skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in 2016, pence was chosen to appeal to evangelicals, who may have been off put by trump's persona. Nothing to do with 2020 considerations.
Art has value as a money laundering scheme and so do NFT’s.

Although I’m hopeful maybe someone will find a decent use case for them.
I’m pretty sure hitting “skip” while listening to a catered playlist tells Spotify way more than a dislike button would.

That said, I would love a dislike button just so certain songs don’t appear again. Not interested in hearing the latest tween pop track.
I do believe Tether is one huge lie.

The fact that it does continue to operate in spite of that being increasingly clear to most people interested in crypto is because there is a need for something like it.

It's very unfortunate that they (the Tether operators) were the first to implement this at scale and are a bunch of crooks.

However, what is very much less clear is what will happen when (not if) Tether explodes.

How will it affect BTCUSD?

I claim that BTC will be affected (up or down, who knows), but certainly won't die because of it.
> If millions of people were using IPFS, the most popular content would be being served by many thousands of people, and finding it and downloading it would be extremely fast.

Except that most people outside tech would probably be using phones/tablets/crappy pcs, with upload speed that is 10% of their download speed.
> having done absolutely no effort in understanding what Bitcoin is

To see its value, I don't need to make an effort to understand what a pear is, or a bar of gold, or a house.

I and others have looked at Bitcoin, and its trillion dollar market cap (which means Bitcoins are worth more than JP Morgan Chase and Johnson and Johnson put together) and realized it has absolutely no value.

At least subprime mortgages, 1999 dot-bomb stocks and the like had some value. Bitcoin has no value. On the next market contraction like 2008 or 2000 or the like Bitcoin value will collapse. Maybe even before that.
I became convinced that NFTs are worth something after understanding that there is little difference between an outrageously expensive watch and a rare NFT.

One shows off your wealth in person, the other will let you show it off online.
> knob you turn

That's a 6-dof spacemouse, still widely used today in CAD and 3d modeling.
Edwin's actions were illegal and wrong, and his punishment was justified.

Having said that, it seems to me that once he had served his time in prison, it would have been in KPN's interests to hire him and pay him a large salary to lead what was a clearly necessary internal effort to fix the security flaws that left them so vulnerable in the first place.

Directed in the right way, Edwin's skills could have brought substantial benefit to KPN and any other companies he might have consulted with in the future. But instead he's dead now, and KPN has lost an opportunity to hire someone that was likely more capable than anyone on their security team.
I went from John the Ripper to L0phtCrack to Hash Cat. Now I want a Quantum computer because for some type of passwords even running Hash Cat on a big GPU farm is too slow because of hashing algorithms.
I don't think that's a sign of Burry being wrong, it very well could mean he couldn't stay solvent in that position longer than the irrationality of the market.
Most mathematics paper will define the symbols they use beyond the basics (and sometimes even the basics). If you are thinking about extremely common symbols then... it's like complaining that somebody not trained in music cannot read a music sheet.
For me, getting better at this came out of introspecting on a song lyric... "I crucified my hate and held the world within my hand." My introspection started with committing to not using the word "hate" for a year, but instead find ways to express what was bothering me rather than jumping to judgement (that was hard work). Through the introspection that resulted from that exercise, I came to understand that a lot of it is framing.

When someone cuts me off on the road, it's easy to judge them because they think they are the only one in a hurry and they are willing to risk harm to others. But it's possible that their child is dying in the hospital and they are trying to get there so the child won't spend their last moments alone. I can't know which it is. Would I rather give the inconsiderate driver a break they might not deserve or the grief stricken parent judgement they don't deserve? Since I can't know which it is, I have to choose which side I'd prefer to err on.

That's an extreme example, but once I figured this out, I found that it gave me more peace to not judge in such situations. It's much better for my own mental health to hope their loved ones are okay than to be angry. And my choice doesn't affect the other driver at all. Without judgement, there isn't anything to hold a grudge about. Once I had practice with highly provocative situations like that, work was easy by comparison.
They should just buy Manticore Games :)
> What surprises me is the constant negative drum beat against Bitcoin on Hackernews.

