skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin has failed as a means for payment and after almost 15 years nothing legitimate has come from it.

All people have used for it is gambling, speculation and ruining the planet.

Nobody, not even merchants are using Bitcoin for payments.
Moving to another centralized service is just getting on the same wagon again. 'email' doesn't go down, that's not even a coherent concept.
Depends on which Linux, on which hardware.

If you pick well-supported hardware and a distro that's designed to "just work" without too much customization (and commit to not changing everything), such as Fedora Silverblue, it really doesn't take more time than Windows or Mac. Probably less even, assuming you know each OS equally well.
Those are all examples of the brains response.

The body is the trigger but the brain is the source of the symptoms.
There was a long debate about this, and the conclusion was:

There is one way to read toml, but a lot of ways to write it (do you preserve formatting, what do you do with comments, do you allow partial updates...). Therefor reading is easy to get right, but writing less so, and once it's in the stdlib, we can't make quick changes to the API.

Since reading is already very useful, and tomli author's is ready to provide that for free, let's include it now and see writing later.
Yes! Spill the tea!
There's plenty of examples of 0day drive-by attacks being deployed to general public targets through ad-networks.
You should know that an appeal to follow ESG practices is likely to be found illegal right?

I know references and facts arn't as fun as emotional pleas and comparing investing for financial growth to cancer... but lets try it anyway?

> in May, under the banner of promoting ESG, nearly 50% of Travelers Insurance shareholders asked the company to break the law. Full stop. Specifically, about 47% of its investors backed a shareholder proposal that would have caused the company to collect and consider race when writing insurance policies, in direct violation of state law. [1]

> “Our states will not idly stand for our pensioners’ retirements to be sacrificed for BlackRock’s climate agenda. [2]

> "As fiduciaries, trustees must act in ways that financially benefit the trust and its beneficiaries. Trustees who fail to do so are liable for damages to the beneficiaries, and may face additional legal penalties. The social and environmental goals involved in ESG investing create a greater potential for violations of fiduciary law by introducing motives for investment choices outside the traditional definition. Are trustees selecting ESG-focused mutual funds because they believe they are suitable investments, or do they merely hope to make the world a better place by deploying capital under their control according to socially pressured or personally held beliefs?" [4]

Of course, that doesn't stop well meaning fools from trying to change the definition of words to make what they are doing not illegal.

> As the landscape for investment changes, so too does the notion of fiduciary duty. The processes and approaches used to guide investment decisions have evolved over time in response to changes in the generally accepted understanding of market behavior. We are again at an inflection point. As the evidence and rationale behind addressing material and business related impacts of ESG factors in the investment process further develops and is increasingly accepted, so does our understanding of these factors through a fiduciary lens. [3]

[1] - https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/24/is-environm...

[2] - https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton...

[3] - https://www.intentionalendowments.org/fiduciary_duty_is_not_...

[4] - https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2022/07/an-esg-investing-haz...
It actually does not matter what work looks like the important part are the results. I think that's generaly one of the worst problem at job. People being "busy" without any results and people that seems to calmly delivere. Usually management favors the first kind as it feels like no struggle no work is being done.
Docker Launches a First Preview of Its WebAssembly Tooling
Docker Engine uses the same containerd container runtime as the rest of the Docker ecosystem, but instead of using runc to run the container processes, it uses the WasmEdge runtime. While Docker doesn’t go into details here, the promise of WasmRdge is that it offers significantly faster startup times compared to Linux containers and that WasmEdge apps are significantly smaller (and run faster).
I use Graphviz dot syntax to configure entire cloud computing environments in the order they must be built. This is pipelines as code and infrastructure as code

It's very powerful! Not every organisation can bring up an entire environment with one command of documentation their infrastructure with Graphviz.

Here is a executable diagram of a build worker cloud nodes, Kubernetes, consul, vault, Debian package server, Java app, SSH bastion, Prometheus, grafana, DNS and security groups.

https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle/blob/master/docs/archite...

The tool also parallelises the build based on the graph so for example packer builds can run in parallel.

https://devops-pipeline.com/

It also has a GUI but as a tool it's not ready for other people to use.
The Limits and “Good” of Public Goods
Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balancing.

The fact that these systems are centralized in management does not mean that they need to have any SPOFs.

Also, the Apple App Store and iOS activation servers are the biggest SPOFs of all. Without them, even with a brand new working device, you can't activate it or install apps to communicate.
Turn-based combat is a pretty big one, as far as I can tell.
Calls for song: https://youtu.be/mjfT2joaJxs
Quite true. It would be better, though, to be able to use an instant messaging system using a simple identifier lie an e-mail address, as an alternative to a phone number. Simply because there are quite some people out there who mainly want to message on a computer, and want to keep only some kind of messages on their phones.
One of the things Pyenv let's you do is to use a specific version of Python within a folder. Poetry will sometimes fail to detect it and use whatever version is used globally instead.
I'm not the one making the claim here.

