skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it?

Let's check back in ten years.

I don't know that Bitcoin-as-in-BTC will be 'the future of money' by then, but I would bet that money will continue to look more like Bitcoin than it does like today's dollar.

Like it or not, and I know a lot of you don't, cryptocurrencies aren't censorable (governments can't stop you from sending or receiving them), are hard to seize, and can't just be inflated away from storing value. These are attractive properties to a lot of people.

They are also volatile and slow energy-hogs, for the most part. The question is if those problems can be mitigated, and that strikes me as easier than fixing the bugs in government fiat money which I mentioned above.

BTC is a first mover, and has a lot of flaws relative to later entrants. It also has the bulk of the mind-share and stores the most value (for now). If they can add shielded transactions, and Lightning Network pays out, it can still win.
"[The fungus] is sexually transmissible," Kasson tells NPR. "It's a failed mating attempt, of course, because there's no genitalia back there."
> C is a minefield today, and that is the reality we must live with. You can't turn back time 25 years and change what has happened.

I think it's doable to make some of the UB issues considerably less painful. E.g. define facilities to check for overflow safely, add facilities for explicit wrapping operations.
Well, this is baked into the limited number of transactions per second. At 10 transactions per second max, the usefulness as a day to day currency is inversely proportional to its popularity. Our favorite joke coin, DogeCoin, does 10 times better at 100/sec with faster blocks, but it’s still too slow. Visa is like 2000-100,000 transactions per second depending on if you use average or theoretical maximum. Anything which wants to be usable as a day to day currency of the future should shoot for either niche uses or should shoot for 10,000-100,000 transactions per second as a minimum. 1 million to be on the safe side.

Otherwise, the more popular it is, the less usable it is as a real currency. (As the transaction fees get bid up to higher levels if transaction throughput is limited.)

(Oh, and without a custodian, the Lightning network sucks as a bandaid for this. Maybe something like that will someday be usable but it sucks right now.... and it’s not obvious how these problems will be solved in a way that doesn’t introduce a whole bunch more game theory and/or technical/resource/usability constraints.)
Pork shoulder, garlic, cumin, onion, thyme, oregano, olive oil, 1C water, salt, pepper.

Close the lid, seal the vent.

Press meat. Wait for the beep.
Man, thanks for the warning. Bought off the city at auction with 100,000 miles. Hoping it will give me another few thousand; I only need it maybe 100 miles/week.
Please research the term 'protected class', and then come back when you understand what it means.
Fastmail is good enough that I'd suggest going for the 3 year subscription for $130. Unless you've got an investment available that will earn 16.3% annual returns over that time, $130 upfront beats 3 annual payments of $50.

In general, I find it a good idea to pay for all critical net services for more than a year out, and renew them before they get down to less than a year left.

That way if something goes wrong that causes me to neglect things for a while, things won't expire on me. I could lose my job, have my possessions wiped out in a disaster, become seriously ill or injured, all during a major economic downturn, and it is nice knowing that if I recover my domains will still be mine and my email will still work.
FYI California today is significantly wetter than California was a thousand years ago. Paleoclimatological studies have revealed that the past 150 years in California were unusually wet; they find tree trunks at the bottom of lakes and rivers, showing that those used to be dry land hundreds of years ago. California drying up now is a return to the baseline.

Bad news for those hoping the lush California their grandparents remember might be restored. It is very likely that California will continue to become much drier than anybody in living memory remembers.
Think this is over the top Worst case put git repo on LAN.
Designing Winterbloom's Big Honking Button
> Uniball Signo 207/307

The signos are pretty good pens. I especially love the flow as it compares to Fountain, but the stroke width could be a bit less.
You have fine taste, my friend. I felt a little bit like an idiot making this choice, but once I came out of the closet the number of people who thought it was a good idea was downright gratifying.
I purchased a battery powered hedge trimmer and edger. Things work great! Still on a gas powered trimmer though, is your 18v?
I still don't understand this mindset of Bitcoin becoming the future of money. It isn't. It never was meant to be, and it never advertised itself as such.

Bitcoin solves the issue of trust. Bitocin itself will never work as a currency that governments can rely.

First reason for that is that governments want control over their money. There has to be a central authority for multiple reasons. Banks need bailing out? As much as I'm against bail-out, sometimes the damage of not bailing them can be far greater than not bailing them out. Need the £85k insurance that your money is safe in any bank?

Governments need control of their own currency. Bitcoin does not provide that.

I see Bitcoin more as a commodity. Something like gold, and just like gold, the supply must be finite. This is something Bitcoin provides.

