skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like he already had 10 BTC, he probably got sold on "investing in BTC", price jumped since he got in so when you're riding high on easy wins why wouldn't another one come just as easily - sounds like easy come easy go to me.

I'm ambivalent about the tech, economics, environmental impact, but what ticks me off about BTC and crypto is the proselytizing idiots that it attracts - it's the modern day Jehovah's Witnesses. I rented an office recently and there was a bunch of "bitcoin investment strategists" in the space next to me, and this one guy in particular trying to sell me on the idea that we should get into blockchain development because that's going to be the future of everything ... You could sum the guy up as mouth breeding idiot on first impression and that didn't change as he kept talking. Really typical for the crowd IMO.
Wow, It's sure is a nice feature that Bitcoin doesn't have any way to dispute charges and that it's mostly anonymous.

This article is yet another amazing illustration of why that's definitely two features you want from something that's intended to be used as a currency.
So your wealth is constantly shrinking due to inflation?
Abel Prize goes to theoretical CS pioneers Avi Wigderson and László Lovász
You'd have to redesign it from scratch - it would be faster. Which is what happened with the SLS engine/launch vehicle.

Duplicating the F1 would involve technology and knowledge of individual engineers who are dead and corporations that no longer exist. The TACIT knowledge and technologies required to go with the blueprints died with them.

https://www.space.com/nasa-saturn-v-and-sls-compared.html

https://ourplnt.com/remake-rocketdyne-f-1-engine-humans-moon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0
Reminds me of some phrase I read from a scammer:
"At some point, it's their own fault".

There's something interesting to it. As if we as a society allow (or condemn less) preying on the "weak" and uninformed
The model is implemented in PyMC3 and runs daily as a batch job. The model state and predictions are stored in DynamoDB.

Early each morning this batch job loads the previous day's posterior as priors, fetches the results for the games played that day, and then fits the Bayesian network to the game results to get new posteriors. I make predictions with these posteriors and then write all the results back to DynamoDB.

The frontend is essentially D3, Django, and Zappa.
Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation
I don't think it's a big problem worth telling the world about. You could report the problem to them or ignore it.
Maybe. I'm not convinced.

I think you can build something complex quickly and well at the same time. I built opskit.io in three weeks. It's about 90% automated.
It is already the default branch name... That's the point of this whole fluff. Nobody would care about people changing their own branch names.
Show HN: Become a better investor by playing a game with short lessons
This just part of the ongoing campaign to implement social control and censorship inspired in the model of China.
No thanks.
Published just today:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-...

Granted this case was much more high profile though.
I wonder if the meteoric rise if Bitcoin, and similar recent things like what's going on with /r/wallstreetbets, is causing people's defences to lower with regards to what it a realistic return on investment, so these kind of things don't trigger the alarm bells so much.
ban everyone who disagrees with you!
In some sense the Apple rules requiring you use webkit internally is already a Chrome and firefox ban on ios.
Hello HN!
My name is Yaroslaff Fedin, and I’m a cofounder at Archimedes Finance, where we’ve been building the new kind of learning experience that helps people improve their investment and financial literacy.

The mobile app hosts a number of bite lessons, organized into courses. The big feature is the turn based game leading the player through different financial situations and opportunities. The game presents a simulation of stock market with different financial vessels, taxes, 401k, and a tiny bit of property market. It is aimed to cultivate informed investing, following and understanding market trends, and thinking long term. One of the interesting aspects of the game, is that it’s asynchronously competitive (leaderboards are normalized to game turns).
The game story is about an EvilCorp corrupting the town, that can only be stopped with the help of friends and wise financial decisions. The player needs to stay alert to prevent tragedy from happening, and their local community dissolving.

Archimedes is a wrapped web-app, built on preact. We’ve built quite a cool pipeline for 3d assets, and a small engine based on three.js that plays animated scenes. I think it’s remarkable how many different aspects of learning we’ve managed to pack into a small package. We’ve tried to make the learning free, playful and accessible, without making compromise on the content.
What made them leave? It's different if they leave randomly or because a well known set of reasons.
Sure – but technical development is the only positive outcome, it won't solve the social side of the issue.
I want to add that there is an ongoing effort to stabilize SELinux on OpenWRT[1] as well. Security on OpenWRT has been shaping up very nicely for a while now.

[1] https://aparcar.org/running-openwrt-with-selinux/
Thanks for your comment. Though I don't agree with it, it does give a refreshing insight.
Volkswagen are literally a Nazi company. No thanks.
lol, this guy got banned for posting this
Environments in which children can get scammed safely in have been increasingly becoming rarer because people are too soft.
I revisited this series recently and was even more disappointed than the first time I watched it.

