skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its just liquidity

there is tremendous value for me in being able to barter transaction with an asset that someone can immediately sell for what they want

I've been illiquid sometimes due to some combination of card networks accepted and when I say "eh, what about Bitcoin" because I have some dust in a wallet on my phone, I'm completely serious while the merchant spirals into their ignorance and cognitive dissonance nervously laughing and regurgitating some headline they saw 7 years ago

other people just take it like "yeah sure"

its just like get over it are we exchanging equivalent value or are you mentally incapable for this century
And they alienated someone who they were supposedly fighting for!
> the virulence of the objection is so out of proportion to the magnitude of the change that it raises the question of just what is really at the root of it....I think of it as "vice signaling": performing the objections without even a moment's thought, not for the purpose of refuting it but to be seen as being the most, loudest, most obnoxious opposition.

I don't feel like we're reading the same thread. There are plenty of reasonable objections in these comments, and dismissing as you do is, to me, as intellectually shallow as the change in question.
I'd argue it doesn't just achieve nothing, it works against the cause in two ways:

* First, as others have said, it builds resentment in those that see it as not worthwhile compared to other things and who are negatively impacted like how you describe.

* Second, which I haven't really seen people bring up, by succeeding at a visible but inconsequential change, the activists who brought this about are less likely to bother with something that actually matters.
I found Dendron via HN a few months ago and absolutely love it. I was hemming and hawing with my Dendron file structure until I found the PARA method (in a Dendron tutorial): https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/. I love that the dots in Dendron file names (e.g. resource.orgs.pacific-energy-center) lets me avoid the awkwardness of folders while still having hierarchical organization. I move around and make changes fast with Dendron's shortcuts. I'm opting to keep a lot of my lists (e.g. my to-do list) in Excel, and rely on Dendron more for the written-out stuff.
I'm grateful for this free open-source awesomeness!
And what is Bitcoin value without it being used as a currency?
It's interesting you bring up Linus Torvalds in this discussion because he, around the same time as the Github changes, signed off[0] on an update to the terminology used in the Linux kernel. To me it's not a decision I expected, but watching some older talks where it's been brought up to him he seems to be indifferent to the controversy and just wants to focus on the tech.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Every user of Scala I've ever talked to has said something to the effect that the more they became comfortable with Scala, the more functional their code became. That includes people who have never used a functional language before taking up Scala. I've never met any who said their code became more object oriented. In fact, most "best practices" in OO eschew some of the key OO features, i.e., composition over inheritance; of those two the latter is a distinctly OO concept, and the former isn't.
The idea is to never go off-chain, so no need to close your channel(s). And aren't you already committing cash if you're "in" bitcoin?

The tax filing doesn't sound so bad in the long run. I'm sure someone will write some nifty tool to extract whatever payments you've done.
As a Native American this comes across to me the same as how the savior complex drives people to talk down to Native Americans about their persecution.

And that's pretty much what the OP article is complaining about, people with savior complexes doing performative things that don't really fix the problem on a larger scale.
Security Logging in Cloud Environments – GCP
You may have been downvoted for a snarky tone, but this is the first time I've seen it mentioned here - bitcoin is taxed as a commodity in the US, each exchange is a capital gain or loss.
Similar build: http://www.britishideas.com/2013/09/03/jack-the-ripper-bot-i...

https://hackaday.com/2013/09/05/jack-the-dvd-ripping-robot/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHycIOtYHA

https://github.com/ajayre/JacktheRipperBot
I joined around 2010, the transition was in full swing at that time. Microsoft seemed like a much more aggressive work environment in the 90s/2000s. Around when I joined I didn't know anyone who got to senior without sleeping in their office for a few weeks getting their feature out. By the time I left that was unheard of.

But everything is relative to which org and even which team your on. Windows vs Office are going to be completely different as will Azure.
I don't mind at all when someone admits they don't know something important at work.

I'm frustrated when they admit it 6 months too late.

Ignorance is the norm, but fix it when it's necessary, don't try to hide it.
Imagine a likely future of technological ease (but not post-scarcity) led by a gerontocracy imperiled by rapid depopulation and austerity. There will be immense pressure both from secular and religious sides to develop new childcare assistance and replacement systems if it means encouraging more souls to be born and to carry on society/progress. It will probably be a combination of plush parent/foster benefits, collectivization of care into academies, and robotics.

They may even develop new embryos in vitro from random (or designed) combinations, completely besides the abortion question. The looming birth rate deficit is far larger than the amount of abortions.
This lets you keep your funds in BTC until you the instant you want to use it. If you believe that Bitcoin is an asset that 'only goes up', wouldn't you want to keep even your spending money in BTC for as long as possible?
While he was home sick too...

