skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It can't be confiscated

It can't be confiscated if you manage to keep it completely hidden since the second it was mined... just like any other currency. In some ways Bitcoin is a lot more traceable than regular money, which can change hands as cash repeatedly with no traceability.

If a court asks you to hand over something and you refuse you might as well spend time in prison until you have a change of heart. You can be compelled to produce the wallet and since transactions are traceable it's possible to calculate how much BTC was mined.

Unless the BTC was mined into an obscure wallet that can't be traced back to this guy there's no easy (any?) way to hide how much he mined. Because this isn't about how much BTC the guy controls now (he could just transfer it all and claim there's none left) but how much was mined.
>Seems to be one of the best ways to go about it.

The C/C++ standards do not require formatting to round correctly or even be portable. I recently had an issue where a developer used this method to round floats for display, and there were differences on PC and on Mac. It literally rounded something like 18.25 to 18.2 on one platform and 18.3 on the other. This led to all sorts of other bugs as some parts of the program used text to transmit data, which ended up in weird states.

The culprit was this terrible method. If you want anything approaching consistency or predictability, do not use formatting to round floating point numbers. Pick a numerically stable method, which will be much faster of done correctly.

Coincidentally, C/C++ do not require any of their formatting and parsing routines to round-trip floating point values correctly (except the newly added hex formatted floats which are a direct binary representation, and some newly added function allowing an obscure trick I do not recall at the moment... )
Modern economics doesn't really have a theory of value, which is a 19th century concern. (Arguably, Quesnay was the first person to have a theory of value.) Or, if you prefer, economics have a subjective theory of value. This has some normative content -- if you think the purpose of human existence is the greater glory of God you will find economics pretty disappointing -- but economists no longer try to explain what things are "really" worth.

Your argument is an example of what I mean, though. The labor theory of value lost out on "is" grounds -- there are too many things it can't explain. Now some of the people who made this argument were right-wingers, so if you think that only "ought" questions matter, the fact that people with the wrong notion of "ought" made a contribution proves that the whole thing is morally bankrupt.

There are economic historians, but economists don't talk about medieval or ancient economies just because they don't have much to say. Historians are better equipped to understand them. Though a recent paper applied a trade model (the gravity equation) to predict the locations of Assyrian ruins, so maybe there's more to be done.
Very interesting! I had never heard of that. That definitely satisfies the twin criteria of sudden change and obvious link to magnifying inequality. It also suggests an explanation for why the incarceration rate began to skyrocket at the same time (wanting to be seen to be "tough on crime").
... how far is your summer cottage ?
I did, but I felt that by picking a number of pills per day towards the lower end of the scale (4 - hydrocodone can be up to 12[1], oxycodone 5 times a day[2], and codeine 6-8[3]), and by showing that the calculated figure is significantly more than the actual figure (thus still reaching the actual figure even if a significant number of patients are better suited to non-opioid care), it accounts for that somewhat.

I also wasn't attempting to do a rigorous accounting of all prescribed pills, but show that the 76bn figure _alone_ doesn't immediately point to overprescribing. It's a big number, but in context it doesn't seem out of the question. Furthermore, it doesn't rule out overprescribing, but that would require a more in-depth analysis than just looking that at the headline figure.

[1] "the dose is usually not more than 12 tablets per day" - https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/hydrocodone-and...

[2] "Roxicodone: Adults—10 to 30 milligrams (mg) every 4 hours as needed." https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/oxycodone-oral-...

[3] "At first, 15 to 60 milligrams (mg) every 4 hours as needed[...] the dose is usually not more than 360 mg per day." At the maximum daily dose, that puts you at 6 60mg pils/day, and in my non-US experience, the lower strength pills are often used to increase the dose of the combining drug (acetaminophen/paracetamol) - I am on 90mg/day, but it is still 8 pills https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/codeine-oral-ro...
> They don't have to ... have an HR department for their employees

Uber has something like 22,000 actual employees. They definitely have to maintain HR departments.
For social choice this is often used as an introductory book:

Wulf Gaertner: A Primer in Social Choice Theory. Oxford UP 2009.

However, I personally found his proof of Arrow's Theorem cumbersome and not so accessible, and prefer the following books:

Christoph Börgers: Mathematics of Social Choice. Siam Publications 2010.

Alan D. Taylor: Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation. Cambridge UP 2005.

