skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrencies are programmable money. Can you program traditional fiat currencies? No. Being able to program money should get hackers excited.
> international building codes

Oh please let this never become a thing.
It's a non-sovereign store of value (potentially). It's not meant to substitute completely for fiat credit for day to day commerce or transactions, just to be used a store of value to hedge currency debasement which is coming due to so much sovereign debt. It's gold in a more transmittable form.

You spend and transact mostly in fiat, you borrow in fiat. You save some percent of your earnings in more finite stores of value (you and everyone else already do this so the concept is not controversial).

The idea is explained here: Ctrl + F "two monies"

http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2011/05/return-to-honest-money.htm...
OP here - I haven't edited the post. It always started with "Imagine..."
Check out rust-u2f/softu2f[0].

[0]: https://github.com/danstiner/rust-u2f
where you think your tax euros go anyway? Now that germany will re-militarize, just expect to be a much larger amount going to american companies.
> I'm still rocking a 2007 custom built desktop w/ an overclocked Intel E8500 Core2Duo.

I applaud keeping an old machine going, my main desktop is still a ten year old i7-3770. Still, if we're being honest about it, with an E8500 and the concomitant 8GB memory limit, you're engaged in easy listening at best, not rocking.
There will be a huge knowledge transfer into Germany during this process. Fab's are fabulously intricate and difficult to run. $5.5 billion to teach your populace how to make chips? Worth it.
on the flip side, I found the "professor" voice endearing. I'm not necessarily a fan (although not a hater either), but I thought it was:

A. Impressive display of capability

B. A very clever choice as it's recognizable but not as universal as say Obama's voice or Joe Rogan's would be

C. Brilliant marketing

I probably wouldn't offer it as a "real" voice for use in bulk through the API due to the legal concerns, but on the marketing page it's really cool and I would hang on to it. Plus if you get sued it would be great publicity :-)
It's illegal to counterfeit more than just currency. You'll get yourself in hot water selling fake Rolexes or fake Magic the Gathering cards too.
> So, having Hacker News pirated means my Quora account is at risk: so what?

This is all well and good until you encounter hackers that sell off your account(s) for spam or other malicious reasons and pretend to be you while doing whatever illegal services or transactions you can think of. If you can't think of reasons why hackers can't make your life hell when they get access to your accounts then you're not thinking hard or creatively enough.
Relevant:

The classic owl meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/eccj2/how_to_draw_an...

Drawing "The Tick" with a simple oval:

https://imgur.com/7HMbY
Question: how much is it going to cost you to spend your $5 note on chain when you finally want to redeem it as BTC on the network? $1, $2... maybe $50 in 2030. So now it's worth -$25.

Just use Bitcoin Cash.
So he's doing everything but addressing the root problem, like every other neoliberal grifter. But worse, he's helping perpetuate the myth that the manufacturers aren't the worst actor in all of this. As if they hadn't blocked every reasonable reform that came along. Just like with guns, other countries don't have this problem, for very simple reasons. Why do people keep posting garbage like this?
Oh, when you call support they will go through a verification process. Worst case you send them a copy of your (new) drivers license/photo ID. As long as the person on the other end is a human, this isn't a problem but if you are facing Google which has no support, you are screwed.

> as unrealistic as asking them to stop using Facebook.

I don't use Facebook. Not an issue. Several family members also don't use it. I keep in touch with people by calling them by phone every few weeks.
I don't know. The people I know that said "I really want my currency to have an unchecked exchange rate, that would do a lot for me" is 0. I also don't feel that's an honest representation of why anyone has gotten into btc (although I am sure some claim that's why they did it)
It's a pretty common technique to use HSL and some simple math to do this with CSS, but even if you use a perceptually uniform color space, colors of different hues but similar chroma/value doesn't ensure accessible contrast. It also means that in the naive case, your colors end up being very "rainbow" -y.

Stripe's color system blog post gets into the nitty gritty of getting this right, at least for curated colors: https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems
Obviously, the solution is to calibrate how much of each subject we teach to the general student population, and track people with aptitude into deeper iterations of subjects that are less useful for non-specialists. Aspiring lawyers don't need stunt-integration calculus, and aspiring physicists don't need 20th Century American Lit. We have no trouble with this concept in other fields: you don't take AP Studio Art unless you're tracking to a BFA. But we shoehorn everyone into a math sequence that is not especially valuable.

Seems pretty clear?
This is ultimately why I haven't made the leap to Yubikey style auth. My backup plan depends ultimately on something I know (the password to a backed up copy of my password vault which contains 2fa codes for essential services, and backed up totp codes which are encrypted with a password in that vault for the rest).
What happens to the notes if the issuer goes out of business?

