skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another product type I have noticed that seems to have "investment" potential (using that term in the loosest way) are special small-run quality editions of books that are very dear to people.

Reading Machiavelli or Newton, or every James Bond novel (ahem!), in beautiful leather bound books with quality spines, can add as much as nice quiet location, a stiff drink, etc. when reading for enjoyment.

The Bond novels were out of print, so they had me over a barrel. I suspect I am not the only victim.
> ...a dang good job.

I see what you did there.
> Which countries have something competing with Amazon?

All of them? Mail-order catalogs preceded the Internet, even! If you're referring to which other countries have let capitalism run amok to the same degrees - none, we're the only ones that stupid.
Or "booth" (shoutout to Futurama) ;)
Some commenters are wondering why LG would do this. LG announced they are quitting the smartphone business entirely, and therefore don't have to worry about their developer portal or any reputational damage.

T-Mobile even gave away free LG 5G phones last Monday (probably because nobody would pay full price for a discontinued product).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/05/lg-quitti...
I see a lot of people living in a bubble in Silicon Valley thinking Microsoft and Windows are all but dead, and any phone other than an iPhone doesn't exist.
They are closing phone business altogether: keeping the unlock service running in perpetuity would be an unneeded cost.

Still, they should make a simple dump to allow all phones to be unlocked anytime in the future, but to get that, I think we'll need to get some legislation involved (basically, any product you stop supporting, you must provide unlock keys for any encryption).
You're carving out a definition to fit intuitive inferences gleaned by observing instances of "sandwich" and "not-sanwich" labeled by influential people in your life who had no objective reasons for constructing and perpetuating those categories in the first place.
I fully believe Apple is going to release an AR/MR product just based on the continued investment in ARKit, an iOS technology that just about no one uses.

Makes a lot of sense they would start at pass through video, they already have apps and developers for it and unlike real AR, it doesn‘t require a technical breakthrough. The kind of stuff that makes it bad is exactly the stuff Apple can fix: camera and screen quality, tight, low latency image processing pipeline etc. All stuff the iPhone already excels at.
Looks great. I assume this can easily also be integrated with git just by pushing some files from the server after each save/creation?
Funny, I'd just stumbled across his F# implementation of Hindley-Milner while working on my own inferencer (https://gist.github.com/praeclarum/5fbef41ea9c296590f23)
sure, that's more accurate. I kind of assumed that's what they meant. in any case changing either significantly is a long shot
Does anyone know if this violates your warranty? I literally had an 18kw Generac installed this week and their software is a joke. I'd much rather run Genmon but I'm wondering what my electrician will say when he can no longer monitor my system.
If the USPS wasn’t a government agency, I would weld my mailbox shut and never look back.

USPS is profitable because we all accept the idea that companies are allowed to pay somebody to load literal trash through a hole in the side of my house.
> Do the math around how much text a person can consume in a day and how much data can a SBC handle in a day.

A $0.80 microcontroller would get you pretty far.
Bitgrid - http://bitgrid.blogspot.com

In 1993, after reading George Gilder's call to waste transistors[1], I came up with the insane idea of just making a fabric of 4x4 bit lookup tables, with each table taking a bit from each neighbor, and generating a bit to send as well. It was the minimum configuration that I thought would be suitable for general purpose computation.

There turn out to be several advantages that help balance out the colossal waste of power and transistors that may eventually make it worth pursuing. The latest is that the structure is so simple there isn't anywhere to hide code that doesn't belong in the chip, so it might be useful to national security types.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gilder-4/

Why did it die? I didn't believe enough to pursue getting the thing made.

What did I learn? Ideas are cheap, implemented ideas are gold.
Blockchains has been solving my "problems". The issue is he has a very limited set of "problems" in life. and that's fine too.
It starts interesting but it then kinda becomes a Mathematica/Wolfram marketing stunt ?
“ Abduction would be easy - the ransom pays itself over time. Fraud would be rampant.”

Do we have any evidence that abduction and fraud is rampant in countries in Western Europe, known for the very generous social programs? Are they exploding with poor people having kids??? Is it dangerous to live in, idk, Sweden because someone is gonna kidnap you for your social bux? I’m genuinely asking because the notion of rampant abducting and child having hasn’t happened in countries I know of with very generous social programs.
Nice. On Firefox it is a little confusing because nothing happen unless you reload the browser. Also wrt. CORS, I think the best way in your case is probably to use a greasemonkey script. I documented several ways to bypass the CORS in here:
https://github.com/derek-zhou/airss
It is a similar project as yours.
> I really dont think our government can pull it off at this point

That's not, to be clear, for reasons of technical capacity. The vaccine drive that started in ~February or so of this year was pretty good evidence that the government is still capable of doing big things.
That’s not free money; it’s money taken from people under threat of violence.
TRON is used for tether payments in Southeast Asia, so there’s a decent amount of volume there. These tether takes eg “printed out of thin air” etc are tiresome. They also do billions in redemptions. Even if half their commercial paper was in Chinese real estate developers (which I think is a dumb rumor), it’s still likely they end up 90%+ collateralized if everything suddenly moved against them. Around halfway thru this podcast Sam bankman-fried + Matt Levine do some scenario analysis https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Oy0ZRklDSMMu40PTDiyOd?si=M...

