skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, even people with privilege can have a really hard life. But you do in fact have the privilege of driving a car without the threat of being pulled over for how you look, or walking down the street without being asked questions, or boarding a plane without being "randomly" searched.

It's a form a privilege. It doesn't make you bad. It doesn't mean your life is easy. But it's worth recognizing.
The number of people commenting who completely misunderstand Bitcoin and crypto is astounding.

Bitcoin will never be used directly for payments, it's a value store. Immutable deflationary digital gold.

I wrote it off for years too because it was too slow and the fees were too expensive. That was the dream they had, but they couldn't realize it at the base layer. I was still walking around last year believing that's the scam they were still peddling, but once you take time to investigate you'll see it will become a major part of the world economy.

COVID helped push this over as bailouts and printing money in the US and the ECB is going to drive a massive movement of money out of the markets and fiat.

Normally you'd see momentum go to bonds when the stocks burst but the bonds situation is unsalvagable.

Also expect a ton of movement to crypto when wealth taxes get implemented to fix economies. They'll use it to hide assets, guaranteed. Form an LLC, siphon the money out that way and into crypto.
Thanks! Couldn't put in a better way.

What you said about social proof is absolutely true! It is the relevancy that helps people make a decision and through credibility it is even easier.
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” -Sagan
People who can recognize value and invest in it might actually get a decent return on their due diligence. The horror.
Very true and often conveniently omitted by LN fans.

Lightning Network Whitepaper, section 3.3.4 states very clearly:

"For this reason, one should periodically monitor the blockchain to see if one’s counterparty has broadcast an invalidated Commitment Transaction, or delegate a third party to do so. A third party can be delegated by only giving the Breach Remedy transaction to this third party. They can be incentivized to watch the blockchain broadcast such a transaction in the event of counterparty maliciousness by giving these third parties some fee in the output. Since the third party is only able to take action when the counterparty is acting maliciously, this third party does not have any power to force close of the channel."
I don't think it's the same. Paying more for the same cup of coffee doesn't make Starbucks more upscale than it was before or than it is for anyone who just paid with their credit card / phone / cash.
idk, this whole scandal ended up making me less trustworthy of WSJ.
The thing that pushes me away from it is its insistence on logging in.
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You are not required to change the name of your main branch on existing repos.

If you really want to, you can use "master" as the name on your new repos. You simply have to manually type that in now.
You might find this interesting:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
Compiling and installing large amounts of system software, a la `emerge world` or `make buildworld`, is great exposure to many system components. `make menuconfig` introduces one to various features of the Linux kernel, and yes, even a humble `./configure` illustrates how the software in question depends on libraries and hardware. I wouldn't casually dismiss the educational value of these experiences, nor the curiosity of those partaking. They're certainly more expository than the digests displayed in a `docker pull`.
No, the assumption in this scenario is the risk to the mother between the two procedures is the same.
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Totally. It's 2021 after all. It should just work out of the box. Who in their right mind would want to buy meat that's not fully cooked yet? And then discuss it on Chefs News? Ridiculous.
Brave New World, here we come !
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The large brains need more fat (calories), which allow them to hunt more effectively and take larger game (more calories). Large animals just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
well, MBAs here is a catch all phrase that includes politicians (even though they are usually lawyers).
I can understand feeling that way, and I would too. But you've signed over to Twitter the right for them to display your tweets in any way they see fit, and they've given everyone else permission to embed your tweets wherever they want (subject to some TOS no doubt).
> Which one is more of a leap of faith?

Governments of course. Anything is better than trusting governments.
At that point, I'd prefer if they would also toss in any kind of scheduling to begin with. Where I live, 5x8 9-5 gets emphasized a lot, and any alternative that isn't working earlier or reducing the days gets incredible backlash. I'm young and fairly carefree outside work, I'd love to try more extreme patterns like 3x12 (especially with WFH) and have more days I can turn my head off completely regarding work, including a shift so I don't get chastised for coming in at 9:30. Someone else might prefer 6x6 starting from 6:30 and quit a bit before noon.
As you have declined to point out how my understanding is flawed when asked, I'd say my understanding is perfectly fine.

Again: let's leave the discussion here.
> Bitcoin itself is inherently trustless, that's the whole point of it. You can trust that there will never be more than 21M Bitcoins, you can trust that there will never be a double-spend, you can trust that it will run 24/7, etc.

No it isn't. If the Bitcoin devs and miners agree on a change (for instance, to increase the cap), it'll happen, so you have to trust them.
VSCode, being a text editor, of course would need some random plugins to behave like a IDE (i.e. compile some basic C code).

