skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by this statement. The primary use of the dollar is as a currency. The primary use of Bitcoin is as a currency. The fact that so much of Bitcoin's traded volume is used for speculation is actually an issue with excess dollar liquidity available for speculation, not because of some problem inherent to Bitcoin. That liquidity would just move to some other financial product that probably wouldn't make the news because the concept is too complicated to grok, unlike "BITCOIN BAD AND NOT REAL MONEY".
Do you buy as much milk as you can afford? Most food is way beyond scarcity at this point.
As Upton Sinclair once said, it is difficult to get a man to understand something if the value of his crypto stash depends upon him not understanding it.
> Ukraine's fight for independence is 90% financed by the USA (NPR's number, not mine)

I have personally donated thousands of dollars to help Ukraine's fight for independence, and I know people who donated more than me. Just because someone in Ukraine received USD from abroad does not mean USA's financing.

> there's probably no way to write a completely neutral article on a topic like this conflict

In this case, Russians even deny the topic.

In your comments your position is evil but at least somewhat reasonable. You admit there's a war between Russia and Ukraine, and explain how Russian government is stupid enough to think that's a good idea. Despite I don't share that political position I would like to see that info in Wikipedia, it's interesting and relevant.

But Wikipedia's position (which happens to match the official Russian propaganda) is that Russia ain't involved, and Ukraine is fighting a civil war against local rebels. For 7 years and counting.
The real issue with Bitcoin is tether. Tether printing is practically responsible for almost all the gains in Bitcoin. Just look at Tether volume versus Bitcoin volume and tell me you trust bitcoins valuation when it's backed by make belief tethers.

When you can print make belief dollars, in volumes that were never proven to exist, and pretend trading them for Bitcoin is the same as trading dollars, then of course Bitcoin can arbitrarily rise. The scale of the scam is huge and regulators completely miss it.

The day regulators finally ban tether (because printing dollars should be illegal), you're going to see Bitcoin crash spectacularly. The reason Bitcoin defies all expectations is because it was never supported by real dollars.
I enjoy this idea. Always nice to look at the "classics."

I wonder if maybe the Y logo top left should be removed as it might mislead users into thinking it's a legitimate extension of HN?
He is on the soft side of the manosphere tho
Thanks for the correction :*
Agree that it would be more insightful if specific reasons were given rather than generic fallacies. I think we need to be even more specific is in the type of cryptocurrencies discussed (i.e proof-of-work protocol brings to mind environmental concerns in a way that proof-of-stake does not). This is just speculation, but it's possible that the frame of mind they look at crypto is an asset made "out of thin air" that does not do anything inherently useful in the physical world. Yes, we use gold as currency, but at least it's a good conductor and doesn't oxidize. We can value a company by the amount of goods it can produce in a year. It's harder to make the same case for crypto, whose value is more ethereal (it's stored as bits and bytes rather than a coin in your wallet). It's possible this is what they're thinking.

Crypto will be valuable as long as we as a society think it's so and have the infrastructure to support it. If we enter a nuclear winter, out goes the crypto market, and we'll be left exchanging copper pieces.
It happens frequently with retroviruses. In fact 5-8% of the human genome is from (ancient) retrovirii. Coronavirus however is a completely different class of virus which makes it interesting, at least to me.
Berkshire Hathaway's market capitalization is more than $600B, so actually they could corner the market on it if they really wanted to (though it would probably become obvious that they were trying that long before it happened). They have no interest in Bitcoin because, from their previous comments on it, it produces nothing and they only invest in productive assets.
All they have to do is invest a billion or so in bitcoin, announce it (as they are required to), then sell it. It would be relatively trivial.
The Emperor's Soul is set on the same world as Elantris, though is more or less completely unconnected to it.
That's true, but they are also bigger and better. A block of flats in the middle of nowhere would be worth way less than one in a city.
I think what the parent comment suggests is "Seal of approval" situation, similar thing that happened with Tesla buying bitcoin caused price surge. When a well known entity invests in crypto, trust in crypto goes up.

Berkshire buying bitcoin would definitely make me buy more bitcoin.
But if we weigh up pro- and con- Bitcoin is pretty solidly pro. Having a government-resistant unit of exchange was one of the things keeping Wikileaks alive for example.

All the negative stuff was going to happen anyway - including energy waste. Humans waste a lot of energy. Wikileaks on the other hand would have folded like an origami in any pre-cryptocurrency era.

This is the sort of press freedom that humanity has been longing for since ... I don't know. The birth of the press. It is really hard to financially abuse the truth out of conversation now. Which is part of why the blowback is so panicked.

Edit for spite: "contrary to the interest of civilisation" is the sound of a wealthy man who is friends with wealthy men who are terrified of what an organisation like Wikileaks could uncover.
It's a clickbait title, but he does also address the benefits of pairing. He does highlight the importance of not always pairing. He does not say not to pair.

