skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metals for best electrical conductivity are silver (1st), copper, gold, aluminum (4th).
> On a side note, what kind of idiot puts graphene in masks, when its so widely known that graphene is a carcinogen. How can this not be maliciously done.

It says it's made in China.
Yeah, I'm a patron of multiple people, from Authors to people running a website providing info on a game, that are making $10k-$20k a month in Patreon from those projects through $5-$10 monthly payments. It's amazing how much money you can make, but I think you really do have to offer something to get people to bite.
NOISH != NIOSH.
The Rise of the Bitcoin Class
It's funny because even as obvious as it is .. it's easy to forget. I mean a lot of people know Yamaha produces motorbikes AND pianos AND hifi devices, yet it doesn't feel like a giant.

memories of my beloved Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 21" CRT
See also Engadget article about this:

Online advertisers take on Google with their own third-party cookie alternative

https://www.engadget.com/swan-ad-tracking-google-floc-142025...
You're setting up your own strawperson at the end there.

The kind of libertarian who's excited about Bitcoin is the kind that, with Satoshi in Bitcoin's genesis block, criticizes the bailout of banks and thinks they should have been allowed to fail, because that's what would keep them in check and prevent their walking all over regular people.
>Cryptocurrency is a pseudo-asset built around the dubious notion of “speculation for speculation’s sake”

No, some people think scarcity and trustlessness make it a good store of value. This is not even addressed in the article.

> Cryptocurrencies disproportionately victimize vulnerable people and those in marginalized communities without access to traditional investments or financial advisory.

I don't see any good evidence for this, the goal of many DeFi projects is to increase access.

Overall an unfair and needlessly inflammatory evaluation. The idea that all cryptocurrency is a scam that "masses of dumb money investors" buy into is overbearingly pretentious, and a non-starter for legitimate criticism IMO.
I have a few:
flipping collectibles and cars and sometimes collectible cars. woodworking/metalworking/furniture-building.
I think a lot of people find trading crypto assets at least as fun as say, slot machines.
systemd-timesyncd is an SNTP client; that's what an SNTP client does. For a lot of use cases, desktops and even most servers, it's perfectly fine and a whole lot less complex.

I understand it's not a good fit in some cases; our standard server config disables all other NTP clients, systemd-timesyncd included, in favor of Chrony because we are concerned about highly accurate system clocks and slewing. Interestingly, it appears that systemd has some sort of provisions for this. The `timedatectl` command still works and reports that NTP is enabled and synchronized.
It's a simple equation.

n = How many 0-days are out the there that could topple the systems in control of the BTC I own.

p = The probability that said exploit is used on me and my wallet and not someone else.

n * p = my risk of losing everything

p is very small, but n is very, VERY... big

With tradition assets, they are backed with contracts that can make potential thefts unwound or made whole in some other way. With crypto, every ocean's 11-style cat-burglar in the world has access to every bank in the world... and that can't be unwound.
You are correct that the NFT is valuable because the artist says it is (though ideally, artists should be digitally signing their works with their private key, which is a whole other thing).

What the blockchain provides, however, which is incredibly valuable in the art world (not saying this isn't vapid, btw) is provenance in a secure verifiable way that would likely extend past the lifespan of any centralized company.

Showing provenance is basically a requirement for any high value work of art, which gets more and more difficult as time goes on and the work changes hands. We're talking timespans of hundreds and thousands of years.

Highly recommend watching the fascinating show "Fake or Fortune" -- on Amazon Prime (at least in the US) -- to really appreciate how much people care about provenance.
Can't wait for my Makita rugged SSD
From their website:

> No logging of your network activity

Does it mean I can torrent whatever I want? I mean, if there's a copyright notice, how're they going to know it was me?
In a previous life I performed research on the neurological basis of birdsong, which is fairly well understood for passerines.

Sounds produced by birds can be divided into two types: songs and calls. Songs are primarily by males to attract mates, and are sung the same song over and over with minimal variation. Females, in turn, are attracted to the males with highest song stereotypy that sound closest to the "ideal" for the species. Calls are used to communicate to other birds of a certain idea, e.g. a predator nearby, and are also consequently standardized.

So while this is indeed very cool, it's my suspicion it won't be recognized as "authentic" by the birds themselves. You can't just "make up" new syllables or sounds and have it be understood.
Heck, then print out a certificate on some nice paper, state that the holder of this paper is the owner of the work, sign it, and stamp into some wax on it that has radioactive isotopes mixed in that can be used to date it.

