skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the average person there is no difference between entering credit card info into a web page and using a wallet manager to enter your crypto info into an app, except that the wallet manager is infinitely more insecure and much more cumbersome. Going from a walkman to an ipod/itunes was an actual improvement in storage capacity, usability, accessibility etc.

As for holding out hope something will come out of crypto, using your example of mp3s and digital video, as soon as those were available to the general public they were RAPIDLY and enthusiastically adopted by the entire public. In the last 10+ years the crypto audience has gone from libertarians and fans of illicit drugs to libertarians, gambling addicts, and developers hoping to skill into the "next big thing".
I think the distinction is that generally it should be a conscious choice to be in the echo chamber - and not the easy unknowing default choice (if you even have a choice) for smart feeds.
Mozilla tracking users by (WiFi) SSID name, unless you add _nomap
He has a whole presentation about this: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Other/IllustratingG... . TLDR: it's a very manual process :)
His lab is also working on Penrose, which is a domain specific language for mathematical diagrams: https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/
Weird analogy because yes, if you put money in a paper shredder (at least in the US) the Mint will indeed allow you to send in your shredded money and receive cash in return: https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption/s...
I'm not sure an entirely separate mechanism is needed to achieve Zulip-style threading, though? Seems like the current thread design could easily be adapted to support named threads.

Does Zulip support nested threads?
I get upgrade offers all the time.

But it doesn’t matter because it isn’t actually offered in my area / the local telco can’t even notify the right people…
Unless this has changed in the recent times, then yes you will get your money back as whole. If you have all the pieces, the bank (at least in Finland central bank will) will trade it to a new one and the old one is demolished.

It is pretty normal for money to get damaged and reissued.
20% interest rate (now 17%).
Being from a third world country, I completely agree with you on how technological investment can change lives. Even a low speed connection in a rural zone can achieve wonderful things.

But I really wonder what was your prototype that needed that speed connection and that wouldn't work with something slower. Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work?
I'm sure that that is a wonderful paper, behind a paywall.
The level of hunger is higher with unlimited unregulated capitalism which is what crypto is.
Wrong? I don't see it as a moral issue. I see it as an abandonment of music, but not a moral wrong.

I think there's a value distinction to be drawn between boundary explorations that expand the art form and those that simply depart from any definition of it separate from the other arts. That leaves a broad scope for innovation: the composers of the ars subtilior, Carlo Gesualdo, Hector Berlioz, Debussy and Satie, Harry Partch, Antheil and Edgard Varese, and the progression of serialism from Schoenberg through Webern to Boulez — all of them explored and expanded the boundaries of music, but you can still experience their works as music, even if some have argued that it's bad music. It all can be, and has been, accepted as music.

But some of Cage's works (of those which he presented as musical) depart from musical material and musical experience to play with the nonmusical culture that surrounds music and musicians, or, abandoning that, the idea of performance itself. Obviously 4'33", with its formalities of opening and closing a piano, is an example of the former, but his lesser-known 0'00" runs simply, "In a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action." In that case, the performer is as justified in a disciplined soiling of their pants as any musical act. I refuse to countenance such wanking. (Cage was by no means alone in this, but he's probably the most famous.)

I'm glad to see that even academic composers seem to have retreated from this dissolution.
They have been getting more sophisticated over time as well. GPT and GAN generated or hand tailored phishing will do in even trained professionals at times.
I'm thrilled with my gigabit fiber from Sonic. I wonder how many of their customers even get the full gigabit though; if they are connecting with WiFi they almost certainly aren't. And even ethernet is still not reliably gigabit in homes with older wiring. But this 25gbit is in another category.

I'm impressed the Ookla speedtest server can deliver 25Gbit.

The 25gbit network card he mentions costs $400-$500, that's cheaper than I would have guessed.
I think there's a niche to expand here. Not necessarily GNOME, but GTK or Qt apps in general.

A lot of developers, myself included, started working during the post web 2.0 era, and have done almost exclusively web development. A lot of times when I've had an idea for a small app, my default has been to use web stuff to build it because that's what I know. Even if it's just a self-serve tool with no interaction with other users or anything. It's not because it needs to be on the internet. It's just because it feels like to build a "native" app you have to know Swift or C++ or something. Or worse, drag web tech onto the desktop with Electron or something.

I don't know why it took me this long to give it a shot, but you can build a really decent "native" app with Qt by writing nothing but Python (and I presume most other popular languages also have bindings). They feel snappy, have uniform controls with good keyboard shortcuts. You don't have to build everything from scratch using divs in React. You have to learn a little about handling long-lived state and things like that, but I think any competent web developer can also build desktop apps using Qt or GTK. It makes me wonder what redeeming qualities Electron has. People say it's valuable because it lets us take web developer skills and bring them to the desktop. So would making Qt apps.