I think what would alleviate most of his issues is having frequent breaks. 10 or 30 minutes here and there all day, or even an hour before resyncing is essential. Especially now with remote pairing.

I think opt-in pairing is bad. It essentially means, rarely pair apart from on hard things which is not pairing.

Opt-out is better. Then for some tasks you don't have to pair, whilst for most you do.

Or go full mob programming and allow people to come and go.
I very much disagree. How many people with 401ks and/or other retirement vehicles actually know what companies they "own"? How many of them vote? How many of them actually have enough of the right kinds of shares to vote?

To say that stocks are about owning a company in practice is the same as saying bitcoin is just money like the dollar. It's true in theory, but it's not the practical reality of this moment in history.
It is even more striking that it's written in the first person, so the error sounds like it's coming from the monk and not the writer. For the HN reader not aware, the Cistercians "broke away" from the Benedictines in the 11th century and are still very much "in" the Catholic Church. My great uncle is a Trappist monk and I have great memories of visiting the monastery to see him as a child.
Just did the test for kicks. Looks like I'm "all red". Oh well.
If, indeed, bitcoin is inimical to civilization, then HN is smart and prescient to hate it. That would be a plausible interpretation if you figure that the HN crowd are smarter and more capable of thinking through problems than the average bear.

Perhaps if you don't agree, you should be listening :)
The bar of creating a crypto currency token is so low
It would be cool to have a version sorted by (parenthesized) date.

Oh, and "(1900..2010).each do |year|" is not good:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444460
In other words, a strategic move to protect assets.
It's not designed around mistrust, it's designed to not require trust. There's a big difference.

Why would you want trust where it's not needed? Trust is a barrier, not a feature.
Why is buying companies and property (or small parts of them, i.e. stocks) not a "real store of value"?
since the author mentions whatsapp:

What's the best strategy for exporting _all_ whatsapp messages on a device to a format that is readiable without whatsapp? - the export functionalities i've tried work with a message cap or other limitations.

Otherwise, they involve emailing yourself conversations one at a time.

I _think_ this is region dependent, but would like to hear from others.
I wrote essentially the same thing (with proper interpolation, using zsh’s builtin quoting system) for [Python](https://github.com/NightMachinary/brish). I have been using it extensively for months, and I’m very happy with it.

I have also used a REST API based on the Python version to implement the same thing easily in other languages, including a nifty [elisp macro](https://github.com/NightMachinary/doom.d/blob/master/night-b...) that lets you do:

(z du -h (split-string (z ls -a) "\n" t))
Most people I know are experts on one topic or another. Some do contribute to Wikipedia in their fields. I know I do.

I wish Wikipedia counted as "publishing" works. Maybe they should start accepting papers?
It is entirely possible to be bold without revert warring. And the one of the best times to be bold is -in fact- when you do not expect your edit to stick. (see references, above.)

Be BOLD, but don't be reckless! Do show good faith, Do also follow all the other policies and guidelines, Do be respectful of others; Do also put a comment on the talk page; Don't start an edit war, and then you definitely won't get blocked!

Wikipedia policies and guidelines are not an optional, pick the ones you like kind of affair. When used together they document optimal processes found over years of experience.

When you follow optimal process and act in a decisive, clear and respectful manner, you'll find that you and your other co-editors can edit more rapidly, effectively and amicably, and you'll even get into less trouble along the way.
Some problems can be improved with a simple contact point.

I have a colleague who works in this space in a research capacity. They were looking at use of different systems to measure behavior and identify behaviors that are correlated with poor performance.

In one scenario, they surveyed a cohort who was leaving and entering the dorm after 1AM, resulting in poor AM class attendance. 40% of the responses were essentially: “I went to meet my [girl/boy]friend and have sex.”

Getting a text message to tell that kid to get his beauty rest isn’t going to work. Just treat people like adults, imo.
I think DNT could be rescued if it could be turned into a browser-wide consent UI. Currently, with its history of being set to 1 by default in some browsers, it doesn't really distinguish between "I don't consent" and "I haven't expressed an opinion", giving sites an excuse to ask you anyway.

Myself, I wish another GDPR iteration would instead mandate the shape and form of the initial consent popup, requiring it to fit to the following template (or something similar/equivalent):

+------------------------------------------------+
| Allow additional data collection? [X] |
| |
| This site would like to use technical means |
| such as cookies and local storage to collect |
| data about you and your computer. This data is |
| not necessary for the correct functioning of |
| this site, and does not impact the service |
| it provides. |
| |
| Do you consent to this opt-in data collection? |
| |
| GDPR requires this message to be shown because |
| the data collection requested is not necessary |
| and may carry data privacy risks. Necessary |
| data collection does not require consent form. |
| |
| [Learn purposes and] [>I do not consent<] |
| [configure consent ] |
+------------------------------------------------+

With an explicit [>I do not consent<] button, pre-selected, in the "call to action" color, doing the same thing as [X] does, which is declining data collection described. Displayed in the same language website content is, and with specific regulations guarding against the common "dark pattern" bullshit. I'm sure Brussels has some webdevs that would be happy to provide standard templates and React components and whatnot, so that site authors could just plug in a stylesheet and a JSON blob to configure the [Learn purposes...] section.

