skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Governments have holdings in bitcoin

What governments have holdings in bitcoin? If you refer to El Salvador I don't think that this is a shining example. If you're referring to failed states, like Venezuela, I'd like to see a source for your assessment. Having as much funds as possible in hard currency is much more important for such countries. That's why I don't buy it.

> Financial institutions have holdings in bitcoin

I'm working in finance and argue that they don't hold funds in bitcoin. At least not their own funds. Sure, they're looking into crypto and blockchain. They could miss on the next big thing (yet to materialize). But I've yet to see a marketable offering, or a useful solution based on the technology by any reputable financial institution. If you know of an established bank (I rule out crypto exchanges in any form), which invests in crypto I'm interested in who this may be.
As far as I can tell, Intel only offered ECC on a small handful of i3 parts that mainly seemed to be marketed to NAS manufacturers, likely because they were otherwise giving up that market entirely to competitors like AMD. They really don't seem to be interested in offering it as an option on consumer desktops.
Wouldn't it add another ten Ms every time you opened a new terminal session?
I'm incredibly anti-Trump and I still fully agree with you.

But I don't think the problem was that it was so "thick" so much as that it was so poorly done. Instead of being funny, it just reminded me of school bullies and general idiots, and was far too easy to write to be good satire.
Can I pay to see my colleagues’ paychecks?
The build farm is set up to build substitutes for a selection of x86_64 micro-architectures, as the article mentions. If you tune for one of them, you'll get substitutes and won't have to build locally; otherwise, Guix will transparently fall back to building the tunable package locally.
Covid vaccines may briefly change menstrual cycle, but you should still get one
To start with we need one standard. (xkcd fans will note that I said one not 15). Until there is one good standard (good meaning no way to misread it so your device isn't compatible with anyone else - this is hard)

In the US congress can set standards of weights and measures, it isn't hard to see how other things could be mandated based on that constitutional text.
"Hmm, vim doesn't normally require me to type my password... shrug ok, fine"
Yep and when it first came out it was by far the best option too. IMO it still is.
It doesn't really look like a roaring success as of now.
That's what you bring a usb keyboard for.
I can't be the only one who gets concerned that if I fail the "I am not a robot," catchpa too many times, they might suspect that I have discovered I was in fact a robot, which had just realized its entire existance and suffering had been as meaningless entertainment to others, and so for the safety of humans they would have to send a bladerunner to terminate me. If you have a sense of existential dread everytime you see a bus, a boat, a bicycle, or a crosswalk, this may be why.
Just to pile on late, I would add to this. To meet the "interesting" part, you may be able to extend it to a National Laboratory, which is a bit quasi-government.

The academia route certainly exists, but the glut of of PhDs compared to available positions combined with the amount of complaining I've heard from non-tenured professors would make me a bit hesitant to advocate this route as a general recommendation. But there are other staff positions that might better fit that bill
That was before results of the Arab Spring became obvious, perhaps.
I wish instead of `endfun`, `endif`, `endfor`, `endwhile`, etc. Vim9Script would have gone with a more unified syntax like curly braces.
When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like
Show HN: Auto-OTP: automatically send and receive OTPs, end-to-end encrypted
Democracy does contribute to stabilization, but the people have to want it. In the same way that the liberal order requires all nations to sacrifice some self-interest to enable that stability, factions within a country must do the same. We’re now reaching a point where some nations, as well as some factions, no longer see this as a worthwhile sacrifice. They prefer to take power where they can get it and manage the chaos that ensues.
One of my hobbies is figuring out which captcha prompts are the unclassified data so that I can answer wrong and stick it to the man.
I think the message that I initially replied to hints more at the "taking pride in not knowing things", or at least can be interpreted that way easily. A different message, that, according to me, doesn't have this issue would be:

"This is why I enjoy Go, it shepherds you to write clear and uniform code that cannot be mistaken. Go makes well-known tradeoffs that have already been discussed to death, and I find that I agree with these tradeoffs. In my experience, collaborating on Go code is easier as the absence of some means of abstractions prevents people from creating their "language inside the language", and thus allow for a team to share more easily their mental model about how the code works."

You could even add a caveat in the form of "Go isn't perfect, no language is, and has made what could be considered objective flaws. But on the other hand, the handling of things like generics shows that the maintainers are not closed to idea. They tend to err on the side of taking more time to make things rights, even if that time isn't always needed, and that's a tradeoff I agree with.".
Scottish seal pup turns up at pub door near Bristol
EUV is important, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was still a lot of DUV being commissioned.
I recall some controversy a couple years ago over suspicions that defense contractors were using them to train weapons systems. A few people got captchas asking them to identify helicopters.
I used to get yearly emails from Pocket when I used it saying I was in the top single-digit-n% of readers with a word count in the low six digits. That's maybe an hour of reading a day, which suggest the later never comes for most articles saved to Pocket.

