skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: I have very little exposure to the crypto ecosystem.

I either don't understand the specifics of the keying or it doesn't make sense.

There's some kind of private key. Makes sense. But there appears to be some kind of second key. At some point the note will "expire" and only the person who owns the second key can redeem the Bitcoin?

If I understand right, either the person who physically holds the note can update the key (in which case what purpose does it serve) or the key needs to be transferred along with physical possession of the note (in which case what purpose does the product serve).

Also what does it mean for the note to be "cut"? Like with scissors?

Is this product just intended for hardcore crypto folks or is it intended for regular people too?
>which means I’m being specifically targeted

I don't know about that. Various episodes of Darknet Diaries make it clear stolen password databases are searched for any matching email accounts, which of course depends on the motivation level of the attackers. I suspect a simple "check all emails in this one database for a match in the other database" isn't that large of a hurdle. Your average CS101 class might include an extract emails, sort, merge-compare type of assignment.

And yes, like so many others here, you apparently have the goldilocks algorithm. Easy/simple enough for you to generate on the fly yet secure enough to resist all but nation-state attackers.

To that I say - congrats. But the GENERAL advice to the public at large is that the rest of humanity isn't as awesome as you are, and THEIR password generating algorithms of generated characters plus domain name are easily deduced from a single sample, thus making password managers far far superior to protecting against actual real world threats ("crappy website has lousy security and got breached through zero fault of mine") and not the frequently imagined threats ("I am the target of a concerted effort by extremely sophisticated attackers with infinite time/budget").
Given all the pictures in the article, I took that to mean "imagine you were in my situation", not "imagine this happened to me".
Haha. Catch and release! (And that was one or two amongst tens or hundreds.) Although probably relatively harmless, I wouldn't do it now.
You always have more power than you think, and if you really don’t it’s probably time to move on.
Yes. This is the fundamental problem with this.

For something like, HIPAA, this ads very little value if fields are semi-known.
This is why the last couple of generations of iPhones have supported "magsafe" charging, so the magnets line things up every time. Amazon has plenty of "magsafe" chargers for iPhones.

To be clear, wireless charging with "magsafe" is still slower than using a cable.
> China who banned Bitcoin but mining still continues and their are still 90 something full nodes securing the Network.

What party allows/controls those nodes?
let me know when they don't break my container images when I build them. Or support bootcamp / parallel / fusion. I agree what they are trying to do with the M1/M2 macbooks is good but right now its just an over priced email checking / movie watching machine. I rather get a tablet for that.
What We Can Learn from the Dramatic Dip in Divorce Among Millennials (2019)
Solving the photoelectric effect gave birth to the field. He just didn't like the monster he had created.
Wow.

For those old (or well-read enough in history) enough to have a sense of just how dominant Germany once was, world-wide, in science, technology, chemistry, optics, etc. etc....this news feels kinda like a tombstone of German identity.
I'm going to be using your microinverters for my solar setup for that specific reason. (Finding an installer that knew about them was pretty hard though)
How much is r&d spending in big pharma? Please enlighten us. If you think I'm wrong, you are free to prove it.
Wow, this is beautifully done.

The site mentions the decryption key is released when the note is "cut". Does that mean there's something enclosed in the bill, and you have to physically cut it open to extract it?
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I've been saying this for a while. I remember so many as a child, so it's only anecdotal, but there has been a very noticeable decline.
Very cool. I'm on the reserve list. How much will you charge per pack?
There is one case, which I believe is a common one where I would argue this might not be true -- a crypto savvy family member is the first person to purchase and load the notes before gifting them to you.

But, fair point. I would always err on the side of recommending someone scan a note rather than not.
To me that was the only realistic thing given that some of the biggest vulnerabilities in the past laid dormant for many years before being discovered.
Do you own a tablet and a laptop, by chance? Maybe have 3 other family members, each with some combination of said three devices? That can quickly become a lot of household chargers if they are all different.
Yeah, I do find the fact that Bitcoins are not in fact fungible darkly amusing.
I basically don't code outside of work unless I have a specific need or improvement to make.

I like coding just fine, but I get my "fix" at work and have plenty of kids and chores at home.
Makes a lot of sense. Babashka will be faster than Clojure as well.

Where Clojure shines, is long-running processes. Try the same benchmark, but instead printing "hello world" 1000000x times and compare it, and you'll have a benchmark showing Clojure's strength rather than weakness.

In the end, benchmarks usually show what the author(s) wanted to show with the benchmark.
I think it is important to remember the context of the discussion. I think I it is completely reasonable, and not odd at all, to have a utilitarian view of science, when you are talking about spending $100 Billion.
This feels like a Rick and Morty episode to me. They just reinvented cash money, with extra steps.

