skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference, though, is that the proof of work is qualitatively — physically! — a different type of work.

The value of money is derived from moving against thermodynamic equilibrium. Cryptocurrency’s value comes from moving towards thermodynamic equilibrium. The conversion of work into heat — not heat into work!

I’m not talking about taxation or apps. Those are things built with the axioms of crypto-evangelism. I’m talking about the physical fundamentals underlying those axioms.
You're describing Visa. They've invented debit cards.

The only advantage to cryptocurrency is the concept of decentralized trust. A blockchain only has value in situations where no central authority can be trusted. If Nano solved every problem on your list the result would be what we already have, but with a distributed network of coin owners in control of it instead of credit card companies. That just doesn't seem like a very compelling benefit [0]

As the article says, I'm sure there are enthusiasts who are very interested in the technical problem of creating a global payment network. Unless they can do it for roughly half the cost of what we have now, it doesn't have a lot of practical value.

[0] I am aware that there are people who are locked out of financial systems because of corrupt governments, etc. But if 80%+ of the population can use the existing systems, they aren't going to go through the trouble of switching to a new currency for the sake of the 20% that can't. And even if they did, it wouldn't be long before the same corrupt governments found a way to lock certain people out of the new system
I would consider ransomware under the umbrella of black markets. Perhaps "anything illegal" would have been a better description.

Nice point about BitTorrent. I'm sure crypto will have some niche adoptions in the future too. Apparently P2P game updates ended up being disabled though. Probably a good thing too - imagine the absolute carnage on ISPs if places like netflix decided to outsource their CDN to everyone's home internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160715104054/https://us.battle...
I wish there was a bit more overlap between US and UK writing supplies. For some reason, certain Japanese pen companies will sell Pen A in the US only, while having Pen B for European markets. Eg. Pilot C4 0.25, you can still only find it from one small boutique seller in the UK (at one point I thought I bought all of their stock of 025).

I had to order notebooks with Tomoe River 52g paper (well, “had to”…) from JetPens some years ago, as no one in the UK had them. (The situation has improved somewhat in recent years, on both fronts)
With credit cards, you have to give out your details to whoever you are paying. That party will save them somewhere and then there is a possibility that someone else will gain access to your details and abuse them. You won't ultimaltely lose money here, because your credit card company will reverse the transactions, as you said. Being the victim of credit card fraud is still a hassle, however.

With crypto, the only thing you give out is your public key. No one can perform any fraudulent activity with just your public key. It is of course possible to be defrauded with crypto, but then it will be partially your fault because you did something you should not have. With credit cards, you can become the victim of fraud through no fault of your own.

I do think that is a difference worth pointing out.
Less so than the death of the sole maintainer, I would think.
Everyone used to "ping" sites whose only purpose was to provide feeds of when blogs changed, so all the aggregators would use that as a starting point anyway. But really it isn't that necessary - there are few feeds where getting things to your subscribers that urgently matters enough that you necessarily want them to hammer your site the moment you publish.
died from omikron ?
Yeah, what’s funny about that is 80% or more of tx are overpaying by a great great deal. Check out mempool.space, currently a high priority next block cost is about 14 sat, yet most of the txs are using far more.

I think there are some very bad wallets out there. You can do minimum fee txs nearly all the time. Blocks generally are not full for long periods, so a 1sat tx will confirm eventually.
Without the community of grifters, neither BTC or ETH would have any serious market value, and so they would be extremely easy to attack. The only reason vast mining networks can exist is because of the huge amounts of money that grifters have been pumping into the system. The "community" probably understands this very well.

> Sidenote: I would hazard a guess that the people memeing about "oh my energy use" haven't looked into it with all that much detail. Fiat is MUCH worse in this position.

No, fiat is processing literally millions of times the amount of transactions of BTC & ETH combined for a fraction of the energy use. Sure, the whole financial sector is larger in energy use than BTC and ETH, but most of that is all the parts that BTC and ETH don't cover at all - insurance, loans, risk eval, customer support, investments, KYC and AML, and many other functions that are crucial to the economy.
No chance buying a GPU at listing price today.

