skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low on-chain fees are actually a disaster for Bitcoin. Once mining rewards dwindle to nothing due to halvings fees would have to rise astronomically to maintain hash power.
Emacs as Your Calendar
First off, a 30 day vacation from Facebook sounds wonderful, it'd be a great excuse to leave it all together.

Second, not that this was your intent, but that's such a poor example to use in pointing out the fallacy that I can see why someone might see it as "hateful", which is against the TOS, whether or not it should be is a separate discussion.

As a side-note, pointing out a logical fallacy doesn't invalidate someone's argument, ironically this is itself a fallacy.
Activating Work in a Single Command
You can find all the RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions) at:-
https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-xxx...

Where xxx (or xx or x - no leading zeros) is the number. Highest is presently 190. I wrote all the first ones, then I shared slots, and after I retired I just wrote the occasional one.
Not trying to be rude but I’m curious what makes you believe quicksight has a strong embedding story? I’m generally a quicksight fan (although it has so many things it could do better with a little TLC).

What setup are you using that makes quicksight work well when embedded?

Quicksight’s embedding story is worse than tableau’s. And tableau isn’t that great with embedding either.
Pretty sure it wasn't his visualisation exercises or Jesus that saved him...
This is an interesting exercise in legal argumentation, but it assumes that the US Government wants to push miners out of the US. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.

Outlawing mining in the US would not disable cryptocurrency networks, because miners could still operate in other jurisdictions (and covertly in the US). It might cause a panic and disrupt some American-based crypto companies, but cryptocurrencies have already been shown to withstand panics and business upheavals. Crashing the price of Bitcoin doesn't actually reduce its usefulness to cybercriminals, as long as the market is still liquid.

Worse, banning US mining would ensure that no mining rewards can be taxed by the IRS, excluding the US from the growing cash stream coming from blockchain rewards.
Is it possible to calculate the transaction volume in BTC over the lightning network, or is the ledger non-public in the same way that Bitcoin's is?

If I understood the Satoshi paper right, after the block reward is exhausted the network's security depends on transaction fees being high enough to sustain a strong level of security. If Lightning brings transaction fees down, is that not a threat to the security of the network as the block reward becomes smaller?
Services like Authy address some of the loss of device issue, and always a good idea to have a backup token (e.g., yubikey) physically escrowed somewhere like a safe-deposit box.

But it is a whole lot of extra work to set up and maintain long-term, even with the best intentions.
Funny, how is money put into circulation? A big portion is being paid directly from the government to their employees. They need houses, food etc, so they spend it. That gets distributed to all the people from those companies and so on. Through taxes we return a bit to the government. So that they don't need to keep printing new money ALL the time.

And that is exactly the same for crypto, except there is no country/government behind but only a ledger. The money is being transferred for doing work, mining. And that is distributed again.
You do, but it is hidden as the vendor is responsible for paying it. CC companies are basically a tax on transactions.
lol at "paid flack". Brb gonna update my LinkedIn.

Anyway, I awarded a correction bounty here. I'd said in the same piece "if your only criteria for publishing are some measure of verification and some measure of newsworthiness", but used poor phrasing in saying "sole criteria" prior. I don't think it was likely to mislead the fair reader. But a mistake is a mistake, and I'm happy to own it.
Maybe it’s a new kind of asset. A consensus asset, in which the value lies in the consensus itself and does not require any other utility?

(I’m speculating but this is how I interpret a lot of the defenses of Bitcoin I have heard.)
The US does not have reserve requirements; it has capital requirements. The fractional-reserve model is not a realistic description of banking in modern developed economies.
One of the very few things that most people can agree upon, is that SmallTalk is object-oriented.
SmallTalk definitely has closures.

Also Java has them.
Favorite quote for multiple reasons:

We were reluctant to show it to Steve, knowing that he would want to commandeer it, but he heard about it from someone and demanded to see it. We showed it to him, and, unfortunately, he loved it. But he also insisted that Apple owned all the rights to it, even though we had developed it in our spare time.
How we (incorrectly) counted streams at Grooveshark
Why not crank up the prices on bottled water instead? And if household water usage is minimal, why crank up prices on it at all? The reduction in demand won't make a dent in overall usage and it'll hurt a lot of poor people.

EDIT: Never mind, you said usage for drinking. I agree, things like lawns are wasteful. You could probably increase rates on households that consume more water.
Exploring two vulnerabilities found in the Windows loader
I agree that we need to stop treating houses as investments, because they're a basic fundamental need everyone has.

IMO, the problem could be fixed by having stricter laws prohibiting people who aren't residents from owning homes in another country. The requirement to become a resident is only to live in a country for over 6 months out of the year. Before that, you can just rent. We could also do things like limit the number of houses a person can own, and tax every house sale based on capital gains (even primary residences).