Do they lose their ability to be reclaimed?
I understand your frustration, but your title just... doesn't make sense? Unless your definition of email includes letting your emails through.

And while you're frustrated, you're here to vent. That's fine and good, but when you make absolute statements that are clearly not true for ~99% of the audience, you lose your opportunity to land your message. In this case, I think you would have been better off asking this community for help - but you came in hot, didn't include any debug information, and concluded with a line that actually made me laugh a little because of its absurdity (sorry!).

IMO, the best way to work w/ big players when you are a small one is to treat them as a force of nature. You don't get mad at the weather, you adapt to it when it throws you for a loop.
> I've been thinking for a while whether there could be a market in "open source strategy consulting".

It does exist, but not suprisingly people who want to pay less usually aren't keen on paying lump sums (if at all) someone who could teach them on how to do it.
"Functor" is a perfectly good and descriptive name… provided you are at least somewhat familiar with the esoteric branch of mathematics it's based on. For someone from a Category Theory background renaming it to "Mappable" would be weird and unintuitive. And as in most things, those actually doing the work get to pick the names that make sense to them.
My Macbook Pro charger charges Nintendo Switch, so maybe this was fixed later? Switch is 2017 device.
Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live.
Meta Ruined Instagram
I would need to recover access to my password manager and my 2FA authentication tool (which is cloud backed up.) My password manager has recovery codes and my 2FA has a recovery process. Those - and, actually my email service's recovery codes (although technically not needed, since I can use the password manager and 2FA but this would speed up my time to access) - are in hard copy and stored in my safe and at a safe at a relative's home several hundred miles away. For additional security, there is a word written on the envelope at the relative's house that the relative knows to require I provide if we are not in-person (to prevent someone faking a call and asks for the information.) The document is also sealed and included with my Will, which is held by my trusted executor.

With that document I can recover access to my complete digital life.

The advantage is nothing changes. New accounts are added to my password manager and 2FA, but nothing needs to change on the recovery process side.

There are some other ideas I have, if I didn't have a trusted relative/friend, who I could give the document to but I haven't felt the need to implement them.
Both are not normal in the Pacific Northwest.
50+ Mini web projects using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
I'm 33. The first time I felt truly old is when in Grown Ups (a comedy) the kid sees a CRT TV and asks "Dad, what is the box behind the TV for?".
This happened to me, I forgot my Android "pattern", the swiped pin-like thing to unlock the phone. I didn't have a password set. I was able to factory-reset it with my Google account password but I lost recent files that hadn't yet been backed up (photos etc).

I just totally blanked. Like you said, the more I thought about it the less I could remember what it was like. It was really scary.
Do you have any pointers or more info on that patent?
Presumably the mid-point is where the ship would be travelling at maximum velocity, so the course correction may not be as minimal depending on how slowly we're talking. It might be this would use more fuel/mass.
The European law is supposed to have a provision in it for review and modification - so in the event we get USB-D or whatever, there should be a mechanism to incorporate that in.
The USB consortium seemingly refuses to do anything that would hamper adoption, even if it's bad for consumers. They could make a list of icons that products can put on if they support. So a cable that supports 15W charging would indicate it with a little icon on the product or packaging. Then mandate a testing procedure, where failure to follow it or lying about the results is trademark infringement.
If Google locked your email tomorrow, what would you do?

This can and does happen.
In MacOS System Prefereces on the 'Displays' pane you can select various scaling. By defaul the font is quite large, smaller text = more space. Or as another user commented you can select the zoom level in your browser. Or of course the developer can move things (HTML?) around in the navbar.

I hope you were not looking for validation from others to fire a developer over this small issue.
Alright, so before more folks freak out even more at this, there are a number of knee-jerk reactions that could be mitigated by reading up on this a bit before tossing thunderbolts.

The main reasoning for this is to cut down on waste from incompatible chargers. This will bring charging more in line with other standardized products such as AC power cords, twisted pair networking, SD cards, M.2 SSDs, and all of those wonderful things that come from standards that everyone follows.

Can no one continue to sell charging products for stuff that's already out there? Obviously you can continue to support existing stuff. This rule applies to power drawing products, not the chargers (products sold in 2024 must charge from USB-C, but you can continue selling non-USB-C chargers for older stuff already in consumer hands).

Will it stop innovation? Of course not. New innovations can be brought forth in the same way they are with the other standards mentioned above: developed in a harmonised manner, respecting the objectives of full interoperability (in this case led by the USB-IF organisation).

Is USB-C a complicated standard? Yep, but then again most companies manage to produce working and interoperable stuff just fine.

