skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is wrong. They stopped their miners and thus freed up electricity to be used in other more acutely important industries. Bitcoin mining is very predictable and can be turned on and off at a moments notice. It works great as a grid stabilizer.

By making agreements with miners ERCOT can sell electricity cheaply during times of excess (where energy simply just goes into the ground) and in situations like these, they ask the miners to turn off their machines, preventing large spikes in electricity prices due to lack of supply. The question that should be asked is how much electricity did ERCOT sell to the miners?

Absolutely brilliant way to incentivice the build-out of cheap energy sources (wind, solar), since you always have a "buyer of last resort" - the bitcoin miners.
I don't think so because the pace of research matches the pace of the money involved in serious real-estate investing.

Serious real-estate investing is a wealth retention business with multi-generation timeframes.

Generally, it solves the problem of what do you do with several billion dollars. At the low end, maybe it's only a few hundred million, but that will be mostly dumb luck.

This means that serious real-estate investing and most of the money in it has full time staff evaluating options.

The criteria are not school districts but cash flow and traffic analysis.

Serious investors are not bargain shopping because the price of the busy corner doesn't matter when Walgreens wants to build two thousand feet of pharmacy surrounded by fifteen thousand feet of shit for sale just to get you in the door.

And the price of the other busy corner doesn't matter to CVS either because what was true for the Walgreens corner pretty much holds for it too.

All that to say that what you are talking about is building a tool for amateurs and amateurs don't spend the kind of money it would take to support it.

Because all real-estate is local.

Good luck.
>It is literally impossible.

You can do this in Powerquery.

>VLOOKUP when the data type of the 2 columns is not exactly the same for example).

Use XLOOKUP.
Do you want to have the language as a living language or as a fossilized relic? It's long been a complaint of the gaelgoir crowd that Irish people do not use the Irish language and they're losing touch with the culture.

A consequence of the push for more widespread usage of the language that came from that is that a language in use evolves. Even English language media from 50 years ago is markedly different in the way the language is used.

So I feel the influence of the Duolingo/meetup generation of Irish language speakers is both inevitable and arguably a sign of the increased uptake of the language - if such people were small in number compared to the traditional speakers, they could not have had this outsized influence.

Also in the case of Tá/Níl as Yes/No in particular, the roots of that probably also have something to do with bilingual government forms adopting it as a space saving measure, so these new speakers have a lifetime of seeing Tá/Yes and Níl/No options on professionally translated forms that may also have primed this development.
I don't think any actual currency ever died because people out of blue stopped believing it has value. The cause was always excess of supply.

People are slow. Things first become actually worthless, then people stop believing in their value.
For the satellites this is true, but it's not necessary for the clients to be geolocated when the satellite is operating as a bent pipe. Starlink will know which clients are in which footprint and can locate anybody if they want to, but it's not fundamental to the functionality of the system.
> will predictably change as privacy technologies become more widely adopted. For example, transactions on the Monero network have been growing at an exponential rate for several years

The posts keep shifting for what governments cannot enforce. I suppose this is a natural endgame; crypto enthusiasts setting precedents for, and giving popular cause to, state expansion.

AML has never been even close to perfect. But it's enforced. Hopefully, the Monero community learns from Tornado. Instead of thumbing its nose at the law, it could try to not encourage illicit transfers in the name of some convoluted (if entirely unoriginal) interpretation of financial privacy. Then it could survive and become something novel, like Bitcoin.
Zero Knowledge, a variety of technologies which leverage cryptographic proofs that someone knows something is true, without revealing the knowledge to the verifier. This is useful for privacy, rolling a number of transactions into one bundle, and many other use cases.
> Does this extend to any cloud provider?

If it's a server on your DO account, then that counts as a server you control. They do recycle IPs eventually if you delete something but the solution there is to update your DNS.
I botched that division, off by a factor of 10.
Book of Dragon. Not modern book but it is possible to buy used copy for very cheap price.
> conflicting narratives

It’s almost as if there is no central authority.
Maybe one of the lower tier providers should use it as a differentiator.
I don't know why it's not in that article but, e.g. from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
Xbox 360 had the reset glitch hack where if you powered cycled the chip at the exact right timing you could run unsigned code. It required a small mod chip soldered to some of the smallest points on the motherboard that I have ever soldered. Different versions of the 360 worked better but most worked even if it took a minute or so before the glitched worked and booted into custom firmware. Mine worked really well and booted first try almost every time. I was very proud to successfully install it and watch my 360 boot into fsd a custom OS that allowed me to play all my games from a HDD.
Peasant: You can’t take our Bitcoins!

King: That’s a nice house you have. Give 1000 Francs per year to our treasury OR ELSE.

Peasant: Anyone got Francs? I’ll trade you these shiny Bitcoin.
> We dont have the answers for anything here.

