skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A dollar is just a bit value in someone's DB. The military, thousands of banks, and people flying private jets are all propping up the economy, not the dollar. They are propping up the value of BTC in fact, more or less as much as they are propping up the dollar.

Visa is exactly the right equivalent to the BTC network.
No. Unfortunately this is where Kuru Toga shines. It's the only pencil I have for this reason.
Here in the UK there seems to be some sort of cold that is ticking all the same symptom boxes as Omicron (sore throat, headache, nasal congestion, cough) but “isn’t Codiv”. My whole family had it before Christmas. I would describe it a rotten cold, we all sat on the sofa for like 5 days but weren’t bed bound, tested negative with LFTs the whole time (each did one at least every other day for a week). We isolated anyway.

We know a lot of people who have had this experience in the last month. Most people seem to have had this cold or Covid recently.

Now, I am suspicious that something is going on here. I have a suspicion that the LFTs are not testing positive for relatively mild Omicron. The LFTs procedure here, which we followed, has been to only swab the nose (they changed it maybe over the summer?) but I have seen many anecdotal reports over the last week of people who tested negative (LFT) with just a nasal swab but positive if they swabbed their throats. This potentially ties in with reports that Omicron mostly affects the throat whereas Delta affects the back of the nose. I have seen no official studies.

It would not surprise me if we find out in a few weeks/months that nasal LFTs have a very high false negative rate with Omicron.

Edit:

Just found this about a small study suggesting exactly what I am suspicious of:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/health/covid-rapid-test-o...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.04.22268770v...
For those who pined for the old days … of real ASCII nude.

NSFW?

http://www.roysac.com/asciinudes/default.html
I just did that when the iPhone 13 released. My social circle couldn't believe that I got an iPhone after me being extremely critical of them. After a few months, it's a bad experience, Android is clearly more user friendly, customisable, powerful, but it doesn't work.

iOS may be locked down like crazy and have UX from 10 years ago, and the keyboard is atrocious (even swiftkey is way worse than the android version), but it works reliably.

My partner has an iPhone 8 that still works perfectly fine, and much faster than my 3 year old flagship Android. Why the performance degrades after 2 years, I have no clue, plus it happens across brands (seen it with Samsung, LG, Sony)...
> and nobody could take it from you

It seems like every day I read about hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto being stolen. A simple phishing attack could wipe out your savings. Since there’s no authority to do anything about it, that money is gone. To me, this affects more people than the “flee your land, take nothing with you” crowd.
> It's like when you pick up the phone for a telemarketer, now they know they can continue bothering you because you're a real person and you answer your phone.

The few times a telemarketer reaches through to me on one of my phones, I've put them off by asking in a niche foreign language in that nation whether they speak that language. Most of the time, they immediately hang up and I never hear from them again. Sometimes, they repeat their script, then hang up. I've never had someone respond in that language (that would be a blast to address).
Well that one is more understandable. You can't tell literal from counts except by convention. If we assume ASCII encoding, you don't know if it's a 'B' or a count of 66. It makes sense when you're encoding something with lots of runs, that you use every second word for literals and every second word for counts.

I just don't understand why they start with counts, that's all.
If it's similar to what I had problems with, it may be you're holding the pen with too much pressure.

as others have said, holding the pen in the correct way, with the correct pressure should help

larger pens/ pencils seemed to help
> Altair 8800 [...] and there was obviously no chance to see any photo on this device.

I'm not sure why? A basic Altair certainly seemed primitive from all appearances, but it supported S-100 expansion cards. This includes video such as the Cromemco Dazzler[1], which supported:

> while the highest resolution used a 2 kB buffer in X4 mode to produce a 128 by 128 pixel image.

And the later Super Dazzler:

> The Super Dazzler Interface (SDI) had 756 x 484 pixel resolution with the ability to display up to 4096 colors, a capability that had previously only been available in much more expensive systems.

You can see the Super Dazzler in action on YouTube[2]. And while it was generally equipped on much more capable machines, it theoretically could be used on the 8800 to display a static image.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Dazzler

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3EmCf1fw4s
But you're missing an important point: PoW is the foundational building block of the biggest cryptocurrencie promise: decentralization and “permissionlessness”. With “Proof of Stakes”, the creator of the chain start with all power and then they'll slowly distribute it to a group of investors in exchange of something (usually money, but it could be other tokens, advertising, or anything). The investors can in turn sell some of all of their power on the market to make a profit, or keep it a receive dividends (newly minted tokens). In the end, you have a small group of people, closely related to the chain developer/creator with aligned interest holding all the power on the chain.

