skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wait? Buld your own from old and discarded tech. Get a 2008-era intel atom netbook, discard case, mod it, run OpenBSD. Strap to you wrist, run a powercable up your arm to the car battery or a ducktaped brick of D cells in your bagpack.
I'm a glow fuel degustateur myself! 85/15 methanol to nitromethane is the sweet spot for the RC planes I fly
Nigeria's Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies
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This is worth a look - similar goals for use, but different technical goals. The custom CSS regex rules are a nice touch.
https://github.com/codaxy/tdo
What I want is a version that has essentially pikvm built in so that it's a crash cart not just a switch console.
They have in the past used pseudonyms for Internet personalities. The example often used is Virgil Texas, (former?) Chapo Trap House host, whose real name was available online but was not included in his profile. But it might have been easier to find Scott’s real name. The lesson might just be don’t make it too easy to find your real name.
By that logic, Kubernetes does nothing that is offloaded to operators, CRDs, CSI plugins, etc. The fact that you can extend it with extra features and it supports that is kinda doing something.
It was also later recognised as a mistake because it added an inflationary boost just as the Oil Shock triggered even higher inflation.

A better solution would have been to contine to allow inflation to "decimalise" the currency. Lower value coins (e.g the farthing "quarter penny" a few years earlier) were being removed.

When it came time to withdraw the old penny it would have left the thruppence (3 pence) as the smallest coin, worth a quarter of a shilling. Replace that coin with a new penny worth a fifth of a shilling and decimalisation has occurred naturally.
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Yes, perhaps that wasn't the best example, the issues get lumped together in my head.

But for google, I believe the issue was people were abusing it. The proper solution would have been to stop the abuse, not what they did. Or for example, they might have removed unlimited video uploads which would make more sense, or had soft limits. Also you can't tell me google did not foresee this happening, which just tells me they used the free storage as a lure.
@dang, you should think about adding a disclaimer to every crypto-related submission, just regex the title with the typical key words to catch them, with something like:

Be aware that crypto-related submissions like this one might be intended to trigger or influence a wanted market behavior by OP.
Teach a Man to Fish. Just Don't Forget to Give Him a Rod (2017)
If someone wants to check how serious this problem can get search Amazon for "laser protection googles", check the prices of cheap googles and compare to their very high ratings. There is no way those cheap pieces of plastic can protect eyes from lasers, and there are tests in youtube to probe it. Amazon is allowing a horrible health problem for their customers, some people will have severe eye issues or can get blind for life.
Gold doesn't have earnings releases either.
Couldn't agree more. Our Rubocop is FULL of customizations and the odd override too (though there is a case some overrode a rule which caused massively confusing code).

"Single use private methods" is a little triggering to me... not even rubocop's fault. I've seen the likes of this before (single use):

def redirect_to_home_unless_user_present
redirect_to :home unless user.present?
end

Why!?? (that is a rhetorical "why")
Silk road days are gone. Ulbrich got disproportionately punished + convicted on very very dubious hired gun charges. Since then a similar approach was applied on almost every darknet marketplace around, resulting in that these days with BTC at ATH the darknet marketplaces are at an all-time crisis (even though legacy media is still pushing the "criminal's money" narrative :/). Not to mention that all the major mining pools have voluntarily chosen to collaborate with governments on censoring the blockchain, etc.

Let's hope it is just a side-step given that BTC with censorship/regulation is just a breaking of a glass-wall away from perfectly free monetary unit.

P.S. If you are looking to get no-KYC truly anonymous BTC you'd better live in a top-10 city (e.g. Prague), because in a top-100 city (e.g. Sofia) it is not quite straight-forward and takes tons of waiting/selecting.
A blog by a guy going by Trolly, that can't even properly set up HTTPS, and admits he makes things up in the headerline means absolutely nothing. Tether has been involved in shady dealings for a long time. Last bull run people like this guy were claiming it was all going to blow up and tether was worthless etc etc etc. That never happened. This hysteria is very common for nocoiners, why are they so worried about my worthless bitcorns?
I suppose it's the same as car door design.

Car doors could absolutely be designed to be shut in near silence, but people actually value the car door slamming noise as sign of quality/robustness.

Most people would probably assume their car door is not properly closed if it was made to be more silent.
I would have paid serious money for a device like this a few years ago. There are many environments you need to read from an RS-232/DE-9 where bringing a laptop is unacceptable.
What’s interesting is that the fact that this story is gaining traction might make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s the danger and stress of pure-momentum trading, which crypto basically is. It’s full on gambling. I tapped out early 2018 because the gains were not worth the interminable regrets of missing out, the constant worry that some country on the other side of the world would move the market as I slept, the increasing influence of troll/alt-right culture in the community, the insane hyperfocus that coding technical indicators on TradingView would cause, etc.

