skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious answer is censorship resistance.

If you want an example, for why censorship resistance is useful, you can look back at 2011, when donations were stopped, to wikileaks, even though they were not charged with any crimes.

Crypto donations worked for them though. Bring up whatever thing that you want, about the problems, but at the end of the day, crypto donations worked for them, and visa didn't.

It is useful, to be able to make transactions to other people, in situations where banks, or credit card processors, attempt to block the transactions (even though no one has been charged with any crimes!)
Don't sweat it, in hindsight the tool just isn't for me (though it was great while it suited my needs). I'm affraid one reason for these issues is that parcel tries to do everything at once with as little configuration as possible. When it works: great. When it doesn't: not-so-great.

Sure the out of date dependancies thing could be seen as a problem with post-css plugins that require a newer version, but the unfortunate fact is that in webdev land, everything seems to evolve at a breakneck pace, foregoing backwards compatability. And when some part doesn't match, the buildtool suddenly becomes unusable. (webpack is way less easy to setup, the flipside is you can for example choose your postcss version)
Trying to figure out where a github outage actually really impacted us in any meaningful long-term manner in the past five yeears. maybe we couldn't ship code for a couple hours, but all those PRs still did get out in an eventual timely fashion? I suppose there might be some people who had a service outage at the same time and their restrictive pipelines could only take tweaks via github, which would suck, but I'm guessing a majority of people, it's not worth hosting and maintaining all this infra yourself?
I have no doubt that Bitcoin specialists are very smart people but they keep advocating a dumb-simple brute force algorithm to secure their money even after people state the obvious that it wastes vast amounts of electricity for very little benefit and a great deal of harm to the majority of humanity. Can they secure their Bitcoin with a smarter algorithm? Apparently not, because they are too busy being greedy and denying the truth.
Nothing says "revolution" like your freewheeling capitalist invention getting co-opted by financial giants.
> The difference is that Indian English exists almost entirely as a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) language

A huge number of kids in India learn English as their first and only language. Especially kids born in cities, whose parents' linguistic backgrounds differ.

> it'll never sound as natural

It already sounds perfectly natural to everyone here.

> It's not the language of the street or the discourse.

Wrong. India is not homogeneous like that. In Bangalore, an Indian walking into a shoe shop on Brigade Road will get addressed by the shopkeeper in English. Or an Indian visiting a pub in Koramangala, also gets addressed by the waiter in English. The consumption numbers of English news channels, English newspapers, etc. should give you an idea of the prevalence of English here.
There's Liberland, an attempt at a libertarian country, but it's still far from being an actual country.
Consent to mate is in fact fairly distinctive to human beings. It's certainly not a concept which applies to insects such as cicadas, which just jump on each other and do the business.
Used pickup prices have been bonkers for a couple of years now.
Hardware:
I bought a pair of Kef LS50 bookshelf studio monitors for my desk. I can't live without these.

Beyerdynamic DT 770 pro 250 ohm.
Another legendary pair of headphones which I use everyday.

Also bought a Samsung 32 inch 4K monitor that made a huge difference in my life in terms of productivity
Strictly material: after a decade and a half of laptops only, a workstation takes the win by a very long shot. And with 2x 14-core xeons and 64 GB memory I feel like a new man. GPU is a bit on the low side but now is not the time for GPU's so I'll stick to this one until there's some sanity with the GPU prices.

Otherwise dog.
Sometimes I feel like we are sharing the world with fungus. As in, fungus consciously doesn't generate spores on us because it figured out that we will just grow it and put it in drinks and spread it any way. So using our mental processing power just let fungus realize it didn't have to try to use all its energy on the host capture and spore release routine.

And of course, the observation that it has nothing to do with us humans.
I know it may feel like a slave to have to work to live, but it certainly isn't anything like slavery in the antebellum period. It's more akin to the old soviet adage, "So long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."

