skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is actually using Bitcoin to pay for things, because it is a terrible currency due to fundamental design flaws. At this point the narrative of Bitcoin the world currency is dead, it’s now a get rich quick scheme.
This Twitter thread strongly suggests the motivation was largely due to bullying from the Kiwi Farms forum, in addition to the owner’s refusal to do anything about the thread.

https://mobile.twitter.com/near_koukai/status/14089400572353...

I was arguing that the event could be considered more than nothing, possibly something like manslaughter due to possibly analogous events being considered as such. Not that the actors would be prosecuted under any particular law.
Was the same licensing method for Minecraft in beta
Aalborg is one of very few exceptions that even in Danish can commonly be spelled with “aa” as a replacement for “å” (the single character).

Just like ae for æ.
Most probably... yes
> meaning that the macro always literally expands to (+ x x)

Make that three bugs. The macro is called "double," but the numeric result is square.
If cryptography would work for this it would simply be outlawed.
I feel pretty torn about Myers-Briggs, because while I recognise its shortcomings as a "scientific hot mess", it still provides a useful heuristic model for personality types. At its core, it is a model about binary preferences, and people can often be understood by their sharpest preferences, the places where they are most imbalanced.

I don't think it's fair to compare this to astrology, which as far as I know isn't accompanied by any kind of reasonable or observable mechanism.

An example which comes to mind from recent media is John McAfee. Anyone who has put much thought into MBTI will no doubt all agree that he was an ENTP, who exemplified the charming chaos of extraverted intuition, while becoming paranoid about the parts of life that he repressed: the down-to-earth organisation of introverted sensing.

Knowing his Big Five percentages wouldn't give you the same quick insight into how exactly he was always his own worst enemy.
The number of fatalities is a function of how safe the car is in an accident as well as how many accidents there are. If cars could be made perfectly safe the number of fatalities would be zero. That wouldn't mean distracted people wouldn't crash any more.

The number to look at is total accidents per mile rather than just fatal ones. Unfortunately that still won't really give you an accurate picture because there are far more variables than just the driver's level of attention.
No, I disagree with all 4 points, in point of fact. All of those points which you attribute agreement to me, that you assert to be known are not, actually known, but again, are assertions only. The proof of all of which, if it exists at all, is buried under a warren of circular self-references, and journalists who breathlessly report them as known.

An extraordinary claim should have unambiguous, clear, unassailable proof. A skeptic should be able to look at all the evidence and verify it for oneself. One cannot do that with each important assertion. Instead, one must rely on assertions by "persons familiar with the matter".

A flood of circumstantial evidence of dubious provenance, no matter how earnestly believed by the politically motivated, should not be enough to destabilize the Office of US Presidency (no matter how much one finds the holder of the office distasteful) nor make dangerous accusations of foreign nations.

This is a no-brainer. Yet here we are, talking about 2-year old IP addresses as if it were some smoking gun.
There are also deep and to my mind suspicious links between the two, this fraud is a shared endeavour.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-by-the-minute-look-at-tethe...
This is terrible advice. There are much better options even if you do want a custodial wallet.
International law is a stupid and weak thing. Yes, the case for Ukraine controlling Crimea de jure is strong. But at the same time self-determination exists, and no one seriously contests that the majority of Crimeans would rather belong to Russia.

It's not as cut and clear de jure as it may seem, international law almost never is.

Russia does not de facto "unlawfully" occupy it, because law is not a matter of fact. It's not even under occupation anymore, it's almost entirely annexed now.
Far from, if anything the opposite.

I mainly write this kind of stuff to make people think about what they would not otherwise have thought about, with the secondary goal getting at chuckle or two along the way.

This particular one have been discussed on HN previously and every time the "beause ASCII == keyboard" argument have come up.

...and been slapped down by people from the rest of the world, who have two or even three keystroke sequences to reach [\]{|} etc, because more important national characters, like æøåÆØÅ lives on the "usual" keys.

If I managed to get people to think about that, I've done my job.

As for C:

I think the C lanuage has been mismanaged, why did we need yet a threading API, while we still dont have explicit struct packing, including per struct or per field endianess specification ?

The ISO-C Group is incredibly conservative, which is plain wrong: A finite amount of C code have already been written, but there is a potentially infinite amount yet to be written. They should focus on the larger oeuvre.
WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as variant spreads
As stated in the article FireWire (IEEE1394) to its variants was different (and much better) than USB.

The scariest thing was hot-swapping/plugging.
FireWire had beefy power supply capabilities at the time.

We joked a lot of the 'fire' in firewire since you were easily able to 'fry' equipment (mostly the FireWire controllers).

I know a lot of non-techie people that plugged the FW400 port opposite which would usually fry your equipment.

