skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gymnastic rings and Kettlebells, having so much fun working out with these two tools.
And this was very good. You didn't have to search the internet for keyboard shortcuts like it is today the case.
That's the entire point. I don't want to "pay" with my data and have no idea how it's being used. It's why I pretty much don't use any online services unless forced to.
Bitcoin is deflationary, and every modern economy is run on inflation.

Bitcoin is popular with the types who hold gold and are mad that the bag of cash under their mattress loses value every year.

Deflation is bad for economies, it incentives hoarding instead of spending. And oh look, bitcoin is primary hoarded, and at 10 TPS is definitely not optimized for spending.
You do not trade 1 stock for another, you have to sell it, wait t+2 days for it to clear, then use those proceeds to buy the other stock. It's not the same in any manner.
And this is why I don't do shrooms.
That's because browsers and phones do not disrupt the whole banking system and the way we think about money. There is a tremendous amount of push-back on cryptocurrencies coming from very influential places that stand a lot to lose.
Bitcoin is a protocol; it’s not going anywhere.

Like nearly all mainstream articles, this one is quite shortsighted.

It’s like saying the TCP/IP protocol has failed in the early 90s when there were many competitors that were more popular.

I’m old enough to remember when you had to install a TCP/IP as an add-on to Mac OS and Windows.

Let’s look back at this article when Fidelity’s bitcoin ETF is approved later this year…
Why? My central IRC node at a previous job had a better uptime than slack, and my previous company Gitlab server has lower unplanned downtime than Github...

The key is that when I do my maintenances (on gitlab, for example) I can take the thing offline to do my work, which makes it much easier than trying to canary a change.

It means I can plan a rollback or keep the backup in place.

It's not that I'd have a higher uptime than slack really (though, I have experienced this) it's that the downtime works for the company and if it ever did fail we have the knowledge to fix it on our own schedule.

I know that's scary to some, but it's a comfort to others.
In short, anyone with coins can put them in a special state (they're unspendable temporarily) in order to vote on which chain is correct. So you vote with your "stake" (coins) instead of with your computational power. I don't think it's called mining in PoS usually.
A safer, greener way to make solar cells
"when we force technology companies to make calls about what is right or wrong - or what is “likely to have adverse psychological or physical impacts” on children - we end up in a dangerous place of centralising and regulating relative morals"

I told myself to laugh when I read this line. As it stands now, a small group of Facebook and Google executives determine what peasants are allowed to think and see on a daily basis based on their "relative morals". Not that politicians are any better, but at least some people did vote for them, and that counts for something.

Let's be real here, anyone with time on their hands should click on foundation, and go check each of their grant histories. I am not even going to agree or disagree with the legislation, but I'm going to bet the money trail will explain this letter.
Sure, you do for some things, as most people do. And many people find a lot of value in no middleman for other things. This is not contradictory.
It's funny to me that you think its failed terribly, but it consistently grows year after year in adoption and value. The irony of this crowd especially having hindsight with the development of computers and the internet; being able to see what 90s internet looked like compared to today.

The Bitcoin network does exactly what it functionality sought out to do. The human speculative layer on top of it is what's confusing you, because the nature of monetary goods is confusing. Your dismissal of it shows your unfamiliarity with what money is, and your unwillingness to learn.
>I argued for the contraction "amn't" through sixth grade, but my teachers kept correcting it.

I asked my high school English teacher the proper way to contract "should not have" in writing; I was trying my hand at short stories, and I wanted it in the dialogue. She said it wasn't a thing. Not that there's no standard convention, but that it's not a thing.

Despite me saying and hearing "shouldn't've" all the time.
Adding GraphQL Wrapper over REST API
> decent eBook reader

I love my RM2 for sketching and notes, but the eBook experience is like comically bad. It doesn't even get tabs right for me most of the time.

edit: looks like a recent update might have addressed this. time to give it another shot!
By now I know more people who stopped working in security rather than people who kept working in the field.
WAG: does it have anything to do with dissolved gases slightly changing the physics of the water, making it a case of the waves seeing it as a transition between materials.
Imports Are Endorsements
DogeCoin Mining on Laptop
SUSE Bridges the Gap Between OpenSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Just FYI you can get the same thing on Aliexpress for $20. I've used one for 2 years and it worked out great, still holding strong.
Yeah this article is a bit dramatic. As evil as the rich people who try to recover debts may be, children are not legally responsible for their parent's debts.
> In my mind it's 100% not okay to (by default) optimize away a check for integer overflow.

But a + 100 > a is not a check for overflow. If a >= INT_MAX - 100, it is an overflow. The "will this operation overflow" check would be a >= INT_MAX - 100, and GCC would not optimize that away.
Bitcoin isn’t meant to be money. I think the volatility is mostly related to China banning cryptocurrency. Elon moves the needle only a little IMO.
"In yearly cicadas, the fungus makes them instead become hypersexual from psilocybin — the same chemical found in psychedelic mushrooms."

