skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter, Safari and IE were defaults, no advertising needed. Chrome wouldn't have prevailed if those browsers were even close to as good at the time.
> none blockchains can scale and all are bad for planet

How is Solana bad for the planet exactly? I don't use Solana, or particularly like it, but it's proof of stake, so if you'd resist the urge to jump to conclusions, you'd find with a couple of minutes of research that its energy usage is comparable to a few average households.
No offence and my humble apologies.

I will confess that English grammar and spelling is kryptonite for me, and maybe down to my autism and over logical mind with a language that has so many exceptions.

Again, no offence and anybody who points out and explains what was wrong is always welcome and appreciated, as constructive and helpful feedback is how we learn. I will confess, the whole "would of" is one I keep doing, and something I should make more effort upon, and will.

Many thanks for taking the time.

FWIW I downloaded Grammarly free edition, for the best. Though any alternative suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I assume/hope you have good, tested, off-site backups if the important data & config…

I run my stuff from home too, though it is smaller scale than yours currently. Off-site & soft-offline backups are on encrypted volumes on servers & VMs elsewhere.
Plus they still happen on AWS (or other critical bits like GitHub) so you’re not immune anyway
Hello dear, I recommend you to message my friend on lnstagram I just recovered my account that was hacked with his help! /s
Not exactly true. Concrete gets stronger as it cures. It can take months or years to cure (or decades for the Hoover dam). So technically it gets better with some aging.
"Legal tender" is an idiomatic term of art and refers to the category of things which one is obligated to accept in payment of a debt. It is not merely the intersection of "legal" and "tender". The vast majority of goods which are both "legal" and "tender" (i.e. legal to use for payments provided both parties agree to the exchange) are not "legal tender".

To "make" something "legal tender" means to add the thing to the category of "legal tender". In this case, if Arizona were to make Bitcoin legal tender (in Arizona) it would mean that any creditor subject to Arizona's laws who was offered payment of a debt in full in Bitcoin would be obligated to either accept that offer of payment or simply write off the debt. Either way, so far as the state of Arizona and its courts are concerned, the debt would be considered paid.

The problem with this bill is that U.S. states—but not the federal government, unfortunately—are specifically barred from making anything but gold or silver legal tender. This is to prevent a state with a surplus of some good (wheat, for example) from declaring that everyone must now accept that good as payment regardless of any previously agreed terms and, in effect, avoiding paying the full amount that it owes. As the federal government did going off the gold standard and making USD legal tender.
If he answers, for sure.
"in the US"
Downvoted, but correct.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

> There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

Only debts. Receiving a good/service might generate a debt, but not always; for example, if you pay in advance for a service.
Year old niche internet empire for sale
Exactly and the principles have secondary and tertiary official meanings. You have to unpeel the onion layers to get the Amazon interpretation of each principle.
A hot standby is not a read replica. It's a set of servers running in a different Availability zone mirroring current prod, that is configured to automatically fail over to if the primary is offline. It's been a few years since I personally set this up in AWS, but at the time, those servers were completely unavailable to me, and basically doubled the cost of my production servers.

The fact that a hot standby is usually in some sort of read-replica state prior to failing over is a technical detail that AWS sort of tries to abstract away I think.
I did a bit of contract work for a place with over a million lines of custom python 2.x scripts that ran inside of a python interpreter embedded in a proprietary product which made it difficult to do things like write and execute unit tests for the code. I think they were still writing new python 2.x code in 2018.

A lot of the scripts were supporting processes that had a finite lifespan during the initial stages when the company infrastructure was being built out, rather than ongoing operational processes that needed to be performed indefinitely, so hopefully they'll be able to set a lot of that codebase on fire instead of maintaining or porting it to python 3.
It's also a competitive advantage. Look at Backblaze, their business model simply wouldn't be possible on a cloud provider.
Raised $13.5M to create the world's largest ecosystem for building no-code apps
Some unsafe bridges have in fact been closed. Fetterman has a campaign video from 2016 of him driving around to several of them. https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1487099733978095622
Coincidentally, this would be my response to the root comment as well. If anything more complicated than a box doesn't belong in a Terminal, how do we expect speakers of non-western languages to use the Terminal?
"these discussions often boil down to "everything is awful and unmaintained" which isn't true."

