skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>having a currency that loses 50% of it's value every year is worse than holding Tether

What are you talking about? Tether (and many "stablecoins" like it, including DAI) are entirely based around the idea that they are pegged to the US dollar. If USD has inflation or deflation, so does the coin. The "50%" figure is just completely made up, and you know it - inflation right now is pretty bad, but saying USD lost 50% of its value is just completely and utterly wrong.

>you can't buy USD digitally

...again, this is just blatantly untrue on every level. You can use almost any bank and they will convert it for you. Of course, they will take a fee, but that's much preferable than having to involve yourself with cryptocurrencies backed by cryptocurrencies backed by thin air. Tether is especially egregious with this, and I assume that's why you don't trust it - but from what I'm looking at, DAI is backed by USDC and ETH. MAYBE USDC is being honest with how much money they have, maybe they aren't, and ETH has some very obvious awful problems (e.g. the insane instability).

Overall, you haven't given me literally any reason to believe that holding the flavor-of-the-month stablecoin is in any way, shape, or form better than using actual US dollars.
It's notable that the specific developer is not named. Judging from the source (Chinese state media), and the sources quoted (a Chinese military expert), it seems like this is a PLA project.

Here's a video from the People's Daily showing the "mechanical yak" in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAKDKj5PtU
Somewhere in the middle are those who don’t like changes, but aren’t bothered enough about it to jump ship.

Interesting and deliberate choice of words. There are also a lot more people in the middle who appreciate the design choices of systemd but hate the way it was forced on the community.

I know Covid is divisive, but it really is relevant.

So many of us agreed with cases like Zucht v. King in the past. Public schools were a great example of a critical institution where vaccination is so important. Polio is such a great example of science winning.

And education.

And yes, obviously some needed the force of legal backing. But the drama now is unbelievable.

But Covid, like systemd, feels different. It feels more like they didn't rely on educating people, but wanted to test their control capabilities.

It completely changes the relationship with the Linux community. And it indicates it's not a one-off event, but a pattern in how they see people.

Of course, you need to swallow your pride, not shoot yourself in the foot, and accept it without complaining.

It's just, after a lot of things like this, it begins to feel like a really different thing, something much darker you wouldn't want to put others through.

It changes the relationship. Not just among big distro companies, but among citizens. And not in a good way. In a way that really is uncomfortable.
Yeah, I’ve never given it much though for personal use, but I’ve used VS code in a professional setting with strict policies around stuff like that, and “fuss” is a good word to describe the steps to use VS Code in that environment.
But then whenever you use somebody else's keyboard you're in a different world
It's derived from the service name, which is guaranteed to be unique. It's similar to how names need to be unique in /etc/init.d/
> but they don't do equity

If it's an independent business since 1997 the implication is they're not for sale, so equity wouldn't be likely to achieve any liquidity, hence relatively meaningless.
A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes
If your choice hurts other people, off course.
The way I look at it is that the cloud doesn't run on the cloud. It's totally artificial.
It is the obvious choice and it will definitely happen. Miners are in the business of mining with their hardware, they do it where it is the most profitable with their hardware. Since mining will give 0 return on ethereum, expect a glut of hash power pouring into other networks when it happens.

If any miner is dedicated to ethereum for some reason, I expect that they saved some of their block rewards to begin staking, and the smart ones are likely already staking on the beacon chain.
Anyone here with thoughts on Pulsechain (and perhaps its cousin, Hex?) As I understand, it's an Ethereum fork that will duplicate Eth and all its assets, with the hope that people might switch due to lower fees?
You can boot a system with a btrfs root file system without having the btrfs-progs installed.

Good luck trying to use SELinux without having the policy installed; it's guaranteed to be non-functional. And given that the SELinux policy is distro-speicific, it's not like you can take a random Linux distribution, and enable SELinux and expect it to work. You enable SELinux on the boot command-line, but without the policy installed, it will be dead in the water. And configuring the SELinux policy is extremely non-trivial. It's several orders of magnitude more challenging than running, say, "mkfs.btrfs".

>That is exactly operating system does, which is the topic of discussion. Linux >OSs such as RHEL as an example.

If that's your definition of an OS, then there are plenty of Linux distributions --- aka, an "OS" by your definition --- that do *NOT* have SELinux built in, because they don't have an SELinux policy defined that will work with that distribution's system daemons.