Anyone who is fresh on the scene or still hodling, god bless you, you have stronger hands than I.
I have long suspected there was this generational knowledge that some tend to rely on and others don't. I wonder if there are any attempts to document this generational knowledge somewhere like in a blog or a book.
Maybe we can focus on crypto that doesn't have such high electricity demands for that purpose.
> Upvoting/downvoting is not supposed to be used to express agreement/disagreement

It is used that way by many people though. Downvoting out of disagreement is certainly something that happens on the internet.

> The comment from DarkWiiPlayer was very weak

Yes, the original comment already did a good job at presenting the case against the NYT. That wasn't really my intention.

> by making unprovable assertions about their motives

Well, yes, because it is simply impossible to make any provable assertion about anybodies motives. Unless you'd prefer judging actions without consideration for the actors motives (in which case there's no meaningful distinction between murder and a deadly accident), there will always be some degree of speculation about intent. In this case, there is two options: Either the NYT is utterly incompetent at basic text comprehension, or they deliberately lied about the opinions expressed on several blog posts. Assuming the NYT wouldn't have made it to where they are if they were so incompetent, there's only one possible conclusion: They intentionally spread lies with the goal of retaliatory defamation against a blogger that didn't dance to their music.

> It actually weakens the case against the NYT

Did I refute any of the arguments of the original comment? If not, then I couldn't possibly have weakened the case.

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And what's more, your criticism only really addresses the first sentence in my comment.

The second sentence is just a moral judgement of the events. I shouldn't have to point out that this is my personal opinion, as an intelligent reader should just understand that implication.

My third point is: this behaviour ruins the reputation of journalism as a whole. I do consider the reasoning for this thought trivial. If you think it is fallacious, please point out why this is.

My last sentence, again, is simple because it's trivial. Trump is known to repeatedly call media liars on camera. The NYT article is misleading at best, and most would probably agree that it lied by omission in on several occasions. I also imply that I generally don't agree with these populists, hence the "the saddest part". That's two provable factual statements and one completely subjective opinion.
> The legislation itself explicitly prohibits annoying/misleading consent prompts.

What does a non-annoying prompt look like?
LastPass was great when it was free, but 1Password is the better value now. Even Bitwarden provides a better looking UI. Glad LogMeIn made this change public before I moved my startup over to their service out of loyalty (i.e. laziness).
The problem with belief is that the Bitcoin price only raises when you find new people who believe in it to put more money into it.

As soon as the BTC market reaches maximum penetration and no new buyers can be found, Bitcoin becomes price stable. And once price stability is reached, because the price isn't appreciating anymore, people will want to start spending their earnings. And as BTC in particular isn't actually that good as a currency, people need to turn their BTC into fiat in order to realise their value and spend them.

And then suddenly... there aren't any buyers and it crashes.
When a service has a free part and a paid part, the free part is more like "try before you buy" than the data being money.

This move to limit to a device type is shitty marketing trying to convert more people to buy.

It will fail by angering existing free users and pushing them to alternatives, while also reducing new users signup.

This is a sad post-acquisition state for a product, trying to make the most possible money out of it instead of focusing on real value.
Let’s think about what is going on. Let’s say there is a monotone frequency at constant noise power in a plane wave. Now ANC is a point source of the same frequency. It’s only phase matched on one axis of propagation. Then there is a phase shift in the outside tone and a feedback loop to match the amplifier to the incoming tone. Electronics are fast, but the coil inductance is large, both at the mic and the speaker, so you will get some point of inversion in the match, which looks like a delta function in the interference pattern. A really great-sounding ANC will correct very quickly, which means a very high-frequency discrepancy. Maybe that makes it worse. Maybe high-frequencies that we can’t hear are the problem.

Consider also that audio engineering treats the world as a mixture of pressure oscillations. If you look at the world as a sum of pressure delta functions, you would never attempt ANC. It’s easy to phase lock and destructively interfere with a frequency. It’s impossible to do the same with a delta function. The real world maybe a mixture of both, but not easily separable, and to some extent I think the brain is already pretty good at ignoring constant frequencies, while the delta functions drive us mad. Think about a bird versus a hammer, a cello versus a ratchet.

My favorite setup is earplugs with over-ear headphones. I think audio circuitry gets things wrong and overdrives the high frequencies sometimes, so the ear plugs help filter it out. The worst for me was the bone conduction headphones - serious problems from those. And one more thing, if you always listen to music, try listening to nature for a bit, either in the real world, or through some very high-quality speakers. I don’t think the Pros are quite good enough for this.
Bitcoin isn’t likely to be banned. Might as well ban World of Warcraft gold while you’re at it.

