skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone elaborate on these single points of failures? For example, are they actually single points of failure? Or is it a bit of exaggeration for marketing purposes (a bit of under promise, over deliver)?
Not while Stallman is part of the FSF.
rarbg or 1337x if you don't want to join any private trackers.

Obviously, for downloading Linux ISOs
I think something being physically addictive only increases the mental difficulty of overcoming the addiction, no? It’s not physically hard to go through withdrawal, it just sucks.
Things have started to stabilize, but unless you're willing to get your hands dirty and deal with regular breaking changes, I don't yet recommend staking your livelihood on it. That being said, by the end of the year I think we will be _much_ closer to our first stable release, and I expect the number of "serious projects" adopting Bevy to increase throughout the year. Now is the right time to start _evaluating_ Bevy for future projects (and experimenting with it).
I think we are talking past eachother. I don't play Sudoku without writing, or chess using only my pinky toe, or video games with a glitchy controller, or watch movies backwards, etc. There is a difference between doing X for pleasure/learning, and doing X as difficultly as possible for the sake of being difficult. Maybe my point would be more clear about this project, if instead of using Bash, it was "using only GOTOs and single-letter variables."
They would probably be collapsed in the short term and eventually be replaced by something, if not decentralized power generation.

>Without the rule of law and threat of prosecution, a massive surge in usage due to theft would overwhelm systems.

I used both internet and electricity in Northern Syria circa 2015, provided by private providers, and it seemed to work just fine then. Why you think rule of law is so important to internet existing? If the dude running the cell phone towers and cell phone stand points an AK out the window when they see a crook, most people decide not to theft that. You don't need central power grid to have enough electricity to run phones and cryptocurrencies.

>Without the nuclear status quo and the threat of retaliation, NA would either be glassed or invaded.

Or cooperative militias and private individuals ally with someone with nukes or seize the ones already in existence. Not to mention invading American part of NA is hilariously foolish as there would be a "rifle behind every blade of grass."
Any time i see anything on BSC my immediate reaction is "scam". It's actually hard to find legitimate projects there, so hard i'm surprised anyone continues to launch when there are alternatives like Fantom, Avalanche or Polygon they could be using.
A package for converting and rendering Markdown documents in TeX
Can't they use it to generate electricity? I know it can stop burning any moment, but closing it also has it's costs and risks of releasing methane instead of CO2 if not done properly.
It used to be that you could download Xcode outside of the App Store, or without an Apple ID, but it seems that they have changed this.
No. Incrementing an integer might be unique for the local database, but not unique for the universe.
Since this comment chain was about the worry of methane release after stopping the fire, I'm assuming the fire would already be put out if necessary.
Housing is indeed local, but there's zero doubt that we've massively under built housing over the past decade. Every major market in the US has seen 15%+ housing price increases since the (already high) 2019 baseline.
How is it a bubble? The fundamentals seem strong:

- the state prints money and gives it to the rich

- the rich hire propaganda

- the poor believe it and work

- strong and stable
Ford sold about 20% fewer vehicles at the end of 2021 than at the end of 2019, but its stock price is 2.5x what it was then. Ford is producing less actually useful stuff, but we pretend it's more valuable.

I've always heard the argument that stock price is not based on the current value but on future earnings. If the market perception is that Ford is better placed now than 2 years ago to make money in the coming decade, it should be valued higher. Similarly companies that are laying the groundwork for massive earnings post-pandemic should see a corresponding value uptick in the stock market.
when was this announced ?

the contract was created may 11, 2021 [1] and there as been trading on it.

[1] https://www.bscscan.com/tx/0x1a75059929eabb3fc719ba16b4738ee...
Wow that's incredible and really changes my opinion on Julia's indexing.

It is small but really makes things more elegant. I should definitely try Julia. I've spent a lot of time calculating awkward array index conversion formulae in my head and this could make things a lot more simple especially for weird cases.

I was under the impression that Fortran's only redeeming benefit was that it compiled well for numeric computing routines.
> luck/possibilities/grit

It doesn’t take any of that to grow existing wealth. You just invest it. You pay someone to do it, but honestly even just an ETF does the trick.
The tricky piece in the US is that it's unclear how long the current system can be sustained. As the wealthy become wealthier, debt loads must increase. Eventually, the debtors must curtail spending or fail to pay off the debt. In aggregate, this creates a financial crisis as debt is not paid back, and the creditor takes the loss.

What's happening today is that central banks are lowering interest rates to prevent the above reckoning from occurring. The wealthy get wealthier, debt loads increase, and interest rates fall. The orthodox economic belief would be that this will either create inflation and or a currency crisis as the economy structures itself around money printing. The surprise has been that inflation hasn't occurred outside of asset prices.

I suspect that this strictly leads to one of two outcomes.

