skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still can't seem to wrap my head around how crypto functions... Makes me suspicious. It feels like the whole idea is to obfuscate it's functionality to the point it becomes this incomprehensible enigma - by design.

It's certainly not just obfuscation and smoke+mirrors. It's only as complicated as it has to be and the mathematics behind it are solid. Unfortunately, it is complicated enough that most people won't be able to easily understand it.
Yep. I Do this quite a lot in the Cross Validated site. It is the only way to get up votes or the correct answer check. If you take too much time to craft a well thought out answer, somebody will beat you to it and get all those.
So in order to get the best of both worlds, I anser fast and then, if needed, improve on it.
Was is literally a pyramid scheme that recruited people and paid people for getting new recruits? Or just a scheme?
Congressional representatives should 100% be held bare minimum to the standard that bank employees are if not more.

As per raises, they haven't received one since 2009 and I think it'd definitely make sense to peg that to inflation.

In general though, they're securing a pension via this job which even though it's not their full salary it will set them up for retirement better than the average investing would.
The telephoto pictures really highlight the shortcomings of small optics... I think he will have to buy the Iphone 14 Pro now.
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But they said bitcoin was out of reach of governments, how is it possible a government is now banning it?
See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thagomizer which has seen adoption.
You can't also opt out of the Swift/Visa/MasterCard climate impact, or the ATM network, or the internet! how many millions of servers are running, day and night, to host millions of terabytes of content where only a fraction ends up being accessed ...and it's a cat video

What you can do is use and support the climate friendlier alternatives. There are crypto currencies created with that in mimd
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1]

And if you're going to break the guidelines and comment on voting anyway, the very least that you could do is also add some value to the discussion, e.g. add some thoughts/elaboration/support for the points made.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the term referrer to cryptography aspect of the currency.

In a blockchain system, you can generate transaction off-chain(as in, no need for internet access), then you signed it with your private key, and send to a node in the chain. The nodes can verifiy/confim using your public key. The wallet address is a result of hashing your public key.

Compare with a digital currency, you most likely need an account and some sort of credential that managed by the company which issues the currency.
Just when was it that many thought it was a good idea?
Let me refer you back to the original paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

The goal was "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash". That is, money.

If you are proposing a new goal, a settlement system for couple hundred named organizations with strong relationships, then a) that's not money, and b) the Bitcoin system is socially and technically wrong for that. But if we keep the goalposts in their original location, Bitcoin is clearly a failure when you look at how the competition has done.
> Well, it is a US territory and our most western one, at that.

If you move the prime meridian to run through (e.g.) D.C. or NYC, sure.
Leaving aside weapon and security purposes, full-length book summary strikes me as especially dystopian.

In truth, I think this is something AI is capable of doing, but are we really comfortable in passing information through an interface where we cannot even know what is lost.

This topic begs so many questions that I guess are not unique to this problem. Who is all of this intelligence for, though?

What if we forget how to write well?
> And I very much doubt that tunneling your connection through a VPN can improve ping.

Surprisingly this can be the case as long as the combined link to VPN + target is better than the direct link to target. Keep in mind that the target might be geo distributed.

Like driving, going over 2 highways might be fasted than going over a direct dirt road, or a longer road might be faster because the direct road is congested.
In BTRFS, RAID1 simply means 2 copies on different devices. There is RAID1C3 and RAID1C4 if you want more redundancy/copies.

This whole critique boils down to poorly chosen naming and bad documentation. Both VERY valid critique. But feature-wise, BTRFS delivers „classic“ RAID1 and more/better. It’s just hard to find and easy to misread.
That is quite insane number to catch up especially in Stack Overflow; probably don't need to google to find solutions.
Whilst I will in fact get this phone, this review unintentionally manipulates you into a favorable opinion. It's not just in the competency of the photographer, but also in the choice of subjects.

It's near impossible to make ugly photos in Tanzania, even with low-end skills or gear. The subjects, scenery and light conditions are naturally very beautiful on their own. The output will be visually attractive and you'd not easily notice any lack of technical attractiveness.

Compare this to photographing technical test charts or you walking the dog at night. As the subjects themselves are unexciting, it would be better suitable to analyze technical image quality.

Another interesting aspect of analyzing the quality of mobile photography is that counter intuitively, mobile phone screens are drastically superior to most desktop monitors. Mobile screens increasingly are OLED for deep contrast, wide gamut for richer colors, and have a pixel density that is a multiple of desktop screens.

Most photos taken on a mobile phone completely fall apart when viewed on a big screen, as it then becomes obvious how much of a smudge they are.