The claim is other people saying "don't use an old OS/mitigations turned off because of drive-by malware."

I am the one asking for proof of this. I know the vulnerability is real, but is there malware on the web, right now, that I might chance upon and risk my data?
I'm using it right now for faster compile times, following instructions from Perseus repo (Perseus is a web framework) https://framesurge.sh/perseus/en-US/docs/next/reference/comp...
JPMorgan's Athena platform is 35M lines of Python. Probably not too relevant here though as it's all Python2 code...
Oh man I've not read highscalability in years! Shame it only seems to be Stuff the Internet Says and sponsored posts these days. Used to love their articles.
> You can make a series of breaking changes and only then declare a new release

That means you need to postpone the breaking changes for a while, kind of bunching them together. Many projects do that, but it also incurs some cost.

> After all, it took (at least) 21 years to get from 0 to 3.0.0

It's possible that they did not implement semantic changes in the strict sense before and included small breaking changes into non-major releases (I think a lot of software does this). Fast changes of version numbers may just mean they started reflecting each small BC break into the version number.
M-x version away
MacOs sort-of has that, too. Control-K and control-Y cut and paste to a separate clipboard (at least in TextEdit.app, with its emacs-like key bindings)
Could it be that OP just misses the good old days? Many of us miss the OS X Snow Leopard and windows XP days.
And yet we're told Uncle Sam believes in the free market? We don't have Capitalism. We have Crony Capitalism. The latter has little to do with the former.
People have always done that, but down votes don’t actually matter so why worry about it?

I make plenty of comments knowing people will downvote them based on content and still ended up so much positive karma it would take serious effort to burn it all.
"Telegram is more secure than mass market messengers like WhatsApp and Line." https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-secure-is-telegram
>It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon

I believe it would be called rationalization[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)
> If it's actually true that such a loan is riskier, then the bank acted correctly.

Oh my god. We are not going to speed run racial discrimination in lending products again. Once is enough for me. This is actually specifically illegal.

> "What are the U.S. fair lending laws? Fair lending laws in the United States prohibit lenders from discriminating based on specific protected classes (such as race, color, national origin, and religion) during any aspect of a credit transaction." [1]

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/the-history-of-lending-discrimi...
Normally you'd take 2mg B-complex, but here you would take 2,000mg B1 HCL (that's where megadosing comes from). The effects are vastly different to the regular dose, improving enzymatic affinity in mitochondrial processes, breaking down lactic acid and lowering intracranial pressure. Also, megadosing with the whole B-complex is dangerous as some B vitamins are toxic in large quantities. B1 is considered safe.
I do not understand, how can plasma travel at 3.3% the speed of light in the air? Wouldn't it still need to fight the pressure of the air and by that definition the moment a projectile at 3.3% the speed of light bounces against of speck of air that plasma will immediately release most of it's energy dispersing in various directions?
Matrix/Element iOS builds send all notifications (by Apple's design) through centralized developer-run servers that wake up your client app to talk to your homeserver.

There's no way for you to avoid SPOFs for notifications on Apple devices, because APNS is designed so that the only way you can wake up an app to talk to an API is via notifications sent from the developer of that app.

This means that if the APNS servers go down (unlikely), or that the vector.im notification relay servers go down, nobody using Element on iOS gets any notifications.

It also means that vector.im sees all of the notification events (who got notified when), though I don't believe they see the notification content. The notifications (I speculate) are simply app wakeup events that make the app then contact the homeserver to see what it has new.
て Form in Japanese
"emacs -version"
It is surprising that in 2022 this is still a popular misconception, even on a site like Hacker News.

The amount of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain handles does not impact how many transactions can be done in Bitcoin via higher layers like the Lightning Network.

I think the reason is that secure and trustless payment methods are a new thing that only came up a few years ago, and nothing like it existed before in the history of mankind.

There have been higher layers like banknotes that "represented" gold, but it always involved trust to use them.

With cryptographic solutions like Bitcoin+Lightning, no trust is needed anymore.
Why if you already know tech, tax might be a career for you
How is that different from putting the two in a separate space? Honest question, I'm still failing to see a single problem that Stage Manager solves.
Like the UI changes in Windows 11? Surface hardware? Windows Store?
In a way it already has lead to worse outcomes. For example, ESG campaigning has successfully discouraged investment in oil and gas production especially in democratic Western countries. The result of this is that there's now insufficient production capacity and prices and profits have gone sky-high for the companies that do have any, whilst companies in the rest of the economy have seen costs go through the roof. (Russia's actions didn't help, but the energy supply was looking pretty dicey even before that.)