However, another problem we have is that interest rates are too low, and there isn't enough construction. Those are harder problems to solve. I really think we should build more, but we'd need denser construction as well. What do you do if you need land to build and there's already a house there, or someone already owns the land? Maybe it's kind of silly to have this idea that a person can "own" a piece of this planet we all live on, but we probably don't want to live in a communist country where the government owns every home and everyone is renting either.

As for interest rates, this is driven by our current economic policy and money printing. Maybe there's a way to somehow detach the interest rate used for mortgages from that in other areas. Surely, the government could print stimulus money and direct it where it's needed without interest rates being artificially controlled? The main problem with these near-zero interest rates is that they completely kill the free market. We keep zombie companies alive and we allow people to speculate on home prices endlessly. That's not natural. In a "true" free market, there's a natural equilibrium between offer and demand, both home prices and rents will fluctuate but they will balance out. My ex's parents bought a home in the 1970s, they only had high school education and were both making minimum wage. Said home is now worth over a million and out of reach of anyone not making 200K+ household income.
You can only use a U2F token at the only factor when it's acceptable for you to temporarily lose control of the account.
Mortgage rates have been falling for the past 40 years. Now they might start rising (emphasis on might). If they do, could that reverse the continuous rise of housing prices? That is how the bond market works, which has also seen rate drops and prices rises for the past few decades now.
Are people still building Internal Developer Platforms?
Devs at my company have been facing the heat of the lack of abstraction on top of AWS.
They regularly end up trying to setup ec2 machines, TLS-enabled domains, disks, firewall rules - all the stuff that gets taken care of usually by a PaaS or an Internal Dev Platform.

Various solutions now exist if you're on top of a cloud like aws/azure. Depending on your needs - Porter/Qovery, Dokku/CapRover, Spotify's Backstage, Lyft's Clutch - the space is littered.

Is there still someone building an IDP for their org?
If yes, why do you need to?
If no, what's serving you well?
Nothing to see here, the central committee has told us there is no inflation. Better discuss really important issues like pronouns and the patriarchy.
Google is effectively unconstrained, so hard to see how that could possibly be the case.

Sure, the government has more power, but it is also more constrained. There is no public control of Google, it is not a publicly sanctioned power.
Reading this again you're probably correct. If that's the case, interesting. I was not aware.
You presumably live in a developed economy. There's a reason 70% of El Salvadorans don't have bank accounts, and it isn't a context of easy online banking.
I'd give up housing before food. There's a limit to how high that percentage can be.
There's a strange relationship between Resistance, Noise (audible and above the auditory spectrum, such as RF), and the concept of Impedance...

I'll put a wager that future (or perhaps even current!) scientists are able to engineer complex waveforms such that the complex waveform effectively negates the resistance/noise/impedance -- effectively turning the resistor into a conductor -- but only for that specific complex waveform -- which very possibly would change over time...

Also, future (and perhaps current!) scientists should be able to use an electrical signal of known characteristics -- to determine exactly what the complex impedance of the resistor/resistance element/impedance element -- in a circuit is, exactly...

In other words, given one of the above things (complex waveform, complex impedance) -- derive what the other one is, from it...
I don't doubt they will see that as a sort of consolation prize, but world discomfort isn't just with chip fabs. I don't think China would deliberately allow this course of action only for Taiwan. That's not much to get in exchange for being the power of being world's industrial bottle neck.

My guess is that they see this sort of diversification from reliance on China as inevitable. They resist it of course (see 5G equipment in Europe) but their investments throughout the rest of the world paint a picture of supporting developing nations economically to the point that as they grow & prosper, they grow into client states of China.
Fed's Reverse Repo Volume Hits ATH
Has it handled millions of transactions per second before?

Last time I checked (2019) it was processing 5,000 transactions per month.
I'd love to see more pass-by-reference in Terraform because it could simplify the API substantially. Right now you gotta figure out if you need to pass an id, name, or arn. forces a lot of reading docs and tight coupling.

if one could instantiate a resource by passing other connected resources into it by reference, then provider APIs could pull info they need, and could be refactored without affecting devs
Marilyn Strathern's version of Goodhart's Law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

The things broken about Facebook, are not just bugs, they are fundamental to what Facebook is. Pursuing "Likes" and views, inevitably becomes a target, and once it is a target, it is no longer a good metric of how many people actually like something.

