skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin script is a large source of complexity, and it turns out to be mostly redundant. Schnorr signatures allow the use of so-called scriptless scripts [1] [2], which can do most of the things than Bitcoin script is used for, including multisig, absolute and relative timelocks, payment channels, discrete log contracts, and atomic swaps (using adaptor signatures). All without the need for a scripting language.
The example you gave of a multisig output that can be spent by either Alice, or Bob after some time, is easily handled too.

[1] https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/scriptless-scripts

[2] https://tlu.tarilabs.com/cryptography/introduction-to-script...
Men only spaces is very inflammatory subject. Bomb threads, SWATing, and so on.. It also leads to uncomfortable questions about women only spaces.

I am not surprised Wikipedia avoids this section.
"is/is not" != "can/cannot be".

MacKay's work (and the update under discussion) about the UK, and also my claim about China, is about the latter.
Not sure I follow? I've always considered both Saturday and Sunday to be the weekend. When someone asks me what I'm doing on the weekend, I'll think they are asking about Saturday and Sunday and in addition eve of Friday.
Thank you for your empathy, it was a very difficult time and i am glad i made it out. Banks have substantial power with the ability to close accounts unexpectedly, we must push for a financial system that minimizes those risks and enhances consumer protection. Situations like this is a clear reminder of how crucial financial freedom and security are.
Does anyone in the Forth community know if Charles Moore is still with us?
It’s an absurd complaint.

An NBA coach may not like changes in rules around “traveling” in the past 20 years, but either they embrace the new rules and have their players take the extra step or they just lose to teams that do.

Advocate for the rules you want, but play the game with the rules it actually has.
IBM Rebus
For those running GitHub actions and k8s, https://actions-runner-controller.github.io/actions-runner-c... is pretty slick. I deployed this for my last job and set it up to autoscale based on inbound webhooks so at peak commit times we'd not waste engineer's time and during off times use nothing extra. You're in control of the nodes, and their performance, can use cheap spot instances and have both security and performance without handing your source code over to any more third parties.
Can someone explain the heating stuff to me? Most sun energy would be available and used in the summer time, where the heat that results from conversion loss is not really of any use?
Yeah. From a technical standpoint Git is a lot worse in a lot of ways. From an ease-of-use standpoint it's about as much worse as it's possible to be.

Still, with Linux behind it, Git won the DVCS wars. Mercurial became an also-ran and now almost nobody uses it.

Too bad.

We'll need something new and innovative to come out and rid us of constant blogs explaining how Git works because it's too hard to understand how to make it do the things you want it to do.

I've been using Git for about 7 years now (5 exclusively) and I know how to use it, but I still have to look things up occasionally because its UI is trash and non-obvious. I didn't have that problem with Mercurial. There, I knew the verb and the built-in help was sufficient to get me where I wanted to go.

Worse is better wins again.
big name and big speed - I distinctly remember how slow "mercurial" was when git started dominating
Happened the SAME thing to me. Mercurial felt more natural than git. Back then, Github allowed you to choose the VC and Mercurial and Git were available, I'd always choose Mercurial. I was also using Google Code that allowed for mercurial as well.

Ahhhh, thanks for brining back those memories.
Yes, you can in fact assume that you will never die, in a very narrow sense. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good assumption, but by the time you could have an empirical experience proving you wrong, well you wouldn't have that experience because you would be dead. This illustrates that this question - only in this very narrow sense - is not an empirical question.

It was in fact one of Kant's three "necessary postulates". He asserted that the question of subjective death was not empirical, and thus impossible to know or even gain confidence about one way or another, but he thought it was (for other reasons, related to his moral theory) necessary to assume that you would not subjectively die.

Whether it's possible for this body you currently seem to be experiencing the world through to be ripped apart by a wild animal, though, that IS a highly empirical question.
Entrepreneurship 3.0 is looking a lot like Entrepreneurship 0.1alpha ... domain parking.
So here is nginx running on a real computer and a homebrew webserver running on a potato, and your theory is nginx is the limiting factor. And it’s all the fault of encryption and the browser cartel.
Not just Torvalds and hosting Linux development: Git solves "big code" problems and large organizations pull the market - including tiny projects for which Git's trade-offs are not optimal, where Mercurial tended to make users happier.
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For me it was a quite important factor TBH in 2007 when I wanted to try something new outside of SVN. And it was my big argue point to force my company to switch to Git.
In my language, Monday, literally is "first day", Tuesday, is "second day". Also Wednesday and Thursday. It goes different from Friday.
- We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando
- Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time
- We're still working through the planning stages, but we're expecting at least six months before the migration begins

I understand that this could make sense as a first step, but I guess they could profit if they would go all-in with GitHub and use the tools it offers. Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/) is even deprecated! And who likes to file bugs in Bugzilla?

