skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about Bitcoin specifically, though, is that there are only really 2 possible outcomes:

1. The world decides it's "tulips" at some point, and the value goes to 0.

2. The world decides it will be a major part of the financial system, and it goes to 500k or 1 million.

Basically, anything in between is just a probability calculation of whether it will end up at one end or the other.

The problem with this, though, is that the way proof of work works means that it is impossible that it will ever go to a million. The amount of electricity needed to protect the network is directly tied to the price of BTC. This is not just some small, inconvenient detail. It is inherent to how proof of work functions. So if it takes the electrical output of, say, Argentina to run Bitcoin now, it will take the output of China to run it when it's up around a million, and that obviously is untenable.

Other cryptocurrencies have seen the writing on the wall and are moving to proof of stake (not without other issues). But the politics of Bitcoin mining, and the few large mining groups, makes it hard for me to see how this happens.
Although obviously not as dramatic as crypto, gold has had huge drops and multi year bear markets, but it's still considered an inflation hedge. The housing market has had huge dips too.

Neither is as volatile as crypto, but my point is no asset has a guarantee that its value won't "drop randomly", simply not possible. Inflation was positive during the real estate crash of '08 and during multiple gold bear markets. If your time horizon is long enough, a volatile asset can still be a good inflation hedge.
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> What you describe as a deal-killer is just purity and safety.

It's not really "pure" since you are packaging software with side-effects to begin with. Even if you use the same text bit by bit it's also no guarantee that the output will be the same or that even it will work. You are still relying on some human claiming that it will do.

So the advantage is not really that big in practice, and the disadvantage means rebuilding the world on every low-level package change. Even Gentoo fares better in that regard.

And yes, I am aware that the deal-killer is at the core of these approaches, which is why I don't take them seriously.
> People think baremetal is hard. It isn't. It does take knowledge.

This.

I always wonder how much of the "clouds" success (economic, that is) would have materialized, if the marketing term never got traction, and everyone just called it what it really is: "renting someone elses hardware without physical access, and less, if any, control over how the stack works from the metal up".

In the good 'ol days, when people wanted to put a service online, they rented the racks at a colo, and either stuffed their own hardware in or, worst case, used rented hardware.

Did that require some basic familiarity with hardware? Yes it did. Did people need to know how to setup, configure and administrate a LAMP stack? Sure. Was it guarded against sudden loadspikes by god-knows-how-many layers of abstraction? Nope.

But it worked, and surprise, in 99% of cases, it was perfectly fine if a website ran at sub-optimal speed for a few hours, or went down every now and then.

And the dirty little secret is: It still does, and it still is.
IIRC the plan is to wait until everything is calibrated and tested before releasing any images, to allow the first public images to "wow" everyone.
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congrats to all involved for sticking to their guns here. specs exist for a reason :D
Netflix is pushing 400Gbit/s of TLS traffic per server with 60% CPU load. WhatsApp was doing millions of concurrent TCP connections per server. FreeBSD's networking has been multi-threaded for a long time now.
By that logic then the more populous a country is the stronger their currency should be. We don’t see that. It’s a bit more complicated than that..
If it is made from a baby calf, I prefer it go extinct.
> flip phone in 2008

That's a great analogy. In 2008 iPhones were fabulously expensive ($700 doesn't seem so bad, but remember that $700 was the contract-locked subsidized price, and that phone didn't have an app store), and it still wasn't certain whether iPhone would beat Blackberry. The rich bought an iPhone or Blackberry, but average Joe's were best off limping along with their old flip phone an extra year, and if they couldn't, buying the cheapest thing they could to hold them over.

And this applies even more in early 2022. All cars, new or used, EV or ICE are stupidly expensive right now. In 12 months time, the used car market should have settled, Teslas should no longer be supply constrained and may have more reasonable prices, and some really nice vehicles like the Hyundia/Kia Ioniq5/EV6 should be widely available. So this is the year to repair your beater rather than replacing it, IMO.

And remember that it's still somewhat environmentally responsible buying a used ICE car. reuse/reduce/recycle is the mantra, and that first R still has meaning.
I am not an expert in how currencies work, but it's worth nothing that Switzerland, like most countries, keeps most of it's own reserves in USD (presumably treasury bills), and has around 1 trillion in USD in reserve. Which is not unrelated to the value of it's own currency and their ability to stabilize it. But I am not claiming to be able to explain the details myself.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/switzerland/official-reserve-ass...
Linux took many markets. The HPC, for example, has been 100% linux in TOP500 for a few years already. Monopoly by FLOSS is still monopoly. Healthy competition is good for users and forces options to improve, see LLVM vs GCC.

To sum up: healthy FLOSS competition is welcome and needed.
Thank you! Seems to be just what I was hoping to find/get.
I've got a friend who made the transition.

