skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's a country's cryptocurrency, then it's not real crypto. We make real crypto because we know we can't trust governments. Ethereum gives us the power to make a program, make it available to everyone, and lock ourselves out of it forever because we know we can't be trusted. This is called trustlessness. Governments will never make a trustless asset because they want special authorities. They'll keep special keys that grant access to functions normal people don't have. We have the technology to do better now. Not using it is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
- 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!

This is a very silly claim considering that 20% of all bitcoin is considered to be "lost" and can't be recovered. Due to the nature of bitcoin this figure should reach 100% eventually (of course this would be a very slow process as long as it has a very high price).

btw I'm not sure if you're aware but you can actually recover salt which was dissolved in water.

Also historically there is no conclusive evidence that salt's use as currency was ever particularly widespread.
Here is a guide around how to develop your own python based collector.

https://learn.netdata.cloud/guides/python-collector
true, but you can use them for organization too.

can you point to a more detailed description of how workspaces in opera work?
There's also Monero which is everything Bitcoin was supposed to be and much more. Why bother trying to fix bitcoin when a solution already exists? There's absolutely no need for this layer 2 stuff.
Ask HN: Anyone with experience with Team Labs (productivity/dev tools)?
This is not a promotion, but rather curiosity about whether the company products are legit.

Recently a swathe of articles has come out about a 19 year-old founder being added into Forbes Asia 30 under 30 list, where it shows that he runs a USD$25m (raised USD$10m) software company Team Labs, formerly known as Codexia Studios, and is getting publicity as he is the youngest in the list, as well as from Singapore. It describes their product as "Its flagship product Xenon helps developers to collaboratively design, build and deploy digital products in the cloud. It has close to 70,000 users.", and their website claims 5k teams and working with companies such as Google, Spotify, Deliveroo, Hilton, AirBnb etc.

Being from Singapore and a SWE, I was curious so was checking out their products. But a cursory search across the tech websites/forums has no mention of the company or their products. They are limiting public sign ups so there is no way to personally test their products.

I understand that their name might not be in public mindspace since they might be B2B focused and in stealth, but given that they are working with some big tech companies, some HN users might have come across them since their tools target the SWE industry.

TBH, I feel like there are some red flags with this company, and also being a busybody, so am just curious to see if anyone has had experience with them.
Available on Windows since 2003. Linux is finally catching up!
> People want to collect bitcoin at current valuations because they are convinced it will become a currency/store of value of the future and hence rise in value

That’s just objectively false, though. Yes, a small group of people collect Bitcoin because they believe it will become a currency and therefore rise in value. But most people who collect Bitcoin think it will rise in value because they see it rising in value.

Occam’s razor, dude.
What you're saying about bitcoin power use is just not true.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-03-04/china-s-inn...
Moon Trees
This is due to new variant B.1.167 that has triple mutation. The variant appeared last December, I think, but surprisingly not much analysis has been done on vaccine effectiveness. This variant spreads far more faster and very likely vaccines have lower efficacy, but still protective enough to escape respirators. I would think this is going to spread elsewhere soon and lower vaccinated areas going to suffer same fate in coming months.
Have been receiving a ton of spam email that makes it through gmails filter also. However, that could also be from the fb breach :)
Most people I know keep less than 3 months of their net worth in currency. The vast majority of their net worth is placed in real estate (largely, their primary residence), stocks, or ETFs. You can make a case about net-present value of future dividends, but the S&P dividend yield is 1.4% -- i.e. less than inflation. So quite literally, every asset they have as a store of wealth is "just HODLing in the hopes that some other buyer will come along who believes it will become (worth more)".

In this light, how is Bitcoin any different?

Note that currency has two functions: store of value (Bitcoin) and medium of exchange (Ethereum? Ripple? Carbon credits? Other?). That we can split these functions should not be surprising. Plus, our modern money system is a fairly new invention and it's clearly being disrupted. Hell, even the idea of an electronic ledger to track stock ownership was only really developed in the 1980s by Cede and the DTC -- and it still takes 2 days to fully settle.
Curia.kiiimo.org
Good article, but it would be worth mentioning IMHO that Snowpack supports webpack and esbuild (supported as the native bundler) for bundling.
Minecraft wasn't marketed as having "every genre", while showing exactly none in their demo videos.

When you design a game you come up with a core game play loop, Minecraft had this, and notch was competent and humble enough to make his game from scratch, and release a MVP people could play.

This game doesn't have a core game play loop so it hides behind nothing burger statements like this.

Whenever someone makes claims that are both grandiose and vague you should take it with a grain of salt.