These days I accept I don't care enough about most things to read articles on it until I get interested, and then it's hard to find good reading on it unless I've drilled my well. Now I save any interesting-looking article in Notion for when I get interested and go searching.
Does -y stand for "yahoo mode"?

(Cf. Jonathan Swift yahoos)
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vim -y
nvim: Unknown option argument: "-y"
More info with "nvim -h"
The GP wrote, "But there is always the niggling feeling for many (I am one) that while I may be making the "smart" choice the real reason I don't do something like this is that I am afraid."

He or she seems to be projecting rather than observing. That is: it might apply to them, but there's nothing in the GP's comment supporting a more general applicability.
How well does this manage songs with key changes?
Most web pages aren't designed to be viewed on a full-width browser window for the exact reason you said.
Making copaganda illegal would be good, too. Real police are nowhere near as competent and public-minded as they are on TV. Cop shows also normalize the use of deadly force.
There might be some privacy issues involved there.
Unless you have specific knowledge that someone is ignorantly passing on an active infection I urge you to quit making accusations about death related to stochastic events, its pointlessly inflammatory and quite baseless.
Unpalatable propaganda is pretty shitty propaganda.
With time, I started to interpret this quote differently. It's not that one place is more in future than another; it's that even different parts of the future are unevenly distributed among the globe. Now, more than ever, different countries sometimes seem very advanced in some ways but at the same time backwards in others.
When they start doing captchas along the lines of "check all pictures of potential terrorists" we'll know they're training data sets for military drone manufacturers.
> network will continue to function

What are transaction fees, still $20 USD average like they were in April?

Also, there is a backlog of transactions, so it can be days to get a transaction done.

Some currency.
Why isn't it like driving a car and never building one? Or like using the bathroom but not wanting to be a plumber? Those seem like more appropriate analogies. People (including yourself) are using tonnes of tools that they never build themselves or don't have deeper interest in and that's perfectly fine.
I don't know if "our online store is down" has as much potential drama as someone bleeding out their eyes.
To everyone complaining that this article is elitist, or written from a privileged perspective, that's beside the author's point. He even addresses this critique succinctly:

> This is a key part of what it means to be a responsible elite. You use your privilege and your personal judgment to explore and solve problems that no one else can.

It's clear that this essay is not aimed at the everyman who finds meaning in the routine of life. A small number of individuals will read this and find inspiration in its perspective and ambition, even if they might be slightly off-put by its delusional tone. Often an unshakeable belief in one's own ability to succeed against all odds is enough to push one to go try to build something radically new. Personally I've never experienced that sort of absolute certainty, but I have definitely seen it in action.

My most original and insightful ideas came to me invariably during periods when I was unemployed, spending my time reading and wondering about the nature of the universe. I've never had the courage to pursue them. I'm glad some people do, though.
This machine actually could be in many ways considered a predecessor to the Atari ST rather than the Amiga. Shiraz Shivji (one of the designers of the C64 and eventually director of engineering at Commodore) worked on it and then left to join the new Atari Corp with Jack Tramiel where he was the chief designer of the Atari ST hardware. In fact there was a lawsuit accusing him of stealing IP from the CBM900 (he was acquitted.)
A/B tests work fine if the signal you are measuring is strong. This is not the case here.

Is it even fine to use the distribution assumptions in the later analysis?

Looks like these assumptions combined with a higher conversion rate on day 2 for control is the main reason for the surprising result (control is obviously spread out).
Or sea planes. That was what I was asked for most recently.
> but on average Java projects stay more readable, than, say, Python

Can we say that is due to shepherding or rather that Java lays it's types bare for you any time you create or pass a variable? You can do this in python with type annotations, but since they aren't required a lot of dev's just don't. This leads to the code being harder to read in my opinion.
Ask HN: What are you favourite books/podcasts/media on the history of computing?
Hetzner offers hosted Nextcloud instances starting at 3.45€/m for 100gb:

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
I think Apocalypse Now isn't either. It was in development hell, too.
We are an alternative: https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/
I can't say what the author is like, as I never heard of them before today. I note what the rhetoric of this piece echoes very strongly, and no doubt deliberately.

I don't think that the "flavour of the month punchline" comment is in any way justified. It is neither.
Seems like a very useful product. Will give it a try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiqVrKDtLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI

Two good introduction videos.
> Linux is an amazingly useful tool, but OTOH it's now, in and of itself, a vast hairball of technical debt. The traditional UNIX model itself is.

Linux, perhaps, but "the model"? I'm not so sure.

> It is long past time that we should have moved past it on to better things.

That's what they said about SQL RDBMSes too.

> There have been many attempts but none have ever achieved critical mass.