The hyperbole bug doesn't do an argument any favors. It's overused today.
Ditto on the large vehicle purchase. I've been spending more time out in the wilderness and my 2WD Volvo sedan wasn't cutting it on dirt roads and with little-to-no suspension, so I bought a 2005 Yukon from a good friend. He bought it from the original owner last year for $1100, used his employee discount at CarMax to fix a bunch of small issues, and I picked it up for $2000. It's a beast of a truck, has tons of options even with its age, and the V8 Vortec engines in these cars are known for their longevity. The Volvo has become the long-distance runner while the Yukon is more of a utility truck. With the used car market looking like it is, I could probably unload it for $5k-$6k. Right now it's basically a mini-shop/storage shed/camp site on wheels.
OLCF Announces Storage Specifications for Frontier Exascale System
Agreed on the stick, I prefer it.

Cast iron gives additional radiant heat because it's black, so if I am cooking steak in the oven I pretend like it gives me more uniform temperature increase than depending on conductive and convective heat. If I am browning meat and not baking it after, Ill use steel.

I like cast iron for potatoes too. Hashes. Not sure why. Holds temp better?
this sounds like a joke tbh
maybe the word 'poker' does appear many times, but have you even read the white paper? no mention of poker in there
Buddy, I buy drugs all the time, and never have I ever needed a bitcoin.
Distrikt will be the first professional social media network that’s hosted 100% on the Internet Computer.

In its 2021 version, distrikt will offer users Medium-like article creation, distribution and consumption within a LinkedIn style platform that allows them to showcase their projects, highlight their achievements, and showcase important milestones.

distrikt will launch in it’s MVP stage and start onboarding users in a few months! But an early sign up, IC-native website will be available much sooner and will allow you to reserve your account and username using you Internet Identity!

The ultimate vision for distrikt is that it become a community-building platform where users create groups called distrikts that grow, merge and diverge, like communities naturally tend to.

Distrikts can be created around professions, hobbies, values or common passions.

We decided to call them distrikts because these communities will have a lot of autonomy and the possibility to be self-governed and decide for themselves what requirements members have for joining, what rules they have to submit to if they want to be part of that particular distrikt and generally how they want to govern themselves.
Something I learned the hard way: You really need to be your own first customer. You need to solve a pain you have a deep understanding of, especially if you want investment from VCs. It's the only way you'll have the necessary credibility short of already having good traction or pre-existing relationships.

A 'good idea' isn't enough. Knowing and talking to lots of potential customers isn't enough. If you can't make big decisions with speed, clarity and confidence without outside input, you're dead.
With something that averages 200% a year growth, you really can just deposit your gains in your bank and pay your taxes with a smile.
A new LG OLED TV. I usually don't buy into hypes, but I got a great second hand deal on a 55" OLED and it has BLOWN me away. It's picture quality is insane. If I could only watch 4K Planet Earth on it and nothing else it would still have been worth it.

I also bought a $200 robovac by Xiaomi, which is really convenient, especially if you have pets.

Based on experience I will probably also splurge on a new MacBook is they release the rumored one with ports again.
…why? It ought to just mean they had their ID verified. That’s it.
Alternative view: people worked hard and are now making 400-600k in middle management and are 5-8 years from retirement.
Monero is the future tm
Ironically, that is in fact what happened. It's called Freenode Limited, and it's a registered nonprofit which holds the domain.

The trouble is the people who have left are unhappy with how it was done.
>Yes fix the odd broken stuff and help out when is needed, improve and innovate for the sake of optimization/discovery and scientific curiosity, but nothing mandatory to the actual single in order to have basic needs covered, food, housing etc.

Unfortunately, I think this is just a fantasy utopian outlook. Humans have HAD to do things almost their entire existence in order to survive. When you take this away a lot of people fall in to depression. I'm not convinced our minds are able to cope with the option of doing nothing. We currently have to do very little to exist in 1st world countries, at least compared to what we had to do in the past and yet you've got a plethora extremely unhappy individuals. I think the problem is not having to do stuff but having to do things that aren't directly giving you a sense of purpose.

