skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a long-time cryptocurrency “enthusiast” you might say, but I’ve been out of those circles since Bitcoin was <$1k. I still buy a bit every pay period but don’t do anything with it other than transfer it to cold storage periodically.

The whole community changed about the time Bitcoin hit $1k. Prior to that there were a lot of idealists around and a handful of “investors”. There were Ponzi schemes, but they were literally labeled “Ponzi schemes”, so no real harm was done. Since then, the proportions have flipped: the vast majority of people are “investors”, there’s a seemingly equal small number of idealists and scammers, and with few exceptions there’s not really anything exciting in the works that I know of.

I miss the old days :(.

FWIW, I still think cryptocurrencies will outlast all existing government-backed fiat currencies. The difference is that I don’t think it’s going to happen on any predictable timeframe.
As a society, we are quite good at keeping people alive for a long time but not so good at addressing chronic illness. With the massive increase in autoimmune disease, obesity and other chronic illnesses, I would contend that overall we are less healthy on average than just a few decades ago and this trend will continue indefinitely until massive changes occur in the medical and food industries.
Beyond childbirth, raising children is also a serious challenge, and that’s with school/similar taking care of them for hours of each weekday. Maybe not in developing countries, but I think rearing might be as much a factor as birthing in the developed world when it comes to moderating family size.

I’m not convinced that how we do things now is the best balance of the interests of children and parents. As one example, on weekdays, a parent’s morning time with children is dominated preparing them for school while getting ready to work, and the evening time sees tired post-work parents doing the school run, sorting homework, preparing dinner, extra-curricular, etc.
On a side note, oh man the stories I could tell you. Pair programming all the time is like an evolution of Foucault's panopticon. You police yourself because you are closely being watched all the time and your peers will tattletale to your manager if you don't pair hard enough.

It's brutal.
> since the EU considers an IP address to be PII

How can an IP address _not_ be PII?

NIST defines [1] PII as: "Information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity ... either alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information..."

So it's not some EU caprice.

[1] : https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/personally_identifiable_...
Think that being able to understand and do childish things is important, because all the children are doing them, and sometimes they need to talk to someone who's older who can still connect that way. (Thus Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers.)

When I look at the coping skills of adults in the world en masse, I see different ... I certainly don't see better. Some of the good parts may be missing. The word 'childish' makes a very crappy pejorative. I'd even call it the 'C word'.
In contrast to what Drew says, Plan 9 probably failed because it was proprietary, not because of the Unix predecessor. If it had a free licence at the time, I doubt RMS would have felt the need for GNU, though I don't know what he'd make of some of the design.
I see. It appears to be yet another instance of Stallman being Stallman. I’m going to be very surprised if this goes anywhere at all.
Climate change is one of the long term predictions that has been consistently confirmed with each passing year.

I do understand what you’re saying about old people being tired of apocalyptic predictions that come to pass. Even I remember being taught about Peak Oil and how the world would grind to a halt as we ran out of oil in the very near future. I remember being very worried about it as a child and wondering why none of the adults were equally concerned.

I wish there was a better way to convey the difference between widely corroborated, slow-moving concerns like climate change with the overly sensationalized short-term apocalyptic concerns that crop up every few years.
If the voltage was high enough to be dangerous, would a foam mic cover protect you?
Therefore, a broken neutral between service and home would have lead to a 120V outlet getting anywhere between 0 and 240V AC.

That is true, although loads are normally balanced between the two phases so that the extremes don't often appear, and the neutral could just be intermittent instead of fully broken. But a heavy load (such as the air conditioner in the article) would definitely cause the voltage to swing to one extreme.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
You don't know their age, comorbidities, or what persons they live with that might be susceptible. Plus, I find it interesting from a technical standpoint as well. My current obsession is inflation but I simply enjoy tracking different supermarket product prices and seeing what it reveals more than that I actually need to save up for any particular goal. Tracking data is also a way to pass the time on journeys.
The syntactic consistency is at the same time its downfall: everything looks the same. (Functional languages like Haskell have a similar problem.) It’s more accommodating to human cognition if at least some part of the complexity and diversity of conceptual constructs in programming is represented in the syntax, meaning a certain range of different syntactic constructs that humans can attach meaning to. There is a sweet spot in syntactic diversity that matches the middle of the bell curve across programmers of how human cognition can absorb code. And that sweet spot isn’t on the more “spartan” side where Lisp resides. A different extreme are the more “cryptic” languages like APL and descendants. In a certain way, everything looks the same in those as well.
Is this what the WEF meant when they said I'll own nothing and be happy?
> but apparently has terrible performance

This is probably for eMMC version with 4GB RAM. SSD version with 8Gb should be just fine your listed tasks.
Yes, several times, touring with my (niche) band.

