skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I will probably soon buy more Bitcoin as I believe the price will in the long run go up.

Tether (USDT) is a huge liability that could cause a temporary crash. But at the same time you see some regulation changing that e.g. allows banks to be custodians for crypto-currencies. In my opinion this is huge. It means that eventually institutional investors can buy Bitcoin and other cryptos without having to worry about storage, keys, etc... Banks can handle the technical stuff.

I have very little trust in the fiat system of the Eurozone and I'd bet there are investors that feel the same. Investors that will look into ways to spread the risk by adding different asset classes to their portfolios. Cryptos, especially Bitcoin, seems to be a very nice asset class to have in the long run.

Another reason why I think Bitcoin is here to stay is that Bitcoin enables countries to get around US imposed sanctions. Iran is using Bitcoin for this purpose and I am sure other countries do so as well.

Bitcoin as an asset class also offers a few nice features that one cannot find in other asset classes and I believe these features are responsible for most of Bitcoins inherent value:

- You can manage the coin completely by yourself (which can also be a risk of course - if you lose it, it's your full responsibility)

- The value of Bitcoin is not negatively affected by money printing (quite the other way around I'd wager).

- It's a bit easier to hide crypto assets from tax agencies, this might become an especially valuable property if Central Bank Digital Currencies become a thing. For example if citizens are required to keep an account at the central bank and the central bank can at all times see all your CBDCs and impose sanctions on your CBDCs if you're not deemed a good citizen.

- It's very simple to take with you on travel (e.g. by memorising wallet keys or using a hardware wallet like a Ledger Nano) unlike e.g. gold or fiat money (often some limit is imposed).

- It's easy and cheap to transfer (no banks or other middlemen involved).

- On a country level: can help bypass US sanctions.

So I am still a long-term believer in Bitcoin, even though I do believe that USDT could cause a crypto-market crash at some point. I also believe US government agencies will only investigate USDT if they feel the value of Bitcoin is too high (which currently isn't true after the most recent crash) as a way to temporarily control the price of the crypto-currency.

P.S.: I feel the authors' arguments 6 (climate) and 7 (greed) are not valid arguments for shorting Bitcoin. To me these seem mostly emotional arguments and I wouldn't want to make financial decisions based on emotions.
The children of "old money" families are exactly the ones who are "Instagram famous" or "TikTok stars" on social media, or funding their own startups, or working in 'elite' art galleries and auction houses for low wages, or doing a long series of unpaid internships are top companies. Those things are often status seeking activities. Being born in to a high-status family drives you to maintain that status, and often gives you the resources necessary to circumvent the usual grind of getting to the top. That doesn't mean there aren't low-status people working their way up as well.
That is the approach Duolingo takes intentionally, I think some people assume it's just lack of content but their philosophy is "show don't tell"
Tell HN: Recent SUSE update caused my first real dataloss in 20 years
I have used openSUSE as my daily driver for many years, and today took my Leap 15.2 to 15.3. All of that worked fine and as expected, UNTIL I LOGGED OUT.

I cried actual tears of furious rage today at whoever thought this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/shared/clean-ipc.c was a good idea.

I routinely treat /dev/shm as a "that will persist until this machine loses power or is rebooted." Apparently, on April 13th, one or more twits dealing with systemd decided that I no longer get to treat /dev/shm that way.

I am trying my best to remain calm as I write this, but the aforementioned code deleted not only my primary operating directories, but ALL Of my locally attached backups as well.

In all, 24TB of BADLY deleted "rm -rf" but without deleting the directories was done, in about 21 minutes before I realised what was happening.

I now have empty directories of all of my client working directories, all of my multimedia drives that our family uses at night, all of the original writes of the births of my children... all because someone decided that removing POSIX shared memory directories when I logout belongs to systemd and not me.

FAR OUT man.

Fortunately, I have a nightly that does backups to an external machine, but it is REMOTE, and now has to do a FULL COPY of the entire thing. I am typing this from my missus' lappy while it presumably will take many days to restore.

Case end point: I only really lost today, tomorrow and maybe the next day worth of billable productivity as a result, but ONLY because I have an external nightly backup running. Local backups (which mirror all local content) were all compromised because I mount them the same way inside /dev/shm.

openSUSE/SLES/SUSE itself is not to blame, the change is a systemd change and all of the major systemd distros will do the same thing to you.

Caveat emptor.
Major Charts Showing Impact of China's Crypto Crackdown
Major Network changes:
- Average blocks mined per day have dropped by 60%.
- Number of active Bitcoin addresses has tanked more than 50% since May.
- BTC Block Interval Hits 10 Year High.
> People who get hooked on drugs normally do so because their life is awful.