>improve and innovate for the sake of optimization/discovery and scientific curiosity,

Maybe I'm pessimistic but I don't think many people do that just for the sake of curiosity or discovery. They do it because they have to in order to provide for a living or keep themselves and their 'allies' alive. I think you can look at your hobbies and see how you treat them to get a good perspective of how far simple curiosity will take you.
> A native English speaker would never have said that

English has its barbarian roots overlaid with French words from the Norman conquest of England. The French aristocracy moved in and took over. The modern result of that is the "English" words of French origin are tells of upper class origins. Americans use that, consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes it's referred to as "coded speech".

For example, someone from upper class America will "purchase" something while a lower class person will "buy" it.

It's not just slight accent changes that distinguish class in America.
I can't relate to your examples as well :D
Did not know about that particular market dynamic. Used Toyotas are definitely at a premium, that’s for sure. Your screening process was ingenious.
("overcomplicated wordpress themes" was just a dig at how a lot of business is just landing pages or essentially blogs)
You'd have to do something like allocate a single byte[] for everything you'll ever need, and reading & writing data would just be a constant tax since you can't just in-place cast that to an int or whatever. It wouldn't be very fun.
We've managed to accomplish something similar for cryptocurrencies, too, with overpowered exchanges!
I want a middle man in most of my transactions.

Just imagine if a gas station changed their prices to ounces instead of gallons and you filled up your gas tank for $3000 before you realized the scam. With no middle man that money is gone. With a credit card you can refuse the charge and tell the credit card company who will ban that seller from their network and not charge you.
The English-language grammar concerning pronouns and subject-verb agreement is something that shows a lot of regional variation. In the variety I grew up speaking, whether you use the singular or plural depends on both the part of speech of the word you're inflecting, and the specific collective noun you're trying to agree with. It's a complicated enough set of conventions that I wouldn't necessarily expect anyone who didn't grow up in the same region as me to be able to follow them precisely.

Long story short, it's probably not terribly utilitarian to have strong opinions about the subject when participating in an international forum such as this one.
I guess that depends? The company I mentioned in another thread had a single IRC node that basically never died.

For 8 years (the life of the company) that machine sat by and did it's job without problems.

Was it patched? No, and that's annoying, but that cost literally _nothing_ to the company (except a sip of power).

Zulip isn't bad, it definitely doesn't need a whole person to manage it, probably 1hr/mo is good enough.

How much you pay for an hour (or even 10!) a month of engineering time is almost certainly less than you'd be paying for Slack if you're more than 100 people; especially at their single-sign-on provider pricing.
How does one get to be the "artist" in astronomy article "artist renditions"?
I interpreted it as “native to the browser”, which is a bit silly when you think about it, but makes sense when opposed to “running remotely”.
Wifi light switches. They have a physical switch so "normies" can still turn on the lights, but being able to say "Alexa, all lights off" at night makes me feel like a god.

Also, comma 2 from comma.ai. It adds Tesla-like autopilot to my Honda Odyssey. Works exactly as advertised. I just got a few weeks ago, but it drove my car most of the way between SF and LA and back. It's kind of pricey, but a lot cheaper than a Tesla! Also, Tesla still doesn't make a minivan (and Honda doesn't make an all electric yet!).

And I'm not sure, but I think I first heard about the comma 2 right here on HN.
I get a pretty good burn by rotating my arms like I'm skipping a real rope. It's good enough for post work out cardio.
Have you ever had athlete's foot or jock itch?
Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming
This won't disallow that.
It ain't just the software industry. Industries across the board seem to be running into the same self-inflicted pain: "Woe is us, we can't find anyone who wants to work for us... What's that, pay better and not rely on Kafkaesque recruitment pipelines? lol nah, clearly the workers are lazy and entitled."