I don't understand what's being said here. The fungus causes them to eat magic mushrooms?

Edit: This is a better article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/massospo...
Gotta say, "depends on the operation" was the most unfortunate possible answer to my question, alas :-) Maybe one day we'll figure out how to make a consistent array language ;-)
Do The Real Thing
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thin...
I highly recommend http://acquired.fm podcast. They cover these companies and many others.

Being a grey beard, their episode on Tencent and the freemium business model kinda blew my mind.
Probably a different amount of dissolved gasses as well.
Not that PoW and PoS are not themselves consensus algorithms but generally in PoS-using algorithms you just sign blocks, or "votes", etc with a private key that's been committed to with some amount of stake.

In the case of Ethereum for example, a random number generator decides a set of stake that may produce the next block and when it's your turn you make a simple digital signature on place of where BTC miners brute-force a hash collision.

In the case of Avalanche, nodes choose random stakers on their own and perform a repeated subsample across the staker set. Stakers respond with votes signed by a key thay was committed to when the staker first staked their coins.
2019 Chrysler Pacifica with the advanced driving aids (adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist). I have three kids and the minivan is just amazing. I never thought I'd own one, but I'm a convert for life. The engine has enough power to be fun, the cargo volume to haul things is amazing. The ride is comfortable. I splurged on the upgraded alpine sound system - the top end Harman Kardon system didn't sound better enough to justify the extra cost.

I think I'll upgrade to the AWD model in a few years and that will probably be the last ICE car I ever buy.
> Creditors can only go after the assets of the estate. One does not inherit debts.

They sometimes do go after the family, hoping to trick them into paying. I'm sure they get a lot of folks to pay, too.
Many keep saying that BTC is like gold, an edge against inflation. I disagree. I think that one of fundamental problem with inflation is that banks pay almost zero interest rates, thus USD sitting in your bank account lose value overtime.

Now, what if banks were to offer decent interests rates? To at least compensate the inflation rate? Wouldn't that solve the "inflation" problem?

This is possible today with DeFi and stable crypto like USDT, platform like Celsius; where they pay you up to 10% interest rates on your $$$ sitting ducks.
Think about that for a second 10% !

If banks were not as greedy as they are and share more profits with their customers, inflation wouldn't be that big of a deal.
totally lost newbie here: but what is the difference between running javascript on the browser and running node.js on the browser?
Yes, I've wondered if there's any advantage to using twitter if you've to say something more than a single tweet. Is there any blocker to using good old blogs for this? There's no rule that a blog should be at least a page long; it can be short.
Generally the way P2P applications dealt with this is by assigning one peer as the "host" that would disperse one single source of truth among all the other peers (granted there are security problems here if the host peer is running a hacked or modded client). If the host dropped, the peers would use a consensus algorithm to pick a new host, exactly the same as how database clusters pick a new writer node if the old one dies.

It may be easier for devs to use the server model, but it's also more expensive - standing up centralized servers that can scale to millions of users is $$$. I think there would be a lot more P2P software competing with server-based software if NAT wasn't a thing, because software companies would be able to build extremely scalable software without having to pay for the hosting costs themselves. While Google Docs has to handle millions of users, if I were to "host" my own document I would only care about handling my friends - maybe two or three or up to a few dozen, but it would be very rare that I would host a document for 1000+ people. Developing an application that can handle a few dozen connections would be much simpler than one that handles millions, I believe.
Hey Andra! Love your project. Is there anything you can can share already about how distrikts will pay for their hosting costs on the Internet Computer?
+1 on Lutron Caseta. Another plus with them as that you can get the remote and create a 3-way switch for your lights if you don't have one. I had the living room switch at the front door only. I changed the two gang wall plate at the kitchen to a three gang wall plate and mounted the remote in the wall plate. It is so thin that it can just set against the dry wall and no hole is needed.
I got some bone conducting ear phones lately and really hate them ... both the 30€ and the 120€ versions I tried.

Super cheap sound ... basically no bass response.

My brain got used to it thou and I still use them daily, listing to (mostly speech) podcasts on the (bike) commute.
> PL/Rust could be fun, too.

--> https://github.com/zombodb/plrust "A Rust procedural language handler for PostgreSQL"

and PL/Julia work in progress:

* GSOC2021 "Create procedural language extension for the Julia programming language"

* https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#67439132530442...
I truly hope that bitcoin is not the future. It is one of the most wasteful things that humans do in terms of computational power. We have huge amounts of energy wasted, causing environmental damage, basically to perform financial speculation.
Same here. After getting rid of our scratched teflon pans, we bought large and small de Buyer carbon steel pans. We have 2 cast iron pans also, but barely use them anymore. The lighter carbon steel ones are much more versatile.

