skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t the iMac Pro have no bezels instead of black bezels? That would be congruent with having 27" instead of 21".
As if Windows on ARM wasn't experimental enough... Linux (GUI apps) on Windows on ARM is quite the edge case. Best of luck though!
Read about Celo or Stellar.

I'm not trying to hype you up, but I think that there's a lot of utility happening outside of your bubble. Some of that happens in countries you don't live in, other use cases appear between banking systems which remain opaque to you.
That's not the same as "no utility".
I think you actually agree with what I'm saying... which is that discarding the histogram and e.g. just collecting the 90%ile will leave you unable to do the analysis you want.
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..and yet people still give this the benefit of the doubt. It’s so clearly a scam in every sense of the word.
Despite probably being correct in their sentiment, I think the attack on the team of "ragtag nobodies" is a bit out of order. I'm sure many of the world's best programmers are "nobodies".
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So let's lay down what's happened here:

1) Company proves there's a market for the product with collecting revenue with the equivalent of a slideshow

2) Raises VC money to actually build the product (Kickstarter page claims: "We know MMOs cannot be built with just $10K. We've secured the majority of our funding from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley. We know that we'll be able to deliver our Alpha and beyond with the money we already have!")

What exactly makes this different to any other Silicon Valley high risk bet?
Here's a question: how many people do you know that buy crypto intend to spend it? You know, use it like currency? Or are they all just HODLing in the hopes that some other buyer will come along who believes it will become a medium of exchange?

In my view, it's not a currency until people stop speculating and start using it like a currency.

So yes, it's a collectible with ridiculously high transaction costs that make it difficult for me to use as a currency.
Anecdotally, I am seeing a number of vaccinated people in my circles getting infected and having moderately severe disease. Also, with the scale of infections we will probably see more mutants that may escape immunity. Brace for worse news.
Sounds highly reminiscent of the Military's way of handing out promotions.
But does banning something do anything different? Say the USA bans Bitcoin mining due to concerns about its energy use. That doesn’t stop mining in China or elsewhere. On top of that the US now needs to set up an invasive investigation system for enforcing the ban within its own borders.

Applies just as well to YouTube cat videos or any other poor use of energy in the digital realm. Banning YouTube in the USA doesn’t mean that China won’t have data centers streaming cat videos to the USA.

Instead if the USA really was concerned about efficient use of energy and capturing the externalities it could extremely easily (in the scheme of things) work out a better pricing mechanism such as a CO2 tax, and implement it. If it were serious it would also be able to find many willing allies in Europe and elsewhere that would sign up to a multilateral treaty.
Yikes!

That sounds like it has "vendor lock-in" written all over it.
Sorry, but this strikes me as classic hindsight fallacy. Here's Fred Wilson in 2011: https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/, and the original email thread between him and PG from 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html. PG went all the way to using an exclamation mark (has there ever been another?) and even that wasn't enough.

Anyone who thinks VCs would have been happy to fund a Couchsurfing knock-off in 2008 is looking at this history through many filters, for example the fact that startup fundraising became much easier in the subsequent decade.
Isn't life in prison practically taking someone else's life? Would you even need that strong of an incentive to reduce the occurrence?
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Slots are a machine, right? Ok fine it's a bad joke. Just a reminder that:

1) everyone makes money in a bull market

2) bull markets don't last forever

3) this app is as useless as technical analysis

stay safe and have fun out there
I completely agree, trying to solve these kind of issues with morals really doesn't scale well at all. It's much better to just let people be greedy but put in place a system of taxation and economic incentives to guide the desired outcomes.
Has anyone found a faster way than Webpack/babel to build a react / typescript SPA that needs to stay compatible with IE11?

I've been experimenting with esbuild but it doesn't support IE11/ES5 and adding babel into the mix makes things slow and complicated again...
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iMac 2013: Simply adjusting the screen yanks the cable off. iMac 2021: Can’t wait to lose my work. It makes so much sense on a Macbook where there is a battery to take over.
Buying and selling and using marijuana in Colorado is pretty safe these days.

Two decades you could've been arrested, in gang violence among different gangs selling drugs, etc... because of "black market"...

If someone is already a prostitute by choice and not trafficked/etc they have a higher than normal chance of being murdered by serial killers... I think one third of serial killers have targeted prostitutes.

It may be bad, dehumanizing but so is just throwing them to the serial killers...at least making it legal allows for some sun to shine on the industry and for related services/industries to spring up like protection services to keep track of where they are and if they don't check in send out someone to check, etc...

It also makes the trafficking and dirtier/seedier sides of things easier to police because those are the only things to police now, and if someone is hiding something then they're probably not legit/legal.
> That works out to 1 out of 570 people that have died of covid. Mostly older and less healthy folks.