My take on all of it is that the tether doomers have no idea what they’re talking about. Even the UT finance professors’ charts can be explained by the simple idea that people that made a lot of money in crypto wanted to take some of it off the table.
Anyone holding Tether will be stuck selling it for the equivalent of $0.05 or whatever. This alone would have no effect on crypto prices.

However, it will become harder to get various government-type currencies in to exchanges so presumably purchasing demand will fall, which seems like it would make crypto prices fall too.
No. Why? The cultural analysis would tell you that Japan is the natural enemy of every European country including the USSR. In a conflict between several European countries, what does that suggest?

We see them in history attacking every nearby European country (in which category I'm including the US) as well as their actual enemy, China. Where's the surprise?
First be aware I'm not a health professional.
Get regular physical exercise, even walking outdoors in a park. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123610.h...
Ensure you maintain a regular sleep schedule. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/857448
BTW magnesium supplements may help. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
Get the HeadGear app. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/digit...
Reduce your social media use and consider getting a pet.

You can win this battle!
Whothehell.is Meta.org and Meta.com? The Facebook Biohub
Actually $1.9 billion USDC was printed since the dip.

And $2 billion USDT

Source: https://twitter.com/LucaLand97/status/1467591656870494210?s=...

Source for USDC prints: https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter
Such a shame. So right now Google is the only phone manufacturer that allows unlocking the bootloader without losing any functionality or enrolling into some developer program
Spotify removes popular comedians’ content over royalties dispute
Thanks.

However I do not see here any convincing argument here.

While it is true that there was an alternative stem mukaa- for mukaat- (though attested only in the plural), deriving a female name as Mukaanaa from mukaa- is not a normal derivation in Greek.

In my opinion, the most likely is that the woman name Mukaanaa and the city name Mukaanai were indeed pre-Greek, so of completely unknown meaning.

A millennium later, the Greeks did not know more than us about what Mycenae might mean, so, as it always happens in such cases, they also thought about fanciful etymologies of the word, e.g. that it might be related to mushrooms, and they introduced such elements in their legends.
Boring != Lazy
That's why I don't buy phones without an SD card slot and put everything on an SD card. If only everybody were doing this... I hate all those upselling tactics where they want you to pay for more storage.
Any Pixel phone. The 3a is nice and cheap second hand.
> different alphabet

Where is the source on this? According to this[0]:

> The surviving public and private inscriptions found in Macedonia indicate that there was no other written language in ancient Macedonia but Ancient Greek

So Macedonia was a kingdom where the aristocracy spoke Attic and later Koine Greek, and the vernacular being either a Greek dialect or other Hellenic language. So the written language would have been Attic/Koine. Alexander, being royalty, would have spoken and written in Attic/Koine Greek.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_language
It would be great if the picture demo running the node application included timestamps. The landing page keeps using "fast" to mean "bandwidth" but without any mention of latency - my primary question is how long it takes to boot the kernel and start launching the userland process (i.e. cold start time) but there's no mention of that.
> It’s almost at the point where I think it provides signal that something will be valuable.

This is called survivor bias.

In reality when things are labeled as bad by the majority, they are probably bad and/or are going to fail.

but because they fail, you move on and forget about them.

Anyway, nobody ever said Facebook was useless when it started.

I had two invitations from friends in USA when it was still invite only and people actually offered me money for them...

the other examples are hardly revolutionary.

many people have said face masks are useless since covid started, but we wear them anyway, because covid actually kills people.

that's something I would describe as "considered useless, but became the most popular thing, out of precaution"

nobody is going to die without iPads, bitcoins and frankly why airpods are in the list is a mistery to me...
Bitcoin is principled. Crypto is not principled.
It's technically a glue language, and can be considered a language due to the constructs it provides (e.g. arrays and hash maps).

The fact that every language has a variable amount of a certain property doesn't mean that the amount is the same for all the languages. The amount of domain knowledge required for simple programs is considerably higher in Bash, than any related language; even iterating the lines of a string can be unintuitive to casual users.

Bash is weakly typed, and weak typing is considerably unsafe (bug-prone) than any other related language (e.g. Python, which is has taken has share of shell scripting in modern operating systems).