As sad as it is, I see Firefox losing ground even on the developer side.
No, the two sexes are different and we don't heal the same way or doing the same things.
IMHO it was Github which made git popular. GH filled a gap left when Sourceforge went down the shitter, and Github was there at the right time to host open source projects for free. The actual version control system used (svn vs git) wasn't all that important. The important feature was free hosting.
Shame they're going to host it on GitHub, though, rather than self-hosting. I get that the network effects of GitHub will make it easier for potential contributors to get started, but... ugh, just sucks to see a successful open source project moving to a proprietary platform for their hosting.
A very generous radius map search on Boligsiden reveal 4 andelsboliger at 250k kroner, so it’s obviously not possible to find a house at that price point.
This sounds great! A salmon version of pork cracklings but somewhat more umami.
Honestly when it comes to Berghain, the paternoster next door at Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlag is way more interesting and fun.
Which smartphone do you have that can receive digital FM radio?
The Xen Project chose Mercurial to replace Bitkeeper (the proprietary but free-as-in-beer-to-open-source-projects-for-a-while VCS that Linux used before it became no-longer-free-as-in-beer) as well. There were things that were nicer about it; but in the end it just made more sense to move over to git.

That was over a decade ago, however; I'm actually pretty surprised it took Mozilla so long to switch.
Horrible. I've heard similar stories but this one's the worst by far. This shouldn't be allowed to ever happen again, such sudden closures without warning need to be illegal.

The issue is banking is highly regulated but a lot of the regulation is about AML, terrorism screening and such. Not actually protecting customers from abuse but rather the other way around - banks are taking precautions to protect themselves from customers. Some of the regulation is also the result of decades of lobbying efforts by major players, making it extremely hard for new ones to compete. Banks are rarely held accountable because for some reason most regular people are fine with this or don't understand it.

There is a solution - not sure if everyone's ready to hear it yet: Decentralized finance. Good luck to a bank trying to shut down your self-hosted Ethereum wallet. Banks provide important services and will continue to exist, but giving them full unchecked control over our life savings and finance is mad. There are a lot of other issues with the current system, and many people don't really understand the contracts they're signing, including that they don't legally own "their money" in the bank account in most cases (they're creditors). But the question of effective control over ones own funds is the most crucial one to me.
> I did say slightly more capacity

Almost double (a Citadis tram can accomodate up to 370, "super articulated" buses like the Citaro CapaCity up to 200) isn't slightly more.

> They aren’t doing many 7 section trams in Bern because much if their routes aren’t completely grade separated

It's not the grade separation that matters, but turn radii and intersection length and distance (basically can such a tram fit in the physical space available).

> I’ve actually never seen a 7 section tram anywhere, including Paris…a new thing

Paris Tram T3(a and b) have been using 7 section trams since the original opening as T3 in 2006. According to Wikipedia there are at least 8 cities with 7 section Citadis, and at least one with 9 sections (Dublin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom_Citadis . And of course this isn't the only model of modern trams in existance, there's also Bombardier's models (acquired by Alstom), Siemens, Pesa, Solaris, Stadler, etc.
Debian discusses vendoring again (2021)
racket is also one of the very few free lisps with a visual debugger and stepper, which is crazy when you realize how widely available that is in modern languages
> Yeah, the mental model of Mercurial is way better.

It's more complex comparing with git naked graph. Contains more domain entities. But it could be more convenient for starters and SVN users.
>The inability to hide the source of your funds isn't authoritarian.

Of course it is. It's your own money, and some other party is forcing you to provide information about it under pain of imprisonment.

In the digital age, this now means making it illegal for supposedly free peoples to call cryptographic logic to encrypt their peer-to-peer transaction. That's hundreds of millions of people being forbidden from using software that enhances their privacy.

It's police state authoritarianism in the vein of what the Chinese Communist Party would endorse.

>It's been 15 years since cryptocurrency has existed and for the vast majority of those it's had zero regulation, and has been fully legal. It's not used for legitimate purposes because it's not useful for them.

World renowned venture capitalists with a long record identifying potential efficiency gains wouldn't pour billions into crypto of it didn't have potential use-cases beyond mere speculation.

Legal threats and uncertainty, emanating from many high-profile regulators and legislators calling for greater restrictions and punitive measures against parties who use cryptocurrency creates a significant chilling effect that discourages major parties from utilizing it. You must know this.

