skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to but Frank McSherry (author of differential dataflow) wrote them a specialized version without all the dataflow infrastructure [1]. It's part of the rust-lang nursery [2] now but hasn't been updated in a while, so I'm not sure what happened to it.

Edit: Looks like the rustc_mir crate that implements the non-lexical borrow checker uses `polonius_engine` [3] which uses `datafrog` so it's still used by the compiler!

[1] https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2018...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/datafrog

[3] https://crates.io/crates/polonius-engine
The value Bitcoin provides to humans is about more than the transactions.

The value is primarily about security as a store of wealth.

This is why I use market cap.
What kind of pollution does geothermal create? Honest question. I was under the impression it's just steam spinning turbines. Akin to a nuclear plant but without all the problematic radioactive fuel.
There's actually an album called Ubuntu. Quite possible some duncehead set up a bot to download all torrents with Ubuntu in the name and scrape the IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28album%29
Depends on how tech savvy they are.

Bitcoin has a public ledger, so once you know who the owner is of a particular address, you can view all of their past transactions and all the addresses of those transactions, potentially exposing a lot of metadata of their activities
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I was unaware of a way to get the recommended amount of protein for a physically active person (0.5-1g/lb of bodyweight) was possible with beans. At least in a way that doesn't involve shoveling 10 cups of lentils in your mouth a day. If you're really sticking to the vegan trend you can't even use butter to make them taste better.

Meat (and animal products in general) is a far more efficient source of protein. Ethics aside, nothing will change this. Pound-for-pound there is no better source of the necessary building blocks for muscle.

But hey, I guess the person who shops for $1/pound manager special chicken breast because it's in budget and tasty is the problem - right? It's possible that to all but the most privileged, ethical concerns on how you're going to eat enough to live just don't really matter as much as you think they do.
Did that Tanis theory (guy claimed to have found a former inland lake in North Dakota that experienced tsunamis due to the meteor impact, leaving various interesting fossils) ever go anyplace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis_(fossil_site)
Oh, is it that he refused to give up the key to his crypto wallet?
This is such a stupid story. The World Bank isn’t set up to finance side projects. In a similar vein, Micronesia wants to send coral to space and the World Bank refused to support—scandalous!
What do you use for taking notes in corp environment where data security is hard requirement and using 3rd party online solution (or the one that requires you to open an account for)?
So far I'm stuck with offline solution (cherrytree, I'm with them since using Linux back in the day) which is not ideal but gets me going.
Also it's relatively easy to make scheduled backups to internal servers where I can retrieve them in case of laptop failure and/or migration to new hardware.
Not saying I really need to use other software than cherrytree but would like to try something else (you know, that itchy feel in the back of your brain).

Any good offline solution anyone would recommend?
Normally I fully agree with you, but when the allegations are against such a high-profile international declared enemy of some of the most powerful nations on Earth, I do reserve judgment.

Similarly if Bielorussian authorities were investigating claims made by women against Roman Prostaevich, I would be less inclined to automatically believe that he had doone something to some women than I am for women telling their stories against Jeffrey Epstein.
What are the regulatory, financial and legal concerns? Why are they a deal-breaker? If there were no concerns El Salvador wouldn’t need to ask any help, would it?
Looks like these performative social liberalism is getting push back from the literary community.

Human beings are not monolithic and should not be forced and coerced to be by a group of online mob.

Chimamanda writes very well though
We keep talking about how tech should be used to make a net positive change yet we allow this glorified linked list that has 0 real world benefits after a decade to get a pass because some man children run around promising it's the future.
Countries that use the USD for their official currency, and are not a part of the US, have a broken financial system. They need to fix that to a point where they can implement their own sovereign currency.
You’ve made a judgement call that correctness isn’t a priority in this circumstance, and as long as your judgement is sound, this approach will serve you well.

The weakness of your approach is that no one’s judgment is sound 100% of the time.

Alternatively, folks who always prioritize correctness may occasionally “waste their time”, but two things to consider: 1) their judgement is no longer an issue, and 2) in the long run they have spent more time training their correctness muscles and are in better shape.
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> there is a tradeoff between committing the capital to own a fab and achieving higher clock rates, or preserving your capital, not owning the fab, and losing the ability to produce highly tuned designs. To give a rough notion of the trade-offs, in the same process size, the speed of a process (measured in FO4 latency) can vary by a factor of 3, between the best processes at foundries like TSMC or UMC, and fabbed manufacturers like Intel or IBM.

