skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched entirely for interactive use a couple of years ago and have only had positive things to say. I still use Bash for scripts but that’s exclusively scripts which I edit in a real editor with version control, 100% shellcheck, etc. and even then I’ve been rewriting most non-trivial scripts into Python for the last decade so it gets sane error handling and data structures, not to mention usually ending up being shorter due to the richer library.
Simple. People trying to pump the price up. Bitcoin went from a way to buy drugs to a hype-fueled pump and dump scheme.
Right but selling the copyright to a small image, I understand. Or a license to use it. But what was sold here?
But that's how market cap is calculated. It doesn't mean BTC has that value.
too young to go... RIP
People without a conscience.
Obviously I didn't read the whole thing since it's over a hundred pages, but the paper says that BTC will used to do the mechanics of the trade, but settlement will be in fiat currencies.
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prices are set in USD not BTC, they just accept BTC.
Researchers build the fastest laser-based random number generator
Aren't BTC's biggest issues volatility and transaction speed? I can understand volatility eventually settling once all the BTC are mined but the transaction will take longer and longer, not to mention a huge power consumption to do so?
25000 people.
Short machine-learning workshop for CTOs
I have been trained in machine learning and started to notice a few early stage CTOs asking for advice on how to best start a ML project.

It seems many are tasked to implement an AI/ML roadmap for their start-up. But getting into ML make them experience a bit of an imposter syndrome, with all the jargon and technical sounding experts out-there.

They are all very capable individuals and I feel that this barrier to entry is unjustified with all the tools and models readily available. So, with some friends, we are trialing a 1.5h workshop to cover a few basics and demystify what ML is and what it can do. See https://lu.ma/06ec3e24

We designed this workshop to be as impactful as possible. If you are experienced software engineer getting into ML, consider joining us.

If initial feedback is good, we are thinking of working toward a 6-week "ML cohort-based masterclass" to help CTOs define a 6-18 month ML roadmap. This would include 1-on-1 sessions with a ML experts and access to curated exercises to do with the cohort.
Multiplying the price of 1 share by the number of shares to get a "market cap" is pretty wishful thinking. Significant selling would tank the price.

"Market capitalization refers to the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares of stock. Commonly referred to as "market cap," it is calculated by multiplying the total number of a company's outstanding shares by the current market price of one share. "

Sure the definition mentions shares, but the concept can theoretically be applied to anything.
Similarly for WSL2 using Windows Hello:

https://github.com/nullpo-head/WSL-Hello-sudo
But he was wrong about the growth and therefore wrong about the consequences. Population is expected to peak and decline.
Yeah, that's why I added the qualifier. It seems likely that most of the spot load was going to home heating (with less flexible large loads having contracts).
Except that in another 2 years it will take more energy than 10 suns to mine one coin.
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Indeed. Gresham’s Law.
For the past 10 years or so , bitcoins long-term volatility has consistently gone down. This is yet not as intense as 2017, for example.

This is one trend I expect will continue. Eventually if will stabilize.
pam_yubico yes.

You can also use this to secure SSHD on servers by delegating to PAM with keyboard-interactive.

I'm waiting for U2F OpenSSH support to trickle down to stable distros but in the meantime pam_yubico is pretty damn good... not to mention you don't have to worry about terminal support since it relies on the yubikey OTP emulating a keyboard.
what's the difference between this and zsh? both seem to have the same set of features. also zsh is the default shell for macOS (as of Catalina)
Bitcoin was the first famous crypto currency. But it has been surpassed by many other digital coins with lower fees, more transactions per second, better technical design and all these things combined. Bitcoin also suffers from whales routinely mass selling and buying to make profits at the cost of traders, resulting in volatility.