Returning values via stdout is a workaround. If other parts of the function send messages to stdout, one needs to use a combination of redirects, which the vast majority of the programmers don't know. Calling the ability to return a value from 0 to 255 support for return value is a big stretch.

I think that Bash is a necessity, and I frequently use it (and it's fun-ish for small scripts), but it definitely doesn't fit the definition of "easy", being considerably more error-prone and unintuitive to any comparable language, possibly even when compare to Perl.
Kill? No. Temporarily crash? Probably.
> China is also alleged to have launched a hypersonic glide vehicle from their missile, a technological feat that no other country is close to achieving.

In a prior career I watched closely as hundreds of bright, some brilliant, minds opted for careers in fintech, crypto or webtech instead of working for (or continuing to work for) US defense companies both small and large. For some this was a moral decision, but for most it was about money.

It's almost as if our democracies don't require defending, at least not by us. Best to hope someone else will do so. After all, those weapons are sometimes misused, the arms industry is also a business, and the amount of efficiency & waste is appalling. And, our democracies are equally flawed, unequal & manipulated by special interests. The democracies run by those we elected, I should add. At least, these are the arguments I've heard stated time and again.

For something closer to the ideal I might contribute, some would say. If things were different I could justify the sacrifice.

If the US and the West loses its competition with China/Russia - it will be largely because we focused too heavily on our very lementable flaws, and far too little on what the world might look like were our remaining positive qualities overshadowed by the national interests of countries less virtuous.
They are closing entire phone business, but it does not make the point about leaving unsupported devices locked-up in perpetuity moot.

We seriously need to start adding some legislation (in any sufficiently representative customer base country because mobile phones are easily transported between countries) to reduce e-waste and breathe second life into all the devices which run out of their "supported" lifecycle: if a company can't support a device anymore, it needs to allow it to be unlocked forever.

I am sure all the manufacturers can set up a shared IMEI-to-unlock-code DB at a relatively small cost.
What? When is the last time you built a YouTube or Netflix? When did people in the past EVER have access to near infinite amounts of content that could be streamed over the internet onto any device?

My grandma wouldn’t know what ‘burning’ a CD means, but she sure knows how to use Netflix.

It’s not defensive to explain the overwhelming reality of todays content landscape. I couldn’t be bothered explaining the difference between a single 1tb drive and YouTube or Netflix, it’s clearly obvious.

There is nothing ridiculous about contracting companies to do work. We hire professionals to perform all sorts of tasks everyday and purchase products made by them. It’s not lazy to do so, it’s smart. Why do I have to explain the basics of how the world works?

For e.g. Do you grow your own food? Fruit and vegetables all that. It's easy right some soil and seeds with minor maintenance. You don't need professionals to do something so basic. Why cant everyone become an expert at growing their own food? Why do we need farmers, a massive global supply chain and mega stores to do something so simple? The idea that we have this global spanning network just to supply a tomato to someone is stupid and we screwed up?!

We don't have time to be experts at every facet of life, the world doesn't work like that. Believe it or not, managing big stashes of content isn't common knowledge or on everyones priority list.
This isn't nonsense in the same way, but it has a similar appeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
My point is that you do have a right to death. You could understand it in terms of the right to life... that it is your right to control. If you don't have the right to die do you really have control of your life and the right to it. IMO the right to life requires a right to die.
Clickbait rewritten title. Originally "Former Ubiquiti dev charged for trying to extort his employer", December 1, 2021.
Caring about reputation after closing down the whole division is a hard thing to do for them [1]. After all, they aren't manufacturing them anymore. The few ones still out there are >1 year old stock.

> From [1] source: "LG will provide service support and software updates for customers of existing mobile products for a period of time which will vary by region."

It they had good will they would keep the service running for 2 or 3 years instead of shutting it down after 7 months.

I bought one appliance from them a few years ago, it's quite noisy and not as great as I supposed it was. With news like this one I'll just avoid buying things from their active divisions.

[1] https://www.lg.com/us/press-release/lg-to-close-mobile-phone...
OnePlus does so too...
Even if it happened, I doubt it would drop lower than $10k.
So you can save the modified file on the server.
And the Turks!

Since the suggestion it was two sided, when really it was more hexagonal.
Are you speaking practically or legally?

Practically: yeah sure no problem. Governments already collaborate on stuff like missing people and/or terrorist tracking and civilian espionage.

On a legal basis though... where's the law that prevents me from doing the kind of math to run a bitcoin node?

And even if there was such a law, it might be unconstitutional and thus not enforceable (at least in the long run).
Agreed. I'm actually doing a VRP using genetic algorithms for a final project right now. That said I feel like I know enough about the problem to know that I don't know enough about the problem to contribute to HN about it. Space missions are much closer to my wheelhouse.
> Gas fees are based on price

This is not correct. Gas fees are essentially an auction for blockspace, the basefee is adjusted dynamically via EIP-1559 but the tip is essentially an auction (highest bidders go first). If demand outstrips blockspace gas fees go up, independently of ETH price. If supply of blockspace is greater than demand, then gas fees go down irrespectively of ETH price.