- The economy rolls back all worker gains for the last century, with workers effectively forced to rent all assets and live paycheck to paycheck.

- Asset inflation eventually turns into real inflation via taxation, government spending, worker wage demands or changes in the spending habits of asset holders (Carnegie and Rockefeller eventually spent the majority of their fortunes). In this scenario, wages and prices are likely to catch-up with assets.
Right. I have a simple rule: don’t use a GNU/Linux system that uses systemd. It doesn’t respect the Unix philosophy. It’s trying to turn it into Windows.

I’m waiting for Microsoft to buy Red Hat. Failing that, IBM.
> What do you mean?

When it was created, it was idealized as the digital equivalent to cash. Totally private and anonymous so you can do whatever you want without some bank or government monitoring you or taking issue. It was supposed to be your money, not your social credit at the bank that the authorities allow you to use for approved purposes.

Bitcoin totally failed to become all that. The ledger is public and perfectly traceable so it's even worse than money at the bank. People have even identified the wallets of whales so that they can track their movements and see if they're about to dump on the market.

Coins are not fungible which means exchanges will refuse your tainted money if you use a mixing service for privacy. Governments will sanction addresses, making the coins held by them illegal and unacceptable by any business.

> Becauee my transactions were cheap and quick

Mine were not. Were you using the higher layer networks that delay blockchain settlement? Because that defeats the purpose of having cryptocurrencies in the first place.
Actually making the token, Difficulty level: trivial to easy depending on route taken.
I would suggest looking at:

https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/erc20
https://docs.polygon.technology/docs/develop/getting-started
https://docs.binance.org/smart-chain/developer/issue-BEP20.h...
From RFC4122: "A UUID is an identifier that is unique across both space and time, with respect to the space of all UUIDs."

Hard to achieve if everyone starts from 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
Because it's a wrong assumption. Significant cost come from the assembly and testing of all the components itself, that you would have to redo entirely.

Also if you were to build just 2 or 3 of them, you can't expect any economy of scale.

On top of that, the operational cost of JWST is expected to be around 1B$ for it's lifetime, you could expect that to be similar for every single replica you have.

And finally, you can only put one per rocket, and just the rocket is about 200M$ dollar, and you need to add all the cost of shipping the telescope to Guyana, that's not cheap.

So overall, while a second replica would not cost you another 10B, it would probably cost in the order of 3-5B$, that's a lot of billions for a telescope with exactly identical capabilities to another one. It would still be useful, as astronomers are going to have to compete for time on the JWST and not everyone will be served, but the benefits of a second one would be marginal compared to the benefits of the first one. So the price/benefit ratio might actually be worse on a new copy.

Meanwhile, there is a myriad of other very cool NASA projects that would greatly benefit from 3-5B$ instead and do things that we haven't done so far.
Yes i got it completely wrong. It's been too long.
Looking for that quote I can't find it on that page.
I'm skeptical that chat backups are that important to the average user. It's very important to me (I even wrote a little Android app to automatically upload the encrypted backup to GDrive every time one is created), but nearly everyone who I have promoted Signal to hasn't cared much when I warn them that the chat history/backup situation is bad.
I was hoping their breakthrough was that they had found a general way to parse conceptual problems into the language of math and logic. That is the truly hard part, and what people spend alot of time learning to do. Software like octave and mathematica can already evaluate tons of things once parsed.
is this site still alive? It's a shame someone still gives credit to these shitholes.
UUIDs are just 128-bit simple integers.
Which processes systemd allows to live on after stopping an associated service depends on the kind of KillMode= (see systemd.kill(5)) that was specified for the service unit. The default ('control-group') is usually what you want, esp. if you are looking to not recreate the kind of chaos improper process management SysV-style init scripts frequently caused.

Chances are the k3s service unit specifies something else (like 'none') - whether or not that is actually wise would probably require some research.
Perhaps that irrational rise in stock value is due to inflation. The actual value of the stock doesn’t change much, but the money you pay for it is worth less, therefore the nominal value increases.

Another possible reason could be that it’s currently still more difficult to spend money for things and leisure than in 2019. People therefore buy stocks, pushing the price up.

If this is the case then the best thing to do currently is to buy stock, and pull out once it is possible again to have parties in Ibiza on short notice.
Somehow lisp reminds me of Android and Linux. Too much flexibility and openness makes for a fractioned ecosystem that is hard to adopt by the masses.
If the government isn't censoring, lobbyists running the government doesn't lead to censorship either.
Of course I'm happy that you were able to profit from it, but nothing you just said answers my question or refutes the fact that it is a bubble.
Get ahead of your ransom payments today.
Uh?

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-la...
>I lost 2 or 3 hours yesterday due to not realising systemd was changing things I changed for a reason.