Are there companies that break the standard? Yes of course - there are always bad actors and careless implementations. But consumer laws will prevent them from selling their crap in the European market. This is what standards enforcement is for (the CE marking, for example).

Are HNers going to look for extreme and unlikely cases and anecdata to ride their hobby horses on this? It wouldn't be HN without it!
How is this different from the American FAA dictating that all aeroplane toilets have to have ashtrays whist at the same time banning smoking on flights[1]?

Should Europeans start hoping the US economy fails so that then FAA has less influence?[3]

Really I don't think this is something that really matters in the grand scheme of things. USB-C is a good enough standard and I don't see Apple coming out with some great new alternative.

From my perspective I have loads of broken Lightning cables but no broken USB-C ones. Also if something is going to break I'd rather the springs be in the cheap cable than the expensive phone socket as with Lightning.

1. Now you might think it's for people who break the smoking rule to have somewhere to put out their fags[2] but the "innovative" solution to that would be the sink.

2. You know that I know you know that's slang for cigarette, so stick to the point at hand please. :P

3. Just in case that's not blindingly obvious, the answer is NO, that would be terrible for everyone involved including both Europeans and Americans.
Yep but your GDPR exports are still incomplete with many of the big services. GDPR is a brilliant regulation but it has no teeth.
The last time we saw lightning in the Willamette Valley of Oregon there were multiple posts on the local reddit asking what the flashing light in the sky was. People thought it might be a gas explosion or aircraft.
I suppose it's west of the Mississippi, but it's a long ways west. I'd imagine it's around the 100th meridian then. That goes through the middle of Kansas and is where you start to expect to see more western species as you travel west past it and vice versa.
> Only, without the oversight of a central bank

Yes, that's a good thing.

> Someone enlighten me on the merits of this idea.

Currency that can't be manipulated or devalued by the state or central banks. In other words: eliminates the potential for exactly what's taking place worldwide right now.
More or less, someone with a cable leases you dark fiber, and then you light it. What are you using? lit fiber (obviously), what did you lease? dark fiber.

When it's severed, it's not exactly lit anymore either ;)
Imagine they had made this dumb decision back when Micro USB was the standard. We would have never gotten anything better than Micro USB. Governments shouldn't be in the market of mandating that a specific technical standards must be used as it freezes innovation.

Also purely in terms of usability, the Apple thunderbolt plug is easier to clean and less error prone on insertion as it self-centers.
> I would have measured the time directly inside of the Doom allocator

Yeah, that'd be much better. It'd still only tell us how the allocator performed when having to share cache, memory B/W etc with Doom 3 though. Performance of similar allocations in a different application could be different. Even changing the screen resolution of Doom 3 might be enough to change the performance of the allocator. To get anywhere we need to understand what all the hardware components that alter performance are, the limits of their various resources and the penalties for running out of those resources. I normally find it is easier to remove the allocs from my program's main loop than to do this kind of analysis. In fact, I think this analysis is impossible. What happens when some background process like a virus checker decides to run? Doing less work in your program is almost always better. Moving the allocations out of the main loop normally makes the ownership easier to understand too, so helps to minimise code complexity.
Functionally this like a hardware wallet. The tech keeps working long after the manufacturer disappears.

The private key associated with the note is loaded on there by the end user and can be rotated by the next person to receive the note. The issuer has no ability to claim the funds on the note. The person holding the note can always claim the funds on the note.
They used to be extremely common in suburbs.
The median age in Germany is now 46 years old, ie closer to retirement than doing anything new/risky.
It's certainly the most popular example of poor implementation. But one could argue that USB-C isn't even implemented and they just used the connector/form factor for their cable. I recall the RPI4 also having issues early on with power over USB-C.

But that's precisely my problem with this - if we're forcing every device to merely adopt a USB-C port, that does nothing to ensure they're actually using USB-C specifications or interoperable. Game System X and Phone Y may only work with USB-C cables/chargers X and Y, which satisfy the requirement without fixing the compatibility problem.
Dry air is a good insulator so larger charge differentials can occur. Wet air isn't as good an insulator so charge doesn't build up. That is also why Lightning tends to happen during rain storms, the insulator breaks down and allows the charge to flow.
It has been running completely free for users for years on end, and the only thing changing now is some minor convenience features in exchange for a subscription. For regular users basically everything will remain the same.
Would you rather have 1 ISS or 200 New Horizons?
>> What's interesting is that nearly all of my recent electronics purchases have used USB-C.

I've started noticing this recently. It's taken longer than I thought but the only devices remaining I have that I need to search for cables for are my iPhone/Apple Watch/old iPod. Everything else, including laptops, I usually have a USB-C charger already plugged in and ready to go no matter what room I'm in.