You can prefer an IDE, or a text editor + plugins. Either would be fair.

But the complaint that text editor without plugins doesn't "compile" your C code is misdirected.
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I believe it trivializes the movement because it injects unimportant issues like git branch names into the realm of conversations about racism, police violence, harmful stereotypes, discrimination etc. It also gives ammunition to those who seek to discredit the movement for social justice. This isn't a situation like e.g. affirmative action, which demonstrably creates opportunities for minorities at the cost of some resentment from people who feel like affirmative action is unfair. In the case of "master" to "main", nobody gains anything, all it does is act is a flashpoint for bad faith actors.
> Yikes! There's no hiding around here!

Not with that user name there isn't :-)
Not everyone has an ac chipset.
Boot environments for operating system upgrades. They take advantage of ZFS.
It was very early for VGA, or more technically MCGA 300 x 200 x 256 colour mode. Artists had not yet figured out how to utilize 256 colour palette to the best of art.
Whac-A-Mole is an arcade game for children. It has holes in the playing surface, and a mallet or hammer that the player holds. Mechanized moles pop up out of these holes, stay up for a moment, and then go back down. The player attempts to hit the mole with the mallet while the mole is up out of the hole. The difficulty is knowing which mole (or which hole) is going to be the next one you need to hit.
This is the biggest problem that an average person need not ever want to deal with. How do you explain to someone sorry we cannot help you because it was your responsibility to manage that wallet.
I’m working with the Audacity dev team on a redesign of the UI/UX. More on this soon!
Personally, from a consumer perspective I'm not convinced postive reviews are actually that useful, vetted or nor.

E.g. on Amazon I ended up only ever reading 3 star reviews. Not for their positivity or negativity, but because they often point out some shortcomming of the product that might or might not effect me. Say some audio hardware not supporting some MIDI feature. I might not care about it at all, or it is a dealbreaker. I have made more pruchase decision based on those reviews than positive ones. For the latter what usually lacks is knowledge about the context, the use case they have.
I'm getting forbidden from that page
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Are there situations where it would be harmful to follow these rules?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
> A company like GitHub then has two main options

Nobody would have complained about GitHub doing nothing had GitHub done nothing.

Now we get to complain about their mindless actions, and possibly later on their spineless back-pedalling.
I totally agree with you. We were talking about the US.

In some cultures, the aspect of giving every single person inalienable rights and equality isn't explicitly valued like it is in the west. I wouldn't want to impose western values on those cultures.

However, your argument boils down to whataboutism. Yes there are other countries with other forms of privilege. Yes there are civilizations in the past with other forms of privilege. In the US we tend to value equality, and in the pursuit of that we must recognize all forms of privilege that exist in our society. It doesn't matter that it exists elsewhere.

FYI I am not at all talking about the original article. I was simply responding to this tangent comment thread.
Just because something might be impossible to solve fully, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still try? For example cryptography is an arms race against code breakers, but that’s not a reason to just give up on encryption?

Also a multi-front defence seems sensible. Agree with points below that the law needs to catch up on this front, but is not mutually exclusive to efforts in improving detection.
I understand. It can be a double-edged sword.

I wish you find a place where your talent is valued and appreciated.
If BTC could replace CC merchants in terms of their transaction volume than this would not be possible. However, because the transaction volume cannot be handled natively Visa is able to wrap the "decentralized" currency and profit by continuing to be a middleman.
On resume? AWS + Golang. Career-wise? Having enough grit to tough through problems other developers don't want to solve. In life? Grit and persistence has helped me there too. I feel like I'm smart but probably not above average.
the issue is that once you stake your identity on a singular position, you've lost objectivity. that's when it becomes political, not personal.

further, as argued elsewhere, there is no singular correct ("accepted") definition of "left" that isn't a political insistence rather than objective and unyielding fact.

if you believe in "power to the people" or "equal rights" then state that explicitly. don't hide under the highly amorphous tent of "left", which invariably can be contrived into any extant principles that suits the propounder in the moment. spell out what you mean, not your professed identity and (wrongly) assume everyone shares a singular definition of that identity.
They can't implement those changes uni-laterally, it would cause a hard-fork. In addition to devs and miners, you need users, network nodes and exchanges to agree to it as well.

And even if that change were to go through, there will still be people running the old chain (Ethereum Classic is still alive). So those parameters would only change if they improve the network for most stakeholders, otherwise, most people would stay on the old chain.
What's the alternative? Stop reporting news altogether?