USB4.0 is however great news imho since it merged Thunderbolt was is capable of low-latency which was the main feature (at least for audio) with FireWire.
But that's not what is happening here. Hate speech charges are a serious crime and often see lengthy court time.

If you cannot express your inconvenient opinion without being hateful towards or potentially harming a group of people, then that is a problem.
NATO is not required to an will not reply to such a request as a matter of treaty.

Britain is not able and not interested in retaking Crimea. It will not happen. They can shoot back at useless targets, but if Britain provokes a war with Russia in Crimea it will simply be defeated.
With cloud and AI, IBM broadens 5G deals with Verizon and Telefonica
it's ridiculous to ridicule something that works, even if it works in your particular case.

Congratulation on your journey, all the best
Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace Bitcoin
Not to mention daisy-chainability, and actually delivering something resembling the advertised speed.

USB is for keyboards, mice, and modems. FireWire and Thunderbolt are for external storage and other demanding applications. Too bad people are too stupid to understand that, and vendors too gutless to explain it.
To me it's the other way around -- pipewire is the sound server equivalent of systemd. For better or for worse.
Running .NET on Raspberry Pi Pico
UK, Singapore launch talks on digital trade agreement
On 2 different Windows XP machines, the 1394 controller would reset and the drive would disappear. So maybe that was part of the FW adoption problem. But mostly USB2 was fast enough for consumer drives, unless you were sitting there with a stopwatch.
How much are you willing to bet that you transcribed a string of gibberish correctly (including case variations). Isn't a sequence of real words more fault tolerant?
Yeah, this ran headlong into the fact that we live in a society.

"An internet declares that the laws of his own or any other country no longer apply to him. Cyberspace then proceeds to reinvent laws and government from first principles. No technology is discussed."
> Note: also applies to telephone numbers (type=tel), URLs (type=url), and numbers (type=num) in your signup flow

While this sounds great advice for telephone numbers in theory, but in practice browsers on Android replace the normal keyboard with a big number keyboard without any "autocomplete".

So the end result is when a designer makes input(type=num) I actually have to fill in my whole phone number by hand as opposed to using the autocomplete which shows my phone number as soon as I enter the first 2 digits. I guess it's partly android's keyboard fault for hiding autocomplete suggestions on whim.
As far as cost efficiency, this is certainly true. That said, I come from a country that is economically in a very similar situation to Cuba, and their healtcare system is much superior.
At least they would have the recourse of law if something went wrong.
While the advice of doing simple-that-works when starting is not bad, I'd add the caveat of "keep options open" when there's little to no cost in doing so.

For example, good database design will pay off in spades later on. For example 23 years ago I used a natural primary key, rather than a surrogate primary key, in a table. I've grown to regret that choice a LOT in the last decade.

At the time employee numbers were unique and immutable, so perfect natural key. Since then we've grown, and they are often not unique (companies merge), not immutable (companies merge) and in some cases they're not even employees.

So yes, absolutely, keep it as sinple as you can, and ship to paying customers as fast as you can. But make choices that keep as many options open as possible. Sure, most options will not be realised, but the ones that are, which can easily be bolted on because of good basic foundations, are really valuable.
How is that any different from Windows?
Which is why you see governments pushing against exchanges with poor money laundering measures. Like here.
> As for if you die … you could use one of those services that will send an email out to your significant others if you don’t log in for X amount of time.

And put your bitcoin private key in there? Surely whoever runs those services would take all your money.
Fortunately, we are not on the east coast. I don't know about Portland but Seattle's humidity is < 50%, which means normal human cooling systems will be efficient assuming you drink prodigious amounts of water to replace the evaporative losses. Also some electrolytes.

It reminds me a bit of when I would go on expeditions in the southwest deserts. I am constantly drinking prodigious quantities of water throughout the day but rarely need to urinate. But with more sweat than the southwest deserts, which have extremely dry air (you mostly don't sweat at all because it has no liquid phase).

As long as people drink enough fluid, they should be fine.
This is intriguing. I don't want to reply (in b2b situations) because I feel the salesperson might try to 'use me' to get to some other key decision maker within my org. I don't want that process taking up my limited time. So, if I say no, it opens the door the more discussion, as it acknowledges I at least had some time to think about it.
Since 2016 only Type 13 sockets with a recessed socket hole may be brought onto the market. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_441011#Structure_of_the_S...
Write an OpenBSD port with me: The TIC-80 fantasy game console
You can also use ^VuXXXX to insert characters by the hex Unicode value. I find that handy sometimes.
It produces a name conflict, but (unlike git merge conflicts) these don't prevent any previously written code from running normally. A name conflict only needs to be resolved as a convenience to the next person to try calling the function by that name, and even that next person might not have trouble if the two new functions with the same name have different types. The person just calls the one they mean, and the type-checker uses the one with the type that fits.
Hangul has order because it's enumerable. Hanja on the other hand, does not have order and it's not enumerable.