It may not replace compiled native apps, but I'd definitely love to see a wave of downloadable, offline-first, apps that don't require me to sign up and aren't stuck in my browser.
I'm on Telus gigabit fibre, for $69/mo. I've never once had issues with throttling, even when I was on Shaw (the 300mbps plan). What kind of throttling are you getting and in what use cases?
I fondly remember the days in 2010 in Zurich, and cablecom had good functional internet, don't remember the speed. Then I moved to Germany in 2013, and it surprised me that I can't have internet in my apartment for the next two months, because the technician appointment and when I finally received, I got a meagre DSL connection with bad ping and 32 Mbits.

It has gotten better over the years, but even the best available consumer connection is 1000 Mbits down and 200Mbits up.

Majority of the tech Germans I meet are embarassed about the internet and telecom infra, being an advanced economy.

Hopefully the new government fixes things.
"news from friends" might be ok if it is presented without algorithmic curation - i.e. strictly on time order or similar.
A Hired Imposter's Secrets #5 = (I’m sick, yet keeping a promise to myself)
Just show me a calibration image of a know celestial body using the exact same algorithms and I'll be satisfied.
How affordable is $50 in rural Thailand compared to the USA?
Going to go out on a limb and guess it wasn’t one invoice.
Grease fires are actually class K. Small ones, like a frying pan, can be extinguished with a class B extinguisher, but if there is enough grease/oil, or it gets too hot, you need something more powerful.
Banks and even western union at the gas station or grocery store do often catch fraud preying upon old people to send money. It just isn't foolproof.
Previous disc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040667
> People keep claiming over and over that you'd not lose money like this with (non-smart) contracts because the court would always rule your way.

I don't think anyone is claiming that the court would always rule your way; that's a strawman. Courts do stupid shit all the time.

The point is that a court could rule in your favor. With something like this, what's the remedy? How is a court going to order some developer to undo a transaction posted to an immutable ledger? What do you do when the source of truth is wrong, and cannot be altered?
This seems to be a description of how coordinating counterparties can reverse transactions made over any medium, with a bit of argument alchemy to shift the discussion from individuals to banks representing them.

> It took the combined forces of several agencies of the federal government more than five years to reverse ~$4.5 billion in Bitcoin transaction

Unlike the Bangladesh Bank hack, for example, which they were unable to reverse.
My take: end-users don't care very much about the license, and even for technical users, the value of an 'open' license is overstated. I simply cannot fix bugs in, say, GCC, and it would also be pretty hard for me to pay someone to do so, despite this project being pretty much the poster child (other than, of course, Linux, but that is not exactly a typical case...) for the GPL.

Corporate users want a way out of an abusive or impossible vendor relationship: source escrow can fix that as well as the GPL can (which is to say: not exactly entirely, but, close, I guess?).

Regular users want... things just to work, and someone to shout at if it doesn't. The license of the underlying source code is pretty much irrelevant for that. There are at least three levels of support/indirection prior to that making any difference.
> Savings accounts are effectively giving you -8% right now

Savings accounts have always been of dubious value for preserving or accruing value.
Drop it in the swimming pool.

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21236083/...
It's not the job of the work to bring good to the world, nor to interest people in the slightest, as can be said for yourself, or myself. Though you're right that the success of the work is probably intrinsically tied to it's interest.

Art, and media in general are productions of culture which celebrate our humanity. That is, they rejoice in all of our abilities to perceive, conceive and enact upon the world. Wasting people's time in this light makes people aware of their time, and allows for further interrogations of our humanities to arise. Just as we're doing now.

It's good to remember that art only gains it's status through a production being named art by an exhibitor. IMO there's no special purpose to the term. Consuming art is just another form of recreation, and people are right to hate it for any reason, just that tyranny of what is useful is usually not in the human spirits best interest.
The latest trillion $peso$ spending "package" has less of a direct impact on $globalrupee$. Hurricane $Chucky$ in $greentown$ does not as directly impact the $globalrupee$. If that is starting to sound more like an insurance policy, and less like a bunch of tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists talking about "muh freedoms", well maybe that's because it is.
Interesting historical trivia! BTW is that website using the ubuntu font?
It's all pretty negotiable. I pay $69/mo for gigabit fibre through Telus.
Interest is taxed as income. Debt does not cancel out income unless paid on a mortgage when itemizing deductions.
Yup me as well.

A simple Bayesian model seems to be the only thing which works for keeping out obvious fraud, and for more sophisticated fraud it's tough to do it automatically.
You forgetting the case where one hosts their own servers in the basement. Assuming that the connection is symmetric and offers static IP (which it does in my case but "only" for 1GBit/s).