And economic actors have good reason to fear that the threats will be carried out. The recent measures by the US Treasury that effectively make privacy on the blockchain illegal are an example of such a threat being carried out, and prevent a feature that businesses need cryptocurrency to have in order for them to use it on a large scale from being added.

>It's used as a currency for criminals because it's easy to use cross-border

It would be used by wide swathes of society if the legal uncertainty around it were lifted.

As it is, even with all of the restrictions imposed by advocates of a locked down financial system, it is lifting people out of poverty, whether through giving them access to stablecoins [1] in countries with unstable currencies, or giving them a new source of income [2].

The so-called AML system causes untold numbers of deaths [3] and should be totally replaced by a due-process-respecting law enforcement strategy.

>We're better off without cryptocurrency, as a whole.

The world at large is absolutely not better off with centralized control over money, for the same reason it's not better off with centralized control over the economy at large.

In the advanced economies, people deserve better than a financial system entirely dependent on centralized intermediaries and their regulators, as all of the horror stories of Venmo and PayPal freezing customer accounts attest to.

People deserve better than being told that they cannot engage in private transactions with others without reporting the transaction to their government overseer. This idea is completely anathema to a free society.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/cryptoverse-digital-coins...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/s/vcAc3Lyfqc

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/money-reimagined-starve-ugly-...
The waits cause all the pain
When we want to improve efficiency, we try to speed things up, add more power, or push people to do things faster. This makes intuitive sense and seems like the right thing to do. In many cases, it’s the wrong way to go about it and there are better ways to make a system more efficient.
Look at the name of the company: Yi. Seems congruent then to use 1, pronunced yi in Chinese, as a domain name.
Brain issues are always so fascinating. The subjective experience is to diagnose a faulty sensor using the sensor. The brain that both I and the author agree seems to be acting up also wrote this article.

Did it mess with your ability to perceive time, or alter your recollection of how you once perceived time, or alter your ability to assess your perception of time, or activate a hidden "too aware of second-order time phenomena" organ
I'd call 4 examples of "this needed LODs" random quirks in the grand scheme of things. It's not like every single mesh is 100k vertices. Grossly underoptimized, yes. But the devs pre-empting their announcement with "we're not satisfied" tells me they were too busy slaying dragons to worry about the annoying barking Chihuahua in the room.

It was expected, yes. It does not mean they weren't trying to fix it in the 11th hour. I woildnt be surprised if some core tech was unfinished or inadequate that lead to this.

>instead of going into valve time, they released it anyway, which means that you skipped the entire polish and optimisation part not only for the game itself but for half the engine as well.

Yup, welcome to game development when you have deadlines and no benevolent (or at least, apathetic) dictator paying your bills. It's unfortunate that we can trace this back to the 80's with ET, but this is simply the business realities. Game code isn't mission critical (and until recently, does not care about maintainability), and also isn't what sells the product.

So it never gets the time to be cultivated like other indistries. And people still buy anyway. It's a two way street of apathy and every publisher hopes it can slip under the cracks and not become the next Superman 64. Most manage to slip.

There's not much you can do about it with the current publishing structure, where most funders don't work in nor care about games. And the ones that do still see their money draining whenever the talk of delays come up. That won't be solved except with time as more industry trailblazers retire and shift to management (remember, Todd Howard is only in his 50's. Gabe and Kojima are 60. So many pioneers are still well under retirement age). Or for more truly indie teams to arise and learn how to scale up projects while staying lean. The latter is what I hope to do.
I think it was gpt3 at the time. I just tried 4 and it got it right!
> We'll need something new and innovative to come out and rid us of constant blogs explaining how Git works because it's too hard to understand how to make it do the things you want it to do.

Read about Jujutsu awhile back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398662
Well there are already forth chips, so forth still wins.
> Sure, some people still bike in the very cold months but that's an extreme minority that inherently includes mostly young, mostly fit cyclists.

It's very much the same in my decidedly European country.

Recently I was doing an errand that I knew would be the easiest to do by bike, since my destination was less than 6km away and I have bike lanes/tempo 30 streets all the way up to there. But it was raining, so I decided against that and took an Uber because I don't need this sort of excitement in my life.

And with all that I'm still below average in terms of frequency of choosing to drive.

People, unsurprisingly, don't enjoy the logistics of cycling in inclement weather and they will go as far as to sit in traffic and spend 20 minutes looking for a parking spot instead.
Thanks, but I think the level of effort I’ll put into distracting these good people with my feature request is going to be proportionate to how useful I think my request will be. (“Not much” and “not very”, respectively.)
Are you telling me that there isn't already a 69.ai working on deepfake porns? I'd be surprised.
2 years ago I moved to Turin, Italy. Very close to Ivrea, the city where Olivetti has/had its HQs. It's impressive the "atmosphere" that you can feel, so many engineers, designers, developers. Adriano Olivetti's impact in Piedmont (and Italy in general) is impressive and long lasting.

