skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So since ~2012. I've not used IRC since before then so maybe things have been relatively calm in those nine years, but IRC has been around since 1988 and has a long history of drama arguably starting with the first big split in 1990.

While not caring to know the details of past drama is fine, to be _completely_ unaware of it seems both rather myopic and somewhat naive IMO. Have you never taken any interest in the history of the tools you use or the Internet generally?

<snark type="unneccesary" how-unneccesary="probably completely" style="hyperbole-level:calc(Godwin-2); old-man-shouting-at:clouds;">I've not been aware of any world wars since I joined the world in 1978, have any really happened?</snark>
It depends what felony...
Yes that's amazing
You can always construct an arbitrary timeline where the charts are green in order to support that argument. The issue with the huge drop is the insane volatility, there are a lot of people who are freaking out because they bought at 40k+.
>over a trust network

There's your problem, you don't understand that bitcoin is trustless and the worlds first implementation of it's kind. If you can't understand why that's important I don't have the time to convince you.
Not an example from the wild, but our parrot (a caique) likes to laugh when he accomplishes a goal or encounters an unexpected challenge. I’m sure a lot of his use of laughter stems from living with humans though.
The rich people I know have their own vacation homes in nice places and/or make exotic travels where resorts are unusual and unneeded. Less rich people aren't usually interested in constrained luxury experiences like resorts and cruises; the closed environment doesn't compete well with freely experiencing a proper tourism hotspot and its varied attractions and extravagant luxury doesn't compete well with a better location or a longer stay with a cheaper, good enough accommodation.

Resorts are a specialty for amateurs or a resource for special cases (e.g. a safe environment in unfriendly locations like Egypt or Maldives).
SSH secret key file exfiltration by running "npm install" or the like is a concern, and by using YubiKeys this type of attack is eliminated.

You can also enforce usage of YubiKeys, but you can't really enforce every developer sets a passphrase on their locally generated SSH key file.

And it's a convenient, and consistent way of authentication: Your work Google Workspace account uses and enforces a YubiKey, your AWS account login uses and enforces a YubiKey, and now your GitHub account also uses (but cannot not yet be made to enforce AFAIK) a YubiKey. It's less hassle than using one-time codes with fifty-seven different apps and cloud environments, so there's not much user push back.
"I particularly like the analogy with Euclidean geometry. If we remove the parallel postulate, we get absolute geometry, also known as neutral geometry. If after we remove the parallel postulate, we add a suitable axiom, we get hyperbolic geometry, but if we instead add a different suitable axiom we get elliptic geometry. Every theorem of neutral geometry is a theorem of these three geometries, and more geometries. So a neutral proof is more general."

I thought elliptic geometry was not a subset of absolute geometry.
tfw my dog is a member of the furry community
But you can get out of bitcoin at any time by selling it so it fails that test.
Only issue here is that they don't do subpatch versions. We needed Erlang 22.3.4.1 for something, so had to build by hand.
I disagree, I don't click the bio link for every comment I read. I'd have never known they were the project lead if another commenter didn't call them out on it.
Classic coiner arguments. "Have fun staying poor!"

For the record I:

(1) Bought during the 2017 run-up, and sold around $17,000 in early 2018, and parlayed that into various other investments that have done quite well. I've posted to that effect here in the past.

(2) Shorted CME futures at $56,000, and a bunch of Coinbase and a bunch of Tesla. That's roughly $100,000 USD per contract in profit - deposited directly into my SIPC insured FINRA regulated account with zero counter-party risk, 60% long term capital gains. Not bad for two weeks work.

You worry about your account, leave mine to me :) I'm talking about crypto on its merits, not its price. The merits of course inform my investment decisions.

There are tons of ways to make money on this planet, HODLing crypto is just one among them. I was addressing the question directly: why do I hate bitcoin? Asked, and answered.

But to supplement: the thing I hate most about crypto are the touts and the community.
Nothing the previous poster says implies that they are okay with wasting energy in other ways and it in no way diminishes the fact that Bitcoin (and other PoW cryptocurrencies) use a _lot_ of energy.
A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure (2002)
I actually buy these books only because of the nice cover pictures.
You know... what I am curious, does this logic make sense?

Why wouldn't a given % be allocated to lotto tickets?!

Quite curious from a risk/reward portfolio formula.
Is it functionally different from "circuit breakers" on regulated exchanges?
Agreed. As usual, the debate in the US conflates several distinct issues, using a strangely deformed "fruit of the poisoned tree" logic.

Here, the logic goes something like, "US prisons mistreat prisoners, therefore prison labor constitutes mistreatment". Mistreatment of prisoners through labor is an accidental property, not an essential one (as evidenced by countries like Norway).
I live in Palo Alto. I have a Pacifica (PHEV). I see many many Pacificas on the road and in driveways. The MSRP of a fully loaded hybrid is 54k. The MSRP of a fully loaded gasser is pretty close.

