skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup. why do so many people in personal finance recommend index funds? because being down 1.5% in a week sure beats being down 30% in a day
This app/website have nothing to do with official french government or authorities.

It's an open source project [0] for those who eventualy don't want to use official app

[0] https://github.com/lovasoa/sanipasse
Is there a detailed breakdown of the demographics of crypto owners?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the majority of crypto owners and crypto enthusiasts are younger white males who are better than average financially, probably #2 being Asian males of the wealthier countries/ethnicities of Asia.
Crypto Lender BlockFi Mistakenly Deposits Bitcoin into User Accounts
Cool! Interested to try this.

I've heard with these: have to make sure they account for slippage, false entries, etc that may not show up in a backtest.
Good for them. It's great to see space exploration picking up outside of our efforts in the US. I would be great if we could cooperate more upfront, but the more people around the world that know how to land a payload on another planet the better. That kind of applied science and engineering is really valuable.
In the same way that if you help make cars you can't have the cars.
I'd translate this title into non-academic English as:

"Are excess deaths associated with being overweight?" (The result is: no - or actually yes, but negatively).
If you use undocumented instructions, you're not following "do only operations that are well-defined by the level below". The existence of undocumented instructions doesn't invalidate the concept of correctness by contract.

You don't seem to realize that testing and proofs are just two faces of the same thing. A test is just an empirical proof of something. Both are rooted in the same logic and assumptions. In fact, in some cases, a test can be exhaustive and then it's as good as a proof. Tests usually have the disadvantage of being inexhaustive, and having to work their logic within the language.

I'm getting to the point that security software, such as an OS kernel, that is vulnerable to timing and speculative execution attacks, is that way not only in spite of being proven, but in spite of testing also.

It's not the case that proofs will fail to reveal that problem, but testing will.

No amount of testing will reveal a problem missed by proof methods, if both the testing and proving are rooted in the same false assumptions.

(Assumptions like "the hardware's protections mechanisms are sound, so that no data flows are observable to an unauthorized domain, so we just have to test the software itself is good.")
Where are you from? I am Swedish and I feel these names work just fine both in Swedish and in English.
> in office chatter I'm constantly picking up bits of sound that make my brain think I should be paying attention to them

Agree. I found that hearing my boss on one side of a phone call where they referenced me or my work in some way was very distracting. What had happened? What was going to happen? What was I potentially being committed to?
> Only way to stop the bleeding is to hide behind "server troubles"

Introducing: Server Trouble As A Service. The most efficient way to stop a run on your bank.
Anything's possible. But I want the people saying 3D TV/monitors failed because the glasses were just too burdensome to argue things out with the VR people who say that 3D is so amazing that the (much heavier!) facehugger units will take over the world.
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I see you often comment on Bitcoin negatively, curious why?
Kudos to you if you can go from zero to your own custom video controller implemented in an fpga in a few weeks.

But for normal humans that just want to get involved with hardware and dabble somewhat with software/firmware in the context of vintage computing, taking a detour into fpga-world would be a deep unpleasant rabbit hole unless one was specifically interested in fpga's and there was no other viable option (which in the case of custom ASIC's is admittedly quite possible).

Compared to the nightmarish complex toolchains used for fpga's, digging up some datasheets and working with a DMM, scope, and logic analyzer is a breeze and actually quite pleasurable.
Yes, sounds like a case of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
That doesn't mean it's a dumb metric. Any efficiency metric must measure cost per unit of output and in a crypto-currency that's power per transaction.
This is awesome. For a long while I have wanted to write character-based applications with greater control of the keyboard; think "a terminal tetris that can recognize key combinations such as Alt-I, Ctrl-J, Alt-Ctrl-PgUp, Meta-Ctrl-F14, etc." This should work OK whether running locally on the console, on a (serial) terminal, on a graphical (X Windows / Wayland) terminal, on a remote (SSH) terminal, etc.

I wish something like this was also created for the mouse, so that you could use your mouse everywhere (including the console without any graphical environment running), remotely over ssh, etc. I see no reason why a similar protocol could not transmit mouse events over ssh and allow you to interact, using your mouse, with a remote character-based application.

I would love for such proposals to gain traction and be accepted everywhere.
You have to assume the angle of projection is 45 degrees, in which case the range of the projectile becomes (u^2/g). (Since Range = (u^2)(sin2(theta))/g)
Hope I helped!
I could well be wrong, sorry I should not have tried to make such a strong statement I don't actually have much knowledge of recent technology nodes.

In your first link I'm struggling to see it demonstrate what you say. Actually that's more what I'm familiar with.