This very clearly must hold true for any "we" which refuses to read past the first line of an encyclopedia article.
You can prohibit public money for any reason - and we do all the time, eg forcing the state to buy only US made cars.

You can't prohibit private money use in a situation like this - especially not for a political funding thing. That is actually a freedom of speech issue.
It’s just the return of the crypto wars from the 90s. And privacy isn’t going to go down without a fight.
This does not work even in Excel 2019.

In any case, not supporting when you just double-click a CSV to open it with Excel means that it's not usable for the vast majority of users.

We faced the issue when we were exporting data to customers in CSV format, and "Replacing new lines with '/'" ended up being a preferred solution over having the user perform any action.
Then the community needs to be better about self-policing. If there are people in your group doing shady shit with your group's tech, then get rid of them. Otherwise, you start sounding like the police with "bad apples" but not all are bullshit. If you see someone doing wrong and don't sound the alarm, then you are part of the problem.
Of course. It's a clear reference to Lewis Carroll, something which I obviously remembered better than the actual title of the book. Thanks for correcting.
It’s not bad, but it’s missing a bunch of features. Auto locking after 30 seconds, clipboard clearing after 30 seconds, TOTP/HOTP interpretation just off the top of my head. May not be a problem if you’re using QubesOS, but it’s way too risky to accidentally keep an important password in your clipboard for too long.
If I may ask, which non-French dijon mustard did you bring them? As a dijon-lover myself, I just wonder what the closest match, or an acceptable substitute, to French dijon would be (I'm in the U.S.).
> If the powers that be want to punish those who contribute to abortion, they will find a way to do it, even ex-post-facto

In that case there is no room for crypto. Totalitarian regimes can execute anyone suspected of holding it.
In my jurisdiction, if I operate a pawn shop, I am required by law to record transactions, collect ID, and make good faith attempts to prevent people from laundering stolen goods through my shop.

Does "privacy is a human right" trump the law in my jurisdiction? Can we say it is improper for the government to require me to collect ID from people selling me goods? Can we say it is improper of the government to require me to keep records of who sold me what?

I take the proceeds from my pawn shop to the bank. They are required by law to collect my ID. If I deposit large amounts of cash, they have additional reporting requirements. Does "privacy is a human right" trump these laws that exist to prevent the laundering of criminal proceeds through banks?

I also have discomfort over how much data the government collects in the name of preventing the laundering of stolen goods and criminal proceeds.

But in the large, I accept that freedom is not an absolute, it is a set of careful tradeoffs between:

1. The freedom for citizens to do as they please without society limiting what we're allowed to do, versus;
2. The freedom for criminal cartels to do as they please, preying upon citizens.

The latter is important, because when criminals prey upon citizens, they reduce our freedom as well. I want the freedom to own nice things. The easier it is for criminals to steal and fence my things, the less freedom I actually have to enjoy them

I also want the freedom to run a business. When criminals can prey upon businesses with ransomware and launder the proceeds through TornadoCash, the less freedom I actually have.

A "Libertarian Paradise" where criminals are free to do as they please because we don't want to impinge upon any citizen's freedom whatsoever, is free in name only. We may not like all of the current set of tradeoffs, but we must accept that if we don't make some tradeoffs, we will not be free in any real sense.
As a Spaniard living in Ireland I couldn't detect much difference in how the Irish I heard at the popup gaeltacht event sounded compared to English as a language (though when I first visited Kerry I thought some of the older men were speaking Gaelic because of how they spoke English)

I'd expect people to not want their Irish to sound so like English (jibberish English like the Simms) but it doesn't seem to be something learners or educationists care about or are aware of
> It seems like any opinion apart from "we're all gonna die!" is just mercilessly attacked.

Well, what you see depends on where you look. Where are you looking?

Perhaps it is time for you to look elsewhere?
Better to give you less privileges than too many. And if you really need the freedom to things that you can’t. You could always use VMs, if needed.
pass

We use it because PGP has been through hell and back with security audits. Combined with the fact that everyone gets their own key gives you a lot of control over the ecosystem. At the end of the day it's just git + pgp, two bulletproof technologies you probably are already familiar with.

All shared passwords suffer from irrevocability, no matter your password storage solution.
> Are exercise highs real? Do all people experience them or is it a genetic niche?

I think peoples descriptions of exercise highs are overblown in general. When I was training hard I'd feel pleasantly worn out afterwards and would certainly agree that I got the endorphins flowing.
Hmm... When I read "hundreds of thousands" I assume more than 100,000. Is that incorrect understanding of English?
> Australia has had a thing against Google.