Only, without the oversight of a central bank.. Without the means to keep the exchange rate in check. They can't change the rate of interest or anything else.

So far with crypto the only use cases seems to be criminal. To buy illegal stuff and for ransomware. Maybe it could be useful in countries where the currency is devalued like some in South-America. But then all the extra steps seem to be a big hurdle to me.

Someone enlighten me on the merits of this idea.
6.39 lbs, huge screen but really low PPI. surely that thing's more of a portable desktop than a laptop?
Faster has a usefulness all its own
PlanetLab
I agree that regulation is a useful tool for society. As a quasi-libertarian, I just want to explain one reason why libertarians don't like regulation. Facebook is calling for regulation on censorship... a business is asking to be regulated... this means that it's within there profit incentive to ask for government control. They must have a high level of confidence that they can mold regulation to suit their needs. The financial industry is probably one of the most corrupt industry when it comes to private-regulatory cooperation. I believe that crypt regulation will be to the advantage of all the high profile financial players that have moved into the space.

Bashing regulation for the sake of bashing regulation is a bit reductive. However, assuming regulation is the government applying order to chaos is also a bit reductive.
I think you underestimate the number of people who don't realize that "drug drop shipping" is a thing. In the US at least, you go to your doctor, they send your prescriptions to your local pharmacy, and then you hope/pray it's cheap (depending on your insurance) when you go pick it up. There is no discussion of "where" to send them and what is an "affordable" pharmacy vs "expensive".

Is my local CVS an "expensive pharmacy"? No clue, but before Cuban's website I didn't even consider that these type of businesses could help lower my drug costs even below what I pay WITH insurance.

There's also a huge disconnect between people who occasionally need prescriptions, and those that rely on prescription medication daily. If you get one script a year it probably doesn't matter, but if your disease requires a drug that costs $5K/month, you get very informed, very fast.
Did the physicists working on early QM know that it would be so useful? Or were they, like the scientists at CERN, just trying to piece together a model of reality?
Good luck actually being able to use it. The biggest problem I have I being forced into using CVS because the insurance side has merged with the pharmacy side and requires that I use their services for most things. On a side note, the service quality they provide is terrible and they have repeatedly sent me false information regarding my family's prescriptions.

The insurance companies are one of the main problems. It sounds like this doesn't solve that.
> Investors in casinos are not made while for changes in gambling laws.

What about the people seated at the tables in the middle of a hand?
> I can walk into a physical store of my phone company and have a new simcard in minutes

This doesn't work in all countries.

> Setting up forwarding takes a couple minutes. This isn't like leaving WhatsApp where you are stuck

I find this unsatisfying. In this day an age, your email is often your id. I don't feel comfortable with my id being one thing to some people, and another to others, without rhyme or reason. I'm also not comfortable with having forward configured in an (allegedly) unsafe account I may lose access to.
...something other than a military, which is a step forward.
> Not a trick question, I’m curious to see if the US have some outlier health measure that it aces, sometimes it happens!

I appreciate that, no worries.

Without looking I would go for any cancer statistic, as the UK is often terrible in those[1]. So, I did a search of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators[2] (as they're the ones used to compare countries) to see if I was right. (As an aside, I look at these every few years and the last time I looked I found some surprising stats, like the ones about child mortality in the States, but occasionally there's a more complex reason behind a poor statistic[3]). Anyway, it seems I was (sadly) right:

## Breast cancer 5 year net survival
France 86.8 87.2 86.7
United Kingdom 79.8 83.8 85.6
United States 88.9 89.8 90.2

## Colon cancer 5 year net survival
France 60.7 63.6 63.7
United Kingdom 52.0 56.5 60.0
United States 64.7 65.5 64.9

Those are the age-standardised survival (%) spread across 3 different time periods (I didn't want to have to reproduce the whole thing so you don't get everything labelled!:)

Anyway, those are the first two I looked at. I've done this before and honestly, the US system holds up very well. I'm sure it does even better if it's adjusted for economic class - which obviously opens up a barrel of probably quite fair criticism. I know that some on here complain about how the US can bankrupt you if you get sick, but I'd take that over the UK's system in a heart beat. Not sure about France, though it does seem to have a more sane system than the UK.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201111165643/https://www.nhs.u...

[2]
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=51882

[3] https://academyhealth.org/node/1891

Edit: missed off a markdown link ref
Infineon doesn't count?
> They'll eventually need a JIT, once all the easy wins in runtime perf have been exhausted.