But do you know what it does have? it doesn't describe in ambiguities? kickstarter rewards, you get pets, and you get to put your name on a billboard, and the more you donate the bigger your name.
And my wife can't find ones small enough to fit her face properly. In her home country masks come in all sizes and shapes, in Europe there seems to be only a single size. At least every type I've looked at is the same size as all the others.
I disagree. The associate department head named in the statement linked it on Twitter, immediately following up his comments with

> I very much welcome feedback from the participants who brought this to our attention: that's why I tagged @gregkh
. Obviously, we would appreciate any guidance as to how we can get the Univ. of Minnesota contribution ban lifted.

This is pretty clearly one of their main interests in moving fast here. https://twitter.com/lorenterveen/status/1384954220705722369
Thanks, I didn't know that background (shame on me for not reading through all the history I guess). Odd decisions appear to have been made here by all parties. Though I was born in Iowa, I grew up in Minnesota and have a lot of friends who went there (Twin Cities campus, mostly).

Definitely not "Minnesota Nice".
just do it relative to some low vol underlier
Yeah but there are quite a lot scheduled, I think from S Korea which should bypass the EU. Also Vietnam signed up for the Russian vaccine. Not sure how that one's going.
> cities like San Francisco give millions of dollars to activist lawyers to help keep these criminals in the US.

This is HN. Please provide evidence of such a claim.

> The activist lawyers and even SF know that these are real criminals but they don’t care.

This is highly speculative. What possible motivation could they have for this?
Yes, it's worse, you are making completely unsupported claims about universal laws governing human knowledge, you are claiming Chomsky is wrong because he's making universal statements which is itself an universal epistemological statement. Do some more armchair philosophizing, it will do you good.
Due to massive population and relatively sparse testing centers available, IMV, numbers might have been off even the first time. Even this time, I think the numbers are far off.

In my home, during the first wave, all family members caught fever. All of us took an antiviral medicine. We were already isolated, in the peak of lockdown. Took all precautions and avoided contact with anyone else. The doctor who we consulted, our regular family doctor, did not recommend for testing and in any case, testing was not easily accessible.

I suspect a lot of such instances are there and the real infection numbers might be around 3 times the reported figures.

If that is true, what is remarkable is the low death rate.
Every currency ever created eventually disappeared. Nothing particularly special about them. The only reason people even bothered using them at all was due to government mandate: businesses are required to accept the local currency and taxes can only be paid using it.

Cryptocurrencies exist in a digital and decentralized world. They will outlast governments.
You say that like it's not important. The fact Bitcoin has become so ubiquitous is an achievement in itself.

A large aspect of currency/store of value/whatever is social/network effects.
3M N95 9210 should be big enough to cover anyone's face, methinks.
An interesting and non-obvious usecase: debugging python code.

Standard debuggers use ptrace to implement breakpoints by replacing instructions in debugged process with the assembly code INT3 (or equivalents). This makes the cpu trap when it reaches that instruction which transfers control to the kernel who pauses the process and notifies the debugger.

This approach doesn't work for Python because there are no native assembly instructions for the Python code - only for the C interpreter.

Most Python debuggers attach to already running processes by injecting a few lines of native code (ptrace on Linux, CreateRemoteThread on Windows) which then bootstraps a new Python thread that actually implements the debugger. (As the linked article mentions, on Linux you can inject code using ptrace today but it isn't the most convenient.)

This is also the trick that tools like pyrasite take to inject python code into running processes.

On that note, if anyone wants to easily debug/profile code running on kubernetes clusters with no prior setup, I'm looking for beta testers for an open source framework my cofounder and I are developing. It enables general application maintenance on kubernetes and not just debugging/profiling, but that's the part we need testers for right now

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_(x86_instruction)
> Part of something like gold is the shared social belief in it as a store of value.

Gold has inherent uses as a precious metal. Bitcoin mining only computes SHA256 hashes for no actual purposes.
Not familiar with RBE in particular, but as a rule alpha/preview services are free.
Nice, thank you for digging these up!
I can’t stress enough how objectively terrible this game looks.
It's not illegal to store cash in a safe deposit box, but some banks have policies which will state that you cannot. Ostensibly over money laundering / illegal asset hiding concerns.

But regardless of policy, it really does not make a whole lot of sense to keep your cash in there. If you just deposit the cash at the counter it's insured through FDIC, in the box it's not.
How about their drug abuse or mental health?
Thanks. That was my thinking but glad to see it confirmed.

Kind of ironic that you’re not allowed to wear an N95 with an exhale valve, but are encouraged to wear a surgical mask, bandana, cloth mask, or dirty T-shirt, none of which provide any source control.