We do, however, still use our cast iron griddle for making bacon in the oven. Comes out perfect every time.

For anyone reading who is new to carbon steel, the trick to non-stick cooking is making sure the pan gets hot. And if something does stick? It pretty much wipes right off while the pan is still hot.
Yawn.

It isn't open source. It has a name, WebContainers, that implies it's based on the web, but it's designed around Node.js which isn't built on browser technologies as much as something like Skypack or Deno.

It also seems like it's going to be a memory, disk, and CPU hog, and that it's going to be pretty complex. I like where Skypack is headed and this seems like the opposite direction.

It's pretty cool but it seems like they're trying to create a lot of hype around it.
You're right. It was originally supposed to be a useful tool. Now it's just a speculative pump and dump scheme.
So much this. I thought it was a joke the first time I read about it and I still can't believe people(plenty of which work in the tech field too) are buying into it. One notable example is a guy who has been retiring "next year" since 2014 with cryptocurrencies.
> The Tesla Model 3 is an amazing car that completely ruins all other cars for me. I can't imagine driving anything else right now.

Imagine having the money to buy one of these.
I was talking about what’s possible for content creators to do on the web platform we have today, not whether it’s possible for browser vendors to make something AMP-like work at the browser level in future.

On your last sentence: no I don’t think so. There’s got to be some overhead in setting up a new JS/DOM environment, parsing the HTML and CSS, determining security constraints for the new domain name, stuff like that.
I am sad to see that our profession hasn't figured out how to make a decent desktop app with local-storage (that continues working at least in minimal fashion when the server is out of commission).

Slack, Teams, they are all similar. Many times I open the Teams window back from a coffee break and I get a blank page. The software can't even detect that it is a blank page being displayed and some progress ball / beach ball whatever.

I say this in the middle of attempting a Tauri desktop app. I am sure my app will have the same problems, but my other options are even worse.
Why does it matter to me if all of slack goes down at once?

I only interact with "my" slack. There is no material difference to my team's experience if "all of slack" goes down vs "our standalone chat server" goes down.

The only relevant issue is whether or not Slack's team creates a more reliable service than my poorly maintained homegrown solution.
Not really. This legislation is not something the electorate knew about, let alone discussed, when they were voting in the current government.

It's just one of those things a government with a large majority keeps quiet about until it's got plenty of time between elections to bring it up and push it through before the next one.
Give your IT folks some slack. (hah) We use the hosted jira and it is slow and has random misbehaviours too. Altough can’t remember any complete outages.
Or possibly just standing on the shoulders of people standing on the shoulders of people standing on...
"it's either off by one error or caching problem" -- Carmack probably
Here's a solution, though I don't know how the IRS views this:

1) Buy "dirty" ETH through a KYC exchange like Coinbase

2) Send to tornado.cash

3) Wait a few days, remove from tornado.cash

4) You now have "clean" ETH uncorrelated with your identity

5) Use one of the many DeFi non-KYC exchanges to get whatever crypto you want

The blockchain trail would just show that you sent to tornado.cash, and nothing after. This could be an interesting problem for US regulatory pariahs.

Whether tornado.cash survives will determine the future of ETH. Is it a free, global exchange network? Or will it cripple under regulatory pressure? As the US continues to debase its currency (and regulatory institutions), it will not go down without a fight.
Yeah for sure, without giving away too much PII on myself or advertising -- you don't see it on this page, but the company I had worked for can do cool stuff like load up a prepaid contactless mastercard on a wearable wristband with crypto you can just go and buy at a lottery ticket stand. I don't think that North America has solutions like this, but I worked on the integration myself and while I am not in that country anymore it was still impressive and something I wish I could easily use worldwide

https://atarpay.com/

I think my favorite explanation of latin america is like 'yeah its kind of cyberpunk these days just more horizontal than vertical'

ah ok here's a video of someone doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtAcRonh8dU [ - ATAR BAND, Pagamento rápido e fácil do banco amigo das criptomoedas !!! ]
> It sounds more natural

Weeeell, there's more to it than that. English has a rich vocabulary, why not use it? Just like there is more to a palette than primary colors, why restrict yourself?

Me, I enjoy using "five dollar words" where they fit, I also enjoy inserting slang, obscure puns, deliberate misspellings, foreign words, all to add some texture and color. Wakarimasu ka?

My father was felled by Alzheimers. What was interesting is his sentences became an incomprehensible jumble of words, but the words were from a well educated man's vocabulary. He never sounded pretentious, it was just how he talked.

(My family does not hail from English aristocracy as far as I can discern. He was the first to attend college.)
Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities
Create a small simple product/service, try everything you know and read about to see if you can make it successful.