The reputation hasn't stopped FCA from selling to this market. Wranglers and Grand Cherokees are pretty common too, as well as the rare Hellcat.
Can you explain how “intellectually disabled” is less demeaning? It seems moreso.
I don't know if you're making a serious suggestion or not, but prisoners are already forced to pay for a lot of the resources they get in prisons, including basic services like video calls and extra medical supplies. And they pay exorbitantly higher prices than people outside of prison.

Outside of prison, a video call with your family is free because you use Skype or Zoom. Inside of prison, a 30 minute call can have a double digit price tag. Even basic necessities like menstrual products and tampons for women often have to be purchased at prices far above what normal consumers pay.

There's no competition or prisoner autonomy over which businesses they give their money to, and there's no commercial incentive for businesses that are authorized to sell to prisoners to lower prices; they literally have a captive market. State-approved monopolies are allowed to restrict access to those supplies and "privileges" unless prisoners pay up.

This has also led to really perverse policy incentives. Video call companies have lobbied states to restrict and/or remove in-person visiting, meaning that if you want to have any contact with your family or the outside world, you need to pay for the privilege. Often, books and entertainment will have a single company you can purchase through. Prisoners don't get access to the free market and even completely noncontroversial, obviously positive rehabilitative measures like family visits are being restricted for the sake of monetary exploitation.

So short answer, we're not giving prisoners a minimum wage and we're already charging them and their families an artificially inflated amount of money for basic necessities.
While we do call them crypto currencies I don’t think crypto market is really comparable to the currency market. Maybe more like a precious metals etf or something.
Thats how it's supposed to work.

I was in a similar situation to the parent commenter. The buyer had deposited the funds into Escrow.com and received their assets. I notified Escrow.com that the business assets had been handed over and they awaited the response from the buyer - which never came.

Escrow.com sends notices after 3, 7, and 10 days of inactivity.

After 15 days the buyer requested a cancellation and Escrow.com notified me via email that I had 48 hours to provide proof that "the domain" had been transferred or the transaction would be cancelled and the buyer would received their funds back.

My issue was that there was no domain transfer associated with this purchase. The buyer was receiving software that they intended to use under a new brand and thus had no use for the domain.

I raised hell with Escrow.com. Calls, emails, assurances that someone would get back to me. The cancellation came on a Friday and no one contacted me until Tuesday. They called to ask if I had spoke to the buyer and then politely explained that they couldn't do anything because there was no domain attached to the sale.
The Middle East is very complicated, but this is hard to read as anything but misinformation.

In the last legislative election in Palestine, Hamas received 44.45% of the vote to Fatah's 41.43% and gained a majority of the seats in the PLC [1].

Although Palestinian trust levels for Hamas are even slightly lower than Fatah, Hamas's actions over the past month are gaining broad Palestinian support [2]. There's people on both sides who want to see the conflict end, and people on both sides who are approving of the conflict (more so on the Palestinian side which feels scorned over the past 80 years).

It is Hamas rocket fire and IDF rocket fire. There are other sides against this conflict and escalation, but to claim that this is not government action or approved of by large swathes of the population is incorrect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...

[2] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0517/For-Ha...
Couldn't the hacker just transfer your bitcoin into their wallet?

I think if my bank had a castrophihic record failure I'm going to get the money back eventually. I have far less hope about recovering stolen bitcoin.
It’s not sketchy at all that price movements on exchanges are seemingly simultaneous. it’s because of automated arbitrage. Another factor (the prevalence of which is hard to measure) is that those who want to buy or sell large amounts (is whales) will chunk their orders and split them up across exchanges.

These, especially the former, are signs of markets maturing.
The Palestinian people definitely deserve sympathy, and I think everyone (even Israelis) agree. The difference of opinion is that some people blame Israel for their problems, while others blame Hamas.

Let's be clear though: Anti-zionism is a form of antisemitism. People can rationalize all they want about how/why it isn't, but they would be wrong. You can argue all you want about the policies of the current Israeli government, but anti-zionism is still a form of racism.
Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
Yeah so Freenode went wrong and they created this.

Why wouldn't this go the way of Freenode? Who is in charge? How do we even know this already isn't the same as Freenode?

I know addressing a messy past on a new site is no fun / I saw the other articles on HN, but ... they should still address who is running the show and some level of assurances (as much as you can in text on the internet) that this is a good place.
I have that too. My right eye keeps steady while my left eye floats
around at random (or at least that's how the linguistic side of my
brain describes it). It would be great if a VR headset could track the
left eye position and translate the image accordingly.
No: it's a myth that a hydrogen tank simply explodes. It would need to be mixed with oxygen.