(not enumerable as in written text as strokes can be combined and invented on the fly, enumerable if you think it's a finite charset on computers)
All you need to know about unicode, is that they thought they could "unify" all the asian glyphs into one alphabet.

That said, given the origins of writing, I dont think there are any much cleaner solutions.

Their biggest mistake is probably not insisting on a mandatory vector representation which could be used to generate a "font-of-last-resort"

My personal pet-peeve is that unicode have not yet assigned 128 code points and two modifiers to cove all possible combinations of 7-segment LEDs :-)
It's so annoying how "CJK" groups Hangul with completely different writing systems. And even makes people think they're similar.
Checking the paper, if we’re talking the past few years, it looks like this oscillation could be a big factor:

> An unusually intense PDO phase that began in about 2014 caused a reduction in cloud formation above the ocean, which also resulted in the increased absorption of incoming energy by the planet, the scientists said.
Not sure what you find confusing about it.
When an esoteric community becomes exoteric radicalism (such as this declaration of independence) begins a watering down process that inevitably leads to loss. Skilled intruders know how to leverage sentiments so that they can get a foot in, and then control the group for political or economical gain.
You mean, why did partially walk back his order? https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/07/bolton...

I don't know, you'd need to ask him. My guess is that he was informed that it would be infeasible and dangerous to pull out all of the troops immediately, and took that I to account.

The major complication here is that trump had a pattern of lying and blistering to the American people. But given that the trump white house is on record that hundreds of troops would remain in Syria indefinitely, and that there was no specific withdrawal timetable, I have a hard time seeing how this was them disobeying his orders. Do you know the order he actually gave the military, or are you assuming the simplified speech was the extent of it (when it's clear that his actual orders, thankfully, had more nuance)?

Edit: I looked further into this, is appears to be not that the military lied to trump, but that a trump appointee lied to trump. Which like, still bad, but not a conspiracy by anyone except trump's own staff. Perhaps he should have hired better people, or perhaps he just didn't care.
"Myth #1. “If you did nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide."

The US supposedly already decided on this in the 4th amendment:

"Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

It's apparent how authoritarian regimes can abuse this, and it's becoming more common that incompetence or hacking can allow all this information to become public.
Here's all I could find:

CARDIAC simulator in JavaScript (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348615

CARDIAC (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439443

Cardiac – A cardboard illustrative aid to computation (Bell Labs 1968) (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18433504

Cardiac: Portable cardboard computer (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949393
The dale miller domain for the link (dang) above is down.
What would you prefer then? Jack?
Here is the actual KiwiFarms thread:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430...

It's harsh but there's nothing there that constitutes harassment. It's more like "open source intel." All they do is aggregate things that this person of interest willfully posted online. You can call it "doxxing" but doxxing isn't illegal or even unethical, really. It's just people discussing the reputation that this individual built for themselves.
This leads to fun things like the regex [a-z][a-z] not matching the string "aa" in SQL Server when using the Danish collation.
Yeah I found this out indeed, by transitioning from data science to software development, there was an interesting time in between where I couldn’t let go of the notebook concept but I now certainly have. That said, the notebooks got me started in programming and did so in a way that I experienced as very gentle and with a flattened learning curve. I guess that was my point.
SCSI was killed by (perhaps among other things) by its idiotic and endless proliferation of different connectors.

Sony undermined FireWire similarly with their bullshit four-pin bastardization of the standard. But that's par for Sony's course.

And then of course there was USB's pathetic mutant offspring mini- and micro-USB (the absolute worst).

USB-C at least standardized the connector, but the shitshow of potentially unsupported modes in any given port or cable proves once again that some people are just too stupid to learn.
In other words, the diversity of ideas reduces as you become super connected the only few popular ideas are entertained and alternatives are censored.

I saw it first hand when I migrated to USA, here people religiously watched news and had very uniform, fixed ideas about policies, whereas where I came from TV was still a luxury back then. I found people more open minded willing to engage in different views.

The more connected we become the less diverse we get in terms of perspectives.
i'll panic when my 2014 laptop bricks after windows 10 tries to update to win 11, but I believe that won't happen and I always backup my valuable data anyway.
Not who you're replying to, but my perspective around the rabid anti-government messaging is that it is Government that's responsible for regulation of the existing financial system, which has been breaking laws with impunity and getting merely slaps on the wrist and continuing on their way.

Regulation appears to be simultaneously lacking in scope and under-enforced. And it's the role of the Government do make sure that regulation is both appropriate and enforced.