The ultimate solution would be for member states' DPAs to get off their collective butts and start issuing fines for the current crop of blatantly illegal consent popups, but in the interim, it would be helpful to regulate the popups, so that they clearly communicate that a) they're requesting strictly unnecessary tracking that can be safely ignored, b) showing an annoying popup is a choice by the website owners, who decided to request consent for additional tracking.
After watching the animated spiral at top of the page for maybe 45 seconds, I scrolled to read the text -- and experienced an interesting aftereffect: alternate lines of text seemed to be moving in opposite directions. Trippy!
I hope you do not mean the students.
Well the article even states:

> The enzyme, reverse transcriptase, is encoded by LINE-1 elements, sequences that litter 17% of the human genome and represent artifacts of ancient infections by retroviruses.
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OpenAstroTracker: A cheap 3D-printed tracking mount for DSLR astrophotography
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
I am the author -- I addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104896 .
It's for people who take cash in hand.
I would like to point out that Berkshire/Buffet for years called derivatives weapons of mass destruction. People said Warren you are out of touch and don’t understand. 2008 showed him to be right.
Using SLOs for Delivery Pipeline Guardrails and Gates
In this Reliability Snippet you see two different approaches to integrating SLOs into your Continuous Delivery pipelines: as informative “Guardrails” and as pipeline-blocking “Gates”.
The U.S. oil and gas sector just had its bigges hiring spree in three decades
Crypto right now is more like something people are speculating on, but it's like a collectible piece of art or something. It's cool as an idea, but that's about it. It's not going to become the currency of a failed state, there are far more power efficient and opaque ways of doing things.

Basically states print money anyway, and just hand it to the banks.
As someone without much knowledge of the area, is it developing? Bitcoin seems very staid and featureless compared to something like Ethereum, does it deserve to have the biggest market cap just because it was first?

Also is it wise to advocate for a future where the richest people in the world will just be whoever hung out on the right forums in 2011? At least the current occupants of the Forbes list mainly built companies.
The usual sleugh of reasons why women or minorities are underrepresented in academia/science:

- historical bias against women continuing education

- pressure on women to have children at an age crucial to career development

- lack of encouragement to pursue academic careers

- poorer access to education for minorities

- poorer access to finding necessary to continue education

- perpetuation of status quo

Etc etc. With all of those present, to varying degrees, in the last 50-100 years, it is not surprising that when looking at senior, accomplished academics at the peak of their careers, it will predominantly be white men. Civil rights movement changes are as recent as 1960s.

None of this of course is a comment on distribution of ability across gender and race, only about societal constructs around it...
criminals tend to prefer privacy coins like monero over bitcoin because of how easy it is to track bitcoin transfers. If any of their bitcoin transfers ever touches a KYC wallet they are screwed; until taproot gets activated for bitcoin it requires a ton of work to truly stay anonymous
He found an old drive with the lid already removed, the drive was potentially faulty beforehand then, hence why the lid was removed. You would want to performance test a known good drive before removing the lid to compare properly.
A bit off topic, but we've been using Vector (1) for log ingestion, and I really like it. It's fast, low resources, actively developed and flexible.

(1) https://vector.dev/
I'm a professor. My university bought a big piece of enterprise software, designed precisely to track and boost student success in various ways.

The software sent me an email asking me to do something, ostensibly from someone in our advising center, signed by my assistant chair instead, but obviously corporate-sounding and autogenerated. It reeked of fakery.

Is this sort of thing supposed to accomplish something?
When I did pairing (see other comments of mine), we used our own laptops. That way, we could both have our own setups that we were comfortable in. It did mean that switching often consisted of a git commit to our branch that we later squashed out.

We didn't always bother switching laptops though and we also worked remotely about half the time (using screenhero at the time, I miss SH).

> And assign someone on the team to be the tea-mug refiller for the day.

I disagree with this. I found frequent breaks to be very important. Pairing is exhausting. "Lets get more tea/coffee" was a good way to have a short break. I think frequent breaks also made using different laptops easier, since its natural to switch drivers after a short break. We didn't have breaks on every switch, of course, but on many we did. The breaks were often only a few minutes, but getting away from the screen even for three minutes really helped.
Ask Zelda Columns
If there's a Robin Hobb trilogy you need a break before starting it's this one. It left me a sobbing mess on more than one occasion.
Not sure where you all get your numbers from, when it is even explicitly mentioned in the posted article:

> The enzyme, reverse transcriptase, is encoded by LINE-1 elements, sequences that litter 17% of the human genome and represent artifacts of ancient infections by retroviruses.
It's against everything they stand for in terms of value investing.
Oh wow I hadn't even noticed, but you're right!
With JS disabled:

Melinda French Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal [0].