To fix this, you would have to remove the "Like" counters, etc. Then, it would become much less addictive, and then it would also make a lot less money. Fixing Facebook, is about like trying to fix tobacco smoking; you would have to remove so much of what it is, that it would not be addictive any more, and therefore not financially viable at anything remotely like its current size.
How do you distinguish between true value creation and simple asset inflation? Low interest rates cause soaring asset prices, which can create an illusion of "value creation", but I don't see it actually increasing the value much.
My open-source plain text editor, KeenWrite, is strikingly similar:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

I've taken a slightly different approach for novel outlines. Rather than use the `@` syntax, KeenWrite includes support for pandoc's ::: div syntax, which is quite flexible. Here's a screenshot showing an exported PDF generated from a Markdown document:

https://i.ibb.co/gTytTs1/novel-outline.png

On the left, variables are shown. Those variables can be fed into R statements. In the screen shot, the R code performs date calculations so that the dates are guaranteed to be consistent and correct, which is useful to keep complex timelines straight.
Right now interest rates are low, they cannot use them as a tool in a crisis, for this reason they are printing money to lower the overall debt obligation of the US. Inflating away our debt. This will eventually lead to inflation at which point the interest rates will rise again (prediction, at the end of the decade). This is the correct play for where we are in the long term debt cycle. In my opinion, this is happening a little earlier than it should, but it might just be a sneak preview provided by the pandemic.

Stock prices are rising because the interest rates are so low. A ton of institutional money that was in bonds is now out seeking yield. This moves a ton of money into stocks and, as we see in the article, real estate.

The labor class has been shafted for years by the US dollar being the global reserve currency, causing us to run persistent trade deficits. This has off-shored manufacturing and gutted our capabilities. If the US weakens the dollar and rebuilds the manufacturing base, which they appear to be trying to do with the investment in semiconductors, I think we will be in a much better position. I am happy with the stimulus because it does both, weaken the dollar and invest in US capabilities. We just need to make sure it flows to the correct places.
Earlier discussion (4 days ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27408683
Not in SI. Kelvin is defined in terms of k_B. Joule is defined in several ways, eg force & distance.
You pay a slightly elevated price to use your CC.

The CC network charge vendors a percentage of the transaction. So you aren't paying directly, but we're all paying.
Lower sperm counts as well as lower testosterone levels in men have definitely been associated with obesity, and there's no question that's a problem these days.
> The 6522 chip had a timer which could generate an interrupt at a specified interval. The problem was synchronizing it with the video, since the video generation was not accessible to the processor. Burrell solved the problem by wiring up the spare flip flop to the low bit of the data bus, using it to latch whatever data the video was displaying so the processor could read it.

> To synchronize with the video, Burrell had me fill the Apple II's frame buffer so the low bit was on most of the time, but set off at the end of the last scan line. I wrote a routine to sit in a tight loop, reading the latch. When the low bit changed, we would know the vertical blanking interval had just begun.

I am confused about this. What is the low bit used for aside from this synchronization scheme? I assumed it would correspond to a color pallet index, or an address into a character ROM. Why is it available to be used for synchronization?
That someone probably will have learned how to help grandma on complex digital processes last time goverment services, communications and commerce moved online.

I agree it won't be pain-free, but hardly the first time such conversion would happen
I feel like most of those young people did liberal arts degrees because their parents pushed them to do university, for the same worries GP cited.

If children just loved reading classics and writing their thoughts on great works and thinkers of the past, I don't think their first thought would be to pay for a degree.
I want to do this but somehow it feels that leaving is never amicable unless you bend over backwards to please the employer (ex: delay last date).
Jupyter notebooks are a very popular development environment for data science and related fields because they provide a great tight feedback loop for experimentation and iteration. Essentially the main difference from a typical dev environment is that there are "cells" of code that you can run individually, and the program "state" is persistent. There's definitely a better way to explain it, because that doesn't sound very big, but it really is a game changer for a lot of workflows. They run python by default, but there are integrations for many other languages. Over the last few years, many alternatives and versions from different companies have been released with various differences and features (i.e. Google Colab, Kaggle, ObservableHQ for a JS version with lots of extra features, and tons of others I'm sure).

So at this point people have come to call this concept in general a "notebook". Basically a development environment with cells where you can add markup and HTML and stuff.

Hope that helped a bit.
> You could build housing there with little influence on the character of the park.

Except that the value of any amount of housing there would skyrocket, be purchasable by only the richest expat assholes and Bayerischer trust fund kids, who would within five years get the police to enforce full Ruhezeit in the park because it's interfering with their startup's self-actualizing.
>no one wants to pay to replace them. So every night they need... replacing

Not sure how that works. More seriously, I am unaware of the Tube tracks being unusually old, or requiring unusual amounts of maintenance because of their age compared to other comparable systems. Have you got a source on that?

There's also the fact that the deep Tube lines only have one track per direction, in contrast to the New York Subway where there are express and local tracks so trains can be rerouted via one set of tracks while maintenance is done on the other set.

