skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazingly shortsighted. The primary beneficiaries of this will be organised crime, who will now be able to wash the Bitcoin via El Salvador to convert it to dollars, which they can use to buy trade items and export the profits.

The number one export of El Salvador is actually people. If they were concerned about remittance fees they could just set up a bank in the US with low fees, instead of getting kickbacks from OCGs and Western Union / Money Gram etc.

El Salvador is set to be a big climate change loser, and every joule spent on bitcoin is bringing them closer to disaster.

"El Salvador has seen a steady increase in extreme events (storms, floods and droughts) during the last 30 years. The Pacific coastline is already experiencing rising sea levels and it is expected that 10–28 percent of the country’s coastal zone territory will be lost by the end of the century. Coastal areas, home to over 30 percent of the population, are highly vulnerable to the combination of sea level rise and El Niño events."

https://www.climatelinks.org/resources/climate-risk-profile-...

Coastal flooding risk is significant due to loss of mangroves.

https://thinkhazard.org/en/report/75-el-salvador/CF
True, above that would be "live".
How do you survive in this business when you're getting older if you switch stacks every X years? I have somewhat averagish abilities and I think to get a competitive advantage I better stick to my stack. It's not necessarily being a language zealot, just a decision to go all in on something and become an expert.
Living in Germany here. Many traditional banks charge a monthly fee of 10 euros for maintaining the bank account.

Additionally, my parents wanted to send me some money from another country and the cheapest fee they could find was $10.5 (Wise) most other options were from $30 to $100. This was for transferring roughly $2000.

I can agree that for a simple in country tx I've not had to pay living in Germany, that is largely because of smaller banks challenging and whittling down fees.
I've played a few hundred hours of factorio, so by no means a _lot_ but I've launched quite a few rockets and "finished" the game a few times.

Depending on how long you played you might have missed out on the part that's the most fun (for me at least) - the later/end game.

Once you have bots the game changes a lot and you stop building stuff yourself and let bots build stuff for you. Once you have a few hundred bots (and resources) you can build/destroy/rebuild/scale up huge parts of the factory.

The starting factory is usually abandoned but a megabase can be a beast of it's own with constantly tweaking bottlenecks - which can be quite a lot of fun (or it is for me at least)
How do you sync back your local copy of the IMAP database? I had the problem of a misconfiguration in my email rules deleting everything older than 28 days. Not a _big_ problem due to backups, but I didn’t manage to restore those as any local restore got deleted as soon as the sync with the IMAP server started
Another Day in Katerradise
I had the exact same reaction.

This trend of giving silly names to security disclosures is kind of neat, though. It certainly increases awareness of the security field and its importance.
>What is happening to this paradise state?

Too. Many. People.
> Global estimates of the annual present-day CO2 output of the Earth’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes range from 0.13 to 0.44 billion metric tons (gigatons) per year

> Anthropogenic CO2 emissions—responsible for a projected 35 gigatons of CO2 in 2010 [Friedlingstein et al., 2010] — clearly dwarf all estimates of the annual present-day global volcanic CO2 emission rate.

Gerlach, T., (2011), Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide, Eos Trans. AGU, 92( 24), 201.

https://earthscience.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ger...
If they're able to issue a new SIM card without the system requiring them to enter the PIN first, then it's a very terribly designed system.
Odd that you blame capitalism - for things like housing that was an entirely self-created problem based on rules and regulations that prevented the free market from actually working.
I went to university in Sweden and they promoted a VLSI track
"RTOS" has come to mean a library os for embedded microcontrollers. A lot of embedded projects don't care about realtime-ness at all.
Estrogen emitters, endocrine disrupting junk including plastics, hops, receipt paper, and tons of other everyday items and foods.

Lack of True Rest//Recovery.

Stress//clinical symptoms of anxiousness, caused or worsened by the above.
Semantics Beats Syntax
The brine is too salty for marine life causing dead zones.
SRS and learning-by-doing aren't mutually exclusive, in fact, I find that doing them together is much more effective than doing either one individually.

The catch is that, in my experience, SRS won't help you learn material you've never seen or used before. For programming, I make Anki cards for a given language/library/algorithm during or after the process of actually implementing something with it; then I can add my own code snippets into the card. For natural languages, I make a card only after I've seen or had to look up a particular grammatical construction or vocab word; then I can add my own example sentence, or the context where I first saw the term, into the card. So long as I'm regularly reviewing, then even for rare idioms or vocab, I can remember things I last saw years ago.