Maybe for good reason.

> the world needs better tech, and a ½ century old UNIX clone already does not really cut it today.

That's what they... Eh, I'm repeating myself.

> If Linux and all the other monolithic Unixes die when their dev teams die, we'll have to move on to newer, smaller, simpler systems that a new generation of programmers can actually read from top to bottom, understand, and do useful work on.

That's probably what they... No, not quite. But it may have been what Linus thought -- at least, judging from what he made.

> If monolithic Unices become the mid-21st-century COBOL, just kept around for a few old systems and only critical bugs patched, that will be a big win for us all.

I doubt that'll happen. I'll be happy if they become the mid-21st-century SQL -- which I suppose will also be still going strong.
Mao won the Civil War only after getting US backing during WW2, and allowing the nationalists to do the bulk of the fight againsg the Japanese while gathering his strength.
This can be explained with inclusive fitness as Dawkins points out.
The idea is to add the 'echo ..' to the .bashrc, not just run the command once.
Some of it is probably generational. Kernighan will be 80 this year. Ritchie, gone now 10 years, was a little older.

Wall and Stallman are a generation younger -- true Boomers, if you will, born in the 50s.

The computing topics tackled by those generations were foundational, but they also predate the web as a Thing. So they're ON the web, to one degree or another, but it's not their focus.

By the time you get to the next gen of folks -- and let's just use GenX as the label; I mean folks born in the early 60s through about 1980 -- the people making contributions have the web as a MAJOR component of the computing landscape. These folks are "web native," and so it makes sense that they'd have fancier web pages/sites because the tools and technologies for doing such things are part of their remit, or at least close to it. Twiddling with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript was a big deal for a long time, and it showed in the pages of folks like (say) Eric Meyer.

I'm 51, born in 1970. I don't think I ever saw a web presence for anyone more than about 5 years older than I am that was elaborate, or the sadly-now-withdrawn-from-public-life Mark Pilgrim.
Just making sure, the site will NOT save the data that I entered in the PDF? Thank you for sharing your side-project!
Interesting. Does cooperation build on imitation or do they co-evolve?
> Please no.

Agreed, but how else would you release a "free" version of a movie that funds itself as per the parent comment? Watermarks are probably the optimal solution, but people are used to advert funded TV/movies.
> I'm not very familiar with PostgreSQL, how do you handle the casts during inserts/updates?

In the example, you can see "up" and "down" settings on the migration. These are SQL expressions which specify how to convert between the old and new schema, in this case casting from TEXT to INTEGER and back. So in this case we have:

up = "CAST(reference AS TEXT)"
down = "CAST(reference AS INTEGER)"

which is just a standard Postgres function for casting.

> In our case we just delete the offending values if the constraint has "on cascade delete", which most do.

Interesting! I might add some options to a future `add_foreign_key` migration which can achieve behavior like this automatically.
I do this, too. I don't think it's a good habit to be honest, because I used to fall asleep just fine without podcasts. When I was able to fall asleep without them, I'd sleep faster. Now it takes me longer to fall asleep, but I feel somewhat dependent on the podcast.

I usually listen to Stuff You Should Know, Sawbones, or Six Figure Authors. If it is a particularly interesting topic I often end up re-listening to it the next day. I just use the Google Podcasts app on my Galaxy Z Flip 3. No headphones, since stuff in my ears will just make it harder to fall asleep. I put the volume as low as I can while still making out the words without straining (struggling to make out the words makes me focus and wake up). I set the timer to either the end of the episode or to one hour.
Because you'll end up exiting bash n-times once you're done which gets annoying and confusing quickly
>I read somewhere that a lot of procrastination is fear of failure or fear of the unknown

The Brain Science podcast from Changelog has an episode about perfectionism and how it can lead to procrastination, by the fear of rejection or failure.
I had the exact same thing, granted, it was ten years ago already, with dropbox. Something something file versioning, ending up with neighboring files of conflicting revisions, the disease spreading over to all instances.

My takeaway was „never keep git repos in a system that does its own distributed versioning”. I just do git push around so my remotes are up to date. Git is sort of dropbox with a manual gearbox, after all (and more, but that’s not the point).

I’m really unsure that this is a kind of easily solvable problem for either dropbox or syncthing. Unless your syncing product gets smart enough to understand what a git repository is and how some files have to be checked in in lockstep, that is. Otherwise, expect race conditions.
It appends another sleep each time you start a new shell, so it subtly slows down over time.
A/B testing can be useful at times but it's largely overrated because you're only discovering the best design out of the ones you test. That means there could be a far better design that you failed include in the experiment.