Clearly it has value as a speculative vehicle and as a systemic risk hedge (like Gold). Whether it can become a true currency is still debatable. Its infrastructure feels more like selling stock or bonds today.
PS5 scalpers want you to feel sorry for them – and yes, they’re being serious
I've been following this person on Twitter for a while now and actually this was designed a couple of years ago.

I thought they'd decided that the BOM was going to be well over $300 and shelved it because they wouldn't be able to make a successful commercial product. They'd settled on one just for themselves.

I guess that's changed?

Anyway, as much as I'm excited about the possibility of it, I don't think it will see the light of day.
yes this analogy works because amazon ships billions in packages with almost a trillion in revenue and btc can be replicated by a sql database
Don't know if anyone else made this mistake but: author is not saying bitcoin will 50/50 collapse tonight just some night this year.

> So the next time someone tries to explain to you that “Bitcoin is a store of value”, when the chances of it getting utterly destroyed overnight before the year is over are around 50/50, try not to shoot coffee through your nose laughing.

EDIT: Not saying I agree with the prediction, it's just a far more timid prediction than I initially thought.
It certainly feels tricky because "radical" can apply to ideas about goals and also to ideas about ways of achieving goals ("tackling problems").

It's hard to suss out people's goals. They might not understand their goals themselves, and "goal" may be an abstract and unknowable thing. But I think it's necessary to find some goals to be a bad thing in order to figure out your own politics.
The article certainly quotes a wealth of sources - but all of them seem to be vague, third-hand stuff.

An unnamed "adviser" to security firms that analyzed Supermicro equipment. An executive for some unnamed company, who received a briefing. A venture capitalist who received a briefing. A retired FBI agent who was told there was an "additional little component" by someone he can't name. Some former FBI officials that refuse to name supermicro, and say only that supply chain attacks are possible. Fifty interviews with officials, all of whom asked not to be named.

So apparently this information is so public that everyone and their dog is happy confirm it - yet at the same time, so classified that the victims and the 50 sources can't be named?

That's pretty vague compared reports of hardware implants like credit card skimmers [1] which put pictures of the hardware front and centre and make it clear that the author has personally seen it and knows (basically) how it works.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
> I am forced to ask if this legislation has made my web experience better in any way, to which the answer is a resounding no.

I actually find myself digging into the settings that are offered to click on "Reject All" where possible. I wish my region had the same data protections :-/
We're living in an era when it is easy to create new "currencies". Bitcoin is only the first, as some others have already been developed. The "value" of such currencies is a social construct. So, the price of BC will continue to grow as long as people have expectation that it will be valuable in the future.

The only problem I see in "investing" in BC is the counterpart risk, i.e., I don't trust any of the companies that do trading in BC. I think this problem is currently bigger than the "currency" itself.
Come to Southern Europe countries, where football is occasionally the only news you get to watch.

Not only the games, but what the players, their wives, kids, families, fan clubs, and whatever else are up to.
MMT people would say the intrinsic value of dollar is that you can pay your taxes in them. And if you can not you go to jail
No, I had not seen that - I will take a look.

Thank you!
Kind of rare to have fiat currencies move as much as Bitcoin does in a day.
I disagree that the job of news is to inform people. I think that it’s just a possible side effect that they champion in order to keep you engaged.
>I'm kind of surprised that aliases have not widely taken off already.

The funny thing is that these aliases already existed, but we've largely eschewed them for our "real" identities. Prior to probably Facebook I think every interaction I had with other people online was behind a screen name detached from my real world identity.
In theory that’s true if you’re holding long term instruments with reasonably stable value and growth (which is not guaranteed for crypto currencies) and happen to have the liquid cash to buy. But in practice it’s often not true, as most investors who try to “time the market” end up underperforming the actual instruments they trade in.

It’s really not true if you have any leverage at all, where a crash might increase your margin requirements or wipe you out entirely.
It's primary purpose is a store of value that can't be manipulated by the government. It's succeeding wildly at this.

There's a lot of extreme Bitcoin hate on this site, but BTC is helping a ton of people right now, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing demand and money flowing into Bitcoin investment.
I still remember the good times on HN when the front page didn't have links to ,,Trolly McTrollface''.
> I’d really like for people to stop suggesting a database (blockchain) will fix any problem

I'm developing a blockchain to block these people using sustainable AI. Want to get in on the initial coin offering?
Yes, towers are expensive, but building them doesn't make the existing SFHs more expensive. Maybe tower building and rising home prices both coincide with certain economic trends, post hoc ergo propter hoc.
This is interesting how and why reasonably credible stories instead of being investigated get ignored by mainstream media all the time, recent example being NY Post.