Ultimately, he went to law school because he didn't feel there was career growth as just a patent agent... you've got to be a full-on attorney if you want growth in that marketplace.

I'm recalling a little bit of his rationale, but it seems that if you're curious about the law, it's a decent way to get exposure without the total commitment of law school, and you get paid while you're learning. But don't think of it as a "career transition" unless you're going totally into the law, it's more like an experiment to see if that's a direction you'd want to take. You'd still have to go to law school and pass the bar if you want to make a career out of it.

(advice is U.S.-based)
What programming language cross-platform makes the smallest executables?
You could say the same for overvalued stock like TSLA but I don't think anyone would call Tesla a Ponzi scheme. Most of it's value is speculation not actual profits or sales.
I'd say a dedicated hacker could walk through their system like a laser through butter anyway. After all, it's just a random school, lacking expertise as also manpower for proper quality. Their long term goal should be to get the same experience from a proper managed project. The problem is that official projects have just started to move into that space. German Public IT is insanely far behind in that regard.
> Or is your ten person team really going to figure out how to get Postgres to reliably run with billions of records, with encrypted backups, etc?

Actually AWS won't help you here. I have literally been on a 2 day training course or aurora with AWS and the explanation of how to scale was actually just the same as any traditional non-cloud explanation. Correct usage of indexes, partitioning data, optimising queries (especially any non trivial query output by an ORM) and read replicas.

In terms of explosive growth if you're talking about something like google or tiktok again slapping it all in AWS will not automatically just work. There is a lot of engineering that you'll need to get to their level.

I also think you haven't really looked at the SO link I sent through with thoughtful engineering they have huge user base with a tiny footprint.

> DigitalOcean or anyone of a number good providers of good old VPSes / Cloud-lite

Not sure why you are dunking on DO here they are a fully fledged cloud provider with much the same stuff you would need. You can also run up a huge bill on DO as well.
70% of Bitcoin holders bought in last year. A continuous stream of greater fools is necessary for its price to even remain at the current level

Also, every ponzi scheme gives amazing returns, before it inevitably collapses. For example Madoff was able to give decent returns to his investors for 17 years! 'Number go up' is not a refutation of a ponzi scheme.
Thanks! This helps, too.
Based on your comment, I'm guessing you've never used Metamask or similar before. You really should check it out and see just how trivial creating a new wallet is. HD wallets lend themselves to this kind of UX.
If the 2022 price is any indication, moreover, the author has something like $40k to drop on an electric car, and deems himself price sensitive when comparing to… $60k cars.

Either way, this is crazy money. $40k is about a year’s salary for the average American, and more than a year for the rest of the world. Yes, you’ll save a bit on gas, but still!
> I won't touch leverage with a 10 foot pole.

But with a long enough pole and a firm-enough place to stand, you could move the world!
<ducks>
Under what circumstances does the choice of backend OS ever deliver "explicit customer value", so much so that the customer would care about said choice?
A couple of questions:

1. Are you accepting collaborators?
2. do you have any plans to share the source?

I'd love to contribute somehow, either a) by donating some of my time and skills to improving the software, or b) by donating some infrastructure to expand the capacity / redundancy of your search engine.
One thing I really liked about Firefox was that it used to do two different types of searches. The search bar acts as it does today, but the nav bar used to redirect to the first result. This was very useful because sometimes you just know what you're looking for (as per the OP's example, "tom hanks imdb"), while other times you are going to do some digging.

Now that I'm using Kagi as my main search engine, I wish I could tell Firefox to use another search engine in my nav bar, and when I'm incognito. Mozilla used to let us modify a lot of things (via the UI, or the about:config panel), but from a few years it has been removing lots of customization options.
Copyright is different.
Nice idea! And your search bar to test it out worked well for me.

I'm in the process of collecting local HTML files from all kinds of pages I find interesting (I use an FF plugin called WebScrapBook for this). Eventually, I want to be able to have some locally running search bar in my browser (thanks LAMP stack) that first checks my local library of information, and then gives me the option to search online with DuckDuckGo.
a friend of mine went from working in oil extraction field engineering to being a patent agent. he does a lot of reviewing applications, finding prior art, and analysis of the inventions.

it’s interesting to him since he is always coming across curious inventions and applications but otherwise it seems like a pretty dead end career. he is particularly unambitious so i think the lack of pressure other than “review this stuff” is pretty nice for him.

I wouldn’t trade being a builder to be a paper pusher.
You're welcome to examine pretty much any economic or health metric for China during and after the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and draw your own conclusions.

