skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always say that, but only one of the full-time jobs I've had in my thirty-year career has come from networking. In one other situation I was the guy who got several former co-workers hired, all at once, a frankly freak occurrence I still don't quite believe actually happened. My current job, I was contacted out of the blue by the team's manager on LinkedIn. Most of my jobs have come from being active on the Internet, or else from applying cold.
Facebook was kind enough to leak 500 million phone numbers including 11 million in the UK.
I'm not saying they're aren't two sides to this. But acting like Hamas and Israel are equally bad here is a stretch of the imagination. One side cares about preventing civilian casualties, the other does not. It's like comparing Isis and the US military. Very different approach and rules of engagement.

> Does it sound as if the voters voted for rocket attacks?

In 2007 not rockets, but they knew Hamas had a history of attacking civilian targets. I suppose they can't very well be blamed for what it became. I don't doubt s lot of the locals support Hamas, but many are likely caught between the two sides and want no part of it.

They're about as guilty as the Germans were for Hitler and the Nazis. They voted them in to begin with and didn't resist when they saw the monster they'd created. Seems like a very similar situation.
> It's more about spending with cryptocurrency (in a decentralized way)

That was the original intent, but it's been known for years now that cryptocurrencies just don't work for that scenario. As soon as volume grows, transaction times and costs soar to levels that are unsustainable for actual payments. So most cryptocurrencies have since turned into speculative digital commodities, arbitrary items that get value out of being unregulated, transnational, and anonymous or pseudonymous. They allow money to flow internationally outside of the official banking system, untroubled by pesky anti-money-laundering laws or anything protecting investors. Exchanges on the fringes deal with the trouble of converting them back into money and goods... at least as long as governments allow them to do it.
> I still think it is revolutionary technology that may well revolutionise things in 5-10 or 50 years, who knows.

If there's one thing I love most about the technology behind bitcoin, it is the permanent, public, unalterable ledger of every purchase I've ever made and every purchase I'll every make, and who I gave the money to. I'm super excited about the complete lack of personal financial privacy that Bitcoin's blockchain enables! /s
I hate the arrogant stupidity of people that dismiss crypto as a cult.
This is one hell of a take. Give me a stable financial system any day.

If, by understanding, you mean, realizing that having a centralized entity with a mandate to keep inflation to stable levels so the monetary supply doesn't swing wildly in value from day to day, sure?
I tried a couple of companies and it does not work. FYI
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [pdf]
It is very difficult to conceive of Japan having turned out any better if Kyoto had been destroyed.
People don't change. "poor" in mind will always be "poor" even if surpass Elon Musk. What kind of stories one feed himself/herself on daily basis defines him/her. I am just at ease that everyone is screwed in his/her own way including me. Humans..
It’s strange that Bitcoin has peaked exactly the day of Coinbase IPO
So your intelligence is based on how much money your parents made? Your intrinsic ability to be educated is a function of someone else's wallet? Something seems off in this statement. I wish your parents had money, then your statement would probably be coherent!
_A bunch of other coins use GPUs to mine_.
These companies are backed by VC money, they can just drag out any court cases for years or decades until they have managed to buy themselves legal immunity. We saw it with Uber, Lyft, AirBNB, etc.
Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating Covid-19
Large Scale Face Recognition with DeepFace and Pinecone
I grew up dirt poor in a police no-go zone, went on to spend roughly 18 months in homeless hostels over a few years, etc.

Honestly, I feel like lots of these are related to being a poorly paid member of the tech company or having work at more working class companies.

When I started out, I literally ate toast for lunch every day because it was provided and I had no other money as time went on I got paid more and I was spending 15-25 every day on lunch. I was spending more on lunch than some people I knew would spend on food for their entire week.

The bonus at my current company was a massive issue for nearly everyone. It was constantly talked about for months because the company screwed up their finances and were talking ages to figure out what the bonus should be. Nearly everyone in my company comes from a middle class background and majority make decent money.

And the thing about the gym is probably on them, the gym is full of people all trying to better themselves and some of the most supportive people you will meet will be the gym. I would routinely tell people they look awesome and I was in awe, I would have random people come up and say well done to me that I was doing well. There are a few people who only want to hang around with other gym rats but 99% are just normal people. I remember talking to a woman who is super hot and even she felt intimidated by the gym.

The thing about stealing is a serious issue for working class companies. So many warehouses for example have security to search employees because they know if they don't lots of their product will walk out of the door with employees. I had friends that would talk about how they stole from their companies. I also heard a bunch of stories of people stealing when a company shut down.
You’re the top comment on HN right now. What are you exactly complaining about?
For me, it's because the hype isn't around the technology (which is the interesting part and for the most part, why we're on HN), it's around the speculation. From the outside, looks like a bunch of gamblers constantly getting each other off on whether their bets will make them millionares.