Buyer beware: for the Dan Case, it's only compatible with 2.25 slot (45mm) width cards at max. Most 3080s are 2.5 slot (50mm) wide. The EVGA 3080 XC3 Black is a notable exception, and is a very satisfying tight fit [0]. There's also a 3D printed GPU spacer to increase width of the case (sacrificing portability) [1].

Here's my hardware:

CASE: Dan A4-SFX v4.1 7L
PSU: Corsair SF750
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6C/12T 3.8GHz/4.5GHz
FANS: Asetek 645LT 92mm AIO + Noctua NF-A9x14 x2
MOTHERBOARD: Asus ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING mini-ITX
LAN: Intel I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet
WLAN: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
AUDIO: Realtek S1220A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB DDR4 @ 3600MHz
GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon
NVME0: Sabrent Rocket 1TB R/W 3400/3000
NVME1: Crucial P1 1TB R/W 2000/1700
SSD0: SanDisk Ultra II 1TB R/W 540/500

- [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/jhrnob/evga_xc3_3080...

- [1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771844
I work in games for a fully remote company. a Mac mini takes ~5 hours to compile and cook (read: prep the assets) for our game. It's not reasonable to ask someone to have that mac at home, and even if it was, you have to have it somewhere where it's available, has high speed internet, and that person is responsible for the hardware - making sure it stays on when it's needed etc. That person also needs to deal with any hardware failures/ warranty replacements. Instead, we could lease a mac from AWS for £20 for a day, run a build and use that.

That doesn't mean that this is a scalable solution for running our business on, but for the occasional one off mac build to make sure it's not fallen behind, it works just fine for us.
To give a slightly more complete answer as to why, utf-8 was designed to be both backwards compatible with ASCII and self-synchronizing.

So you can't use half the values of a byte when encoding code points outside of ASCII, and the remaining 128 values need to be split between starting bytes and continuation bytes. At best you're going to fit about 6 bits into each byte, and unicode spans the equivalent of just over 20 bits, so you need 4 bytes max.

utf-8 opts to keep encoding very simple, and in 2-4 bytes it can store 11, 16, and 21 bits respectively.

If you discarded ASCII compatibility, you could create a 1-3 byte self-synchronizing unicode encoding. But at that point maybe you should be compressing your text instead.

Or you could weaken the compatibility and create "utf-1 but better" to fit into 3 bytes.
Gives a new meaning to set production in fire
SPNEGO, (and GSS-API) used by less than 1% of the Bind users (by observatory) and exploitable if configured as enabled that the entire code segment got removed by the maintainer from its code permanently.

The rest is pretty solid and well tested.
I'm baffled why organizations don't use Kerberos, especially when they already have it (Active Directory).
Finally some real science on this topic. Not against nuclear energy, but as a solution to climate change it did get some very unscientific arguments.
Has anyone ever got a reply from these people, who seem never to fill their vacancies? despite advertising here for years
Er... Is the anti-HIV stuff human experimentation? Are these guys collecting data? Seems like they're taking a drug that's known to help (incidentally it got FDA-approved in December 2021, based on trials whose results were announced in November 2020; I'm sure the FDA had excellent reasons for that delay) and sticking it where they think it'll help those who take it. This is compared to drug dealers who take a drug known to be harmful (fentanyl) and stick it where they think it'll substitute for more expensive ingredients and will keep the customers coming.

Are you really saying that the former is a crime against humanity and the latter isn't?
Card payments are expensive for multiple reasons, the biggest one is that it involves multiple trusted peers that will refund your money if anything goes wrong.

And to be fair, EU regulations have very successfully brought these fees to about half of the typical market-driven price we see in other parts of the world. I'm not saying they cannot be decreased even further, and the EPI was created specifically for that, but you cannot deny the situation in Europe isn't too bad.