Is this still valid? How does this play out, say for Apple's M1?
It may be but what is your litmus test about? Can you elaborate on it?
I'm pretty much the opposite of a bitcoin fan, but I think if you replaced "bitcoin" with "dollars" in your comment you would see that it sounds a bit weird. I bet most dollars have been involved in shady business at some point during their life. With bitcoin you have a better chance at figuring this fact out I guess.

Regarding quantum computers: Quantum computers are not known to be exponentially faster at hashing than normal computers, so they pose no threat to bitcoin.
"Geothermal power plants do not burn fuel to generate electricity, but they may release small amounts of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. Geothermal power plants emit 97% less acid rain-causing sulfur compounds and about 99% less carbon dioxide than fossil fuel power plants of similar size."
- https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/geothermal/geothermal-en...
Big banks are already building on Ethereum, in case you didn't know
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Very high quality browser-based version of the first mario https://playmarioonline.com/ I play with pleasure
OK, try this one:

If I make a product for global use and Russian use, am I malicious for telling Russian customers that I’ll cut out information on homosexuality by Russian law? Or is the malice in Russia requiring that? Can we expect companies, especially international conglomerates, to give up on potential markets in order to protest a law?

(This is not a caricature, this is more or less what a couple of Russian acquaintances working on YouTube at Google tell me. One could also say the same, mutatis mutandis, for China or India or Saudi Arabia, but I know much less about what’s happening there. Also intentionally not the most outrageous example, only the one that hopefully hits closest to home for a Western audience.)
> Bitcoin's enegery:market-cap ratio - a proxy for energy vs. value to humans - is >300x better than an airline & 60x better than JP Morgan & 20x better than google's.

Market cap is not, to me, any kind proxy for "value to humans". The utility of Bitcoin as an alternative to fiat is obviously unrelated to the number coins or their price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

Chas. T. Main's former vice president Einar Greve, who first offered Perkins a job at the firm,[1]:10 initially affirmed the overall validity of the book:[12]

> Basically his story is true.… What John's book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never been able to repay the loans.
Technically you can implement map as reduce ;)

But yes - for me

(defn factorial [n]
(reduce * (range 1 (inc n))))

is slightly more readable than

def factorial(n):
result = 1
for i in range(2,n+1):
result *= i
return result

I mean in this case the name kinda makes it obvious anyway :)

If the operation is conceptually accumulating something over the whole collection and if it's idiomatic in the language I'm using - I will use reduce. Same with map-y and filter-y operations.

But if I have to do some mental gymnastics to make the operation fit reduce - for loop it is. Or generator expression in case of python.
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It can be both. There is no control, or transparency AND we might mess up the environment more? Pass.
They're not gonna lose their part of the pie by proposing all crypto services themselves, instead of seeing all that capital flee to exchanges
Oh my, that is by turns both hilarious and brilliant. It's like a series of code reviews, but for jazz. Thanks for sharing.

NB: recognising another instrumentalist by ear isn't the wildly special part; I've spent some time around professional musicians and for many the subtleties in phrasing and tone &c are as distinctive and intuitively unique as someone's face, and especially so of a contemporary on the same instrument, so I'd be more surprised if he couldn't. The fun part for me is the encyclopedic scope of Miles's knowledge, and the pithy opinions they inform.
I also wonder how many people understand that linenoise meant noise on a data cable of some description.

i.e. the difference between `d` and `$` is a single bit. If your cable happened to glitch during that first `1` bit, you would get a `$` instead of the `d` you should have.

The thing is that doesn't happen anymore. Or at least when it does happen it gets caught and retransmitted.

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Which means that some of the first people to say it might not have been making a value judgement, but a statement of fact. (I doubt there was very many in that camp.)

Note that I say that as a person who's second favorite language is Perl. (First favorite is Raku, formally known as Perl6.)

It is too bad that most of coolest features have come to Perl after I switched to Raku.
Indeed. I rarely encounter basic loops in code reviews now, so seeing one is definitely a small alert to do an extra thorough review of that part.
Yeah cycling without lights always amazed me.

At the same time, idiotic cyclists are only risking their own lives and that’s it. Idiotic drivers are risking other people’s lives but not their own.