Obviously it's quite old though. The second link does seem to show the trend going to equipment costs and trending upward indeed. Although it doesn't seem very detailed, I suppose that first graph on the left on page 9 looks like mostly fixed costs in orange. Thanks for the link.
it's ProtonVPN, paid version. weird, uh?
Another great way is to make sure there are multiple prospect buyers and have them bid against each other.
What did poverty look like for you? I am also from somewhere very different from this, though I can't say I grew up poor, we did okay.
We're witnessing a magical tech demo here. If Google actually releases it and hinder it with ads, sign in walls etc., it's not magical anymore. If they then cancel it two years later, it doesn't even exist anymore.

We can pretend that this will be Google's magical fairytale product that will not be impacted by the above, but who are we kidding?
My understanding of Freenode's reputation is it's always been a giant bag of drama by a select few running the show. Nobody wants to see their dirty laundry, but they persist in showing us.
It's possible to make something and not expect anything in return. I couldn't care less if my quick JS library makes money to anyone. And more power to you if you can make a living by building a whole company based upon my left-pad code.

Charity and generosity is chad-like.
It's not a Ponzi scheme because in ponzi scheme you deliberately use late investors money to pay early investors.

What happens in cryptocurrency is fake-exchange scheme. Tether is a fake currency printed in unlimited way by bitfinex which is also an exchange. By pretending tethers are real dollars you create the appearance of a stronger market for cryptocurrency than actually exists. It all rests on increasing the number of tether in circulation. It will fail when there is a run-on-the-bank on tether.
> I wonder how he will react this time.

Not with compassion.
People don't give credit to luck enough imo.
Is it possible this is a multi-variate problem and there are other systemic variables that better explain the differences in income?

It seems folly to boil something as complex and social as economics to a single input like IQ to draw such strong conclusions
should be live now :)
The long, weird history of the Nigerian email scam
Council of EU switches its platform for communicating with journalists to Signal
Anecdotally, that has not been the case for me. Logged in from any device, I see the old reddit.
And also freeing up computer chip manufacturing capacity to go towards actual productive use. I look forward to buying a new GPU!
how is 20% down not a crash?
In the JEE, you generally assume the range to be the distance the projectile covers before reaching the launch height again, unless specified otherwise.
No I'm not getting into this. I've done this so, so many times and there's no value for anyone.

You, or someone else, will move the goalposts, or find some hyper specific counterexample and claim it disproves the entire thing. Or claim that the poor aren't poor enough, or someone else somewhere has it worse so their misery can't be real.

It's based on my experiences and there's no bibliography for my life. I explained the experiences and why I think they're relevant. If it doesn't work for you then it doesn't.

From experience in similar conversations I expect this to be taken as a refusal to argue in good faith. The thing is though I don't want to argue. I said what I said and I stand by it. I have nothing to add.
I believe it depends on the value of the object and the chances of getting caught. If you steal a macbook in an office full of cameras is a bad deal. If you steal a macbook every other day in an office without any camera is a good deal.

And the second option is exactly what happened in an office I worked on, at some point enough people complained that their macbook was stolen and they installed cameras.

Funny thing in the same office my lunch was stolen once a week and that just became a joke during stand-ups "did they stole your lunch today?"
Number one question when reading this headline: which animals are in the list? Number two question: what does a laughing bird even look like? What do they laugh at? You want to see it, of course. There's none of that, bit of a disappointing article.

On the bright side, the article this article is about seems to contain at least the list of animals, see table 1: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/from-apes-to-birds-t...

This table of 65 animals is "play vocalizations", though, and includes animals like domestic cats and dogs. I've never seen a cat laugh at a situation, in real life or on the Internet, so it seems this arstecchnica article about "laughing animals" should be taken with a few grains of salt and is really more about playing and making a noise to indicate that they're playing (and shouldn't feel attacked) to their playmates.

I do like that humans are categorized with the great apes.
Unless I am missing something, security keys never send the private key anywhere so the computer can not access it. Unlike an unplugged storage device which can be read by malware once plugged in, and need to be read into memory by the computer for use.
I wonder how they plan to clean the filter
Middle class kids might, not upper class wealthy ones not so much.
And when you worry about the possibility of someday not being able to afford food due to some extend unemployment episode, when you feel vulnerable any time you hear the word "recession" on the news, it is hard to convince your body not to eat as much as possible now, while food is abundant.
Any evidence for why or how this is happening? Who are the sellers?
This is what's known as a "flounce".
i love when ppl say this. you realize that turning monero into usable cash will at some point req. revealing your identity?
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Agreed. It is socially cool in areas to either wear or not wear a mask and society is too prone to judging someone for having it on/of.

Case in point is being in a Lowe's garden center, outdoors, 24 feet away from a guy. He still decides to yell at me to put my mask on even though he was the closest person to me and it was only him and me outside.