Providing one-way, immutable money transfers is inherently cheap. Even SEPA transfers, which are reversible in some cases, are incredibly cheap. As you listed yourself, if you need to handle fraud with low transaction costs, that instantly discards permissionless blockchains; you're essentially going back to a centralized, federated network of trusted peers.
Isn't ballpoint generally the least fragile?

Although I often have ballpoints that "dry" out, and I never know how to fix them: should I heat them? Put the tip in water?
Not to mention, you can actually file an issue on the blog owner's github (if present), making a ruckus about the feed quality. I did it once and he was happy to patch it - after familiarizing himself with what a feed even was, as he didn't know his site had one.
> Now anyone can play, at the same time that traditional paths to wealth...

the association of wealth with "playing" is very much a metastasis of the old system masqeurading as some sort of innovation. this is not wealth creation, this is zero sum games robbing orphans and widows. be my guest "playing" and feeling smug about it, but lets not rewritte the meaning of words

actually that strongest hint that crypto as it stands is an ugly distraction is that there is no real wealth creation associated with it. as in: a real economic activity (that is kosher) that has been enabled by it while it was prevented by fiat currency systems
Thank you so much for your reply.

> All of the requests for that User’s config data originating all across Cloudflare’s network will execute serially on that Durable Object, and can modify storage associated with the Object.

I'm liking the sound of this but I need a little more clarity.

Say a user config contains their name and optionally, a twitter handle. The user is logged in on machine 1. The user's virtual assistant is logged in machine 2.

Now, the user adds the twitter handle while basically simultaneously, their VA edits the name to fix a typo. What will be the state of the DO at the end of this? Will the person coding the DO have to write code to resolve the conflicts or is there some sort of `git merge` type algo running which handles updates?

Bonus question, what if both the user and VA updated the name? Even `git merge` can't handle this so I'm guessing either you discard the older request or leave it to the developer to handle this.

Edit: I'm genuinely interested in using DOs and I'm not trying to ask gotcha questions. The documentation just flits past some of the implementation details (or maybe I'm not understanding something which you have already answered)
> can you elaborate on the additional value provided in regards to a simple webview?

The proposed value of retrokit (when it's more progressed) is a much smaller library/file size and the reduction of a potential attack surface in regards to fingerprinting, privacy and security.

Legacy encryption APIs that are outdated, Plugin APIs that are from the Netscape-era, "navigator.plugins" and old stuff that's not actually providing any value anymore is being removed as well - due to the history of e.g. PDF files or Java applets being such an oftentimes exploited plugin.

The idea is to have a webview that's focussing on the rendering part + websockets for local interprocess or webapp-to-webserver communication. At a later point in time my goal is to bundle it with nodejs, with the idea being that the "local backend" in nodejs allows all the flexibility you need to port networking and OS interactions; and the webapp representing the UI process that's separated (from a security perspective).
There's something I don't understand: why can't we be infected with different variants at the same time ? And does it extend to viruses (eg: can't get infected with flu if currently fighting measles) ?

I read someone in Israel got `flurona`, flu + covid (https://www.timesofisrael.com/flurona-israel-records-its-fir...).
Nah, covid in general. Clarified.

edit: Please don’t downvote the user, it was a relevant question and I only clarified my comment afterwards.
It’s possible, but most coronaviruses do not seem to have followed this in the past, nor flu-based viruses. More deadly variants usually don’t win it from less deadly in a selection process.

However it is important as the WHO recommends to do way more to export vaccines to countries that need it. Not just developed countries to prevent the chance of new variants.
I am not sure it reduces security. You have a valid point. I adds an attack vector. However "only" if you have the attacker in your system already.

Having all the log spam from failed attempts on 22 might the make the admin negligent on carefully following their logs at all. Having it pretty silent on a higher port usually will make you notice occasional scanning. At least I have noticed it and made me tighten the firewall a bit.