Your assumption is that what the USA went through, with the shutdowns is the worst-case scenario. I posit that it is not - things could have been far worse in terms of death, as well as second- and third-order effects on the economy, jobs and food security.
A lot of "real" currencies – backed by governments with guns – have disappeared in the past, simply because people stopped believing in them.
Hi all,

this is my passion project. I was unable to find nice SQL client for Linux, so I created it on myself. I have created proprietary SQL client for Windows in past, so this app is influenced by experiences from this work. Recently I have added support also for noSQL, MongoDB.

It's built on Electron using Svelte. Although Electron apps tends to be clumsy, partly thanks to Svelte framework is the app fast enough.

It's open source (MIT), cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows), or can be run as web-based application in browser.
Hope it could be useful also for others.
This comment jogged my memory about reading something about a NASA funded experiment in the 1960s to communicate with dolphins.

Essentially a woman, Margaret Lovett, literally lived in a watery house with three dolphins for several months.

Apparently things did not end well.

Here's the article I read about it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolp...

Perhaps, fifty years later, we might go about things differently.
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With $10K you can probably make a nice single player RPG Maker game :D.
It's not a problem of existence of rainbow table or not salted, but the problem is that hash is not very meaningful for secret on small space, like phone number (something like 10^13 even larger?).
Every bitcoin transaction happening online today is brokered by the same payments processors who decide that your credit card is committing fraud.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040202024941/http://www.micros...

Also while this image https://i.redd.it/c4izfrkd4jl61.png is obviously just a meme (before we even called them memes) it really does grasp the messaging from Microsoft about Linux around the turn of the century. Dating the meme is easy, that's a first gen iMac visibly. https://i2.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/b...

Those were not happy years.
I’ve been looking for a Magic Mouse replacement with cable, but I can’t find any with horizontal scrolling.

Does anyone know any?
Just recently I was looking into making bets on polymarket - a prediction market that uses Ethereum and advertises zero fees. I happened to have a bit of eth from a while back but I was dismayed to find out that the transfer fee, seemingly to move any amount of eth into polymarket, was something like a flat 50 dollar equivalent. I just wanted to bet with a few hundred dollars, and having to spend 50 of that just to get started felt unfun.
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thought this should be developed into a full web app not just a google docs template. what do you all think?
> If abused, it will simply be removed.

Given what the Linux kernel runs these days, that would probably be advisable. (I'm a strong proponent of anonymity, but I also have a preference that my devices not be actively sabotaged.)

> we're entering the territory of fraud and cybercrime

So what? The fact that it's illegal doesn't nullify the threat. For that matter, it's not even a crime if a state agency is the perpetrator. These researchers drew attention to a huge (IMO) security issue. They should be thanked and the attack vector carefully examined.
There are plenty of people who do pay attention to parrots. I'm sure they will tell the rest of us when the parrots got anything interesting to say.
The best argument against GCP is indeed the unpredictability with which Google turns down services. On the other hand you have Microsoft which still supports - let me give an extreme example - Silverlight (!). If Silverlight would be a Google product, all support would have ended years ago.
Static salt is called pepper [1]. It's not a bad idea - but it would be better used with the regular salt.

Some people don't seem to like the idea, but I think it adds an easy additional layer of protection. At least in the past many of the password leaks seemed to be due SQL injections and only leaking the database content. Pepper stored in the code would have protected the passwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)
Congratulations to the author on missing that it's possible to swap tokens with DeFI, that bitcoin is one of the most liquid instruments in the world, and that Bitcoin isn't competing with cash: it's competing with a ledger entry at a bank that can go bust denominated in a currency that can be printed at will.

(Leaving aside 3-10% fx conversion fees, ACH delays, wire deadlines, and more that prevent "dollars" from being a useful international or digitally transferable form of "money")

But otherwise good take circa 2010 ;)
No it doesn’t. The appeal of index funds is that they are perfectly average. Sure, beating the index every year is a challenge, but who cares about that? The game is making money turn into more money, not trying to get 1% more than the S&P for everyone except fund managers. Beating the index by a massive amount once pays for all the times you underperform it.

Not to mention: hedge funds have beat the market very consistently for decades (before fees), starting a new job is often a higher roi, real estate has a higher sharpe ratio over the last 100 years, private equity has a higher return before fees for decades, venture capital has beat the market consistently, starting a business frequently has a higher or even much higher roi, all these especially in absolute terms (nobody rich before 50 got that way from index fund returns).