How soon is "eventually"? :-)

Python is 31 years old at this point, and incredibly popular. If JIT hasn't happened yet, what eventuality will finally make it happen?

For comparison, Javascript had incredibly mature JIT implementations by the time it reached its 15th year of existence.
We don't have pricing ready just yet -- roughly in the Opendime territory.
What does a student need the MS Office package for in a school context?
I have nothing to add, but I'm using IQ7+s on the roof. It's grid-tied, but they've consistently worked great, and Enlighten's API is shockingly (pun intended) nice to use.
Agreed, that's one case where I could see myself trusting someone here.
I assume you don't quite break even.

I really support 4x9, though, for a lot of reasons. It should become a work norm (and 36 hours set as the nominal workweek by government).

- I do think productivity will go up some, and the fall in output will be less than 10%. Split the difference, and call it 5%.

- Because there will be some fall in output, and because there are some professions where you need butts-in-seats for coverage... I think it will, by reducing the supply of labor, push up the equilibrium price and get more people into skilled work.

- It's a hedge against automation reducing demand for labor.

- I think we'll recognize a lot of ancillary benefits from reduction of commute times, etc.

- It's a massive difference in quality of life.
> But this gets folded in with a sort of handwavy argument about the gap-buffer enabling a certain kind of low-level programming

Did we read the same thing? The article explicitly disclaims the underlying data structure as irrelevant!

Fancier programmers may talk about ropes and gap buffers as a way of optimizing how you store and modify text, and yet I must insist that this is still not a good enough answer to explain what a buffer is in Emacs. It’d satisfy the technical answer, but not the philosophical one.

The words "gap", "data structure", etc. don't appear at all in the article after that.
>Color me shocked if it ends up harming independent pharmacists, though

Should I care? They're still middlemen at the end of the day.
I stopped doing this when I realized I hadn't used a single paper one in about 50 flights.
> That’s a really interesting point. I wonder if there are “artificial exohearts” or something that we could install on the extremities to keep vital body fluids like blood and lymph flowing when the heart is not strong enough.

Isn't that basically a g-suit, like fighter pilots already wear?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-suit

Also, from that page:

> The resting g-tolerance of a typical person is anywhere from 3–5 g depending on the person.
I appreciate you calling out some, let's call them un-nicities, that aren't usually spelled out when this comes out.

All of that said, I don't think that makes the idea BS. The company is able to save many people money on prescriptions, which is a good thing. That Cuban or his company makes money on the way shouldn't bother us in the least (unless/until we ever get single payer).
Plus the expense of maintaining two different wardrobes.
I studied particle physics. The math requirements were similar to what you're listing, though I dabbled slighlty beyond that.

Today, I wish I'd done a lot more math and statistics before focusing on exclusively physics, even if it'd cost me another 1-3 semesters.

I was spending way too much time trying to re-invent the wheel (statistics) in the experimental part, and particle physics really assumed quite a bit more math than what was listed as prerequisites, simply because the university didn't want to delay progression. (To compensate, the bar at the exam was set pretty low.)
There's a really wide gulf between building something in a lab and scaling production to some industrially useful level. The money spent on the LHC wasn't just lot on fire in a giant pit. It went to contractors that took lab scale prototypes or just paper designs and built them at scale.

Building a one inch super conductor in a lab might be straightforward but cost a million dollars. That lab process doesn't scale to building seventeen miles of superconductor. The LHC needed 4722 miles of superconducting cable. Simply manufacturing that much cable led to advances in superconductor manufacturing and design. Even then the LHC's particular superconductors only work if you've got the operating budget to use liquid helium to cool them.

The money spent went into research to develop the components necessary for the design and then into the production of those components. The LHC wasn't some item picked out of a catalog. Many of its components only existed on paper when it was designed.

No one is just going to pump development dollars into some paper design and hope someone somewhere finds a use for it. The LHC's superconductors advanced the state of superconductors in general but no one was going to do that work without an end goal and a budget.

Military development ends up with a similar model. Requirements for a desired capability are given to a contractor and they need to figure out how to build it. Sometimes that development is easy and other times it's difficult and expensive. Contractors definitely make a profit and pad co tracts but that money does pay people to do things. The requirements and funding create a market for the development for technologies that meet those requirements.
But the problem will still be exactly the same, because not all USB-C cables are created equal.