That said, the bar for failure is not so high as the ability to hack up a robotic dvd loader in two days from scraps while you’re sick.
It's actually "majority privilege." It's just called white privilege in the USA because that has historically been the majority color. Go to any country, or geographic area, and you fill find a majority race/sect/tribe/religion that gives them more privileges/rights than the rest of the people who live in smaller numbers, because there are less of them in numbers to win a vote (or whatever.) You will also find that majority holding some sort of power over the minorities in the area. Can you think of a country where this hasn't been true at some point in world history? China? Russia? Nigeria? Mexico? Cambodia? Vietnam? Greece? Rome? Rwanda?
Ethereum at a crossroads: Ether community turmoil over miner reward fees
"Lastly, Grim Reaper believes that another imminent reality that may be looming large on the horizon is that if nobody is able to come to any sort of consensus, ETH might get hard forked. 'The real issue is the shit storm that will come if ETH gets forked and miners go to war. This will utterly fuck what’s happening with DeFi,' he said."
Holy crap the universe is massive.

It occurred to me the other day that there's barely any science fiction that even occurs outside our own galaxy (Star Wars being the exception that proves the rule). And if it does it's usually something from Andromeda right 'next door'.

Even Star Trek only leaves the galaxy maybe one time, and that requires the help of Q.
The almost-autobiography of Scott Adams is literally titled “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”
I would choose it.

Bottom line, organizing and maintaining large codebases on which lots of developers are collaborating is going to be painful no matter what your stack is. There is no technical fix for overcoming all the dependency and coordination problems created by large, complex software.

As nothing is going to remove that cost from you, the best you can do it transform one of set painpoints into a different set of painpoints. The most dangerous choice is then the one where the painpoints are not well understood, even to the point where you think they aren't there. Trust me - they are there, lurking - waiting for you to start tripping over them.

At least with Spring there is a well understood approach with a large pool of developers and some accumulated wisdom. That's better than most alternatives for real world use.

OTOH, if you are building a small project with a small team, it doesn't matter too much which framework you use, just use whatever your team members are most comfortable with. If your intention is to grow into a massive project, then finding devs who have experience in your stack will matter more down the road.
I already have a Binance VISA card that works anywhere.
So what's supposed to be new with this solution?
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is dead
>I can't help but feel your response to this is part of the problem. 50 hours is a lot of hours, and we shouldn't normalize it.

While I absolutely agree with you, my career first as a union laborer and now a construction field engineer have really jaded me to the count of hours. It can be very different across different industries.

On my current project Engineers are expected to be present to support field operations, which means starting before the craft workers to ensure everything is ready for the day (possibly as early as 0500) while still being here until 1700 like any other 'office job'; its pretty outrageous. At least when I was a laborer I was hourly.

What can be done to fight the normalization of this? For myself, I fought my way to a senior engineer position and lobbied for a larger staff. Now I not only have enough people to do the job, but we stagger our shifts out to each get around 8hr/day while ensuring full coverage for our field guys throughout their shift. I've worked to instill a culture of "hey you've been here long enough, go the fuck home" with my team. But it took too long to get to this point, and much more tooth and nail fighting than it should have to convince higher ups of the need for what they saw as 'excess staffing', even for my department which is very much production critical.
> You know that Android is open source and you can just sideload apps, install a 3rd party app store or replace entire OS with your own ROM right?

User installable 3rd party app stores are cannot compete with the Play Store on feature parity because 3rd party app stores cannot implement automatic upgrades, background installation of apps, or batch installs of apps like the Play Store can.

Manufacturers fight against users' abilities to root or replace their OS on the phones they sell. There are thousands of models of phones that will only ever run their OEM installed ROMs, and there are millions, if not billions, of Android devices that cannot be rooted or won't run custom ROMs, and more are produced every year.
Ethereum does face additional problems because of the EVM.

Proof of Stake is coming which helps a lot with overall effort expended, if not directly tx/s.

What does Bitcoin have that Ethereum doesn't for scaling transaction rate?
Electric vehicle production is already constrained by battery capacity.

Increasing capacity leads to efficiency which leads to the price going doing. Except when the demand is outstripping supply.

Which of us right? I guess we can agree to meet up in 20 years and find out.
You should post this in the main thread, it is incredibly germane and enlightening.
Actually, I just went to it and it's much clearer and better than it was. It is a year for me now.