I don't mind wearing it either, it is a fashion accessory as my wife makes custom ones and we have a vinyl cutter to express our nerdy side. But, I won't be wearing one just for the sake of social posturing.
See it in a different way: all of those "mentor" type people, they have valuable knowledge in their heads. They have spent years and years building it up, refining their experiences and intuition etc. etc., you have the opportunity to go and ingest as much of that knowledge as possible at relatively no time expense!

As soon as I realized this, I started obsessively drilling their heads for every little scrap (up until the point they would start being annoyed with me). It's free!
Bitcoin crashing will teach Elon not to mess with crypto, could risk his company into a very bad cash position
frankly, as long as folks are communicating via open standards rather than being locked into some vendor silo then they should use whatever protocol works best for them - XMPP & Matrix bridge together fairly well these days.

Based on the phone-home stats in Synapse there's around 300K DAU currently on the network, but this is a major underestimate given other stats which suggest only about 30% of public servers enable phone-home.
Are these reliable? Can a judge compel someone to continue publishing a canary to prevent leaking the information?
Haha, Kraken is the one I use. They've just disabled their login button with no messaging, which I guess is one way to achieve the same while avoiding a mark on their uptime graph.

If I remove the `disabled` attribute then clicking the button does nothing but I get a CORS error in the console.
For one the policies are quite different: non-open source channels need to be secret. This isn't a requirement on freenode.
> If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash

SPY is highly diversified though. The crypto market is known to move in tandem w/ BTC swings.

A 40% swing may seem large compared to SPY's usual 1-2% swings, but consider that other crypto coins frequently swing by 10-50%. For example, MATIC was up some 47% just yesterday. The reality is that crypto is highly volatile; it doesn't make sense to compare its volatility to ETFs or REITs or other conservative vehicles.

Some analysts were even expecting a correction, saying that a BTC drop to 30k would still be within expectations...
> If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash. This isn't that different.

Hmm, yes it is different. Cryptocurrencies are very-very volatile. In the last weeks, it wasn't uncommon to have 25% change in either direction within 24 hours for most top currencies. Stocks are less volatile.

With that said, the current nose-dive isn't over yet, so I'm not saying there won't be a crash, I'm just saying that comparing stocks and cryptos sounds to me like comparing apples to oranges.
Regular stock markets have circuit breakers in place and don't even operate 24/7. There are plenty of things that slow down price movement there. If they didn't have circuit breakers and did operate 24/7, I'd imagine we would have seen far greater record price movements over history, maybe even as bad as the absolute worst crypto swings.
You're clutching at straws by denying my assertion above.

Wiki:

Controversial choices:
Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.[9]
Here are a few videos from Chinese media, well before the landing. You can judge for yourself:

* January 2021: https://youtu.be/HaZOfZYOLgU

* February 2021: https://youtu.be/rBhVaihkDvc
The argument is that crypto has little to no intrinsic value and the price is being moved by speculation. In that case, the value comes from how many other speculators are willing to speculate in your currency - more options means fewer dollars buying bitcoin. The fact that pretty much every crypto of non-trivial float trades in lock step with BTC definitely supports the "no intrinsic value" theory.
I've been using IRC for 25 years and Matrix is close to unusable for me. There is something to be said about the combination of text-only, barrier to entry perfectly calibrated, hostile to mobile devices protocol features that make IRC such a resilient/long-standing solution.

No matter what happens with freenode, the same people that have been using IRC for decades will keep on using IRC.
> Cryptocurrency market is extremely volatile. This isn't that far from normal.

If that's true then cryptocurrency is pretty much worthless to use as currency. A desired property of currency is to not have wild fluctuations in value on a weekly or monthly bases.
Stephen F. Blinkhorn, is that you?
Last year people would jokingly say that the headline this year would be "bitcoin crashes to 30k", and that was dismissed as stupidly bullish.
That would be XMPP MUC (Multi User Conference). It has TLS encryption to the single server used by default. End to end encryption works in the form of OMEMO at least but I don't think it scales very well to lots and lots of connected users. I think PGP would also have the same sort of scaling problem. It has IRC like moderation and channel control stuff.There are a lot of light weight clients for it in the form of generic XMPP clients.

There is a project currently active to make some sort of replacement.
How does PoS solves anything when people will just stake on exchanges so that it literally replicates the current financial system with central banks and permissioned cartels?

How new PoS coins will be generated and distributed? The stock has to be generated somehow right? How does this not resemble a central bank?

This is an honest question. It looks like PoS is a full circle towards the same centralized system we have today. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm the project lead of Matrix (as it says in my HN bio). (I'm also ceo/cto of Element, but that's less relevant).
The customers that were liquidated were trading on margin (aka with borrowed money.) When you accept that borrowed money, you also agree that the broker’s risk department can liquidate your positions to ensure they get their money back.