Instead, liquid flammables can leak around and then ignite.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2852323/heres-why-hydr...

https://hydrogen.wsu.edu/2017/03/17/so-just-how-dangerous-is...
There is no free lunch. Your hypothesis is fed-driven policy will continue to be effective (the easy money gravy train). It's likely a better thesis, but after a decade of great returns, people are under the illusion that the Fed has actual control of markets (they can only shape sentiment via policy).
Because blocksize is fixed and blocks are consistently full, it's possible to estimate the next block's energy usage per transaction. All blocks are currently full as miners have an incentive to collect all transactions available, ordered by their attached transaction fee.

If you mean that the same amount of power would be used whether the blocks are full or empty, you are technically correct but in practice it's not relevant until blocks are consistently not full.
7% is adjusted for inflation. 10% is the nominal average. An up year is commonly 10-15% with down years being more severe but less frequent.
I never heard this either. Please just use social media
> The truth is that bitcoin is an instrument of speculation. Little else.

I actually agree. Bitcoin has failed. It's useless as a coin. New coins have been created to address its shortcomings. Monero seems to be the closest one to the original cryptocurrency dream of decentralized and private currency. Despite this, bitcoin is still king and there seems to be no way to dethrone it.
One Scottish man's idea to fix the broken world of online debate (2019)
That's all fun and cool until you want to hold $handle accountable for forwarding all your messages to their favorite state power.
That means you need a better incentive structure for the agent. Like 30% above a certain bar, for example.
Then again you need all three for genius, confluence of raw material of talent, opportunity to train under great teachers and means to follow through with it.

Where the latter two are available, it is easier to find genius, which is why it often occurs in clusters.
Many people do get hired cold, but it is the last choice of anyone hiring. If you know the right person you skip to the front of the line with no competition.
An electric semi's battery weight alone makes them not viable imo. I think it's a good idea to ignore the endless Tesla sales hype and brand reinforcement and focus on the basic logic and physics. Musk is as fake as his hair imo and spends most of his time being very misleading while aggressively selling theoretical future projects.

I grew up in the UK with electric milk floats, a practical use of EV's for short, quiet urban delivery. There's a reason electric heavy trucks, which were marketed in the 20's and 30's lost out to diesel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Electric_Truck
I was doing auditing on a codebase I hadn't seen before, and saw some potential SQL injections SonarQube didn't pick up. Semgrep didn't support the language so I couldn't use that for searching potential injections, and grep just didn't cut it -- so I wrote a tool which can tokenize and parse (almost) any popular language and search it using regex-like patterns.
For a long time, you could achieve that through localbitcoins or similar (not sure what the situation looks like now). You have tools to achieve some degree of anonymity, and there's other currencies that deal with that aspect of things better.

Well-regulated exchanges are part of an effort by (usually VC-backed) startups to legitimise making money off of cryptocurrencies, rather than a core part of the original ethos behind Bitcoin.
>Bitcoin pricing is on a log scale. Dropping to $36k from $50k is not a concern on this scale.

What is that even supposed to mean?
And killed by one of his own inventions...
Three Body Problems
Your UI complaints apply only to Element (the flagship client) rather than to Matrix the protocol. As others have said, there are other, less-flashy clients available (and others under development).

Some examples:

Quaternion: https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion

Hydrogen: https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web

Nheko: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko
Wait until you hear all the energy it takes to run the current financial system, or the energy it takes to run the worlds gaming consoles, or any other stuff that you have personally found to be more useful than crypto currency. If bitcoin frees us from financial tyranny it's all worth it.
Quick googling found this: http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2018/08/fast-boot-with-raspberry...

Apparently rpi spends about as long on vc boot as it does for kernel+userland combined... Not great imho
The rush to digital services is crushing online customer experience
Laravel 8.42.0 and Laravel Manager 1.0 for Devserver
Everyone replying is saying various things about how it's not the poors fault that they've been taken advantage of and have crappy food options and that's why they're fat.

They might be right about the bad food options but what these people don't get is that if you're poor you have a lot of bigger more time pressing, more tractable problems to solve than being fat. Most of these people would still be fat if they had more ready access to "good" food because good food wouldn't magically make being fat jump to the top of their priority list.

When you have little money you can very easily justify skipping lunch everyday or something like that. Skipping breakfast or lunch, having a very minimal meal for the one you don't skip (think PB&J, maybe with a fruit cup if you're feeling like a high roller) and then having your big meal at dinner so that your hunger is focused on the parts of the day when you're working and distracted and you go to sleep full is a very, very, tractable form of dieting and cost cutting rolled into one.

But if you have enough money to indulge in food/beer then why not do it, it's about the only luxury you can afford.
Not that I agree with the sentences, but I always find these arguments a bit weak - “life without parole for drug possession”.

Well, they didn’t get life without parole for that conviction alone, it was that plus the other felonies they committed.
Very interesting paper.
Yeah I think this person is just waxing poetic about something vaguely related to your original comment.
Ok, but that wasn't his focus. Your point?