The thing is, we don't know what kind of people would get hooked on drugs if all of them were legal. We don't know if there's correlation between illegality and inaccessibility of the drugs and their abuse by people whose life if awful.

> They are not hard to find.

Vast majority of people do not know where immediately get hard drugs from. Making them legal would make vast majority of them absolutely aware of where to get them from.

> Legalized drugs won’t cause your children or loved ones to start doing drugs, a lack of opportunity will.

Oh yes it will. Not everyone who lacks opportunities in life is willing to resort to illegal drugs right now. But if they were legal, many more would.

I am sorry, but from logical standpoint, your experience is is an observational bias. Looking at a society at large, from statistical perspective, legalizing hard drugs would make many more compelled to try them, purely by enabling them to do so.

Decriminalizing them, however, would surely improve situation, especially if the money spent on enforcement was spent on mental health instead – see Portugal as a great example of such policy.

BTW: replace "drugs" with "guns" and you sound like "guns don't kill people, people do".
I don't think that many. Afaik they closed some teams and replaced them with some automated Tests and stuff. So it's not unthinkable that there were eben less engineers on win10 than on winXP.
Searching /r/printSF is my go to for finding like titles.
Yes. Our stuff won’t fit on any cloud instances for a reasonable amount of money.
Firefox Android can scan directly from the URL bar of a new tab.
Cooks Illustrated is good for this too. They try a bunch of recipe permutations and them explain why they designed the recipe to function in a certain way.
Last place I worked self-hosted. Price performance on old hardware was (and seemingly is) drastically better than cloud DB for smaller usage. Current work is using AWS RDS and it seems to perform pretty poorly unless we're willing to pay a lot more than our scale justifies. (Frankly, I suspect running our prod DB on a developer laptop would outperform the low-cost RDS setup we're using...)
It is more a question of convenience, quality, variety and availability. Canada had a slow start but more than half of cannabis consumers there are now buying legally, because the legal product has surpassed the illegal one in all these areas.

It is NOT about price.
It's common in javascript at least because you're delivering the code across the network, frequently, and at dev time, you're probably pulling in large libraries of components and frameworks that you may not use in their entirety. Since the load time is one of the core metrics used by SEO, and has shown to have a significant impact on conversion rates, it's worth the investment to remove code that's not being used.

I'm sure there are other places where it's applicable, but modern javascript and webapps have to be the quintessential use case.
He's betting on prices going down at the end of the current 4-year Bitcoin cycle, which they historically have done. This is just trying to guess when it'll happen.

Betting against Coinbase, an exchange, is a bit foolish as exchanges make money every time there is a trade, up or down. Their income is unaffected by market crashes, may even go up.

That detailed dig into the past of MicroStrategy is interesting... but I don't know how it applies to today. It has a whiff of a personal grudge and the comment about laser eyeballs reminds me of people complaining about the "Beta" label and the pastel colours of the early Web 2.0 websites.

Don't know why this blog post is important, tbh. But it shows that the crypto craze is in full swing when technologists start writing publicly about their investments.
If manufacturing is still illegal, you'll have unregulated products. Anything that is more restricted than alcohol to manufacture and sell will have a black market. If you want to get rid of overdoses caused by heroin cut with fentanyl, you have to let Johnson & Johnson make it and sell it at CVS and WalMart.
Understanding the Need for Creating a DevOps Testing Strategy
Collective data rights can stop big tech from obliterating privacy
I think your mental model of wind turbine sizes is a bit off: the rotation speed is basically dictated by the need to keep blade tips moving slower than the speed of sound, which is why you see newer/larger turbines going slower than older/smaller turbines.

Most modern turbines operate with tip speeds around 200m/s, corresponding to around 450 mph.
I don't believe Tesla manufactures their own batteries at this point, electing to source them from other manufacturers like Panasonic. They, I believe, intend to start making their own at some point in the future.
Chinese Cuisine and Gunpowder are not modern China innovations, and I'm not sure how to comment on the governance side.

TikTok: Check out Musical.ly screenshots which is the US app the was bought by ByteDance, all the foundation was already there https://www.google.com/search?q=musically+screenshot

Are these really the best examples?
How is Instagram's profitability? Like the OP sometimes I'd like to look at a feed anonymously. Why can't they still serve ads based on content?

Similarly, it use to be that going to the app showed me "my feed". Sometime in the last 6 month it changed to only show me the newest post of people I'm following and then only posts of random "popular" people of which I have zero interest.

If they want to make money from me, I'd use the app more with the old style of showing me only posts from people I follow with an ad every few posts, like say 1 ad 2 3 ad 4 5 6 ad 7 8 9 ad. As it is now I barely use the app anymore. Of course I'm not the target audience.
Git: An Interactive Development History
Something like this?

https://m.banggood.com/DIGOO-DG-DB1-433MHz-Wireless-Doorbell...
Yes. I even go so far as to embed the database in my applications.

