skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throw out any number for Stripe's valuation and I probably believe it at this point.

95B honestly seems relatively cheap.

Trying to figure out why this was announced on a Sunday (in the US) though.
A $5.7M Crypto Heist Sent Social Tokens into Free Fall
From what I see he's been working at SpaceX since he graduated college. I don't see where his satcom knowledge comes from, which is arguable the most interesting part of Starlink. Not the vehicle design.

It's really unfortunate that this company unlike most companies treats all the brain drain as an ego trip.
Also a bit unrelated, but at my work place we reimplemented tar algorithm so we can run it in a lambda/state machine. We used the s3 multipart upload to help with the file transfer bit. The performance was phenomenal. On avg we were tar'ing 20gb in 15 seconds or so, a lot faster than on my pc.
> ...servers in orbit would lower latency since you wouldn’t have to bounce back to Earth... A CDN would work I think, provided you could power the hard drives.

But doing it all solid state with RAM + SSD could totally make sense, especially if you cache only the highest access items in space... Something like this could also make sense to do custom silicon/ASICs to keep the power and weight requirements down.
Please make your substantive points without personal attack, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Along the same lines, Favorit makes a press (along with tools / dies and rivets) that takes a lot of the guesswork out of through hole plating. I’ve been a long-time user of the press after getting frustrated with the “solder a paper clip” method of through hole plating, and its greatly increased the yield of my CNC PCB projects.

https://www.vpcinc.com/Category/Favorit-Through-Hole-Rivets-...
The token (according to the ERC-721 standard) contains a URL to a hosted JSON which contains a URL to the hosted image. So to access the actual image you need to go through two different servers.
X can be anything on the face of the universe. ‘What do we mean when we talk about all deep thought?” It is not a subset, it’s the set of all things that can be x. It’s really just a huge black hole whenever philosophers act smug and bring this up.

Basically by placing “logic” under philosophy all logical arguments against philosophy become contradictory. Just make up a field called religionology and have logic and worshipping a cat god as it’s main tenants. Then any “logical” argument against it is part of “religionology” and therefore contradictory. Let’s all worship cats now because no logical argument can prove religionology wrong.

> one that is not asking for a definition of X but for our concept of X on which we judge definitions to be appropriate or inappropriate.

It’s still too broad. You can still apply this question to a rock on the ground. What do I really mean by that? Call it the philosophy of the rock and study it like I study science. Clearly there is a category error here as studying what I mean when I talk about that rock is not actually a philosophy.
No, schedules are absolutely a limitation
> My biggest issue with DIY boards is drilling the holes and in particular getting the bit in the center of the pad. This is such a pain, I now just use pre-drilled protoboards and hookup wire on one-off or prototypes.

I haven't done it with PCB, but for wood when I need a precise location and have no drill press, I use a nail to make an indentation and use my smallest drill bit to drill it through, then I can use progressively larger bits, as they will tend to self-center in the hole.
Weird, even in a perfectly reasonable context.
What is Stripe's moat? It's developer friendly but from my experience management will only care about the cost.
Even better when you switch on the --lossy option in gzip.
> Gold can be used for jewelry

And people will buy that jewelry because gold is fashionable. But if fashions shift, people might not want that gold anymore, tanking the "value". Doesn't sound very intrinsic to me.

Compare to diamonds and their use in jewelry, which famously became popular and "valuable" only because De Beers found a good advertising company, not because people wanting diamond jewelry is somehow a universal human constant.

> Gold bullion represents the work it took to bring it out of the earth and refine it

That work justifies asking for a certain price. It doesn't guarantee that someone else will buy it off you at that price. In other words, that work doesn't give the gold value.

> I at least can see that proof of work is closer to gold than proof of stake in this regard, you can quantify the value of obtaining the thing against the actual cost of obtaining it.

You are arguing that gold that was mined less efficiently (thus at higher cost) is more valuable that gold that was mined more efficiently. This is not a convincing argument.
Please don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. They're tedious and not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm going to disagree with you. Pseudo-intellectual gives the "justifications" far too much credit.

What I also find hilarious, folks who love this NFT "can't be copied" are great are the same people who hate DRM. While I'm not a fan of intrusive DRM, I'm going to side with paying what folks deserve for putting time into coding/art/planning for a game/movie/whatever. I get something from their effort, they deserve something in return.

That and I'd rather buy a $20 poster of art from my real life wall than over glorified digital wallpaper.
Most of the gun owners I know here also tend to just have hunting rifles or stuff they take to the range.
Ecobank Nigeria launches new rewards scheme for customers
Twitter ‘Memphis’ bug sees accounts flagged
Have you ever known someone who got involved in some MLM scheme and didn’t want to admit that they a) didn’t check the sales pitch and b) have no way to make more money than they put in unless they convince you to buy something? Bitcoin is the tech version of that.
This certainly makes Stripe the most valuable private startup in the world.