It's just...sad...at a level.
i would say but i haven't checked his data.

Generally speaking, every 10 minutes! one block is mined which is incentivived with 6 btc or roughlyl the equivilent of over 150.000$.

In avg there are 1000-2000 transactions per block.
one thing that stood out to me when i was in Southampton in the UK was that every passenger on the bus would say some form of "thank you" on their way off the bus.

So, sometimes, yeah.
The fact that nickserv is just another user and you can't be sure the network had taken precaution to avoid another using swiping the name in the event of a services outage is a problem. Add to that the (now admittedly rare) networks that don't use any form of nickserv and the phishing potential for users that don't realise that
> Both approaches work but for different demographics. You'll never see a 4Runner with a magnetic company sticker sitting in an industrial parking lot or in less well off part of town and you'll never see a Pacifica in an upscale suburban driveway.

Huh? Pacificas are everywhere, especially since they also have the only PHEV minivan in the US. In the PHEV Pacifica FB group I'm in (I do own one, so I am a bit biased here), many people have Pacificas alongside Teslas and other EVs. But even the gas Pacificas are everywhere, including "upscale suburban driveways".

Though your point does still stand about FCA/Stellantis' reputation: we had to get over their our perception of them when we got ours, and I would never consider any of their other vehicles. But our Pacifica has been a really great van. I'm just amused that you picked the one vehicle in their entire lineup that doesn't prove your point.
Long-term hodling of chocolate is still an unsolved problem in my experience. It tends to just disappear over time.
matrix.org does not, though it does have a prompt for e-mail on registration page. There's a line of text under it explaining that this is for optional opt-in contact discovery and password resets.
Thanks for sharing! I had been googling a lot to find something like this.
Most GPUs are used to mine ETH. It is by far the most profitable. Unless another POW coin becomes as valuable as ETH, demand for GPUs will drop precipitously.
Build a Bulk File Rename Tool with Python and PyQt
Nope - the author is incorrectly using total energy / total transactions to get this number. Which, is understandable. However, if there were 2x the transactions, the total energy would stay very close to the same. So no.

There's a lot of energy to secure the network, but the actual energy usage per transaction itself is a small fraction of that misquoted number.
Me too. I have never seen a group of people so ignorant and so arrogant as crypto-currency fans. I can't help but rejoice at their misfortunes.
I think the layer approach seems to make the most sense. Much like our current system now. The difference comes from building from a strong sound money base.
As a counter, I absolutely love reading about these extraordinary individuals. To be sure their intellectual standing and productivity is almost overwhelming, such that I have to study hard just to appreciate the foothills of the mountains they sprang among like heavenly goats, but their humanity, their joi-de-vivre, and most especially their historical context is hugely worthwhile knowing.

Reading of the achievements of others doesn't make me feel inadequate, rather it fills me with hope and real joy.

Yes, Mathematics is greater than mathematicians, but never forget our mathematics is still profoundly and inescapably human, and none the worse for it. Read more Mathematics!
https://matrix.org/foundation is intended to be the single source of truth for this, and has bios of the foundation board members (or Guardians, as we call ourselves as 'board members' or 'directors' sounds boring :)
Only if hashrate is decentralized, and it's not. A significant portion of all hashrate is in China.
Orrrr, the pressure bitcoin places, tying more markets to power, will create demand for more efficient power technologies.
freenode is like a public utility for many developers, now one person with some cash suddenly owns it.

maybe from now on each well-known essential OSS project like freenode should have a donation page and make it clear, unless it has enough fund to continue operations for the year its service will have to pause, so it can be self-sustainable for good.

and yes make it a non-profit for tax purposes.
I mean, that’s one hypothesis among many. An alternate hypothesis is that prison should be uncomfortable and unpleasant as a deterrent. I think it’s overly simplistic to say that punishment is about suffering—parents might punish a child for bad behavior, but the goal isn’t to make them suffer (and indeed being grounded is hardly “suffering”) but rather to teach them good behavior. So we can at least say that in some cases punishment is compatible with rehabilitation. Notably, there can be a kind of dignity in discipline, and I think there’s a subtle distinction between that kind of dignified correction and cruelty.

I can imagine a prison system with a redemptive quality where prisoners feel they’ve labored to redeem themselves to society (this requires society to esteem them accordingly to some degree) and learned a valuable trade in the process.

I think liberals (myself included) would do better to cast that vision for prison reform, rather than the current messaging which IMO comes across as hyperbolic (e.g., “literal slavery”) and naive (prison should be a comfortable place and the rest will work itself out).
I recommend the book Scarcity for anyone interested in learning more about the psychology behind this. It was written Mullainathan and Shafir, both stars in their respective fields.
The onus is on you to explain why. Why not: Smaller payloads per packet and missing out on all the TCP algorithms already implemented in hardware en route.
Crypto holding steady; USD is in a deflationary spiral /s
This may be true, in the sense that they cannot be sued at the drop of a hat, however it doesn’t mean this kind of research can’t cause legal problems for them over time. Torts are not the only problem for them to worry about. Regulation and legislation are also legal risks for them.