When there is a crash between and a car and a bike that involves a fatality, 100% of the time that fatality is the cyclist and not the driver.
> The world bank responding to such a request shows how big of a thing Bitcoin has become

My local bank would also respond to a request for $1 billion dollars to buy Bitcoin.
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> The New World existed as colonies for centuries before it had the ability to become independent

No, many of the British colonies had the ability to become independent fairly soon after being colonized. The key variable wasn't how capable the colonists were but how interested Britain was in controlling them, and that varied widely from colony to colony, depending on who in Britain had to exercise the control. Some, like the British peers who had ownership interests in New York and Virginia, were control freaks and wanted to exercise all sorts of detailed micromanagement of their colonies. Others, like Penn with Pennsylvania, basically let them do whatever they wanted and didn't bother much about it. And even in colonies like New York and Virginia, once you got away from the coastal cities or river ports that were easily accessible to British ships, the level of British control dropped drastically. The British couldn't do much at all about up-country backwoods farmers and trappers, who basically didn't care what the British or the colonial governments did since it couldn't really affect them.

What didn't crystallize until the 1770s was the political unity between the colonies behind an explicit declaration of independence. Which was, in large part, a product of the British, after the end of the French and Indian War, deciding that the colonies had already gotten too independent and needed to be reminded that they were still British subjects. Which didn't work out very well.

> that more to do with Napoleon for South America and the rest of the world wanting to take Britain down a peg

All of which happened after the US had already become independent. So it's irrelevant when looking at how the US became independent.

It is true that the British were still dealing with the French in Europe and that this limited their ability to project power in America during the US revolution. (The Americans also took full advantage of this by allying with France.) But that just illustrates my point: empires aren't omnipotent and can't just magically project power whenever and wherever they want to.
Can you make me a list of real vs pretend work so I can base my ethical decisions on it?
I concur. Related link currently on the front page:

https://www.persuasion.community/p/kids-need-freedom-too
It did respond, but it responded with a "no" (not unusual for a bank). There is no international right to obtain whatever assistance you want from the world bank.
I'm not sure which system you're referring to exactly.
The value it provides is a Ponzi scheme for elites and lumpens to quickly make money, nothing else.
The debt based system will not go away if we ever move the entire economy to bitcoin (laughable as that idea is). You'll have fractional bitcoin reserve banking with absolutely no difference compared to today.

In fact, the fact that bitcoin has no on-chain notion of credit is a major limitation that relegates it to being digital gold, not a digital dollar.
Coin mixers can make this much harder.
It is just catching up with Java applets and Flash, or any other plugin one bothered to write.
You don't need to trust LN nodes
Major banks' online services, eftpos, airline systems go down
Pihole will let you do this
Problem is that each tech company uses a proprietary set of emoji so they couldn't standardize even if they wanted. Many instant messaging apps work around this by using their own emoji set for all users but this is also often annoying especially when the emoji are ugly.
Er no: https://goo.gl/maps/Ajtkg3DWnnCRnNK18

There are a few strange comments about Germany in this thread.

Is there some internet movement whose pastime it is to make Germany look backward? What do you get out of it?
Right, that indeed paints a very different cityscape than what I had in mind.
I think it's censorship resistant and permissionless properties make it pretty impressive.
This article talked about so much more than racial diversity, is that all you got out of it?
That "glorified linked list" solves a lot of problems in peer to peer computing. In fact, blockchains are arguably the biggest breakthrough that subfield of computer science has ever seen.
The paper mentions a reference implementation of the GEA/1 / GEA/2 was used to generate the keystream data, but does not mention how to get a hold of this.

Does anyone here know? Or am I correct in assuming the implementatiom is kept under pretty heavy lock due to its proprietary nature?
Hey Matt, did you apply for a grant? If so, which one?
Unicode already has a bunch of things that extend the height like those "corrupted text" generators.
Quantum issue is not with hashing but with private key derivation
This has not been true since early 2018. See: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-... There was only a couple of years when vendors rendered it differently, and they worked toward a consensus, as they have for many other emojis.

Even if there was no vendor consensus, I'm not sure what the misunderstanding could be with this particular emoji. There is only one pistol emoji, and regardless of whether it is rendered as a water pistol or a revolver, it still is used to represent the concept of a pistol. There are better examples of emojis that used to be displayed with a facial expression or hand gesture that had a relatively different meaning depending on the platform. For example face with rolling eyes, person tipping hand (information desk person) and so on.
So instead you should spend 5 hours reading about some service that might not exist in a year and doing integration work with it?

It's not like you're going to integrate some service into your app in 0 hours.

It's also not like you won't have to spend some time maintaining your integration either.

IMO, a "killer feature" for a business is not /maybe/ saving $100 a month under low usage, and /maybe/ costing you $1k+ under high usage...
Is it possible that you don’t actually need every one of those hours? Is there something you could optimize to gain some of them back?