That sandwich should have been DELICIOUS. Instead it sounded very ordinary. You would think that if you were going to that much effort, you could spare a few minutes to talk to a chef and figure out how to make the sandwich tasty.
I do think that solution has a lot going for it. Probably even best to allow for multiple app stores from the very beginning. For example during setup of the device being prompted:

"There are various app stores to install software from. Each comes with their own form of app curation, and policies regarding payments, privacy, updates and more ; please select the app stores you would like to use. If you'd like to learn more, click here."

with a list of app stores given and 'Google Play' being pre-selected for example.

It's not something I've thought about a lot before, so I'm sure we could do better than that. But in principle that doesn't sound too bad.
Hey all! My friend and I actually created this tiny habit tracker app that's focused on simplicity and getting out of your way.

It's called DailyHabits and it's in early-bird access today. Do share your thoughts :)

https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-app
You Are Going on a Quest
The podcast Blocked and Reported is founded by liberals who are tired of this. Highly recommend.
I like this little thing: https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense

Nice little pfsense box.
The question wasn't "Do you know any people on the left who aren't woke?" The question was "Do you know of anyone NOT on the left who is woke?" I.e., wokeness is a problem of the left.
The 800 pound gorilla at the edge of the world, you can have opinions.. but we are the motherfucking show!
This gizmo looks quite good, considering that it was built from scraps!
It seems the bitcoins went up 10x since he bought them. It would be really tragic if he still has to pay capital gains tax on the 450k of gains.
Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.
Or is Emmanuel Macron also wrong when he also said (and I am paraphrasing) "They are Frenchmen" when an American Talk show host said that Black people won the World cup for France?

In our secular societies you are what your nationality is and your race is irrelevant (or should be considered to be) in the eyes of the state and in the UK it is considered rude to bring up someone's race (other than identifying them).

I will accept that we aren't perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good. Bringing up areas of Europe which I obviously wasn't referring to and have been politically unstable for decades now is disingenuous and simply missing the overall point to be a smartass.
There are plenty and they are easy to find. It's hard to believe that your comment was made in good faith.
This. 99% of policing is just fishing with a pretext. Even when they're out to run a speed trap and collect revenue they still err toward stopping the outlier cars.

If you don't blend in you get a ton more attention. That can mean an out of state plate, a skin tone that doesn't match the area, a vehicle that doesn't match the area or you're checking stereotype boxes for criminal activity.
The last "right-wing" move I have seen in recent history was Trump's nerfed-ban of critical race theories. I do not remember any culturally significant initiatives produced by McConnell or Justice Thomas or anyone else on the right. The only true "right-wing" issue they still talk about is abortions.
An example would be “due to X, essentially all humans are unemployable, except as sources of entertainment for the rich, or as meat”. As this is also the conclusion, it can’t be used as an in-advance example for why the argument is or isn’t reasonable. (Inverse begging the question, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question)
It is simple. I know it is unfair and we all can cry. But they own android > they own app store > You can cry 24x7 > Nothing will happen.
>> Focus on media literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy.

That is just another arms race. I think it naïve to assume that people can be educated out of this problem. Some people can be, but large numbers will always fall for a good hoax. What we need is laws and policies to address the problem. The good news is that this problem is nothing new. The laws are already on the books.

Imho this is something that the law can manage so long as the legal system is allowed to run its course. People publishing true deepfakes, not parodies but actual attempts to fool people, should face the same slander and defamation charges that previous fakes have for centuries. Even copyright law has tests to draw lines between legitimate parody and improper fakery. Hustler v. Falwell (the Larry Flint case) was about a literary deepfake, a sham interview in a porn magazine. Those who take deepfake too far, or republish such material, open themselves to legal attack. Let the lawyers do their thing.
I think the verification badge should do something else on top of just being shown. Some sort of a PKI trust system like with SSL certs that would point to a specific (possibly masked) email or web site that belongs to the person.

In other words I want to know if this is Bill Evans the pianist, not Bill Evans the saxophonist or any other Bill Evans who is not even a musician or someone pretending to be one of them. Can social networks solve this? (I know, Bill Evans the pianist died a long time ago. Big fan of him)
That’s exciting! Best of luck to her.
The recent wars in the Balkans are the result of too many nationalities in too little land, and they didn't involve significant numbers of African immigrants (who typically had the good sense of emigrating to other parts of Europe).
An object, a real world object, can never be copied, never. Objects can only be imitated but the original is still the original. There are no 2 Picassos, there is only one and 8 billion imitations.
Yup. Police have the high crime demographics memorized. If you check more boxes you get more attention.