Where does Stripe rank among the world's most valuable private companies, though? It's easy to find lists of dubious quality like this: https://news.yahoo.com/10-most-valuable-private-companies-21..., but I'm sure there are more lurking. What are they?
There was a 91-92% top marginal tax rate 70 years ago, and there wasn't a mass exodus or revolt.

What percentage of the population was affected?
Assets keep up with inflation much better than working class wages.
The problem with deflation is that it literally can last forever.
>If a government decides you need to do full kyc to buy a coffee, then it might be time to emigrate :D

The more likely scenario would be that it's treated like cash. You're not going to be questioned for using it to buy coffee, but if you decide to buy a house with a sack of cash they'll start asking questions.
this is place 3 on the front page already, please check for duplicates before submitting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26458296
Yup. Getting someone to switch their religion is just changing a final link in the long, long chain of beliefs, most of which was created thousands of years ago, and which almost everyone internalizes in their formative years.

The belief in "invisible men in the sky" is older than human civilization. Even getting an atheist to convert to a religion is just a matter of convincing them about a bunch of details about a particular invisible man in the sky, and that they should pay attention to them. The majority of the work - convincing them that the very idea of an invisible man in the sky is something one can believe in - was already done by that person's family, all of whom had it done to them by their families, all the way back to neolithic.
Like with the prisoners' dilemma, what's "logical" in a one-time two-player game isn't true for a multi-round multi-player game.

If the Meanie Republic uses Agony Clouds against the citizens of Goodistan, the rest of the world notices. Maybe the Meanie Republic completely wins and even annexes Goodistan, but the bystander countries are going to take Meanie atrocities into account when deciding how to interact with that state.

Relatedly, a year ago "Why don't we use chemical weapons anymore" was trending on HN (it's a good read): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22661465
> the end result is going to have countless false positives

I suspect the real measured false positive rate is remarkably low. Cases like this make great headlines but still impact only tiny fraction of Twitters hundreds of millions of users and happen rarely compared to the message volume.
Uranium mining seems hell of a lot better than Copper/Nickel mining[1]. Not only is the scale of copper and nickel needed for wind and solar vastly greater than the amount of Uranium needed, but Copper/nickel mines have all the same issues with leaching heavy metals and arsenic, just on a larger scale. And wind turbines use a lot of copper[2], so I'm fine with looking into the costs of nuclear energy through uranium mining if we also calculate the costs of mining from Wind, Solar and grid storage.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mine_drainage

[2]: https://copperalliance.org.uk/knowledge-base/education/educa...
> I'm trying to explain that no matter of your handguns, tanks are an anti-infantry platform created with the explicit goal of killing people with handguns. The difference of putting a thousand and a hundred thousand people in front of a tank is how many times the machine guns will have to be reloaded.

I don't think anyone would seriously think that someone could mount a resistance with handguns. IIRC, the US figured they're more or less useless militarily prior to WWII. You'd need to use rifles.

And IIRC, tanks haven't rendered infantry obsolete. They require infantry cover otherwise they're vulnerable, and there are environments where they just don't work well. Also, the tactics taken up by such a resistance would have to avoid head-on confrontations with tanks unless they have (captured) the right weapons to do so, since to do otherwise would be dumb.

> Compare it to China 1989...

The Tiananmen protesters were totally unarmed, and Chinese gun laws are extraordinarily restrictive, so I don't know what that's supposed to prove here. I'm not as familiar with the details of civilian gun ownership in the other countries you mentioned, but some cursory research shows that both Libya and Egypt have pretty restrictive civilian gun laws. There are also counterexamples to your thesis (e.g. Afghanistan) where poorly-equipped fighters have been able to effectively resist modern militaries.

> A single person can't stop a militarized regime. A million single persons can't do it either. Only if united in a coordinated and resourceful structures, they can oppose another organized and resourceful structure.

This is true. But arming those million single persons is a prerequisite for them to coalesce into an organized structure that could oppose a regime. Arming them doesn't mean a resistance will be successful, but disarming them would guarantee that any resistance would be a failure.
To make you're resume a novel? In NA? Probably not a good idea. This was a decade ago
You can't say "don't touch coins from these addresses" because it would be trivial to DoS people by sending dust from a blacklisted address to other people's wallets.
Sorting the files in an archive is a great trick to know for efficiency ( https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs#sort-key-compression-tr... ); the more redundant your files are, the better it works and the savings can be enormous. Two near-duplicate files next to each other in a compressor's stream are basically free; space them by a few dozen megabytes, and you pay full-price...
My wife started a First Lego League team for 8+ year old kids to get them into building with Legos, and programming.