In this case Bloomberg comes back with the vengeance, but we need to see if it will picked up or will be buried again.
I don't think this is as easy as you say it is.

from the article:

> The machines turned out to be loaded with unauthorized instructions directing each one to secretly copy data about itself and its network and send that information to China, according to six former senior officials who described a confidential probe of the incident. The Pentagon found the implant in thousands of servers, one official said; another described it as “ubiquitous.”

assuming this is true, there is a universe of "thousands" of supermicro servers purchased by the pentagon that were targeted.

my expectation is that most supermicro servers would not be targeted, just those sold to certain buyers. does the pentagon sell used supermicro servers on ebay? is it easy to obtain a used supermicro server from the pentagon? (I don't know the answer to those - genuine questions).

even if you had one in your possession, it wouldn't be easy to find the exploit, which was (again, assuming it exists) installed by nation state with the intention of concealing it from another nation state (the world's most powerful). for example, it might only turn on under certain conditions. I wouldn't know where to start.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I am saying it seems much more daunting then you make it out to be ("should have been simple to prove").
I moved to Bitwarden about a year ago when I got fed up with the terrible UI in Lastpass. Bitwarden isn't the pinnacle of UI either, but at least it's way cheaper. Been very happy with it.
>Principal engineer means “you’ve made a lot of money, so you don't need to work for money any more, but we’d like to have you around so that our staff engineers have someone to look up to”.

Having been a "Principal Engineer" at a large tech company, that wasn't my full experience. Yes, the pay was great, but the role was more about driving large, multi-team and discipline projects. Client, server, security, etc. all at once.

Coasting was absolutely possible, since none of my managers (of the three I had there) had similar levels of engineering experience nor did they seem particularly interested in anything except whether things were on schedule or not. In that time, I did have face time with multiple folks at C-level and EVP level. Those folks actually did get it and understand the value of the work, it was the middle management that had the gap.
It at least is tied to a physical thing. There are then limits to how high gold can go in price as higher prices means more will come to the market to sell it because the higher prices are not viewed as sustainable.

Whereas with bitcoin, it is fairly unmoored from physical constraints.

There is no natural price for bitcoin.

It could go up forever or drop to nothing and both are acceptable valuations that would be hard to question -- because it is merely shared belief.
Anyone have a thorough guide to migrating to bitwarden. I’ve tried and failed . I have notes , multiple logins per site , about 1000 credentials .
> the law was legally unclear

That's a feature! Gives more power to the bureaucrats (fully paid by the taxpayer and with large retirements) to enforce legislation as they please!

More fine for these large companies means an ever increasing numbers of bureaucrats to investigates arbitrary violations!

If you can't innovate, time to regulate!
Honestly not at all. What is actually more novel about the news today is the fact that it is no longer geographically local.

News is about finding things that concern/interest you. Hacker news, happens to be a place where I find lots of things of interest and some things of concern. I expect to see if my team won that day's match that night on the news.

Primetime news is no different. We want to know if our team won the game, so it is reported.

It's everything else on primetime news that doesn't make sense, or points to a serious issue.

It isn't that we _have_ sports on the news, the problem is what we _don't have_ on the news. That cheezy little bit about the old ladies down at the community center doing a bake sale for the school. We don't have the local farmer on talking about how the highway road closure is affecting him. Nothing about the local religious group doing homeless ministry, or the individual homeless on your specific streets.

What we have on the news: a bunch of things that our online lives have taught us are important, that drastically inform our online selves, how to speak, think, what is worrisome. And yet none of those things that our online lives tell us is so important, hardly affects our material lives, lived in our local geographic material area, at all.

We desire to be informed about the things that concern us. Our problem is we have made things that were never a concern to previous generations, our greatest concern, and the greatest concerns to previous generations, the least concern. At the very least previous generations and ours have enjoyed our local team's sports for whatever weird reason.

No one (should) give a crap if their neighbor is a Trump supporter or Biden supporter: Your neighbor needed a cup of some sugar to bake some cookies for the bake sale and you gave them some.
Speaking of memes, a crash is discount only when enough people believe it is to make it so.
I fail to see the distinction between “shared acceptance” and “social network effect of people who agree”. Each has value because people agree it does.
The basics are similar but it has many annoyances fixed, has a nice and quick interactive interface that doesn't get in your way and it is quite fast.

It also provides features like syncing with multiple machines, multiple (gpg) recipients, aliases, property selection, Windows support and more. And I might add gpg alternatives such as age soon. See the README for a better overview.

You might like to give it a try. It automatically uses your pass store.
Why would stop-the-world affect performance when you are doing batch inserts?

Stopping the database is even a common trick when bulk inserting into "real" databases.
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