Plus, of course, the equipment needed to do maintenance on the lines usually needs to be carried by hand through stations and into the tunnels.
I have some real gratitude towards OP for exposing some of the things going on in FB.

While much of what's being aired is no surprise for many of us, there are many reasons why it's still extremely valuable with what she's doing. Regardless of her motivations in doing so.

Whistleblowers are extremely important and I think we would all be better of if more current and former employees, executives and contractors would be open to speak publicly and sincerely about these things.

Thank you OP, I wish more stepped up like you do.
I don't have a strict definition handy, however it seems as though digital currencies would be those that are digitally based, whereas the dollar is a tangible currency first, even if it is fiat.

A digital currency would be like crypto currency, or in-game currencies or something designed to be digital. The dollar is the federal reserve currency, and not intended to be digital. It doesn't make sense to call it digital currency, when in fact it's physical currency first, and we've developed digital tools to help us use it and move it around.
We can want to support the poor and also recognize that prior attempts have unintended consequences or are ineffective. In this case rent control seems to reduce housing stock. The solution may be building more units so regulation should focus on that.
According to the article, the town didn't even want to use Bitcoin.

An anonymous donor gifted them a large amount of Bitcoin on the condition that they must learn how to use Bitcoin and advocate for the use of Bitcoin:

> After meeting with several philanthropies in the region, all of which wanted to take the funds and convert them into fiat to cover the community's immediate needs, the donor partnered with Michael Peterson, a San-Diego native that spends up to 9 months of the year volunteering in El Zonte. Michael was given the opportunity to administer the Bitcoin on one condition - he would not cash it out. Beneficiaries of the digital currency had to learn how to use the Bitcoin itself, creating a Bitcoin economy

In other words, a wealthy Bitcoin holder gifted Bitcoin to one of the poorest towns he could find on the condition that they don't cash it out.

They basically forced a poor town to use Bitcoin in exchange for free Bitcoin and now try to use it as an organic success story.
> Why would your property taxes not continue to go up endlessly?

I do expect them to go up endlessly, but I expect for everything else to also go up endlessly (in nominal terms).
> The train driver is the most susceptible to die. You're better assisted by a remote operator

The driver didn't die in any of the recent incidents, so they would still be in place to manage the situation.

Interestingly, 7/7/05 isn't on the list, presumably because it wasn't an accident. That's exactly the kind of incident that is relevant in the context of this parent thread.
They were pretty clear about this in their response (linked in the article)

Once the immediate effects were mitigated, we turned our attention to fixing the bug and communicating with our customers. We created a permanent fix for the bug and began deploying it at 17:25.

So they did both. First reverted the config then later fixed the bug.
The ratio of joules of energy to bitcoin mined isn't fixed; it's varied to keep the rate of bitcoin mining constant, although not from one day to the next. If the price of bitcoin goes up 20% in the next two weeks, then bitcoin mines that would have been running at a 10% loss start running at a 10% profit instead, which increases the hash rate and then the difficulty. This increases the amount of energy (and hardware investment) needed to mine bitcoin, which reduces the miners' profits, but disproportionately the profits of fossil-fuel-driven miners.

It's true that rapid price changes can make fossil-fueled mining temporarily profitable, and things like burning off flare gas are also profitable, but bitcoin mining is already dominated by renewables and becoming progressively more so: https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...

I'm sorry I abbreviated this whole explanation so much in my original post that you ended up so confused.
I was messing about with contact microphones last year and very much akin area to guitar amps as high-impedance, so very much the same issues.

If you run on batteries you will find it works best, as with anything mains, you will want a good ground.

What I did find was that if you use peizo's back to back you can effect a balanced signal and that in itself helps immensely in eliminating much of the noise. You can also use a contact material sandwich in-between the piezo discs and effect how it works tone wise as well as become more zoned in the pick-up area.

But impedance matching is, as with guitars, very much key for pre-amps.

As for input levels and clipping - the rise of 32bit float has made a huge difference and means you can not worry about mic input levels at the ADC stage as much and normalise everything in post, sorting the levels out then without any fear of clipping at all.

Some nice low-noise preamp designs to check out here: http://www.richardmudhar.com/piezo-contact-microphone-hi-z-a...

Though those just unbalanced input designs, alas I'm not aware of any balanced contact mic's on the market - but can easily make them yourself using the above approach.
Here’s a great example of how the rich can creatively avoid taxes, fresh off the press:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-09/sequoia-m...
Battlefield 2042: The next generation of all-out warfare
Stopping people signing up in the first place means that in a few months' time when the government actually starts blocking, they don't get a load of angry customers demanding their money back.