company. It explains the lack of photographic evidence--what's the evidence[0]? And wouldn't the attacker prefer it that way? It also helps explain the "encrypted chip" -- perhaps code, encrypted on the chip (decrypted/executed at boot) was what was intended by that statement[1].

[0] Disassembled code on Github would have been nice, but the US government isn't likely to drop that.

[1] And maybe it was said in that bizarre manner intentionally, who knows?
Do you store the data you received from Segment. If so, how ? and how it is "secured"?
I really like the 1Password UX. Also, they're new integration with Safari 14 on macOS is also great.
"Objective absolute indifferent thing, has bias towards patchy intersubjective historically situated thing" sounds a lot less catchy when you unpack it.
Just because you don't care does mean it's not enormously popular.

And, naturally, just because something's enormously popular doesn't mean it's worth caring about.
Dollar is powered by one of the biggest economical, political and military power in the world.
`java` used to have quadratic command line parsing, which nobody much noticed as long as unixes had fixed ARG_MAX, but it wasn't very long after Linux got arbitrary-length arguments that the first person discovered that java might take a week to parse a really big command line. I personally reported this defect and I don't know if they ever fixed it.

https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6728845
Any chance pg publishes this as an audio file voiced by himself? It feels like a personal story, so it would be fitting.
Man, that password attributes idea is very good. How does one go about proposing that to a standards committee or something?
LastPass nerfs free tier, effectively forcing users to pay for Premium
The only plus I can see is a stronger belief that you can't synthesise gold. Synthesising Bitcoin would take an enormous amount of coordinated computing power, but it is technically possible. Other than that I don't see why it matters that gold is a physical thing.
The trend has very consistently been for BTC to increase in value (helped by USD decreasing in value). There are only "wide" price swings at very high resolution.
> Systematically, the futures contracts for months that are further away, are more expensive than those with closer expiration, and also cheaper than spot

> This is usually due to the fact that there’s a risk premium on the uncertainty of the future, and it costs a little bit to be sure of the price that you’ll pay for something three months from now.

This is wrong. Being sure of the the price you'll pay in the three months from now does NOT cost this premium. It costs essentially nothing (other than the transaction fee, which is much smaller - of the order of 0.025% on most exchanges, plus the orderbook spread). Note in particular that this transaction cost doesn't depend on the time horizon, unlike the premium the author refers to.
And yet more people use dollars, and have bank accounts with dollars or their home country's currency.

Bitcoin's block reward can be changed as well, it's not some immutable law of the blockchain. I'm not claiming that it will change, but I also see the potential for there to be a change there to incentivize mining once the block rewards are minuscule and miners are dependent on transaction fees for profitability.
I didn't used to. A couple of stats wonks helped me understand it.

Sports spectating is about stories. What ends up woven together out of individual matches is patterns, and humans love sussing out patterns and identifying them... There's a whole psychological reward system that is triggered by forming a prediction and watching it come true. So a lot of sports wonks watch for that hit... When their favorite player does his signature play, or their favorite team uses the strategy they've honed to a fine point to win a game.

In a sense, I personally watch SpaceX launches for the same thing. Does my day-to-day hinge on whether an additional 60 Starlinks get to orbit? Definitely not; I'm not in the aerospace field, and I'm fortunate enough to have a high-speed fiber landline plumbed into the side of my home by a previous owner. But I get to see whether the rocket will land this time (or, for that matter, whether it'll go up or something will violate expectations and the whole mission will go off the rails). I derive catharsis from the expectation / tension / satisfaction loop of a successful launch, landing, and deploy. It's a story of successful engineering.
> I also love that it’s emulating a scent that’s from off gassing that we’ve known for years is probably terrible for you.

Is an artificial air freshener much better from an air quality perspective though?
Just signed up for Bitwarden to see if that will be a better alternative, but I have to say the TOTP support isn't as good as LastPass. LastPass has a real authenticator app that I can use just like Google authenticator and also as a 2fa for lastpass, which it managed without requiring a copy of the code.
The smell of oil dripping on exhaust manifold that makes people who don't know the difference between flash point and autoignition temperature clutch their pearls.
Conspiracy theory: this blog is trying to get people to sell so that some big buyer can buy with less market impact.