I have not heard any anecdotes about US exchanges not allowing selling/exiting existing positions. In fact, on of the arguments from GMEanon is that disabling buying and keeping selling open drove the price down. There is nothing illegal about a broker disabling entering a new position (buying stock).
Another pic: https://imgur.com/Vct0PXV

It's an interesting design, in someways the ramp is a deceptively simple concept but I'm not sure if it's safer than the US approach.

Some other neat things are:

Solar panels, they are a specially designed to electrically repel Martian dust, in theory there should be a decent power gain from this and it will likely be used in future missions. While other rovers fortuitously found solar was self cleaning on Mars, power is still a knife-edge engineering problem for rovers.

Ground penetrating radar, can see down 100m, a lot further than anyone else has ever investigated, should yield some interesting data. Like most other missions they are very interested in prior and current water on the planet.

Coverage, they are planning a few hundred metres over 3 months, the rover itself can do 200m in a day though if needed, very unlikely that will happen but it is in a flat area of Mars. The landing zone was so huge that there'll be some tough choices about what is the most productive area to explore for planetary science.

The speed of entry, Zhurong came in at about half the speed of Perseverance, this makes life a lot easier. It takes a lot longer to bleed off that velocity in orbit but seems like other nations attempting a landing will follow this path.

I'd be interested to know about their uplink, remember hearing they might be using an ESA orbiter but not sure about that, the orbiter they have is not that great for a connection due to it's altitude.

Technical info is surprisingly hard to find, even in publications like nature or science mags normally focused more on the details.
Makes sense after ethereum published their proposal to lower energy consumption
Currencies are used to purchase things. If the purchasing power of 1 BTC changes dramatically, it matters.
The buyer as well. But the buyer technically has "paid" so they may not be as concerned with closing out the transaction. If only the assets could be held in escrow as well, then when both elements are held by the escrow group, they can release to the appropriate parties.
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Ah, I still recall the April 1st joke about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWBUMgAl7wY which was one of the better ones by far this year.

The channel "Retro recipe" on YT been mostly driving this and has few video's over time with updates and news nuggets upon the progress and now - finally here. Worth checking out the channel if your into that kinda stuff and one of the better ones for that retro nostalgia.
Yes. It was our team.
Running a Matrix homeserver is still quite a pain in the ass, especially because there is no real automatic way to purge old history. Join a busy room once and pay for it in megs or gigs of text stored in your DB forever.

Just using a matrix.org account instead is antisocial at this point because of the resources you're taking from the project, whereas paying for a hosted homeserver might not be something everyone can afford. IRC instead only requires a bouncer in the worst case, and even if you stay on channels for years you won't accrue as much history as a Matrix room can generate in a few days. I find that easier to maintain and store.

I do run my own Matrix homeserver and I intend to keep doing that and paying for it, but Matrix has more rough edges than IRC at the moment IMHO.

Edit: Ah, sorry, this was actually meant in reply to parent. But gonna leave it in.
After Tether allegedly lost high 9 figures to a "scam" #1 seems not that unlikely.

"Last week, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that iFinex—the parent company of Bitfinex, an exchange, and Tether, a dollar-backed digital token—is under investigation for fraud. At issue is $850 million that disappeared from Bitfinex’s coffers in mid-2018. The funds may have been stolen while in the possession of Crypto Capital, a payments processing company based in Panama. Crypto Capital has also been tied to Quadriga, a Canadian exchange which lost $140 million a few months ago."

https://qz.com/1607657/tether-could-bring-down-bitcoin-after...
You don't need anything even close to overly "fancy"; if you're the average poor person, you can vastly improve your image simply by wearing any sort of formal clothes, as in a suit and tie. Even if others "know who you really are" they'll still appreciate that you're making the effort to relate to them, and that's what matters. We tend to forget stuff like this as we lose sight of the value of enduring traditions, but if you look at visual records of how older generations behaved you'll see plenty of poorer folks looking quite comfortable in formal wear.
Except there is no connection between megawatts and transactions.
Oh, I'd bet that team did a great job with 3D. (For those who didn't see it, it was a movie with great visual effects designed to blow the viewer's mind.) But you and that movie are the exceptions that prove the rule: for most people and for most movies, it just doesn't add much. The reason people go to see something on the stage is never stereoscopy!
Thanks, that made it pretty clear. I somehow expected the identity server to have its own UI but having this integrated in the Matrix client actually makes more sense.
Everyone trying to exit a burning building through a tiny door.
Roughly 0.1% of the entire world's gold output is used to make bitcoin miners.
Exactly. Its not so much a currency as a tulip bulb, or a ponzi scheme, or something new that has the worst features of all those.