To say “the index beats the active traders”, or that active traders lose everytime, or that it’s impossible to beat the market is just 1. Not relevant because it’s a vanity metric on its face, 2. Not strictly correct. It’s just said by people who want to convince themselves that the dominant strategy in investing also happens to be the easiest one for them. Index funds are about average returns - and thats ok! That’s probably best for any investor not looking to put in serious time or effort, but it’s certainly not the best strategy for maximizing returns (in fact, there are literally infinite strategies that have consistently beat the market on average for the entire duration of the exchange that don’t have foresight or overfit). The index itself is arbitrary: rank order the public equities by revenue, then select the top 500 and weight them by market cap. For the total market: you still chop off the companies that aren’t public arbitrarily, you still weight by market cap (why not volume? Why not weighted trade volume which correlated better with prices?).

As a parting note on this rant: the efficient market hypothesis is about determining fair value is an open system with minimal barriers and motivated rational players playing by the same rules with instantaneous info propagation. Do we all play by the same rules? Do we all have the same barriers? Are we all rational players? Is info propagated instantly? Are these values true enough? The market is efficient - except when it isn’t. Plenty of people succeed in business when the efficient market should have meant there was no opportunity for them, plenty get rich on trades when the efficient market says that trade shouldn’t exist. It’s paradoxical that the market can be perfectly efficient and those could be true, because even tiny risk-free profits should be consistently and equally arbitraged out of existence immediately. That just doesn’t describe our world.
One use case is Hedera Hashgraph, used by an NGO that built a decentralized early warning system for airstrikes in Syria [1]. There are many other large corporate users of the technology for decentralized consensus purposes. Crypto has already moved beyond currency/collectibles.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNE7oTJcOnE

https://hedera.com/consensus-service
This type of article makes me curious, for things like national statistics, do suicide rates get adjusted for the percent of drug overdoses and accidental deaths that are estimated to be actually suicides?
Out of curiosity, as I do not know enough details:

1. Alice owns one BTC

2. Bob owns one BTC

3. Both send their BTC to Charlie

4. Charlie sends one BTC to David

Question: Is there unambiguous way to define whether David got the BTC originally owned by Alice or the one owned by Bob? If yes, how? If no, doesn't that mean that there exist no specific bitcoins anywhere?
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This runs very much counter to my intuitions. I would have expected suicide rates to correlate very strongly with depression rates, which have increased sharply. I would think also that a world which reinforces depression would push those close to suicide over the edge.

Suicide might be a more hot-blooded reaction to events, which isn't triggered by the blah nothingness of this pandemic.

Or it might be the result of a slow burn and won't appear until this year's data.

I'd be interested in other speculation on how my model or the measurement might be wrong.
Gcp is not profitable. It’s burning billions per year.

Google can’t keep that up forever. It killed plenty of other cash burning projects.
> I burned through $300 for a simple vm on GCP in a few weeks because their cheapest instances are so expensive

How'd you manage that? My bill is always super lower every month.
I think baseball card collecting has been in decline for a while. That said, a lot of baseball card collectors get started as kids (remember in Moneyball when it's called "the children's game?"), then when they're 30-50 and have money, they buy cards from their childhood they always wanted. The generational dynamic of bitcoin and baseball cards is different, but ideas like a fixed number of cards in existence, some get discovered, some lost, and how price is arbitrary and only tied to supply and demand match well.
Spending money without automated fraud checking, dispute resolution and the ability to do chargeback sounds like a great idea until you think for more than 2 seconds about why those things exist.

And I’m not sure why I would want to maintain two currencies anyway, one for small payments where for some reason I don’t want protection, and another when I do want protection. Having to hold multiple currencies dependent on what I want the level of dispute resolution to be sounds like a huge step back.

The main risk isn’t that someone wants to reverse a coffee, it’s that their whole wallet gets stolen.
Unlike Bitcoin, the Snapchat data centre isn't designed to waste as much electricity as fast as it possibly can. Bitcoin is designed to be wasteful, so don't be surprised if people takes issue with that.
diffie-hellman key change for anyone:

given large prime p, some a, some b:

1. A = g^a mod p

2. B = g^b mod p

3. exchange A,B

4. B^a mod p = (g^b)^a mod p = (g^a)^b mod p = A^b mod p is the shared key.

the end
Try to implement a website without React or Angular/Vue.

When you hit your first list of elements and need to rerender the contents of just one of the elements, you will begin writing your own React.

If you try to implement some kind of "two way databinding", you will first create React, then create Angular.

However, unreadable and disorganised code can be written at any abstraction level. I have found React projects to be particularly hideous due to the fixation engineers have for tools like Redux.

Angular tends to be a bit better because it's got some decent software design principles built in - but you know front end engineers. Any project with ngrx is a write off from an readability perspective.

Isomorphic applications are also a meme that kill readability.

I write most of my personal projects using Preact and some kind of reactivity helper (RIP `Object.observe`, I grieve for you).
The problem with Bitcoin is it is a horrible currency. It’s slow and it doesn’t scale beyond a few transactions a second.