In general, this is implemented as two main flows:

- Data collected from "the edge": Web servers that serve ads, or receive form fill-outs for lead generation, that do nothing but record this information in a logfile

- Configuration and Reporting pushed from "the hub": A central processing node (usually in a hot/warm configuration, but I've been known to use things like raft here) that receives information from flow 1, makes a decision and writes the result to flow 2.

Because the "data" I want to materialise to clients always either fits into ram, or is in a coherent stream ready to deliver to a client exactly, my applications are very fast: I can always just add another node (in the right geographic place), however I also noticed another really interesting benefit: It is much easier to develop for than using an external database.

I have a general purpose tool I wrote decades ago that moves logfiles around reliably (and at low latency), merges them together, implements failover, etc, so I really don't have very much to write to make a new application. Sometimes I experiment with the encoding of the payload, but sometimes not.
First: I am from germany, so, my perspective may differ from other parts of the world... and due to the pandemic, my last meal eaten in an restaurant was in the early beginnig of 2020. But i really never, never encountered a menu via QR Code... why would anyone want this?! If you are going to eat out, then it is (at least with the people i know) considered ab-so-lu-tely rude to even get your phone out (unless you are an doctor on call), using it would be a totally no-go. So... this is something i am really glad that it has not washed at our shores... at least not yet.
NFC on my watch is in fact more convenient than NFC on my phone.

The difference is slight, but real.
Some comments:
I haven't really seen any ads in DuoLingo apart from their own. I guess my ad-blocking efforts are paying off.

Regarding Pimsleur: I hadn't heard about them, are they only for learning the basics? I'm at A2 french now and aiming for B1. Is Pimsleur suitable for that stage of learning?
I think most of their energy simply comes from the fact that diatomic nitrogen and carbon dioxide are very stable.
I remember this article and problem, and the problem hasn’t gone away.

This is the worst exploitation and gaming.

1% get the freebies. And 99% get to pay a price that’s 10x the sticker cost.

That’s a rip-off and a complete burden to insurance and tax payers.
Free, instant transfers are already the status quo in a lot of the world, as of course they do not require blockchain. SEPA Instant Payment in the EU, for instance. In fact they're way faster than a Bitcoin transaction much of the time - and obviously way less expensive ($0 vs. $5-60).

The US is moving to 24/7 free, instant payments as RTP rolls out. [1]

The US has been quite far behind historically on this front however they are closing this gap, probably motivated in no small part by Bitcoin.

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
I love Microsoft. /s
Is this better ?
I respectfully disagree, society does not function like that. We need constraints. It might not restrict others freedoms entirely, but there are still consequences for actions, things do not happen in a vacuum.
You can see the discussion in the app, just click on the flag icon.
How do you do MITM SSL when pretty much every secure app use key pinning.
Cheaper in terms of $$$. If you like managing a database, I'm sure it's a good deal!
I wish I had done a couple of months of Japanese on Duolingo before traveling there. Simply knowing katakana and hiragana is a huge leap forward from zero knowledge. There were many words I would have known already just from exposure if only I could have read them.

Train line names for example, and all the dozens of english words written in Katakana. You also can't learn from exposure if you can't read the alphabet so I missed out on that too.
Given that the "Modern (1912-present)" section has just 7 inventions, and relatively minor I think that this link actually backs up my case of lack of innovation coming from modern China.
Do you have any good suggestions for people suffering from burnout. Once they get beyond the "a few weeks off will fix this" starting stages of burnout.
Facebook and/or Microsoft can choose to charge you for their content as well as serve you ads. Serving you ads doesn't exclude you from paying for content if that's that's what they choose to do. I believe there's versions of Kindle and other such devices that are cheaper because they have ads. Windows would be more expensive if they didn't serve ads.
The Next Car You Buy Should Be Electric
Hmmm varies, if it's corporate it's on cloud vendors and managed, if personal or hobby projects it's unmanaged.
If you KYC with Tether and send them at least 100k USDT, it's redeemable for 99.9 cents. You can typically get like 15bps more on the open market.
Yeah, I did look at it recently too, and I still think it's not very good.

I mean, for a total beginner it is okay-ish for some basic vocabulary, but at that stage of learning a textbook approach is a lot more effective in my opinion. You're better off just grabbing a copy of Genki, going through that with a teacher, and once you have the fundamentals down and can efficiently study on your own start doing vocabulary flashcards in a better app and consume easy native content.

Sure, I'm always looking for beta testers. (: Although my app is very much public and open to everyone. Just don't expect miracles since it's currently only a work-in-progress side project that I'm working in my spare time and slowly improving: https://jpdb.io
I thought the 1.2kw requirement was the four socket system, but each 32 thread chip was 250W. The other 200W were the 4 mem controller dies.