My own unscientific view was that while Mao did an OK job unifying the country and (to some extent) fighting off the Japanese, pretty much everything he did after the founding of the PRC was varying levels of disastrous.
The best way I’ve found around this is to always keep a local clone of nixpkgs so that I can grep for where functions are defined and hope like hell that there are some comments in the vicinity. Definitely not ideal.
How to find and grow product market fit
Well this is embarrassing.

The event listener was using event.target which wasn't the correct node when you hit the icon. I have fixed this now!
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There is no such thing as inherent value. Value is subjected to the individual who makes decisions on the margin.
What the alert shows is that the coins came into existence. It makes no claim one way or another whether it means that somebody deposited $100M USD or whether there was creation ab nihilo.

But I find it generally a bit suspicious that people would choose to buy a stablecoin in order to buy bitcoin instead of buying the bitcoin directly (the explanation given is usually something about evading currency controls/KYC). In a bear market, I find it even more suspicious that there would still be more buyers than sellers of these stablecoins necessitating further creation.
Real numbers are slippery, because almost no real numbers are computable, even approximately. This conjecture only applies to numbers that have small descriptions but complicated values.

If you don't have simple names for your real numbers, then the algorithms are trivial, because all the complexity is in writing the input!
We used to have this happen at an office I worked in where the SEO team was scraping google search rankings by running thousands of queries with different search keywords. Google was blocking the IP address rather than our browsers.
Your "unfortunately" part is the whole point of what GGP was saying.
Stocks are backed by companies and assets more than Bitcoin is.
It's a tug of war between "acceptable behavior" and "bad behavior", but in the interest of an open internet, this cat and mouse needs to exist. Service providers negatively impacted by scraping can price in their mitigations.
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ITT: People using their subjective remote-work opinions in defending Google's desire to increase their profits by sacrificing their own employees' well-being.
You're buying electricity, and using it to make the bitcoins.

The red flag is you're buying something that's useless. The cost of a bitcoin may be correct, but doesn't mean it's worth the cost.
> Previously I used Arch, which I loved, but it was all to easy to completely shaft my setup and not be able to roll back.

Here is my attempt at solving this problem: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
> lol at thinking Daniel Mitchell is just a "guy"

He's a global warming denialist often citing Daily Mail as a source. I know who he is. "just a guy" would've honestly been a better resume. What he is not is a primary source or a good source of unbiased anything.

> Because the age and dominant generation of the population massively affects the median household wealth. It's why the median wealth of Japanese Americans is significantly higher than Hispanic Americans. The median age of the Japanese American population is almost double that of Hispanic Americans.

Ok, median age in the 1990s was 32.9, and 37.9 in 2016 [0], so the wealth being the same means it actually shrunk even more since older people should have more. Got it. Thanks for clarifying.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...
You're parsing it wrong.

"How quickly can we compute this [this = the solution to the problem], as a function of the length of the input encoded in binary?"

i.e. it's just wondering what's the computational complexity. The input can be provided in any base, it makes no difference.
> Longer range means less time at fast chargers and more time slow charging over night. Slow charge infrastructure is much cheaper to build out.

Typical driving profiles already mean that you rarely need fast chargers. The bottleneck will be holiday seasons and similar, when suddenly the demand for fast charging will go up 100-fold or more.

> Of course range matters and making excuses for the limitations of BEVs lacks ambition.

High-end BEV already have similar range to comparable (on horsepower) ICE cars. They don't need much more.
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I decided to buy a motorcycle.

I quickly realized I wanted to learn more about how to drive.

I went to a top-rated school for motorcycles just to make sure I could take experience from the best.

I came back and bought a better motorcycle, I decide to participate in my local championship in which I end up in third place.

I sold the Ducati.

I decided to buy a company.

I quickly realized I want to learn more about how to sell products.

...

So, I guess my life is a continuous oscillation between ignorance and satisfaction.
Super embarrassing. I fixed this now. I used event.target which was just the SVG of the icon if you clicked that instead of the text. (I also split the share button in two to make it easier to share)
No, there are economies of scale. For $5/month I can get. dedicated IP address in the cloud. For me to get one myself I’d probably have to buy real estate somewhere just for starters.
When I was getting my friend hired at the company I work at now, she asked "what is the workplace culture like?" I told her "There is none." Her response: "Oh thank God."
Sure, ok by me.
The components are like this:

Auth is a cookie, session, ip and password check.

It builds a html document from 3 strings.

It writes the document to the file system and to the backup folder.

Which part do you imagine to be the most error prone? I'm having a hard time imagining doing fwrite wrong. I mean? lol?

For the malicious actor to gain access they would need to guess the url, guess what the post vars are called, obtain a cookie (set by a deleted php file) and guess the password.

Then one would be able to edit or create a html document. I suppose inserting some malicious js into the newest post shortly after its created could escape my attention. It could take some time for me to notice it. When I do notice it ill restore the documents from a backup. It wouldn't take a DBA.