There is nothing stopping a government from building their own cryptocurrency that they'll have control over, but that gets rid of the main selling point of Bitcoin, that is that you don't have to trust individuals (for the most part anyway).
Oh I see! From my experience, the companies that I've seen selling user data have no alternative revenue stream substantial enough to stop them from hemorrhaging money. They may also be giving most of their revenue back to their users or losing money every time their service is used. While building YSplit, we made sure it would make money every time it's used and that we would be able to upsell users on more features in the future. And the app is successfully achieving both at the moment.
Exchange reporting requirements, existing fiat bank reporting infra, as well as https://www.chainalysis.com/ and similar chain surveillance products.

From experience, Chainalysis is already in use with government financial regulators and law enforcement.
That's true not just about accents, but about any language. But whether the parties communicating have enough time to actually learn each other's dialects is another question entirely (and usually no, there isn't).

Also, you can get used to a teenager saying "like" every second word and ending every single sentence by raising their pitch, or with excessive vocal fryyyyy. Ar tarnang avary vawaaal to aaah. But it doesn't necessarily mean that's effective communication style.

There are dialects and accents that are actually less articulate than others. So even if you get used to them, it helps, but you still get less information content, and more dialect-specific ambient ornamentation (like some of the teen-speak examples I mentioned above).
I feel like it would get really complicated to determine cost basis and actual capital gains if you did not do this. But maybe it's easy and I am missing something.
Most drug transactions are made offline. People who regularly buy drugs have a trusted source with whom they transact for years.
I just get basic CSV silicone earplugs. Nothing special, but they work surprisingly well and only cost $10.

Foam earplugs are supposed to me more effective, but apparently harder to wear and sometimes less comfortable.
It's unfortunate. I'm guessing it's because people need that dopamine hit of getting a notification, just for them.
How does mining work in proof of stake models?

This isn't intended to be a gotcha, I genuinely don't know. I've mostly just heard the term "proof of stake" without much explanation, and the Wikipedia doesn't mention mining at all.
I'm finding it to be used a hell of a lot more in countries with precarious economies like where I've been spending most of my adult life. In brazil especially I've seen a lot of facilitation of adoption of crypto. I know because I've developed the systems myself, from everything to paying your phone bill to bus tickets, although bitcoin is hardly the only or best option for these things
That's the reason why so few people buy pickups in Europe. Vans are better in many ways (you can transport 9 people; get more cargo, especially when you remove seats; better weather resistance, you can use it a storage when you live in a flat, better for transporting a dog)

"VW Transporter is not sold in the US market because it is classed as a light truck, accruing the 25% chicken tax on importation." - US is missing out on these.
> Since modern computers have 10000x more memory to clean up

The understated insane part of this is that emulating a 100mhz ARM CPU with 128kb of RAM apparently takes gigabytes of RAM to accomplish. What on earth is that emulator doing?
The author is Michael Green.
Yes I read this but it still needs some explanation. I can maybe understand that the infected insect still wants to mate even without genitalia, but why do the sane ones fall for it?

I guess I need to learn more about cicada mating habits.
I recently used this analogy to describe why I’m bearish on crypto.

When Netscape Navigator was released, it was clear and obvious this was the future (and if anything, underpromised based on where we are today).

Within 4years of Navigators release, I was making my fulltime living building websites.

The iPhone was another immediate “this is obviously the future” technology.

13 years into Bitcoin, it’s still not obvious.
Volatile is the only reasonably thing you said
Interesting. I tried Wipr on macOS Safari for a couple weeks about a year ago, and there was effectively no ad blocking on YouTube, Twitch, or Twitter, which is coincidentally where I spend the bulk of my time.

It was a frustrating experience, I've tried Safari multiple times over the years since it is so much better on battery life, but Chrome always wins in usability and adblocking.

I switched back to Chrome + uBlock Origin and could use those sites ad-free again. Well, except for Twitch, since they found a workaround for adblockers last year.
As Delphi programmer, I have so far been avoiding libcurl successfully, and spent years rewriting curl because I need to make HTTP requests

At first it was simple. I was making Windows apps and Windows has an API for HTTP requests. Just call wininet with the url, and it handles everything. No need to use someone's library if there is a standard OS API. And it is fully integrated in Windows, you get the default proxy settings and user-defined HTTPS certificates. It even shares cookies with the internet explorer (which I did not want, so I wrote my own cookie parser)

Then I made a linux port. Suddenly there is no API. But I also avoid C, since it is unsafe, while Delphi/Pascal has memory safe strings and arrays. So I needed a HTTP Pascal library. There are several libraries, which also support other protocols I have never heard of. Then I used the synapse library. It is really causing a lot of problems. Incomplete cookie handling, no gzip encoding, OpenSSL messing everything up...

Then I made an Android port. The standard stable system library was Apache HttpComponents, so I use that. Shortly after, Google makes a new Android version, and removes Apache HttpComponents. Then I had to find a new library.