You’ve got your NFT which the holder can then resell as you will. If the artist then sells another certificate claiming it is unique, sue them.
I did Tech support at a small ISP a while ago, and this was part of our first day of training. So was sending email via telnet. There was an optional challenge to add an attachment.
And if it's reported as stolen all NFTs crafted after that date will be known to be invalid.
Sure, this isn't meant to make it impossible to shoot yourself in the foot design-wise if you intermingle fonts. It's more of a layout concern. If I change the font in an app or website, it _always_ leads to tweaking all the font sizes and adjusting vertical padding on things like buttons. All to get the baseline and vertical height at roughly the same spots between fonts. The author's proposal of a "cap height" (I don't like that term, though) would make that tweaking a thing of the past.
Startups have about $1T worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan
There was also this—not sure if related:

Frameworkless JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030628 - Jan 2014 (188 comments)
"Jargon", perhaps. "Never been in use by authors"? Not so. The current "international economy edition" of Aho, et al uses "lexing" 29 times, according to the search function on Amazon. Flex & Bison by John Levine (O'Reilly and Associates) uses "lexing" 38 times. And so on.
I think cheating is a response to a sort of exhaustion with a gamified system... Like when you get tired of going through the grind on Gran Turismo and you enter a cheat code so you can get the R8 without doing the 24 hour le mans.

When you shift to things that aren't gamified, such as project based education, I there is little to no "cheating" because cheating is an artifact of the game design.
You as a learner copypasting code isn't itself the problem. The problem is that this is a published, copyrighted work that has been included into another published, copyrighted work without adherence to license terms.

If I had copied Culture4Life's code and used it in my own project, they would be suing for tens of thousands of dollars in damages; and the law would agree that I should have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages for that infringement. Asking for attribution and a proper license declaration is the polite way to handle a license violation.
The unique copy of the URL exists only for you. It's equally as silly as you thought. (Or perhaps imagined that the blockchain wasn't 100% public 100% visible)
It's wise to use Rust in Security Critical Projects. Please see Google Fuchsia, they follow hybrid approach where critical stuff written in Rust and rest in C++
Yes, but giving nil a default type would be way more confusing.
I think gold makes more sense if you think of wealth as useful largely as a status indicator in the conspicuous consumption sens or peacocking. A gold necklace displays wealth and presumably status in the same way designer clothes or a luxury car does.

Beaver pelts or cars wear down over time though unlike gold, and the amount of crypto one holds is hard to display ostentatiously, at least for now. BAT, Steemit or crypto.com's card colors based on staking amounts seem to be ideas heading in that direction though.
If you're being serious, the safest drugs were the ones sold online using Bitcoin. The Silk Road was actually an unbelievably reliable and safe way to acquire drugs. A system for rating vendors and reporting issues, incredibly competitive market that put pressure on vendors along with delivery right to your home or the closest post office by the USPS instead of having to either meet a dealer in a sketchy part of town or have them come deliver it to you themselves.
The fact that this author repeatedly upholds China as a good example of technological progress is disturbing.
... or the parallel port. A lot of people forget that one.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/linux-console...
Hedge fund fallout wipes over $9B from market value of Credit Suisse
He moved to WA to dodge CA income tax

If he waited for the big check before he made that move, CA will find him - it's not where you live when you got the check, it's where you live when you earned it.
My Bloody Valentine Sign to Domino, Announce full catalogue reissue
I slogged through the tweets and discovered that you can solve the problem by taking a very smart physicist and giving them an intern to do grunt work. Twitter was the best way to give this advice with about 80% of the tweets essentially adding 0 or negative useful information.
I think the most interesting use of NFTs is for ticketing. It allows someone to transfer a ticket to another person in a way that the buyer can verify it's valid, the seller can't also sell it to someone else, and neither needs permission from the original ticketing authority. Particularly as a token of online membership or authority itself.

I think the whole NFT for art thing is probably here to stay but not likely to ever be important to the vast majority of the public that never went shopping in real world art galleries.
Buggy Bluetooth on the other end... Alexa is running Linux, and the Sony is probably some custom bluetooth stack.

Once you move to all Apple bluetooth, things really smooth out. It seems that Apple does way more testing/validating of their Bluetooth stack.
I again find myself in agreement with you. As someone who has thought about this for some time, what's your take on what we actually ought to do about it? Is it simply intractable? Is it that from Odysseus to Bernays, the cunning will always fool the fool?
I have a solution to the energy consumption problem.

Instead of banning Bitcoin completely, just make it illegal for individuals to run cryptocurrency nodes or perform mining operations. In it's place, each government can then run their own cluster of nodes for the general public to use as a cryptocurrency.