Some time ago PC has revolutionized the world by giving access to computer power to general population. This has unleashed a tidal wave of creativity and business.

Giving the ability to host own servers to everyone can open up endless opportunities as well.

I host some of my own servers and benefit from it greatly.
It might just be a phrase to reassure stakeholders not to panic and rethink potential or existing relationships with the college of fears of incompetence.
Actually Series I bonds are negative real yield because the interest is taxed federally.
Tablets without keyboards (iPad) can load and not interact.
How does this track? Are you saying that boomers aren't benefiting from mortgage interest rates? Boomers were still the dominant generation of mortgage purchasers as recently as 10 years ago.
Ripping old mini DV video tapes on a Mac
Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018)
Nah man 0.001% to 0.002% really? Would anyone describe the yield of t-bonds as astronomical at 1.44%? Nobody would even care if banks passed on fed rate to consumers, imagine getting the joy of getting 0.5% up from 0.25%
It sounds like you're just taking about cost for the ISP to upgrade.

To actually realize your faster speeds, you need to spend thousands of dollars yourself on new switches and NICs. And then, as mentioned, the benefits are marginal. You would have to be streaming 10+ 4K movies at once to even "need" gigabit, let alone 25Gbps.
Google and Facebook got bilked out of $100M, and you would guess they had lots of processes and technology in place. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...
Excuse the basic question but what language is that? And does anyone have a good tutorial or similar on writing things like this? I know this is basic stuff but I hadn't really seen a real example of a 'smart contact' (I assume that's what this is) until now and seeing it like this is intriguing.
Self-oxygenating metal fires usually require you to dump the device into a big container of water.
I mean, hawking radiation itself is unproven - we can't experimentally verify it because the temperature of the radiation from stellar mass black holes would be too small. For small black holes, nobody has seen one 'pop'. In theory it's testable but probably not in our lifetimes.
For anyone else who isn't sure what this is, from websdr.org:

"A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet."

More background information: http://www.websdr.org/background.html

FAQ: http://www.websdr.org/faq.html
I can see Who Let The Dogs Out and The Macarena making periodic comebacks, getting future reboots/covers/remixes, etc.
I'd say it's the opposite. Despite the massive funding it's received the experience is still a huge pain. Most companies keep using a traditional HDL.
Your comment doesn't make any sense to me.

Virtue signaling is a behavior or type of speech that is intended to communicate a political allegiance, or adherence to a specific school of thought.

GP effectively provided a critique of modern political discourse.

What does that have to do with virtue signaling?
One of the things that I assume happens is that, even when people have explicitly signed up for something or at least not opted out of receiving updates etc., they'll just "report spam" rather than unsubscribe and when enough people do this it gets put in everyone's spam folder unless enough people reclassify it.

There's not much stuff that ends up in my spam folder that I really care about and a fair bit I don't know how I got on some list. But relatively little of it is spam in the usual meaning of the term.
If you're just playing 4k video, a $60 USD ODROID C4 device will do the trick.
Lots of retirees are leveraged.
> without paying exorbitant fees, bad conversion rate

What the hell would you call gas fees, then? And if you don't already have assets in the crypto coin of your vendor's choice, you're going to pay conversion fees, too.
I bought the same connection. It was the same monthly price, just a slightly higher upgrade fee.

I have not actually upgraded my router at all so I not profiting as much from it as I could.

Still, love init7 and their service.
If we want to try to reclaim crypto (which feels like a moral cause to me, re-establishing a bigger idea over letting some ounk shit micro-corner of the big idea colonize the word), I'd suggest we need a new easy to use word to describe cryptocurrencies.

I dont have any candidates. But without a convenient alternative to describe the thing, change will be extremely slow.
Stupid question, but if your hard drive cannot write 25Gbit/s, how is it handled?

I don't knwo anything about SSD so maybe 25Gbit/s is easily achievable, just talking from my experience of copying from a USB Drive to my local disk.
Hunger in the Philippines is NOT due to capitalism. Hunger massively declined in the Philippines due to capitalism.

Capitalism, i.e. the right to freely exchange, was restricted during the lockdown, with jeepney drivers, restaurant cashiers and almost every other sort of worker prohibited from going to work.

Had the fight against capitalism succeeded in the Philippines, the result would have been every bit as disastrous as it was in Venezuela.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-food-idUSKCN1G5...
Isn't this a chemical fire not an electrical one since it's a chemical reaction in the battery that is causing the fire? The fact that normally that chemical reaction makes electricity rather than violent heat seems moot. The battery also has the oxidizer in it so an extinguisher that tries to block oxygen won't work at all.
This is a bad take, but unsurprising when most Western culture still lauds virtuosity playing and "skill" over most other things. If it's a cultural dead end it's because of the culture not the idea.