In hindsight all the porting were useless projects. I should have told people to use WINE and be done with it. A stable API is much better than a library. Or write my own HTTP client from the start, which would have been much easier than switching libraries all the time. Especially if I have to implement half of it (header parsing, OpenSSL interfacing) anyways when the libraries do not work properly
I agree that centralization is a real risk, but I don't buy for a minute that your self-hosted Zulip instance is apt to have lower unplanned downtime than Slack.
I’ll get my top people on it right away
Ironically the UK is pretty much a handful of islands. I don't think the islandness means much.
Does the BTC legally belong to the company, or the users, if it was given by mistake? Would they be within their rights to sue for it to be restored?

I'm assuming it works the same way as for errors involving fiat currency, but I'm not clear on what the law says in that situation either.
There is a service worker registered on the domain name, for example https://nextjs-agaw8i--3000.local.webcontainer.io/, then when you visit this URL in another tab it basically shares the service worker from the stackblitz tab.
> I like to claim English "stole" all those French word then proceeded to misspell and massacre them.

Fair enough, but then French is nothing more than horribly misspelled, massacred and ungrammatical Latin.

Of course the same could be said about any other current language, after replacing Latin with whatever our ancestors spoke a couple of thousand years ago.
Yeah Twitter’s video compression is practically a parody of bad video compression.
Colonial shutdown shows how Americans pay the price of efficiency
I bought a set of carbon steel pans and my cast iron ones fell into complete disuse.

Especially carbon steel crepes pans (https://www.debuyer.com/en/poele-a-crepes-mineral-b-1472.htm...) are completely unbeatable. I have two of them and I can feed a small crowd of family and friends faster than they can eat. Nothing sticks if you take proper care.

The best thing, they are dirt cheap.
Once "Have fun being poor" started becoming a battle cry, I realized how completely perverted the original concept had become.
"Even I" is pretty common for native speakers, although it's normally used to break an assumption rather than being a full replacement for "I also".

For example: you are in a class and someone asked a question about a topic. The person next to you turns and says "I can't believe they don't understand this topic." Your neighbor is making the assumption that you also understand it. So if you didn't understand the topic, a response could be "Nah, even I had some questions about it."

Although someone could definitely use it to be condescending, or just trying to be cheeky.
> It seems kind of crazy to me that people were using a GC language on a device with 128kB of memory.

Look up JavaCard which apparently is a thing that still exists. It uses the Java language without a GC - that programming environment is truly miserable to work with.
A John Deere 2025r compact tractor. Four-wheel drive, with a diesel engine. I have a bucket and a set of pallet forks for the front-end loader, along with the front-mounted snow blower, a five foot rear grader blade, and a Tractor Supply three-point carry-all frame that I built into a dump body. I have about five acres of land, and it's almost the perfect swiss army knife piece of equipment for that size of property.

The build quality is good. Maintenance is easy, with all of the grease points easily accessible. I really like the John Deere quick connect system for the loader implements, compared to the skidsteer-style, and the loader is also really easy to take on and off when I'm switching to the snow blower. It has a hydrostatic transmission exactly like that on their lawn tractors, so it is dead simple to drive. The hydraulics are smooth, and it has a float setting that is really handy when plowing snow or back-dragging dirt to level areas out with the bucket.

I've done a lot of work with it, moving dirt, moving rocks, pulling stumps, clearing snow, twitching logs, and just picking things up an moving them around, that would have taken so much longer and been more difficult without it.
Bitcoin crashed again! This time 55% in 35 days from $65k April 12th (Coinbase IPO) to $30k yesterday. It is as we speak only up 400,000,000% now from a penny a decade ago to $40k now. It will continue to fail and suck and destroy the environment at higher and higher prices. Proof of stake is already a proven successful replacement for Proof of work and saves the environment. This makes some people very angry though, because, well, uh, because they don't own any. Cryptocurrency is 99% scams. That 1% though. It really is changing the world. I'm a biased piece of trash founder in the space though, so don't listen to anything I say.
And who is to blame for so few transactions fitting in a single block? What is the energy consumption of the petrodollar-backed wars in the middle east? Presenting numbers without discussing the alternative is sophistic misdirection.
That gets access to the repo, but not issues, actions, code reviews, etc etc.
I think of the odd fact that Oracle has been sued by old white men who think they've been laid off in preference to young south asians and by young south asians who think that Oracle exploits them by paying a less than market rate.

Both are right.
What happens when somebody doesn’t pay their share of the bill?
If you've seen it happen once, you've seen it a million times. You start with earnest, driven people set out to solve a major problem long term, and then the vultures set in. They cripple the regulation so it's either worthless or exploitable in the name of compromise, and when they learn how to game it, they fight to lock it into place so they can continue to subvert it legally.

This is how medical pricing in the US got to where it is, for instance.
> at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it

At what cost? Even with the occasional outages, Slack is still more cost effective than having your own person (or team for larger organizations) handle your communication software.
I don't follow Bitcoin's software development much, but to anyone familiar with the matter it should be clear that Bitcoin and it's community are rather conservative on "technological improvements".