Without appropriate regulation and enforcement, the government is the facilitator to the finance industry's villainy. For the people.
When walking the dog, occasionally pick up another dogs poo for karma and to make up for the poo you occasionally left behind.

Also 3 second sniff when dogs are passing in opposite directions.

Illegal offleashing is “ok” if no kids are around but you still might get fined.
Have you gone to Cuba? I have.

I'm calling you out right now, there is no widespread child mortality or shortage of soap in Cuba. I have been there.

People leave Cuba nowadays because they are fleeing the law, or want to become rich which they can't in Cuba.

It is in no way an exodus. Cuba has a net emigration rate of -0.11% per year, and has been decreasing every year for a decade or so.

This is fairly normal of developing countries close to developped countries. To cite a number, Morocco which is similarly a sea away from the EU has an emigration rate of -0.14%.

So indeed, Cuba's emigration rate is quite normal.

The reason why people leave Cuba in rafts is because they don't have money for other forms of transport and/or because they are illegally immigrating. You'd be surprised but it's really hard to get into the US.
As connectedness increases, the diversity of perspectives decreases.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find those follow-up extremely annoying and if I'm getting at least one, that guarantees blocking of recipient.

We live in high turnover of information, and if I received your first email (which I did) and didn't respond, it does mean I am not interested. Sending a follow up would just spark frustration.

Again, perhaps it's just me and this approach works for most people, but it may be useful to know it does not for all.
Indeed, that one can be funny especially when split over a line ending. You start reading it as one, and no, it was the other. I've had this experience several times with this specific word.
Are these nano particles similar to the Pfizer vaccine ones? Those lipid nanoparticles do trigger the immune system.
> The best they can do is define a sensible cross-language sort within a language family [...] but even that's highly suspect.

How would you sort ["О", "Е", "Ζ", "Р", "Η", "С", "Κ"], for example?
> The support is bad but this was phishing: how is it coinbase their fault?

Because they chose a support platform that makes it very easy for other people to impersonate them? We would laugh at a bank that was running their support out of /~foobank/ on a shared hosting provider, but reddit is pretty much the same thing.
Therein lies the insatiable desire for ETs to be real: we wish any or all of those things could be not true. We hope against observation that our own scientists will arrive at mind-boggling energy sources, knowing that cannot be done with all that we know. We imagine another life form that was superior understanding of physics that could prove its possible, and hopefully show us how. These limits, like mortality itself, don’t sit well with our boundless egos. There’s something majestic about that folly… for what it’s worth.
You could try to have a look at OutSystems, https://www.outsystems.com/p/modern-development/
It’s OpenGL 3.3. It works as well as OpenGL 3.3 does anywhere else. It’s an old version, but it certainly exists, and it’s what many/most Mac games still use because it’s cross platform.
Cuba is below the regional average for the Caribbean at $8,800 per capita. Plenty of wealthier countries.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/802613/gross-domestic-pr...
Also in my experience, proteins & fat reduce the feelings of hunger, not carbs.

If I eat at breakfast in the morning 140 g turkey breast + 70 g cashew nuts + 3 sweet potatoes + 1 bell pepper, then I feel perfectly satiated and I feel no hunger until late in the evening, when I have next meal. Deleting either the turkey breast or the cashew nuts from that breakfast menu, makes me hungry much earlier.

On the other hand, if I eat just bread, I have to eat a very large quantity, e.g. 1 kilogram, until I feel satiated due to the full stomach, and then after a few hours I feel hungry again.

There are many kinds of food, like bread, vanilla or cocoa cream and many others, which I like very much, but which do not satiate me unless eaten in huge quantities, so I have given up on eating those kinds of food, because it is much easier to not eat them at all than to stop after eating just a small quantity.
Mixed use would be so awesome. We could use more commercial in the burbs, "Store houses" would be a great benefit. With more people working remotely it might be a good blend of retail/office and residential too with small residential towers having commercial lower floors.
FCA bans largest crypto-currency exchange Binance
The Pacific Northwest is not built for heatwaves at all. It has a very mild and stable climate as such things go due to the geography. There simply isn't a need to deal with much heat. A serious "heatwave" in Seattle is 30-35°C, and they pass as quickly as they come.

Even if homes had a lot of thermal ballast by construction, long runs of high temperatures like now require air conditioning. Something like 25% of homes, mostly newer ones, have air conditioning. It simply has not been needed historically. If there are a few days of 30°C temperatures, you opened a window. This current weather system is running much hotter and much longer than traditional Seattle summer weather.
It's funny how you didn't mention the product quality at all. Perhaps it's modern way to choose a product based on how sales person makes you feel vs. cutting the bs and assessing the product qualities.
Nitpicking: I think we say „expanded“ since evaluation is reserved for runtime.
Thanks! I've added https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348615 to my comment above since it has comments.