Why does that surprise you? As the article from this discussion shows, there is strong evidence supporting the idea that crypto in general "it's just a big scheme".
I'm qualitatively in agreement -- I had day-traded bitcoin many years ago and sold off my last small holdings over the weekend.

I had a forcing function that made the sale timely, but $62k/BTC was close-enough to my ~$100k/BTC target that it seemed silly to try to squeak out the remaining ~50% gain given the downside risk. It is strange no longer holding any cryptocurrency, but it is harder to see the future of crypto, as an investment, now than it was back at $30.

Blockchains are here to stay and the underlying technology is proven, but as a fraction of M1, it is harder to know where the prices might go and which crypto will emerge as the ultimate winner. Alternatively, if crypto is to go through a "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" experience, I believe we're just beginning the "then they fight you" stage, which may be challenging for investors.

Over all of this is my feeling that, looking with a logarithmic perspective (the only way one should view Bitcoin), there is now a lot more distance for prices, especially of any one currency, to fall than there is for prices to rise. I asked myself the perpetual question, "If markets were to close for the next five years, would I be happier holding BTC or USD at the present price?" The answer was no longer emphatically BTC.
I own a quilt that my great grandparents brought with them from Germany, which is predominately decorated with hakenkreutzen. They came to the US in the early 1920s, so it was obviously not associated with Naziism.

I’m certainly not going to be throwing it away, and I’ve made a point to show it to my children and explain its significance. But… I’m also not going to be posting photos of it online, or putting it on display in my home. It’s a part of my family’s history that is very easily misinterpreted today, and it’s simply not worth the potential for offense or controversy.

I’ve got a Confederate flag, too, that was allegedly flown over the Arkansas state capitol during the US Civil War. It’s the “first national flag”, which I’m fairly confident most people wouldn’t even associate with the Confederacy without being told what it is. I’m still not going to be displaying it, for much the same reasons.
> Art has value as a money laundering scheme

That's IMO a very reductive view. While - true - art is used to launder money, that's not the only thing that lends it value.

If that wasn't the case, there wouldn't be any brick and mortar museums left in the world and you could buy the original Mona Lisa for a dime - since everyone else would have a 16k x 16k reproduction of it, essentially identical to the original.

Somehow, that does not happen.
What’s the Big Mama Thornton of password crackers?
How? You can't see if I own any NFTs right now. You can't see it in gmail. You can't see it on facebook. You don't get ads saying "rich NFT holders in your area!". No one knows or cares if you own an NFT.
Depending on AI helped get Facebook into this mess. Using more AI isn't going to fix anything, but whatever.
They tried to expel me for this (among other) reason(s) too, though the Vice Principal went to bat for me and instead I was banned from using any computers on school property for the last couple years of high school instead.
who are they going to kill?
Morocco-UK Power Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJunxkln578&t=615s

Australian - ASEAN Power Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link

Edit: oops, now it's called Australia - Asia Power Link.
It's just bullying. "Wokeism" gives bullies the opportunity to bully in socially acceptable ways. Note the comments in this thread defending the mobs.

If wokeism wasn't around, they'd find something else to oppress people. Ironically, these people would've been _great_ racists in a different time.

The problem is bullying. I don't know why it's so hard for people to recognize when they agree with the bully, but these sorts of tactics are never acceptable.

It's incredibly damaging to the cause of social justice. These assholes become the de-facto voice/face of the movement they claim to support, and destroy it.

"Woke" white bullies took over the movement, and are once again telling minorities what's good for them and how they should feel, all while alienating any potential converts. It's actually pretty darkly, depressingly hilarious.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2021/04/19/why-whi...
The only issues were needing to disable secure boot (which is usually a required step on laptops preinstalled with Windows anyways), and using a recent Linux kernel that has the required WiFi driver. Which the tutorial linked in the post mentions.

