skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'll take 40% compliance every time

Which has lead to tens of thousands of deaths that have not occurred in Australia.
I'm familiar with the etymology. This makes a lot of sense for the bubonic plague. Frankly the Venetians would scoff at what we've done to our societies over a disease so tame (measured by overall rate of survival, individual circumstances can be tragic). It was also an era when people had few rights, no vaccines, no access to treatment.

Surely, we should aspire to be better than 14th-century Venice. To not treat people as if they are nothing more than viral vectors. Instead many would trade away what little control over our own lives we still have in exchange for imagined safety from a virus we will all contract eventually. That the vast majority of people have no issues recovering from.

It's not the plague. It's not Ebola. It's not the worst case scenario we were rightfully concerned about in early 2020. How this hasn't sunk in yet for most people is just baffling to me. Then I look around and see lots of motivated reasoning and state-sponsored propaganda about a permanent transition to remote work, increased government surveillance, curtailing the movement of citizens, and other social initiatives various coalitions were already working towards, that are of course suddenly "absolutely necessary" because of a "once in a lifetime pandemic", and it becomes a little clearer.
That never holds. Arbitrage will cause prices for goods to be equal in USD and BTC. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arbitrage.asp

Unless you control the whole market via price controls but those eventually break as well. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-controls.asp
> .. They must be served as an api.

I respectfully disagree with this statement, there is a large body of work focusing on making this easier. The HW/SW stack vary from a a company to another.
I think that's their point. Its not just that OWS validated WhatsApps algo, they WROTE it.
Products from outside that market will have a fixed cost in a different currency, someone has to assume a risk and lose/profit from it.

This happens a lot currently but usual currencies dont fluctuate this much.

As example, I dont expect El Salvador to build iPhones anytime soon and the price for that is usually fixed in USD
Pretty interesting how the day that it become legal tender in a country, the price goes down by 10%. The more conspiracy minded would say that this was done on purpose to convince people not to use it.
That. What is actually denominated in BTC?? For that, you’d need a substantial economy in which most factors of production (including wages) are denominated in BTC.
This is only true if its zoned market in the sense that the country is self sufficient and relies on no foreign imports, which is rarely the case.
"4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs."

Here's the Anandtech review of the Ampere Altra, which is what Oracle is serving these VMs from: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review...

The TLDR:

"The Altra’s strengths lie in compute-bound workloads where having 25% more cores is an advantage. The Neoverse-N1 cores clocked at 3.3GHz can more than match the per-core performance of Zen2 inside the EPYC CPUs.

There are still workloads in which the Altra doesn’t do as well – anything that puts higher cache pressure on the cores will heavily favours the EPYC as while 1MB per core L2 is nice to have, 32MB of L3 shared amongst 80 cores isn’t very much cache to go around."
>No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States

It was the Queen who granted him the title, not Switzerland.
I always say the best way to learn a new technology is to work on a real-world project that you are interested in.

The person that set this up got an amazing education on use of real-world AWS services.

A lot of IT people aren't aware that things like this exist. They think moving to the cloud means sending all your virtual servers to your provider of choice and running them 24x7 like you did on-prem. In my opinion it's more about architecting solutions so that resources pop into existence for the exact # of milliseconds they're needed and then they're released. This is a clever step along that path.
Site Reliability Engineering OKR examples
> If a zoned market solely accept Bitcoin and a good costs say 1 BTC

The problem is that nobody selling regular goods WANTS to sell his goods with a fixed bitcoin price; the volatility of bitcoin would make it easy for buyers to buy the goods only when their prices where especially low in non-crazy-volatile currency and resell the goods at a favorable price immediately. There's arbitrage there
Hey, I'm the author of the post. If any of you have some issues loading the above link, you can also access the post here:

https://github.com/ant4g0nist/rudroid
Since you're taking presentation suggestions, I totally missed the collapsed code the first few times reading through this post.

I don't think you're the only blog to do this collapse-by-default code but every blog that does this I always miss the code.

So my suggestion would be to just not collapse. In my own blog I just set a max-height of 600px or something so long code snippets don't get unruly. People can scroll through or go to Github if that gets annoying.

But at least there's no chance of them missing the code in the first place.
For this of you that never saw it, The Wire is truly worth watching. It’s also worth turning on the subtitles, as it will make it easier to pick up on s the slang.
nothing like a cup of dunkin donuts and a healthy serving of Xrays into your skull from their mobile xray van to get you going!
What about import/export prices? The matter is especially important for a small country, which relies heavily on the international trade.
Yes. With a banned ingredients list we have a good & quick first impression. I have plans for it that can improve the accuracy a lot but it will also require much more work and I want to validate it first.