We all have musings that cross domains; why does this persons book hold significance to you for this thread?
Where else should people invest their money?

Stocks are extremely overvalued According to the buffet ratio

And bonds/cash will soon be completely worthless by the time the gov and feds of the world are done with them

Real estate is extremely difficult to buy and sell. Execution is hard.

There’s a desperate need for a store of value, now more than ever (gov of the world are abandoning their obligation of providing a stable fiat)

Do you see any better solution than crypto?
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I am very pro bitcoin. It is the hardest money humans have ever invented, and the best financial investment in the last 14 years. It’s energy usage is a good thing, and is a proxy for human preference. It will only grow larger, eclipse all other stores or value. Everything there is, divided by 21 million.

Or you can ignore it, earn 4% on your index funds, retire after 40 years and have a simple life. I’ve chosen something else…
I didn't flag or downvote the post. I just asked for some civility. If you feel like it doesn't add to the discussion, that's your opinion and you are free to express it. (And I didn't downvote you either.)
If you are a US citizen you will have to pay taxes in dollars.
Well, X developers must've abandoned that idea for a reason.
Is anti-ethno-nationalism still racism when applied to other countries, or just Israel?
Scientists remotely controlled the social behavior of mice with light
Show HN: Building a tiny Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
How can one person come close to destroying your company twice? Don't you have security measures in your pipeline to prevent this?
This brings to mind a conversation that I've had several times over the years. It goes something like this:

> Wouldn't it be cool if we could have code that would test itself?

> Yeah, if only there were some kind of automated way to encapsulate the requirements of classes and methods that could ensure that they behaved within some known boundaries...?

We've had automated unit tests for quite some time, but they are more often called compiler checks. Want your "automated unit tests" to be more comprehensive? Improve your type system and your compiler!

With all that said, I do not want to be dismissive of peoples' projects. This is fun and neat.
When (if) speculation settles down, even if the governments know who owns bitcoins, they won't be able to "print" more of it and that's a big advantage over any other fiat currency.
Private Internet Access has no connection to Freenode at all anymore. It WAS owned by London Trust Media, which also owned PIA, however Kape Technologies acquired PIA in December of 2019 and has had no connection since then. We do not have any involvement or knowledge of any takeover of Freenode.
Oftentimes, finagling with the REPL is merely about getting the syntax right ("did I use the right number of parens?") rather than formulating assumptions. In such cases, using this tool doesn't invalidate the TDD workflow, since your assumptions don't change.

The essential complexity of writing unit tests is in formulating your assumptions ahead of time. As you correctly point out, no tool can ever solve this. However, an accidental complexity is correctly expressing your assumptions in code. Tools such as a REPL and this library can definitely help with that.
> hey arent currencies, they are assets

The irony here of course is that the only way that Crypto currencies would meet any standard definition of an asset would be if they were functioning currencies.

Going with Investopedia's straightforward definition "An asset is a resource with economic value", how is a non-currency crypto coin in any way a resource or possess economic value?
Yep. I went to a Mennonite wedding a few years back and the thing that struck me was just how much perceived variation there was within the larger Anabaptist community vs how much real variation there was.

There were noticeable differences community to community, often less than a mile away. Things like their stance on modern technology, plain dress, etc.

At the same time it was considered a huge deal that the bride & groom came from different communities as they had conflicting theological views. I forget the key difference but it was something smaller than I experienced as a child whenever we'd change Roman Catholic Churches.
The tulip bulb mania story is an incredibly persistent but inaccurate myth.
They're pretty interchangeable: "/topic We have moved to irc.alternate.server. Join us in #project".
Exactly- I was enjoying the upward price trajectory, but the whole time I was thinking "This next bubble pop is going to be epic"

Frankly, this is an underwhelming drop so far.
A Builder’s Guide to Note-Taking
Because the compensation raise doesn't stay synched to the market.
Are you sure that article wasn't about Jewish people? I've heard that about them, and turning them off makes it easy to follow the sabbath, never the Amish.

Most of them in lancaster county do not have cell phones, but have phone booths in a remote corner of their farm so it's not convenient.
ProofofSpace man helping HDD prices
I've noticed in some cultures people break out into a giant grin when they are nervous or broaching a topic that makes them anxious. When I first encountered during a mild argument about something, I went from mild irritation to offended and demanded why the other person thought it was funny.
I am really surprised to see so many people have hard time understanding Palestinians' position. Like same people proudly proclaim that they will defend their homes by guns. But when Palestinians do it, they are wrong. It is like they think if they even hint at criticizing Israel, they will be labeled anti-semitic or something like that.

I really don't think you can have a logical conversation with the most Americans about Palestinians' human rights violations.
Proof of Work eliminates the need for a centralized authority by identifying the planet all financial intermediaries live on and destroying it