jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, ~400 years ago many things worked differently. In particular, currencies were less tied with states than they are today, leading to many kinds of financial manipulations that no longer happen, at least outside open conflict zones.

If the US government wanted to go to war, was lacking money for this, and for some reason didn't want to seize the entire bitcoin network (which it could pretty easily do, make no mistake), it could simply issue its own cryptocoin, just like in 1652. And people will buy it, because they know the US is good for it, for the same reason that dollars don't particularly devalue even if you print another hundred billion of them today.

It's important to understand that you can't fight social problems with technical solutions. The disgusting amounts of power that big states have make it impossible to oppose them with fun projects like bitcoin. If you are truly serious about combatting US imperialism, try reading some Noam Chomsky - that is a man that has spent his life fighting against these things, but also understanding the levers of power.

Financial games are in the end games; they may seem important because it is where the rich spend their time, but if push comes to shove and the system is threatened, the game is quickly stopped and any necessary controls is asserted. Just look at what happened with the GME stock (and we haven't even seen the end of that). Make no mistake, if BTC ever becomes a real threat to any monetary system, you will see much worse than that.

This can only be combatted in the arena of politics and democratic control, by changing the rules, not playing the game.
> to get most out of it you'll need to set up your own server, which isn't for everyone.

This also destroys Don't Stand Out. Conspirators using Signal to plan don't stand out from people talking about their Buffy re-watch party, discussing what sort of fast food to order, complaining about their jobs... it's all just encrypted flows to and from Signal's servers. Whereas once you deploy your super secret server for a federated service you actually just flag all the users of that server for attention.
I tend to agree with this, we all make mistakes... on the flip side, I see that if you can't delete your comments / posts, then you also have to really think about it before posting / commenting. Maybe helps keep things higher quality?
The DHS (and now FBI) believes that all .com domain names are "located in the USA". It is not hard to get a judge (generally they are pretty ignorant of technology) to go along with this. Therefore, even if the registrar and the company are overseas, the FBI is able to sieze the domains.

Since I doubt the US government will start respecting international law (and ICAAN is international agreements, to which the US government has agreed) the only solution to this will be a viable alternative DNS system.

This is a serious threat to any startup... even though you're not engaged in gambling, they are constantly expanding the "crimes" they will use to sieze domains.
Beautiful:

<HTML>
<TITLE>WARNING</TITLE>
<IMG SRC="banner7.jpg">
</HTML>

I'm surprised they don't have text and audio for ADA compliance.
Yep, I guess I've overreacted about borgia.
Nobody cared about the red coins? Nobody cares about the wing cap?! Nobody cared about Big Bom-bomb?!? This is blasphemy.
It's hyperbole to say the U.S. flew in people for the arrest, but it's also splitting hairs to say it was just the NZ who arrested Mega.
It's amazing what's possible when you give up your plan for word conquest and simply focus on what you are good at.
I think drums are hard because its more than just keeping time. Different styles are completely different vocabularies that require different dexterity to be effective. That said, I can pretty much play "rhythm everything"- meaning drums, bass, guitar, piano. Im not particularly good at any one instrument nor do I feel Im an expert to speak on any instrument but if I had to rank the instruments I can play in order of difficulty I would say:

1) piano - playing chords in a rhythm is not hard, separating your hands can be tough and playing classical can be infinitely difficult.
2) drums - I am not a natural drummer, so staying on rhythm and fills and different styles was a hard won battle for me. I think that some people are born with this ability so drums may seem simple to them.
3) guitar - probably the easiest instrument to compose a full song with, and its somewhat easy to vary from chords to leads and back. I think that anyone with 6 months and some determination can be a "competent" guitarist or at least get over the learning curve.
4) bass - I think this is easiest because you have the choice to relegate yourself to the rhythm section and just play a groove.

Im sure that others may feel differently, and I don't think there is a right answer. Being a virtuoso at any of these instruments is truly difficult, but getting over the learning curve and playing for fun definitely varies.
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wasn't it management meddling? process called for redesigning the challenger oring, as corrosion was triple than expected, and process called for inspecting the columbia tiles. you can find all of these details in the reports, and you can find the name of the managers overriding engineering processes in both instances.

challanger:
http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/12722.aspx
http://www.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/Art...

columbia:
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=9fe7f...

(notice that engineering requested hard photographic data to assess the damage, and her used gut feeling)
It's refreshing to 1) see a breach notification including the actual password hashing algorithm, 2) see they're using a strong one like bcrypt (presumably with a reasonable cost factor).