I also run my own business and have never once felt the need to work 40 hours in a single week.

It’s your business so you can design it to work any way you like.
Why do chefs dislike McDonald's?
Nextdns or pinole is great.
> The lesson I draw from Chimananda's story, though, is that people who are out to fight dragons (i.e. defeat the forces of evil in society) are liable to turn you into their next dragon. The revolution eats its own. It happened to Basecamp, too.

History is full of oppressed turned oppressors, but we are very determined not to learn from it.
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That's assuming Sweden's power grid is up 365 days a year, but we should subtract a few days to account for bitcoin ransomware attacks.
For those not in the know, 4242 is used as a common test card number.

https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
KYC and AML are some of the biggest regulatory and legal hurdles for bitcoin. On the financial side, tying your country to a coin whose value you can't control, and is known to fluctuate wildly, is obvious financial insanity.
Conspiracy theory about moving off the petrodollar, presumably.
> In fact, the fact that bitcoin has no on-chain notion of credit

Precisely that was the OPs point why it is a good alternative to the debt-based financial system we have.
Not just home A/C but many of the hotels I visited did not have A/C (or it was set for the whole building, and way too hot at that).

We visited the UK in late May during one of those heat waves and got stuck on the London Underground in a very hot train. Lots of fun!
I'm pretty sure cartels and gangs are using fiat right now...
The comments on Bitcoin threads make me realize how much people are happy to bend the truth (e.g. energy consumption) to justify what pays them (or they think it pays them.

Bitcoin started with no connection to real money. Still the connection is quite flaky. Essentially people are buying pieces of the output of a program without any government/majority backing that has any worth. Then, they try to justify it, because for the time being, the main/practically only way to make money out of it, is to find someone else to sell party of this output.

I guess I am getting old and I can't understand how something with so high transaction fees, latency, environment impact, computationally inefficient (as a feature!) is something sought after by some people.
Potentially a stupid question; why is it not possible to just make a MediaWiki site explicitly for SO questions? Does it exist already?
A lot of these Bitcoin threads get old. The detractors, the pumpers, the bag hodlers ... it's all so tiresome.

Here's something I want answered (all three parties are invited to respond): Is there a dependency on mature internet infrastructure that exists for a country to adopt BTC as its currency? Seems like there is to me, but maybe I'm not fully appreciating how this works or am overestimating the connectivity requirements for running BTC at scale in a modern economy.
I guarantee a design team would take one look at 1000.0kB and kick it back as a bug
I'm still waiting for the ability to pay for an invoice using terminal. The use cases being a user sends an invoice to a customer and then collect payment for that invoice in person.
The public justification for killing Gaddafi is 'stopping the imminent genocide', which by the way, he literally declared he was about to commit.

But the real smart people who have the special knowledge know that it was obviously <<insert conspiracy theory here>>.

The thing is, geopolitics is messy and there are quite a number of 'factors' many of them true to some extent. The Gulf tribal leaders absolutely hated him and they (i.e. Qatar) lent their special forces more or less as 'personal vendetta' than anything.

There are definitely arguments about Oil and related contracts - but Gaddaffi through the diplomacy of his son was well on his way to 'public reconciliation' to the point where there was a lot of money being made there, and it's entirely doubtful that some new, unknown clan would make it any easier for Westerners to make money.

If there were an obvious and very popular contender for power who was on the precipice of uniting the nation and he was already tacit 'backed by the west' - then you could make the argument that the intervention was on the style of the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, but this really wasn't that situation.

The question says more about the person asking it than the answer.

The real question to ask someone when they are talking about 'Bitcoin' is how much Bitcoin (or other crypto) do you own? Because I find it's like talking to people in Amway or Scientology.
But quantum computer can break currently used Public-Key Algorithms, like ECDSA, which is used by Bitcoin.
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> The absolute figures are bitcoin uses about the equivalent of Sweden’s energy consumption every year.

Even using those sources I believe it's "electricity" consumption not "energy" consumption.
> Bitcoin's enegery:market-cap ratio

This is absolutely the most contrived number I've ever seen put into the service of excuses for bitcoin's ghastly energy consumption. This is actuallly a new one on me.

It's especially good since "market cap" of a crypto is a made-up marketing number that tells you nothing about the price or its likely movements - it is, literally, the last speculative trading spot price multiplied by the number of coins someone thinks are in circulation.

A billion putative dollars of market cap can disappear in five minutes when the price goes down. Where did all that value go? Nowhere, it was imaginary.
Yep. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-ou...