The political result of this is that campaigners and journalists have accused the companies that are producing fossil fuels of profiteering, blamed them for the fact that energy and everything produced using it is so unaffordable (rather than blaming those who refused to invest in more production), and called for windfall taxes to take away and redistribute those supposedly-undeserved profits. Most of Europe is actually carrying out those windfall taxes too. If it wasn't for that political intervention, those who excluded fossil fuel production from their investments would be losing out and those who didn't gaining, as they arguably deserved, but governments are putting their hand on the scale and tilting returhns towards what ESG campaigners say they should be rather than what the markets give.
Most homes in Florida (in the last couple decades at least) are built with "Concrete block construction" to adhere to Florida's hurricane codes. Concrete block also combats things like termites/mold/mildew, which are a bigger problem in that area.

Source: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/FLRC2020P1
I worked with a guy like that once, anything he’d tried and it didn’t work perfectly was forever forbidden as “tried that, didn’t work.” Nobody else was allowed to attempt it.
I think closed time-like curves are not a desirable feature in a scripting language. I wouldn't want to end up being my own grandfather by mistake.
Is Perfectiniosm a Good Thing?
If you know how to actually get stuff done and don't let it paralyze you?

Steve jobs was clearly OCDP in his approach to anything, but he got high quality products done. Musk is almost the same. When I look at companies it's those who are obsessed about every little detail that tend to do the best, particularly in tech.
Thoughts?
The Matrix team seems to be focusing on anything but making it as performant and usable as Telegram or Slack. The project leaders have been told this multiple times but there is always a reason.
> This shows how browser developers race to push new features without proper estimation of privacy concerns.

Settling on a different trade-off then you would like is not the same thing as doing it without consideration.
Would be interesting where they get their data from, wasn't entirely clear to me.
More to the point, there is evidence that a 10-20 minute nap at the middle of the day, such that you don't go into deep sleep, improves cognitive function and subjective alertness.
How to disable WebRTC on Firefox Mobile? I have uBlock which prevents
from leaking the local IP but I don't want WebRTC at all.

Why did they take about:config from us?
Wolfram Institute
You can save them on your phone you know that?
Yep, we've heard the ask and the feedback. I wrote a response in an earlier in an earlier thread on why we don't communicate on hardware plans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180273
Well I mean it's like everything in moderation
Above the Fold Is a Myth
WhatsApp is end to end encrypted and AFAIK now has encrypted backups.

iMessage intentionally preserves a backdoor in its crypto so that the FBI can read approximately every iMessage sent/received without a warrant, should they so desire.
In general, there will be certain times of the day when one gets their best deep work done; there will be other times when the distractions dominate. Team communication should be predicated on the ability to ask questions / get answers asynchronously, without penalties for delayed responses, and with reasonable degrees of detail.
The old mini-fit connector had evolved to be kind of sketchy - a six-pin connector with two pins you hold on the side to turn it into an 8-pin connector? Not pretty.

And the new connector also adds 'sideband pins' so the power supply can tell the card how much power is available. That should reduce problems with random shutdowns due to drawing too much power.

With that said, a connector that melts clearly isn't an improvement.
The better error messages alone make it worthwhile to upgrade. The trend started in 3.10, and it already made a difference for me, my coworkers and students.

But remember that while it's great to play with it freshly out of the oven, and that you might want to test your projects/libs with it, we should wait a bit before migrating production.

Indeed, every first release of a new major version of Python eventually important bugs that get ironed out in a later patch. Also, some libs on pypi may simply not be compatible with it yet, breaking your pip install.

I usually wait until the 3rd patch myself, after many years of paying the price of greedy upgrades.
It may not be easy, but there are only so many options. The natural default would be to co-work with your coworkers, but if they don't want to work with you like the OP experienced, you have to find some other community that is accepting of you. Or work on yourself to be more desirable, I suppose. You can't force people to accept you. That is not the world in which we live.
I don't play baseball, but don't baseballs travel at Match 20+, perform evasive maneuvers and split in multiple sub-balls?
AFAIK there is a proof of concept for Spectre or another one of those speculative bugs, but it's academic, so not actually malware on a shady website that tries to steal my bitcoin.
It's pretty old and still exists. Since you're on an old macOS it's never going to reset and bug you to try the new Safari because it's never updated.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....
In VC++ "import std", which imports the whole C++ standard library, is faster than just doing "#include <iostreams>".