Thanks for the interest!
Sounds like a neat project. Yes, partial refreshes help a lot, lot, lot!

Battery life might end up becoming a problem if you intend for it to run on batteries. Compared to PaperTerm or smartphones, a Pi uses a lot of juice, but it is great for proof-of-concept!
Correction relative to what fundamental value? And what’s the difference between a speculative high and the normal price?
And I like I can simply go to the scihub domain from my mobile, paste a link and have a pdf. Instead of having to download tor, try to find the url somewhere.
If you want to import anything at all you need foreign currency. One of the ways you can do this is by exporting goods, of course, but you could also sell some of your local currency in exchange for dollars or whatever. Bitcoin volatility makes this harder. Also I’m guessing that volatility makes it hard to get foreign currency loans collateralized by BTC
Do you even read your own links?

> As part of a sweeping repeal of wartime laws, Congress repealed the Sedition Act on December 13, 1920

The second wasn't a wartime act and even that was repealed. Talk about cherry picking.
Yes, this is the tweet: https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1354007933315645441
Sorry but unless you provide actual links to so-called misinformation, I’m going to assume that this is either overexaggerated or labeling anything against Western values as disinformation.

Especially when it is described as ”This industry’s main goal is to sway public opinion during elections and protests” which is different than every other media organization how, exactly?
I was with you till the last line. Npm and Poetry are fulfilling the same role of external dependencies, what am I missing here?
I can imagine this getting very popular in the online streaming community. Like V-Tube but taken to the next level.
I think it has to do with the connections to other currencies. If you sell something priced in Bitcoin, that you acquire in dollars, you’re exposed to that volatility.

Say you sell gold retail. You collect Bitcoin. Then turn around and need dollars for buying more gold.

Same situation for any import really.

It also applies to debt. If your debt is denominated in dollars and you’ve been collecting and saving Bitcoin when Bitcoin surges vs the dollar debt is less of a burden. And vise versa. Similar to the sort of problems emerging markets dollar denominated debts have faced many times.
funny, if it’s not even for having a virus then what’s the point? I can’t help but think this is just the next step in evolution of the surveillance state using the existence of cold viruses as an excuse, it is not going to go well for the quality of care if the state becomes this embedded in the healthcare system, this is one of those times when a slippery slope is a very valid argument, if they start pushing unvaccinated people out of society bit by bit all based on data and science that is blessed by the state then this becomes a way of eliminating people who mistrust the government from society by force, it’s all well and good until the system is in place and the even more wrong people become in charge and suddenly at the helm of it
I live in a city with a population around 1.3 million and it's a massive, sprawling place. Takes an hour to drive across, without traffic. Even 200-300k people could be enough, unless you really want to be attracting international tours, have major league sporting teams, etc.
Your comment is exactly what I'm talking about though. Let's break down your first paragraph, while keeping in mind the context as stated by the parent comment is content that is "not allowed" on major tech platforms:

> This last year we had a UK media organisation banned from YouTube for questioning the UK COVID response.

I'm not from the UK and haven't kept up with news about the UK, so I can't really comment on this one. But out of curiosity I looked it up. If we're talking about the same instance, one of Rupert Murdoch's radio shows was banned for content that YouTube flagged as contradicting the World Health Organization's guidance on COVID. That content was then soon reinstated. That is notably different than saying you are not allowed to "question" the UK government's response to COVID. YouTube misidentifying content on their platform is well documented and happens all the time outside of the context of politics. So again, YouTube's actions here were flawed, but far from the political censorship that you imply.

> People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms.

This is blatantly false, and so easily disprovable. People on Twitter and Facebook constantly repeat falsehoods about election fraud. I just now Googled "youtube biden president illegitimate" and got several results back attacking the legitimacy of Biden's presidency. The funny thing is I only clicked one video because I want to avoid YouTube's recommendation engine thinking this is content I want to see. YT surfaces fringe ideas so readily. How do you think that stuff spread in the first place?

> Even US media outlets like the NYPost were censored for running stories Twitter didn't like during the US election.

Twitter bungled their response on this, and they backed down after they were rightly criticized. One tabloid getting banned from one social media platform is again, not at all close to certain topics not being allowed on major tech platforms. Content attacking Hunter Biden (the topic of the article that got the NYPost banned) happened before, during, and after the the ban. The NyPost is also back on Twitter.

The rest of your claims follow a similar pattern.

I again repeat my assertion that censorship in major tech platforms is flawed and problematic, but the narrative that certain view points are being choked out by tech platforms is simply not true. Fringe ideas have flourished in the age of social media, and would have not entered mainstream discourse if it weren't for the tech industry.
For cryptocurrency to flourish, the end goal would be to have everyone as a stakeholder (not intended as an indictment), so additions/changes to the laws that are favorable to the industry have public support.