This way, the general population has access to cryptocurrency, but government can monitor and control all of the transactions that take place to ensure that no illegal activity arises. In addition, governments could also control the issuance of private and public keys, which means that funds can be easily confiscated in the event of fraudulent behaviour.

Of course, the main issue with this setup is that the nodes will be centralized, and therefore are at a greater risk of physical attack. This can be solved through physical force, which will consume energy in itself, but will be far more efficient than using a globally distributed proof-of-work mechanism for protecting the transaction history of the currency.

Furthermore, in the event that a nation state scale attack takes place to try and undermine the transaction history of the government-run nodes, the force required to protect these ledgers can be scaled up to match it (e.g. war). However, I believe this to be an unlikely scenario, and so the overall cost involved with protecting the cryptocurrency would be less than what is currently consumed by proof-of-work.

In short; instead of using electrical energy to protect the integrity of the currency, we use physical force instead (which will be far more energy-efficient).

To me, this quite clearly solves the energy consumption, without having to perform an outright ban on the technology. This way, everyone benefits.
FWIW, Textmate itself gets pretty frequent updates (latest one was on Feb 25th). It has also been open-sourced[1].

[1] https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Linking to the top level of VAERs and claiming it says something it doesn't is the issue. You also seem to misunderstand the mechanism of action of the various vaccines.
Right. In a lot of ways it's the same principle we're talking about on the web with using `em` units. Give users control (except in this case the layout designer is the user).

I want font designers to be able to define a basic box and baseline for their font, and I want to be able to respect that if I'm just throwing the font onto a page without thinking about it. But I also want to be able to easily override it if I'm mixing fonts, and to be able to override it without manually adjusting a bunch of margins by trial and error that are specific to that font -- margins that will then immediately break if my users sub out their own fonts again.

It's good that we have controls in CSS for stuff like line height, ligatures, character spacing. Having more of those controls would be useful, and having quick options for them that can kind of "standardize" different fonts to all act the same would be very useful.
> a mediocre product

We don't know if the product is mediocre. Good, useful software can have messy underlying code without the user being aware.
With no experimental validation my theory is as good as Freud’s theory for all intents and purposes. Maybe we should be thinking around improving experimental methodology instead? Then we can try to come up with complex theories and test them.
Please don't post generic ideological or nationalistic flamebait to HN. It leads to flamewars. In this case it didn't because the replies were excellent, but alas that is far from the case statistically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
>VPN is so 2010

https://brave.com/firewall-vpn/
Show HN: Kubectl cost – Kubernetes cost metrics via CLI
The "core reason" for cryptocurrency is to provide decentralized trust, albeit at very high cost. "Escaping inflation and control" is not the issue here; the real upside is to provide a baseline of control by market participants where there's currently none, e.g. in places without a functioning financial system.

Cryptocurrency is very niche tech at best, that most people will have zero use for - but it should nonetheless be available. The OP article does not account for this at all, and is thus extremely misguided.
Does anyone know anything better than Fantasy Grounds for managing online pen and paper RPG games?

It's a very clunky and unpleasant UI from my experience with it.
You can't? In what jurisdiction? I dropped ten grand in a mate's (UK) startup a couple of years ago and all we needed was an accountant to formalise the transaction and issue me a share certificate.
Im curious how much it costs to build something like a 12 ft runabout? Both what you charge and material costs?
That's mostly a matter of economic incentives. It's technically possible but it's similar to the idea of a rich person lighting a pile of money on fire.

If a proposal to raise the cap is introduced, price would react negatively, hurting miners, and making it more (relatively) expensive to mine. It's unlikely there is any scenario where it is economically feasible to try to raise the supply cap.
We've had good experience with Insights are a previous company. That said, generic Data Science is somewhat saturated right now in my experience. With a CS degree you should probably look more into the ML Engineering side of it.
Hey HN, I've been working on a CLI for our product for a little while now and I wanted to show it off, particularly because I was inspired by some posts about TUIs to also add a TUI to it! We just made the decision to open source it, let me know what you think!

I'll be around to answer any questions and take feedback. Making good CLI tooling is still a relatively new area for me but I've been diving into it more and more, as I spend a ton of time in a terminal and find CLI tooling so much snappier than browser-based applications.
Ah yes, that's correct. My bad, I confused them with someone else I was also looking at, at the time.
C++ doesn't have "memory safety" and it is a Rust alternative. Stop being pretentious, not every language has to have Rust's borrow checker or whatever its called.
> A lot of consumers are interested in a quality VPN but wouldn't do this kind of research.