Some other things she uses to encourage programming in the group - bitsbox, code.org and Tynker (younger kids).

I have seen all kids participate and learn with a variety of these options over the past 12 months (remote works really well). I'll get more details from her later today if there's interest.
Tibbles are not just data frames with extra class attribute. For one - they don't have row names. Second, consider this example, demonstrating how treating tibbles as data frames can be dangerous:

df_iris <- iris
tb_iris <- tibble(iris)

nunique <- function(x, colname) length(unique(x[,colname]))

nunique(df_iris, "Species")
> 3

nunique(tb_iris, "Species")
> 1

R-devel mailing list had a long discussion about this too: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2017q3/001896...
It's really about having a more nuanced understanding of these systems.

Money is one of the earliest technologies. It is also one of the most successful because of its ability to allocate power and resources in a way that facilitates both cooperation and hierarchy.

But its form is quite dated. It needs to become a high technology. Some of the "socialistic" ideals (such as food and housing security) are nearly undeniable, if you have moved on from Social Darwinism (which many have not unfortunately).

But socialists have traditionally failed to appreciate the great success of money, the necessity of evolution and freedom, and robustness of dynamic networks over centralized systems.

We have technologies that are sophisticated enough that we can have dynamic evolving systems but still have housing security and limit inequality while remaining sustainable. But we aren't going to be able to do that with old-fashioned traditional money or by banning money or some central control system. To accomplish our goals we need to make society into a high-technology by integrating our innovations properly.
"Tag the insurgents"
Note that in both cases the archive was first put into a single tar file, then compressed. That's how all tar formats function. The difference was just the order in which the files were concatenated.
I highly recommend Ronen Bergman's account of the Israeli covert assasination programme: Rise and Kill First [0].

It's a very nuanced book, grappling with the moral issues of a single death now to avoid multiple deaths later, and the unintended consequences of these decisions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Kill_First
Many people? You mean people in rural US/Canada and Australia. The rest of the world already has been options in most places.
This article uses the phrase "store of value" 11 times to describe Bitcoin. How is an asset that is as volatile Bitcoin considered a store of value and not a speculative asset?
Living the “Van Life” as a Developer
I've never heard Clubhouse mentioned in real life. I suppose that means it has the opportunity to grow a lot more.
The usual argument for supply side stimulus is that everyone spends most of their money. So if you give businesses money they will produce more things and grow the economy.

The problems start when people are too poor to afford those additional products and companies simply stop investing into growth because they can't sell their products. Once you reach this point, giving them more money does nothing.
Right. What if I like the s dim rainbows? All you could say is that Hawaii has the brightest.
Same picture here, I would find it very hard to go back to being an employee now. The money is great, but the comparative freedom and respect for my autonomy are better.

I enjoy starting something new every so often, and have got good at rapid onboarding, and contributing from day 1.
I suppose this would be great with VR goggles.
As long as I get to look at cat photos afterwards I'm good
It's a great jingle. Also Opal Fruits such a great name compared to Starburst.
> The article mentions "Withheld for Privacy does not require your personal data"

Yeah, so then what even is Withheld for Privacy's service doing? It can't even be an email reflector as that'd require your email address, which is personal data. So what service does this company even provide and why isn't NameCheap running it in-house?
> but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".

It does imply this if it's in the exact context of the Gestapo and Stasi and surveillance technology.
Anecdote: I'm in Australia, salaried. And I'm getting fucked. 200+ hours over time over the course of last year. 0% pay rise. But we got $1000 stocks pre-tax which equated to a little over 0.6% pay rise. Yay /s

I'm voting with my feet though. Should be getting a job offer (hopefully!) in the next few days.
Governments have a label for financial activity they don’t like: “money-laundering” (or if you really piss someone off “financing terrorism”). I’ve never understood the techno-libertarian bloc of crypto enthusiasts. If someone were to succeed to at “decentralizing finance” they would land in prison if they were lucky, and if a nation sheltered them it would be sanctioned if it was lucky.

If I awoke from a fever dream with the unbreakable government-proof cryptography currency paper scribbled on a legal pad I’d burn it.
Do you think revolutionary armies didn't pay their soldiers?

Gold standard reflected sound monetary policy and kept government misallocations in check. Since moving to the fiat standard, governments have unleashed record spending. Bitcoin is exposing what happens to the money as a result of the monetary expansion.

Bitcoin has replaced gold, and those of us who have adopted a BTC standard will have separated in prosperity levels from our fiat based peers within a generation or two.
It's one URL in the token pointing to a JSON file with the metadata. In the JSON file there's another URL to the image itself. So you need to go through two different centralized servers to access the image. The only permanent thing is the first URL to the JSON file but nothing prevents the hosts from changing the content.
> And technology used to settle Mars will be able to be used to fix problems on earth.

