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I built a bot that will post top stories from Hacker News; Trending articles from TechCrunch, Dev.to, Hashnode.com, Medium, Daily.Dev, Finshots; and top hunts from ProductHunt; to the Box Piper's twitter account, https://twitter.com/boxpiperapp.

The intent is to save time(especially mine) that we usually waste on twitter feeds and also while searching for articles on all the different platforms.

What if we can get all the trending posts, stories and articles directly in our twitter feeds and save our time?

A humble attempt to do interesting stuffs with Twitter Bot and my twitter feeds useful.

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Bitcoins’ biggest strength is also its weakness: anonymity.

It only takes a few bad actors to do something nefarious for the US to ban it. After the ban Bitcoin might still continue to exist but it won’t be institutionalized and so it will loose it’s appeal.

Also, for people who think the US does not have the power to ban it, see this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act#Litigation_...
Ray Dalio totally right on this
It's a reply at this part of GP's comment:

>So if miners started returning higher yields we would output a larger hash rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
I assume you mean storage space. There you run into the same problem if you scale the system. The proof still needs scarcity in whatever storage is made of.

For many natural resources, the local concentration is key to viability. See phosphorus, or helium depletion. Once the reserves are gone, we cannot maintain our scale of production, as alternative extraction usually is too energy intensive to scale. Please consider this on an interdependent scope, where it all comes down to burning through the geological work of millennia as the fundamental ressource. 500 years ago, people were already hitting the limits of ecological sustainability where they settled and back then all of earth was home to something like 500 million people.

Maintaining just the food production for 7 billion humans is gonna be an overbearing challenge the next years. Anarchocapitalist delusions have no future.
“For Level III data, only Mastercard® and Visa® corporate, purchasing, and fleet cards can qualify.”

So consumer credit cards can’t get this.
yes, no doubt

best would be to install u-block itself? possible somehow?
> "Kill it before it lays eggs." but do we worry about what evolves from this if it dies?

Nothing really evolves here - status quo is what stays. You continue to be tracked head to arse on everyones servers, the media keeps adding 150 trackers to every webpage and the internet moves on.

Thinking that one of the biggest profit making industries in US will just go away if you scream loud enough on HN is utterly naive and will require a better push. This approach is inherently negative and just STOPS a process - but it doesn't IMPROVE on the current state and that will require more work.

I'm not quite sure what that work would be though - it seems that current approach is "this gigantic multibillon industry must be banned and completely destroyed" which is great on a personal level, but I don't feel like it's realistic on a purely political level.
This reply is basically a shitpost. You asked for a source and got it, and then complained it wasn't good enough. The linked article actually sources from a local news report. Where's your evidence that this report is incorrect?
Well it makes sense in this particular use-case. Voltaren is an arthritis pain relief gel. This is something you will continue to need and would rather buy online instead of walking to a chemist when your joints are not in great shape.
You pay ahead, and if you don't make the cliff, or if you leave after the 1 year cliff but before the full 4 year vest, you get the shares you vested, and a refund of the cash that didn't end up buying the rest.
I'm ex-Amazon. I was forced to stack rank my team, even if it made no sense on a small team and against my severe pushback. I also know plenty of current employees who can corroborate this was happening.
> I still cannot understand how crypto advocates genuinely think governments will roll over and let cryptocurrencies take away one of the primary powers of the state

They'll not rollover. But it'll happen in two ways: 1. They don't understand it (never underestimate the stupidity of politicians and regulators) and thus they'll either allow it or not know how to stop it; or 2. Crypto is widespread and the government has little control over on-off ramps. It doesn't help that crypto-currencies wreak havoc on their economy stability (which further makes them unable to control the population).
I don’t think Google linked the account directly to the purchase. My guess would be that Google linked the account to the medication based on patterns from one of its many ways it gathers data.

* visits to websites about that medication

* visits to websites talking about symptoms for which the medication helps

* searches for the above

* I would not be surprised if Google picks up interests from other accounts using the same WiFi (or even other devices on close proximity)

* there are some scary stories about Google/FB/Amazon listening to conversations
Lol. No. You can comply with HIPAA and “anonymize” in a manner that a marketer can use to retarget, especially by combining with other data sources.

HIPAA protects you against receptionists gossiping and wholesale release of your records. Not much else.

When your doctor writes a script, that data is in the hands of a data aggregation company before your pharmacist looks at it. Every pharma rep has a report card for each doctors prescription practices as a result.