SRS is not as effective if you're studying prebuilt material by rote without any other interaction with the content. Rather it should be one part of a broad portfolio of activities you do to learn. For coding it should complement things like implementing projects, learning new libraries, reading open source code, reading technical books on the subject and so on. For languages it should complement things like talking to native speakers, reading news articles in the target language, listening to podcasts etc. where you use content from your other things and turn them into Anki cards.
As a side note, I really hate how NatGeo's website forces me to enter an email address to read the article. So naturally, I put a fake email in and continued. I really wish there was a way to kill the newsletter modal - it's the return of popup windows but more annoying.
“Subverting”?
But names are names, not descriptions. Names can describe stuff, but usually shouldn't. "ParallelDashboard" is a terrible name.
I think its social pressure. Prior to covid we always called masks PPE or Personal Protective Equipment, and you wore PPE mostly to protect yourself. When covid hit we told everyone to wear PPE but that you were doing so to protect everyone else and not yourself - that you needed to rely on everyone else wearing masks to protect yourself. So we end up with social pressure to wear masks and you wear one to show that you are doing the right thing.
Maybe working at a service provider has warped my English, but usually for me reading "one customer took down X" is usually a pejorative about the service and not a customer witch hunt for me.
Hi, thanks for the thoughts and glad to hear this could be useful for you! Startups and smaller companies we work with are paying $500/month (pretty cheap for replacing months of engineering working and maintenance). Our pricing then goes up from there depending on number of end customer groups.

We work with our clients on how the pricing scales up since some customers have very few end customer groups with tons of usage, whereas some customers have tens of thousands of end customer groups by virtue of being more consumer facing.

Let me know if you have more specific questions about pricing!
> Are you suggesting that "the large holders of BTC" are part of a criminal organization?

No, i’m saying whoever they are, they have unchecked power. Which, historically leads to evil. Which is why we created democracy in the first place.

Most bitcoin holders have little power, but bitcoin miners absolutely do control the network. 30% of the capacity of bitcoin went down when there was a power outage in China. It only takes a few large holders to control the network. Bitcoin mining is extremely energy and capital intensive. Whoever holds the electricity & equipment holds the power. It is only transferring power from democratic governments to whatever shadowy figures happen to be able to generate the most electricity. Its not going to be you or me, it will be an informal, shifting, unaccountable cartel of whatever countries happen to ally and form a >50% control of mining capacity.

This fantasy story about decentralized power is false. Many terrible regimes begin with promises of utopia.
I don't know how do you expect people to understand two disparate, absolutely differently working payment systems (LN and BTC) with different threat models, and moving between them always costs a lot of money.

But hey whatever works.

I think this will work as well as Petro worked for Venezuela.
Y'know, search engines to help with that question.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...
The kernel guy will maybe be ok after 3-4 months if he knows web development (which he probably doesn't). I wouldn't trivialize how easy it is to become a Rails dev.
Soon similar will be happening because of the EU's TERREG - only difference is that even if you block EU IP addresses, the law is still going to apply if you have a "significant" EU user base.
This means companies who want to opt out will have to request proof of citizenship of all their users to establish how "significant" is their user base and then either terminate the accounts or set up a legal presence in the EU with a censorship officer.
There are more water rights than water left.
That was my very first thought as well. We may be showing our ages :)
Is it a smaller problem? It is fairly trivially traced on a transparent blockchain whereas cash is not.
It has years more momentum than everyone else, not really surprising it's on the top. But if there is better tech, it will get usurped eventually.
And FWIW the platform doors are really only required for scare-mongering reasons.

I don’t know if that changed by now but Lyon’s Line D went GoA4 in 1992 with no platform doors (for the longest time there weren’t even turnstiles, you could just walk walk / run from
the entrance to the train with no stops).

The only accident I’ve heard of is someone falling on the train from a mezzanine above the carriage (they were drunk and apparently tried to jump to the quay, but managed to land on the train itself).
How many kernel maintainers are there as opposed to Rails/web devs? It's not a viable career path for most.
Desal is coming, but we should know the scope of the undertaking.

California's water usage could be met with about 2000 desal plants each producing about 20 million gallons per day [1]. (Which would be over 2 plants per mile of coastline.)

Of course, it's not like all the rain has stopped immediately so they wouldn't have to go all in. But even going 10% in is going to be a heavy lift.

Ag is a major water user, and I feel we could do a lot more work there to get equal yields for less water... It just costs more.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.desertsun.com/amp/14400333
MIT Is Building a Dynamic, Acrobatic Humanoid Robot
We're coming from different directions. My upper bound was "after this point it won't be rtos", but I've reworded it entirely to be more clear.
Even a monorepo won't help if you run multiple servers with your application code - there will still be a few seconds (or even a few minutes) during your deploys when some of those servers are running an old version of the software and some are running the latest release.
And yet you didn't mention an example.

