skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The figures in that video are a little out of date. The Wikimedia Foundation last reported assets of $231 million, along with an additional $100+ million in its Endowment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

Internet hosting costs $2.4 million; the main expenditure item is salaries:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

Salaries are quite high; comparing the Form 990 (lines 5 and 15 on page 1) for the Internet Archive with that of the Wikimedia Foundation, average salary costs per employee at Wikimedia are more than twice what they are at the Internet Archive (bear in mind that all Wikipedia articles are written by unpaid volunteers):

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

Fundraising banners are currently shown to Wikipedia users in India, Latin America and South Africa. US, UK and Germany will have theirs in December, as usual.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundrais...
The book Enders Game opens with this premise.
Computing in Crip Time
What? It just means it has a massive energy capacity.
For many legal requirements, you need to provide monthly statements of accounts. You need to show balance at each closing period. Every financial account in world does this.
For example, in Scala's standard library there are a ton of implicit conversions that results in some truly horrendous behavior where types get autoconverted hither and thither if they don't match. So instead of a simple type error, you get nonsense when the compiler manages to find a way to cast A to B. And then you might get a crash because you used B wrong.

I have heard that this is one of the things that Scala 3 fixes, but I haven't done any programming in that yet.
Obviously. A lot of crypto hucksters went into "firehose of falsehoods" mode some time ago already
Couldn't have said it better myself. I think we can learn from how both Norway and Shetland handled things. While not as famous as Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Shetland did quite well out of the Sullom Voe field: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-27138927
Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas
Sounds like an actual use case for web3. There are some blockchains like NEAR built for hosting web apps.
The author speaks heavily of stable coins. The first stable coin came a half decade after BTC...

Also, the author doesn't know how to spell Bitcoin...

Also, wtf are major promises? 1 Bitcoin still equals 1 Bitcoin, and YRMV is the watchword of the space--snake oil salesmen aside.

That said, for the space as a whole, plenty of people are pro and plenty are anti. Unfortunately either take gets upvoted these days due to the polarizing emotions.
Colour me sceptical of the in depth knowledge of this poster, since he insists on making nitpicks about orthography, without providing any substantive comments of his own. The leads me to believe that the poster isn't well-versed enough in the article to be able to make comments such as these.
You neglect to mention that Tether's alleged assets have not had a reputable audit published in a long time. And that the people who control it have already demonstrated an ability and willingness to utilize those assets for whatever they please.

"The order further finds that Tether and Bitfinex’s combined assets included funds held by third-parties, including at least 29 arrangements that were not documented through any agreement or contract, and that Tether transferred Tether reserve funds to Bitfinex, including when Bitfinex needed help responding to a “liquidity crisis.”"

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21
This is not true, not even remotely
I don’t think the counter examples people are already posting here undermine the fact that these are some of the dominant forces in gaming. Every cultural medium behaves this way (if I wanted to bore everybody I would add “once it’s co-opted by capital”).

Ultimately all you can ask yourself is whether it’s still possible to have new and transformative experiences with games (or art or film or TV) and for the most part the answer is still yes. I was surprised the author pointed to what appears to be a pretty straight Robotron clone with vampires as an example of newness that was quickly absorbed into game design memetics. Perhaps that indicates that given a long enough timeframe things can be forgotten and rediscovered, instead of being constantly mined into oblivion.
That it wasn't hard-earned money but simply a product of exploiting what society provided to them: skilled labour and collective time to build their vision.

They might manage this vision, take on more risk, etc., nothing about that is work enough for them to be rewarded orders of magnitude what they pay others to exploit them. It's a very basic morality issue, better that society wastes the product of exploitation than a single individual.
I definitely remember those awful days in the 90s. Escape Velocity made them less painful though :p
> I don't know how you can be so condescending as to say you know everything there is to know about workers and I don't.

Because I am working class.

Workers are way too close to reality to ever get seduced by such ideas, they create things with their own hands, so they understand perfectly well that this needs to be done, to create any value for anyone.

It's only sheltered middle class people with bullshit jobs who come up with the idea that we could somehow just get rid of this annoying work.
Swiss airspace re-opens after ‘technical malfunction’
Oh? Do we like it better than last pass?
And currency was once backed by commodities.
You can also generate Vega(lite) JSON: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
And then pick your favourite language/library that generates that : https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ecosystem.html
If needed you can switch to a different library/language while keeping the end result the same (or use different libraries/languages for different parts of your visualization, depending on which is best at a particular task)
I know talking smack about crypto is in vogue, but the author clearly doesn't know anything about crypto.

They really think inflation == price? Inflation is about total supply of something, not cross asset trade price (i.e BTC/USD, or EUR/USD).