Therefore, by your definition SELinux is not "built in" to all versions of Linux (specifically, "distributions"). Q.E.D.
POW was never sustainable.
As the saying goes, "hurt people hurt people". A personal story: When my childhood family moved to a promising white working class neighborhood one of the neighbors saw our large family and yelled "go back to slummy neighborhood you racial slur". But my family did then proceeded to them move 13 people in a 3 bedroom home along with noisy roosters/chickens in the backyard. So admittedly their assumed stereotypes had merit.

30 years later only my parents remained in the house and the neighborhood racial profile changed significantly. My mother said "I don't think I could sell to someone from the new ethic group". When I asked, "Why?!", she said, "because they'll put 10 people in the house". When I reminded her we once did the same she snapped, "That was different!". The way she snapped was a clear indication she still felt pain from what had happened many years ago.

To add further to my opening quote, I have taken severe beatings, as in decades of physical pain followed, based on my ethnicity but I hold no grudge in part because I am financially secure and physically strong now. So I no longer "hurt" in a sense or naively feel like I can be hurt. But my poorer family still talks about my beatings with a grudge against the entire racial group of my attackers.

Some other research that is relevant, sorry I don't have a source to link, but it is shown that a stressed rat will not suffer stress related health disorders if you give it a smaller rat it can periodically beat up. More optimistically it will also avoid negative health consequences if you give it something enjoyable to do (e.g., a stick to gnaw). But hobbies are unfortunately a luxury for many people whereas hate-speech costs nothing.

Finally for most of human history it was prudent to distrust anyone outside your tribe. With the standard brain OS, negative emotions rush in and humans explain their poorly understood emotions with knee-jerk stereotypical views. Also have some perspective: for example if your home was your number one asset would you happy to have my childhood family move next door ? Doubtful. Sometimes anger is an understandable reaction but how to keep it from escalating to violence or being exploited politically is a larger concern.
And the performance enhancing drugs and bulks are not exactly known to be great for their hearts. See Rich Piana for example
Apple should cut off all sales to the Netherlands entirely(physical products and digital). They should send a strong message that they will not be bullied by foreign nations trying to exert their will on it.
No idea about these images, but in reproduction work it's not uncommon to work with the film plane shifted so that the camera sees the work piece from an angle (but still a flat perspective) to avoid reflections that otherwise be seen flat on.
That's insane. But not a surprise, lightsail only exists so aws can say they offer similar pricing to Linode/DigitalOcean/Vultr/etc... as long as you don't ever plan to grow
Because we evolved in tribes that competed with each other like our chimp cousins. Read "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them"
I’m curious: you ask for receipts but are sure stuff gets shady. What does that look like “without the receipts”?

The extremes are likely too wild to be true, and I think it’s highly unlikely this activity transpires on the YC Slack or BookFace, but I could absolutely believe calls and messaging takes place between what are now startup power brokers, whether that’s founders, VCs, or PR folks, to shape the narrative and drive towards specific objectives.
It sounds like a scam.
> The vaccine reduces the chance that you catch COVID and spread it to others.

Where does this study show that?
You could learn how to write a better question. I've got ~140 questions on SO and none of them ever had hostile responses. Usually questions are downvoted because they're:

* vague

* no code example

* pretty basic that a google search could answer your question

* same old, same old repetitive questions answered many times over

Back in the days of usenet there would be a FAQ and likely a set of HOWTO's, you had to read this so as not to fall foul of pushback from the group (probably considered hostile).

If you are asking what might be a repeat question but didn't find a solution either on SO or elsewhere, then quote the sources that came close but didn't help. That shows you at least did some research. Both usenet and forums from the 1990/2000's were no different.

I quit answering questions on SO because I felt people were lazy and wasting my time, and I was done with that, mostly for the reasons above. I still monitor the same tags I was active in, see the same old crap, and really cannot be arsed because it's clear the OP's did no research. Also when you do assist some users become quite indignant that you must solve their exact use-case. Many users never even say thank you for an answer that might take 30-45mins to produce. So feck that shite. I don't have the time or energy to be hostile, I just went dark. And sadly many early enthusiastic answerers that helped bootstrap the site in the early years did the same.
I'd rather pay $25/mo for 25Mb symmetrical with low latency.

Now I have 20Mbit down/1Mbit up with Spectrum. I'm grandfathered on the Time Warner "Everyday Low Price" plan. I downgraded from 50Mbit service with TWC down to ELP, which at the time was 3Mbit down/1Mbit up, because I got sick to death of having to renegotiate my rate every single fucking year. And the last time, they raised my rate to $65/mo, I had to call 3 times, each time they said they'd give me a discount, that lasted a month, then it went back up. I just got fed up completely with it and told them "You can either give it to me for $45/mo (a $5/mo discount from what I was paying), or put me on ELP for $15/mo." So the dinglenuts put me on ELP, then started sending me all kinds of offers for 50Mbit service for $40/mo! I was so mad and so sick of talking to them, I wouldn't bite. And you know what? 3/1 service wasn't so bad. Streaming TV at 720p worked fine. Uploads sucked, but I only do that occasionally when uploading a new version of HashBackup.