Regardless, this is an example of why cloud communication (and ticketing and database off-loading [see MongoHQ] and...) systems probably won't ever become commonplace in most of the government space and the finance and health sectors.
You get navigation? All I see is a binary string of mangled characters. It's not even a valid website.

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It does not generate a lot of power.
Thanks for the comment, I hope you get a chance to try it out!
I was going to reply saying I don’t want tiny pieces of radioactive material all over my house/globe, but then realized I have a tiny explosive (battery) in my hand and littered all of my house.
I like it when instead of asking, someone Googles on their own behalf, and then shares the answer because they realize that others may also be curious.

The requests for spoonfeeding are always irritating.
Sadly, victims in poorer countries are considered worth less. See also: Union Carbide.
Basically any game you've played that has any pre-rendered video (for cutscenes, logos, whatever) most likely uses Bink video for it.

Their stuff is very well regarded and widely used.

At least that is the impression I have got, watching from outside the industry. It's always possible that I've got a distorted view as an outsider.
SMH.... airline companies get more (for the "inconvenience", I guess) than the people who lost loved ones.
Just wondering as I have no special knowledge, but suppose I am a senator and I receive a number of classified briefings on a particular issue.

Could I use Outlook to take some notes on my thoughts on that issue? Say as a draft e-mail? I don't think there would be anything technical to stop me, and it's not going to set off any automatic exfiltration flags.

But those notes could very well need to be classified. Does everyone in the Capitol with access to classified material have the necessary skills and incentives not to make notes about them on their personal computer?
So is radio spectrum. Regardless, as I said, you determine for each "public good" what appropriate fairness means. You don't back down from it just because doing the right thing isn't as easy as doing the easy thing.
It still works, it just isn't as seamless as before. Now you have to go through the "open account" flow, and half-way through you'll get an option to login and join an existing account, after that it is a couple of clicks.
Gaming is definitely the big use case for windows. Also, an ok os if you don’t want to pay through the nose for top end upgradeable hardware or run a Linux desktop or hackintosh.

Haven’t tried desktop Linux in 20 years, hopefully it’s gotten better. Back then it was common to have to seek out and compile your own drivers to get network, audio, printer type drivers working lol.
If that came across as hate, then sorry.

I'm just pointing out where it doesn't work, that's all.
I'll be interested to see how people are writing in a few decades. I can't imagine that Unicode won't be almost exclusively used--with ASCII reserved for BIOSes and such (even now, we're getting close)--and surely most Americans will one day figure out how to do ©óól ßtúff wíþ ðeir kœybóárds. And I think the trend of niche groups and cult revivals will increase. So surely there will be small groups of people using interrobangs and þorns and umlauts (coöperate, anyone?), and if people are using it informally it'll show up on Facebook and blogs, and if it's on blogs it could spread to magazines and newspapers, and if it's in magazines and newspapers it could become acceptable for use at work and school. So who knows, maybe it'll become trendy again.
The hacker was dumb to have identified himself as a company employee who was fired under bad circumstances. HR could probably give the police a short list of suspects by Tuesday.
Postgres is no harder than MySQL, except maybe to set up; plus, postgres wont bite you in the ass down the road due to the plethora of reasons that make MySQL a pretty lame solution these days.

On the other hand, MBA types will have heard of MySQL -- that might be an advantage, of a sort.
A blatant bug isn't a feature. Article is expressly discussing features. I don't see any situation where asking for a feature, being told no, then trying to find a way to argue with the no isn't rude.
"I demand you give me apples from the tree you have growing in your back yard."

"Here's a ladder. Take as many as you like."

"How rude."
I mean, the triangle equality actually has a formal mathematical definition. I think you're using the wrong analogy here.
Yep: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/

Steve Blank's written about how that fits with the lean startup ideas. Definitely worth a read.
Here's how I am doing it: Grab an open-source program (in a space that interests you), figure out how to get it running, then mess with it. Keep changing it and messing with it.

After time, you will begin to understand more, and gain confidence. Just keep at it. Don't stop pursuing your business interests, etc, but just code code code. Best of luck!
I really like GitLab's
There’s books but also the ReactOS project has been working for many years on replicating the functionality, so you can look at their source.
> But I also don’t see that fundamental value ever matching the market value(...). We aren’t trading shares in a specific company here. We are trading Melvin’a profits and/or losses.

I think you're still doing L1/L2 thinking.

The way I understand L3, there's no such thing as "fundamental value". There's only market value, that's determined by what people think the market value is. The extent to which it's correlated with real-world performance of a company is limited to how likely other people are to take that performance into account. Ordinarily, enough investors look at the state of the company to give rise to a correlation (if only because otherwise there's nothing external to look at!). Meme stocks are kind of extreme here, in that everyone knows that everyone else knows the stock is being traded on its market value. But that feels to me like a difference of a degree, not of a kind.