But I acknowledge that "people who go to contra dances" is not a uniform sampling of the population.
Shkreli got 7 years, for crimes where it's debatable how much, if any, money his investors lost. I think 7 years in prison is pretty significant.

Belfort got 2 years, another exec at his company got 3 years. That doesn't seem significant. On the other hand, they got a deal because they cooperated, leading to 24 people at another fraud company being charged, one of whom got 22 years.

(The fellow who got 22 years is now out. He's on Twitter at @TheReal_Wolf_, and is involved in NFTs. Hmm.)

I don't think SBF would qualify for Shkreli's treatment, because people were significantly harmed. Would he get Belfort's treatment? Maybe, if he has the goods to bring down a bunch of other people.
Not the case, the mobile app is great, but we know developers use mobile web. It matters to us. Will definitely improve it
If you follow the news, it makes sense on the timing of this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/18/payback-for...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/2/officials-saudis-te...

Its still makes for a valid reason to dump tcp/ip for a modern data network. The 3rd world is gonna 3rd world. The archived data is just feeding more rope :)
that also doesn't look like 'procure chemicals through other products', that's a listing for 10 grams of, supposedly, pure strontium
From a thousand miles up, most of crypto looks like script kiddies piggy backing a couple of brilliant programmers.
How to build a website/shop that cannot be shut down by Law enforcement
I made a PDF tutorial and it is accessible here:
https://ipfs.filebase.io/ipfs/QmVSogrzAaRLumnhXjuD9VGN3ViP2S...

Please feel free to share it so maybe somebody finds it interesting.
A financially independent woman in some developed countries today still doesn't necessarily get to choose when she will get pregnant, or by whom. Financial independence does not trump social convention (especially since social convention dictates financial independence).

Hell, just look at the USA. A woman still can't choose when she can or can't have a baby, regardless of her wealth. This being one of the supposed "civilized nations"; other nations are far less subtle with their societal controls.
ESD/EMI damage.
using `xmlstarlet` to generate XPATHs to visualize document structure

https://github.com/TomConlin/xpath2dot
> Who in their right mind would not store a visitor's IP address.

Everyone who's mindful of site visitor's privacy.

> How are you supposed to handle abuse or performance issues a visitor might have?

How does a static website handle those issues?

... you've developed a warped default of what a website is.

> Or perform analytics?

You can base your analytics on voluntarily provided information from users. Or just, like, _not_ do them.
Cute little article. Mostly useless.

Plants and food can heal. They work different from the pills modern peoples are used to popping.

A single article listing a few plants and a laundry list of things each supposedly helps with is, at best, like a movie trailer teaser to try to get you excited. It doesn't even seem to direct you to more in-depth resources.
my first thought is that thry could do well making NFTs of these things
>A financially independent woman in some developed countries today still doesn't necessarily get to choose when she will get pregnant, or by whom.

Then I would say she is not financially independent, since she cannot afford to hire sufficient security to protect her from rape.

>Hell, just look at the USA. A woman still can't choose when she will or won't have a baby, regardless of her wealth.

Unless one is being held captive, one’s wealth should allow access to IUDs and travel to jurisdictions where abortion is legal. At the least, there is sufficient rule of law where the societal norm is that rape is completely unacceptable.
> given the pro-privacy stance of crypto.

Crypto isn't about privacy, it's actually the opposite. All transactions on the blockchain are transparent as it's literally a distributed ledger. There is absolutely no secrecy or privacy when it comes to how Bitcoin works for instance. And it's by design. Bitcoin inventor(s) goal was for people not to have to trust the secrecy of banks but essentially be their own bank. Whether that goal was achieved or not is anybody's guess...

So I'm not sure what pro-privacy stance you are talking about.
GitHub has been investing in React for a while (e.g. see our accessible React design system https://primer.style/react/). Many developers at GitHub have experience with React, which helps. And the tooling is just more mature (IMO)
With the "functionally equivalent" rule (i.e. if the wording is different, but the Master can't find a counterexample, the guess is correct) this might not be too hard to find.
If it's DDR4 or DDR5 that is soldered, sure, I agree that it should be penalised.

But LPDDR4X or LPDDD5? There are legitimate benefit to using low-powered RAM, and these aren't available in DIMM sticks.
Nicotinamide riboside causes cancer risk
Either that or someone who had an active backdoor realizing oh shit, cashing out is now or never.
> Imagine knowing that you were born to a machine and not to a woman who you can call mother.

I'm really not sure what's so outrageous about the situation. Most adopted (or fostered) people manage without psychosis.
Two aircraft collide during Veterans Day air show in Dallas
Strange take on privacy..
Why not Solid/Marko which seem to be tailor-made for these kinds of things (mostly static, with interactivity spliced in)
In the GGP's example, the tax rate dropped from 20% to 19%. It requires changing 1 number. Everyone already had to file taxes using whatever number the government provides.

