skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (or any other SoMe site)

What does SoMe mean?
> That they deserve to be poor for that reason.

Where are they saying that? This entire conversation has no relevance to what one deserves. Causality is not changed by one deserving something.
This turns REPL expressions into tests, which is useful if you do REPL-driven development, which admittedly is common in the Lisp/Scheme world.
calling someone a sociopath over making a mistake that affects only an inanimate object that was already defective is maybe a bit of an overreaction
Thats the thing, they arent currencies, they are assets that can act like currencies when convenient.
Books can have mistakes. Other editions could correct these mistakes, provide more elegant proofs, more fruitful approaches to solving problems, more understandable language, or more standard terminology.
By "network", do you mean the domains? What did the sale contract say?
> This is not a partisan issue.

The best way to demonstrate that would be to link to a more neutral source, or sources across the partisan spectrum.

"Here's an op-ed by a conservative think tank about why taxes are bad" is gonna get people expressing very reasonable skepticism.
The typical argument (not one I necessarily agree with or am making) is that there is a limited supply of Bitcoin, whereas the supply of USD is controlled by US monetary policy. On the other hand, it is "decentralized", i.e. backed by the blockchain and not a political body.

Again, not my arguments, but arguments I have heard.
The risk on AGC is that unless combined with good voice activation you can end up amplifying background noise and then deafening people when they start speaking. But yup, we'd definitely want to do this.
fwiw: the privacy page states that it's a non-profit under Swedish Law, mentions the GDPR, sets terms regarding your personal data which ought to be aligned with the GDPR and refers to the Swedish Authority for Private Protection if you want to file a formal complaint.

It's odd to only get a mail address - policy at libera dot chat - and no further formal contact information of the non-profit as a legal entity in Sweden.

I suppose you could try an inquiry via the Swedish tax office asking them for a formal statement from the public record. I don't know any Swedish but I suppose there might be a search engine which lists public information about non-profits?

Even so, there are other hints: the footer features a link to a Github organization where you can easily track development in the open. Of course, that still doesn't give the project a clear, identifiable "face" or formal point of contact.

Other commenters argue "anonymity is how Freenode got big, and how the Internet used to work and that's perfectly fine since it fosters trust."

I think this only holds so much water today. It's not about a relationship between users of a service which provides the affordances to hide behind an anonymous handle. This is about the relationship between users and the operators of a service. You trust that an operator "won't do harm" when you log onto their service.

Such trust is tenuous at best if the decade has demonstrated. Legal frameworks such as the GDPR and privacy laws exist for the exact purpose of protecting users, and creating a legal liability on the part of all too zealous operators of services.

Moreover, the GDPR framework actively tries to de-incentivize gathering and storing any personal data which can be tracked to identifiable individuals without due cause.

Testing Libera Chat's trustworthiness would be, theoretically, as easy as sending a formal subject access request under the GDPR rules to the listed mail address.

Now, I'm aware that all of this are round about ways of figuring out whether this service is legit. It would help if their website just listed formal contact and legal details that identify the legal entity which can be held liable.

Then there's Freenode Ltd which is a UK company. Since Brexit, the GDPR doesn't apply. Given the latest publicly published updates, I don't feel similarly confident about the credibility of any statements regarding the safeguarding of personal data, nor backed by a similarly strong legal framework as far as my own rights go (I'm not acquainted with British privacy laws).
Inventor of both
* Leaded Gasoline
* Freon

Ouch!
The fact some people will do something voluntarily doesn't mean it's ethical to force other people to do it against their will.

Therefore, it's irrelevant whether "regular people do it voluntarily" - because it's the being forced against their will that's the ethical issue here.

One illustrative example of this maxim is prostitution.
Community transitions to irc.libera.chat seem to be starting and things are happening step by step.

Note that currently irc.libera.chat is under a lot of load, and might take some time to get things organized/get load sorted/etc.

As a minor upside: I'm seeing people live who possibly haven't actually been online for a long while!
The hostname mask is used to authenticate users. If someone can impersonate a hostname mask there are bigger problems.

Nicknames are ephemeral. It is designed to be this way.

You can use SASL and connect with a certificate to give yourself a fingerprint to validate your identity.

It's fun and simple. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Bitcoin is frequently compared to gold because in both cases their value is mainly based on speculative trading. They do both have practical functions - gold is used in small amounts in industry and jewellery while Bitcoin can be used as a currency - but these have little or no relation to their traded value.
It's funny how everyone here worships YC and YC has invested in multiple crypto companies and yet everyone here hates crypto and everyone involved in crypto. How do you justify that? Is it because you think YC is just clever to cash in on the speculation, the same way Trump is clever to not pay any taxes, but you hate all the little guys that cash in on the speculation?
Put it on their phone or tablet.