That said, here is a recent BBB complaint. When I cancelled 2 years ago it was worse (no option to chat, you had to call and they left you on hold).

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Complaint Type: Billing/Collection Issues

02/16/2021

I am nearing the end of a promotional offer from the NYTimes which offered a 1 year digital subscription for $4/month. I don't plan to continue a subscription at the full price and logged into my account to cancel my subscription. Within my online profile, there is no button labeled "cancel my subscription" or any similar option. I am only given the options to change my email or password, or update my card. This seems like a serious abuse to me a customer to decide whether or not I want to pay for the service. I have now been chatting with an agent for 15 minutes and still haven't been given an option to cancel my account. As of right now, I've been chatting long enough with a representative to fill out this BBB complaint and still haven't had anyone help me close my account. I have screenshots of my entire conversation with the agent if that's helpful.

https://www.bbb.org/us/ny/new-york/profile/publishers-period...

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It's not that every fly by night website does this (NY Times is not exactly fly by night), but enough do that people really hesitate to sign up outside of the more trusted Apple walled garden - I know I do because I don't have time for this.

MyHeritage was even worse though, surprised there are not more lawsuits, they somehow found out my NEW card number after I cancelled my card to avoid them.

So while Apple is allowed to run their store their way without the scammers getting into the mix, I'll keep giving them my money happily. That said, HN devs and these types of companies all hate it I'm sure (not realizing that this is why apple phone users spend so much more - the well hasn't been poisoned by their stupidity)
Above FL60 is uncontrolled airspace. That means the NOTAM covers UP TO 60k. They can easily traverse higher without issue as they are not required to file a NOTAM for above that altitude. I think a lot of people are missing this point.
Totally.

This also applies to really anything with the "-er" suffix, which lead us to treat objects as "data" and "things that act upon that data".

This often shows up in code as "Thing" and "ThingManager", or something similar.
They have plans to try a 4 days working week here in Spain, and I believe the working culture is quite different. We will see how it works.
Damn, I never thought anyone would read it or care. I very deeply appreciate your comment, and that you took the time to read it.

I really hope I can try again one day in the future with actual animators!
I've been a UNIX admin & developer for 25 years. I still on occasion accidentally paste the wrong text into the terminal.

(Admittedly, I think it only ever happens at home now, because everything I do on a work system scares the hell out of me.)
Apple’s product makes up at least 60% of mobile phone usage in the US[1]. No single landlord owns 60% of retail space in the US. If you want to say landlords have control over their market not unlike apples control, you have to concede that apples control is likely two orders of magnitude more than any single retail landlord.

To access 60% of US mobile phone users, App developers must go through Apple. Apple faces no competitor pressure when deciding on their prices, it is their discretion alone. Landlords face competitor pressure but Apple does not in this space so in that sense, no, the market has not decided apple’s prices.

Aside from the practical issues concerning their control of the market, the argument that Apple should be able to charge whatever they want because it’s their product is normative. These normative claims can be challenged when we consider the practical effects their market dominance has on app developers and users alike.

[1] https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-iphone-record-sales-us...
Creating a chart about charts.css with charts.css from the command line:

(
echo "<table class='charts-css bar show-labels show-heading'>"
echo "<caption>Size of Charts.css releases</caption>"
for version in $(curl -sS https://github.com/ChartsCSS/charts.css/releases | grep -o releases/tag/[0-9.]* | cut -d/ -f3 | tac); do
url=https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/charts.css@$version/dist/charts.min.css
size=$(($(curl -sS "$url" | wc -c)/1024))
echo "<tr><th>v$version</th><td style='--size: calc($size/100)'>${size}KiB</td></tr>"
done
echo "</table><link rel=stylesheet href='$url'>"
) > size-chart.html

Result: https://jsfiddle.net/wcfez6oq/

Since I couldn't easily find how large it was and wanted to try it out at the same time.
I have recently bought a Mikrotik RB4011 for my home. It was a bit pricey, but I love the feeling of control I got when I set it up. The model with built-in WiFi had very poor coverage, so I exchanged with it for a model without wifi as that one can he mounted into a rack, and now I will se my old consumer router in bridge mode as an access point.
> some days I feel like a scum master

I'd only add for me it is every time.
Show HN: Force Field V002 – my old-school, env-friendly version of an NFT
This brings back memories of slowly dying car alarms back in the 90s.

I probably come across as being more anti-solar roof than I am. Mostly just feel like this isn’t a feature I’d make a purchase decision on and wouldn’t likely pay too much for.