Hybrid systems like Ethereum, bootstrapping with PoW and then switching to a PoS system afterwards seemingly solve this problem, but such a switch implies that the social structure around the blockchain is centralized: Ethereum is technologically decentralized, but politically very centralized (you can also see in their way of handling the DAO “hack”, violating the Ethereum protocol and rolling back the blockchain) and that's why the developers can just go “screw the miners and their hardware, we're moving to PoS now”.

You couldn't do this kind of switch for bitcoin, because it's really decentralized, with stakeholders having deeply unaligned interests.
Seems expensive for just curation even though I don't discount the work required for top quality curation.
Mozilla Foundation has accepted donations for a long time. However, if you want to support MDN or Firefox, it’s questionable whether donating accomplishes that[0]. Almost all of the revenue is going to Mozilla Corporation, with ethically questionable CEO[1].

Same goes for donations in croins, I presume.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895624

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954390
Maybe but “exponential growth” is a conspiracy theory promoted by epidemiologists. In reality, growth follows the S-curve, so a milder, faster spreading disease will also saturate the population (flatten the S-curve) much sooner, so overall the impact will be much less.
If it has to be asked every time, then it could be easily classified as essential functionality and allowed. The rules are about sharing private / identifiable information, not about preventing client-side storage from working.
[P]lease use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some academic once told me that the best phd students tended to get Bs in their honours year, because they didn’t think memorising a textbook was a good use of their time.

Is your interview process perhaps over-indexing academic performance or some similarly time wasting achievement?
Not a real double spend, just some central exchange accounting mismatch with the active chain. That’s why we wait for confirms. Still, glad you brought this up. 0.7/0.8 db issue was a scary time. Seems like a lifetime ago.
A lot of people don't know that, and default to annoying cookie popups regardless. How do we create awareness around that?
My uBlock origin blocks a huge part of cookie banners. For some "Behind the overlay revival" works great, mainly for sites that just darken whole page with modal in the middle. Its one click away. For the 1% I manually block the element through uBlock origin, and the remaining 0.1% of websites that send you to another URL to confirm/deny, with no easy way to deny (looking at you, techcrunch) I just leave the site.
It appears it's nowhere near enough though. Not to mention, Facebook (the main beneficiary of all the illicit data collection) gets away scot-free.
Why can't these articles get to the point sooner.

The act of writing is more for the writer than his audience. That's why
we post to monster threads like this one with the full knowledge that
our scintillating nugget of wisdom will be lost in the quarry of
ersatz nuggets.
Necessary cookies are allowed by default, no consent required.
How much did you sell it for?

I'm interested, since i'm running a product that does around 2k MRR, 10k MAU. However profit margin is only around 20% de to user acquisition costs/ operational costs.
You don't even have to go to safety. I did a test drive couple of years of Honda Jazz (known as Honda Fit in some markets) where the AC controls are touch-only. It was almost impossible to adjust it without taking your eyes off the road. Deal breaker.
Saving the decision is an example of a cookie which is technically necessary, you can have those without consent. Consent and the option for opt-out is only needed for cookies that are not needed to run the page. You also don't need permission for session cookies.
It's more "why not." The mindset that addresses are something that need to be conserved and carefully parceled out simply does not jive with V6. It takes a while for that to really sink in particularly if one is used to having to care a lot.

Who cares if they need 100 or 200 or 500,000. Give them a /64 or /80 and let them use it for whatever they come up with. As to why specifically /64 and /80 it probably makes the internal net magic easier versus something that isn't 4-byte aligned.
Burning electrical power is the most globally available version of burning universal value.

The thermodynamic direction is less important than the fact that people didn't want to do it.

But proof of work was always a transitory, bootstrapping phase. Even among the crypto evangelists, I can't believe anyone saw a long-term future in that.
Good they get fined, but those amounts really are peanuts for companies of that size.
More like a headline: "ordinary person <name> fined 0.62 for littering".

Would I like to litter, the fine would be slightly annoying (maybe worth busting my ass to a proper trashcan to avoid this fine), but also being in the news about it.
It would be a good idea to fine a site based on their fake delay and/or how many cookie options they present (if it's one of those that give a switch for every "cookie vendor" they have for example)
Maybe they attempt to comply with regulation that is often confusingly worded and written by people who are not human computer interaction experts.
Sometimes you need to help the world adjust, with people carrying guns.
Work is not your god: welcome to the age of the burnout epidemic
It's not accepting cookies vs not accepting cookies; it's accepting non-essential (tracking + others) cookies vs rejecting those.

While this is an interesting question/argument, I'd argue that adding a cookie to represent that you have rejected all cookies might be considered an acceptable essential cookie, since it's expected you need to reject them all only once. See here for example:

https://bombich.com/cookies#essential
[gestures Khabe Lamely at entire comment thread and article]
It says right there in the description:

“You could use the feature to run 281 trillion containers with their own IPs (which I assume is what AWS intended for the feature), but I wanted to find a more fun use.”
Really? You don't think there might be something more to currencies than a bit in someone's DB? You're confusing representation for the thing.
What an outstanding article! Thanks so much for posting it.
I had this and so did my friend and we live across the country. The same symptoms at different times. It was as you describe and my cough was terrible, unlike previous colds or chest infections. I coughed for about 40 hours straight and didn't sleep. I tested myself multiple times.