It's not a coincidence that Arduino was founded in Ivrea.
The main reason Linus didn't go with Mercurial was that Mercurial just wasn't efficient enough to do operations on the Linux repo with what Linus considered a reasonable speed. (I think it was maybe written in Python at the time?) Linus knew what the kernel was doing, so he could write a core engine that was a lot faster, and that mattered to him.

So Linux was always going to be git; and I think things flowed from there.
Flow happens to at least a lot of runners to be fair though. At certain distance when I'm running, it becomes very pleasurable, like you are above everything.
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I would be amazed of PaX still used segment registers seeing as they don't really do much in long mode. In fact, they specifically call this out in the description of UDEREF in your second link.
Disclaimer: I haven't touched hg in nearly a decade.

hg has (had?) a sane CLI that blows (blew?) git out of the water.

I like the power of git, but it either needs external tooling to prevent people from shooting the team in the foot, or relatively thorough study by everyone using it.

In practice, for git, most of the time you need some software to protect people from messing up repositories and history (gitlab, github, etc, which honestly you're gonna use anyway), while hg on its own protects you out of the box from most mistakes.

All FAANGs I'm familiar with use git, but there are some serious handrails and straps on what you can do. On smaller companies I had so many arguments about rebasing public branches that it's not even funny.

For a while I had in the back of my head to create a hg clone that was a wrapper around git, in a way that it'd allow hg-style workflows and protections, while having a faster and more well-known "backend".
Not finding any documentation for this SoC on either the beagleboard or microchip websites. I'm still waiting for a RISC-V SoC that actually has reasonable documentation instead of a pile of random linux kernel and (maybe) bootloader patches. A list of base addresses for peripherals and a block diagram does not count.
Now I feel bad. I had an ex who would always lose track of time and I wasn’t understanding enough (being late by several hours and forgetting important things like her first chance at a covid shot, or getting lost while driving and having spent an hour driving around the neighborhood without realizing how long she’d been lost for).

Timers make a lot of sense, if you can remember to set them.
Indeed, I live in Paris and my elder daughter studies in Taiwan... She discovers the possibility of street food affordable enough to her to be a normal meal. In Paris, eating out is luxury entertainment - cooking at home is the normal way.
> Bomb threads, SWATing, and so on..

You do not appear to have anything rational to add on the subject of Men's Sheds in Australia.

Do you have any evidence of bomb threats or SWATing wrt to Men's Sheds in Australia?
Just last week I was listening to a German podcast on battery technology. There is a German company also working on this. It pretty much sounds like a Zinc-Air battery[1].

It is a metal. It produces hydrogen and electrical energy while discharging. It holds up energy for some time after charging. It can be fully discharged without negative effects like all the existing technologies.

So it seems, that there are a number of companies working on this promising technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery
I am not forcing anyone to do anything but things happen, obviously. It seems weirdly important to you that if this happens to someone they feel as bad about it as possible. Why is that?
Samurai is a faster, drop-in replacement for ninja.

https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

Edit: It someone writes a ninja-compatible tool in Rust, they must call it "ronin."
To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?
How strong a signal do you need for this to work?

I have an RTL-SDR (R828D tuner) and I can just about receive regular FM stations, but the quality is pretty bad - voice is just about intelligible through the fuzz.

I don't know if my rtlsdr is bad, my antenna is bad, the signal strength is weak, I have interference, or this is just the quality expected from a $10 'TV tuner'.
Nope. In Portuguese, Monday in "Segunda", which literally means "second". It's named as such because it's the second day of rest before the Passover Sunday. This makes Sunday the first day of the week.
Just as an FYI, USDC & stablecoins (and CBDC's) are centralised and the same abuse of power is possible here too. Obviously being debanked in fiat and crypto at the same time is extremely unlikely...but possible if someone is REALLY out to get you.
In Denmark, US$100k -- 700k DKK, will give you a pretty generous life. You can rent a large flat for yourself, and you can party every weekend. You can pretty much order in for every meal as well.

Try living in SF on US$100k.

Source: I supported myself + 2 others, and we lived very generously for a few years on pretty much that salary.
I didn't get de-banked, but did have my card blocked by the bank once, so since then I have two banks, and use them both about equally. So if there is a problem with one bank, then I can still get food and stuff.