skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Domestically in Russia, there is a sense of humiliation about losing the cold war and about the 90s."

Perhaps to some extent. The reason for that is that the US took advantage of Russia's weakness in the 90s[0]. There was a lot of admiration for the US in Russia[1], 80% view it positively. Eltsin and Putin were talking about Russia joining NATO[2][3] and a free trade zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok [4]. People in Russia thought they shook of communism, adopted democracy and market economy and were joining happy European family. They were told they don't belong -- most importantly excluded from the common security system. That didn't go too well in a country that remembers that the USSR 50 years before lost 26 million people in an invasion from the West.

"The rhetoric of rebuilding its sphere of influence, role in international affairs, regaining its 'colonies' as much as possible is very profitable domestically."

Where did you get that idea? People in Russia want the government to spend money on improving life standards.

"it seems likely that Russia's foreign policy would be very similar even without NATO expansion"

There is no reason to think so.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-is-the-bully-the...

[1] https://www.ridl.io/en/russians-changing-attitudes-to-the-us...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/la-oe-meier20-2008aug20-story.html

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/17/russia.iantray...

[4] https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/from-lisbon-to-v...
From Waipapa Point[1] on Te Waipounamu, if you were looking west or south-west towards Rakiura, you'd be looking at the "Tasman Sea". Otherwise the waters are the "South Pacific Ocean". See sections 61 and 63 of [1] for more detail.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1074610331

[2] https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_19...
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> and the demand and prices are being driven by the high-income or high-wealth people - so I'm not sure it'll change much.

Unless the high income people are going to pour their own lattes then their quality of living is going to fall too eventually.
The paragraph you quoted is just describing a side effect of adding nodes. That excerpt appears in every one of their capacity expansion announcements, going back years.
living in a priviliged bubble, can't even open a website to check Bitcoin fees and what lightning network is. why strike is #1 app in their country.

main chain fees is $1 right now, and lightning tx are almost free:
https://mempool.space/
I'm surprised they didn't choose Banana Coin

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bananacoin.asp
They're selling the cheapest commodity in the world for more than the price of gasoline. Even with smaller margins they're still making money hand over fist.
Yes, clearly the guy used a script to create as many empty commits as he could. It's now supposedly the repo with the most commits, but it's just a hack. I guess the bookmarks are just things the guy likes and hopes people will click on after reaching the "most commits" repo.
A lot of California's problems come from the fact it IS an amazing State to live in. A paradise state as you put it. The weather, the parks, the jobs, and the diverse people. Where California went wrong is that, when people started flooding in looking for those things they didn't build any cheap housing. All they built were stupid luxury apartments and monstrous single family homes. Not enough of them either.

When you look at Eastern European population curves, most are flat. On the other hand, in half a century, California went from 15 million to 40 million people. In addition it built a HUGE agricultural industry that absorbs water from the entire western side of the nation. 1/3 of vegetables and 2/3 of tree nuts in the US come from California.

I wouldn't be surprised if California revitalizes in a few decades when they get their head out of their butts on housing. Getting rid of R1 zoning, building better transit, etc... Water on the other hand is going to be a problem unless South and Central America start growing a ton of tree nuts and drops the prices. (Probably in the smoking crater of what used to be a rainforest)
What they gonna do with the big like button in front of their office?
My datacentres have two sources of power (plus internal UPS), two main internet lines to two different exchange points (and half a dozen others), plenty of bottled water.

At home I have emergency power, water and internet. If the trains stop I drive, if the car breaks I take the train.
>> I'm talking about any kind of general emergency.

Hence me posting the list of general accidents
Remittances are a big part of El Salvador's economy, and they're expensive and risky. I wrote about my Argentine experience with these issues at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744
> If I sell my house for more than I paid for it, it's zero sum since someone simply provided me that money.

No transaction between rational individuals is ever zero-sum.

If Bob values a house at $300,000 and Alice values the house at $300,000, the house will __never__ be sold. Because by the time transaction fees come about, Bob would have lost money in the transaction.

In reality, Bob values the house at $250,000, and Alice is happy to buy at $350,000. Maybe some negotiations happen, and after transaction fees, Bob receives $270,000 while Alice pays $330,000 (both happy), with the Banks / Real Estate agents pocketing the $60,000 spread.

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This is called the Bid-Ask spread, and its always, always, always non-zero. Stocks have bid-ask spreads of a penny, but Pokemon Cards, Houses, Lumber, etc. etc. all have a spread in reality. There's never one price for things, there's a buyer's price vs a seller's price, the bid and the ask.