And then Linux in general is notorious for having issues with USB WiFi adapters. More info on that can be found here https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi
> "it's just a big scheme".

Who's doing the scheming, I wonder?
That's what I keep telling myself too. I've shorted TSLA way before Bury, and already made my peace with the losses.

The truth is that if you get squeezed out of a short you were wrong. The result is all that matters.

This kind of stuff is why most investors do not ever short anything at all (best example: Buffett & Munger), as you can be "right" and still lose. On the long side you cannot be squeezed out of a position. Traders, market makers and other "technical" participants such as HFTs - that's a different story, their use of shorting is kind of more sensible.
That article takes various concepts from typical TSDB solutions and seemingly only looks at the bad sides. Time series data has many different forms, not every form works for every TSDB solution.

For the 3 caveats at the top, there are already two TS solutions that look promising (QuestDB, TimescaleDB). Often an operational analytics DB (Clickhouse, CrateDB) might also be a solution.
Indeed, my favorite bike for technical mountain climbing in Colorado was a singlespeed.

As for the weak brakes on old Dutch bikes, you can flip on the headlight friction generator for some added stopping power :P.
No, they won't. Retail is a shit job no matter how well it pays.
Click the aA button in Safari on the left of the URL bar -> "Show reader view"

It won't show the highlighting on the hex dump, but you get the article text in a more readable format for the device
Imagine what would happen to Leonia property values if residents were banned from driving on Manhattan streets.

Society is about cooperation. Leonia benefits immensely from its proximity to Manhattan, and in return, people coming into and out of Manhattan get to pass through Leonia.
The `-x` argument to cherry-pick helps a little bit with traceability. It adds a line to the commit message that refers back to the original commit by its SHA.

If you decide that the way things were done way back when on the release branch isn't quite how you want to proceed in the future, you just amend the message to reflect the additional changes. The SHA is still there to reach back and see how things were done in the first place.
I saw exactly this in 2000 year old homes in Morocco where the temps are regularly 120F+ in the summer and below freezing at night in the winter.

Without need of electricity there absolutely zero issues with heat or cold.
In fact Amazing story ...

Build saas around specific need .. visually designing emails ..

can you share some more about your technical stack back then and today ?

also how % of this 7 millon is for hosting and third party services ?
Thanks
Sorry, you are conflating my arguments. Being cheap doesn’t solve the availability problem, I never claimed that. Being cheap means that you can solve the issue with poor storage efficiency with more infrastructure. I.e. compensating for the inefficiency of storage is not an inescapable flaw of renewables.

Your other point still stands though, renewables are not as robust as nuclear. But the answer is still infrastructure. It just needs to be more diverse then nuclear. With nuclear you still have a problem of demand above baseline, so you need infrastructure to deal with that. Renewables have the same problem except sometimes the baseline it self drops. The answer is the same you build infrastructure that can handle such drops. And that infrastructure is the same as for the problem of demand over baseline in nuclear, storage and more power production elsewhere with a robust grid.
I'm too scared to google it in case it causes the algorithm to think I'm interested in corporate buzzword frameworks (at least, that's my bet on what it is... Remember RUP?)
ive been wondering. if a new user is switching from windows, don't you think something like kde neon would have "less friction" UX wise ? i somewhat understand the appeal of pop os but gnome is wildly different from windows and i have seen people turn off.
Teen’s swine flu jab sleep disorder case settled for €1.2m
Expensive watches are supply limited (both by the brand’s intention and the availability of watchmakers).

Besides, expensive watches look really pretty and shiny. NFT is not.
oh wow, I had to watch a video to see how that works, I have seen them before but thought it was just rotating on a plane.
That’s only because the infrastructure for it isn’t there yet. Doesn’t mean it won’t eventually happen
> understanding what Bitcoin is

A digital trading card that's used for speculating and buying drugs?