And at this point I ask myself, how any of that is even useful to the society? Could we decouple the parts that let companies loan money and be accountable to the shareholders, separate them from the part where investors just play their spreadsheet MMOFPS? Or is the former always inherently going to turn into the latter, as people will always game it?
Today is a great day!
We don’t even have them for Bootcamp.
Well that's great for them.

Maybe (hopefully) we'll see environmental regulations against (expensive PoW) cryptocurrency before theres economically motivated regulation.
please file a bug report if you haven’t already so we can hunt the problem; i’m unaware of this.
Comparison with sports and horse betting would be more apt. There the line is clearly blurred and there's barely a distinction between the two, yet sports betting is regulated as gambling
My first run in with Autodesk was when we were looking to buy compositing software to replace our aging Shake. Around 10 representatives from Autodesk came to our school to pitch Flame as a solution. It was clear that none of them knew the software very well. However, they were very adept at bad mouthing the competition, to the point of telling untruths about them.

The team from Nuke consisted of one former Nuke developer and his wife. It was clear that he was a fan of the software as well as a user. Guess who got the contract.
> BTC might still be a terrible system for international transactions but it's still 168 times faster than the one that exists now.

It is 168 times faster than what you currently use.

There are services like TransferWise who specialize in fast international money transfers.

I could imagine that part of your delay is because the bank your family use (in Croatia) does not themselves handle international transfers, so they go through an intermediary bank, only adding delays.

I have often done ~12 hours international wires from Wells Fargo (U.S.) to Asia, and here the delay could simply have been due to the time zone.

Within the European Monetary Zone I often see money arrive in 10-30 minutes (crossing borders).
thats the point. It helps Hollywood, at your expense. You as the purchaser of the computer are not "entitled" to being able to use the computer exactly as you want.
A left-targeting phone would be something like purism's offerings [0] or pine [1], would it not? Though, those aren't exactly rebranded junk as a scam, so they might not count for the purpose of this discussion.

[0] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Weine nicht wenn die Bombe fällt, Dam Dam. Dam. Dam.

Bunker, Stein, und Eisen dicht, aber deine Maske nicht! Dam Dam. Dam Dam.
Probably a Fairphone since it values sustainability and worker rights in their supply chain even if the value for buck of their devices is lower than the main corporate brands like Apple/Alphabet/Samsung. (Plus support for unlocking the bootloader, flashing a custom ROM and relocking the bootloader which means it recently got CalyxOS support)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fairphone_4
It's "working as intended" in the sense that its rules are being followed. The problem is that the rules are only there because we want Wikipedia to actually be useful as a source of knowledge, and the rules which demand removing this information have failed at this larger goal.
It's also called 'cringe' in gen Z speak
I believe all of #lang racket is written in #lang racket/base.

Zuo is only superficially like racket. You likely can't do any of the fancy things in it.
I was pretty impressed by the article and just watched the youtube interview and came out less impressed than before I read the article. The questions were too soft - even CNN and other big news outlets ask tougher questions than these guys did. I understand they have to be themselves but if this is supposed to be the next outlet for news, it doesn't make me very hopeful.
In theory yes, in practice, if you observe around you, people in debt are (very) often the ones with early children, loans, 200$ phone bills and more.

I've seen plenty people having money problems, even caused by health problems or accidents. The ones to get out of it are the ones that stop spending in materials everybody else claim are mandatory untill they get better.

And no, a cell phone is not mandatory. I lived without it for years.

And no, a car is not mandatory. If you are in an area requireing a car, move in another area. If you don't, you are making the explicit choice to spend more money for the luxury of staying here.

And no, accidental kids are not a good excuse when you got condom, pills, emergency pills and eventually abvortion. My GF had an abvortion once. It was terrible. Still better than having a family in distress.

Of course, you can always find extrems cases, like somebody raised in a very religious family, forced to keep a baby, or somebody with a love one to care in an hospital. But it's rare. I lived in Europe, Africa, travelled to Asia, America south and north. In the US or the West Europe, most people ARE, in fact, responsible for their debts.

I'm not talking about people in the street. These are a very different situation. I'm talking about this everyday poverty, that of course nobody choose to be in voluntarly, but are the results of life priorities directly imported from TV, magazins and supermarkets.
> if this person was an "activist". You know, someone who tries to go positive on sufficient features of the detector to pass the threshold.

This is a perfectly reasonable smoke test for civil liberties and there's no shame, crime, or dishonor in running it.