Now AT&T put fiber on my street and I get offers all the time for $35/mo (big letters), but with about 2" of fine print at the bottom: $10/mo for equipment plus taxes = $50/mo. This is for 300Mbit symmetric. $50 is not a bad deal, but then I'm going to be back on the "$5-10 more a year price increase" plan. I really don't want to renegotiate my bill every year.

I did write AT&T a letter, saying "You already know what I want, because you emphasize it in large print: $35/mo. But then have 2 inches of fine print at the bottom with what you know I don't want. If you eliminate the fine print, I'd buy it." Duh!

With the duopoly we have in the US for both TV and Internet service, the only way to have reasonable costs is to switch every year to the other provider and get the new customer discount. They just rely on people being too lazy to do that, and for it to be too much hassle. If everyone did do that, the providers would probably realize that all the annual truck rolls are costing them too much money and they'd scale back their price increases. It's too bad there's no way to organize consumers into collective action.
Just installed the latest windows 11 update, it did none of the things OP mentioned.
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on the Google Drive team specifically.

Sorry about the issue, folks! The Google Drive team is aware of it and is working on remediating it.

And thank you all for the many test cases! :)
Stablecoins: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Despite stablecoins' popularity, I feel like not enough people understand their benefits and drawbacks. Check out this 5 min article to learn more!
Might want to include a relevant link in your comment? Where is said vantage company in the comments?
Do you know if staked eth on Coinbase are gone? Did we lost that money? sorry I m still a beginner in this and worried about my staking.
I have intuition in another sense which you don't mention here which is the psychic power and precognitive sense. So it is more alike to your first definition than the second one.

The second one I think is more like thinking or imagining or scenarioizing and like you identify I think that can be an expression of anxiety... But it can also be what people do deliberately in brainstorming or policy planning sessions to come up with all the possible kind scenarios they might face.

The psychic of precognitive intuition is similar to your definition 1 in the you're basing interpretations on sort of accumulated experiences, so the thinking without thinking the learned procedural memory, subconscious associative.. but it's important to make the distinction that those interpretive functions are distinct from the sensory functions: where the data is actually coming from. You're not generating the data from your subconscious experience you're sensing the data that is coming ostensibly from outside of you (I don't really understand how that part works but I have some theories) and then you are using your interpretive apparatus that includes the things which you list into your definition 1 to aid you in interpreting that data into some usable form.
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Pristine-Mind-Practical-Unconditi...

^- pretty good for a Western audience. He thought pretty carefully about the vocabulary, and mostly just presents pretty basic Dzogchen meditation.

Overall, i really like: https://wakingup.com/ by Sam Harris, and would probably recommend it more than resources on Dzogchen meditation. He does not teach Dzogchen meditation, per se, although he seems to credit a Dzogchen master (Tulku Urgyen) as his largest spiritual influence. He definitely has a practical Western, non-religious instructional method and Dzogchen influenced and compatible values and views. (Can't separate life and practice, importance of seeing through the subject-object split).
I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2M [video]
So the idea isn't about a deadline really, since it can be pushed back indefinitely. The idea is that you don't need consensus for it to go off, you need consensus for it not to go off. The status quo is always that it will go off if left untouched. It makes sure that miners can't just refuse the update, they have to fork the code to stop PoS. Which they're of course free to do, ETC removed the difficulty bomb entirely.
Noted! So general compute is something I want to add to Nimbus but given how thorny it can be, I'm thinking of going for splitting into very specific use cases:

- Run a container (you give me a container, app.json or a standardized format, and I run it)

- Give me a bundle of files (static hosting), or specify a bucket

- Give me a single function and I'll run it, optionally hooking up a managed domain name through us to it)

Notes on the other things:

- VPC this is actually a bit more complicated, but possible

- SQS/SNS => NATS/Kafka is this enough?

- Dynamo/RDS => Managed Postgres +/- extensions like Citus and Timescale for scale

- Some basic API coordinators => Probably will not do but writing a TF provider is probably far in the future

Paradoxically Lambda and Fargate-like functionality is like one of the easiest to deploy and manage (standing on giants like OpenFaaS/Fission/etc), and would strike me as the easiest for people to actually get started with if I could roll it up with managed DNS.
While I kind of agree, I am also sympathetic to the fact that finding study participants that aren't heavily skewed is very difficult, and would probably be prohibitively expensive to do for every single study.
Anyone here can give me some idea on how this impact on Coinbase staking? Does it mean we lost all staked eth and money?