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The difference in the bid-ask spread gives you an idea of how much value any transaction created. If Bob was willing to sell the house for $270,000 and Alice was willing to buy the house for $330,000, then there was at LEAST $60,000 of value created by the transaction.
No, it is designed to be suggestive -- to shift attention and perhaps even blame. And of course the BBC picked up on it for clickbait reasons. Brilliant (but perhaps evil) PR by Fastly.

Customer configuration is an irrelevant detail that should have been left out until a full RCA. What does it matter that it was valid? So an invalid configuration would have meant it was indeed the _customer's_ fault??

A more fair treatment would have been, "a customer pentested us and won".
The point of that section of the article IMO was to say that you always want to err on the side of more operations rather than more types. When canonicalizing, it is easy to reduce operations to their simplest form, but changing the type of an operand is a global operation and hence is a lot more complex. And x86 has mul and imul instructions operating on general-purpose registers, rather than typed registers, so using more operations is closer to the assembly.
Just a note about folklore.org. This site is just fantastic. I've spent many hours reading the fun stories that Andy's posted. They have a way of instantly transporting me back to the late 70's/early 80's Silicon Valley.
I'd also say it's easier to give everyone the right to an account as in Germany (if the reason is that they can't get one b/c of a missing/bad credit history and not because they don't live to a bank and have no phone), to solve the 70% unbanked problem instead of introducing BTC.
As the ANOM thing shows. InfoSec is mostly irrelevent, if you want secrets from people you can just ask them most of the time and they'll tell you.
I've been using vs code more and more for markdown editing. A couple of extensions help make that a decent experience. There are a few extensions that help with grammar and style as well that are really helping me to write better text.

Vale is a nice one (a bit of work to configure and figure out) for enforcing style rules. Ltex for spelling and grammar. Markdownlint for making sure the markdown is right. Proselint is another one. Some of these overlap in what they do of course.

I also configured vscode to turn soft wrapping on for markdown.
Why are they doing the government's work for them, and blocking Russia? Let the Russian government do the blocking. It's not your job to enforce authoritarianism, and no country west of Belarus is going to extradite you for providing email.
Using a simple shell for-loop, I could create 10000 commits in 25 seconds (= 400 per second) with the code below. The 4.2 million commits should take around 3 hours to create at this pace.

Looking at the most recent 10000 commits in the repository, it doesn't seem like the creator ever got more than 20 commits per second, which means it would take on the order of 60 hours for the creator to make this many commits.

$ git clone https://github.com/IThinkImOKAY/IThinkImOKAY && cd IThinkImOKAY
$ t=`git write-tree`
$ h=`git rev-parse @`
$ date; for i in `seq 1 10000`; do h=`echo lol|git commit-tree $t -p $h`; done; date
Wed Jun 9 05:20:11 PM CEST 2021
Wed Jun 9 05:20:36 PM CEST 2021
To buy any cryptocurrency a buyer and a seller must agree on a price and an amount. The idea that the money was "made" by someone else is irrelevant when both parties have agreed to make the trade.
Who suddenly needs $3 billion out of the blue? Because Bezos regularly cashes in over a billion each quarter. Is that not enough to maintain a lifestyle?

But if he wants to buy a sports team, he can probably pay directly in AMZN stock as a private transaction (well, except for possible SEC regulations.)
Much of cryptocurrency's value comes from the lack of regulation. People are not satisfied with the existing solutions, thus the need for innovation. BTC emerged after the US destroyed LibertyReserve and eGold.

Government could eliminate the some of the needs for cryptocurrencies by removing regulatory barriers to transact.

As an example, compliance costs prohibit PayPal from efficiently processing 25 cent arcade or in game transactions.

>Instead of the standard 2.90% + 30p per transaction that PayPal charges, you’ll be charged a 5% + £0.05 fee on every transaction. This would mean that on a £1 transaction, you will pay 10p as transaction fees, rather than 59p, and you save 41p. Ordinarily, this does not look much, but if you sell very high volumes at low prices, it quickly adds up to become a significant saving. After all, it’s a small leak that sinks great ships.

Additionally, for electronic goods most processors require the merchant to offer a no questions asked refund policy.
I'll give you this: If you only applied a wealth tax to the wealthiest-of-the-wealthy, say billionaires only, the number of individuals might be small enough such that it's not an insane administration challenge. Forbes lists about 600 billionaires in the USA, so I'd guesstimate there are actually 1,200 (I know of at least three individuals who'd, conservatively, be worth at least $1B... but they're not on any list because they own under-the-radar non-VC companies).

I'm not a fan of taxes on most stocks (eg wealth) rather than flows (eg income). But if you held a gun to my head and said "design a wealth tax!", I'd set the minimum wealth far above the $32MM proposed by Bernie Sanders or $50MM proposed by Elizabeth Warren.