Kind of like the constant stream of anti-Tesla posts from a couple years ago, which were linked to short sellers.
Let's make people link their brokerage account while we're at it so that someone can't post Waymo news if they own GOOG stock.
Sports and weather. They tease it early and then show it last, because it's what people who watch local news watch it for.
+1 for diesel exhaust. It gives me weird flashbacks of being on like a Greyhound bus or Amtrak train when I was little and with my family which are somehow comforting.
You might contain this risk with m-of-n wallet signatures. The real risk is asset volatility.
> US would never switch to BTC as legal tender because they can't control the supply of BTC

Most evidence shows the U.S. no longer benefits from the dollar as a global reserve currency. And lots of governments have currency boards or currencies they don’t control.
let's give him the benefit of the doubt and take it as "the bits of your private keys in a hardware wallet" :)
>> This guy is from the Midwest and has lived in SF for four years.

I have been in the Bay Area for 35 years and have worked in San Francisco for the past 9 years.

"General Lawlessness" is an accurate if somewhat imprecise term for what San Francisco has become in my experience.
Tv news is entertainment. Not news.

Bread and circus political distraction has never gone out of style.

Sports reporting makes perfect sense.
Pixar's Troubled Soul
I could be wrong, but this PEP feels to me like it only got accepted because Guido is stepping (or stepped) back from his BDFL role. It has noticeably more rough edges and less consistency than most feature adds I have seen in the past. This is pure personal speculation though.
> A student training some models for courses or self study?

Serious schools have computing clusters. ML researchers might be interested to know which undergrad is actually training models complex enough to benefit from better hardware.
Internet access spending in public schools increases test scores, also problems
I don't think there's a community on the internet that is as anti-crypto as HN. At least I've never seen one.
This doesn't sound right to me. It seems like your analysis assumes that BTC has already become a store of value, and people are putting excess income into it, like gold. In that future, why wouldn't there be buyers? There aren't new people earning money and investing excess income?

People need to turn gold into fiat in order to spend it. Those are people with excess wealth and not enough income. There will always be people on the other side, excess income but low wealth.
Master of All Trades
> Now you know which websites are willing to absolutely ruin your experience just to abuse you.

Which is absolutely all of them. I guess the legislators wanted the popups to be annoying so publishers would be forced not to import their party scripts. Turns out publishers can’t stay open without the ads that pay their bills which means popups are the new normal, to the point where when I see a website that doesn’t have popups I suppose they are just in violation of the law. Thanks EU!
> Streak: You add points to your streak every time you post. Read and post at least once a week to continue your streak.

does this imply that the expectation is that you read a book a week? (just curious)
That first calendar was reusable for 2016-17, and will be reusable again in 2044-45 and 2072-73.

The second one was reusable for 2006-07 and 2017-18, and will be reusable again in 2034-35, 2045-46, 2062-63, 2073-74, and 2090-91.

The second one is reusable twice as often as the first--not something I would have guessed. (I'm still not sure I believe it...).
How to create and deploy an ERC20 token
The #ERC20 token standard has made tokens on the Ethereum network more streamline. Here's how to use this standard to create your own token.
> as we have seen in the past

To what do you refer here?
Yes, surprised also, given past stories around Defcon.

I think it's great to have audit tools like this. It makes people realize how vulnerable their accounts are.

Does a similar tool exist for Salesforce and Heroku?
I'm a bit concerned that Bitwarden might also follow a similar path later on, if we keep using the free version. Any thoughts on that?
Yea it's called every western government which is already a democracy. USD is the democratic coin. Bitcoin isn't democracy. It's the opposite. Absolute property rights removed from the state
Right now I'm contemplating rolling/hosting my own password manager. Some comments have mentioned FOSS alternatives. Can anyone provide feedback on those examples? Sharing is not important to me, and I could live without autofilling probably. Features I do like:

1. Easily generate a new password on whatever device I'm using.

2. Save it, and sync it seamlessly to other devices.
Datasets: Release 1.3 brings dataset versioning, on-the-fly transforms and more
Everyone is forced to buy the same basic health insurance in Switzerland, that is what makes it universal healthcare instead of just another health insurance. It is subsidised depending on your income, but the UBI version would just be a part of your UBI that automatically pays for the health insurance so subsidised in a similar manner.