>This idea that a central entity can’t regulate cryptocurrencies is pushed around by crypto enthusiasts. However, governments are trying to bring regulations into cryptocurrencies and stable coins.

Literally nobody claimed they were going to control the actions of governments and force them to not regulate crypto. Where did this idea come from? The claim is that they would be effective despite attempted control by governments (see Monero)

There are so many valid criticisms of cryptocurrencies that you could make. But then you'd have to actually learn something about them and that's hard to do if you've already made up your mind on something.
It would kind of feel like the old macintosh with its monochrome display. The big difference is that software for that Mac was built with that in mind... This no so much.
Does not seem practical to me.

A server accepting TLS connections would have almost always some thread doing “frequency fenced” code so the CPU would always be frequency locked. It's much more practical to just disable Turbo-boost.

A more simpler mitigation is just add noise, perform random computations so the whole algorithm is constant time + random time. Greatly increases the difficulty of gathering timing data.
Wow, this reads just like the story of the internet. And even California itself.

Started out as a strange, insular place that attracted a bunch of exuberant people who cultivated a unique and highly creative culture.

But once the capital class realized that all of these clowns created a huge opportunity, the place was occupied by powerful and unaccountable players who choked all of the joy and creativity out of it in their quest to transform it into a finely tuned and perfectly predictable money making machine.
> Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. 12 weeks plus two for every one year at the company, I think.

3-3.5 months resignation/notice period is hardly worth mentioning, pretty standard in Europe, 2 or 3 months being the usual minimum. Sure, no need to come to work and still getting salary is nice, but in the end you will get same money by European standards. And for mass layoffs standards are even stricter, so this seems like completely ordinary layoff by European standards.

It's like saying 2 years warranty is extremely generous and great, while it's the legal minimum in Europe nobody would bother to talk about, heck even 3 years feels pretty mediocre nowadays. Half of my recently bought things like washing machine, headphones or hair trimmer have 5 years warranty (after registration).

> I've had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance.

That just means you sign crappy contracts, have very low standards and don't value yourself, if any company does this to you after probation period. And it's possibly illegal even in United Slaveries of America.

> Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible.

14 weeks ain't 3.5 months any way you look at it, at best it's a few days over 3 months. Originally mentioned 12 weeks are not even 3 months.
Breakthrough in Cathode Chemistry for Lithium-Sulfur Baterries
My primary point is that if I stick to coreutils, I don't have to worry about any of this. I can reasonably expect anything in coreutils to already be installed and available. Your functions seem like they'll work just fine, but either requires build tools to be installed, or the package to support binstall. For me, thinking about all these things and maintaining something like that isn't worth it when I can just use coreutils.
The author lays out some pretty straight forward points, though. The fact that no one bothers to rebut them but instead focus on OPs credentials is quite telling of the typical crypto-bro-hype that dismisses all criticisms...
Yes, I think the decimal 1p is on the way out - at least one coffee bar in town is pricing their wares to one decimal place of pounds. Let alone the old penny (1/240th of a pound).
I loved it and I was quite pissed, after I found out that this function was killed with the update.
Yikes. Yeah, that sounds like how normal fixed-interest works here :(
But the wait time process only bypasses the manual approval step, not the private key step right? So you would still need a private key to initiate the time delay
Are there any books/courses you recommend for learning statistics at a rudimentary level?
>it wasn't exactly a less superficial time.

Bars do work way better due to 'beer goggles' (or cocktails/vodka). Usually there are other activities available, e.g. dancing/snacks
This is getting voted down, but while the percentage is debatable, it still feels somewhat true (in a limited set of contexts).

Online dating (which often gets mentioned in regards to this) gives people a sense of choice which they wouldn't necessarily get to such a degree when dating more "organically", thus it becomes easy to compare people against one another in a standardized manner and go for the ones you find to be the most appealing, which you wouldn't necessarily otherwise even meet in person. Similarly, being someone who's interesting and fun in person might also naturally catch others' attention - being the person with interesting stories, nice jokes and just someone who feels fun to be around and is confident.

If you are close to "average", this might also lead to you comparing yourself against others to a degree that is similar to the one found in social media, the effects of which on one's sense of self-worth aren't necessarily all that positive, unless they make you strive to improve yourself. People suggest that you really should socialize outside of online dating and not get too caught up in it - both to improve your social skills, gain actual friends and acquaintances, as well as become more comfortable with approaching people in the romantic context, should the opportunity present itself.

Personally, I've largely resigned myself from online dating and much of social media, though perhaps that's because of my introverted nature. Regardless, actually visiting other countries or even just participating in interest groups/events has been nice, as has been expanding my social circle - over the years, it has also lead to a relationship or two.
My father (1951) went through Tandy's Dancing Demon through text adventure games, Lode Runner, Prince of Persia, Doom and modern video games.