Have you been to western PA? (Half serious)
Thank you for your advice! This is an interesting pathway, and can't hurt to explore with.
Not to mention login.corp.google.com (which has been on the frontpage of HN before!).
Gitlab maintains a fork of docker-machine with critical bug fixes that I've been using recently since Docker deprecated it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/docker-machine
Go ahead, it’s your life. Perhaps ask yourself how useful your anger has been, versus how much stress it’s brought.
Indeed you are right, the land is there, and palaces might be nothing more than a pile of rocks now, however: having wealth meant both getting enemies, but also having resources to get protection and arrange things; with enough money/wealth, one could, for example, get out of the hotbed of assassinations and political intrigue (=Rome) to a more secluded place, build a stronghold of some sorts, become a mini-monarch / local player, and over time grow the wealth and build a dynasty.

I'm thinking about long-lived dynasties, like the House of Yamato (1000+ years; Imperial House of Japan), or Bagrationi in Georgia, and so on.

Yet, from ancient Rome, not one of the powerful ancient families seems to have survived, and the same disappearing act happened with the rather massive wealth that was sloshing around back then. I mean that was a bit surprising to me.

I would have expected some wealthy modern "noble family" to be able to trace its roots to Rome and the wealth obtained when, say, some of their ancestors were Roman Senators, who decided to sail to a secluded location, assume control of lucrative trade routes, and so on.
Even ignoring the current corona craze, which had most of Europe under draconian policies - people in Europe see stagnant salaries, less and less jobs, no prospect of a pension you can live on, high skilled youth immigrating out, low skilled youth immigrating in, more crimes, prices raising.

Most europeans have been worried for the last 20 years. Scandinavia, the UK and Switzerland are the only places where the magnitude of the effect is lower.
>fear of unstable housing and exposure to random costs is HUGE in personal wellbeing.

Keeps people on their toes at work though, which is good for the bottom line.

There's a lot invested in housing instability. While it would be democratically popular, any democratic movement that tries to fight it is going to be attacked on all sides.
Rather decrease my risk of Melanoma from UV skin damage and just supplement Vitamin D by popping a few pills everyday
Many public health people say that iodized salt takes those laurels. Or maybe its the most bang for the buck, at an estimated $.05/person/year to prevent intellectual and developmental problems. Guess it depends on exactly what you mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt
Who wouldn't?
Capital in general is a paperclip maximizer, not just Bitcoin. All investors are slaves to their capital that takes a mind of its own, a sort of real-world Egregore.

Bitcoin is a flagrant example of this property of capital.
> Android doesn't allow GPL code in userland, and the installed base is massive.

You aren't administering Android devices.

Stop obsessing about writing portable scripts. Write scripts for the targets that you are going to run them on.
>That is a little ironic considering the first crusade was initiated by the Emperor in the east to recapture Jerusalem and the middle east.

I don't think this is quite right. The sequence of events is roughly as follows:

1054: Great Schism, Patriarchate of Constantinople diverges from Papacy in Rome.

1071: Battle of Manzikert, Seljuk (Turkish) Empire conquers most of Anatolia

[also 1071: Norman invasion of southern Italy and Sicily, final de facto eviction of Byzantines from Italy]

1095: First Crusade, Frankish armies storm the Levant and capture Nicaea and Jerusalem -- also the only Crusade that had any real success, others at most reversed previous losses.

It seems more than a little suspicious that all of this happens so quickly. It can't just be about Jerusalem, which had fallen to the Muslim conquests four centuries prior. Rather, after the Schism, there is a "switch" from formal (but usually ignored) ERE suzerainty over European kingdoms, with European military assistance under the banner of ERE armies, to European armies fighting as "equal partners" of the ERE. This second arrangement worked well at first, but it was less stable and less successful in the long run, ultimately leading to the disastrous Fourth Crusade and the Fall of Acre.

In fact, the ERE/Byzantines had already been making gains against the Arabs in the Levant up until the Schism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Antioch_(968%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars#By...
Besides systemic electoral issues stacked against 3rd parties like Duverger's Law thanks to first past the post, there's also a ton of local electoral "mechanical" bureaucratic issues against them like lack of access to federal funding, impossibly strict requirements to get onto ballots, petty regulations like that.
On self-modifying executables in Rust
You are commiting an etymological fallacy. What counts first of all is what legal tender has been in name when the constitution was written. Second, the meaning of the word when the bill was written may have reasonably changed and it may still be sensible. If this is warranted, because the state has the power to mint gold coins, they can peg the gold coin to the bitcoin, if you want to see it that way.

This is illusory of course and there might be regulations in place to prohibit this, and there might be no other ways around it.

Still, this isn't simply simple and you are selling it short.
That slight increase in earth's internal heating can have an outsized effect. It would have meant more and different volcanism, which means a different atmosphere which, perhaps, was better at absorbing and retaining heat.
> what a nightmarish step backwards it is for developers concerned with cost, speed, privacy, safety, and ease.