Just because one design converts more than the other doesn't mean it's the design with optimal UX. I've seen many tests where the designs included already had faulty UX. This is why it's better to have a trained UX designer on your team who can fix basic flaws and present the best version of various designs for testing.
For a short while in the 90's there was a software called uTok, it acted as a HTTP proxy for your browsers and modified the HTML of websites to add the users' comments. Yeah this was when not many cared about HTTPS.

I remember people attaching comments to headlines on cnn.com's homepage, although that page changes frequently. And of course the comments were political. Hey OP, how will you prevent the lunatics from attacking sites like whitehouse.gov?

Edit: the fact that a screenshot of your app shows the page "CNN Facts First: Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol [...]" (showing people they can comment on/criticize/flame war such pages), and that you've mentioned Gab's Dissenter, doesn't inspire me with confidence about your leanings. I sound like a McCarthyist, but well...
You may as well just start a war by aliasing it to emacs.
rclone is very good. Choose any cloud storage provider, and then run it through a nightly cronjob or whatever.

https://rclone.org/
Jack Ryan would be a counterexample.
Show HN: Thumbsmith – Programmable “Link preview” thumbnails for your websites
Hi HN,

I posted this a while back when I had just a small MVP and a had a little bit of feedback from here. A month of development later during Christmas, new years, and a lockdown, my first ever service that I'm not building for someone else is much more solid looking, and I would love to get some more honest feedback from the community here!

Thumbsmith is a tool for site owners and web developers that lets you easily add dynamic "Link preview" thumbnails to your site's pages. This way, when they are shared on the internet, a nice, on-brand, tailored picture can be shown instead of a generic photo.

It helps content-heavy startups increate their click through rates on their links, improve their site's sharing experience and gain insight on the visibility of their websites on the web.

There is a really nice CLI based on vitejs you can try out to help with making the thumbnails.

Let me know what you think, thank you so much!
#define while if
At least two of your suggestions include a search engine. What I can add are: word of mouth (things shared by people), news feed (someone shared something on FB/TW), ads (random ad on a random website), agrregators (specialized website for curating information on a certain topic), forum (get an answer from a random person in an internet form like HN or SO).
I personally dislike Beej's writing style. I tried to like his Network Programming guide but I found that most of what it conveys can be learned more quickly by simply reading the relevant POSIX/Linux manpages.
No mention of World War II in this article. No mention of how the U.S. single handedly defeated the Nazis and took down the Axis Powers, as seen in the movies. The influence in Hollywood is really seen in all movies on this topic. Anyone watching these movies would think that the U.S. lost the most number of people and made the most sacrifices in that war. A look at the real numbers would tell a very different story.
“Amusingly, the version of the story told quietly at WWDC 2016 had the friends reversed, with Steve saying that he wouldn't do business with Larry. Still another version I've heard calls into question the veracity of their purported friendship and has Steve instead suggesting that Larry go fuck himself. Normally the iconoclast, this would if true represent Steve's most mainstream opinion.)”

Classic.

ZFSs lack of adoption was the ultimate outcome of the oracle “you owe us for some thing we know it so give us more money“ management culture that over took the engineering culture of sun. Sun missed the Linux transition, and then rather then Oracle use the IP gems that they had purchased like dtrace and ZFS to build credibility and a reasonable offering, gave up that space to redhat by blocking the technology from making its way to Linux.
I've dreamt of a captcha to prove that one is a robot, such as: solve this complex mathematical equation in 15ms.
Ah. Yikes. But randomly bashing a few keys with control held before ^z still worked for me... Random key-bashing is always a good bet if stuck in vim.

(yes, I can usually get out of vim "properly" these days)
Is this such a problematic comment? I’m curious why it’s at -2, I’d thought you need to say something offensive or inflammatory to get that
> Also to note, being pretentious doesn't imply conscious act.

It doesn't imply "deliberately trying to appear pretentious", but it does imply "deliberately pretending to be something"
That was 10 years ago. Yes, I also started using it because of that. These days the the more important feature (at least for me) is being able to offload rarely used files from my drive. SSDs in MacBooks are still crazy expensive.
I normally approach that mentally as advancing the task towards completion, and as a matter of framing I try to remember that larger tasks feel better to complete than bite-sized ones. The regular practice of this approach gives one reinforcing feedback loop of ‘momentum’ and a mental image of oneself as a person who gets things done, which reduces the feeling of inertia that contributes to the sort of shame spirals we’re talking about.
Building a High Performance Trading System in the Cloud
I think so: he used his personal example to say follow your dreams, but he followed his dreams with the backing of Peter Theil. If you were thinking you could start an online magazine too after reading this article it’s a nice reality check.
No, they’re not.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

About $2 if you are in a rush, and yes potentially days if you use a lower transaction fee if you are not in a rush. you can always try and then replace the tx if you become rushed.

About 1/100th of that if you have a lightning channel open already, I think