If we send every person a check it requires, at the very least, envelopes and postage.

My first claim is not about the efficiency of how the money is used by the beneficiaries. My claim is about the efficiency of getting the money gets into people's hands in the first place.
> I wonder if that is why there is such resistance to climate change among older people...

I think that is mainly true in a few countries where it has become a politically divisive issue
What he’s saying is that we’re making them (or China or Russia) special by singling them out with these reports. There’s no country in the world that hasn’t been doing this since at least WWII to the US.

Heck, part of the reason for our entry into WWII was massive British operation to ensure FDR’s relection and his very strong, partisan support of the Allies sometimes verging on acts of war.
"snee" = "SNI" = "significant new information" which is sort of a moderation buzzword

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
In every market, a certain number of people are willing to buy at the bid and sell at the ask. When you are trying to get rid of more than the market is able to absorb, you will wipe out multiple levels of bids. Slippage then refers to the price difference between (say) the mid price of the bid and ask and the price that you finally got filled at.

Say I want to sell 100 pokemons as fast as possible. I will take whatever the market wants to pay me. This is a market order.

Before my order goes in, people are willing to buy 10 pokemons at $50 and willing to sell 10 at $52. The midpoint is 51.

I put in my order.

10 of my pokemons get sold at $50. My slippage is $1x10.

The next level down is $48 where people are willing to buy 25 pokemons. So I will get filled now at $48. My slippage is $3x25=($51-48)x25.

Etc
Just to complement your comment, robots will not only help with costs of raising children but will also replace a lot of working people so should offset declining population, which we need to do if we want to keep social contract in our current economical model based on growth.
Given how he stole customer funds to prop up Alameda, fraud is far more likely than clueless
Privacy is not incompatible with good old-fashioned detective work or police work.

I use encrypted messaging, but if I decide to commit a crime I'm under no delusion that encryption will save me. Why can't the same be true for money?
> This has almost nothing to do with crypto

Can we please not No True Scotsman this? Crypto “the future of money” is completely unregulated and nothing but full of scams hitherto unseen since the days before banking regulations.

You’d be hard pressed find a bank that can execute a rug pull like this. While I’m no fan of Bank of America, I’ll keep my “dirty fiat” there and sleep soundly, just like I slept soundly in though the Great Recession.
You see constant EV road trip comparison videos and consistently see how bad EV chargers hamper the non-tesla cars, while the tesla chargers are consistently reliable. Go look around in the news and more.
Ask HN: Which tech stocks are vastly undervalued?
This is all true, and it should be noted that at the time of its release in mid 90s, Java was an incredibly fun toy to play with and adoption was enthusiastic, and at least in my case, it was an immediate decision to say goodbye to C++ ("forever" /g) and adopt Java, which also turned out to be a good bet in terms of jobs.

Let's also note that to this day I (or any Java professional) can go and earn a living writing Java and not feel like I'm writing COBOL for a mainframe modulo the Spring framework (which I have avoided, to date.)

SMI did not merely pour money in marketing Java. A lot of loving care by very competent software engineers, some of the best, went into creating Java and its virtual machine. The sweet spot of this language is phenomenally large, imo as an s/e, and accessible to an equally large subset of the programming community (even if they hate it, they can do it), from IT low end to investment banks and up to academic people doing super cool stuff like adding fibers to Java (Kilim). Same story holds for performance. Only on the GUI front did Java drop the ball.

Java is, entirely on its technical merits and utility record to date, one of the most practically effective languages created. Thank you Sun Microsystems.
The rise and fall of US crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried
Expatriation and Non-Extradition Countries
Unlikely: https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/11/has-sam-bankman-fried-e...
> It is on a bad path in terms of integrating with the web platform

This is some unsubstantiated claim
Why, I agree that there's no "externally designed" purpose, it does exist if people think it does (to them). It may be just "stuff I like doing". That's why I am asking here.
How do they know it's his plane?
While your concerns may have some merit, your take here is a bit lazy. There are certainly some things about tether that could be done better, but it is far from the picture you are trying to paint here. They've been in the business since 8+ years, and have weathered many storms and done billions in redemptions. I don't know what kind of audit you are expecting, but they have certainly done a fair few[1]. They are also not related to Binance in any way.

But more importantly, talk is cheap. If you really believe in what you are saying, there are plenty of USDT futures available in crypto markets. Go ahead and short - if you are right, you'll win big, and the downside is fairly limited.

[1] https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
>Go read 1: the Princeton study proving our “democracy” is a sham since the votes of the people have no impact on policy [...]

>Let’s start with overturning Citizens United and congressional term limits, then we can talk about “meddling” in our politics.