We've basically set in stone a standard that is so varied that the standardization means nothing. And that's before you get into any component actually wearing out and giving you degraded performance on the device or cable.
This is absolutely baffling to me. I live in the UK and was given a non-NHS prescription after a diagnosis for ADHD, and a month's medication is £13. Why are pharmaceuticals in the US so expensive?
Anecdata: we haven't seen that with Azure. At least you have an SLA, so they'll refund/discount you.
Software engineers are expensive too.
I guess, you can easily confirm if it's counterfit
Hey, this is a beautiful product, and a nice idea. If the value of Bitcoin ever stabilizes, then this could really work.

From my perspective as a Bitcoin (and related) skeptic, here's what turns me off, probably an easy fix:

> Secure your spot

> Reserve your spot in line for one of the first 2100 Bitcoin Note packs shipping this summer. ...

...and...

> Limited First Edition

> The first release of the Bitcoin Note will only be 2100 packs of low serial number notes. ...

This turns me off because I hear the same pitch in almost every other ICO-like event: "Get yours now, while it's still juicy and sweet".
"the definition of "overheads" as justifiable makework according to some value set". What does this even mean? How is this "a value" that's "carried" in "Big Tech" software? What part of "the reality of using Big Tech products" produces makework? Making such a broad, sweeping generalization about an entire class of make zeros sense to me. Does Facebook "justify overheads" in the same way that Netflix "justifies overheads" in the same way that Apple "justifies overheads"? Instead of just lazily blaming toil on "Big Tech", I think it's better to recognize that toil happens everywhere that people care more about short-term solutions than optimizing long-term processes—a fundamental human problem, certainly not one that's unique to the latest fad of technology companies.
Back in the day, I wrote a lot of Web applications in Chicken Scheme. Some are still running today, although they are harder to maintain now (bitrot, eroding skills on my part, etc.). I enjoyed the experience, though there was a lot of rolling-your-own to get to a finished solution. Maybe that has changed in the past 15-ish years...
So we reinvent a VISA-like entity that charges VISA-like fees to replace VISA. This seems like a very impressive and extremely novel innovation.
Nope:

https://www.apple.com/de/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

They show two models with 8gb. Period. Nothing say upgradable there, which is bad UX.

> But it is hidde in the fluff text much further down the page. Or on the next page, which you haven't opened yet.

Yeah, bad UX/lying.
Not exactly how it works, steganography can produce a plaintext, picture or whatever as a cover for the ciphertext, but the cover is not going to be identical to the original. Consequently steganalysis will be able to recover the ciphertext.

But with deniable steganography you can use a fake key to decrypt the ciphertext, so the guy standing behind you with a $5 wrench can see that you have nothing to hide.
Assembly services are all over the place. Here's a large one in Escondido, CA which is commonly used.
https://www.qptechnologies.com/about-us/company-info-bios/
Where are you getting that from? These laptops are monsters at compiling code, video editing and a ton of other professional uses. Yeah, it's a new architecture, but this 'problem' is mostly solved and the remaining issues (like actual x86 emulation that is not qslow as molasses) concerns 1% of the user base.
We have no checks in place like this today, but that's an interesting suggestion. Sounds like some sort of OFAC address checker?
This is great timing. I just started learning Janet yesterday. I look forward to working with this framework.

On a related note, I like the use of katakana in the name of the framework, but シoy would be pronounced "shi-oy." It should be ジoy, which would be closer (ji-oy).
They can still sell warranties, paint protection packages, dealer installed accessories, tire and wheel protection, etc
Well they are clearly not dark fibers as the cut is causing issues?
> Only, without the oversight of a central bank.. Without the means to keep the exchange rate in check. They can't change the rate of interest or anything else.

You seem to have nailed the use case well. This is exactly why'd someone use something like this.

I'm not saying it's a good idea (nor a bad one), just that those things are "features" in the eyes of the cryptocurrency users and proponents, not bugs.
Mathematics is the language in which Nature writes it autobiography.
Good!

I'd be happy to pay a small amount monthly for the service, its made my life as a furry and event planner much less complex, the ability to be able to quickly spin up a group chat with interested parties makes planning all manner of things easier.
As others have pointed out, even if all these devices have a USB-C hole on them, the likelihood that you could actually use their charger with another device (especially of a different class) is at best a coin toss.

The devices still have to ship with chargers, you still have to find the “right” charger, but now you can’t tell them apart?

My main thought is just that the problem of different chargers is not one I think requires sweeping regulatory intervention; but I’m not an EU voter. :)
I'm going to go full science fiction here: if someone were to let off an EMP (so beloved by 1990s action movies) would any of these notes within range irreversibly lose access to the associated crypto?
> the law can be changed

Basically there will never be a usb-d.
Humans act extremely quickly - in geological terms. That's part of the problem, of course. Unfortunately, it stands to reason that OP meant quickly in human terms.