I'm sure it will rise again a few more times but there are better alternatives available.
Sun never seemed to be a leader in hardware, to me, but they were impressive in some software areas. Java, Solaris Zones, Dtrace, etc.
Classic relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
Those are very clearly priced in USD and not in BTC.
Bitcoin is still vulnerable to nation state manipulation. I would guess that greater than 50% of the mining capacity is in China. If the Chinese government decides they want to screw with Bitcoin, they can.
Flipside Crypto is a co-author in this report.
couldn’t this be audited unless using monero?
I think similarly. Add in a pinch of imposter syndrome and the anxiety hiding under my privileged life is.. interesting. Eg i am super, super fortunate. I definitely don't make 200k, but i had no experience, managed to work my way into some experience and now make a comfortable living.

My wife and I are DINKs, so while neither of us make amazing money in combination we make a solid wage. No retirement (yet), but a house, and an income that is starting to pay off life (house/retirement/etc) with lots of safety buffer.

With all that said, i'm still terrified of losing everything. I'm sure i've acquired some skills, but passing interviews is difficult so i always think losing it all is one job loss away.

I just have to focus on improving myself, to mitigate my fear of losing it all. I'd like to build software to help people. I'd like to make enough money to eventually help some individuals, too.

Maybe being poor gives you perspective, but i loathe the "bootstraps" mantra. The overwhelming hopelessness you can feel when you're poor and see no path upwards. Yea, you can get a job, but minimum wage barely pays for itself. You want some modest things in life like a house, a car.. but saving for those at $200/m takes a long, long time.

I got out. I hope to stay out. But i consider myself lucky.
Is that number substantially different for any other currency?
Artistic money laundering
-e is in the class of things that can be fine to use, but the people least-likely to be prepared to know when it can be are the most likely to expect it to behave better than it does.

Sort of a combination finger-trap/cigar cutter for newbies.
> it seems like they hardly lie awake at night thinking about their iffy alternator much, if at all.

Sometimes someone can help someone and score big at the same time. Here's a story that I heard from someone who was there:

There was a small company that was in a position where they made money but not a lot so they saved on everything.

At one point the owner caught whiff that one of the employees, - a master craftsman in his traditional craft - was struggling extra because of the car.

So the ownwr told them to lease a brand new car to this particular employee.

Accounting said wait-a-bit, we are considering each and every expense twice and you want to lease a car for this guy to use off work.

Owner said yes.

Doing that gave him two things:

- his specialist stopped worrying about the car at work

- he stayed there for a long time

No, this time it is not a management-feel-good-story, I know the company and my friend was in the room arguing against the decision.

Of course this might backfire (jealousy from other employees, people who stop caring anyway etc) which is why it should be used with caution.
Please no. It's an environmental disaster, transaction time is stupid long, fees are too high, and it's vulnerable to attack by state-level actors.
Code purity isn't just for you, it's also for the compiler to be able to make assumptions about the code in order to apply optimizations that would not otherwise be possible. For example, if the compiler "knows" that a certain branch won't be used, it doesn't have to evaluate it. This is part of the reason why Haskell can reach near-C performance and why its recursion is particularly performative.
It's a good point, but how many of the features are useful without any colors at all? At least the auto-completion would just look like any typed text.

Perhaps fish is not for you?
I'm curious to see how Bitcoin does vs. a 10 year period of decline worldwide. If you consider that Bitcoin was created basically just before the worlds longest and greater bull run you can see that it's lacking experience in surviving a greater decline.
https://twitter.com/edwinbrady/status/1366325538898538499
The RGB protocol is one attempt
to allow tokens on Bitcoin -> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/rgb-smart-cont...

Another idea is Discreet Log Contracts https://suredbits.com/blog/
Does Citi still have a good reputation in US?

And anyway, bitcoin became too big to fall easily, but making money in your basement was and always will be spiting into a faces of hard working people.
Why does that matter? The workers are still profiting off of the company's bad actions.
Well, the point isn't to have errors for a lack of documentation, the point is that dependent types offer a lot of expressiveness in modelling what it means for programs to be valid in your domain, both so the compiler can tell the programmer about subtleties they may have missed, and the programmer knows what details of the implementation are intentional features (e.g. every case this function handles has a corresponding entry in a table of documentation).
During gold rush a Mug of beer was a pinch of gold.