This is one of my go-to reasons when people ask me why systemd is bad. Once it overrode power settings I had configured in xfce-power-manager. Mainly I wanted the lid close to do nothing on AC power and to sleep on battery. It started sleeping for everything after an update once. I think in the end I couldn't figure out how to get the exact desired behavior with systemd and I disabled sleep entirely.

The other reason I often mention is the ridiculous shutdown timer thing that makes you wait for minutes sometimes for some service to end.

The main advantage to systemd is that a lot of unit files were already written and packaged with stuff, including --user variants, and also that it has a user mode at all (OpenRC doesn't yet). Fairly minor advantage, imo. In general I prefer shepherd, runit, or openrc. My needs are pretty simple, though. Most of the time I just need to start/stop/restart a service, which is pretty simple in every init system I've used.
SMW works okay but if you have technical ability, I'd recommend Cargo (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo) instead. It's a somewhat limited SQL wrapper (limited - e.g. subqueries aren't supported, which can be annoying on occasion but tbh I've only missed them maybe 3 or 4 times, wiki queries tend not to be too complicated) which is roughly equivalent to SMW in maybe 50% of use cases I've encountered, inferior in maybe 2%, and significantly better in the rest.

It definitely has a bit of a higher learning curve than SMW, especially for non-developers, and even for developers there's some kinda weird stuff going on with it (e.g. they have this HOLDS syntax sugar and list-type fields as an answer to SMW's ability to express one-to-many relations a bit more naturally than sql can; also there's this cargo_attach parser function that I forget to do 80% of the time and that's why my tables don't rebuild properly).

Anyway if anyone does use MediaWiki and is choosing between these extensions I'm happy to talk to you about them, this is what I do for my job & I have several years experience with both (though my SMW experience is somewhat outdated, since I switched to Cargo several years ago, and only recently have started using SMW again, and that only tangentially).
If not for the relative regularization of commerce provided by corporate law, and relative stability achieved through economic policy, I think there would be no investment in great ventures of the scale needed to build the electric grid, semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, etc.

The limitation of liability granted to the shareholders of corporations is the granddaddy of all entitlements, because it enables relatively hands off investment. Without those things, a "big business" would be on the scale of a corner grocery store, or a family owned factory.
> but your repeated downplaying of dysfunctional/authoritarian/corrupt/failing governments seems entirely disconnected

Again: stop inventing the arguments that are not there. The only people who are downplaying dysfunctonal governments are the crypto shills and crypto peddlers.

If you actually took care and read what I wrote instead of imagining what I wrote, you'd see that never did I downplay dysfunctional governments.

> doesn't make oppressive governments any less oppressive.

Literally nowhere I said this.

> but the argument that poor government is not that bad of a global problem "all things considered" is an absolutely terrible one.

If only there was a single person here who made this argument. Also, an oppressive government does not a dysfunctional government make.

So, in the course of just a few sentences you made these claims:

- that I downplayed dysfunctional/authoritarian/corrupt/failing governments. I didn't

- that I somehow argued that oppressive gvernments are not that oppressive. I didn't

- that somehow authoritarian/oppressive is equal to dysfunctional. It isn't, necessarily.

What I did write was:

- the vast majority of people in this world do not live in dysfunctional governments

- crypto makes the problems with dysfunctional governments worse: your "assets that goverment can't steal" have to be somehow converted into food/clothing/shelter etc. which makes you a target for Rubber-hose cryptanalysis etc. Any other "assets" are worthless because your "non fungible proof of ownership on blockchain" on your house, car, and other physical items are woth exactly zero even in a functional government, much less in a dysfunctional one.

So. "All things considered", what's your opposition to what I wrote and not to what you imagine I wrote?
If bitcoin's benefits do not offset the "massive costs" for you (because you're likely coming from a first-world country), it doesn't mean that these benefits do not exist for people who were not so lucky as you are.
> you don't get to opt out of democracy because you don't like the tenet that binds everyone to the laws made by our representatives. If you want to change the system, vote for someone who is aligned with your selfish views

(Not the GP, and don’t necessarily onboard with that perspective, but) this can’t be the only way forward, even if the majority of the time it should be. In fact, to keep it working you need to always consider the existence of the “opt-out lever” you outright reject here. The United States itself is founded on and asserts this principle. Of course you meet with resistance of the incumbent if you try to take that route, but that does not imply impossibility in the long arc of time.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

— Declaration of Independence of the United States
Turkmenistan has lots of natural gas, why would you take it from the one site that is already an ecological disaster?