Employers won't change their behavior unless they're actually pressured via the ostensibly-free market to do so. In the short term, UBI would give workers vastly more ability to negotiate for better terms on an individual level; this extends to longer term proliferations of both labor unions (which can sustain longer strikes when UBI at least prevents strikers from going hungry or homeless) and ideally-cooperatively-owned startups (wherein the founders have a safety net in the highly-likely event that the startup doesn't make it past the front of its bathtub curve, and wherein the company is less reliant on outside investment just to keep the lights on).

But whenever such solutions get suggested, they of course get shot down as "eww socialism" and the problems persist.
Governments are awesome at fighting the last fight
Apache Pulsar tiered messaging and Storj DCS
Apple TV+ Orders “Wool”
What you are describing is just a PayPal competitor.

(At least in the UK bank to bank transfers are free and instant for consumers anyway)
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Same as it does for non-crypto transactions I expect. If you deposit a 11k check in your bank it gets reported, for example.
Try an air-fryer.

Steaks or hamburgers are surprisingly amazing.
I still don't see it: Money is trust in society remaining stable, condensed to (almost) physical form. That's how I can turn energy, resources and labour into money, because I can expect to turn it back into either of those things. If something happens to the value of the Euro and I'm not able to do that reliably anymore, it will be a symptom of a much larger dysfunction in my immediate surroundings than can be helped by holding some other currency, decentralized or not.

I also don't want it: Cryptocurrency is a new financial sector, and it will inevitably come with a new set of institutions, led by a new set of people. And instead of a group of fairly boring, fairly conservative central bankers whose main goal is preservation of the system underpinning current society, we will get some weird hodgepodge of libertarians extremists, run-of-the-mill grifters and Ponzi schemers, plus whatever set of state-sponsored actors whose ambitions are mostly geopolitical, rather than economic. And all even more beyond democratic institutional control than even the most detached 20th century investment banker would have dared dream of.
I got my Ooni (an Uuni 3) a few years ago and I use it almost weekly during dry weather. If you like making pizza, this is a fantastic investment.
I will say though, it take a lot of practice to figure out the right temperature and timing for baking. Even though it goes up to 915f, doesn't mean you should go 915f.
Not connecting email, calendar, social media, or anything else that produces notifications is the best thing I ever did with a tablet.

Email, social media, etc. is a productivity black hole due to notifications. At first I tried disabling notifications but it isn't enough. I had to remove the accounts as I just can't be trusted to not check manually.

I used to hate my iPad because I never got anything done on it but since removing all that crap it is a fantastic device for when you want to focus on one task and not be distracted.
Bitcoin was a great proof of concept. But now it's just a horrendous waste of energy, all for people to hoard their coins in a get-rich-quick scheme.

Bitcoin needs to die. The useful parts can get incorporated into cryptocurrencies that are actually used as currencies and not for hoarding.
In the UK if you won't give up your password (or essentially give means to decrypt data) when requested you can get 5 years for that.
Encryption will not protect against the state in this case. Likely other countries will start to copy that...
Here's another way to put it: The "zero dimensional" model of CO2 is incredibly straightforward. You add CO2, temperature goes up. It's trivial and undeniable, and all by itself tracks fairly well with the observed warming.

Better modeling adds precision, and has been even more accurate, but is difficult for the non-expert to evaluate. It should be easy to trust its track record, but without that positive gut feeling I get from "We've been burning fossil fuels and it would be bizarre if the temperature didn't go up".

So I'm able to base my confidence in the models on a simpler model that I do understand. It's easy to accept that the existing additions (CFCs, methane, ocean currents, land, ice, etc) are valid (especially since they also track the data so well). But SO2 would be a brand-new variable, so I don't have as good an intuition.

I know it's not brand-new. As with CO2, the basic physics of SO2 are well understood, we've observed natural experiments with SO2 emission several times. It's definitely promising.