PCs are no longer the right device for "mom and dad".
That's rich people advice. Poor people know that wages can vary so much from place to place.
i get that Tesla is revolutionary in the car industry but it's stock pretty much goes up and down like a cryptocurrency. I have a strong feeling that people who love tesla stock also own crypto.
An entry in the HN bio should be considered sufficient disclosure.
This does not apply to state events. I still had hundreds of MBs of those after purging :( I think it's not impossible to manage this, just a pain in the ass :D
Keynesian economics got us out of the actual Great Depression as well, if you consider FDR's decision to get off the gold standard and start trading dollars as a floating currency on the market.

Fixed monetary supply might be one thing in theory, but fixed credit supply is the death knell to an economy. And the two are usually complimentary. Monetary supply can fill in the potholes of weakening credit supply when the latter contracts - and it inevitably will when the private issuers that generate those debt contracts pull back in a recession. If you have your hands tied to some constrained supply like gold or bitcoin, like what happened to the central banks after World War I and into the Great Depression, you end up backed up against a wall.

That said there is certainly something that's personally appealing about an asset that's guaranteed to maintain the supply side of the equilibrium. As an investor you only have to consider demand. But for any kind of widely used currency that backs an economy it's going to be problematic.
> The point of Bitcoin is that the world's governments have weaponized money.

This. I like to think it as a monopoly game where a player has a cheat code to practically print infinite amount of money.

Bitcoin solves this problem; unfortunately the volatility (due to massive speculation game), transaction bottleneck, energy costs, etc. affects its function as a currency.

There are other cryptocurrencies trying to tackle these problems (e.g. eth2), but I believe the ultimate goal is that it replaces government controlled currencies.
But those are isolated transactions, and I can return a product to the store.

We're talking about networks and communities here. Those aren't as interchangeable as things we buy.
I love the fact that in the "explore further" section at the end of the post, the first recommended article is "5 different ways to fix a pothole".
Gaining root access on a Roku TV to control lights
... and here is the "car game on the C64" I have a suspicion sandebert is referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfc_Ugki5U

I really don't know how I could bear this for hours as a kid, but somehow it seems to never have occurred to us children that we could turn off the sound;-)
But does it run on BLOCKCHAIN.
Hmm, so in a way, it's kinda like a CDN for a database?
I'm not an expert on this, but your position that bitcoin has no value is likely shortsighted and misguided. The big one that I see is decentralization. Bitcoin itself might not make it into the future of cryptocurrencies, but the possibility to democratize money and finance is huge. Take away the banks, money printers, middlemen, and give that power to the individual. It's not obvious now what the value of crypto will be but I would not discount the huge potential. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk
As you have seen today. The market has tanked by 20% in a day.

If you were a restaurant owner and made $100 today.

You would now be having $80 instead of $100 — which might be your entire profit margin.
I spent nearly a year interviewing at various companies and never landing a job despite decades of practical, relevant experience. It was extremely demoralizing and worrisome, and I believe the majority of the issue was extremely difficult interview processes.

The size of the company didn't matter - in fact, the smaller the company, the more difficult and onerous the process was. One place with six employees asked for a full day's work (offering $150 compensation). One place turned me down because I didn't have enough Scrum experience and the Scrum Master - a real job title apparently - didn't think I'd be a good fit.

So, "false negative" is right.
I think a lot of the exchanges do. Kucoin for sure (I offer USDT for lending), haven't seen any losses due to margin calls not being fulfilled yet. Binance, Coinbase, etc. all offer margin trading
OK, if it was me my reaction to that would just be relief and gratitude.

"Oh how nice middle class life is, I will do my best to remain here. I probably shouldn't steal."
Linking the image / table referenced: https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t...
"Hey, Retro-8 owners! I got a new hack for you — burn this new image onto your FPGA to get a dual-core 6502 that supports 32-bit addressing!"

Yeah, not the same appeal.
The best trombone you can play in your web browser is the pink trombone. https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
An Integer Formula for Fibonacci Numbers (2015)
Source? Everything I've ever heard about the UK constitution is that it has both written and unwritten elements. Indeed, no statute or court ruling even defines the important head of government role of Prime Minister.
This criticism is apparently quite reasonable. You can also observe that being underweight is correlated with smoking.