It makes sense that there should be a standard for this, just like we do (although it varies by country) for our plugs.
Thank you -- as another commenter noted we cannot act as the Secret Service to remove counterfeit notes from circulation, so the implication probably is that folks need to get into the habit of scanning notes prior to acceptance.
It's hardly a polemic when it is a question of existential importance- what does it mean to be human, when does a human begin to exist, and at what point does a human have rights?
How'd you measure productivity?
I really wonder how this thread would've fared if you had posted it at a different time. Because you posted it in the afternoon in Europe, so you probably received more attention from Europeans.

However, as a German myself I'd agree with most of the other posters. Your (presumably) high US salary isn't everything (especially considering the high costs of eduction, health care, housing etc. in the US). Salaries in Germany are very good compared to other European countries (comparable to Netherlands), you can live a great life there. Probably not FIRE, but o well... (also think about how the world might look in 20 years wrt climate change)

You posted that your wife has a split opinion of Germany, that Germans aren't necessarily the most welcoming (friendly yes, but it often isn't easy to become friends in Germany). That's why you should really look at least for a region/city that has a little higher population so that you can find people with whom you share hobbies. That would make it much easier to get similar-minded friends.

And similar to what another poster said: There's nothing greater than letting your kids bike to school.
Even if dark matter is (as seems quite possible) made up of unknown particles, you don't think probing the possibility space with a particle accelerator will help? I know many particle physicists disagree...
So every upgrading iPhone user in the world needs to discard every single charging device they own, including expensive multi-device chargers like phone+watch. In the short-term this clearly produces _more_ e-waste. I wonder if anyone made an estimate of the break-even time here. One year? Ten? Will everyone be discarding their chargers and switching to wireless before break-even is achieved?

How much money does it cost for the USB-D spec to get approved by the EU if/when that is released? (How much did the USB-C industry groups spend on lobbying to get this done)? This seems like a much less significant concern but I am curious what order of magnitude we are dealing with here.

This legislation would have been great twenty years ago when there were lots of proprietary plugs on phones, but it seems much less substantial of an issue now in my experience.
Pablo Escobar, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Francis Drake, and the Koch Brothers?

Celebrating drug runners, malicious state actors and pirates, and environmental disaster.
> Funny to see a pro-corporate welfare argument on HN.

It's not so that's your mistake.

> > I'm all for cutting subsidies,

You see, I wrote that. However, as we can see when I continue I am able to see the benefits to a system I don't agree with. It's called being reasonable and not strawmanning your opponent.

> > but the problem is that if you want risky things then investors might decide it's better not to invest and the drugs never appear.

> So?

So… I gave that argument right there. "the problem is that if you want risky things then investors might decide it's better not to invest and the drugs never appear." If your response to this is "So?" then you've just said "So?" to "the drugs never appear". Strangely unappealing.

> Nobody has a right to free money.

Aside from having not made that argument and it not being relevant, you're arguing that people should get free drugs. Nobody has a right to free drugs. Now you're arguing against yourself.

> > There's no need to punish the creator by not letting them make money off of their creation just because the government was involved, the government is getting plenty out of their investment.

> You're putting words in my mouth.

Which words? Punishment? Ah, the percentage.

> I said the cost of government funded drugs should be the cost of manufacturing plus a percentage for the inventor.

How magnanimous of you. What would you set the percentage at? How would you get companies to manufacture things at cost for you? That's just not how a business survives, and the only people I've ever heard make this kind of argument are people who've never run a business and never will.

> Second, that's not how government funding works. If the public funds a thing, then the public has a right to use that thing.

No, that's not how government funding works, that's how you appear to think it should work in this fantasy you've constructed. Governments often provide funding to private companies that do not create some magical legal right to that company's products.

> If the inventor doesn't like it, then they shouldn't take funding from the government.

I'll repeat, that's not how government funding works. I'm against subsidies in general and in this case but I'd take this dysfunctional way over yours.
you seem to think that annoying Apple creates welfare for EU citizens

But it doesn't.

Regulators may "win" a battle. But consumers lose big time. And I don't think bureaucrats should take precedence versus consumers.
> We don't store key material.

There's the centralized trust... How can you prove this?
"As bad as checks" is possibly the lowest of low bars.
I’ll bite, I think the defense is mostly to the status quo of the industry.
The fact of the matter is these corporations have developed and tested medicines that drastically improve my parents (and many many elderly/retirement age folks) quality of life, and some of these medicines are pretty new. The system is currently working pretty good by the metric of pharmaceutical advances.