He went from black and white mummies movies through Rambo to Matrix.

I (1980) was raised with Lucas Arts games, and you know the rest.

The gap between my father and me is huge. He saw the entire entertaiment industry transforming, from technology and from content points of view.

I've seeing the same things since year ~2000. I am tired of nostalgia, seeing the same things over and over again... The same formula up to the point I can predict how most movies will end.

While I enjoy Ron Gilbert doing Monkey Island again, and retro games, I still expect something more. And it's not coming.

I surely can see there are more modern topics like inclusion and the kind in most American movies and games, but I don't think it's enough for a change in the industry like the ones my father saw.

And Modern tech like deepfakes will only enforce nostalgia... Entertaiment industry is stealing my middle-age.
Very cool!
Thanks for the detailed answer. I’ll check it out.
I think that blockchain is not the solution here. The fundamental problem is trust: do you or do you not trust n other parties with the information required to take over your digital life, no amount of fancy crypto engineering will get around that.

No amount if crypto will stand up to a Russian mobster with a crowbar and some creativity, like the xkcd https://xkcd.com/538/.

What you need is to develop a threat model and then select an appropriate solution that matches your threat model. If the threat is the KGB might torture me and my buddies, then kill switches are appropriate. Otherwise it’s no solution.

Perfect security doesn’t exist, it’s all about tradeoffs.
> You are still ignoring the fact that Finland has already cured the root cause.

No. If Finland had already cured the root cause, then why did we have homelessness when Housing First was initiated?

Again, a steady metric does not explain a changing metric.

> I am implying that education is a pre-requisite for any housing first approach

No it is not, and that is completely missing the point what "housing first" means. Even the name is intended to contradict your approach. It's not "education first, then housing". It's "housing first", as in, "over here we treat the symptoms not the root cause".
> USDT came to a near collapsing a few weeks ago

The author has no evidence that this is true. USDT temporarily trading under $1 during extreme market conditions does not in any way suggest that Tether ever came near to stopping 1:1 redemptions.
False.

It does not enable decentralised applications. The internet already did that decades ago.

Comparing this to the dotcom crash is disingenuous - people were over-excited in the dotcom bubble because the potential was real and clear, and eventually realised with time.

The potential here is deeply debatable and this is already the fourth or fifth such crash.

As for the technology, here is a summary of everything novel that’s been built in the space:

1) A mechanism to avoid double-spending by burning obscene amounts of energy to make it prohibitively expensive to forge.

2) A mechanism to avoid double-spending by taking the word of rich guys that all is well.

3) End of list.

Everything else already existed, and has been done significantly better in the past (e.g. De-Fi).
In vogue? It's been the status quo for nearly a decade. People are unwilling to recognize that cryptocurrency can have both positive and negative elements. It's all or nothing.
I think the best place for most of that information is a keepass file stored in an E2E-encrypted cloud (the non-sensitive stuff should be known to more than one person in the household anyway - but if you're single it can be a good idea to leave a printed sheet with contacts for all the electricity,... suppliers somewhere in your flat). The main question is how do you keep the master password both safe and accessible in emergencies?

I see some people here suggested Samir Secret sharing which sounds like a great idea. But how do you make that practical for non-technical relatives?
About time someone tries to do this. I have been thinking of that for a while now. And if they claim 60Hz refresh rate, all my concerns are gone, basically.

For a laptop, I'd like to see how light-weight they can get it, if the battery becomes tiny. Or, other way round, how many days it will last, given a common battery size.

There is a survey linked in the article, where they ask for other devices. I'd also like to try it a monitor, and especially, as a smart phone.
> Might be worth taking advantage of this good period to do some relationship strengthening exercises while you can so that when the next downturn happens, you can both understand each other's and your own feelings better.

Not too long ago, my wife and I got the suggestion to schedule a weekly "open-faced hour". It has worked wonders for understanding each other, which has positive effects on every aspect of our relationship.
Please be more explicit. Do you need to be top 1%? Or?
Ooh, that's useful. PLCrashReporter actually does a darn good job with capturing crashes. But what it can't capture is when iOS force kills the app (watchdog, memory, etc). MetricsKit looks like it has all sorts of useful data for capturing data about that. I was vaguely aware of MetricsKit but didn't realize how far it had come. Thanks!
Tinder Wants Money. We Want Love. The Solution: Socialize Dating Apps
I wouldn't argue that it might be helpful, who knows, just the study in question does not rule out what I said and neither does anecdotal evidence
The Xerox Star 2-button mouse behavior was also quite different than what we would expect today. The Star would feel very odd to someone used to Mac OS, Windows or any other desktop from the last 40 years.