[Edited to add: this article explicitly considers the link to cancer, and rejects it, https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1... ]

However, it doesn't explain why being 'overweight' BMI consistently proves to be protective against death, despite it being so stigmatised that it affects quality of medical care.
Meanwhile Discord is one of the most commonly used platforms for young people, where everyone is an anime girl named after their favorite song. I wouldn’t be so sure about your assumption. Facebook is becoming increasingly known as an uncool boomer thing.
Oh, sorry, you meant input normalization, of course. Please please please also add output normalization, so all people in a room sound at the same volume!
I’d love to see these, do you post them anywhere?
Alternate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27208119
It could plausibly be used for things that should be legitimate but are banned by an oppressive establishment. For instance, a writer could become blacklisted by VISA and Mastercard effectively impoverishing him. Crypto could get around that ban. Of course, envelopes with 20 dollar bills can also get around that, but it seems like governments are moving away from cash. So, maybe in the future crypto will be very useful to non-criminals.
There is still an incentive for publishers. AMP typically showed lower CPMs on ads, and it is possible to have faster loading pages than AMP with ads. Just look at DotDash and their range of verticals.
This is supposed to be transparent, right? So who's selling?
AutoHotKey with a script that moves the mouse 1 pixel every 10 minutes does the job for me.
That's right! I had read it wrong somehow. I don't find the information that is actually included to be too sensitive then.

It might have been useful in this case but the French government itself is not allowed to have a general-purpose database of citizen's addresses. Even the address that the social security has for contact purposes cannot be legally used for this (and is probably unreliable anyway as people forget to update their address when moving) and I don't think many people would have been comfortable with communicating their addresses for the purposes of Covid tracking.
> just like Linux wasn't a novel technology - it was an alternative version of Minix

No, Linux differed from Minix in utterly fundamental ways outlined in the correspondence between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tenenbaum.
Holistic Video Scene Understanding
I don’t care to debate the merits of crypto, I am more interested how come the major US exchanges and players (Coinbase, BlockFi) all go down and then all come back up at the same time after bottoms were reached and the rebound. That’s incredibly suspect and warrants investigation. I’ve never not been able to access my ETrade account and trade (don’t bring up Game Stop) that didn’t affect ETrade and was debunked why they had to limit buying.
*Hamas rocket fire
Examples of bad UX from big companies
This negotiation as written was just moving down by the same amount offered by the buyer, is that what the book would recommend as a technique? It gave a gain of $750 over splitting the difference from the start.
The future of application development in Laravel (with VILT and TALL) – Pt. 3
This is supposed to be transparent, right? so who's selling?
I used to be excited to see crypto currency related threads on HN's front page, bc I would be excited to see the technical discussion about he merits and criticisms of the technology. Nowadays, I am just disappointed when the discourse devolves into politics, cultism (on both sides), and misinformation.

Where could I go to see discussions about just the technology?
Oracle Cloud is pretty FAANGM-ish, it looked like a cross between Amazon and Microsoft when I interviewed there
Seeing the World as a Machine
I'm in a very small town right now and it's a reasonable driving distance from farms. It looks to me like the average farm stand is simply some clever person buying crates of produce at the wholesaler.

No shortage of healthy food at the local grocery stores of course.

I expect that people who wave their arms about 'food deserts' could probably stand to visit either small towns or urban areas and form an opinion based on actual experience.
Personally I am all for full legalization of recreational and medical marijuana. It's always been a way to give power to policing and circumvent the constitution by providing reasonable suspicion and the ability to seize possessions without due process.

But, I have seen some drastic personality changes in friends who start using it habitually. Without the decades of research we have for things like cigarettes and alcohol it's hard to know that it is really safer. Although it is a pretty low bar to clear considering how many people are killed or ruined by them every year.
Mercari and Poshmark work the same way (they do release funds after a default amount of time if there's no response)
"some people just want to watch the world burn". he's a master troll, is the simplest explanation.
Considering how much the money supply was increased, and the pending inflationary effects, the 50% up creates a "looks good on paper" sentiment the Fed is eyeing for to keep the economy moving: people spending money, taking on debt, etc. But the real increase (adjusted for inflation) will be less impressive. The on-paper increases pop sentiments, though, which is exactly what's needed in a potential economic crisis spawned by a pandemic.
He has been vocal on many subjects unrelated to Bitcoin and came out "not so smart" in my opinion.

It is easy to intellectually overestimate someone with this kind of success and reach.
Have you bought a gallon of milk or any beef lately?
'Anonymised' data can never be anonymous, says study (2019)
> "other proposed megastructures like space elevators, which would take a material to build that doesn't currently exist."

If I remember, Isaac Arthur on YouTube[1] explained that space elevators would not need exotic material, they could be built out of steel or stone if you had enough of it - you'd end up with an inverted pyramid of steel chain so wide at the base that the forces were distributed enought that nowhere was stressed past the breaking point of steel.