I understand what fundamentally motivates people to trade it and that they tell themselves all sorts of stories about a "new financial system" because it feels better than saying they invest in Charizards. I also know not to touch it.

To Bitcoin's credit, it made a lot of people think about what makes something a currency, the differences between investing and speculation, consequences of deflation, etc.
How do you classify gold using your categories?
> "there is not such thing as a free lunch" (skepticism).

When you carry a heavy suitcase filled with lead and you drop it, things get lighter for free. You paid for it by carrying the damn thing around with you for the whole time.
Should disclose my broader views: I would not be surprised if we saw BTC 100k, soon. I am more optimistic now than I ever was that there is an endgame where BTC (or something) is some sort of international reserve currency, but I still think the likelihood is low. I am hoping for an economic system that stops stealing from the poor to give to the rich (I think taxation is about as effective way to redistribute wealth as a band-aid is to stop the bleed of a severe hemmhorage), and Bitcoin could have been (and may still be, with low likelihood) that. Generally pessimistic on "Blockchain tech" that isn't a cryptocurrency, unless a private postgres table with a progressively hashed column is a "Blockchain".

Congrats on getting out in the money. I am not far behind you, let's see if I wind up okay or wind up pulling a Newton
Gold is a collectible, with a marginal use as a commodity. A commodity is an input to industrial processes, not really an asset though you can call commodities assets too if you want to.

It used to be a currency quite a while ago - people would actually use it in contracts, most importantly long term debt contracts (long term contracts is where the value/acceptance of the currency really shows; imagine taking or issuing a 30yr mortgage in Bitcoin, as in the homeowner is obliged to pay fixed X Bitcoin per month, lol). A big part of the great depression fighting/relief was to make debt contracts denominated in gold unenforceable.
Not knowing anything about surfing, why can't you casually paddle out anyway, and get your pick of the good stuff when it comes. Do you not know it's good until it's further in?
That's really cool, yeah that seems to be a thing you have to deal with the changing medium (air and water).
A "bunch of crooks" is what you get in any market that operates without oversight or regulation.

The real surprise would be if crypto was otherwise.
Also, this isn't entirely true. The transactions can clobber each other and they don't need to be serialized by the transaction-coordinator, but each node can only be single-threaded.

The presentation explains most of it, the whitepaper explains everything, if you're curious.
>Bitcoin does not shield you from capital gains taxes [0] or asset seizures since it's classified as property by the government. At least not in the US.

It is my admittedly limited understanding of US tax law that - as long as you don't sell - you aren't getting taxed on gains (unrealized capital gains).

Should you then decide to use your coins to directly buy - say - a house in Japan: since no actual Yen-denominated price is ever involved in the transaction, how will the US government evaluated your realized capital gains?

Also: the US is but one place in the world. There are quite a few folks on this earth that aren't burdened with a US passport, and quite a few places that don't have capital gains on crypto sales.
> I think it is really arrogant to assume that you know what the dangerous levels are, and to claim that under a certain level is not dangerous or harmful.

Really? Because I have a degree in physics, studied radiation, and worked for years on radiation transport simulations and shielding. I think I have an above average knowledge of radiation physics and the effects on the human body.

> synthetic food additives, tobacco, opiate painkillers, radiation, leaded gasoline, and many, many more.

I mean yeah, don't trust Shell, Marlboro, or Purdue about their own products. Listen to the actual scientists. Because each of these examples has cases like these where there were other scientists demonstrating how these things were harmful. And each of these cases got political and a bunch of non-experts fought referencing papers they didn't even know how to read. Spoiler, there's no "big nuclear."

> I'm going to err on the side of caution, and disregard what the "official numbers" say.