EDIT: To clarify. What you say would be the case if gas fees were a set amount of ETH. Then, of course, gas fees denominated in $ would be totally correlated with ETH price. But this is not the case. Gas fees work as explained above and thus are, in principle, decoupled from ETH price. Although some correlation might occur due to market dynamics (bull markets bring network activity, bear markets take away network activity) but is not built-in into the gas price mechanism.

> - As price increases it's more attractive to mine.

This is correct.

> That means devs will increase the mining difficulty.

The mining difficulty adjusts itself, the devs do not need to modify. Same as in Bitcoin, it's designed to adjust to maintain an even block production. You might be thinking of the difficulty bomb that needs to be defused once in a while but it has nothing to do with this topic.

> It also makes Ethereum Visa, so what's the point?

Not following.
And previously discussed multiple times.
The problem is bureaucratic and union capture.

You would have very different results if you took the same people, removed performance bonuses, removed merit promotion, instituted seniority promotion and seniority pay scales.

You remove all incentive to take risks, perform, or innovate.

In such an environment, there is only downside to do anything more than the bare minimum. Because nobody is ever fired, the minimum is very low indeed
I totally don’t see it this way — the machine that we’re all cogs in does in fact give you access to recourses. Being the best burger flipper gives you job security.

Today we have access to insane resources that our early humans couldn’t have even dreamt about, even for the relatively poor people today.

The machine provides a massive supply chain of a variety of food and medicine that was unheard of for ~all of human history. Flipping burgers for an hour makes you ~$10, with which you can buy food for two people for a whole day (or more). That’s less work for more reward than ever before in history.

So the reward system does work — you’re still competing, and the rewards are massive, relative to apes and early humans.
MetaMask: The Hero Crypto Deserves
You have to give it to the military - they really succeed in indoctrinating their community in their success metrics. Everyone who leaves the military has a very high opinion of their peers' professionalism, dedication, and so forth. From an outside observer's perspective, the results are not as strong - the budgetary, humanitarian, environmental, collateral, and political costs of most of the military engagements of the past 50 years have been quite bad. You never hear the veterans talk about that - it's always about the success metrics that they define for themselves (eg: casualty ratio - "we lost only 2 lives on our end, and they lost XXXXX").

Compare that to the Googlers who constantly complain about their employer, and contrast that to Google's net impact on our society. First of all, it's not a cost center but a massive revenue center, and it paid for endless road constructions and similar projects across California, New York, and all other states that Google operates in. And while we can argue about the political bias in their search results, I believe Google has made information more accessible, and that's fundamentally a good thing.

I imagine it has to do with how these two organizations approach their communities from the very beginning:

- Google: don't be evil

- Military: we have our own law where your jury can consist of as few as just 3 officers, and only 2 of them need to agree to send you to jail. Oh, and you don't get a lawyer until the investigation is finished, including your own deposition. So... still want to download all those incriminating documents and expose someone in the military?

Not saying that we should operate like the military, but it's important to realize that anyone who joins the military is ok with this set of rules. So they are fundamentally not opposed to how the military works to begin with, and it's therefore not surprising that they are largely happy with their internal success metrics.
Do you really want it to succeed? Popularity among average users comes with greedy businessmen who tend to spoil everything they touch. Do you want apt-get to display ads or send em.. telemetry to god knows who? Do you want a "clouds powered" bash terminal that's an electron app rendering a remote terminal running on AWS? How about ffmpeg with a mandatory DMCA module for "safety reasons" or MS arbitrarily adding and deleting packages on your Ubuntu and rebooting it because you happened to be in some experiment group? Because that's where the money are.
> You mean, people who oversaw the roll-out of a new, horrible design with no testing and multiple breaking bugs that took over a year to fix (and many are still not fixed)?

lol but wouldn't that all have rolled up to the new CEO since he was the CTO?
This post is a great way to establish how many people never read past the title of an HN submission: keep them coming all those "I'll never buy from you again" :)
Ah. I assume you can point out which of these "some governments" have logistics that rival Amazon via throwing a "fuckton of money" to their post offices?
You and thousands of other people, thereby preventing the Bitcoin price from ever likely reaching $100 in the first place.

We’re living through an interesting piece of history here, that’s for sure.
And no way to upgrade old phones. This is the point.
Because it’s faster and cheaper
We are closer to them collapsing
Web3 without crypto is what will work and not be bs.
Not agreeing with the parent comment, but I fail to see how printing money and distributing it involves violence.
They only do that because they believe they can succeed. Widespread propaganda could resolve that.