Typical, because there aren't any and whenever BTC supporters are encountered by this they turn to critizing anything that's not BTC.
I'm not sure how you can say lightning doesn't work when it in fact does, 1ml.com shows you growing adoption and there are many private channels that won't even be known. There are many easy to use wallets, etc.

Channel factories will bundle channel open/closes into a single transaction, so it won't be burdensome on the main chain.
Oh, thanks! I didn't know about the temporary containers extension. Very useful!
Using Vivaldi as my main browser for several months now. There are some problems with Google Docs, but other then that almost everything is fine. I really like company's attitude to its users, various researchers agree that they really don't leak what they say they don't. Firefox is superb too, but mobile browser experience is not there yet (I mean the new Android browser). Brave is another option, but I feel that Vivaldi is way more under my control and made "for me", even considering that Brave is open sourced.
"Bitcoin is positioned to disrupt the remittances industry in El Salvador, estimated at about $5 billion annually. Most families in towns like El Zonte do not have bank accounts, and rely on services such as Western Union WU +0.5%, which take 5-10% in fees. The closest Western Union is approximately one hour by bus, requiring the recipient of the cash transfer to take the bus back with cash on hand, creating a safety issue." [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/07/14/this-...
> The laws and regulations they pass are directly contributing to homelessness and lack of housing.

v misleading esp w/ language such as 'likely' and 'most socialist' w/ zero sources.
Any chance you have a source handy? P.S. your tgs link is 404
No, because you're not targeting EU citizens and are also not operating in the EU.
I believe Discord does this as well, or at least used to do this. A family member used a script to extract deleted messages from the cache. Maybe they have fixed this by now?

Could Microsoft encrypt their local cache using something authenticated from the server from the active session, maybe a token or key or something else?
Yep, and I hope you've never done business with any of these[1] companies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
Oh a computer model! Anyone want to put money down that it can actually predict the future?
It will actually increase emissions, since (a) advertising networks are extremely adept at detecting click fraud and will now downweight showing ads on pages about climate change and (b) botnets consume a ton of energy, and therefore release more greenhouse gases.
It has great weather, beaches, great food, fun cities, an extremely wide range of biomes for nearby trips, and many extremely well paying jobs.

Sure it has it's problems, but I think what you're describing is an area that's rising (eastern europe) vs an area that rose in the past and is dealing with an equal balance of ups and downs. So it looks like a hellscape. That being said, the governments there do make some weird decisions, and issues with rent prices could be solved by allowing new/higher density construction.

What I'm getting at is income and standards of living are probably rising in your area faster than California, and that makes it feel like its wealthier/more pleasant on an absolute scale when it's in a phase of catching up.
Yeah the attacker now also has email control.
It doesn't, and it's interesting to note why - the latency of recall is important with language because it's so often used in daily life and because low latency is needed for fluid conversation.

For more scarcely needed information, the latency of recall (200ms vs 10s) doesn't matter, and so it is often preferable to store it outside of the brain. It might still be important to store a pointer to that information with some metadata in the brain so that it can be used in conceptual reasoning. But the actual data can be stored elsewhere (e.g a phone number on a smartphone).
Amazon announces picks for best science books of 2021 – so far
Instead of being a jerk and trying to shut down a conversation, and making completely unwarranted assumptions about people participating in it, perhaps you could actually make the case. Yeah?
Sort of, it's true there are lots of inventory tracking tools available but this school needed particular requirements that they couldn't find. Some of their requirments were that it needed to:

- Run on their intranet

- Run on a server they own

- Not use user accounts but rather individual pins, anyone can use any pin, they need to match an already used pin system at the school

- Work like a kiosk for ordering, enter pin, add items to a perpetual order

- Track internal budgeting and generate reports, nonone actually pays or has limits but they wanted to see howmuch budget Pin X was using etc.

- Purchase once, no subscriptions

So that ruled out SaaS and since almost every modern software company is SaaS or just a desktop application they weren't able to find a reasonable replacement.
> Who the hell has time to figure out all this stuff?

Nobody will have to learn this stuff, if the BTC economy develops there will be professional custodials for all levels. Eg. banks.

But the importance is that there is always the option to self-custody if you want to. With fiat you don't have that option even in theory. I think the option for self-custody is what makes BTC powerful alternative, not necessarily how widespread self-custody is going to be.
Your arguments seem to be from the business perspective, of the value of labor. My arguments are from the human perspective, in terms of the value of a person.

> hiring anyone whose productivity is below that value is financially non-viable

I would argue that the minimum wage is an indicator of the minimum humane value of an individual's time, in the eyes of the government. That is, if someone is paid less than that for their labor, it is humanely non-viable.

