skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, last time I opened Instagram it offered me to completely hide the number of likes on all posts (others' and your own as far as I understood).
> the charges are ten dollars or so, that's bearable.

Sorry, but no that's an extraordinarily privileged take. $10 is a lot of money for just transmitting some USD. And it goes a long way in El Salvador. I highly doubt the average remitter is sending more than $500/month, so it represents a 2% tax. I only consider $10 an acceptable fee if I'm sending tens of thousands of dollars.

There isn't any currency conversion because El Salvador's official currency is USD. Assuming it's WU on both ends there's no settlement risk. It sounds like pure greed.
The High Council of Shitcoins, of course.
Court fees payable in Shiba.
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Have you seen any uptake on the articles around her? I don't. I see multiple articles that are being ignored.
How would this prevent scenarios such as refurbishing a nuclear powered Russian icebreaker to sit in international waters mining Bitcoin?
When your site can expect visitors from all around the world you need a CDN that also has a world wide presence.
Using a CDN can have a pretty big impact on the performance of your site, and it is well known that users avoid sites that are slow.
which one did you pick up? looking for something similar
> or even your bank going under.

FDIC insurance prevents your money from being lost in this case, no?

Also, it's a bit ridiculous to think that private keys won't be stolen because you can just store it away in a safe or bank or whatever. People are susceptible to all sorts of scams and this private key won't be a panacea for human stupidity or ignorance.
I made this because I always found modern DOM API's much more flexible, simple, and performant than other UI libraries like React. This really just attempts to cleanly abstract document.createElement() while also allowing for super simple server-side rendering.

You may like this if you are trying to make either a simple static blog or a complicated dynamic web app - and it's super easy and memorable to get started with

npm install bruh
My kid is in University right now and is doing an internship - recently he's been getting deep into contributing to an open source mod for a game, and I'm worried it's distracting him from his internship work and ultimately his final year of school. I see him on steam during the work day playing the game he's modding and he's taken time to show off his modding work and how it's put together - he's really proud of it, and honestly I am too.

I've been tempted to say something to him to make sure he balances his time appropriately and fulfills his other commitments.. but maybe I'll let it go a little while longer. I think he's getting a lot out of his project and I don't want to discourage him.

I suppose ultimately he's an adult and should make his own decisions and suffer his own consequences. But I worry.
Well, you could use two CDNs instead of just one. But that costs money.
Given an early start up, where the fullstack engineers has to be heavily involved with product (like a forward deployed engineer), what kind of skillsets do you think is important?
Thanks. You make a few interesting points. It just doesn't seem to hit me so bad as an average user.

I actually liked the UI they implemented in Android. Alas, I seem to be in a minority
If this is some parse-trees-for-nerd-readers things, it really should be [...]'s.

I always do ". for quotes within the sentence too. The lisper in me won't let it be otherwise.
Thank you. I know it is a little top-posty, but older email clients worked this way, and outlook.com still does. It makes more sense to me, for the same reason newer emails in the first column are at the top. Obviously this would need to be an option, as I'm sure there are people who prefer the current behavior.

Also, and I understand this is a reach, but if you could please ask you engineering team to rewrite the whole front end in htmx, that would be great. :)
"the leader of a country can chat casually with everyday people"

What % of the people on the call were from El Salvador? What % of the folks that spoke or asked questions? And what % were unbanked?

From listening to the call for a while, I'd guess a low single-digit number.
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I have to point out, it seems, that you don't change your database schema "multiple times a day". Nor is every database schema linked to downtime (especially if you follow service/module orientation with distinct aggregates, and don't throw everything in one shared database like it's the 90s). Most updates don't need downtime. Few rare ones, do, unless you want major complications.

The irony you point out, isn't a huge irony. When your business is small, downtime is fine. As you grow and it becomes "not fine" you have people around the world that can handle it off-peak hours for the users during dev work hours.
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The article's callout of alfalfa is an exception to the rule. Beef cattle eat a lot of human-inedible silage (byproducts of raising corn and soybeans) and for economic reasons the land they graze is typically non-arable land. Beef is a natural way for humans to benefit from the inedible byproducts of corn and soybean operations.