Insurance companies and others sell claim data in aggregate and so do downstream partners like subrogation services. Some states even shared Medicaid claim data to aid in targeting ads and analysis to fight opioid abuse.
I generally can't think coherently if I'm doing a 9mph interval for a short time (this is 170-180bpm heart rate territory for me) but I actually prefer that mental state. I wish I could get that same mindset at my lower speed (5-6mph) because the time melts away. It feels like a flow state in a good way but with no focus.
"WordPress is 41% of the web"

This blows my mind every time. Even though I know it.
I would love for a Civilization (or Beyond Earth) to get simultaneous mode multiplayer that works better. It's too easy to be fiddling around with something and accidentally delay the turn, or somehow trigger a resync, and I lack the patience to play sequential turns with humans.
Parker Solar Probe sees Venus orbital dust ring in first complete view
> and not backed by anything permanent like a government

I agree with the overall point, but I'd add that the difference is the degree of permanence.

Not all governments are so permanent, and some are arguably less permanent at the moment than the big crypto schemes.

In addition, let's not forget for many of the original BTC enthusiasts, the purpose of BTC wasn't for it to be an asset class, but rather:

- A direct challenge to the dominance and reserve currency status of USD and the government and agencies that back it.

- A medium of exchange that the US government could not control.

These anarcho-capitalist goals have been greatly diminished as BTC becomes more of a regular asset class.

Anecdotally, I've heard many small scale investors (portfolios in the 5-10 million range) who are happy about these changes in BTC.
Indeed. It is not Debian's fight, so not participating in it is the most mature and reasonable option.
We had no buyers agent in Australia, only a seller's agent. Buying a house in the US is unnecessarily complicated.
What do you mean? They are widely used, which seems far from dead. Aren’t you declaring victory too early?
This is true: the internet could easily be shut down, at least in the US, by the federal government, and hopefully not anyone else. All they would have to do is go to each ASN, find the BGP instance, and physical shut that box off, or order ISPs do to it themself. The ISPs could run, but without talking to each other, there is effectively no "internet".

There are other things, like shutting off some exchange points/fiber optic network that would have a serious regional effect as well. It's all very possible to do.
Camp Century
Camp Century was nuclear power research base in Greenland and was a cover-up for a Project Iceworm whose end goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. This video shows the audacity of this project in 1960 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28NYczAuXl4). It was ultimately abandoned as ice conditions were not as stable as initially projected. Nuclear waste and Biohazard created by this site has become an environmental concern with the melting of the ice sheet.
Be careful, websockets are tricky to secure and get right. It's easy to do something like forget to check the origin and now you've opened up a whole class of cross-site websocket scripting attacks. I love the idea of easy access and nice UI to prod machines, but put it behind a secure proxy or VPN layer and not facing the public internet.
Working any number of hours isn't "normal", it's a trade off between free time and money (for example, colleagues who work part time in order to sleep late) and a consequence of social pressure (e.g. competitive attitude) and practical constraints (e.g. keeping a shop open at constant and useful hours).

In some cases people want to work, to some extent, because their job is more pleasant than their free time activities, but it cannot be considered "normal".
If added as a security patch, lot of websites will auto update.
It's a lot like this Order Of Operations quizes that make it around social media, with people who don't quite understand Order of Operations getting the wrong answer.

The obvious answer every engineer understands, as soon as it gets complex to work out the Order Of Operations, you make it explicit by adding parenthesis everywhere. Same thing with JS, once you have a chance for some of this weird behavior to show up, you make sure the types make sense.
I don't know how many times I internally chuckle when I glance at the clock some time before I go to bed and it's "21:12"; a meaningful number to me as the "2112" album and the band Rush was a big part of my youth.

That, and I tend to go to bed between 21:00 and 22:00. But I don't attribute it to anything but me being in a position to look at the clock around that time, and I haven't wondered if I see it any more than 21:09 or 21:30. Would be an interesting histogram, if nothing else.
It’s a better proxy than burgs. Also, the definition implies that the firearm was used defensively, that is, it’s presence helped avoid a deadly confrontation
Sure, please tell me more about it; I'd like to know what in particular can be fixed in it to make it better. I already know that you're dissatisfied with it and you're up for getting personal at me, but I think that I'll need more details to ensure that whatever is wrong with this edition of the book doesn't get replicated in the future.
It depends on how long ago the previous retarget is and the current hashrate. The retarget is based on blocks, so if the retarget was 1008 blocks ago, but hashrate dropped by 50%, then it'll take 2 weeks until the next retarget.

There's a chart here with the current estimates: https://fork.lol/pow/retarget
You typed all of that just for him to ignore it
Thanks everyone, much appreciated :).
The HN community takes a grotesque pride in striving for imagined middle ground or pointless sophistry, so I'm here to take a singular position to counter that collective absurdity.