That aside, John Cage was having these ideas when they weren't as obvious as they are today and we have the benefit of hindsight. Dismissing that is also a pretty ignorant mistake.
Yes, as long as there is no intervening suspension (await, or the script otherwise exiting to the event loop).
Even before the democratization of art we were still flooded with crap. I've spent a lot of time curating through DJing and collecting digital music, and the goal has always been to find that 1% that is amazing in the sea of 99% crap.

That sea of 99% crap is beginning to feel like 99.9% if I widen my search parameters to all the "modern" sources that are algorithmically "curated" for me.

Call me a gatekeeper but art needs barriers and it needs to be hard. The process of overcoming those barriers contributes to an artists' skill, and conquering the difficult helps them to define their own style. The platform should not be favoring the unaccomplished and the accomplished with equal weight.

And the problem isn't just my feed. It's everyone's feed. Peoples' tastes conform to the constraints of the world around them -- if you grow up in a household and culture that loves bluegrass music, for example, there's a strong chance you will like it too. After talking with lots of local brewers I believe that IPAs are super popular around here because they're the most economical kind of beer to make in the climate I live in. Which means there's tons of them on the shelves, which means lots of people will buy them for no particular reason other than because they are there and suddenly now that's the predominant local taste.

If we surround people with crap (which is what we are doing), crap becomes the new standard and the new taste, dragging down society along with it. We are currently doing this with computers and look at all the mediocrity we've created in tech so that the smallminded can give their money to enterpreneurs with equal weighting as the nerds.

Barriers keep quality high!
Let's consider Gross National Product of each county adjusted for population size:

gnpUSD = {'USA': 21,650,000,000,000, 'THA': 491,910,000,000} #4th quarter 2021

pop = {'USA': 329,000,000, 'THA': 70,000,000} #as of 2021

gnp['USA'] // pop['USA']
65805

gnp['THA'] // pop['THA']
7027

Seems more like a distribution of resources issue... so why not jack up taxes on the wealthiest 1% and use it to pay for things like high-speed fiber in all the rural areas? Doubtless this would lead to economic growth?
When you say server-class, do you mean for desktops? Thought I just read recently that Apple is ending Mac OS server.
For most of the last decade, IRS statutory rate for underpayment/overpayment of tax was 3%, an historically low number. It briefly spiked up to 6% in 2019, then fell back to 3% for a while, but last quarter went back up to 4%, with more increases expected.[0]

This rate applies to anyone who takes "too long" to claim a refund or pay a tax liability, so it is basically a zero-risk rate that applies to everyone regardless of their credit status.

[0]https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/employers-and-advisers/pla...
> If you’re saving up more money (for buying a house etc), a savings account is still the best bet

Open a TreasuryDirect account and buy bills, currently yielding about 50 bps for 4 weeks [1]. Or search out a high-yield online (FDIC insured) savings account, presently paying up to 80 bps [2].

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/annceresul...

[2] https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...
That’s my point, there isn’t really a free market for rubles. It’s so tightly controlled by the Russian state, they might as well name a price.
who is the manufacturer of the bike?
You easily run into problems even before that.

I just upgraded to 10GB networking in my house and the old desktop I have hanging around mostly for guest use tops out at around 6 Gbps. The CPU just can't handle more than that. Granted, it's a 10 year old, cheap CPU with integrated video, so it was never much good. But still, it works just fine for web browsing.

And of course hard disks get 200MB/s on the very rare occasion, and often a good amount less than that. Even SSDs are limited by SATA's maximum of 6 Gbps, so make a plan for upgrading everything to NVMEs.
> not dubbed; dubbing is a sin

People without enough usable vision to read subtitles would disagree.
Uh anything that Native Instruments makes, for starters.
Comcast First ISP in the United States to Deploy Advanced Hollowcore Fiber
$50 is about 1 week of 3 meals consumption per day (lower middle class)
Go carts don’t go on pavements while talking on the mobile phone.

I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it.
Has an insurance market already arisen?

I.e. can I buy insurance for some percentage of my transaction against a bug swallowing the whole value of my transaction?

Seems like an opportunity to let an economic market drive more rigorous dev and test practices by giving shops with more rigorous practices lower fees.
This is also perfectly valid c:

main()
{
printf("Hello world");
}

Some details are hidden by the compiler, but Python isn’t exactly pure machine language either.

Semicolons and bracket are conceptually equivalent to significant white space (but more obviously explicit) and main is also a concept in Python (that is much more syntactically brutal than even its verbose c equivalent) that is hidden by the interpreter — which you also have to explain to beginners.

Compare with Python:

import sys

def main(args):
print("hello %s" % (args[0]))
sys.exit(0)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])

Which (of course) breaks when cut and pasting online
It only works when they are the losers.