In that case, they will probably use NordVPN or ProtonVPN
More likely they want to create an "app store" where they control which versions of each package you install, and when, and how much you pay for them.
Alexa: The Science Must Go On
>Though I'm fairly certain that Linux will forego this and just assumes you known what you're doing.

Yes, even the documentation for the systemd feature implies generating the recovery key is a separate optional step.
Oh come on - you pay taxes, don't you? Either we get rid of money and we live in some kind of wonderland, or we pay for the society and expect it to be serious.

I am very much for a socialist society, like the one we have in France. I am ready to pay, and do it with pleasure, so that people born disabled, or living in poverty have a chance like my children do.

When someone makes the clear decision to have a child that will be disabled then that person must assume that the world will not be running to help them when they realize they have huge expenses. They wanted these expenses so please do not come crying afterwards, though campaigns.

This is very much different from accidents - we need to be solidar here.

This is very similar to people who smoke or eat to become overweight and then cry when comes the operation that costs a fortune.

Sorry - but I want my money to be spent on things that help the ones who need help and did not expect or predict to be in a bad situation. Not the ones who decided to have a disabled child becaise of some shower vision of theirs.
Personally, I think the main problem with ML is simpler: it works well for interpolation, and is crap for extrapolation.

If the outputs you want are well within the bounds of your training data set, ML can do wonders. If they aren't, it'll tell you that in 20 years everyone will be having -0.2 children and all the other species on the planet will start having to birth human babies just so they can be thrown into the smoking pit of bad statistical analysis.
> I didn't look into the details too much, but as far as I can understand it's not clear yet how those antibodies (the ones created against this protein) work, because antibodies are supposed to be used outside of the cells, but the nucleocapsids are only present inside the cells and then inside the virus.

You are correct, the antibodies are made and they end up not recognizing the nucleocapsid protein while it is in the virus but when the infected cell displays internal proteins with MHC I, which helps T-Cells target the infected cell. MHC I displays self and MHC II displays proteins that have been "eaten" by the surveillance cells of the immune system.
I found wireguard tunnels easier to set up in systemd-networkd then NM. systemd-networkd can handle VPNs for at least some use cases.
Whataboutism - why do I see this word so much these days?

Whenever I see it, I notice people are often basically trying shut down an honest comparative analysis by another party.
8GB is low for a dev machine nowadays. Your browser uses 1/2GB, IDE using 1/2GB+ (JetBrains Rider often uses like 4GB for me), then the OS itself, database servers, virtualization overhead (e.g. Docker) and other tools. Easily used up.

16GB is the bare minimum for a dev machine in 2021 IMO. Anything higher than that is 'nice to have' unless you're doing heavy stuff like data analysis, machine learning/AI, games development etc.
I don't think you need a bootcamp. Foundational DS concepts can be self-tough given the right resources (such as Manning's "Data Science Bookcamp" https://www.manning.com/books/data-science-bookcamp)
This sounds like “the ends justify the means” dressed up in pseudo-intellectual verbiage.
Each time Wikipedia does a donation drive they have a thing that says "If everyone who used Wikipedia donated $1, we'd be done in 10 minutes!" (or similar). Yet these drives go on for months. The problem is that only a vanishingly small percentage of users donate.
It's not, but it's still a false equivalent.
The next paragraph they wrote explains this: "Unlike 0 or "", nil does not have a default type. The default type of a constant is the type that it is implicitly converted to when a type is required. For example, "x := 0" declares a new value x with the value 0, but 0 is untyped. Untyped integer constants have a default type of int, so x is given the type int."
I agree that the community should force the companies to do what we want. How do you propose we do that? Is the FSF doing that?
actually 15% sounds about right and normally would be higher this time because of all the printed money. I would of expected something like 35-45%.

Resistant to inflation means that the price increases roughly with the same % as inflation.
Has that been your experience?
But that's what I mean, viruses need to replicate. They do this by injecting their RNA into your cells and hijacking your ribosomes for their replication. So the first viruses would definitely get past your immune system, but the replicated viruses would then be produced by your cells, so they wouldn't have the U->psi replacement that the first generation had. So every subsequent generation of the virus could be fought by your immune system. Effectively giving the virus a head start of one replication cycle. I'm guessing this wouldn't change much. But I'm not a biologist.
More like a quine, isn't it? Pretty impressive.
> mining gold certainly has an environmental impact

Can you quantify the environmental impact of gold mining? How does it compare to the CO2 output of a medium-sized country?
I've tried it a few times when I've been in periods of relative depression, either with the paper 5 minute journal or with the app of the same name. The habit lasts for a week and then fades away as I start to get engaged in life gain. Maybe that would have happened without the journaling, but it's such a low cost exercise and it feels like it makes a difference.