Devs aren't loot crates.

More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854038
I don’t know it. Where did you learn it?
The cat's out of the bag now. Cryptocurrencies will kept being used in tyrannical regimes even if under wraps, and governments will try to rein in to keep them under "control" in the rest of the world, but they're very much here to stay.

I expect stronger condemnation towards "anonymous" cryptocurrencies (Monero, Zcash et al) and making onboarding/offboarding for them more difficult, but that's about it.
fallacy fallacy
Surely that depends on what their experience using it is, just like every other "winning" browser before that is no longer winning? If FLoC generates so much hostility within the web dev community that a few major sites/platforms start actively blocking it, and if Google responds by ignoring the opt-outs in Chrome, and if the community responds with a SOPA-like "no access using Chrome for the next 48 hours then, here are some other fine browsers you can use instead that don't invade your privacy in this way", Google will simply be outgunned. However, you probably need platforms on the scale of WP and/or some sites with huge audiences like Facebook/Wikipedia/Netflix/Reddit to be on board for the effect to be fast and powerful enough to make a difference.
For me, cycling to and from work helped me eat less, in the sense that I wasn't hungry while cycling and for at least half an hour afterwards.

So I could skip breakfast, jump on the bike, and then have a late-breakfast/early lunch at work. At the end of the work day I'd start to get hungry, but then I'd jump on the bike and when I got home I still had time to make and eat dinner before the raging hunger kicked in.

This helped me skip an entire meal per day, which made things a lot easier for me.

Maybe I'm just weird that way though.
"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion."

I would say the vast majority of these principles are more associated with today's Republican party than today's Democrat party. I think two that might trip people up are "gender equality," and "racial equality," because the Democrats are the ones typically arguing for things approximating reparative justice/affirmative action/quotas, etc, but that is rather classified as "equity" rather than "equality." Equality, in the liberal sense, means equality before the law. Obviously reparative justice/affirmative action/quotas are the near opposite of equality before the law.

Internationalism and free trade are the two remaining principles that I wouldn't associate or disassociate with Republicans or Democrats, it basically just depends on what faction within the party. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are both against free trade, and more interested in prioritizing national workers over international trade. You also have free trade globalist types in either party.
As always: Reasonable and thoughtful beats all alternatives.
The word you're looking for is "legal".

It's legal. It's illegitimate but legal.
> But, this particular story has been repeated so many times around me that I am genuinely suspicious

So, one meta-step up in abstraction? People "notice" these these things which they talk about and now you're especially sensitive to hearing them?
If the company is half way to a big IPO, then any new hire is no longer "super early," and the advice doesn't pertain.
You'll need oil companies and OPAC countries to plan such a thing. A single (or few) players don't have the financial means for such a conspiracy.
> there is nothing preventing the same happening to those who deeply believe in crypto

The difference is that Bitcoin now has billionaires and multinational companies that have it on their books. Money talks, and government officials in democracies are unlikely to make a move that will rock their donors too much.
In my view, a person making a claim—especially one stating there is “evidence” of this— that a group of people have improper motives in contradiction to the default-held position that their motives are generally good bears the burden of persuasion.

It is one thing to claim that we are passing laws in good faith that end up not working as well as we hoped. It’s quite another make unsubstantiated claims that people are acting in bad faith.
Inefficiently though.

Electric heaters are only 100% efficient at turning electricity to heat. We can do a lot better than that
Many thanks for the explanations.
Is a wireless repeater for USB not technically possible? There are so many use cases for that I’m always puzzled it hasn’t been done yet.
I also got a little nauseous by glimpsing at the logo :)
> I was specifically referring to your claim that lawmakers don't care about victims in a meaningfully helpful way.

Lawmakers were warned that shuttering Backpage would harm LEO efforts to rescue trafficking victims and they passed SESTA/FOSTA anyway.

The law has been used exactly one time.

> I was specifically referring to your claim that They absolutely crave the power/cash that anti-trafficking rhetoric brings

Is your assertion that lawmakers do not crave the power/cash that comes with anti-traffic rhetoric? If so, why do you believe that?

> TechDirt isn’t exactly a reputable, well-researched newsgathering organization.

That's an interesting opinion about one of the few news orgs that actively documents their analysis in every article (inc court filings), consistently targets all administrations (inc popular ones) - and (unlike most news orgs) isn't at all known for parroting Gov/Corp/LEO PR w/o contextual or historical analysis.