As others point out, Coinbase must know the current legality of the lending offering. The likely objective of this piece is to gain support of those invested in the industry, and for them to push their legislators to reformulate laws.
Gold as well as Crypto crashed accoss the board except for Solana which gained so I don't think this says anything about Bitcoin in particular.
Stable coins are not "crypto" currencies. They have black lists (similar to your bank's fraud department) and they are backed by deposited money (so there is trusted issuer who promises to redeem them for actual cash).

So 2 key features of a crypto-currency are lacking in stablecoins: censorship-resistance and absence of centralized trusted parties.

That you can move them on a blockchain (as long as permitted) with your private key is not much different from signing TLS connection in your Venmo. But with higher fees and latencies.
Which is why BTC is an asset and not a currency.

Currencies need stability of value so that everyone doesn't have to update their prices ever few hours: https://simplicable.com/new/money

But maybe in the new world, all prices can be in digital and thus ever changing?
Smallish discussion about the same topic yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444490
Oh hell no I’m not installing a GPS tracker in my car.

I love Virginia but they can fuck off with that:
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/eMf1d
> Web2Img is a tool to bundle your web files into a single image, and extract them via Service Worker at runtime.

Oh too bad services workers and javascript are disabled. Your website won't load images then.
Machine learning technique detects phishing sites based on markup visualization
That’s just another reason (along with all the others) it should never be imposed as a currency, particularly in a country with lots of people living near the poverty line. Imagine leaving home not sure if you can afford the bus ride to work or food to eat because of volatility.
See you in the Matrix as well
The first episode of The Wire didn't impress but I should look beyond, I guess. This same actor played Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire ... that was an awesome portrayal.
I have programmed in C# since 2003. But now I feel it is trying to be everything for everyone and the sheer cognitive load to learn C# today is huge. It has a big surface area. too many syntactic sugars, multiple paradigms and keeps on expanding. Somewhere down the track after C# 6.0 the balance between simplicity vs features has completely lopsided.
Half assed solutions are still better than nothing.
This assumes that global warming is the problem, but arguably the most pressing aspect of carbon pollution is the acidification of the oceans which this plan would not address. It might make more sense to focus on capturing carbon pollution than to mitigate some of the side effects of rampant carbon pollution.
sure, noted. Currently, it's a 50 lines limit for collapsing.
Because for import/export currency volatility matters a lot. 99% of goods depend on import in some way.
Literally nothing that you wrote surprises me :P Sounds absolutely on par for Polish approach to these kinds of "problems".

The main key point here is that you arrived by train - and indeed, trains are not really checked at all. But if you came by plane, you'd absolutely be entered into the system and you'd have police coming over every other day to see if you're actually there. You were just lucky because of your mode of transport. I've heard similar stories from people crossing the border by car - also no hassle at all.

And to add to that - if you were actually diagnosed with Covid, your name would also be entered into the system and police would be checking if you are at home. I know my entire family were checked every day when they got ill.

I didn't mention Poland as some sort of great foolproof implementation - just that if you are actually "in the system", police checks if you are doing the quarantine or not. In the UK we were very much "in the system" and literally no one cared - we didn't even get a phone call to ask if we're actually at home. Literally nothing. Again, I'm not surprised you escaped the whole thing if you arrived by train.
Why is Mozilla, of all orgs, performing foreign activism and reporting on Twitter users in hopes of getting them banned? "We want to do good", sure, but that's two bits of a stretch here.

Nothing in the article as posted indicates that the "disinformation influencers" were nefarious actors. For all the description given, it might have been grassroots citizens action, only labeled "disinformation" by officials or government-aligned sources. The end result is Mozilla making arbitrary choice between two opposing camps of political activists - and reports on Twitter users along those lines with clear hopes of getting them banned.

I'd understand the point if the activism was directly related to open internet, to freedom of expression, interoperability of services, ease of access and so forth - if there were concerns closely related to Mozilla's core mission. However nothing in the article nor in the linked PDF seem to allude to any of such concerns. It feels like a small group of Mozilla employees[1] ran this research and reported on users for their own private reasons.

[1] "in-house activists" might be a more charitable characterization
"Generate something that has value because it's rare automatically!"

I don't think value means what you think it means
"Crash" of an asset/currency is always against other assets/currency -- you need to define what its comparable otherwise you can not measure it.

Was it a "crash" though in scope?

Black Friday in 1987 was a 22% drop in the stock market. Yesterday was a 14% to 18% drop depending on how you calculate it. Close to what was considered a prototypical "crash": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

Basically BTC is highly volatile, thus it probably crashes all the time based on standard definitions.
It loses (or gains) 10%+ every few weeks.