There is no perfect security.
Green and crypto are incompatible ideas. You don't waste for the sake of wasting when you're looking to be green.
.ARPA domain is older than 1982, so TCP/IP was in force before standardization.

Fun times.
It's much bigger than you think.

If I'm building an electron app, it's because I need native code running in nodejs/V8 as native addons, often in the render process, or I'm using bleeding edge APIs not available on Safari.

This type of framework is simply not an option.
On HN we're used to seeing Show HNs like Dropbox's which turn into billion-dollar companies. So, sure, it's easy to dismiss posts like this one.

But here's a 2022 challenge for everyone: Start something new and get your first paying customer. You have exactly 1 month from now. I look forward to your Show HN.
Bitpay is probably the worst they could have gone from a PR perspective as they’re also facing a lot of hate from crypto people: they have always been incorporating dark patterns and questionable KYC procedures. Nowadays I think you’ll have to submit passport and a webcam recording to use them for payments or donations at all. They’re like a worse PayPal, except it happens to be with cryptocurrencies instead of credit cards.

It’s kind of the worst of both worlds. But hey, at least they have a process for USD-denominated refunds on those donations. /s

Mozilla should just have thrown up a self-custodied wallet address or two on their website and be done with it instead of awkward emoji-shill-tweeting about Dogecoin through Bitpay.
https://remarkable.com/ is there in my opinion. It feels very similar.

I'd like to get to the point where I can ocr and index my notes. The software is not there yet but there is a hacker community around the device and they do provide ssh access at least.

There's some backlash recently because they switched to a subscription model for some features.

When I ordered a year ago they had a generous return policy. I kept mine after trying it. If they still have that policy, I'd suggest at least giving it a try to see if you like it.
Tek Fog: An App for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends
> Energy recovery ventilation units are not that expensive […] Adds some cost to the HVAC of a new build, but not that much.

I've recently had my (individual) house built, and it was 3-4 times more expensive than a regular system. It's not a prominent part of the entire budget for a house, but the difference still made me chose the regular one. But maybe a significant part of the price difference was just a premium for having the high-end tech, more than a real cost difference for the builder.

> are required by code for new construction here in Ontario as of 2017

Interesting. Even for individual houses? Maybe that's a good idea to make it mandatory, if the premium hypothesis above turned to be true.
At my last job I implemented the certificate generation as a scheduled job, which pushes the generated certificates to a private S3 bucket.

Then, our standard Ansible playbooks set up on each node a weekly systemd timer which downloads the needed certificates and restarts or reloads the services.
Or the bed malfunctions while you're asleep and you get pinned against the ceiling. Or your secret office space behind your TV closes in on you because someone in a meeting shouts "hey Ori, close my office!"

Unless they took care to secure their IoT Heavy Furniture.

It all looks very fancy but this is one aspect of life where I appreciate low- or no-technology.
Your point applies to much more than long-form articles. We spend so much time subscribing and scrolling through information sources just to be "aware" things exist (it's the worst for news). If we'd really want to read something great or understand a topic deeply, everyone has huge read-it-later lists and bookmark collections.

But filtering and discovering new things is somehow much more rewarding than reading or understanding itself.
The blog's down, but polyhaven.com isn't. Presumably the blog isn't as important as the core service and thus isn't hosted on the same infrastructure
How easy is it to convert gains back into fiat though?
You don’t
Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
To clarify, most Capitol tourists are still in pre-trial detention and facing illegal punishments like being denied necessary medical care. The media doesn't like those people, so naturally they haven't been covering the human rights abuses at all, which is why you may not have heard about it.

However, you may be thinking of the people that participated in the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020 who did spend a week in jail before they were bailed out by aligned political parties and subsequently had their charges dropped by politically aligned DAs.
I was part of a startup that aggregated items for sale years and years ago (we were sold to LookSmart for a pittance in the end) and we did RSS feeds for everything. Every page spat out a list of items, in fact and the website and the RSS and atom feeds were all generated from the same middle layer. A huge part of our inventory came from RSS feeds too.
It's impressive it takes that much money to do almost no traffic.