> the practical result is that people whose productivity is below the minimum wage are only able to find gainful employment by illegally receiving less than minimum wage

Again, this just feels exploitative. Take someone who hasn't finished highschool, for whatever reason: by your measure, likely not a very "productive" worker, and your argument implies someone like this may not "deserve" the minimum wage. But this person now has no way to rectify this situation: they have to work more than one job, beyond "full time", just to have enough to survive (because by your measure their limited productivity means they don't deserve enough money to feed and house themselves--a "living wage", as GP said above). Working multiple jobs to earn enough to survive means they don't have the time nor energy to continue to educate themselves, so they cannot raise their value as a worker, in your eyes. They are now trapped in this cycle.

Admittedly, "minimum wage" is perhaps not the best tool to address this problem. I would argue that something akin to UBI would be the best way to approach this--guarantee that every citizen has access to some minimum standard of living, with access to housing/food/education/information, and then let the labor economy exist on top of that. However, in the absence of such a system, and with intense resistance to anything like that kind of system, minimum wages are one of few tools available to address the problem of giving people options to exit living on month-to-month paycheck lifestyles.
"Never ever use your own domain for cold emails" is good advice.

I think "The content of your emails should never be about you" misses the real point.

There is a long list of behaviors I see in marketing communications that show a complete lack of empathy for the reader, not limited to:

* "leaning back", begging, showing desperation, apologizing proactively, etc. (I learned the hard way that you apologize exactly once for an offense, apologize completely, and

* "We are proud to announce ..." (-2 points right away, -10 points more if you're proud you were acquired, -100 and send them running if you were acquired by Google)

* Getting people to talk about themselves can be a trap too. I had a business partner who was great at getting information that we weren't supposed to get (e.g. the Bridgewater hedge fund's desktop virtualization plan, what the NSA was trying to buy from EADS that EADS had no idea how to build and they were talking to all the semantic web experts on the east coast about it except for us, no problem because those experts told us anyway...) He never sold anything, blew two sales I could have brought in myself. I fired him...

It's "behavior X causes recipient Y to believe you have no empathy" that's the problem, not any other attribute of behavior X.
Apple Lets Android and Windows Users to Try FaceTime over Web
Or, maybe just consider this, you are wrong and it ends up being very successful and more countries adopt it. For what it's worth, they have already been using Bitcoin in the El Zonte for some time now [1].

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/07/14/this-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co... has background on the various steps taken last year.

The data collection aspect seems to be on-par with what Silicon Valley tech companies do

"Patrick Jackson, chief technology officer of privacy company Disconnect, said the app sends an abnormal amount of data—mostly information about the phone—to its server, but there is limited evidence that TikTok is sharing these data with the Chinese government. He also noted that the amount of collected data was similar to that collected by American-originated social media platforms and was less than that collected by Facebook."
With my preferred SCSS module setup you get a hybrid solution with the best of both worlds. You can keep a clean stylesheet next to your component and then just:

import { mainGraphic } from './component.scss';

[...]

return (
<figure className={mainGraphic} />
);

Where `mainGraphic` is a regular class block in the SCSS. So it's pretty straight forward and the mapping is still fairly tight. At bundle time, the class name is minimized, deduped and a hash is added to it that corresponds to the rule content. The generated standalone CSS file also gets hashed for cache busting purposes. It's pretty neat.

And since it's SCSS you can keep constants, mixins, functions, etc. imported and organized within and between SCSS files, separated from the components.
"Brine, water comprising about five percent salt, often includes toxins such as chlorine and copper used in desalination, it said. By contrast, global sea water is about 3.5 percent salt."

"Brine can cut levels of oxygen in seawater near desalination plants"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-brine-idUSKCN...
I was assuming someone had an attack on the Alpaca altcoin.

So if you throw in a random word, it could be either or all of a garage rock band, an indie game, an altcoin, or a software vulnerability. And probably there are three or four academic software systems with that name...
Is this about using *.foo.com wildcard and/or re-using certs across services and/or multi SANs?

i.e. you have a host www.foo.com but it's also the corporate mail server, and happens to host webmail etc etc and you re-use that same cert/key pair?

I've always created one pair per service. You can always setup a new DNS name and get a free lets encrypt cert (new name or a SAN - they don't , or didn't, do wildcards).
I like physical analog cash even though its a pain in the ass to carry. Cashless society is terrifying to me.
Here's an article about the problems with brine from desalination plants https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slaking-the-world...
A cryptocurrency backed by the united states could certainly succeed as many people want to do business that way, but the point of bitcoin was decentralization and preventing government control of the currency.

The same people (lots and lots and lots of criminals, but you know, regular people too) who use bitcoin would probably not want a us dollar coin very much.

But the vast majority of people don't use bitcoin at all, for anything... I think a us dollar coin with FDIC protection or whatever protection it takes to make grandma feel safe that her $100k account is protected, would be wildly successful if they tried it.