I did a small thread about it some times ago, with cool pictures from the Star manual to illustrate:

https://twitter.com/juliendorra/status/1445017080768647180

summary:

The Xerox Star mouse had 2 buttons, but it's quite mysterious today what was the use of the 2nd button, as it's nothing like the right mouse button of a standard Windows PC. I had to dig up the manual and even launch an emulator to really get a sense of how different it was.

On Xerox Alto the mouse had 3 buttons that were confusing for users:

"We observed that the dozens of Alto programs all had different semantics for the mouse buttons "

When designing the Xerox Star UI, the team knew they needed to go for less mouse buttons. And they wanted to go for a one-button mouse. But, by their own admission in a paper at the time, they couldn’t find a way!

So they settled on a two button mouse, where both buttons are needed to complete selection tasks, even thinking that it was not possible to have proper GUI interaction with less than 2 buttons.

Their main issue was that inheriting the Alto ways of selecting, they couldn’t find a way to make selection easy for users with one single mouse button.

For example to select text, you clicked with the left button at the start of your selection, then with the right button at the end.

Of course on Macintosh all operations that needed 2 buttons on the Star could be done with one button thanks to drag to select and drag-and-drop!

Jef Raskin had been set on a one-button mouse early on, and he solved it with click-and-drag to select icons (and text)

But the Star team was stuck in a sort of UI local maxima…

And the right button on Star had other varied usages depending on the context, like adjusting windows or jumping in documents. So they didn’t even really manage to lift the Alto confusing changing semantics, which was the initial goal when going from 3 to 2 buttons.
Lucky you, if you dont have genetics were anesthesia do not work properly. Then find a doctor, who accepts that problem and gets it over with painful but fast.

The hardest part is if you have a dentists that insist on anesthesia must work, but it wont, so you must act your ass off to prentend to not be in pain, so he wont push syringe after syringe, doing nothing and waiting for 15 minutes in between while your tooth is already open with the root canal drills in.
My partner and I agreed to put under seal the password of our respective password managers and laptop and phone logins. That's 90% of it already.
Raccoons and bears have pretty impressive puzzle solving skills, as anyone who has tried to keep them out of a garbage can will note. Although bear strength is a bit of a crutch, there's also the whole escalating food puzzle game between them and hikers.

Cats, I think people just mistake their uncooperative nature for some sort of mysterious wise aloofness.
Time and time again, low-substance high-hate articles about cryptocurrencies rise to #1 spot. This is not healthy. At this point I think it would be good to discourage all cryptocurrency discussion: I don’t think we are yet capable of having them.
I never knew cigarettes increased testosterone - I would have expected the opposite... Don't know what to think about that.
Aside: giving a new exploit a catchy name, a top level domain and a logo doesn't make it more dangerous that it really is.

After Heartbleed, this trend is becoming common and annoying and feels more and more like crying wolf.
I think the eventual dream is that people will exchange goods and services in crypto and bypass the necessary step of currency conversion.
According to Tether, USDT was never close to collapsing. Even USDD which depeged a bit still holding strong at 0,97$. Considering how unstable the market is I find that pretty good.
This resonate deeply for me.

My dad unexpectedly passed away recently, and there were a lot of problems because we didn't even know his phone unlock PIN (to be fair, he did told us several time, just that none of us bothered to remember). But one of the main problems is that tons of research fund is tied up in my dad account, so it's basically frozen until we can execute his will.

My mom manage my dad tax return so at least we think we know where all his money and debts are.

This event prompted most of my dad co-worker to create something like this cheat-sheet.
>1 Bitcoin still equals 1 Bitcoin

How can this be true without fungibility?

If 1btc equaled 1btc, then why does virgin bitcoin hold a premium over circulated ones? And why do coins seized by law enforcement sell for bellow market value?

Clearly, when you have a transparent and traceable ledger, your coin's history will come back to bite you.

https://cryptogeek.info/en/blog/what-is-virgin-bitcoin-and-w...
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/us-government-to-auction...
Inflation is when the value of your money goes down because prices go up (i.e. the prices "inflate"). If I could buy 1000 loaves of bread with 1BTC last year, but this year I can only buy 900 loaves with that same 1BTC, that's inflation.

The most common form of inflation is due to an increasing money supply, but it (as demonstrated with Bitcoin) can have other causes.
Some people say electronics of any sort are a nightmare. Where do you draw the line?
We never implied that smart contracts were legally binding. They are just code, code can by buggy.
Also, the relationship between qualia and intelligence is a mystery. Maybe spiders or ants "feel" more or are more subjectively "alive" than us, or in a complete different qualia space. Maybe in qualia matters we are closer to rocks than them.