Which technologies, and which problems, specifically?

If Earth reaches a point where we require Martian survival habs to stay alive - on Earth -
then it is essentially game over for the massively interconnected ecosystems that make Earth our unique and precious home.
Derivatives markets always have some claim to an underlying financial good. If you buy futures, you can redeem it later for the good the futures guarantees. NFTs have zero relation to the underlying asset they are being connected to. All you're buying is a pointer to a piece of art.
Even at the first months the WHO said that lock-downs were last resort measures and that aggressive contact tracing and testing was the only practical solution before vaccines and effective treatments were found. It was also known early that at home transmissions formed the vast majority of transmissions and that Vitamin D and zinc deficiencies were determinant for complication and mortality rates. It is clear by now that stay-at-home orders are maintained or ended for political reasons.
Regarding all the positions that piracy is bad vs freedom of intellectual property, isn't this a bit a red herring?

I'm sure neither this nor Yuzu are 100% working - but if let's say work was done regarding allowing legal ripping, i.e. a license system whereby Nintendo grants sale or other rights to hobbyist runningthe express purpose of runnin their games on some emulator.

I think a lot of the people drawn to emulator, work, are drawn by the cool factor. Working on homebrew games is a way to learn and express passion about embedded platforms, game dev and coding.

They say 'piracy is stealing', but locking down platforms is also stealing. We should enforce universal IP monetary attribution - keep a low standard rate of mandatory fees which must be paid out while at the same time make it illegal for companies to entirely hide their designs.
Can't speak to conditions in the NZ lockdowns, but during the strictest period of the Melbourne, Australia lockdowns there were only four reasons to leave your home/property: essential shopping (one person, once a day), exercise (one hour a day), care (your own or loved one), work (for essential services).

Groceries, as well as chemists and other specific industries were considered essential services that remained open. Lots of health and safety requirements put in place, including wearing masks, perspex screens between you and the cashier (or dividers at self-checkouts) to reduce droplet transmission. 1.5 meter minimum distance between people not from the same household. One person per four square meter density rules for indoor workplaces. The list goes on.

Movement was also limited to five kilometers from your home without a good reason (common sense exceptions in cases where your closest grocer was further away for instance, but not so you could travel to the other side of the city to go for a nice bush walk) and you had to wear a mask whenever not in your own home.

Elimination of community transmission was achieved during our (admittedly mild) winter. Not during our (admittedly mild) summer as a lot of people in other hemispheres seemed to assume.

While our geography was advantageous, it also required a huge effort of societal and political will and cooperation to achieve. It relied on following the advice of our health experts and scientists in the face of large economic and political pressures.

In Melbourne now we are enjoying reasonably normal conditions compared to B.C. (Before COVID) times. There's fairly little risk of community transmission. Most people are back at work and/or some combination of continued work from home. Schools are open. You still have to be carrying a mask when not at home, but only required to wear it in shopping centres and similar situations where there are large numbers of people indoors and similar. Plenty of hand sanitiser dispensers around. Aforementioned screens and dividers are still around.

We had a snap five day "circuit breaker" lockdown recently after a cluster of infections occurred (escaped from quarantine) which was successful but unsettling, particularly for those who had a harder time of it last year.

Not sure why I ended up doing such a details write up to your inquiry. I suspect it was cathartic.
Nuclear weapons still aren't easy to make by any means. It's not so much the nuclear physics that's the challenge as it is all of the engineering best-practices. That, and the difficulty of obtaining raw materials.

And nuclear weapons aren't a binary either. North Korea has demonstrated the actual bomb, but their delivery systems are still far from reliable. Their rockets might technically have the range to threaten the US, but what are the chances they could actually hit their target? And how many launch vehicles do they realistically have? Not likely enough to seriously threated any other nuclear powers. And this after making decades of enormous political and economic sacrifices to pursue nuclear weapons. I don't think most countries will feel tempted to follow their lead.
> No bitcoin was not starting a new shadow financial system

If Bitcoin started a new shadow financial system, then so did collectible card games and Ebay.
Not just increased launch demand, Starlink launches serve SpaceX as a testbed for reusability and refurbishment techniques they want to experiment on themselves without risking customer hardware.

For example, they intentionally swap hardware components between reflown boosters to better understand their behavior after multiple reuses, to the point they have individual modules that have flown more times than the current maximum number of reuses of any booster as a whole (currently at 9).

Another example, they've stopped having static fires for flight proven boosters first for Starlink, then for customer payloads too, unless the customer explicitly requests it.

It's unbelievable that "flight proven booster" turned out to be really what it says on the tin, and not just a piece of marketing speak.