Bartenders would favor employees with big hands.

Government came in and printed gold coins to solve the currency problem.
However it turns out that a 50 dollar gold coin is not useful in any but the largest transactions.
Am I misunderstanding something about NFT’s? Aren’t they essentially just ERC-721 tokens?

(Which have been around forever, what’s the reason for the current hype)
That whatever people say is happening with NFTs today has been happening elsewhere for a very long time already. NFTs on the blockchain might suffer the same issue, but it'll be easier to track down what actually happened, both in real time and retrospectively.
This is really touching. My impression was that in the US government is not going to step out to help the poor, but there is a lot of private charity that helps people. Isn't that the case? I guess I might have idealized picture of American society, but I always though that giving back to the others was consider to be some kind of duty?
>this comment is so brilliant.

Eh, this is the tone of virtually every top-level comment on HN. "Actually, ... blah blah blah."
I think it should be clear based on the digital asset that was sold (https://odysee.com/WvmIn9XyiNHMn3Tc:2) that nobody cares about the digital asset itself. NFTs may be the next big bubble I would say. An speculative market. Right now I could create a similar video, upload it to a NFT marketplace, and buy it myself for 50.000$. That would set the value of my 'art' high enugh to trick other people to buy more 'art' from me.

I'm wondering why we don't get rid of the digital asset itself and replace it with a 1x1 pixel gif... it would accelerate the bubble since one doesn't have to spend time creating fake 'art'.
I think to re-phrase, people are speculating that the artist will become well known sometime in the future and the artwork will appreciate.

What I don't understand is how ownership is enforced and if a DMCA is filed, who will work that case? I guess there are some bitcoin lawyers out there for that!
That would only work with resold NFTs. You can track the NFT through the blockchain and see its sale history. https://etherscan.io/
Cool. It's freaky and weird watching as you drag the world around :)
Folks make a big deal about everything Fish gives you out of the box, but for someone who already has Zsh well–configured (eg. syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, fzf), can someone sell me on things I might be missing out on from Fish?
That wasn't the point of the article. I think you skipped to the punchline and missed the joke. More "useful" are examples are linked at the bottom, so I'm not sure what you're griping about unless you just don't like Haskell.
You don't have to set the price in Bitcoin. Thinking in terms of opportunity cost tells us that all prices are already set Bitcoin (and every other easily fungible asset).
The gist of it is: « While the court handed down a three-year prison sentence, two of those years were suspended. If Mr. Sarkozy commits a new crime within a given time frame, a court could then order the sentence to be served in full.

Mr. Sarkozy can request that his one-year term be served outside prison, for instance at home with an electronic bracelet. An appeal, which is widely expected, would place the entire sentence on hold. »

So basically he’ll never be sent to prison for real, which is often the case for corrupt (ex-)politicians.
What calculation do you propose? And which asset doesn't behave in this way?
Sure, but social capital is an asset you build like anything else. Remove a big chunk of anyone’s wealth - liquid, paper, social, health - and it’s gonna be painful and disruptive.

The point isn’t that they’d be poor if you took away what they built... it’s that they succeed in building it in the first place! That process of building wealth in all its forms is the key.

It’s not easy. It’s definitely not fair. Some people start out way ahead. Some people start out way behind and don’t even have role models to show how it’s done. It always takes time. My view is that you just have to accept people where they are, respect their efforts, politely look past their structural (dis)advantages, and deal with them as human beings who deserve love and support for their own sake.
Having a background in Haskell (and C) made me able to jump in and be productive in Rust within hours. And that's a language that is considered to have a steep learning curve.