I was reading on the Tesla forums about just bringing a portable solar array for camping and it’s weirdly a lot more complicated than you’d think. Perhaps having it integrated would make it simpler, but it’s a lot trickier than just topping off a 12v battery with a solar array.
That's the low intensity dark green-dark red-brown-black palette, not the high intensity light red-light green-yellow-black palette. The high intensity mode was about a quarter as garish as the cyan magenta mode, which won't make your eyeballs bleed, but it's still a mite bit uncomfortable.

The dark green dark red brown black palette was indeed probably the least bad palette, but it suffered severely from a lack of contrast. That's why the text is hard to read, because it's black text on a brown background, not because of the resolution.

The reason the cyan magenta white black palette was so common is because it had both black and white, meaning the text was easy to read.

The Tandy graphics adapter allowed a programmable palette. It was still just 4 colors, but the programmer could choose which 4 colors they were. (out of the 16 colors a CGA monitor could display) This was such a minor increase in complexity for a 10x improvement in usefulness it's shocking to me that IBM didn't include that in the CGA.
Thanks and appreciate your time checking it out!
Instead of using Bitcoin, the transaction network, they are using their transaction network to transact bitcoins, the asset. The chain gets used primarily for settlements in this model.
Not much.

From the article: "And secondly, working with Bitcoin wallets to allow the Bitcoin to be translated into a fiat currency and therefore immediately be able to be used at any of the 70 million places around the world where Visa is accepted."
Lots of rose colored glasses here.

Yes, looking back on the EGA graphics, there is definitely a level of skill and stylization that I took for granted at the time and have a certain nostalgia for, but when the VGA versions of these games came out they were all mind-blowing and you just kind of had to be there - no one was selecting the EGA option if they had a VGA card.

I remember the VGA version of Indiana Jones in particular being awesome in VGA, on a CRT, live in motion.
Very interesting product, congratulations on the launch!

Some initial feedback/suggestions:

1) Raise pricing, especially on the $15 plan.

2) The $50 plan looks like something agencies will pick up for their clients. So get ahead of that and charge more for that. Limit to N walls per domain or something. Then add agency plans that scale by # of domains where walls are posted. Agency plans probably should start at $99 (maybe for 3 domains) and go up.

3) Auto curation could be cool. Run tweets through some kind of sentiment analysis and email/Slack/SMS candidates to your customers. Let them Y/N each. That way they don't have to log into the app to get results.

Good luck!
I like to say FB comments are for grandma to tell grandkid how cute they looked in that tie at the pre-Covid family reunion. I haven't logged in for a decade, so I don't even know what people do on FB now that you can't really take pictures of your restaurant entrée every day anymore.

> pure flood

Very good term for it.

I even like it when people disagree here, since they typically back it up with reason. It's not a stoic site - it's just not flippant either.

There should be a web forum Kinsey Scale for that.
Misleading Title. Visa says it will allow for Bitcoin to be converted to fiat, and the fiat can be spent using a Visa Card in the same way debit cards already work.

This is already done with the Coinbase card, Gemini card, etc

The statement is very vague in terms of who is covering the conversion.
AFAIK there are no aarch64 widevine binaries out there since chromeOS doesn't have an aarch64 variant.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve tracked these guys from the start. Really solid concept behind it and the founder make a really strong commitment from the start to say that if its a currency the only thing that matters is the number of daily transactions. Which is really true if you consider the value of a currency related to the value of the network.

unfortunately they really hit a speedbump with the long ongoing SEC case, but now that it is finalized it all can really play into their advantage.

Also the fact that they have done 3 chain migrations did not do any favors, but the techs say its for the best. Would be really interested to understand why changing from Stellar to Solana is so important?
Definitely crazy. I've been WFH for a few years now and I've created a method that works really well for me: I make a hard separation between work time and me time. During work time (which starts at 8:00 local time for me) I don't do anything else that I wouldn't do at the office, and this goes on until 15:30 (I have lunch during work), at which point I shut down my work computer and phone and never touch them again until 8:00 the following day.

I'm actually more productive because I don't spend > 1hr socializing during the day, like I did at the office and have far fewer interruptions.

Regarding deadlines, we plan our sprints and provide estimates for all tasks. Sometimes they slip but if I spend more time one day working on something, you bet your ass that I'm leaving that same amount of hours early next Friday. It's been years since I worked 40 hours in any given week.
If the employee's effort contributes (can be sold for) $15/hour, then that is the value of the employee to the company.

The company is therefore happy to pay between $0/hour and $14.99/hour to the employee, depending on the supply of relevant labor.

Where did the $10/hour number come from?