I feel another Soviet nuke operation coming: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/02/archives/soviet-discloses...
ESNI is our best hope. Every channel must be indistinguishable from random noise. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-encrypted-sn...
I guess it's a good thing to have options especially in terms of design, since it's a taste after all.
It would be a challenge from a engineering perspective, but yes. However there is no real incentive to do so, they have plenty of gas and oil in places that have accessible infrastructure in place.
I am curious as well. I’ve created a wallet: nano_1g6bkdkp9h6y4594sa3kiyu4xdmfz3nbj9z4zeptrdatcztpprcdsno5p6nr

How is it secure if it’s not doing any wasteful mining though?
IBM already purchased red hat for $34b 3 years ago, so no need to wait any longer :)
>Are we pretending that the US government is gone without a worldwide depression? (To be clear the US isn't alone, any of the major countries disappearing overnight would shock the economic system too hard to make these style what ifs meaningful)

Crytpo will march on with or without US government, I don't see them as existential concern for BTC or other crypto.

I'm not sure if BTC will survive once there is nothing to mine, but other crypto like XMR has infinite tail emission thus mining never dies. I apologize but here I often use BTC interchangeably to mean PoW cryptos in general. I shouldn't do that.
So theoretically if your parents are at retirement age and want to live somewhere warm, very rough calculation, if they sold that 25k house for 1.5 million today and put it into a mixed form of investments that return an average of 6% annually, that's $90k a year to live on.

Not counting at all whatever other money they have saved up and RRSPs.
> Not everyone is a HN reader with a six figure salary and money in S&P 500 index funds, ETFs that have almost doubled since 2017.

But not everyone has to be, because the supply of housing is so limited. The number of new homes is still way below population growth, and it's increasingly becoming a trend for boomers to "age in place" instead of downsizing as they age. That means a large number of would be home buyers are competing for a tiny pool of available homes. In that kind of scenario the price of housing can become completely untethered from what the "average family" can afford, and totally driven the wealth of a small elite.
"lint" and "indent" were the originals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_... gives links to modern static analysis tools.
Counter-examples include anything that you actual want for its intrinsic value.

E.g., Housing for Living In. Buy a house that you can afford and that you want to live in for the rest of your life. Drops 100% in value? Who cares? Your best case scenario was passing away in the house in any case. Goes up in value? Actually... that could be a bad thing... might mean more taxes.
Our Brother color laser (purchased around 2013, I think) cheerfully accepts whatever generic toner we’ve thrown into it, and allows them to each be replaced when they’re actually empty.
Fixed my quote. At this point I'm having a conversation with myself, so mistakes are bound to become more likely. I'll probably revisit this in a few days (or just take my thoughts elsewhere) but for now I'm out!
Not really? There’s the ERC20 standard but that doesn’t actually do anything unless you implement it. Most people barely comprehend what they’re doing on crypto, even fewer can deploy a contract.
No mention of ESA again, looks like it is solely NASA project, which it is not.

Shame.
> But that is only possible because the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed.

Even if the price of Bitcoin hadn't skyrocketed, it would still be capable of transacting billions of dollars of value. You'd just have to buy more Bitcoin in order to send the value.

When you do, however, the price of Bitcoin also increase, because it's a scarce asset. That is why it has skyrocketed. And because it's safe. And because it's decentralized. And because it's censorship and regulation resistant. And because it's even scam resistant, due to all transactions being public.

On top of that the transactions per second are irrelevant, as everyday purchases can be handled by side chains that are finally settled on the main chain. This means Bitcoin is still being developed as we speak, and so it's not outdated in any way shape or form. In fact it's getting better day by day.
Tell me you don’t understand the problem Bitcoin solves without telling me.
This is almost beyond funny. I googled "Avira antivirus cryptomining" to see if I could find any other sources, and quite a few results [0][1][2] are from Aviras own blog warning about crypto mining viruses. One of the solutions mentioned are actually to install Avira. Yes, these are written a few years ago, but the irony is just incredible.

[0] - https://www.avira.com/en/blog/illicit-mining-software-beware...
[1] - https://www.avira.com/en/blog/crypto-miners-coinhive-malware...
[2] - https://www.avira.com/en/blog/yes-your-device-can-be-hit-wit...
I keep hearing bitcoin apologists saying "Bitcoin is environmentally unfriendly but... check this out" as if that would solve the record temperatures we're having at the moment.

How about we stop using cryptocurrency completely. Time for the UN to get together and get this banned.
Have a link to the previous thread? Let’s not be so quick to dismiss this, getting it right is important. Censorship is gaining traction unfortunately.
Awesome. Are any networks running ergo in production?

My experience has been that most IRCops are very much of the change-averse nature.
If you get health insurance from the federal marketplace, and get no help offsetting the cost, $14K/year for a couple is typical. Don’t ask me how I know :’(
It does exactly what the configuration tells it to do.

At one point some distributions accidentally configured the sshd or cron unit to do that. People were a bit surprised when restarting sshd or cron killed every single background child process.

See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.kil...

Not to mention if k3s is just managing containers running under docker or containerd, those processes are not parentless just because k3s stopped.