1) There's a lot of research and development into blockchain technology by very smart people. The systems are improving. What technology we'll have 5, 10, or 25 years from now is going to be much different than what exists now. It's a lack of imagination to think that because crypto is "slow" now (and not all of it is by the way), that it will always be the case. The equivalent is looking at a 5.25" floppy disk in the early 80s and thinking that all physical media is forever going to be too small and too slow to be usable.

2) Low cost, speed, privacy, safety, and usability are great attributes to have: and in many cases are currently superior on established centralized systems. But don't other important attributes exist?

* What about resistance to censorship? A centralized system can ban you because of what you say or even because of who you are. Maybe a purely decentralized system cannot. I guess that's one reason why a lot of people fear it.

* And what about trust? Many people do not trust a lot of centralized systems from powerful groups: such as how many shares of stock are even in existence given the practice of naked shorting. Check out this story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/rsaevv/in_march...

> In March of 2005 this guy bought 100% of shares (1.1M shares) in a traded company to prove the corruption. The next two days that same stock traded 50 million times and dropping the price 99% in two hours. All this with LITERALLY NO SHARES AVAILABLE TO BORROW OR SHORT.

Isn't it possible that the drawbacks of blockchains might be worth it if they can prove perfectly transparent and reduce or eliminate corruption? Imagine a stock market that ran on some next generation blockchain tech that was perfectly transparent without any doubt about the number of shares in existence. No more dirty tricks or fraud possible. Are the upsides of this not worth any discussion?
In my first job as a system tech for an IT company in 2014 we had a backup process run at 17:30 and whichever admin left last would take the backup HDD with them home lol. It worked! There was also onsite redundancy with replicated windows servers in an office across the street, which was enough. Simpler times even just 8 years ago!
> But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear.

Equally clear is the superiority of getting both to either by itself. Throw in the administrative difficulty of establishing just what level of immunity is acceptable, and the safety, convenience, and zero cost of getting vaccinated, and the policy remains sound. No "explaining" necessary.
This is exactly the sort of weak observational data that I am suspicious of. That same data[1] also shows that the vaccinated are much more likely to get infected, which means either the vaccine actually enhances infectivity, or the two groups are so poorly matched that they can't be compared at all. Either way, the data is weak.

If you look at the matched cohort study I linked, vaccine efficacy against severe outcome isn't anywhere near 90%, but rather 30%-50%. If the vaccine then also fails to protect against infection, as it does with Omikron, it couldn't possibly have 95% efficacy against severe disease. What could explain this discrepancy, other than statistical shenanigans?

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
if depends who and what you follow. crypto always has tons of spam
I wasn't speaking of a 4k TV, but still, this doesn't check out. A single 2160p framebuffer is 8MPix, or 32MiB. Not counting the original FB size, the extra 1.5GiB are enough for 48 whole framebuffers. You don't need that much image data all at once, the number is ridiculous. No, I believe it's just that the code became that much less efficient.
a few people hit elon twitter hard with spam, made craploads of $ from it
A self employed person I know (not by choice: finding an employment "il posto fisso" in Italy is a blessing) won't get a pension because he didn't put enough pension contribution during his career.
Will he at least get back the money he put into the system? Also no.
The statistical likelihood of a 51% attack happening on the blockchain seems statistically way less likely than a hack targeting our existing financial system.

I mean, it's pretty easy why blockchains are considered immutable, you can even code one from scratch in Python in less than 200 lines of code.

To control 51% of all those hashing power, an entity would need to power computers that works as much as that, along with paying for the equipment and energy consumption and whatever costs needed for the operation. Current estimates of Bitcoin mining energy usage stands at 71 TeraWatthour, enough to power the whole country of Austria.
Crypto is hot because there's some greater fool to sell to. Eliminate that greater fool (by informing) and the whole pyramid scheme comes tumbling down.
It does seem like we’re at loggerheads. Thank you for the conversation though.

> I recently spent two years living in Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

And thank you for this, it actually reminded me that tomorrow, 29th Jan, will be 2 years since I flew out of BsAs and into Colombia.

Brindare por ti mañana con un aguila. Salud
> The problem is idiocracy. Most people don't think anymore

Most people are dumb and uninformed, that’s not something that is going to change. If this new blockchain world that is being created only work for an imaginary world where agents are rational logical, and well educated the result will be disastrous.
I don't think government spending is necessarily bad, but a lot of it is wastefully spent with little productive to show for it.