Is there someone that doesn't?
ASDF is also just below QWERTY
The patents expired shortly afterward. I figure some lawyers made some money at big companies in the 2-3 year window where they could.
Yes, he is a bit of a micro manager. He expects to be included in all design/architecture meetings and expect us not to start/reschedule unless he is there. He wants to review all design/architecture before allowing the project to start. He will randomly call out existing code in our repos and expect us to rewrite it to his standard. He has had us rewrite existing production applications (even though business is happy with it) because the design/code is not to his standard.
> The right to privacy ends at the moment that it is used as an excuse to evade the law.

With your logic we’d lose 100% of our privacy.

Privacy of your own home? You could setup a drug lab.

Privacy of your own phone/computer? Can run an illegal operation.

Privacy of your own USD cash? Could be used for illegal transactions.

The better question: what privacy is there that couldn’t theoretically be
used to evade the law?
They are having their attention and habits hijacked via video from TikTok instead. I'd argue that's not better, at all.
In fact, in cantonese to say no you would just add negation to ‘yes’.

hai/mh hai

‘Hai’ is basically used as yes but it’s actually the verb to be, so essentially yes is more like ‘{subject} is’.
That's what I meant to say. FB friends = friends + acquaintances, which should be around 150 for average people
It's maybe not making them look "legitimate" but it's definitely making some funds look a lot less illicit than they are.
I think you missed the part about using desktop mode. On Safari it’s the option “Request Desktop Website” on the menu that comes up when you tap the “aA” icon on the site.
> Using a mixer has probably 99.9% illegal reasons and 0.1% legitimate uses

Similar to people using paper money or end-to-end encryption really. Nobody needs military-grade encryption or anonymous currency unless they're trying to hide something.
You're right, I should have said if the powers that be want to punish those who they find out contributed to abortion. I thought that was obvious, but leave it to HN for me to actually have to explain if privacy and crypto prevents a regime from finding out someone has it, then they won't be able to punish them for it (although of course they could always punish for the mere possibility, just as a totalitarian regime could execute their whole populace).
Yeah Haskell always seemed interesting, I just never got my head around it on the couple attempts I made. Mostly surprised because languages as old as Haskell rarely see potential at another surge in popularity when they have been around this long unless something (library/framework/etc) comes along and makes people reevaluate them.
I'm not arguing for (or against) PoW.

I'm saying that zk is being targeted for ASICs (Vitalik said it himself) and that zk will require some very specific compute needs that not everyone is going to be able to provide.
It has nothing to do with that.
The numbers here are to illustrate the effort needed to solve the home assignment.
Interesting, I've been working on the same thing (with the same name)! Since I developed it at work, I had been waiting on corporate approval to open source it.

Edit: I wanted to say I definitely gained some inspiration by looking at yours.
> I don't find effectively forcing Safari on users to be a good thing. Even if it takes some market share away from Chrome, it just makes a new platform specific monopoly, and arguably a worse one with less pressure to change.

Safari has no pressure to change because it literally can't, Apple WebKit is the ONLY rendering engine on iOS.

But for Apple's love of avoiding standards, you won't usually find people who care or who are concerned about it until it actually gets in your way (your issue for example), for the most part nobody cares about USB-C not being universal for iPhones as I'm the 14-24 demographic in the US and everyone sees USB-C as the "Android" charger or even funnier the "vape" charger, and they see Lightning port as the only phone charger ever made (I genuinely had to remind my sister that 40-pin is a thing), and for example that's all I can talk on because none of the other things have genuinely got in my way (mainly because my only Apple products are over 10 years old).
Didn’t they throw away the keys to the smart contract a long time ago?
Not that bonkers really. I think the manager or responsible party is legally required to exhaust all options before refunding. It’s not about the money but about covering his bases.
I did a stint in document management for a company.

Let me disagree: All of Office is a very very very bad thing from a "shared information" standpoint. If you put information into an office document/spreadsheet/etc, it effectively locks it from use in the rest of the company, publishing, and programmatic analysis.

Suuuuure, there's lots of products out there that will offer services to extract data from your word docs, or all that adhoc data in your spreadsheet.

Extracting data from word documents is definitely in the "with a million lines of code you can do anything" camp. It's just a lot of ugly crap but its doable.

But... why?

Why have companies allowed Microsoft to make their storage formats utterly inaccessible and integration resistant? Well, it made them mints of money in monopolizing/stopping switchover to competitors, and allowed them to make money on the tools to extract/use their insufferable storage formats.

Soooo much efficiency lost.

Excel the programming and UI app is an amazing achievement (here's to Lotus 123 for making the first spreadsheet, as with everything, Microsoft didn't create it, it copied it).