And I heard that the HTM worked pretty well, but to be fair nobody really got a chance to prove them wrong. I'm sure Intel was pretty confident in their implementation too.
OpenSCAD, as noted by the author of the website sorely lacks a number fundamental features.

- proper fillets

- proper chamfers

- surface-surface intersection

It is also limiting because it can only generate triangle meshes and can indeed be slow when models get big

However, for many situations, especially for prototyping, it is good enough and a really great tool.

It is definitely the first tool I turn to when I want to model a simple part quickly.
Thanks. Not sure how I missed the line in the brackets; I'd only caught the part about seasonal entrees somehow.
Microsoft REQUIRES new modern hardware, which means new PCs must be bought which results in PC manufacturers promoting Windows and Microsoft get a license fee each time a new PC is sold.

It’s deliberate but it’s also short sighted because essentially every existing PC can’t be upgraded, which means everyone is stuck in the old version.

Microsoft’s first moves in the launch of Windows 11 are failed business decisions.

Their logic is sound…. They need to ensure they hardware partners are boosted by Windows 11.

It does not bode well.
It’s baffling how people cherry-pick their opinions on this subject. When someone working the field says the usual ”drugs are bad” mantra, people agree and say: listen to this expert, he knows what actually happens.

But when that field expert says otherwise, she is no longer being listened to. Were we listening, understanding and thinking the first time?

Btw, drugs don’t kill people — people selling fake, cut and laced drugs do. In other words, profit motives kill people.
You are probably referring to human made climate change, right? Because the climate will always change, if you’ve heard of glacial ages for example.

I don’t know, but where I am (Netherlands) it’s been quite cool lately (Max 19C/66F today) and it’s summer. But if I point that out people say it’s part of the human made CG phenomenon. In other words, every temperature manifestation is part of the phenomenon and we’re supposed to have a normal and this is abnormal. Was there ever a normal, really? Measurements of records are also controversial, as technical capacity to measure temperature (including having more thermometers worldwide) has increased overtime.
It does matter. If you are always a step behind, can you really be the leader?

it also raises the point of why is innovation lacking in China? Is it because of a culture of less openness and information sharing, or is it just a matter of time (i.e. they were catching up, now they'll start leading)
Yeah, I've tried to digest the Freecad UI / worflow many times, it's just horrible.
If you come to forgive yourself or your parents as a result of taking psilocybin, is that a hallucination? If you overcome your depression or PTSD as a result of taking ketamine (a "dissociative"), is that a hallucination?

Calling these substances hallucinogens is inaccurate, and it's pejorative because it presumes that what's experienced on them is unreal.

Many of the things experienced on them not only seem to be but are to many of their users more real than ordinary waking reality. To dismiss them as hallucinations is to privilege your own view of reality over theirs.

Perceptual anomalies and changes in thought, emotion, and consciousness all happen on psychedelics, dissociatives, and deleriants. These are not useful distinctions.
This seems like a good use case for LoRa wireless modules, I haven't used them personally, but they claim a range of 10 miles without obstacles. Try searching for "LoRaWAN Door Bell" if you want off-the-shelf products, or otherwise for "Arduino + LoRa" if you want to DIY :-)
Depends, if they see fit to deem you an "authorized participant" (at their sole discretion). Further, they have to decide to actually honor your redemption (they do not need to) and not to delay it an arbitrary amount of time (as is their right). [edit] Also, importantly, US persons are not permitted to redeem USDT. This is all in their terms of service.

And of course, you have to not exceed their liquidity buffer because they themselves admit to only being 3% backed.

Thus far, I don't believe anyone has actually shown any proof that they have actually carried out a redemption of USDT tokens via Tether. Most people who claim to simply traded it.
Exactly, on iOS it's not easy, on Android it's far easier because the OS listens to you, not Apple or Google, and it's far easier to root Android than it is to jailbreak iOS, or run an open source fork like LineageOS and run the same apps on that.

You can (a) decompile the app, mod it, recompile it, sign it, and then execute it (b) modify the OS to not care about app signatures (c) bypass it with Xposed hooks, ... lots of ways.
> Status requires keeping track of people’s standing, but we can’t naturally do that for numbers greater than Dunbar’s.

Status isn't symmetric: a local Lord can be a high status person in the eyes of more than Dunbar's number of peasants, because he doesn't need to care much about their status (he has advisors on payroll for that.) Obviously, he's in all their Dunbar-sized circles.
> Most parts of the world racism is defined on language/cultural maps, not literally black and white skin.

Also social class - protecting skin from sun had been a display that you are of non-working class rather then different genetic pool...
No mention of solvespace on the site?