I found it strange that I am boosted, masked, and sanitized, plus I am isolated as I am an unpaid carer for a family member with poor health and I managed to catch the bloody cold!

It seemed suspect to me as well but of course, anecdotal.
I was looking if anyone will mention Parker Vector here. I've been writing with these daily since forever. I've tried some much (much) more expensive fountain pens and none came close to the comfort of writing with the Vector. Might be just me being so used to it at this point though.

"Never leaks" is maybe pushing a bit in my experience. I certainly had these leak ink sometimes. I also think that the design could be nicer. Many other pens are more comfortable to hold. The nib however is just perfect.
Focus on whatever process/challenge you have currently at hand.
Be it your homework, exam preparation, course project etc.

Because the main and only ever relevant skill you should learn is the skill of learning, ability to be focused and present being an essential part of it.

You'll have plenty of time wandering on forums like this later in life, trust me, I've been there :)
Look again at the nature of the offence - it's not about consentless tracking (any tracking here, using cookies, was opt in). Plus, users that were concerned enough could quite easily refuse; they just couldn't do it with a single click. How much do you think they actually suffered? How big of a fine do you think something like this actually deserves (given we're just talking about French users here, not EU or global)?
That individual instance can host 300 trillion vhosts with individual IPs with a /80 block. It has more publicly adressable IP addresses than the entire ipv4 address space.

That is exactly my question, is there a technical / practical reason for this? Or is it simply an arbitrary prefix?
There is a common heritage. On the other hand, the low-level libraries also depend a lot on Mach features like message passing.
> Her,

Opps sorry. I normally make an effort to use gender neutral addressing too.
Same experience and suspicions here with December being miserable for the household but no positive LFTs (around 3 each) or PCR (one each). Wife still has a sore throat every night, weeks later, and mine lasted weeks too, which is unlike any cold we've had previously.
You want to keep the number of cases in a range that the health care system still can deal with. Reaching the the flat part of an S-curve (i.e. infecting everyone as fast as possible) is NOT desirable because that leads to many cases in very short term.
I don't know if it is possible to treat "Serverbörse" servers as cattle. They are all different. I know that k8s and Docker Swarm could in theory balance load between different machines, but never tried it in practice. But I had in practice some weird glitches with different CPU/motherboards/memory.

Also, comment I was replying to mentioned a 48 euro budget, it is a price of a single server.
Punish bad pop-ups, so people are wary of them ('wait is this bad') and discover (and find attractive) the possibility of not having one (can't be fined for a bad thing that doesn't exist) & network effects ('wait how do they have no pop-up')?
There's a recent study(0) that suggests that saliva tests are more reliable than nasal swabs for detection of Omicron variants, whereas the inverse was true for the Delta variant.

(0) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.22.21268246v...
It depends whether it confers immunity to other variants, and how long it lasts.

If it’s good at that, it is so transmissible that quickly everyone will get it (the fabled “herd immunity”) and new variants, unless they break the mould, won’t have a large enough population of o sustain themselves in.

Otherwise, maybe we’ll enter into some kind of equilibrium, where there’s enough of not-terrible Omicron to keep everyone “topped up”, equivalent to permanently high vaccination levels.

Or, none of our happens and as you say, the next variant is more transmissible and more deadly, and we’re screwed again.

Re France, new variants pop up all the time, if it’s the same one I read about, there’s no indication that it’s special right now so for now I’d say clickbait.
This.

Uni will give you a degree, which basically will be a "proof of work" and allow you to get a chance to be hired in a decent first job.

Uni will also guarantee that you have an overview of many topics. But often those overviews won't be enough when you will start working because the level of knowledge required will be much more deeper (or practical) than what was required in Uni.

My recommendation.

Analyze the the things you like that are related to CS and find something that intrigues you. Something that you really want to learn about. It could be games, microcontrollers, artificial intelligence, operating systems, mobile apps, websites, ...

Pick something and start reading about it, watch explainer videos, try to build one yourself. The more you will learn and play the more you will discover how many other things you have to learn and experiment with as well. Hopefully all of this learning will be easy, because you decided to learn it in first place!

This way your knowledge will grow much more than what Uni will give you. Some courses will be easy because you are already ahead. You will be confident when working on group projects or applying for work because you already played with the technology and you are up to date with the latest trends.
Yes, but comment I was replying to mentioned a 48 euro budget, it is a price of a single server.
The question isn't who builds it but who orders it. Would you leave your job just to fight back against this particular dark pattern? Do you ask about this dark pattern in interviews in order to make a decision about a potential employer?
In Europe we have 28 nations that can fine Meta/Alphabet/etc individually. They won't shut down due to fines but 28*100M starts hurting
Yeah I don't really have a problem with the use of large spaces, was just curious about the prefix selection.