I’ve been following Bitcoin for more than seven years and absolutely nothing about it has fundamentally changed. It has always been a “currency” majority owned by dodgy shadowy characters. It’s always been slow. It’s always been unscalable (by design!). It has always been a get rich quick pyramid scheme.

It doesn’t matter what its USD value is. It’s a scam. Always was, always will be.
Personally, I'll start spending it when it's value stabilizes and that won't happen until it either "wins" as in becomes the global reserve currency or "loses" as in becomes worthless.

If it were to freeze at it's current price, it would only be able to power a very small economy of 1T$, that's nothing considering it's borderless and digital.
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I’ve basically come to believe the argument described in the following is true: https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti...

Bitcoin isn’t a cash competitor, it’s a gold competitor - and it’s a pretty good one.

Part of something like gold is the shared social belief in it as a store of value. Bitcoin has this and there’s enough time and infrastructure behind it at this point that I’d bet it’s likely to keep it.

That plus its scarcity guarantee and disconnect from the federal monetary policy of any one country or bank makes me bullish on its future in the long term.

I’m also bullish on ethereum, but for different reasons.
No amount of money can replace the decades they took away from him.
I love this comment.

Thanks, dang.
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I feel like beating a dead horse, but there's tons of L2 technologies at this point, lightning payment channels or rollups on eth, etc. The blockchain itself is like a settlement layer.

Our current financial system is also layered similarly btw. When you buy something with your credit card, it doesn't settle right away.
> "Was it really that hard a leap?" - yes it was. That it seems otherwise now is pure hindsight fallacy.

Not diminishing building an $xx billion dollar unicorn, but I think the poster has a point about couch surfing.

Couch surfing really was one of those beloved and deeply embraced communities that also had that early underground internet feel to it. I don’t think it’s fair to say taking couchsurfer.com and the concept more generally and commercializing backed by vc money is hindsight fallacy, even if pg didn’t like the idea when YC funded Airbnb.

Now if the concept and strong organic community it inspired didn’t previously exist then I’m totally on board with your sentiment. But maybe I’m wrong too and Airbnb bears no relation or resemblance to couch surfing before it.

Edit: read the email thread you linked too, in it also confirms within the VC debate the old guys didn’t get it while the young guys did. This may be why the poster felt it was relevant to use the adjective “rich”, older or more established VCs were less likely to be or know couchsurfers. The other thing the vc noted were the Airbnb customers were already listing on multiple marketplaces.
This article is knocking down a squadron of strawmen. First off, bitcoins key attribute is not “privacy” but censorship resistance. It’s why wikileaks has been able to keep operating all these years after being cancelled by the mainstream payments industry. Not to mention many smaller, politically oppressed activist organizations, and much of the marijuana industry.

Secondly, the attributes of money are, according to Rothbard from memory:

- hard to counterfeit: bitcoin has this better than anything else.

- a store of value (not price stability.): It’s doing this great, just don’t buy late in the post halvining revaluation period. (Bitcoin haters don't seem to know the halvening exists. Bitcoiners are not worried about “price stability”.)

- divisible: down to 1/100,000,000 of a bitcoin, further possible with lightning. This rnables micro transactions.

- immune to spoilage: bitcoin can’t dissolve in water like salt (a previous form of money) and is quite robust, and can be backed up!

- easy to transport: bitcoin can be stored in any number of ways, more portable than paper money even.

- fungible: bitcoin is pretty fungible, but anti-freedom forces are trying to change that.

- liquid: bitcoin is extremely liquid with a global exchange network and ATMs all over and multiple p2p exchange services like localbitcoins.com to serve even places like the Sudan. Is paypal easy to use in the Sudan?
Bitcoin is a more liquid form if money than anything other than the US Dollar and is competitive even there.

What bitcoin IS NOT, is a collectible like baseball cards. Baseball cards are absolutely not fungible— that is what makes them collectible! A babe ruth rookie card in mint is worth a lot more than last years random rookie card.

The author of this piece doesn’t understand what money is, or why bitcoin is the way it is, which means they haven’t done basic research.

I understand, certain people really hate bitcoin— and for good reason. Bitcoin will eventually obsolete the fiat inflation system which has created the wealth inequality in much of the world. The system that lets politicians buy power and escape responsibility for violating rights.

Bitcoin destroys the number one tool of human oppression.

A tool which, by the way, paid money to indoctrinate people into beliefs that result in them hating bitcoin.

But bitcoin isn’t alive. The hate doesn't affect it. Bitcoin is a well constructed set of incentives.

Embrace or ignore, your choice.
> If people would stop believing the myth

imagine if tomorrow, we suddenly find ourselves mining gold from asteroids, and that gold suddenly became super-abundant. Would the price of gold drop to match just the material usage value (e.g., for jewellery and electronics)?