No conspiracy needed.

Other than, you know, regular and systemic market manipulation by large holders of trading capital... the sort of thing the SEC prevents.
It does not hurt to ask, especially at a larger corporation (you may hurt feelings at a smaller company for example). I would leave out any comparison to other interns and focus on how much value you have provided already. However, they may indeed have a policy of hiring new grads at a fixed pay level which prevents them from deviating from their initial offer. I don't think they are being particularly unreasonable though - pay scales don't really deviate much until after the first year.

It really is up to you what you want to do with the offer. You can take it and see how your career advances at your company, or shop around a bit and see if you can get a better opportunity elsewhere. If you feel like you are no longer learning and growing look for a new job at that point!

I worked for a low-paying job out of college but I did have a chance to work on a lot of great projects which did help put me on a good path now, so my advice is as long as you are growing in the right direction, and are recognized as a high achiever, don't worry too much!
http://web.archive.org/web/20210908121925/https://www.reuter...

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Eo0an
Mozilla has transformed into an activist organization over the last ~decade, with predictable consequences for their actual products and engineering.
I don’t agree with that. The media isn’t a violent arm of government. They, and the greater intelligentsia, are more like a priesthood. They indoctrinate us regular folk with state-approved myths to give context and framing for our world view and in so doing a veneer of legitimacy to rulers. Similarly, they are almost completely dependent on wealthy patrons. Egyptian priests, the Roman Imperial cults, the Medieval church, Communist Dialecticians and their modern progressive successors all do about the same thing. I think the police are just the police and whether or not they’re illegitimate depends on what you think about the Mandate of Heaven, Divine Right of Kings, or Trusting the Science.

I find Chomsky’s critique of his fellows amusing, given that he is a member of that population he considers illegitimate.
OpenBSD tends to be minimalist and pragmatic. I’ve used it before, it’s a good no-nonsense OS.
Do you think it's an important feature for their paying customers? I've worked at places that care a lot about their AWS bill but I don't think any of them would have wanted a genuine hard stop before they'd do anything about it as a result of the soft alerts.
Where is the money created? The bonds they issue are bought with money that was already in circulation.
Sounds like a very interesting project, I certainly would be tempted to have an eInk terminal. Can you post images on how the terminal looks on the eInk screens?
hey, nice article :)
The whole disinformation question is very complicated, but this particular question is very easy.

Media are legitimate influences on public opinion with accountability, transparency and formal ethics codices.

Disinformation is illegitimate (i.e. illegal) influence on public opinion by hidden actors without accountability, transparency and formal ethics codices.

[edit] Perhaps I should say what I mean by legitimate. Legitimate here means: Society agreed to allow media to exist in the form that they do, by creating laws in support and by refraining from creating laws that would prevent them. As long as there is no political consensus and/or riots which would fundamentally undermine the media's standing, they benefit from a special role (and are held to that standard).
Is it just me or does a classic tolls based program seem a lot more fair and less convoluted?
Winning the Cold Civil War
Let's say you buy a house for 1 BTC. I sell that house for $250K. Two things can happen:

* I made a profit if acquiring that 1 BTC cost me a lot less than $250K

* 1 BTC = $250K
When the world needs higher carbon taxes, policymakers want to sniff out the small glimmer of a carbon tax that currently exists. More fuel efficient vehicles is a good problem to have. It seems like a no brainer to keep raising the gas tax to further incentivize fuel efficiency.
Yeah. By the time you have woken up and read your billing alert email it’s too late.

However the reason it doesn’t exist I suspect is twofold. Firstly because it is bad business. All the cloud providers make a lot of money from mistakes and small things sapping cash. Secondly it’s hard to rationalise what to do when the budget runs out. What do they nuke?
i am indeed a yellow jacket several times over. pa dank did not attend the university of alabama at tuscaloosa, nor any other institute of higher learning, but as anyone who knows SEC fans can tell you, attendance is not required for fandom. his roll tides were valid.

alas, it's pretty hard to get it up for GT when you just got waxed by a directional middle school from illinois.
If any fiat currency would go down 15% we'd call it a crash.

USD/GBP fell 19% after the brexit-referendum, that was an abnormal noteworthy event with quite far-reaching consequences.

For BTC it's a daily occurence...
accountability, transparency and formal ethics codices

Are you seeing much of this lately? Lately as in the last 40 years? I certainly am not.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Though it often doesn't seem that clear-cut when e.g. the WHO ignores question even mentioning Taiwan or companies apologize for stupidly minor details - things like that don't make the chinese government look very confident in their status.