And keep in mind, even if there are actually only 1,200 billionaires in the US, a number of people slightly below the threshold will still have to be analyzed; I might not know if I'm worth $800MM and owe no wealth tax or $1.2B and owe tax on $200B of wealth.
Channel factories will bundle channel open/closes into a single transaction significantly reducing the burden on the blockchain.

LN adoption is growing very nicely (1ml.com), there are lots of wallets and users now.
This is a good question and I think the clues are in the way informal vendors in parts of Asia and Africa have already caught on to transacting through mobile. In remote parts of ES there aren’t any bank branches and villagers have to travel an hour or more by bus into town just to open an account, when they get back to their village that same lack of infrastructure means no POS or businesses accepting cards. Feature phones and smart phones, however, are ubiquitous and this gives an “official” way of doing this.

This solution doesn’t have to be crypto at all, however. I’ve been to China where even food carts have QR codes printed on them for people to take wechat pay and ali pay.
Favorite part:

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Thats right!

FEDERAL RESERVE FUNDED FINANCIAL INSTITUTE.

Let that sink in for a minute. Got it? They’re using your tax dollars to fuck over the lower and middle class, and its permanent. Not 1 Pres. administration of bullshit. This is a fundamental reorganization of society
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Interestingly, this is a situation created by previous Conservative governments. When the national rail system was privatized, lots of smaller individual train operating companies were created, each with a franchise to run different lines. They are incentivized not to cooperate with each other, because taking over another franchise, if another operator fails, doubles the size of your business.

So the employers were divided and the highly unionized employees were united, which meant that they did extremely well in negotiations. The membership overall are extremely loyal to their union leadership, because of how successful they've been in maintaining conditions and improving wages.
If a rogue actor beyond the control of state governments gets its hand on nuclear-powered ships, we have bigger problems than Bitcoin mining.
Making situations like https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-commute... even worse? Gross.
The shared resource is the validity of like counts.
Note the weasel words. "Progress towards". Not conversion. Just progress.
Are there any sources you can point to?
> So, why the Netherlands? I considered many options. For instance, I am fluent in Japanese, have an existing social network there, and understand their immigration laws and process.

Is there a big Japanese presence in the Netherlands, or was that phrase's inclusion a non-sequitur?
I have no clue, so Lightning is Bitcoin without the Bitcoin and blockchain? Without the blockchain how is it different from a MySQL database table?
This kind of arrangement is often mockingly, but accurately, called 1/2 factor authentication.
Goodhart's Law at it's finest! I'm betting it started as a fun way to get a nice ("S+") score in the new github badges or whatever they are called.
I kind of assumed this is a play to get $ from bitcoin tourism, but also clearly El Salvador is not a country that needs to take into account the affect it has on their own currency. They gave up on their own currency in 2004.
Sure, but is Bitcoin trying to improve that status quo or replicate it? Am I supposed to be impressed that Bitcoin has built a system that is also reliant on third-party services, just like modern banking?

For the moment, starting up a lightning provider is simpler than starting up a payment processor, but how much of that is because of regulation? And do we have any evidence that in the future lightning providers won't be as regulated as modern payment providers? Why should I assume that in the future the situation with lightning providers is going to be any different than the current situation with PayPal?
In general it is expensive. In most cases you will need experts that need knowledge of both system A and system B.
Those people are more difficult to find. Also you have a higher chance of errors due to confusion between the two systems.
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You can stay on lightning for exchanges, Bitfinex for example offers lightning deposits/withdrawals, El Salvador would too, considering they are using lightning right now.
>Also how could someone in El Salvador run a node without reliable electricity and internet?

A lightning node doesn't need to be on 24/7. To prevent your counterparty from stealing your funds you only need to be online every 2 weeks (or never if you use a watchtower service). Syncing is also fast, so 1 hour of internet access/electricity should allow you to catch up 2 weeks of blockchain history.

>Also remember that the hardware cost of a full node is likely more than a month’s wages.

Are there no thin wallets for lightning?
That fee is only because we want that money settled instantly by a third party. There's no fee for a bank to bank transfer. Or heck, even writing a check. Once you get VISA involved they want a cut.
You're describing single factor, not two factor. If you can change the password with SMS alone, it's not multi-factor. I plainly stated that exception two comments ago.
Most of the money is coming from El Salvadorians in the US, and as El Salvador uses the US Dollar as currency, that would be fairly straightforward. Even from, e.g. Mexican pesos, it would be simple because the USD is the destination currency. It would be a different proposition if we were talking about, e.g., Indians.
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If you’re in the market for a replacement, I like yr.no. It’s a little more graphically polished than weather.gov, but no ads.