If you succeeds try and sell the company sell or expand the business.

If not move on to another product, rinse and repeat.

It's not different than any other thing in this world. Start small, use your experience to gradually build bigger and bigger.
I don't know - my mom and dad both subsistence farmed in Poland in the 50s through 70s (and largely never stopped). For sure we had to eat weeds (I continue to), and sometimes steal some "not great" potatoes or other vegetables or fruits. Don't knock it till you try though, those "weeds" are often waaaaay more nutritious than the store-bought bullshit, and often much more delicious. Unfortunately, often those 'weeds' were cultivated by a single family (and kept in the family and protected as a secret to surviving the next big one), and now they're nothing but a memory.
It's hard to judge even as a PoC in a sample of 4 and just one gene. I hope the research will expand into statistically substantial samples and various different genes.
You can still have multiple origins or email patches if you really need to commit here and now.

At least you can still work when your Git server goes down. And if your Git server is GitHub, you can keep working on your code and not have to go play sysadmin with your Git server.
Agree that the way an argument for privacy is framed determines the support from the average person.

I've heard a number of times people saying that they have nothing to hide, yet would not give my unreserved access to their phone when I ask. Then I try to explain to them that Google, Apple, etc. are doing the same thing except they're not asking permission and they just don't seem to care. The convinience of having an Alexa that they can talk to whenever is worth more to them than the possibility that these companies can be listening in on them. Until an event that causes real fear of privacy loss occurs, I don't think many will take it seriously.
This is already required, even for person-to-person transactions. Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken do this. However I find it highly unlikely people do this voluntarily or will do this now voluntarily. Tools like Tornado.cash make it easy to “warp” funds into Defi land and then back out later with plausible deniability.
esbuild is perfect for adding to a go server app that needs to do some basic bundling. Just add it as a go module dependency, add a few go generate comments to use it to bundle your JS code, and you're done--you don't need nodejs or anything else installed.
I'm curious about the net societal effect of a large fraction of successful people investing in their children's education. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense that previous selection would lead to this type of psychology (i.e., selection favors parental investment when it increases fitness, which is particularly true when humans are near carrying capacity, see K-selection). However, this pattern leads to increasing inequity and, historically, societal instability (which would favor R-selection).
everything in this society is good for corporations because they own the politicians and write all of the laws. so it’s a competition between corporations who all want to pay below a living wage. in this case the employees are rational actors waiting for what they consider value. corporations can either not have employees, pay their employees what it costs to get them to walk in the door in the morning, or declare war on humanity and search out the least self respecting people on the planet to be wage slaves on their race to the bottom.
Bedbugs are a particularly interesting species, in that they practice traumatic insemination[0]. The male, in order to overcome female resistance, rips through her abdomen to deposit his sperm. Large, confined bedbug colonies often go extinct for this reason: all the females end up dead from repeated traumatic insemination.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination
I wonder if any companies have experimented with intentional occasional slack 'outages'?

Maybe 1-3pm daily?

I've seen some of the Gitlab Gospels that describe how to not use slack or whatever messaging tool they use in excruciating detail, and it made me think...

...if it requires this much instruction on how _not_ to use it, then maybe there is a tool that is a bit more intuitive.
Rod Logic and Mechanical Computation (2015)
> “As with cash transactions, businesses that receive cryptoassets with a fair-market value of more than $10,000 would also be reported on,” the Treasury Department said in a report on tax-enforcement proposals released Thursday.

Nothing to see here. It's part of a pattern of explicitly stating that for regulatory purposes, Bitcoin works like a currency, but for tax purposes Bitcoin works like an asset.
Your competition gives away free money. That’s, hard to compete with. Also, I’m not sure what people think the margins are in most industries, but there isn’t a lot of wiggle room to raise wages unless you are Walmart. If you want wages to go up, costs need to be passed on to consumers and thus you have the that nasty “inflation” word that gets thrown around a lot.
for what its worth i think adobe pays devon to work on tooling (parcel and react aria|spectrum) somewhat full time and he even has a team around him. but no doubt its just extraordinarily hard to do regardless
To the side.
I'm sure that Nintendo's Virtual Console emulator series has made them quite a bit of money.
That's a fun one. How would they have accounted for its potential effects on the US monetary systems?
Ah, it's nostalgia-a-clock.
I worked on Skype for J2ME with a 3-4 person dev team. Custom UI kit, 128x128 screens, 128kb available memory and other fun limitations..
I think we re-wrote our text rendering/styling/wrapping code more times than there were actual releases of the app :)

I honestly miss these times - it sparked so much creativity when one needed to achieve something in such a limited environment.
It's the same with GDPR. When I worked for a large enterprise, we had a legal/compliance team of dozens of people and a huge outsourced legal budget. When I worked in the startup of my wife, it was me implementing GDPR compliance.