You can add extra services above the basic insurance, but the basic insurance covers the same things as typical European universal healthcare so there is no need to.
Taleb would say that those people should be listened to more, because they have skin in the game.
I think you are missing the point. Yes, cheeseburgers can be addictive. Consider if $burger_chain provided an unlimited burger, which you could eat forever. This would certainly be very problematic, but at least you have the biological function of “too full to eat” which gets you to stop. But you can imagine how bad this could be for many people even with that function.

Social media is even worse. It’s an unlimited hit for hours and hours and hours with hardly any short-term consequence which causes you to break out of the loop.

The other point you are missing is that the incentives are all wrong. The incentive for posts on social media is engagement, which means polarizing content, which means radicalization.

At least with a fun video game, you might have fun playing it and learning new skills and stories! But I can admit that I often spend too much time captured in the game loop a because it’s unlimited — that’s problematic.

It’s still fair to point out that the incentives for $burger_chain are all wrong too — hence why fast food is so full of sugar and other ingredients which are bad for you, but taste good in the moment to many. It’s to drive addiction, which drives recurring sales. I think that’s messed up to.
Many sites ruin your experience because they don't know any better. GDPR is perceived as a Sword of Damocles by many smaller and medium sized companies and they will annoy you with elaborate consent solution for which they are paying a ton of money even if they most probably wouldn't need to do it.

For the big players it is easy. They often don't annoy you with consent banners because:

- they have legal departments that understand GDPR and protect them (e.g. GitHub)

- they require your login and therefore have your consent anyway (e.g. Facebook)

- they can afford to skip Cookies because they have elaborate fingerprinting solutions

- they just ignore the law and risk be sued (e.g. Germany's Spiegel Online)
McCarthy was fiercely anti-communist, but so were most other people at that time. He became famous for alleging large scale infiltration of the US government by communist agents. He couldn't prove it, there are some historians who believe McCarthy was largely correct about the scale of the Soviet activity in the US government. They argue he was effectively 'cancelled' as a consequence of being dangerously correct, and that declassified decrypts released by the NSA decades later prove it. An example of this argument is:

https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-...

Another is:

https://archive.org/details/josephmccarthyre00herm/page/5/mo...

A perhaps more accessible writeup in the Washington Post from 1996:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1996/04/14/w...

"Cancel culture" is what right-wingers complain about when they've realized left-wingers have rifled through their rhetorical toolbox

Can you give some examples. At least from the perspective of a British person, I cannot recall right wing people ever engaging in "cancel culture" during my life time. Are you thinking of religious people in the USA?
We were using AOLServer and its clones, Vignette, Zope before Rails was invented.

Most of the Java and .NET world eventually moved into full blown CMS, with component frameworks, graphical layout editors, user management and third party connectors to distributed platforms.

For me, Rails just feels too little, with a quite slow language.
> And yet more people use dollars, and have bank accounts with dollars or their home country's currency.

Those people are losing money due to inflation. This is well known and an issue with people keeping cash in "mattresses".

> Bitcoin's block reward can be changed as well, it's not some immutable law of the blockchain. I'm not claiming that it will change, but I also see the potential for there to be a change there to incentivize mining once the block rewards are minuscule and miners are dependent on transaction fees for profitability.

This is called a hard fork, and has been done more or less unsuccessfully multiple times now.
Problem: We need people to watch our TV news program so that we can entice advertisers to pay for ads.

Solution: Offer things people are interested in watching, like sports.

Basically enough people like watching sports news that it is worthwhile for news programs to offer coverage, so that they get more viewers and can command higher prices for commercial ads. It's as simple as that.
Where would a laptop be unacceptable but this work?
Oven bricks actually have higher thermal capacity than steel/iron, but much lower conductivity.

Steel or iron in a 450C oven would burn the bottom of the pizza before the top was anywhere close to done. It works well in home ovens at much lower temperatures (say 250C).
A valid point and definitely something people should be aware of. It's disingenuous to call Bitcoin anonymous.

On the other hand, "anonymous" is to some degree like computer "security". Secure against what threat? Anonymous to who?

Paper money is certainly traceable to some degree. Plus it almost requires you to meet in person, where the other person in the transaction can see your physical appearance (or your proxy/accomplice's).

Both mediums of exchange have similar risk profiles, but they are a little bit different. Not sure that I'd argue one is better than the other, generally. Depends on the use case.
Bitcoin is useful for what? Getting around the law? For pumping and dumping?
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