But I really want to see a full plan in place and become comfortable with it before we begin to rely on it. Because otherwise, having watched people deny that trivial, obvious stuff for ideological reasons, I expect them to seize on geoengineering as "stage 6 denialism": "It's real, it's our fault, it's not good, reducing CO2 would help, it's not too late... but only because somebody will dump SO2 into the atmosphere and so we should start all the coal factories up again".
That robovac (bought a roomba 600 series 5 years ago) saved my marriage! Single greatest home productivity improvement purchase of all time!
So you can open up your local project directory in your browser-based IDE and have it work like you expect.
Especially with respect to Bluetooth quirks. Every single phone has a different set of bugs in its bluetooth components, and none of those sets are remotely empty. In the end, we decided we could only afford to support the 5 most popular models of the day and if you don't have that phone, then too bad for you.
General Practitioner?
I put quite a bit of effort into doing things "right" when I tried to board the cast-iron train. Pan was pre-seasoned, but I did one of those elaborate multi-step seasoning rituals online, using the expensive oil they recommended and everything, just in case. Horrible, smoke all over the house, smelled for a couple days. Everything sticks anyway, like I've never seen on any other kind of pan. Suitably-gentle cleaning (according to cast iron fans online) takes forever because there's so much crap on it after every use. Re-seasoned it again after a bit, thinking I'd screwed up. No improvement, everything sticks. My wife refuses to cook with it at all, and I'm pretty sure just seeing it in the drawer annoys her.

Oh, and if a tomato or anything else somewhat-acidic touches it then the entire dish will taste like blood. So that's fun.

It's alright for cooking steak (preheating for a few minutes on high is a must, though, it's gotta be terrifyingly hot or everything will stick, including steak), and if I drown things in scorching-hot oil or fat (say, from bacon) they they don't stick much, but that sure isn't healthy. The pan has zero inherent non-stickness, only what it acquires from whatever lake of oil I put in it.
> Could be nice but I'll be avoiding parcel like the plague after being confronted by its complete lack of maintenance of parcel v1 while v2 is in beta, and not the

You beat me to it here; it’s a shame. That was my experience, too.
Thanks for this. I'm in no way planning a start-up but it helps me to focus on the "right" side-project, i.e. the one that solves the most of my own pains.
Creditors can only go after the assets of the estate. One does not inherit debts.

In this case the State likely got the house to pay back Medicaid via “Medicaid Recovery”.
I'm so happy that there are people out there who care about this things and have the time to invest fighting the fight. I would like to be with you there but right now my life doesn't allow the time but I'm totally with you there but only can help by throwing some money on the problem.

But a very big thank you to everyone involved!
Is it a good idea to use a completely different compiler toolchain for dev vs prod? I don't know enough about their internals but that seems like a recipe for weird behavior in production.
The browser they switch to is more likely than not to be Chrome, furthering Google's control of the web.
I do wonder about this.

It's a lazer-eyed religion now, and I can't help but thinking the value of it's strongest adherents holdings is already zero - they'll never sell, under any circumstances, so any perceived value can never be realised.

(If it goes up, why would they sell? If it crashes, "it'll recover").

Under that logic, at no point is any amount of value stored in the scheme available to you in the future.

The market cap of all of these tokens is also incredibly misleading. Having no underlying value also means the market cap you're looking at is only a projection of the current point in time if there were indeterminate demand at the current trading price - meaning that in real terms the supposed money tied up in Bitcoin does not exist.

If stocks crash, you still have entitlement to profits from the company.
If bonds crash, you still have entitlement to payments from the issuer.
If a token crashes, you have a long alphanumeric number.

That's why if there's even a small amount of consolidation the market crashes by half or more.
I wish John would move over to a proper blogging site like medium, rather than a Frankenstein string of tweets.

He has enough material to gain a good following.
Note the serious use of ZFS. Also faith in Lustre, which has been known to be slagged off for its design and operational problems.
Why? If you trade Apple stock for Tesla, it’s a taxable event. There isn’t any requirement that USD be involved.