Never used it in production either but I did use Haskell to ace some of my advanced computer science course work with less time and less lines of code than my peers.
I put off switching from bash for years but quit cold turkey for fish a couple of years ago, and find myself appreciating that almost daily.

One of the underappreciated values is that while you can configure it you get great functionality out of the box. Switching was chsh, picking a theme in the interactive config, and going back to work. The only I’ve really felt the need to do was to add the Terraform workspace to my prompt, which was quite easy.
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26193227
As much as I think the solution is "get rid of cars" (or get rid of personal vehicle ownership), I do think reliable cars would make a huge difference for people struggling financially. Not having to worry about the most important tool in your life — the thing that allows you to get to work, to the store, and to appointments — would be a massive stress-reduction for so many people, and stabilize their finances. No more "I can't make it to work, so I lost my job" and no more unexpected $2000 repairs?

Honestly, more reliable transportation might do more to reduce poverty even more than food stamps. (Also, allows you to make your food stamp appointments.)
So what was purchased? A trademark? A copyright? A usage license?
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Layer 2 solutions. Apart from Lightning and Liquid, I think we should also count the tokenizations on Ethereum (tBTC, renBTC and others).

It’s still early days. Give it another 10 years.

Oh and hey, who knows, maybe the block size will increase one day.

Of course companies like Citi and MasterCard aim to capture the majority of transactions inside their own private networks (hence stripping all the benefits and limitations of bitcoin for “the user”)
...a first settlement layer that the normal person simply cannot use. 7 billion peopl and 7 transactions per second is 1 billion seconds between transactions. Over 30 years.

Going completely to only larger players and being inaccessible to most people at the first layer is completely missing the major purposes of Bitcoin as laid out by Satoshi.
It rather sounds to me like you have run out of arguments.
Do I understand this correctly?

Without NFTs, I would sign a contract with the artist (or current owner) of a digital artwork that transfers the ownership and all rights to the work to me. Since it's a digital artwork, the contract would include a secure hash fingerprint of the artwork to ensure we know what artwork we're talking about. Now, somebody somewhere could fraudulently claim to own the artwork and try to sell it, but the prospective buyer could check with the original author and track down the current owner (through the contracts trace) to ensure they're dealing with the legitimate owner.

NFTs make this easier by putting all that stuff on the blockchain.

Did I get it correctly?
Most currency would be publicly owned and regulated.
I really dislike the concept of compiler warnings. It's either an error, in which case it needs to be handled right away, or it's completely fine. Warnings are overlooked in the long run.
Assuming zsh is already doing everything you want the biggest thing you're missing is speed.
There are some assembly languages that are pretty straightforward to write code in, and if you're organized it is not too onerous a task.

That said, 6502 is probably one of the LEAST featureful assembly languages I've ever used. I remember finding out it didn't have an ADD instruction - you clear carry, then add with carry.
JTBC, I meant revenue generating ads, not ads for other AOL products.
> [...] so you can't use it for just blindly extracting numeric tokens at all [...]

So in other words, it's completely useless?

> This is not an intended use case for sscanf.

Then what is?
... just don't @_#&ing dance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7eYcWpgCb7o&t=18s
Also another thing that has to be remembered is that a large amount of crypto in circulation is actually stolen crypto.

Anyone that has been in crypto pre 2016 has lots of it being stole or lost. MtGox, Cryptsy, Poloniex, DarkWeb. Most of these coins just went to other wallets.

Also alot of whales just have a ton of wallets, so we will never know....

I just know that a 1000 btc at the moment is enough to move the market billions.

And alot of people have bigger wallets
Is there some legal protection here that this person 'owns' this video or something?
Maybe your domain can’t be modeled better than heterogenous maps.

But Haskell’s type safety extends beyond your immediate domain. Writing a web server, interfacing to a database, etc. all have well formulated domains and Haskell’s type safety provides a lot of value there.