That said, we've come a long way, and I am impressed.
> If you want a VPN for any other reason that "normal people" think they want a VPN

As far as I can see, normal people are asking for VPNs to access Netflix catalogs of other countries.
Voting by user is against the rules of Stack Overflow; if you intend to upvote this user's posts in order to reward them, the votes will be reverted and you might face disciplinary action.
As someone who has never really used promises or futures, what do they add, or how do they make concurrent programming easier or clearer than what's currently in Go?
It sure is.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
What assurances do we have that most tor end points aren't compromised as well?
They probably mean the best image you can get without human intervention, or perhaps the image you get in your "viewfinder".
I feel exactly the opposite way: when making photo's with my mirrorless camera I've got the photo 'under control', while having to balance an expensive phone with bad ergonomics for photography feels like it's a chore to take a picture.

Just look at all these 'pros' who are promoting iPhone photography: they're lugging all kinds of gear (tripods, cages, lenses) with them to help them make use of the phone. Seems like a small stretch to me to also bring a proper camera instead of a phone.
> Sure, but most likely you guys will deal with droughts.

You think the parts away from the coasts won’t?
Any substance to your comment? The article lists quite a few (true) claims and you refuse none of them.

Also, it shows your ignorance on the whole topic that you call wayland “anti-user-freedom agenda”.. Let me guess, you also hate systemd with a passion, right?
I'm a huge fan of Apple and love iPhones, however...

Take a look at photos taken with iPhone 8. They are gorgeous.

https://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-8-camera-review-india

If you are a professional photographer AND you are in Tanzania (or any other picturesque place), every photo is going to look like a piece of art.
Today I Learned... of course, the distinction might be that firing an elected official is far more complicated than firing a hired fintech guy.
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Oh? What percent of international transfers are using it?
Imagine if you are a soyboy nocoiner. Oh way, just go to the mirror and you will see one.
I'm not sure I buy this interpretation. As the article says, these are "identity mentions", not definitive classifications of the author's identity. Don't these results just indicate that some identity labels are more likely to be used in offensive ways?
I used to feel the same way 10 years ago, but the quality of phone cameras nowadays is incredible.

They have to make some compromises because of their size, so a pro with a DSLR is always going to win. But for the rest of us, phone cameras make it so much quicker and easier to get a good photo. And you don't have to lug gear around with you everywhere and spend ages fiddling with settings, tripods and lenses.

So, as a non-pro, I prefer my phone camera, even for once in a lifetime experiences - it actually means I get to experience more myself, rather than my experience being taken up by the camera.
Where are you from? What were your options before crypto?
Agree with the second part, not so sure about the first.
As an admin and end user, I'm gonna tell you that the most exciting improvement was voice messages, which I am so happy to have again and definitely didn't get as much attention as they deserved. Wish I could buy y'all a beer. I made a bot [send the audio] to a speech-to-text API so I've got the feature I really missed from Google Allo.

The lower-level work is real interesting, but I hope people in this thread are also aware that the user experience is improving a lot all the time because y'all are working on features like that too.

[send the audio]: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/08/05/matrix-bot-transcrib...
Eh.. I don't want to diminish the impact of Chinese action, but US not so long ago banned owning gold ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act ) by individuals. It is only recently that this got relaxed. Government can and do whatever the populace will bear.
Even though I watched it in 4k the image was not 4k sharp, and random areas of the screen would get blurry/pixelated. Zoomed in shots look very bland. I own and iphone and I love the camera very much but this just convinced me that even the best phone cameras are nowhere close to a dedicated camera.
You can have UI workflows just as well with a language that has (runtime-managed) green threads, like Go and Elixir. It's just that you sometimes have to make sure that certain green threads have their actions scheduled on the UI (OS) thread for backwards compatibility reasons. For example, the Scala ZIO library provides the means to control where (on which OS thread) code is scheduled in a very intuitive way that does not involve ConfigureAwait hacks. ZIO is not green threads and rather more like async/await, but a similar approach could be implemented in languages with runtime-managed green threads as well.
See if
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
returns [s2idle] deep

You want it to return [deep] s2idle

Adding something like,
/etc/sysfs.d/set-sleep-to-s2ram.conf:

power/mem_sleep=deep

(The above requires the package 'sysfsutils' to be installed on Debian / Debian derived distributions).

On my work supplied xps-13, bluetooth does not survive the laptop being unplugged in "deep" sleep (even for a couple seconds). Fixing bluetooth requires suspend to disk aka "hibernate" or regular reboot to restore. No reloading modules etc. helps. Other than that annoying bug, proper sleep works fine on the hardware.