The general argument that it’s a bad idea for them to admit this still holds.

Generically moaning about how people are speaking from a position of being uninformed, especially when one is also uninformed, is a useless behavior here.

Bringing information or asking questions is the only way to solve that.
It is basically the 2017 “ban” or directive reiterating it and clarifying it, with some minor vague areas spelt out.

Crackdown has completely different implications.

Welcome to the world of clickbait.
ASICs have had shipping shortages for months now, there's probably a lot of people using GPUs for bitcoin again, on top of ASIC-hard "crypto""currencies" that always abuse GPUs.
i'm holding which of you apes is with me (sarcasm)
It's unfortunate that the space has attracted "pump & dump" opportunists. But if one is a student of technology and networks and markets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is fascinating. Two recent innovations to check out: Uniswap, the decentralized exchange protocol, and Bitclout, a social blockchain that just went open source last nite

https://uniswap.org/docs/v2/protocol-overview/how-uniswap-wo...

https://github.com/bitclout/core
Hmm, I've been hearing mentions of it being required since recently. But then I haven't tried it myself, so I may be wrong.
A Wyckoff Event just happened as he explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFijwQzZFuM
To expand on this a bit the average (and many even most) poor person in America will be obese AND will have to stand a large portion of the day. Imagine your cashier at your grocery store who is not allowed to have a chair at most places in America or the fast food crew running around the Kitchen.

The combination of being overweight (and sadly the author has a lot of photos so you can see she suffers more than just the average obese person) and being on your feet most of the day leads to a culture of OTC pain killers. I come from a poor background. There are two things I can guarantee about the BBQ I go to this weekend. 1) We are all going to have at least 30 pounds on us we shouldnt and 2) EVERY woman there is going to have a bottle of Aleve in her purse to the point where I wouldn't bother trying to find my wife when my inevitable back pain starts in, I will just turn and ask whichever woman is nearby with her purse in hands and I know already she's going to say "Oh of course sweety, here you go" as she pulls out two Aleve for me.
Yep, about to lose just shy of $1k here, and it stinks of bad business.

Linode and Hetzner it is for us, just as a FU back to their FU.
https://twitter.com/liberachat/status/1395009986921652233

> Hi all. The IRC network is currently experiencing technical difficulties, likely a result of a massive influx of people. We're working on fixing it.

all the people migrating from Freenode it seems
I made a web app to create presentations
The luxor light was originally 39 Xenon bulbs running at 7 kW each. 243 kW wasn't that much energy to start, but they actually run only half the bulbs now on a rotating basis. So about 120 kW.

The light costs about $51 an hour. Arguably the smallest expense involved in running a casino hotel 24 hours a day. Less than a rounding error.

They cut back to half-brightness not because of money, or energy, but because they thought the light pollution was a little excessive.

The strip is mostly solar-powered so the Luxor is basically just taking sunlight and beaming it back up into the sky.

It's not like you could take that energy and ship it elsewhere, or do something more productive with it. The Strip's solar plant exists because of The Strip. If the Strip didn't exist then you'd just have sunlight hitting rocks in the middle of the desert like everywhere else in Nevada.

Oh, and moths to a flame? That's literal. There's an entire ecosystem built up around the moths who flock to the Luxor, the bats that eat those moths, and the owls that eat those bats.
I skimmed these logs and it is not clear what legal order they are talking about or in what way there is a gag. Are there specific lines in these logs that go into detail?
This might be shocking to people, but there are people in crypto that own zero Bitcoin. You can dislike Bitcoin and still be bullish on crypto.
I Worked a Vaccine Hotline. Here’s the Big Problem with the System
I cannot find anything on the website about matters like uptime and backups?
No ones staking an entire argument on private prisons. The entire industry is an affront to humanity.

The average citizen has been staring through the wool for as long as America has been a country.

Sure, convincing bible thumpers that retributionary policies against crime make America worse is a hard sell. Doesn't mean we shouldn't make that pitch, or any other pitch that might work. I'm sick of seeing people come out of prison worse than they went in knowing that my taxes paid to worsen their lives and create more suffering.
Status Trumps Argument
Well, that not really true is it. I'm on a VPN and it works fine. They also write that they're working on being available on TOR.