Finally, I’m not denying that some domains are too chaotic and fast changing to be modeled statically. But there’s like some subset of your domain that is indeed static. Can you represent that statically and represent the other subset dynamically?
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Motorcycle can't carry kids (in the US) safely, or other needs like groceries. And yes, insurance is still required.
the 80/20 rule still applies. $50 is probably too low of a price point, but the example works if you compare a $250-400 android phone to a $1000 apple/samsung flagship. I could buy those phones if I wanted to, but I'm getting by just fine with my pixel 4a. hell, my pixel 2 was still perfectly serviceable but for the lack of security updates.
I think Bitcoin is a good litmus test. It is so fantastically awful at everything it is intended to do that I feel justified in immediately writing off anyone who is enthusiastic about it.
African agricultural productivity is at about 1/10 US rates. So lots of headroom for improvement there.
> For example Climate Change and the Covid19 pandemic, both are examples of very real problems with the potential to severally harm/kill large numbers but both are dismissed with that attitude.

No. I have that attitude, and I'm not dismissing either!

I think they're both serious problems that will cause a lot of pain as they're being worked through.

What I disagree with is doomsday scenarios where they'll be the end of human civilization.
I mean..........urgh. It's an unbelivably convoluted topic and I feel like just dismissing it as "stolen by KGB from the West" is simply unfair.

Yes, a lot of designs were simply copied from western equivalents. But also a lot of designs weren't, or were actually improvements over western designs in some crucial ways(washing machines being overbuilt because repairs were unlikely, so certain components were upgraded to last longer). Soviets(and the rest of the Eastern block) had plenty of brilliant, incredibly skilled and competent engineers and designers and thinkers, and they all did the best with what they had access to. It's a topic worthy of tomes of literature.
Why use an NFT then? Couldn't any old crypto transaction work for that?
Out of curiousity why do you change a complex password regularly? Is this something your evilCorp policy forces you to do, or something you do out of habit because of something you read on the internet, or even rote habit from something picked up at previous evilCorp policies?
Thanks!

Yea, that's a great idea - it'd be really neat if folks could just use it locally without creating an account. Hoping I can get this added in the coming weeks!

In terms of how it's built - it's just vanilla code. The website and browser extensions are both build using plain Javascript + HTML + CSS. The backend server is in Python (uses FastAPI and Postgres for the DB). And the iOS app is in Swift.

I don't have much experience with React (/Native) yet so unfortunately no tips, sorry!

(and yup, sorry about that - buckled a bit under the load earlier, but is back up now - keeping an eye on the server now so hopefully no more issues!)
Amusing to read the conclusion then flip to the next page listing their other reports. Top of that list: "Financing a Greener Planet".
I think "(2020)" should be added to the title. (There was a very similar story on the front page yesterday, but alas, it's ultimately unrelated.)
All it takes is one to seriously physically hurt you. You wouldn’t leave your doors unlocked while away just because 99% of passerbys won’t check whether it is.
> FYI, every single time I have sold bitcoin or ethereum (even at historical peaks) it has a been a "mistake" in the sense that 2-3 years later it was worth more than before.

Following that logic, pretty much everyone that ever sold bitcoin made a mistake, given we were at an all time high last week or so.
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Processors like the 6502 aren't considered very C friendly for a variety of reasons, but mostly because the register size isn't big enough for the most common data types like int or char *. You often end up with terrible ASM.
When the Euro was careening +/- anywhere from 20% to 100% against USD twenty years ago, everyone still managed.

“Euro’s a dollar, Euro’s a dollar twenty, oh, Euro’s a dollar again” just sounds less dramatic than “Bitcoin’s $40K, Bitcoin’s $50K, omg, Bitcoin’s lost $10K and is $40K again!”

While Euro is more stable now, it still changes real time and the system has to handle that. Same methods can apply.
And he is also accused of having his presidential campaign financed by the Colonel Gaddafi who he later attacked. I doubt he will ever go to jail tho.