> Genuinely curious, not crapposting.

okay
Just to be clear: if running is "intense exercise" that means you're doing it wrong, and you will have a much better time of it if you slow down to easy conversational pace. (People usually use the run-walk method to develop such a pace in the beginning.) The thing about exercise and human biology is that there is some room for subjective statements, but not that much room. I, for one, find it quite pleasant about exercise that it doesn't matter how it makes me feel temporarily, that it works so long as I do the right thing.
>The parks were intended to be natural cathedrals: protected landscapes where people could worship the sublime.

That reminds me of a story my friend from the UK told me. A native American youngster is taken to a cathedral, and when he asked what the purpose of the building is his guide told him that it was for worshipping. The child then led the guide out into the wilderness to a very majestic scene, and told the guide "this is where we worship."
It is possible but I won't add an ad block because every year people lose billions of dollars because of add block and sometime ads are are useful.
Many have tried. Steve Gibson (of GRC fame) did some wiresharking around one of his Amazon devices and found no abnormal networking traffic when he was talking to it, vs not.
Any port in a storm when you live in a country with zero trust towards your own legal tender.
Ok, but what about SMS, MMS, phone calls, getting your approximate position, ...?
What if they decided to shut down the whole network because of some reason? Then https wont help you.
I think this is starting to get to the level of a moral panic. I respect that these developers think FLoC is bad, but what does it have to do with the WordPress project?
Many thanks for the explanation. If the product is built using different tech from what you want to use then a rewrite does make a lot of sense.
Awesome work! Towards the end, José hits on a couple points that Jupyter does not do well:

- Minute 25: Saved notebook is readable (markdown)
- Minute 23: Live collaborate on a single notebook
- Minute 22: Visual indication that cell is stale after an upstream cell changes
If energy is portable, sure. If not, then it might make sense to mine where energy is abundant and not put to better use. Eg plant a satellite with solar cells close to the sun just to do crypto currency mining? Maybe not crypto, but perhaps some other computations that don’t require too much bandwidth to transmit results.
I don't want people even competitors to steal my intellectual property so making job of those reverse engineers harder is a feature not a bug.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26831162
I love the concept of Bitcoin but I can't help but notice that its effects on the world seem to be more negative than positive. Wasting power, supporting immoral enterprises, malware mining attacks, and the decimation of the GPU market. Like yay eff the government but I want to be able to buy a damn graphics card.
Ironically they risk more by doing nothing.
> Most people don’t see completely irrelevant Facebook ads.

Most people don't NOTICE the ones that are, either.
No scheme besides proof-of-work provides the same security guarantees as proof-of-work. Proof-of-stake, the most popular alternative, is vulnerable to attacks like “grinding” because casting conflicting votes doesn’t cost anything. The end result is a much less secure cryptosystem. Attempts to address this are still under active research, and may not be possible at all.
As what % of ads that are unrelated to anything they talked about?
But if the people decide they want none of it, they can vote for a government that will put people in jail for using crypto in the open. I mean, some voted to leave the European Union, so why not that ?
Have a translation layer in between? That's basically the situation right now, with GFW sitting in between the chinese internet and the rest-of-the-world internet.
Yeah I noticed the same. Once I got into doing regular longer bike trips, when I got home I almost never wanted junk food for dinner afterwards.
This works well if you run a server, but for a static site, you need client-side JS. I recently found 2 free AND open source services (though I did donate): GoatCounter[0] and Counter.dev[1]. I've added them to my static site[2]. Naturally they disagree on my (low in any case) traffic, but they're still fun to look at :)

[0] https://www-bbkane-com.goatcounter.com/

[1] https://counter.dev/dashboard.html?user=bbkane&token=MEzACRA...

[2] https://www.bbkane.com/
this was brought up in the discussion before the vote, the argument against it was that there was only a provision for keeping the election secret, but not votes on resolutions.

i did have the impression that an exception to making the votes public would be made, but i just found the actual vote list, so that didn't happen.
Another article that examines the evidence that rape isn't about sex, finds it lacking: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022449880955147...

It's interesting how bad ideas gain widespread purchase in society. The idea that porn increases rape doesn't even pass the smell test, but its widely believed for some reason.
>and if the community responds with a SOPA-like "no access using Chrome for the next 48 hours then, here are some other fine browsers you can use instead that don't invade your privacy in this way"

that seems unlikely.
Heat generation is the only way we know to get the fairly robust security guarantees we need. Proof-of-stake and other “efficient” schemes have vastly worse security properties.
According to the book, at the time he was in between Microprose and the new company they were establishing and working like a contractor to help the team at Microprose to finish Magic the Gathering - so while he has had a role in directing the project, he appeared to be not deeply interested in it because it was a licensed game, and it seems he was mainly making sure it ships in a reasonable state.