For those wondering more about this type of action, I suggest a study of the works of Ben Masel of Madison, Wisconsin, who passed away a few years ago. He was arguably a master.
Yeah .. the Open Pandora is a bit of an underground classic at this point. The guys behind keeping it alive have started a new project - the Pyra - which will probably hit the scene this year .. keep your eye on the Pandora sites if you're interested in this sort of thing, its truly an under-the-radar innovative hardware project.
...the TSA... wasn't responsible for the longer (few hour) detention by the Philly Police.

This rings true to me. The TSA in general does not want people in custody. They know themselves that most of what they do is bullshit, so what would be the point? When I was delayed by TSA, they were eager to turn me over to LVPD, who, after a short conversation about the best way to deal with TSA bureaucracy and escape with minimal fines, told me, "if you run you can still catch your plane". Which I did.

Author of TFA had the misfortune to deal with local police just as stupid as TSA, but without the built-in CYA aversion to arrests.
I am starting to think that those kind of features should be integrated with the OS. So many cloud style apps are just irrelevant because they sit in their own ecosystem that excludes how most businesses actually organise things (with files on shared drives). I should be able to annotate things with the same set of tools and have the OS intermediate.
I understand why there needs to be a limited amount of any currency unit. It's because currency is for conducting transactions involving resources which are also limited. What I don't understand is why you think scarcity implies any sort of value. You do understand that there are plenty of things that are scarce that are essentially worthless, right?

As well, I'm not questioning the need for an exchange medium. I'm questioning why a certificate that says someone solved a useless math problem is a valid exchange mechanism.

> Why should anyone care about your opinion on btc?

Apparently you do, just not enough to be civil about it. If I had to speculate as to your motivation, I would say that it's because my point of view is dangerous to your interests. That is, if everyone thought the same as I did, BTC would be worth $0, just like I claimed in an earlier comment.

You also claim I don't understand inflation, but don't care to explain it to me. Well, here it is: inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few things. That's it, nothing else. As I've mentioned, that's also the reason the price of BTC climbs relative to USD. More people want to buy BTC with USD than they did yesterday. It's as simple as that. What you don't seem to understand is that the value of a currency is relative to the things people want to buy with it.

Let's illustrate the point with a hypothetical. Suppose a magical genie snaps their fingers and suddenly, everyone's USD bank balance gets multiplied by 10. What happens then? People still value the things they were buying with USD yesterday the same, so, prices will just go up by a factor of 10. You can call that the USD depreciating, or you can call it the price of goods increasing. Those things are equivalent.

See, the whole problem with your argument is that BTC only has any value whatsoever with respect to USD and other currencies. With fairly limited exceptions, you can't buy things with BTC, so it's not exposed to the true value of things one would theoretically buy with it.

One final question: do you take issue with my statement that the USD essentially is a blockchain-based digital currency? If so, how? If not, why bother with BTC?

Oh, and you still haven't explained why BTC should be worth anything at all. I thought you were one of those "enthusiasts" who understood those things? Is there a reason you don't want to explain it to me so I can become an enthusiast as well?
Any tips for a good and cheap Co2/PPM2.5 sensor to see if the purifier is working?
Right. But isn't there some wrinkle where London loses the trades denominated in eurodollars by leaving the EU?
> I did take one week of PTO right after our release!

;-(

It's disappointing but unsurprising that Mozilla apparently seems to facilitate a burnout work culture like every other tech company:

New/college hire -> work like mad with no life -> burn out -> quit -> repeat process for the next sucker in line.
Sorry, it was poorly worded on my part. I didn't actually doubt that, but prefer not to state other people's assertions as fact unless I know it is so for myself. I prefer to have my assertions grounded by what I'm basing them on, which is less about doubt of the source and more about keeping myself honest when arguing and not taking too hard a stance on stuff I haven't verified myself, since it's easy to come across as authoritative when I don't intend to otherwise.

Thanks for the evidence though, it's always best to have, even if it can be a pain to drum up when it might not really be called into question anyways. :)
By Jove, you're absolutely correct! Farthings was indeed an unit of currency.
It seems like you are not sure if you can trust them ? In that case, just decline for the meeting politely and move on. I would say something like "We appreciate the interest but we are not quite ready to discuss investment at the moment. We will definitely come back to you once we are ready. Once again, I really thank you for the consideration".
You can live on PhD stipend fairly comfortably though.
I found that if I went higher a few levels from me, the sideways, then everyone was either an internet marketer, some form of influencer, or startup “guru”.

Maybe it’s just my local graph, but it turned me off somewhat