People have been talking shovel ready jobs forever. Where are the Trump infrastructure jobs? The Obama "shovel ready" jobs? Think this time will be any different? I don't.

I do agree the whole system breaking (sadly) may be requirement to return to productive and rational behavior. There is entirely too much grift and performative rather then productive behavior at many levels right now and that is very hard to displace once it becomes institutionalized.
Really, best course of action is not to guess and just get blood work done regularly.

It builds up slowly enough that your doc may suggest mega-dosing for a few weeks to bring things back in line.

Pure anectdata on the auto-immmune thing: since getting my vitamin D levels up, my alopecia barbae has completely disappeared. It's pretty crazy cause it's something I've had my entire life (and very severe at times). My doc mentioned a link between auto-immune and vitamin D, and after bringing my levels back in line, all the patches filled back in. Pretty wild, tbh.
Sam Altman says OpenAI has raised a $250M Series A
Funny earlier today I wrote something similar but then for Opentelemetry-js after learning about the loader trick: )

Haven't tried if it works with type="module" apps
Right, that sucks, but he signed up for it by taking VC money.
Defi is roughly 2-3 years old, and smart contracts are less than 7.

To put it in perspective, when the internet was 7 years old, the world wide web didn't even really exist beyond a concept yet.
Was this a polarizing issue in the sense that extreme approval and disapproval of drone strikes on American citizens is mirrored between Republican and Democrat voters? Or, perhaps voters are more likely to be forgiving when their side is in charge? I'm not commenting on drone strikes. But, in either case I don't see this issue popping up as a frequent answer to why people thought Obama was polarizing.
The full title is "Sam Altman says OpenAI has raised a $250M Series A but doesn't disclose a valuation or specific investors", but it would not fit.
Well, gee, thanks. I'm in Central Europe and it's middle of winter.
> ongoing security patching at the OS level can be a full-time gig

That's just a cronjob. I know some people don't like doing it that way, but that's on them. I've seen this work for years in production with minimal trouble.
Part 3 is the payoff!! You've got to watch the rooftop concert.
Some things take time to develop, be adopted and optimized. Not everything in tech is a Javascript framework.
It has improved tremendously, but it's still nowhere on par with solutions such as Telegram or Discord. As much as I like Matrix, the clients (which I think is where the UX lies for me, as I think it's expected that it takes effort to set up a homeserver), are horrible.
Why does the federal government need to fund the training of doctors? They don't fund the training of software engineers considering that universities do a pretty poor job of preparing somebody for a position at a software company. The vast majority of computer science graduates I've hired require extensive on the job training before I can trust them with anything. I've actually had to fire several.

If you're talking about clinics catering to poor populations. Why can't they use their Medicare money?

I'm sorry, I don't trust anything from the AMA because they are a lobbying organization. Why don't I just start sending links to the American Petroleum Institute while we're at it?
Are you talking about the old problem of VMware and Hyper-V not playing well together, or suggesting that using both together solves Windows development woes?
How come paid fire fighters exist then, if others are willing to do it for free?
I tried it out to today after struggling for more than a month with Docker for Mac with problem after problem. I know how exactly many turtles there are all the way down. Rancher fixed everything first try. Containerd/nerdctl doesn't work for us (too tired to figure out why), but Rancher can run Moby/docker.
I agree, I haven't lived in the 'Burgh for a long time, but its geography is basically, lots of little hills and a few big ones. Everywhere you look, you are staring at a hill. And you are on a hill. Plus rivers. A lot of bridges (and tunnels) are needed out there for basic navigation.
> It completely ruined my respect for authority figures.

It sounds like they were right to trust you? Doesn't sound like you ever did anything bad with admin credentials. And you even used it to fix stuff.
I dunno. If big investors want to dump money into something that has ZERO real-world value and is just FOMO and GFT investing so be it. When people ask me about it I just say it's all a scam and they seem to accept that at face value since they couldn't really figure out what it's all about anyway. Keep your friends retirement funds out of it and let the rest play their game I say.

I wish I could make money on the ability to predict "that won't pan out" but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Example: Fully autonomous self driving cars - level 5 stuff. People are finally realizing A) how hard that is in practice - it really takes AGI and B) the huge liability that comes with it. But hey, a lot of people have been employed for 10 years now and have some impressive lane followers and sign readers while some have actually learned a lot about AI (google). Still, I had no way to bet against it 5-10 years ago.
If no one can afford housing then why is it priced so high? Apparently there are buyers right? Otherwise, prices would be lower.