Perhaps it's your VPN provider?
That's how the internet worked for decades.
Four ways of writing infrastructure as code on AWS
Maybe just a nerd then.
I just got this trying to log in to coinbase: You are now in line.
Thanks for your patience.
Your estimated wait time is 1 minute...
Aggregated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
A Wyckoff Event just happened as he explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFijwQzZFuM
They were very low key about it right up until it landed, then once they were sure it was ok they hit the domestic media pretty hard. Scenes of mission controllers hugging (somewhat awkwardly), group shots of the mission team with dramatic backdrop images, etc.

I can understand they were concerned about the risk of a problem, landing anything on Mars is hard. ESA has failed twice now, and historically about half of all missions to Mars have crapped out. It's a genuinely impressive achievement, for all the sour grapes about stealing US tech, actually implementing this stuff and following through like this is no cakewalk.

I suspect this will be pointed to as the moment China pulled ahead of Russia in space technology. Yes Russia has more achievements under it's belt, but most of that was over a generation ago. In terms of current capabilities I think this is really significant.
So I have to cover the rest(most of it)? Including a reasonable amount for the salaries of all of the employees, ad nauseum.
And that I can send money worldwide to anyone at any time with no middleman.
I thought Google was mostly buying up dark fiber (I think that's the case in my city at least). Where did they run their own, and what was the impact of the shallow runs?

edit: nvm, found it :)
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18381466/google-fiber-lou...
Well if you could do that, you would just use TLS. The public-key crypto used by SSH is a relic of when it was ridiculously expensive to get an SSL certificate for each of your routers and backend servers, but people still needed something more secure than Telnet.
Check out Saxy for XML: https://github.com/qcam/saxy

I found it to be extremely performant (especially when compared to the built in xmerl) and I like using the SAX technique.
It’s curious that BTC has peaked exactly around the day of Coinbase IPO
The constitution is entirely written, we're just not sure which documents are part of it...
The first difference can be negated by using an unplugged storage device to store the key.

The second one is trickier since you need to do processing to prove that you have a private key, so you'd have to send the key to your own computer which breaks the whole point. You could use a separate "key" computer who owns the keys and that computer is the one that proves that it has the private key, but at that point you'd be better off using a normal security key since it's basically the same thing.
But that isn't an issue where I'm from. The lifestyle difference between people with degrees and working class is tiny since the wage gaps are so small, and then add all government aids paying for everything including school lunches, daycare, college, healthcare etc on top of that. But still people from working class households perform extremely poorly. Helping them isn't about making them smarter or unlocking new potential because that doesn't work, it is simply to make everyone live a decent life.
twice in a row really, I'd say Camacho was as smart as Joe - he just didn't come from a society that knew to use water for irrigating crops.
Because the game design was better suited for mobile.

IMO, putting it on PC/console would require the game to be more complex. And allow for longer play sessions (it is a bit repettitive and grindy).
They have all shut down.
Holy shit, Marco d'Itri... that's an old, oooold name in the Italian network community... I honestly did not know he was still around.
Then you'll need to moralize air conditioning and entertainment and everything else too. These use cases aren't the problem, dirty energy is the problem. Fix the source of energy. We need to do that anyway.

Bitcoin and the Nakamoto Consensus is a breakthrough that provides a secure, global, uncensorable, decentralized store of value. With defined rules that can't be changed on the whims of a central actor. The energy is used to prevent bad actors from being able to rewrite the blockchain. Per transaction is a misleading metric (plus there are layer 2 solutions). You have to consider the energy used by militaries and banks to secure fiat.

When your government fails, as they have in many countries and eventually do in the long span of history, having such a store of value will be, well... invaluable.
It's for regression testing.
On Element desktop Settings > General > Email Addresses / Phone Numbers
In your Settings > General you'll be able to see if you're using the Identity Server, and it let you disconnect your Matrix account from the Vector.IM Identity server if you wish

https://i.imgur.com/N09ZPFp.png
My rational take is that Bitcoin's carbon footprint is more-or-less a direct function of its price. The market forces are such that you can expect mining to expand until, on average, each miner's expected reward is only a little bit higher than their electricity bill and hardware costs.

If prices come down, that is going to encourage some miners to take capacity offline, which is probably great for anyone who's interested in keeping Amsterdam dry.
Absolutely pro alternative currencies. There needs to be a “currency of the Internet” that isn’t controlled by a dozen people in a single country. It’s also just cool in a cyberpunk aesthetic sense, which is a perfectly valid reason for cryptocurrency’s existence.

Negative on the way crypto has become a financial instrument. Most of the issues you’re seeing come from the fact that coins are being used to make money, not from the inherent nature of digital currencies.

Ambivalent on Bitcoin in particular. All it really has going for it is first mover advantage. Other options like Cardano or Ethereum have far less issues. However, they still seem to be largely shaped by a small group of people, which largely defeats the purpose.

So, in sum: still waiting for the real killer cryptocurrency. It needs to be both stable and have good reasons to be adopted that aren’t, “I’ll make money from this as an investment.”