Re: water, typical cattle operations supply natural rainfall (gathered in ponds) and not irrigated, meaning they return the moisture they consume to the soil along with some nitrates which fertilize the plants they graze -- they do not somehow retain 106 gallons of water per pound of meat.

If you don't live in a desert, cattle are a beneficial part of the ecosystem as they extract human-edible calories from non-arable land. During drought, irrigation and supplements like alfalfa become necessary to keep a herd alive, but the problem isn't the cattle -- it's the drought.
Both have to be in WF, or you have to use Zelle or wire transfer (big fees). I ended up using WF Business Pay that i used for employee payroll...
From my understanding, they hold most of that in reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve. But yeah, someone at some point holds some cash. But of the total US money supply (in 2018), physical currency makes up about 11% of the total value[0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-us-currency-t...
Sometimes it's lower, sometimes it's much higher. Usually the more people that are using the blockchain the higher the fees. Bitcoin right now mostly follows a trend where it gains in popularity, which causes a surge in transactions, which causes fees to go up, which in turn causes people to stop using it, etc.
Perhaps the drivers should be paid a sum of money which closer reflects how much marginal value they add to the city, and this would convince them not to strike.
This is why you have never seen FTPS in the wild, from the vsftpd.conf manual page:

ssl_enable
If enabled, and vsftpd was compiled against OpenSSL, vsftpd will
support secure connections via SSL. This applies to the control
connection (including login) and also data connections. You'll
need a client with SSL support too. NOTE!! Beware enabling this
option. Only enable it if you need it. vsftpd can make no guar‐
antees about the security of the OpenSSL libraries. By enabling
this option, you are declaring that you trust the security of
your installed OpenSSL library.
Default: NO

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2015/07/vsftpd-303-r...
Since I am not exactly in the industry, it's always funny looking at these diagrams. Actual cores are so tiny compared to various caches, SIMD blocks and what have you
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If someone can exploit your SMS, it's possible they can use that to social engineer their way into a password resets with services. (I forgot may password but I still have my phone.) So I would say a bad second factor can be strictly worse than no second factor.
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I've had some experience with this myself, although I haven't gotten robbed outside a WU yet; I wrote a little about my Argentine experience in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744.

It's important to remember that WU's fees are so high in large part because WU is assuming risks (of identity fraud, of regulatory blockage, and of cash theft) that Bitcoin largely avoids.
Lightning is not decentralised. You have up keep your node online 24/7 to prevent theft. Most people can't do that. So they will end up keeping their coins in the custody of nodes that run 24/7. Leading to centralisation. Lightning is just like a MySQL database extra steps.
That definition seems to differ from the definition I've commonly seen.

How do you define a digital currency?
Yes, it's brain surgery. Desalination requires lots of energy, which is another thing that California is in short supply of. Hope they like more rolling blackouts.
Do you roll your own power grid? Do you roll your own ISP + telecoms network?

As a software engineer I live by the ethos that coupling and dependency is bad, but if you unravel the layers you start to realise much of our life is centralised:

Roads, trains, water, electricity, internet

These are quite consolidated and any of these going down would be very disruptive to our lives. Connected software, ie the internet, is still quite new. Being charitable, are these just growing pains in the journey to building out foundational infrastructure?
> it's zero sum since someone simply provided me that money

By your definition, every transaction ever made is zero sum.
So start a petition to change the law so that construction on the tempelhofer feld is allowed while requiring that all buildings constructed on the tempelhofer Feld have to be priced according to the old Mietpreisbremse.

If that petition gets enough signatures, it becomes a Volksentscheid, and if that gets enough votes, it'd be law.

Especially in Berlin this shouldn't be too hard.
According to their blog post, "If we didn't comply, they stated they had the right to block our website (and possibly all data transmission) between us and anyone within Russian borders."

They were were going to be blocked anyway. So the two options were "Russian users are blocked, and the Russian government considers us law-breakers," or "Russian users are blocked, and the Russian government does not consider us law-breakers."