I feel as a news org, the best you can do is just report the data as it becomes available. Obviously later data could contradict prior data or clarify its interpretation. What matters though is the accuracy of the data reported, not in the data being a perfect predictor of the outcome, but that this is accurately the current known data, even if it later comes to be shown incomplete or misleading.
I feel like between this and the sibling comment my point was misunderstood - to clarify, I wasn't trying to say "our industry is unsolved but should be solved," rather, "there is no 'solve' for these sorts of things which aren't even 'problems' so much as difference of opinion, even outside of the technology industry, and within the technology industry there is an even greater breadth of opinion around product and project scheduling and management" - so, the linked article is triply ridiculous.
Audacity is up there for me with those open source projects that deserve to go into some form of OSS Hall of Fame.

Audacity, VLC, Blender, KeePass, Inkscape, OBS, etc (there's many more but those are the ones I use regularly). Programs that have been around forever, are used by millions every day, and yet continue to do it (and do it damn well) just because they want to.
I use and like Audacity, but it really is clunky. Having to use separate "tools" to edit envelopes, move events, etc. is pretty clunky compared to, say, a DAW like ACID or a commercial audio editor like Soundforge. The active regions for hovers, clicks, and drags (e.g. to resize tracks) really need tweaking as well, and the horizontal scroll after a zoom change is also really hard to predict or control.
Audacity is an example that being good enough is enough. It probably doesn't competes against industry giants, but considering its simplicity and license, it is probably the most used audio editor in use today.

Congrats audaciteam!

Disclaimer: I was a contributor a long time ago to the noise filter effect.
Almost Perfect by WE Pete Peterson [0] is the story of WordPerfect and how it burned up. I think it was a good example of 80s/90s software startups and think the author, CEO I think, was frank about what went wrong. And it’s free.

[0] http://www.wordplace.com/ap/
I would say: don't do it. Nowadays I'd rather use Common Lisp as a glue for other scripts rather than invoking it along with other programs with shell scripts.

Plus the need for scripts diminues when you can write a function on typed objects (all scripts are parsers).

I also try to seek other IPC mechanisms when possible, such as talking to daemons through DBus or JSON-RPC depending on what is available.

edit: this story is currently on the front page of HN too, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26491858 (Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt), the neverending examples of how shell scripting makes your life miserable (sure it's helpful, but can't we have nicer things?)
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Nibbler, homemade 4-bit CPU
You just taught me something cool as someone who loves commandline I’m definitely going to try this and save this as a gist for future reference
Very clever - great idea and execution. Embedding positive tweets is something we've wanted to add to our site for a long time but it's so annoying/tedious to put together on your own, this it awesome. Thanks for creating and sharing!
True, but if you live in a congested area, chances are good that one of your neighbors does. I have a house in a new community of "smart homes" where each home has two AC WAPs. Every single 2.4GHz channel has several users. MIMO helps, but 5GHz (or the new 6e band) are much more preferable.
I agree with everything you wrote except for the unstated implication that the use of the word master to refer to a git branch reflects a history of slavery. If you believe this, then I think understanding why we see this differently is the path forward to a productive discussion on this issue.
Uh, you absolutely can, unless the account is locked. All the person who tweeted can do is delete the tweet.

You can embed any tweet anywhere you feel like (and actually the embed won't fully disappear when the tweet is deleted, but I digress).
This is what is underneath ours: https://ascr-discovery.org/2021/03/quantum-trap/
I'm not here to defend Bitcoin nor respond to critiques. Just not what I'm in to. Full disclosure, I have a financial stake in Bitcoin.

My observation on all of this is that the most common themes to bear Bitcoin - can all be fixed! People are quite happy to look at the current landscape and proclaim immediate and indefinite failure. Detractors allow no room for growth.

Volatility - you could argue that Bitcoin is still so young that the market is trying to determine it's worth. I estimate that Bitcoin is significantly less volatile at some point in the future.

Real world use cases - currently I agree, I don't see a great use of it ... yet. I think we'll find something.

Energy, sure okay it uses a lot of energy. Is this less problematic is most of the energy is sourced from renewables (now or in the future)? Certainly it's also possible that the protocol is updated to be more energy efficient, or another coin reigns supreme.
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Channel factories do not work globally as far as I understand them. They only work within a group of addresses that know they won't close the channels every other hour or everybody would have to create yet another channel. It sounds very similar to a credit union.