My rss reader wouldn't like <script> onload onclick etc. I think I would notice my own feed getting flagged.

I'm sure someone could hack the blog but its not worth the effort.
There's a lot in here I can relate to.

I specifically use Classic Shell _because_ I always start programs through search, i.e. pressing the Windows key and start typing. It's just that the Windows start menu search doesn't work well for me. Linus from LTT ranted about this on multiple occasions.

I ran Linux (tried Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint) on my Lenovo T460s and the experience was quite bad. Battery life was down to 2.5 hours; even in sleep state, battery drain was significant. Often the laptop would wake up from sleep without apparent reason. The log showed that the lid switch was actuated while the laptop was, in fact, just sitting on my desk without anyone operating it. This never happened on Windows.

About every second Arch system update spawned new issues related to either ACPI, using the docking station or HDMI output. Things were better on Debian based distros but still a pain. I remember trying to get a bluetooth speaker to work, giving up after 5 hours of debugging.

Recently, while visiting a friend, I connected my laptop to a bluetooth speaker, now running Windows, and was surprised that it just worked as one would expect.

Yeah, so far, my experience with Linux on the desktop hasn't been great.
it is hilarious to me that this is coming out in the same year that Formula 1, who has tried to pioneer this technology for the last decade, has given up on its potential and removed it from the regulations.
"We don't earn amazing salaries."

I'm a little skeptical given that you bought 2 houses with cash and never had a loan. We have a similar situation and lifestyle, yet are nowhere near owning multiple properties without loans. Any details on how that happened?
Archimedes investment strategies?
They changed the login, so that you can't use anyother client.

They changed the contact possibilities, so that conact can only be made on invite only.
Google rewrites history when you search for the 1984 film cast
Perhaps. I was Plausible's paid analytics service I had trouble with. I'm sure their host-your-own is fine.
Not much, I would say. Something important in CoffeeScript is "everything is an expression". That was a feature in Lisps, in Haskell, in Rust, but would never be default behavior for JavaScript. JavaScript is becoming less odd with modern features, but still far from being liked.

a bad aspect of CoffeeScript I see is "it's not an industry language". too flexible, insufficient integrations with standard tools, slow fixes and new features. The industry definitely need as lot of features for pushing and also controlling work.
Spock would ask "Where's the logic in this?"

You're never going to prove that a vaccine like this works with one-rat experiments.
> “Please give me references to two of your strings, and by the way, I might modify them.”

Since C++ const is not transitive, one can still modify what the const reference indirectly refers to.
Without the detectorists, I wouldn't know that University Challenge is a real-life show that I absolutely love.

Also: Did you see University Challenge last night?
You Don't Need the Cloud
100% this. The language is designed for its use case which is packaging and configuration (nothing more or less). It has a learning curve due to being lazy and functional but works great once you get the hang of it. But the documentation of all its functions is so annoying. You have builtins and the nixpkgs functions[1]. There is learning the language, and then learning how to use it. Then there is the entire ecosystem of custom packaging functions that have their own pros/cons [2]. The issue isn’t with the language but the difficulty with trying to make existing tooling work the Nix way. That part is where I agree with the curse of nix. But the effort is worth it because once the packaging is complete it just works (forever).

1: Best resource I’ve found is this: https://teu5us.github.io/nix-lib.html

2: The status of lang2nix: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/status-of-lang2nix-approaches/...
People shouldn't be upset at any EV owner's perceived elitist tone. The EV transition will last about 10 years and we're all aware that while the future is already here, it's very unevenly distributed. You can assume that everyone understands this, because otherwise we would all have to start every single post/tweet/blog with a long disclaimer/trigger warning about how we're keenly aware of our privilege, a blurb about inequality, a blurb about Wright's Law, etc etc. It'll get very repetitive and obnoxious very quickly.

I've had my EV for close to four years now and I "sell" EVs to basically everyone I meet as a hobby. Plenty of people are easy to convince. Yes, most people can't afford them, or the limited options available (until 2021, basically just Tesla) doesn't quite fit their preferences. This is easy, as prices will drop below ICEVs within a few years and all major OEMs will offer EVs. Convincing them isn't about getting them to buy an EV right now, but just to decide that it's their next car. I test drove a Model S in 2013 and was absolutely sold on EVs as the future, even though I didn't purchase a Model 3 until 5 years after that.

The tough parts are the people with emotional attachments to fossil fuels. The smells, the noises, the vibrations are all taken as positives. And of course, there is frequently just a lot of plain old FUD about battery fires, being stranded, etc. There's also a lot of machismo and fantastical claims about needing to drive 12hrs in the tundra without stopping, etc. Luckily they're a minority, so simple price moves will get 80% of people to switch.