Although it is a joint project between the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, it has forecasts available for the whole world in English, Norwegian, and Danish.
If you don't want to gamble / crypto and do coke, then don't. Same for social media. I didn't ask for help from the nagging busybodies at the government. I am an adult, and I will manage my own affairs even if the government could do it better. And if they fucked off from wasting money on the war on drugs, then money laundering wouldn't even be a thing.
What's the reasoning behind that? Maybe to prevent bots?
Which other ultrabooks, specifically? It’s definitely not all of them, if you’ve been reading the benchmarks.
You need your private key to sign transactions.

On an unrelated note, why do cryptocurrency advocates so frequently write "FIAT" in all caps? It isn't an acronym or initialism.
A proper monitor arm to raise the monitor up to be in proper eye-level did wonders for my otherwise slouching back. Also if you use a laptop, consider NOT using it as an extra display.
I don't pay any fee when I use a credit card.
You just need a phone, that's it. Banking requires all the infrastructure, etc.
Sort of the same thing isn’t it?
I agree. Using the same logic, the USD should definitely be banned.
Linkers are the lymph nodes of systems. Developers will wax rhapsodic about the virtues of Rust but know nothing about the (necessary) evils of linkers.

So the OP wrote a linker. But did they write one which understands linker script? Does it understand shared libraries, multiple architectures, multiple object file formats, ...? Is it 'smart'? Can it link itself? Does it support zero pages, ASLR, non-executable stacks+heaps? Is it fast?

Linkers are hard. Relocs and fixups are really hard. The Oracle® Solaris 11.4 Linkers and Libraries Guide is 500+ pages [1]. But if the development environment is done well, you won't have to worry about that, which is pretty cool.

[1] I always wanted a Linker Alien t-shirt.

http://www.linker-aliens.org/
Right, I was using "zero sum" by the author's naive definition to show that it doesn't make sense. My argument is that all voluntary trade has to be positive sum to both parties
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Maybe that's why I don't enjoy it... Feels like I could be getting work done on any of my side projects when I play. Don't have that same feeling when I'm playing other games.

That being said, I do enjoy it at LAN parties because I just build walls and hunt biter nests
If folks are unbanked, their pile of cash is unlikely to be so large that it's hard to store and handle.
Thanks for writing (the code and the blogs!)

What are you up to these days?
No, it sounds like coinbase used email recovery, but his email provider used SMS recovery.

So the hacker only needed to hijack his SMS.... with that, they gained access to his email, and then with that gained access to coinbase. No password required.
LN requires an on-chain transaction for both opening and closing a channel and requires the node stays online 24/7 to receive payments. That's garbage.
I think he/she's just playing with git datastructure, the logs contains only commit messages. That's what we get after the pandemic :D
It's not my definition of zero sum. It's the author of the post. I was attempting to poke holes in it.
These are the high powered brains who think the Federal Reserve is processing coffee payments.
I wish that were true. The best solution doesn't always win, but the most publicised solution will
It is possible to store short messages on the public Bitcoin blockchain. If somebody were to publish extremely sensitive official secrets on the blockchain, would the government be forced to attack the whole network?
California is this land of plenty that grew so fast that it's almost like a country in of itself. That growth happened at a particular place in time that really colored the governance, and is almost dysfunctional by design to allow everyone to function!

So you have the features of a big state, with some of the quirky weirdness of western governance (propositions, etc). I'm not an expert on California, but looking at it, it feels like a place that selected the best thing and worst thing about governance in Florida, New York, Idaho, New Jersey, Illinois and Virginia, and did all of them.
A few years back, I was trying to become a food influencer on Instagram because it seemed like a fun optimization problem.

You quickly learn there's a game. You go and find a bunch of other influencers roughly in your tier (getting some traffic but not rockstars) and you like their posts and follow them. They return the favor.

You comment (nicely) on their stuff, they return the favor. If you've ever played those obnoxious mobile games that want you to recruit your friends, same idea.

Likes and attention farming is basically a pyramid scheme with monopoly money.
People love to hate main stream media
Of course bitcoin is about transmitting money, almost by definition. I can't believe it has gone this far without regulation.

If the argument is that is just an asset (which I believe was strongly argued against by bitcoin proponents, at least in early days), then what kind of asset is it? It has absolutely no value beyond it's monetary value.
This hurts people who already own houses, too - property taxes are assessed on the appraised value of the home, which is a function of what the similarly-sized houses in your area sold for most recently. My property taxes have increased 10% every year for the past several years (and it would have been more if not for a legislative 10% annual cap). I worry that there will come a day when I've paid off my mortgage but won't be able to afford to pay the real estate tax any more.