Even if there are no direct consequences that the Russian government can enforce on Fastmail, I can't imagine why they would want to choose option 1. Why do you think they should? What good would it do for anyone?
Interesting, in the past this would be built into outlook but they now decided it should be a separate service and an upsell? If this is a sign of things to come it’s good news for startups in the b2b space - Microsoft won’t just bundle your startup into office 365.
Ok, I gotta admit, I have no idea what is going on here?

Just a script that commits nothing constantly?
The bookmarks are ... non related? I don't understand at all!
correct, just search El Zonte or Bitcoin Beach, tons of videos on youtube on how they're using lightning network in fully circular economy since entire town has been unbanked

it's pretty fantastic people! naysayers should plan to visit El Zonte, beautiful surfing community.

I plan to visit later this year and have friends who work with Strike team etc.

The future is looking optimistic!
this is a post on a substack that reprints an interview with the same person that runs the substack, who (just) coincidentally has recently published a book. hmmm.

this is content marketing. there's a reason that when you publish legitimate research you need to disclose conflicts of interest. i mean what's next? articles with interviews with the sackler family where they go on at length on how opiods aren't actually that addictive?

it's funny how everyone has such a high standard for articles and comments when it comes to jokes and supposed flame wars but absolutely zero standard when it comes to shilling.

edit: this post was flagged and either someone vouched for it or dang permitted it. just goes to show that this site isn't about rigorous discourse but advertising merchandise (whatever form that may take) that's on message.
Varnish and VCL were the hotness at the time Fastly was coming up so it sort of makes sense, but Varnish also doesn’t support WebSockets, can’t proxy GRPC, etc so they’re very limited in functionality vs CloudFlare.

I doubt they’d build it on Varnish today, but it’s a bit late now since they allow custom VCL (which has now proven to be a terrible idea) and will have to support that for eternity.

They can run two or more serving stacks side by side though if it comes to that.

And to add to your point, they also have a separate process that speaks QUIC. It’s an interesting tech stack with a lot of technical debt.
That is cool use case for customer facing analytics/information!

Every part of what you described other than the actual QR code generation is possible today! For each user input in the dashboard, URL parameters can be defined to default the input to a specific value on page load.

Your point around using the Explo dashboard to show more information is super relevant to one of the longer term ways that we are thinking about our product. Rather than just typical "dashboards", what we've built with Explo is a way to create user interfaces that share and communicate data. And we want to take it a step further since we've realized that a lot of web development and user interfaces is really just visualizing and communicating data.
When visiting Berlin a few summers ago, I happened to be staying in Neukölln and decided it'd be fun to do one of my daily runs around the airfield. There's a funny thing about airports that I quickly realized: they have no trees and thusly no shade. They're also really big.

I won't say I particularly enjoyed the run but it was cool to be able to do it and experience a very unique and historic outdoor space in a big city.
AFAIK it's different from sharding. The transactions aren't being recorded on a separate chain, they're kept between the two ends of the channel.
> tragedy of the commons

Huh, I thought that was about shared resources getting ruined.
Also doesn’t mean they are.
Sure, if your house increases in value it is in fact not creating any value. Same with stocks. But if you invest in stocks you increase the amount of risk capital in the world, so more companies will be started, companies that can create value.

So it's not the rising stock price that creates value when a company is successful, but is an indication that the company is creating value, since people are buying its product.
ahh, an oversight indeed. the installer is signed now.
LN requires opening and closing channels, each of which have to be done as a regular Bitcoin transaction. The value proposition of LN is that repeated transactions with the same entity (or some subset of) can be done without high fees, but considering almost nobody is currently using LN that doesn't change things right now.
Should?

Is that a speculation? Surely if they’re not doing this for the first time ever on an entire country?

Someone has already used a large scale lightning network before right?
So this guy is trying hard to break Github, I guess...?
Well, in 1923 t was more a deal between the king deposed by the 1918 post-WW1 revolution and conservative politicians. Since then, well, it is something we Bavarians don't talk about much. It basically is a state-funded, oversight free way to pay stipends to the former Bavarian ruling house. For longer now than the Bavarian kingdom ever existed.