(I shouldn't have to say this but obviously I'm describing things are they are, not endorsing them).
There is a dozen apps, and most of these are opensource.

Not to count that the protocol and the federation are open.

Once again, “free speech” is not “spoon-feed you a way to reach millions of people in an eyeblink”, it's “don't prevent you from doing it”.
What is this "the left"? Bernie Sanders, by far the most left leaning of the democratic presidential candidates was hugely against the narrative that Trump voters were racists.
Noam Chomsky has an extremely long track record of being extremely consistent in his support of free speech and open debate in a way that the most obsessive first amendment types would rarely stick to.

Amongst the more left leaning people I know there was a hugely negative attitude towards the CNN/MSNBC style coverage of the past 4 years that fixated on Trump and conspiracy theories and gotcha stories.

Every side is gonna be smeared, it's much more important to look at what they're actually trying to offer people. And offering nothing but vague platitudes tends to be worse than offering lies, as Hillary's pretty vapid 2016 campaign showed. This move by github seemed to bring more attention to them working with ICE and the like than anything else that I could see.

$15 min wage was super popular in Florida, Trump won Florida by a significant margin. Had the dems actually offered this obviously popular thing and stood by it that state could've turned out very differently as it'd force Trump to take a side on something that mattered to people.
AstraZeneca to deliver less than 40% of promised vaccines in second quarter
I read the article.

> For a cumulative ten hours and forty-five minutes, she sat cross-legged on a rug, her spine erect, and tried to focus on her breath.

This practice _will_ cause disassociation at some point, which is precisely what happened when she broke out into psychosis after engaging in the practice for 60+ total hours.
My favorite solution is a thin-client class computer with opnSense, and a Ubiquiti Wifi Access Point.

I have used a Ubiquiti router, but find opnSense easier to use.
The first part of this assumes having money is some sort of proxy measure for intelligence.

It is not.
I just hope they don't come for Stromae.

Which is Maestro (master) in Verlan.

leave the guy alone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHoT4N43jK8
Used to be easier in the DSL days. Hardware was easy to find. Then my ISP switched to VDSL and it became almost impossible to find better routers. Now I have a fiber link and the ISP's router is so bad but I don't really know if I can just buy a better one and connect the fiber to it. I've been told ISPs have remote access to the router and can update it remotely and deny access if it's been tampered with.

It's probably a wise decision to avoid consumer products in general but it's becoming harder every year.
It's also hard to believe that you are casting doubt on the real problem that is political McCarthyism targeting Trump supporters and people who oppose One World Government directives.
Elon is the perfect person to hack, he's always doing bizarre stuff, so if I'd fall for anyone, it would be for this one.

And the type that got rich off BitCoin are way bigger risk-takers than average - I was offered to "get in" on BitCoin at 1000 dollars and I thought it too risky, my former coworker who did and got rich is very much an adrenaline junkie (but didn't fall for this scam fortunately).
The word "pursue" is doing a hell of a lot of work in your idea of the American right "pursuing voting rights." They're pursuing them like a hunting dog pursues a kill.
The article says that he checked for a check to verify that it was Elon running the account.

Sure, greed motivates people, but in this case greed would not have motivated him to continue if he saw that the account was not verified and not Elon’s. If anything the check provided him with the confidence to continue more than anything else.
Mirriam-Webster defines "extremism" [1] as "advocacy of extreme measures or views : radicalism"

By this definition, extremism and radicalism are equivocated. However, I know many people on the "left" presently identify as radicals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_left).

The article differentiates between the terms "extremism" and "radicalism" by assigning a "political-right" label to "extremists" and a "political-left" label to "radicals".

Stifling the extremes of one "side" while supporting the other "side" is how you implement cultural revolution. It is quite literally a repressive tactic.

The term "Whac-a-Mole" assigns a sense of childishness and fun to the extremism elimination efforts, which disarms "moderates" and dehumanizes cultural revolution.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extremism
Don't know where you live but that's not the case in the U.S.
> Do you know a lot of "left" people who actively speak against the "woke" crowd?

Yes. The "healthcare pls" meme springs to mind as a trivial, but very widespread, example https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=healthcare%20pls%20...
Well it's likely I wouldn't want to hire or sponsor you either because you seem to jump to conclusions and make incorrect assumptions.