But, I also had to add,
/etc/modprobe.d/i915gpu-fix-xps13-crashes.conf:

options i915 enable_guc_loading=1 enable_guc_submission=1

To solve the laptop crashing when idle. Originally I disabled c-states on the gpu to fix the crashing, but some other kind soul on the Internet shared the above which solves the crashing, but doesn't kill battery life like my fix.
Apart from the missing actual news (it's now also trading), what's not to understand? Banned by a government means illegal. Trading cryptocurrencies is now illegal there. Who cares how they enforce it? They will enforce it.

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-central-bank-rules-crypto-0944...
Given the URL, it looks like this is a demo of the globe software.. there are a few others in the root.. this one's impressive: https://globe.gl/example/countries-population/
We killed our end-to-end test suite
Are you sure you got this right? Keep in mind that the only way to make money with bitcoin is literally by taking it away from other "investors".
What kind of setup do you need to have in order to answer questions on StackOverflow?

From time to time I think it would be a useful exercise, but it's really hard to find questions that haven't already been answered. I'm thinking you probably need some form of alerting system to notify you as soon as a question comes in.
Wow, this I did not see coming.

I kind of assumed BTC mining was going to be owned by Chinese nationals within a couple years, at which point the government would nationalize it and BTC would no longer, in practice, have the promise of a distributed store of truth.

Egg on my face.
Squeak is 25 years old today
The whole idea of sleep is so we can put it in a bag, walk somewhere else, take it out and continue working.

If this doesn't work on a mainstream product it is defective in my opinion.
Ah, so then possession becomes ten-tenths of the law. I'm not sure this is a system that we want. A system that allows for every day trading (buying something at a store) that requires a second piece of equipment to verify your identity that, if someone steals, there is no means of recourse. Sure, multiple wallets, something something, but this just sounds like a nightmare of record keeping where you offload a single point of failure to somewhere else (password manager to remember all your wallets).
one of my favorite uses: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tommy-needy-drinky
The GP comment falsely implies that PoW is the only kind of cryptocurrency (and, well, the obnoxious and anti-intellectual tone).

There are many reasons to dislike crypto in general, but "it destroys the environment" only applies to PoW-based systems and not crypto in general.

Also, you should read the guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don’t get it. All of that energy expenditure not only backs the dollar, but as you say also provides goods, services and a high standard of living to millions of people. The energy expenditure of Bitcoin only backs Bitcoin.
Bubbles keep growing until they run out of suckers. Those who get out before the bubble bursts might make a lot of money. Everyone else will lose the lot. It happened with the South Sea Bubble, Tulipmania, Bernie Madoff, Onecoin and any number of other bubbles/scams.

Isaac Newton, one of the smartest men who ever lived, lost loads of money in the South Sea Bubble.
I suspect US Intel staff who browse fear being identified, tracked, and their interests monitored more than they fear being attacked. The host from which they browse should be free of any sensitive data and easily disposable if hacked.
I’ve been thinking about how the existence of sites like this and SciHub might actually prolong the life of paywalled sites.

See, when a scientist publishes an article, their academic success is partially judged by how many people cite their article. If everyone stopped citing articles that were owned by shitty companies, researchers would be disincentivized from publishing there. But when someone puts it also to SciHub the researcher still gets the H-index stats

https://libguides.bc.edu/articleinfluence/hindex
RAW formats can/usually have a thumbnail/preview embedded. I convert all of my Nikon RAW files to Adobe DNG (Adobe's RAW format) and I have a Leica camera that uses DNG natively. When I convert, I can chose to have a full-sized preview embeded. This makes certain software give a faster preview.
A few things to note:
1. points 1-2 are often cited as to why China has been immune from prior global financial issues. IMO, we need to contextualize this. China was able to finance itself through an export-oriented economy and receive huge foreign inflows of cash from it as it became the factory to the world. This has been true for other developing economies. at some point, history shows that most large economies need to reach a better balance between exports and internal consumption (china is the 2nd largest country by GDP with 30% of world MFRU output; law of large numbers apply?)
It does seem now, that China's export economy has reached a stasis/equilibrium given a variety of factors (China labor inflation, regulations/trade wars, other economies like India, Vietnam becoming increasingly competitive vs China, and more vendors adopting China +1 sourcing strategy). You can also see this in China's more aggressive stance towards investing in Africa and LatAm. It's not to say that China's export economy crumbles, but it's likely not the same tailwind to economic growth. Typically when this happens, economies need to switch to a more consumption oriented economy (hence the Economists constant comparison to Japan)
Points 5-8 seem to ignore what actually happened with Evergrande. The new property development restrictions enacted last year point to worries that China's financial sector is exposed to something akin to a "shadow" banking system (Evergrande is both a property developer and offered financial instruments to consumers). The question is how much damage does this do to consumer balance sheets (and hence future consumption) - hard question to answer given everything we don't know about China's actual financial system (we didn't even know the ins/outs of our own system in 2008)
While i dont disagree that the Economist has been a Cassandra on China for a while, this situation seems like a potentially more difficult situation for the CCP to handle
Only if there's an active law enforcement investigation the FOIA request touches.
The (non-) fugibility of a token is just one aspect of it.