It is only a matter of time, until GCC and clang finally catch up.
How many people do you know run html only browsers? Not having CSS would be extremely uniquely identifying.
You mean switch off banners - if you switch off notifications entirely, the badge will not update as the app will not wake up in the background to fetch new messages when they come in.
“reduced creativity due to the tendency to incrementally modify known successful designs rather than explore radically different and potentially superior ones.”

This rings _so true_ to me. You go into a meeting, one person says some idea. You spend three quarters of the meeting discussing that idea, discovering its pitfalls and warts, and then you come up with answers to those.

And then that's it.

Nobody likes the written word, write up a proposal discussing a bunch of options for the problem at hand, let me read it, and _then_ let's all go into a meeting together.

But most times when I write out a few paragraphs on any medium people skim it or ignore it, and then ask questions that were already covered, or don't read it at all and need to be brought up to speed during the meeting wasting everyone's time whose already spent a few minutes alone with some ideas first.

It's just... so ineffective, and yet _so hard to change_.
> I'm suggesting that Bumble shouldn't be the judge of what messages are appropriate to send or not. But they absolutely should provide filtering tools and feedback to users to reduce low quality or obnoxious behavior.

That's an untenable position. Bumble should (and does) block pornographic, illegal, or harassing content. As already mentioned in the post, sending unsolicited nudes is illegal in at least one jurisdiction, so it's hardly a stretch to include unsolicited nudes in this category.

> But they absolutely should provide filtering tools and feedback to users to reduce low quality or obnoxious behavior. [...] I'm advocating for sensible filters and feedback, rather than moralistic censorship.

Isn't that exactly what this feature is? Users still have the option to view potential nudes; they just aren't exposed by default. It seems obvious that the feature should be opt-out (rather than opt-in), given that the majority of users would prefer not to be exposed to unsolicited nudes.
>There is one way to read toml, but a lot of ways to write it (do you preserve formatting, what do you do with comments, do you allow partial updates..

Then don't use TOML for internal stuff?

Or just settle on a way your lib writes it, and if every parser out there can read it anyway, and get the same deserialized structure, it doesn't matter which way you write it exactly...
>We don't have Capitalism. We have Crony Capitalism. The latter has little to do with the former.

As any true Scotsman knows.
> Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balancing.

While true, Signal hasn't done this as far as I know. Until they do, their infrastructure is just as centralized as WhatsApps.
Strange - normally you use pooling to even out the distribution, not to take from the poor to give to the rich.
Nothing on iOS is decentralized, all push notifications must be proxied via Apple's APNS servers from the app developer. There's no support in iOS for p2p messaging apps, even Matrix/Element proxy the notifications via centralized developer-run servers (which are then routed via centralized (but non-SPOF) Apple APNS servers).
You’ve moved trust from the banking system into code. That might be a good thing. I will look into how the lightening network works to inform myself. The climate change and extreme volatility amongst other issues are still going to prevent Bitcoin being adopted for settlements.
Google shared more specs around TPUv4 in their cloud
I've read a sentence somewhere that comes to mind: "You need the possibility of silence to say something unheard-of."
But nobody is forcing you to use matrix.org, and if you have the resources it's easy to run a separate instance with peering, so that you get both the benefits of being able to communicate with everyone and have a faster/locally controlled instance with whatever rules you like.

We're keeping one alive with friends, not because we need it, but because we can and it's easy to do so.

We can argue matrix has not the most fancyful clients right now, and it might not be a perfect solution for everybody, however there are many clients to choose from, you can write one easily with many support libraries, it's easy to script, you can have full control.

This is what we should push for. I've recommended signal to a lot of friends, and I currently feel stupid for doing so: It was a hurdle to convince them, and what I achieved was to move some to another privately run network with arbitrary rules and mandated software controlled by a single entity which is now starting to do random crap.
I wonder if clima folks are sponsored by Russia or China to ruin the West. So far it worked in EU.
Sure but if you have them in WhatsApp, you have them in your phone. At least, I can't add someone to WhatsApp - I can only add them as a phone contact and then WhatsApp magically parasites off that.
I don't think that individual windows are a problem - people generally focus the best with a clearly delineated area to put a problem on.

What I would like to get rid of is the constraint of the limited screen area. There were some attempts, but I would really love to see a set of AR goggles that would work as an "unlimited screen", allowing me to open windows and position them anywhere in the "space" around me. The windows would remain in the spot where I dragged them to, and I could get them "closer" or "further away" as needed.

Combine this with a rotating char with a built-in keyboard and a pointing device, and this is my ideal workstation. Note that the goggles wouldn't be VR - I want to be able to see my environment behind (or "through", as per configuration) the windows, so I can still interact with people around me.