Again, the elephant in the room is respiratory viruses in general, and SARS-2 in particular, spread via aerosols. Non-N95 face coverings cannot block aerosols. Indeed mask wearing leads to deeper breaths to maintain homeostasis (this has been studied), therefore lead to a greater net volume of air, therefore lead to increased aerosol emission before even accounting for the potential to nebulize large droplets into a shower of tiny aerosol particles. But I digress.
Where are you from that FFP2 usage is not common?

Sure, cloth masks were widespread for about a year but by now usage of FFP2 masks is becoming extremely widespread, especially since the supply is by now overwhelming.
Ahh I see what you're saying now. Yes, you can: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/plugins/gdn...

The tutorial starts with C but there is a C++ one as well.

Again though, I would recommend at least trying to compile the engine once. It's simple, reasonably fast and you can extend the engine as much as you like https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/development/cpp/custo...
As a thrifty traveler, I never want to pay the higher price on flight ticket booking or also don’t want to compromise with the pleasure during the journey. But by booking a flight through Cathay Pacific Online Reservation process, I can easily save around 40% on my whole booking.
https://www.flightinfodesk.com/flights/Cathay-Pacific-Airway...
Cloth masks work better than no mask, so they made sense early on when surgical masks couldn't be found. There are certainly better options now though.
I literally shared a link to the part of the code that shows we don't capture and record the ip address in our telemetry. You are being quite disingenuous calling things "spyware".

I do appreciate the opt-in vs opt-out argument and I think on balance if opt-out helps us make this free product better over time and help our users then, so long as there is a clear route for people to opt-out, it's worth it and crucially important.

But this is indeed more like an opinion that individuals might differ on in terms of the pros and cons.

I personally love sending telemetry especially to help make the products I love better :) feels like im giving something back. But that is just my own opinion.
Yeah the rSt markup is pretty idiosyncratic and both anal-retentive and a bit inconsistent (e.g. it can be hard to internalise where it does or does not want blank lines) but Sphinx is an actual document system, having to work with markdown for anything beyond a single file quickly gets painful.
Great advice! I did exactly this and realized a PhD is not for me, yet enjoyed being part of the scene as a developer very much!
That's a nice feature but it doesn't change that for most practical purposes bitcoin is fungable.
Agreed - but contacting the university then, is reasonable?
The result is always an epub/mobi so the source doesn’t really matter.
That's very different from Google deciding to shut down Maps.
I found one with an amazing fit from China that was large enough. Then I googled the name and found out it’s listed under the fake/mislabeled category on the CDC site [0] with filtration efficiency between 8 and 94% (over 2 ten sample test runs):(

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/NonNIOSH...
Pandoc has been one of the best tools I have used and this blogpost is well written
I have exactly the same need (and problem too)! I'll monitor this thread and see if anyone else has any solutions to this.

I really would like not to have node running on my server in order to get SSR! Which effectively means I'll either have to serve entirely static pages and then hydrate them based on some model client side (which isn't server side rendering by any definition of the term), or I have to recreate the entirety of the HTML rendering functionality for my server side in my language of choice. I guess there might not be a way around the second option?
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So? Do you think filesystem metadata is stored in a magical pixie cloud, or on the same unreliable physical hardware where it can easily get corrupted, especially after a crash or an unexpected power loss?

I posted this link here already:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jaffer

f2fs (at least in its state a couple of years ago) is/was a prime example of how a filesystem can get into a barely working state with massive amounts of data and metadata corruption, and not even notice it.

God I love this site. In case of a minor disagreement with someone don't even bother to think, just press "downvote".
There are thousands of other cryptocurrencies that claim to have better tech than Bitcoin in terms of privacy, speed or fees.

This is the case of having a better technology doesn't matter, Bitcoin came at a very lucky time and also grew organically for many years and had arguably the fairest coin distributions (most coins nowadays are shilled very heavily by it's developers and investors). It's also the most secure and well-known.

Because of those things, it'll be very difficult if not impossible to unseat Bitcoin when it comes to store of value/currency. Bitcoin also sees development in form of lightning network. For all other use cases, I think eth covers most bases and has also developed a very large network of users and developers.

So whatever next big crypto project comes needs to be not just "better", but like at least 10x better.
Before Jira, I used Bugzilla, and I much prefer Jira
More excited about the service worker based build system being developed in the emberjs ecosystem. Check it out here - https://github.com/ef4/mho
Yes. In the same way Bitcoin will be worthless if quantum computing or some yet undiscovered technology makes calculating hashes effortless.
Yes, it's known as a euphemism. TFA just took the joke to hilarious extremes with the photos.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fell-off-the-back-of-a-t...
What is trivial to protect against and how? I'm not aware of a general way to prevent an attacker within your user from accessing your process's memory, on any OS, except for a few newer capabilities on Windows, which are also bypassable.
The more this kind of platforms become relevant, the less they work to gain an edge at investing.
> 3D open world / large landscape, and console development.