But for a data creation, manipulation, and "database", it is a tragedy.
How much do they promote it? I feel like I rarely hear about Reason, but I might simply be looking in the wrong places.
that they tried and failed is not evidence for transactions being reversible at the technical level, that's an extremely misleading interpretation on your part. we could build interbank payment systems with reversibility built in, but the matter of fact is that for the most part we haven't. payments in TARGET2 or equivalent systems are final.

what guarantees reversibility is the legal system, from which crypto is definitely not exempt, contrary to what some people (including you) seem to believe. enforceability is a different question, but if you don't have a billion-dollar balance sheet like these institutions, you'll find that it's impractical for many fiat transactions too.

think about it: when you sent some money in accident, who do you contact? the bank (which could simply revert the transaction if it was reversible), or the recipient (who will initiate a new transaction if they're acting in good faith)?
> It's a bit ridiculous that setup.py allows you to run custom code on install.

In Rust it's "worst", you can run custom code at compile time. But IMO the issue is that we are optimizing everything for convenience at the cost of security. The compile/install custom code wouldn't be an problem if each dependencies was pinned and audited.

PyPI requiring 2 factors authentication on "popular" projects will help, but this will not replace the needs for auditing, vetting and pinning.
So someone lives in a $400,000 RV in an RV park. They won't pay property tax. Say they are living inherieted money. They won't pay income tax. So sales tax would be their only tax.

Obviously this is a cherry picked example and can't represent but .1% of the population. But each lever you pull for tax rewards/punishes a different group. A famous example if FL has no income tax, letting retirees stretch their fixed pensions further.

In general, if a state has a lot of tourists coming to it. They won't get property tax nor income tax on the visitors, but they WILL get sales tax. So it makes sense to raise the sales tax, so that you can lower the property / income tax for people that live there yearround.
About two a week lately, maybe 50% get offered the test after a short first-contact interview. We are sub-10 person team so this is a relatively large burden for us.
I was going to say that I was fairly sure Latin didn't have "yes", but I was a C student scraping by on the peripheral historical content rather than the language.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar
Ask HN: Is Venture Capital becoming Vegas-style gambling machine?
I was reading various stories on Softbank's poor performance for the last five years. It is back to zero in providing returns for its Vision fund. Other late stage funds are undergoing a similar fate where money poured. Without any checks.

There are other stories of how founders have schemed the investors. Raised at 100X revenue valuations. Spent millions of dollars. Without a product to show. Without customer traction.

I'm an idealist. Venture Capital is a greater good. It democratizes access to capital to people who otherwise did not inherit. But nervous that this tulip mania like cycle hurts more than helps.

Are people just playing roulette? Is high-tech no longer tech? But just high on the kool-aid of unabashed flow of money?
That is the book I referenced in the OP
Exactly. I get the electric cars thing, but not the off road truck thing.

My wife and I are weird, we live deep in San Francisco, and drive 2 cars, one of which is a big diesel pickup. Wait - hear me out.

The city is great, but we need to get away. We've found the most cost effective way to do so in Northern California is to own and use the hell out of an RV travel trailer. We use out truck not to commute, not to run errands, but to drive hundreds of miles in a sitting towing a 10,000lb trailer. We can drive 300 miles towing our trailer, almost 600 without towing anything. I don't commute in it, we do this once to three times a month and it's far less expensive than buying a cabin/property or going to hotels/air bnbs.

In our use case a Rivian, Cybertruck or Lightning would be absolutely useless. If you need to drive more than 100 miles to get "out there" it's a useless vehicle. For people that use their trucks to do real stuff they're useless. If I didn't do these things, regularly tow 10k lbs hundreds of miles, I wouldn't have a truck.

I desperately wanted to go the EV route, waited even. But they just don't fit the use case for folks that actually use their trucks for more than grocery getting. They're like Range Rovers.
> were clearly politically motivated, and could not even be said to be scientifically supported. e.g. covid checks crossing borders when covid was rampant on both sides

Travellers are both highly motivated to lie about their current covid status (e.g. plane tickets, hotels, vacation days) and also very likely to be actively moving through and about multiple communities instead of quarantining on arrival. This should never have been a political issue because it's an easy, obvious testing checkpoint with clear scientific support.
Avoiding Limitations of the Google Calendar API
I didn't downvote you, but I think "implicit or unconscious ethno-centrism" might be a more suitable term than "mildly racist". At least it could have been more palatable to the HN hive mind.

From the article:

> Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the Moon. It was not until Galileo’s time, however, that scientists really began study it.

I'd agree with you that this statement ignores how scientists around the world, including European and "non-Western" cultures, have studied the moon - more or less scientifically and mathematically - for centuries before Galileo. (In the case of Aryabhata, a millenium earlier.)
The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal
Other news on web scraping world at https://thewebscraping.club/p/a-brief-wrap-up-of-the-latest-...
Usually such PyPI packages with malware are typo-squatting other, well-known packages. They count on people making mistakes in their pip command-lines or requirements.txt or whatever. But "secretslib"? It doesn't ring a bell as a typo for anything. Authors also can't be counting on people installing it organically because the package had no long description of what it supposedly pretended to do. So what was the plan here?
Pull request: Removes OFAC blacklist from flashbots