The projects I manage are open source, I pay in crypto (which has been going up in price so my team is earning more over time) and I pay based on value added (small base sponsorship amount <essentially a monthly retainer> + generous bonuses at the end of each month based on delivered value) not lines of code or hours worked. I don't expect people to be fast, I never rush anyone. People can come and go whenever they want, all remote. They can change projects after they finished their current project (a clean working state). If they want to work multiple projects in parallel they can do this too if they have the capacity. As I said, projects are limited in scope so they get finished quickly, usually a few weeks to a month or so so people can still move around and tackle progressively more difficult projects.

I suspect that devs complete projects quickly because we have good separation of concerns and developers have a sense of ownership and independence. To top if off, we let developers work for other companies if they want to - At least one of them does and he creates more value for us than in his other company, in less time. We probably pay him more too thanks to increase in crypto prices... In fact he says he wants to quit the other company. He just liked to have it as a backup because we don't pay predictable income but it's getting high enough that he feels that he can take a chance.
To give an obvious example:

I am invested on margin. That is for every dollar I own, my broker lends me two, so I can buy stock for three.

It's in my interest to keep interest rates low. So I want other people to invest in bonds long, rather than buy on margin (ie sort-of invest in bonds short).

Of course, my influence is so small that it doesn't really make a difference.

But I can imagine there are much smaller markets, where your voice can make a difference.
I believe that he's "normally not the biggest idiot in the whole world," but that's a belief I'm holding despite the available evidence.

1. Why would anyone give away free bitcoin in large amounts? Seriously, why? That should already have been an end to this.

2. If the screenshot is representative, it is clearly "@JoshyMcB" tweeting, not @elonmusk. It should take much more than an icon and a not-quite-matching display name to suggest it's the same person, and a tweet from @JoshyMcB[0] later the same day makes it clear he was hacked. There are more differences than similarities in that screenshot.

3. He got this part right: "I was greedy that night and it made me blind."

0. https://twitter.com/JoshyMcB/status/1363724497375825927
What is the difference between a funder and a paying customer?

They are both users who are paying for the service.

The difference is that funders have political power over the project beyond the scope of their own use.

Customers are always better and more fair to everyone than funders.
I don’t think the author of Tusky has a lot of ground to complain against arbitrary removals here: https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/103137899476259476
Pretty amazing that they only managed to net so little BTC (~20 BTC), considering the millions of people who were exposed to the scam.
I agree media literacy (and critical thinking, for that matter) is a difficult problem, which is why we should get going already.

We've had some of the tools needed to distinguish good from bad thinking for millennia, so I find it kind of weird there hasn't been more focus on this in basic education earlier.

Digital signature and timestamped fingerprinting will also have errors, and they don't solve the social side of this issue.
It still leads us to a faulty thought-process;
We cannot inherently trust content on the basis of its medium.
No problem. It's still on F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.keylesspalace.tusky/
Social media and how to deal with a bunch of distractions?
Quite recently, I began to notice one thing behind me. Almost every day I consume information on social media, such as quora, twitter, reddit, product hunt, and so on, and a lot of time is spent on this. And it would seem that I am subscribed to those topics that are interesting to me, thereby narrowing the amount of information, but still it does not save me from a large stream, especially which can be generated very quickly. I scroll through an endless feed, spend a lot of time to process the content shown to me, but for example, out of 10 articles in the product hunt, there will be only one really important and useful for me, and in the other there will be only a couple of interesting paragraphs. In part, this problem can be solved by digests that would briefly describe the published post / article, and if I am interested in something in more detail, then I could go back to the source and read. But on the other hand, I would like to receive exactly what I like without being scattered and wasting time on something that is not important to me, but if it were also kept in a structured form and in one place, so as not to switch forever from one site to another. This would greatly reduce the time I spend on social media. Please tell us how you consume information from such sites and do you use it in any way further? Is consuming useless and uninteresting content a problem for you, and how do you deal with it?
Going one further, you can circumvent this ban too :)
I'm 43 and white and have been stopped and searched once - late at night when it was raining and I had my hood up and was walking fast to get back to my friend's place - apparently I was "acting suspicious". I'm pretty sure that if my hood had been down it would never have happened..
Subscription platform with React/Vue coded templates
Right. This guy was happy when the unregulated Wild West made him a fortune for doing no work, but started crying for regulation when he was on the bad side of a trade.
This problem could be fixed with less regulation, not more. Without intellectual property there would be far more diversity and choice.
> getting to bounce around until we find something that sticks

This is an under-appreciated dividing line between the somewhat-rich and the somewhat-poor. Being able to choose a career that you can stick with and even be passionate about will put you in a much better situation 20+ years later than having to take the first work that comes along out of sheer necessity (often repeatedly and employers get more skeptical each time). Many people never escape that trap; even those that do find themselves many years behind their age-peers financially.