> As to why specifically /64 and /80 it probably makes the internal net magic easier versus something that isn't 4-byte aligned.

Thanks for the insight!
A lot of people's salaries depend on pretending to not know that. Slight difference! ;)
This isn't a GDPR fine, it's EU ePrivacy Directive. That's why the French regulator felt it could fine Google directly rather than refer the matter to the Irish regulator - it says the GDPR's one-stop shop rule doesn't apply to this infringement.
Probably comes down to two factors:

- Only a tiny fraction of all web devs read HN

- If business wants something done, the devs are rarely in a position to oppose the decision
What room do you use in the house? Living in a one-bedroom apartment, so I have set my work desk to my bedroom. I once did my work on my "music corner" in the other room but quickly realized that it hindered my work since it was so easy to pick some instrument and start noodling with it.

Do you have a special desk? I use a standing desk from IKEA.

What monitors do you have? Just some random 27inch screen. Nothing special.

Keyboard? I used Microsoft's Ergonomic keyboard for a long time. However, I recently wanted to get some lightweight keyboard for traveling and bought Apple's tenkeyless Magic Keyboard, which works great. It also seems to be pretty much the only regular keyboard that doesn't make my forearms burst into fire since I was grown so used to ergonomic keyboards. Maybe it is due to its low profile. I don't know. Nowadays, I pretty much use the Magic keyboard solely.

Mouse? Logitech MX Master 3. I have been looking for some vertical mouses.

Do you work from a laptop? Yes.

Do you move around the house? Occasionally.

What other equipment? Noise-cancelling headphones.
> (I remember when a 90 hour movie was considered long.)

Thank you very much I needed a good laugh this morning!
To complicate things more, when crypto is stolen from a US citizen/corp, what authority gets pulled in to deal with it? Should that authority then be counted in the equation?
Would accepting blood money still be alright then? Where do we put the line?
Yes, it seems so. Here is there help article on this topic https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4410268. Here is what they say "By default, you can view protected content. For example, if you buy a movie on Google Play Movies, you can watch it in Chrome.

If you don't want to watch protected content, you can block sites from playing it. When you try to play certain movies or music, you might get an error and the content won't play."
Yes and of course regular online payments such as visa or ideal (cheap payments in the Netherlands) also solve that. Global payments and handling taxes could still be cheaper and easier though. I see crypto having a small chance of succeeding in doing this. This small chance of succeeding is a reason for me not to invest in it right now, but I don't think it is impossible.
The problem is that, even though they're not obliged to, they give the option to opt out of necessary cookies alongside the tracking ones, and I guess people de-select necessary cookies because they think all cookies are bad.

Then the site has no memory of the user, displays another pop-up, and people complain about constant pop-ups.

In a sense, StackOverflow are giving users too much control over the cookies being set!
> like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don't accept all cookies by prompting on every visit

Well, not sure if that's fair. Until you accept at least the "strictly necessary" cookies, it makes sense that you get prompted the consent at every visit, since no cookies are saved.
Only the Kuru Toga have this system. You might want to try the Pentel Orenz which is another approach, with the (retractable) metal sleeve following the lead. Both features seem to me to "get inbetween" me and the pencil while drawing, that control over sharpness is nice, even with 0.5 leads. So ultimately I prefer to go with the Graphgear or the Pentel 120 A3DX (cheap, light, comfortable, reliable, but no retractable tip).
I've done a lot of compliance work, and the laws are _very clearly_ worded. This is definitely a case of "let's see what we can get away with"
These stupid cookie dialogs are a result of EU law in the first place. They shouldn't exist, and even if they exist in Europe, as a non-European I shouldn't have to deal with them.

Cookie dialogs are the contemporary equivalent of popup ads, in terms of the annoyance to users. I'd love to find a browser that makes them go away, just like browsers blocked popups years ago.
At least on the monetary side I liked Nassim Taleb‘s paper [1]. I don’t agree with everything he writes but for crypto-currencies he has some points that ring true.
For crypto in general I see definitely the supply chain application, but still think it is in the hype part of the cycle.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204
Nibble aligned is usually the norm
depends on the person(s) or company creating the site, for larger companies, there'll be various people who would have a say on how the site works or flows, eg marketing people, UX, graphic designers, architects, product owners etc... Not just developers

each these people may have a different viewpoint on what they want to happen and why
But this is (also?) in breach of the GDPR which was supposed to go into effect in 2018.
You'd imagine(hope?) they might get more fines if they don't stop.