Will it be a good choice for FPS shooters taking place primarily in closed spaces like buildings, etc?
If you steal only $5 from me, I am still harmed. If you break my computer monitor, then even if I can afford a replacement, I am still harmed.
As far as I can see it does not use SIMD for UTF8 validation, only likely/unlikely instrinsics, see https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs/blob/e98a2096ab09c92...
In Germany, you are required to use surgical or FFP2/(K)N95 masks (in 2 states surgical ones are not allowed) to enter any store. At least in my city, the majority of people wear FFP2 masks.
I might be thinking of something like Programmer Anarchy
> If that is true, what is remarkable is the low death rate.

Not sure what the implied IFR of your scenario is, but FWIW John Ioannidis has the global IFR at .15%. Furthermore SARS-2 is so incredibly age stratified wrt risk (something we conveniently ignore in public health mandates) that non-1st-world countries can have incredibly low death rates since fewer people survive to old age (and there is relatively less prevalence of diseases of modernity). Whereas the data I’ve seen for the increases in global poverty, child starvation, missed medical appointments and missed [non-COVID] vaccinations is staggering. Yet another cost of a one-size-fits-all approach taken across the globe.

Take a look through a dataset of COVID deaths and you’ll notice something that gets lip service but isn’t talked about nearly enough:

https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/widgets/3trz-enys

Diseases of modernity.
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> The only RCT ever performed for self infection of SARS-2 in the community failed to reach significance.

Do condoms work against sexually transmitted diseases? 5 out of 10 RCT studies reported statistically significant effect. Do condoms work against unwanted pregnancy? 0 out of 4 RCT studies reported statistically significant effect.

https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/2/100
I think this surge in India is being underestimated, if anything. It’s impossible to get a place in a hospital right now for love or money in most major Indian cities, not just the states that are reporting high numbers of cases. All states are suffering but some aren’t testing or attributing deaths to Covid.

> A Financial Times analysis also points to under-reporting of deaths. Local news reports for seven districts across the states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar show that while at least 1,833 people are known to have died of Covid-19 in recent days, based mainly on cremations, only 228 have been officially reported. In the Jamnagar district in Gujarat, 100 people died of Covid-19 but only one Covid death was reported.

All those states are run by one party. They are cooking the books so they look good compared to the other parties.
AFAIK neither Unreal nor Unity will frustum cull the triangles of a model out of the box and although both offer some other forms of occlusion culling they also only operate at the whole model level.
We damaged the brake cables mechanics were installing into people's cars to find out if they were really inspecting them properly prior to installation!
Knots I've tied Ian's way are the most taut, precisely because I have no issue applying tension all the way, instead of the old method with switching hands and stuff, where that was impossible.

If you're doing it right, the result is not like keeping a finger on the slipknot - it's better (and simpler, faster and as taut as you want).
Some software (mostly games) attempts to hook things like CreateRemoteThread or abort when they get the dll load/thread start events, but you can always patch those detection hooks to not run before you start your thread
They are also pretty expensive for a single-use product.
Baldur’s Gate 3’s creators talk D&D, turn-based RPGs, dreams coming true (2019)
> But it's also a startup. Don't those usually gather up investment and hire more people?

In the kickstarter they describe their team as: "2 full time devs, 1 part time dev". That's where I got 2-3 person team.

They also say: "If we raise enough, we'll be able to hire an additional full-time engineer to bring you Alpha features even faster!"

So, by their own terms raising an additional team member would seem to be some kind of a stretch goal, and such hiring isn't in their plan for delivering the features they've promised in the timeline they promised.

Yes, if their promise was: "We need to raise a large amount of funding, so that we can hire a medium sized team to build out all of these features" I would be a lot less skeptical. But, from reading their Kickstarter page, that doesn't seem to be what's being promised or proposed.
There is zero blaming happening and I defy you to point to an example. But if some one you encounter is consistently playing tricks on you, why associate with them?
The reasons I buy Bitcoin is to have a SoV that is borderless, unconfiscatable, easy to carry with me and transfer, and which doesn't care about which group is currently running the national monetary policy. Time will tell if this is a good use for it, but so far it looks quite promising.
I looks like we are talking about different things.

So you have a team (i suppose could be just 1) or teams across few time zones.

Each team should deploy in a way that they have people ready to fix thing if they go bad.

You can do that by having large enough team in similar timezomes (+/- 2-3 hr), or by paying extra for having people on standby at 1am.

My personal opinion is that having large enough team (again could just be 1 guy) in similar time zone is preferable.

Bottom line is, deploying new stuff is always risky. That's why people spend so much time trying to reduce this risk (various test, CI, staged rollout ...). And sometimes all of that still fails, and you need people to either rollback or fix it on the spot.