Not very practical today, but if humans never do develop Ringworld Scrith, not ruled out entirely.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=isaac+arthur+sp...
Come to Ohio campgrounds in the summer weekends, always have a Amish family selling baked goods, they're usually pretty friendly and open to talking. And their baking tastes amazing.
The load balancer is included with App Runner pricing. If you want usage based load balancer you should check out API gateway. If you want to reduce the amount of ALBs you use you can set up multiple target groups to share a single ALB. The AWS load balancer controller for Kubernetes supports ALB groups out of the box.
"the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is more like the Chinese gaokao than the SATs"

As someone not familiar with the JEE nor the gaokao, might I ask how they differ from the SAT?
But ML preceded ML (at least as a somewhat widespread topic of discussion), so it's the machine learning fans who get to come up with alternative terminology.
My guess : Social Media.
My - surely far fetched and with no evidence to back up - take is that Musk didn't go long on BTC when he announced TSLA would buy BTC for 1.5$bn, but actually went short. Musk wanted to take TSLA off the public trading market but failed due to lack of money/investors for a buy back. Buying large amounts of BTC with TSLA money, ties the TSLA price to the BTC price. And Musk is a very smart person, he definetely knows that a couple of tweets of him can sway the BTC courses. Question is whether Musk will come up with private investors or own money now to take TSLA off the stock exchance (doubt it as it is still too highly valued).
Why would your morale drop if you would work with someone who spent some time in prison 5 or 10 years ago? I don't see why it should.

And why are they "dregs"? The entire attitude towards crime and punishment in the US is seriously FUBAR IMHO; people seem to think everyone who spent any time in prison as some psychopath ready to loot, plunder, rape, and murder at the drop of a hat. In reality, it's not like that at all. People are regularly shackled during trails like they're some Hannibal Lector with superpowers. Police will chase people even for fairly minor offences putting everyone's life at risk, as if they're chasing Ted Bundy. AFAIK it's the only country that routinely does drug tests on employees as if every drug user is a rabid maniac and a danger to the company.

The US puts more people in prison than China. Before the internment camps in Xinjang really took off it was more even in absolute numbers, and now even with the internment it's still significantly higher per capita. If you're locking up more people than a country which literally locks up people based purely on their ethnicity then you're doing something wrong. Very wrong.

People have been talking about the police a lot in the last year. But that's not really the core problem, it's just a consequence of the toxic and dehumanizing attitude much of the country seems to have.
How is it not an agreed-upon way to settle IOUs? It's not only this, but it is this as well.
Same here at Papa - we love Elixir and can't imagine using anything else. The dev ux is tremendous.
According to [0] Tether has to file their first report today disclosing the composition of their reserves as a condition of their settlement. I haven't verified that, but if true the sell-off could be driven by insiders and/or smart money.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/nfv8vg/the_te...
>I've never understood the point of bitcoin

I'm far from a Bitcoin maxi, but I own a small % in my portfolio. Here's my take:

We are entering a world of abundant cyber-terrorism. If my bank and/or brokerage gets hacked, why do I own? I have nothing except that entry in their book keeping. And if you think, "It's backed up, they'll have you up and running in no time", I'm skeptical. I think anything like this would be chaotic.

This is much harder to do to whatever wealth I have tied up in Bitcoin. As long as the internet is running, there's a permanent record of what I own.
How to talk to your company about sponsoring an open source project
I think many are registering nicks and channels "just in case", I haven't seen true "migration" as of yet, meaning large public channels forcibly shutting down on Freenode.

Let the storm calm down and then we will see where we're at. The whole conflict seems to be opinionated ops clashing over governance rather than any serious privacy related issues imo. It still might bring Freenode down in the end, who knows, but I don't think panic is warranted.
Needs a plunger so we can do the "Sad Trombone" sound.
These are some heavy assertions here. How would Bitcoin protect against any of that?

The government already tracks who buys Bitcoin by having all points of purchase of USD<->Bitcoin require proof of identity, and they can obviously look at the blockchain to get all the transaction made by each individual.

Let's be realistic for a second. All it would take for the government to forfeit your bitcoins is a $5 wrench [1]. I don't like that it's that way, and I don't know what the solution is, but I know it's not as simple as "make Bitcoin happen".

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
It can hold value while your country's fiat currency doesn't. Or while you move out of that country and they would seize your assets as you leave. Or you can buy the reopening of your pipeline.
> The truth is that bitcoin is an instrument of speculation. Little else

Right now it is because it's experiencing tremendous growth. When it becomes less volatile it may yet become more currency-like.
Recycle Your Phone, Sure, but Maybe Not Your Number
I think this somewhat romanticizes things. Those characteristics were irrelevant as long as one passed as male, but many women experienced a lot of harassment for participating online.
In this case they were mandatory. I get that it represents an issue for that community but I'm merely describing a schism compared with earlier internet attitudes and some spaces today.

I left the community because it just upset me to have to do that. a/s/l always broke my heart and it still does.
Reinforcement Learning in Fortune 1000 companies