What about the studies that show campaign finances have very little effect on election wins? https://freakonomics.com/2012/01/how-much-does-campaign-spen...
Most satellites are intended to break up on reentry, or would whether intended to or not because of how they'd end up hitting the atmosphere and their relatively large surface areas and shape (they're very far from aerodynamic). Kinetic weapons would need a different physical composition (denser material and different shape) and more deliberate manner of launching (or dropping?) than you'd be able to pull off from existing satellites.
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Interesting that you know what I believe in. What I believe is though, that if one has totalitarian intention you would opt to support other things rather than taler. (Like payment via WeChat or Google Pay)
I would like that applied to Slashem. Here's a good fork:

https://github.com/BarclayII/slashem-up

It lacks the jedi patch but it's complete enough.
> Him being the second largest donor to the Democratic Party will really test the rule of law. Does it apply to the powerful? We’ll see.

Past money only gives you leverage as long as people believe there are potentially plenty more in the future to get.
> why people literally do not and cannot get it right 100% of the time. Thinking so is pure hubris.

Sure we all don't get it right 100% on the first write. For this reason we test and iterate. Equally you could say that it is pure hubris that a language will enable you to make your code right 100% of the time.

You mean the vector::operator[] is an example of fast-and-potentially-UB ? I don't see any UB if the constraints are met (keeping the index within valid range).

If they are not willing in a specific case they for sure had specific reasons not to be.
Artificial wombs would take care of the risk to women issue. Then it just becomes a societal values question.
The truth is that our current population level can only be supported by fossil fuels, which are becoming increasingly harder to exploit. As society collapses, technology required for extraction may be lost. Fossil fuels will take millions of year to regenerate.
In a scenario like this and say you’re an employee with your own money in the system. Is it illegal to take out exactly what you’re owed on the way out and before proceedings prevent such action?
Is this intended as satire or actually a serious statement? I increasingly cannot seem to make a confident distinction nowadays.
Does anyone else find the typography on this website remarkably beautiful?
Right. Especially if you own a meter as well, it's probably all good. I also know people that don't own meters who think they're in stale air as soon as it gets a warm in a room and need to see an open window constantly and then turn up the heating some more. But if you have a meter to tell you whether you were right, that argument doesn't work anymore, so I've changed my mind on whether using proxy metrics is necessarily bad!
If you are happy building muscle then build muscle. It isn't like you need to be smart at programming jobs, I brought up competition winners since at that level you have to be in top shape mentally, but workplaces are full of obese programmers etc nobody cares.
Decline in health, energy, mental acuity, motivation. Doesn't happen to all people of course, but does for many.
Depends if they jammed any important services, like emergency services.
Something not mentioned is Plan 9 security. Specifically Unix file handles are often quoted as like capabilities, but you do need namespaces to make that useful for isolation. I don't remember exactly what the paper on security in Plan 9 says, but it does talk about capabilities.
So who and where are they?
There are cities in the US that have been founded and abandoned in our lifetime

https://archive.ph/3PCY4

And if you are willing to go a couple generations back, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160715-the-ghost-towns-...
Those laws have mostly been ruled out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law Per that article, the present version of the NY law allows extended time to sue for damages.
I would be much more worried about people that lost money than being a fugitive.

People like this end up dead before any law enforcement gets to them.
That's not a source.

I literally posted a source showing you it's very cheap. The minimum fee is the lowest fee you'll pay to get into the next block.

I used Bitcoin way back in 2010. Though I don't understand why that makes a difference since you can look up the prices in hindsight.
Available libraries are another factor. C and C++ can directly call all OS functions. Java very early had an extensive runtime library supporting networking, GUI programming, multithreading, collection classes, localization, date/time, etc.
FTX.us was a separate entity but still owned by the offshore entity and thus got included in the bankruptcy so no i wouldn’t have said the same. Add i understand it was still operating after the main site went down because it was separate but customer funds in crypto exchanges still aren’t protected like with banks. So don’t use an exchange that is in any way attached to unregulated offshore activities.
This is not cynical. It's the reason I've been actively against cryptos like monero since the beginning. Everyone hates government regulations because politics is hard and people (reasonably) want to buy drugs, but in the end capital security is incredibly important, and a rising tide raises all frauds.

It's a dower subject. When everyone was making money nobody will listen. When everyone is losing money it's uncouth to told-you-so to people in serious pain. You can't get through to most people, full stop.

I was lucky enough to come of age during the dot-com bust, with family that clearly broke down the concepts of accounting and the history of market crashes. Nobody wants to hear it no matter what part of the mania you're in. Focus on your friends (many of which I was able to influence), and focus on fundamentals. Any public discussion of a mania during a mania will fail, and is literally the archetype/moral of the Cassandra myth.