A raspberry PI could handle the compute.
> Yet, in de west, specially in the US people find it very difficult to talk about it.

It sounds like you have a specific, non-western culture in mind which finds it very easy to talk about about sex.

Which is it?
Also if you want to build and maintain infrastructure and social services.
Close. That wouldn't work for long-running commands, since they'd keep the mic muted. Instead I use a sudo askpass wrapper to only mute during the password prompt bit.
In the old days, using technology to watch porn was fun. Nowadays, with VR devices locked down and controlled by their vendors, not so much ...
Until then, you’ve been apparently getting side-tracked.
Github/Microsoft also immediately jumped at the PR opportunity to be among first companies to tone-police things like master/slave, whitelist/blacklist etc.

Always funny when organizations paint themselves as do-gooders and people even applaud them for it. While in reality Both MS and Github have contracts with ICE, there is JEDI, HoloLens, AnyVision, ... The tone-policing and pandering to the woke mob / cancel culture, is just to distract from the actual disgusting things they do. The Wikipedia entry on FUD makes for an interesting read in corporate propaganda.
The best pen is the Muji gel. 0.38, 0.5 and 0.7mm, about £1, multiple colours, refills sold separately.
>Since March 31, 2021, when the deadline set for websites and mobile applications to comply with the new rules on cookies expired, the CNIL has adopted nearly 100 corrective measures (orders and sanctions) related to non-compliance with the legislation on cookies.

I didn't realize there was that delay, I thought the rule was supposed to be enforced years ago.
No, I don't have an issue with people making money from their entrepreneurial activities, in fact I applaud who people do that. I have an issue with people being handed millions of dollars when all they've done is downloading a computer program and running it on a god-damn laptop. I don't agree with that. I think it's a scam, and this is why I'll never buy a cryptocurrency or accept it as payment for anything, because I don't I agree to these people getting rich at my expense.
Let’s be charitable and assume they meant that they are poor at picking a quality smartphone.
> So the rich should get clean streets and running water while the poor walk on their own shit?

That's a pretty accurate depiction of the US. Seattle at least
Not really. I vaguely remember trying out PDL and not getting very far. I was pretty comfortable writing C back then, so any time I'd run into performance issues in Perl, I'd usually just switch to C. Getting PDL working properly was painful enough that it didn't really seem worth spending a lot of time on when I could just write a small C program, especially for commandline data pipeline type situations. Once I started hitting projects with requirements for interactive GUIs though, keeping everything in the same language becomes more valuable and Python had the better complete package.
Try running a root server like I do for myself. You will reevaluate what you have just said by then.
I dont see and calculations, only statements like its 3-8 times more expensive. Right now we already have a problem with the disposal of windmill wings, location problems. Nuclear plants have a much smaller footprint and they last longer.
This is a great way to permanently damage your reputation and end up with nothing in return.
He makes comedy, not drama?
>Why did it take so long for one particular virus to leak

why long? The EcoAlliance's gain-of-function (with the "Human Subjects Included" checked) NIH grant for Wuhan started in 2014, the human-specific DNA modifications of the virus were described in the EcoAlliance's 2018 DARPA grant proposal, and in the end of 2019 - voila!

With regard to omicron - we may be also witnessing the continuation of the same magic of the fast "gain-of-function" by the virus :

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

"By inserting this particular snippet into itself, Omicron might be making itself look "more human," which would help it evade attack by the human immune system, said Venky Soundararajan of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based data analytics firm nference, who led the study posted on Thursday on the website OSF Preprints.

This could mean the virus transmits more easily, while only causing mild or asymptomatic disease."
They need a working theory for how this PoS will work first. Wishful thinking and handwaving does not equal theory. PoW is the only tech that has solved the problem so far. Many things were tried before bitcoin with no results