Watchtowers are what I meant with payment processors. You need to pay them to watch the chain in case the other party tries to literally steal from you. You can call them whatever you want, it's a third-party, just like Visa.

I love how all these cryptocurrency concepts have "traditional" counterparts, btw. Or it's rather the other way around.
Are you familiar enough with daily life throughout India to know how easy it is to become a vet or to know how lucrative or desirable it is to be a vet? Or to know if it is practical for vets to respond to every failed birthing and certify them? Presumably you have to certify that the mother was vaccinated properly.

Do you know how many vets would be involved? How big of an enforcement staff will you be hiring for this? How will you make sure they can't be bought?

This scheme would be dominated by corruption from start to finish.

Why not propose to pay vets for every vac-tag they record? Enforcement is a lot easier. Payment distribution is a lot easier. Incentive to vaccinate is higher. No incentive to abort calves. Still invites corruption.

Edit: In other words, pay for the behavior you want to encourage. Do you want to vaccinate, or do you want to abort calves?

Edit: I'm American. I'm not great at English.
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Couldn't you also just hook this up to Slack search and include relevant threads into the results as well?
I do not think the barrier to entry was so high. Some years ago (before facebook or even earlier), it was common to see all kind of people chatting in cybercafes, and also not so long ago in countries or places with poor connections. They either used some installed client or, most often, a web interface. And people could manage quite well, even non tech savvy people.

But, except for that, I totally agree with your comment. It did never have the power that social networks have today, and as soon as more interesting tools were available, most people moved on.
Columbus also deserved to be laughed at.
People in his time period knew the world was round and even had a pretty accurate estimate of its radius, but he (very erroneously) thought it was way smaller.
That's why he thought he landed in India.
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Maximum emo-ness: the darkness in these songs is so irredeemable that even the project file couldn't save them.
I'll agree the day MS Paint becomes multiplatform and FLOSS.
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The headline should be that declining customer service quality threatens the industry. This had nothing to do with the technology getting better.

Chatbots are something nobody likes and that are simply being pushed by companies to see how much people will tolerate.

This reminds me of (a) the backlash of outsourcing call centers years ago to companies that did not have clear english speakers and (b) the talk a few years ago about trucker jobs being obsolete. Until there is AGI, we are no closer to a useful chatbot then we have ever been. And hopefully people will continue to reject dealing with companies that don't respect them enough to provide a real, knowledgeable person they can talk to.
The whole point is to avoid discussions and eliminate any concepts of either ethics or morality to be able to more easily control societies.

The very root of progressivism / post-modernism / cultural-marxism is to prevent the idea of meaning and allow to redefine anything on the fly to fit the current interest of the Party. Today's Truth being different from yesterday's, which of course never existed and will prone you to cancellation.
OSI layers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 are very real.

Roughly, e.g.: 1:Fiber, 2:Ethernet, 3:Routing, 4:TCP/IP, and 7:HTTP.
Let's look at your terms:

"They": who do you mean by this? Do you mean every group of engineers who has made the change? Just GitHub? The Software Conservancy?

"Not liking it": I suppose you have evidence that these changes were generally unsatisfactory to the people making them? And not, say, you projecting your own anger upon them?

"Pressure": You seem by this to posit that conventions ought not to act by pressure at all, which is a really weird way to imagine how the world works. How could a convention, or a change in convention, _not_ generate pressure?

"Forcing": You seem determined to strip engineers of their own agency, but this is silly. Only defaults have changed. Master branches still abound, and renaming within Git itself remains a relatively trivial matter.

"Gain traction": You have not been paying attention if you think this terminology shift was a sudden change made all at once from the top down. I've been in debates about master/slave terminology in CS (and specifically Git) going back to Ferguson, maybe even longer.

I get that you like your old branch name and you don't want the hassle of changing it, but all this talk of "pressure" and "forcing" by nameless adversaries is quite unnecessary to get that point across.
> This seems pretty close to just saying, “If we can’t change the world, let us change nothing at all.”

I don't see it that way. In my view, this change is worse than "nothing at all" because it doesn't represent any substantive change, but it does create fodder for bad faith actors to portray the movement for social justice as trivial.
Yes. The last study looks even worse.
It certainly didn't go nowhere. Obviously, if someone bought and sold their entire portfolio on those (VERY cherry-picked - just look at the graph, lol) days, they would have made 0 dollars.

But look on either side of that blip and there is plenty of profit.
Bash and related tools. From monitoring and spelunking logs, generating code, generating input, switching states, quickly looking up client data, background compiling, etc. It gets an enormous amount of work done quickly and easily.