You can code a non-tradable NFT no problem.

Tradable NFTs are just the hype right now.
This has been quite the issue for a long time, and I can't think why the authorities are delaying their actions against Tether.
I think "different from" suffices. One technical social media site without snark and acrimony doesn't seem like too much to ask.
What it means is that crypto is shut down from anything that involves bookkeeping. Banks, financial transactions, money transfers, buying stuff from kiosk, ... No legal commerce or finance.

Crypto is now purely black market currency in China.
I am in the Apple ecosystem primarily for privacy reasons. We exist.
Very time consuming so probably lot of companies will skip on this to deliver features faster.

Having robust documentation that contains all the knowledge so a completely new team without any project knowledge can easily deploy/support the project can be a big task, especially for large projects.

Even with really good documentation, there will always be required some handover and initial training from the maker team in my experience, it is almost impossible to avoid this.

I guess during sprint planning, if this requirement is being included and the estimates from developers start doubling suddenly the product team might compromise in order to move faster.
Edit: I should point out that not everyone has a high data cell account. For example, I’m retired, and we don’t spend much time on the road. When we do, we’re careful how we use data, and we depend on wifi at restaurants and hotels.

We are pretty heavy Internet users at home (Starlink), but the cell plan is 2GB per month, shared between me and my wife. We rarely overrun that.

I think that there are a lot of retired people with small phone plans and no WiFi. All they do is a few phone calls and a bit of email with the family. So, updating those phones frequently is problematic. They probably take them to the phone store where they bought them.
I block the Mozilla positioning trackers. They were getting over a million request per month from my household. It’s just a regular API call from any website and doesn’t need any browser permissions.
>Votes in a bug tracker don't represent the priorities of ... a representative audience of users

>The file chooser issue is more often raised in the context of internet abuse than good faith user requests

What are you basing this on? That sounds incredibly dismissive. I think the core of the issue is that you're so out of touch with your users, that you're mistaking a highly requested feature with hostility. Maybe a user survey would be a good idea to bridge the gap.

I think one large discrepancy is that this only affects a subset of users who frequently handle a large amount of images. In this example, it is users of image boards. But it also includes artist, photographers, etc. Not so much professional programmers. But to those who are affected, they are hindered greatly.

I also see an issue with your idea that there are "good faith" and "bad faith" feature requests. This seems like a really unhealthy way to look at things. There is no conspiracy that there are a bunch of people out there that want to give you a bunch of work to do just to mess with you. 100% of these people are honestly affected by the issue and would like it resolved.
I don't get your point. Are you defending SO as some sort of gaming company? Even gaming companies have tournaments with enormous prize pools and usually award their patrons in some way. Tournaments, teams and sponsorships are the lifeblood of professional gaming.
Yes, and that's sad. It has so much more potential.
This feels like a stretch. I really doubt anyone who designed the constitution intended to give lawmakers the ability to trade on insider information obtained through their position legally.
And hasn't asked any questions of his own. Quite strange to not be curious about something SO could answer for the past 10 years.
I suppose it would, I guess I'm just wondering for how long fiber cables have been the standard, and if there are any operational cables from the time before that. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of cables dedicated for one purpose (e.g. electricity only) that do not contain fiber simply because there wasn't a need or requirement when it was planned.

edit: Here's an example:

> The world record from 1994, for the longest HVDC cable with the highest capacity, was equalled in 2000 with the successful completion of the Swedish-Polish HVDC transmission link between Sweden and Poland:

> 1. Stretching over 250 km, it is one of the two longest submarine HVDC cables ever laid.

> 2. At 600 MW, the cable is one of the most powerful HVDC cables in commercial operation.

> 3. At 450 kV DC, this cable together with the cable between Sweden and Germany, has the highest voltage rating of all existing submarine HVDC cables.

This cable doesn't seem to have any other purpose than transferring electricity, and it was installed "only" 21 years ago.