Cool. But eating 3kg (6.6lbs) of wild boar a day is an absurd amount and under half of what I said was the "official numbers." Even 1kg/day (2.2lbs) is ludicrous. You're going to have way more health problems if you're eating that much boar every day. Be cautious. I'm not saying don't. I'm saying that you could be stuffing your face all day and you wouldn't come anywhere near "official numbers". You're going to kill yourself if you're eating 15lbs of meat every day.
You are right with this. It was a big step for Microsoft then.
Nix works on more than just linux.

Google Cloud uses gvisor for their K8s offering; AWS and Fly.io use firecracker for their container offerings.

Cgroups in v2 can be delegated easily and cleanly. As well as namespaced. Systemd or no systemd. Systemd just makes your life harder if you want to do rootless containers without integrating with them.
Fascinating interview. I especially like the part about the many, many benefits of emulation relative to real hardware. Emulators are just better products, really. I've seen comments by other developers saying that the scene should strive to keep the heat low by waiting until the systems are no longer relevant before emulating it. I respect their reasons for thinking so but I've always thought it unnecessary... They do such good work, they could directly compete with the companies and their locked down hardware.

Seeing one of my favorite games in the screenshots was really nice too. So many memories playing Mega Man Battle Network...
Absolutely! Sometimes for treatment the person doesn't even have to be depressed![1] Its like all those animal rights activists who get their knickers in a knot when a child dissects his pet dog. Don't they know that while it's alive there's more to learn?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953640/#__ffn_...

(edit: "While it's alive" could be interpreted as meaning not to engage in invasive, involuntary treatment at all, due to its riskiness. This was not the intention. There's a sweet spot in one's learning where a subject will yield any information one desires of it in its attempt to prevent the inevitable, as concinds implies.)
Why would they spend the effort on writing the zig compiler in zig?
CBOR Payload Formatter for the Things Network
> Evading tax is a criminal matter I thought.

In the US it is.

Other, more humane jurisdictions view it as an infraction: if caught, you'll get fined, but you won't go to jail.
That's great! I'm happy for you.

Is this a bootstrap business or a VC-funded business? I'm just curious.

"we" -> how many co-founders?
Stacks is an example for such services on Bitcoin
Ferris Bueller's Day Off has some inspiring hacks :^)
Transferring money through banks is such a pain in the ass versus crypto. It really feels like we’re at a tipping point where ACH and wire transfers become the equivalent of writing a check.
Oh but NFTs have a very clear value proposition: money laundering.

They literally have no value other than what is attributed to them, so if you want to clean up some money you just have to buy an NFT with legit money for X, then sell it to yourself using less-than-legit money.

Now you own all legit money, and have only spent some minor transaction fees.
Many decades of economic growth speaks for the current economic model.

A saying goes: pessimists get to be right, optimists get to be rich.
Installed it on a Dell XPS13 recently. It's great except I have to restart GNOME every couple hours because of of annoying visual glitch that makes all text disappear.
Or the big red button admin bypass. If I remember right ms patched that vuln but then it would just act like it was winnuked instead. Bravo Microsoft. They really are fun to make fun of looking back at their record for security

Good times were had by non-sysadmins around the world
In Russia, experts are challenging official pandemic figures as too low
Who is we? Joke aside, I believe a lot of the creator economy will be build on crypto.
I tried, and enjoyed, Zig. My enjoyment rapidly fell off a cliff when I started getting deeper into the stdlib. It feels like (this may not be true) that people contributed random stuff into it, a bit like C++ prior to Boost. The inconsistency hampered my enjoyment, and I headed back to Rust.
Michael Burry predicted 12 of the last 2 financial crisis.
L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge.
It's a similar story with Nano, and it de-masks the true nature of this mania

On paper, it's a perfect crypto. Really fast and fee-less transactions, proof of stake avoids the environmental impacts, completely pre-mined, distributed as equitably as you reasonably can, and truly decentralized.

But it has one major flaw - no way to get rich quick. No celebrity hyping it up. Nobody is "in it for the tech", it's all a glorified game of chicken
The curse of every damn website in the mobile first and responsive some badly world. As a long time Pc user it drives me batty.