Sorry new to crypto.
It’s certainly doable with a little patience. I usually hide the nodes I’m not using to free up some workspace real estate. Obviously, everyone’s experiences and tolerances will be different, but I recommend giving it a shot. Are you able to use an external monitor with your Air?
This is fantastic. I remember this movie well and I agree with this data.
Half Life 2 running on the PinePhone Pro
Love it. This reads so much better in my mind than SQL. I love how easy it is to abstract with functions.

My one suggestion: use a distinct symbol for assignment and equality, either :=/==, =/==, or even :=/=. I kinda like the Go way of doing things, := assigns and initializes, == is equality (not sure you have a need for = re-assignment, but maybe). But I would definitely warn against = for context-dependent assignment or equality comparison.

You've got "let" so I guess that is kind of a syntactical difference; I guess the trippy part is seeing "=" do equality comparisons.
> become a better person

It's much faster and more effective to achieve high visibility by being a bad person, if you haven't noticed.

We get what we incentivize.
I saw that the article mentioned maintenance being minimal right now but at some point, you will need to hire an SRE or some such individual to handle just the Hetzner subsystem for you. Is that part of the TCO calculations?

E.g., if you’re paying someone $5-7000/month (no idea what an SRE costs) to manage a fleet of say 10 subsystems, their salary should factor into the cost calculations, right?
I've had my head buried in law too long because when I saw this headline I didn't think about electricity; I figured somebody had come up with a boneheaded way to explain a legal theory.

Anyway.

The water analogy is pretty good, but it's important to not get too wrapped up in it. In some very fundamental ways, electricity is not like water, and believing it is will trip you up when you get into more complicated circuits or try to take what you've learned about DC and apply it to alternating current. It's a great place to start though.

After getting one's head wrapped around those, I found that Kirchoff's loop and junction rules were great, because they make intuitive sense (junction because matter is not created or destroyed, and loop because the value of a thing has to be equal to itself, so no matter what path you take around the circuit, when you return to a point of origin it must be true that the point of origin has the same voltage at the end of the path as it did at the beginning).
Why is it accepted that most of the big tech investing opp. are VC's only?
Great example is recent tech IPO pricing and how they dump on retail.

Why huge risk taking on investing in tech is almost only allowed to already well off or rich people?

I was trying to apply to angel.co as an investor and this warning was not nice.

"Note: Due to SEC guidelines, we are only able to accept new subscriptions from Qualified Purchasers for the time being."

Robinhood or many apps are giving "free" access to stocks etc. but GL finding any big opportunity now, while investment banks are much better at calculating tech stocks IPO price. Just sad
The "little white pixels" in each corner appear to be hand-drawn registration marks. Curious - all the precision of the image but these hand-drawn tags seem quite out-of-place.
But not factory farming right?
In the US, probably around 10,000. US Banks all operate by virtue of a banking license issued at the state or federal level. Banks must do as they are told by these centralized authorities or else they lose their license.
Yes: use actual biology and biological processes. Just like life already does. It doesn't cost millions of dollars and megawatts of power to create and run a dolphin or a crow.
I took a geology class in college where we studied a lot of high res photos of both individual rocks and larger rock formations. They used some sort of moving bed and a microscope for the rocks so you could get really close up while also seeing larger features. The formations we're photographed using a GigaPan mount that would allow you to attach a camera with a telephoto lens and it would step in both X and Y axis to create hundreds of images it would later stitch into a composite.
I'm not trying to dismiss it, merely trying to open the door for more evidence. Such as emails with redacted identifying info where VCs are saying what's going on and why they won't fund him.

I agree there's a risk of raising the bar too high, but it's also a scenario where he has a financial incentive to paint Stripe in a bad light and he's also trying to make character accusations about actual people. The bar *should* be quite high imo.
The 10x number was from a different poster than the one following up with the numbers that were asked for.
This only follows for businesses that do not pay a dividend. Assuming Panic is profitable, equity could easily result in profit-sharing or dividends. Facilitating employee share sales would also allow employees to take on more or less Panic risk depending on their personal tolerance.

Other companies have done similar for decades/centuries.
You don't have to wonder why this one was posted because nkurz explained why he posted it and he is one of the best-faith users on Hacker News.