The Wittelsbacher family got of easier so, than the Habsburg rulers (they lost everything, Austria even went so far to abolish every single noble title) and the Hohenzollern of Prussia. I guess it helps not being in the main crosshairs of the Entente back then.
IBM bought them a few years ago.
The problem here lies when the merchant want to derisk btc/USD by often converting it back to USD after a transaction. That causes a miner fee, there is a penalty in breaking the lighting channel.
> dollar is a central bank currency

The term "dollar" encompasses central bank money (including but not limited to banknotes) as well as private money.

> Numbers in a retail bank's ledger are not digital dollars

Yes, they very much are. Modern money creation is public-private and only semi-centralized.
The article claims that WU's fees in El Salvador average 10% of the remittances. You can read about my experiences with bitcoin vs. WU in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744.
My only experience with this is building and designing guitar amps, which often have 80dB of gain or more, a.k.a., a pain in the ass amount of gain to deal with. It's not something on par with, say, radio astronomy, but it's still a lot of gain to deal with.

Usually the main source of noise will be a 120Hz or 100Hz buzz, but with humbucking pickups and careful orientation of the guitar you can mostly eliminate that. The next source of noise will be a low-level white noise (sounds like a hiss), which is from the amplifier, and consists of a mixture of Johnson noise and shot noise.

In older amps you may hear a louder hiss/crackle which is from old carbon comp resistors, which is an inferior type of resistor that produces additional noise through a different mechanism.

If you're trying to record your guitar directly through a digital interface, you may run into clipping issues and have to enable the pad (a built-in attenuator). Unfortunately, my experience is that the pad often introduces an unacceptable amount of noise, and I believe that it's just plain Johnson noise from a resistive divider.
"More UX will develop over time as adoption grows. We already have hardware wallets that even babies could use."

The difference is this: If people have a hardware wallet they use digitally they think it's like a bank account on their phone. They do not realize that with that wallet if the wallet is gone so is the money. Wheras if the phone is gone, nothing happens to their money.
I don't like arguing with hyperboles like that. Please suggest something reasonable, which I even could agree to.
The organization's name "Lawfare", has some pretty negative connotations in-and-of-itself.
The Indirect Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) is probably what you're looking for.

The US Army is looking to field a demonstrator by 2022 & deploy by 2024.

They're exploring both laser and microwave / EM for the counter-UAS role. In complement to existing SAMs for higher-value/capability targets.

https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/ms-ifpc_inc_2-i/
> An actual digital dollar would have no transaction fee whatsoever.

So, something BTC is unable to provide?
The article states Johannisthal and also has two pictures for that.
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Sorry, yes he wanted to diversify as he was no longer in charge. I meant to write something about assuming he cared about diversifying quickly (lost faith in MSFT) as opposed to so he could reduce his risk and think less about his asset distribution.
I don't know if you suggested Croydon because you've seen me mention living there, or if you picked it at random or because it's one of the main locations with trains heading for Victoria, but Croydon is one of the highest trafficked parts of the UK rail network, with an interconnected set of some of the most complex junctions in the country, and a large rail depot that is hard to secure because of its sheer size...

It's if anything one of the worst places in the entire UK to start such a project.

The problem with what you suggest is that a ten minutes delay at East Croydon during rush hour, if you're lucky and a problem happens near a station, can easily lead to rush hour traffic from large parts of the South Coast to both London Victoria and London Bridge piling up with effects lasting for an hour or more. It's a horrible chokepoint. There are plans to fix that [1], but those plans also involve multi-year projects. In fact the planning has been going on for years at this point.

A similar issue is a problem for the London Underground - while there are fewer complex junctions, the margins are far tighter. A train that's stuck on the station for a couple of minutes can have knock on effects over a larger area.

All of this is solvable, but the costs involved in various improvements to mitigate them means it'd take a very long time before those investments would start paying off.

[1] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes...
While you do need to close/open payment channels if you want to move the funds off the lightning network, I don't really see why you'd need to "periodically" do it. Lightning channels can stay open indefinitely so you can theoretically park your money on there indefinitely.
You can write custom VCL snippets directly in the Fastly control panel. Migrating all existing customer VCL to another language would be an enormous task.
If your heap is on the order of 100kB the GC stalls may not be so bad. A bigger problem may be pulling your code from external SPI flash - typically you will need to put all your real time code in RAM and you have only so much of it.
From the post:

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