But I've been surprised recently when I read that taproot had been merged into Bitcoin Core. An extension that's supposed to enable smart contracts.

I guess one day we'll see the fiat event of Bitcoin, when consuming energy will be removed from its algorithm. I hope it happens sooner rather than later.
It is electron...
This criteria certainly seems to point in that direction: "Activists, organizers, and other influential individuals". I mean, they don't quite outright come out and say that they verify people for advocating for causes that Twitter supports, but I don't think there's any other way to read "activist" really.
Is the open source version (Kona) any good? Or do we have to go proprietary to try this out?
We have a little forum with a niche community. Few months ago we have closed the registration, because of spam and also because we had people posting questionable stuff and then reporting it to the hosting provider. There is not much money from ads, it barely covers the servers. Moderators do not always have time to react quickly to something stupid.

Probably many other communities will be forced to close with either having to move to Facebook or other privacy hostile platforms.

Then there is EU terreg - we have some members from the EU, so we would have to boot them out or create a legal entity in the EU to process content removal requests as I understand, in a year or so. There is no money for that.
Sad times for the internet...
AfterShokz Aeropex bone conducting headphones.

I'm not an audiophile but not having my ears obstructed while hearing music/podcasts/meetings is a game changer.

Definitely not for everyone but I bet most folks who are curious about them probably would like them more than they expect, and worst case you can just return them right?
Well, it doesn't. It replaces a fuzzy set of middleman with another.

And there isn't enough attention to the Bitcoin governance to make it better than the government-based system. Cryptocoin people don't even want to discuss governance, because they like to believe there's nothing to govern and nobody governing.
Surely many people had similar POUW ideas - I myself had that thought in 2011 when I first heard of Bitcoin as I was doing Folding@Home back then - any idea why isn't it in common usage now? It makes me think there are serious hurdles to overcome (not my area of expertise...).
Lol wut? Thousands of brilliant programmers who work for top tech companies push bug fixes and android gets a security update every few months. We are people, people make mistakes, we're not some code fairy queen.
I keep running into the issue that blockchain seems to have very few legal uses that a centralized database isn't better for. Remittances seems to be the best use case with actual usage. But that doesn't really need anything. Every thing else seems like tech demos with no real world application or ways to do illegal things more efficiently.

Is there a use case someone really likes that blockchain seems like the best tool for the job?
Disclaimer: I'm generally cheap.

Pilot G2 pen - I bought it after someone recommended it and it is indeed a pleasure to write with it.

Ryzen 5 2400G - it has a good enough GPU to play some nice games with Steam Proton. In future I would like to make a Mini-ITX build for it.

Canon EOS M100 with pan cake lens - it's almost as small as a compact, but has big APS-C sensor. I bought a used body. I noticed lately how my old photos are so much better then later ones. The difference between a compact and a first gen Pixel is noticeable. With this it's even further. But with pandemics there was no much use of it lately.
Actual minivans are cheap in the used market right now. They seem to be out of fashion. If I didn’t already have a Toyota sienna I would be buying one used.
If bitcoin truly solved the issue of trust there would be no need for all of the various intermediaries who have popped up to insert themselves into the transactions. Also, there wouldn’t be nearly as many scams.
> I certainly remember downtimes, and netsplits bad enough that it would have made team collaboration impossible depending on who was connected to what.

But it certainly wasn't all the entire IRC network(s). Which is the parent's point. Slack is centralized.

It was a common practice back then to have one "server". You would be hard-pressed to find mentions of "high availability" as servers were a very scarce resource. Small networks sometimes repurposed existing machines that were serving other workloads and added the IRC daemon.
I'm not discounting your experience, I was pushing back on the idea that you shouldn't deglaze in a cast iron pan.

Deglazing itself is a very fast process, usually seconds. If you are doing something over an hour, it's likely simmering. If you did that in a sauce that was still acidic (rather than had some acid thrown in to deglaze or whatever) then I could see that being a problem.
Crypto industry faces regulatory scrutiny from SEC, CFTC, IRS, others
Bone conducting headphones for running: Titanium AfterShockz. Love them, and not just because they don't block ambient sounds, but also the sound is almost unaffected by the wind, whereas all the other headphones would get completely drowned out by the wind whistling.

Vaccum: Henry. Don't know if you can buy it outside UK, but it is the perfect vacuum. I tried robotic one a few years back (Eufy) but my floor is full of obstacles like stools, shoes, backpacks, etc, so the poor thing would get stuck all the time.

Home computer: Airtop from CompuLab. I am very annoyed by fan noise so quiet or silent computer has always been a must for me. Airtop is by far the best one I could find or build. Expensive though...
Cool, it's being treated just like the USD is. And it's for businesses only. Just like the USD regulation.