The 56-year-old spoke with attorneys from several firms as early as October 2019, saying the marriage was “irretrievably broken,” the Journal reported Sunday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter. Her unease about her ex-husband’s ties to Epstein dates back to at least 2013, the paper said.

The New York Times reported in October 2019 that the billionaire had met with Epstein several times, and once stayed late at his New York townhouse. A spokeswoman for Microsoft Corp. co-founder said at the time that the meetings had centered on philanthropy. Epstein had died in jail two months prior while awaiting trial on federal charges related to sex trafficking.

The divorce was negotiated during the pandemic, involving legal teams working with a mediator to divide their fortune, which the Bloomberg Billionaires Index pegs at $145 billion.

The couple said that they plan on remaining co-chairs and trustees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Billionaire Warren Buffett serves as the foundation’s third trustee. All three have vowed to give away the vast majority of their wealth.

In the days after the split was announced, a holding company that Bill Gates created transferred equity stakes in four different companies, worth more than $2 billion in aggregate, to Melinda French Gates, Bloomberg News has reported. The bulk of it is from about 14.1 million shares in Canadian National Railway Co.

Days before he died in a New York jail, Epstein named a little-known biotech venture capitalist named Boris Nikolic as backup executor of his will. Nikolic had worked as a science adviser to Bill Gates and more recently funded more than a dozen firms in gene editing and other health technologies.

In an emailed statement at the time, Nikolic told Bloomberg that Epstein had not consulted him about the will and that he had no intention to fulfill the duties.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/melinda-gates-was-meeting-with-...
>> ...stream().
map(e -> e.getKey().getPrice().multiply(new BigDecimal(e.getValue()))).
reduce(BigDecimal.ZERO, BigDecimal::add)

>That's very pretty to look at and easy to read. But it's a huge pain in the ass to debug when getPrice starts failing.

The trick with java and chaining calls is that you have to do the chain on each line, so the stack track can pinpoint the line it failed at.

so instead of the above, write the code as:

...stream().
map(e -> e.getKey()
.getPrice()
.multiply(new BigDecimal(e.getValue())))
.reduce(BigDecimal.ZERO, BigDecimal::add)

And the stack trace will tell you if the getKey() or getPrice() failed or the multiply(...) failed.
Flat Belly Magic
Drowsy driving: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drowsy-driving
This!

I think D should latch and promote more on the idea of having on-demand performance when it's necessary with GC convenience for the rest of the application. Soon having borrow checker capability ala rust and cyclone will only strengthen the narrative.
Exactly. But these guys are too old for the short game at this point. They are about legacy. And that should make these statements hit that much harder.
I had a quick look into this yesterday - quick summary.

It appears that the main intersection between Microsoft and Jeffrey Epstein is "Dr Melanie Walker." Apparently she was in Epsteins inner circle for some time. Then she got involved with Steven Sinofsky (!), who was greatly respected by Bill. She married Steven eventually.

This then lead Bill to get more involved with Epstein. In fact the foundation of Bill's has a few people connected with Epstein - because Dr Melanie Walker when over to the foundation.

Small world.

A lot of it was covered in the 2019 NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

Steven Sinofky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky

Prince Andrews & Dr Maria Walker: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162637/Prince-Andr...

Dr Maria Walker "given" to Prince Andrews by Epstein: https://www.thedailybeast.com/prince-andrew-was-given-beauti...

Dr. Maria Walker is the first person to introduce Bill Gates to Epstein: https://twitter.com/agenthades1/status/1238583622124179456?l...

More details: https://threader.app/thread/1261934808885866496

I wouldn't be surprised in the end there is some money flows between the various parties involved. The connections are too deep and intertwined for there to be nothing here.
There have been dumber arguments made against Bitcoin. But this one moves the goalpost a whole lot farther.
Yes it's on a website on fashion, not a site focused on Christian spirituality :-)

In the text of the interview, it doesn't say "broke away from the Catholic Church" but "from the Catholic rule". Which is also a confusing phrasing in itself and probably the source of the error found in the abstract.
Yes you can model it with a diffusion equation.
A major talking point of the pro bitcoin people is that it is "permissionless and decentralized". And it is a good way to bypass governmental interference. They usually talk about the FED in this capacity, but it also applies to drug and ransomware legal controls as well. I think that is what he is talking about here. He isn't saying that cartels don't deal in cash. I'm sure he understands that.