They are both concise and easy to follow if you're familiar with this kind of mathematics (for example, if you have a CS background). As for "popular science" books on social choice, I don't know of any good one and unfortunately have heard a few colleagues in philosophy misinterpret Arrow's Theorem. In that respect it's quite similar to Gödel's Theorems.
I would suggest https://notion.so. It's not an open source product but I like their UX approach
Came here to say this. Potentially interested but I've lost all interest because I can't zoom the page to actually look at the screenshot. I consider this bad behavior and I don't reward bad behavior.
I believe that's recognizing a shape and knowing an attribute.
400 of that was for the brake replacement, and the remaining 2600 sound pretty normal these days (if you're going to a manufacturer contracted garage instead of some 3rd party garage). Remember there is still an ICE for range extension, and the inspection checklists probably doesn't care whether you used the ICE virtually never or all the time.

As for tires, my hybrid seems better and also takes pretty much any manufacturers tires (19/235 summer, 17/235 winter - can't say anything detailed about durability regarding my driving since I only have it since April this year, but the previous owner seemed to make about 40000km per set), but the i3 tires seem to be purpose build, so less quantity (more expensive) and MAYBE focused much more on efficiency over durability.

Also 45k miles, not km? (Link is down now, so can't check).

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Americans Were Skinnier in the 1980s, with the Same Diet/Exercise as Today
Does anyone have a workaround for this paywall, please?
It's a well-known brand but Microsoft have dragged it through the mud since they acquired it and among those I know it now has a reputation for being extremely unreliable. They might want to retire it rather than fight to rehabilitate its image.
You might also like https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-...
I like this. Might actually use this as an always-on dashboard on one of my spare PCs. Probably could find a neat use for it.
...and Firefox Developer comes with dev tool features that have not yet reached Firefox Stable.
Last week I read that significant plastic is released in nature by tire wear. Electric cars are often heavier then their gasoline equivalents. I wouldn't be surprised if they wear faster and pollute more microplastics.

[1] https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/tyres-and-microplastic...
The Threat of Fake Science
It's FOSS though, if devs swarm it with contributions anything is possible ;P
Researchers propose a new approach for dismantling online hate networks
FYI, this post is because Firefox 70 was released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition.

Should the title be changed?
Holy fuck! So their shutdown/demonetizing is being done by robots? They are automating the process of taking away peoples' way of earning a living? That is awful.
'unsupported browsers' are browsers that are old or broken. FireFox is a perfectly good browser, it is current and should be supported.
Care to share your experiences? I'm interested!
Except they aren't in fear.

The general attitude of Chinese people that I speak to is that they are good but lots of other Chinese people are bad/don't follow rules. I constantly have Chinese people trying to protect me from other Chinese people that they are worried will try to take advantage of me.

It seems to be like breaking road rules. Everyone justifies themselves when they do it but other people are bad drivers when they break rules.

The general idea is that surveillance isn't for them but for other Chinese people which they are fine with.
The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter
Only slightly better than it leaves European-Americans.
Because it's such a rare corner case. I've been running my blog for 10+ years and apparently I've never seen a request without the UA header - until a post got to the front page of HN a while back and someone like you caused a bunch of "Use of uninitialized value" errors in my logs. It's fixed now.
Facebook "kind of" works in Firefox, but there's loads of subtle breakage: for example pasting anything in Messenger (with ctrl+v) breaks the entire site for me. Middle-click kind-of but kind-of-doesn't work, depending on planetary alignments or some such :-/
Ask the ones you've talked with whether they dare to level with their own parents or relatives, most likely they will be scolded as traitors or even be shuned to avoid troubles.

Yes, there will always be outliers, but in the case of China, where conformity is of utmost importance, they really are just absolute minorities in the 1.4B population.

If you've been following the developments of HK protests, a key indicator is that almost all of these "passive dissents" of the CCP you described turned against HKers just like average Chinese, they are bashing HKers and lapping up the info the party gave them.

Do these people love freedom or even democracy, yes, but they are also acting against it in the case of HK. This is the paradox, they love the "good aspects" of freedom and democracy but they also vehemently hate and reject the "bad ones" that inevitably come with it.
In Chromium in the Network tab how do you see the request? In Firefox you can edit and resend a request and see it or modify it and send it again.
'Starhopper': SpaceX engine testbed makes minute-long jump
I actually installed DaPy and gave it a go.
Trust me, it's super easy to use.
I'm no fan of judging people by the color of their skin, why not use family income?

This way it's apparent who is getting high scores due to tutoring and who is naturally gifted.
"Next Step" is a common phrase. Multiple companies currently have a live trademark for "NextStep."
Don't forget to paste your auth tokens into a random website today.
I wonder wether there are already any military applications based on wave-based imaging. I assume one would gain significant advantage having such capability, especially in urban warfare.
They would do much better without it, thank you very much.
Will grids cope with a surge in electric cars?
When asked, over 50% of Hong Kong people identified as “Hongkonger[s]”, even though various Chinese options were available.¹ Clearly then at least some non-protesters agree.

1. https://www.hkupop.hku.hk/english/popexpress/ethnic/eidentit...
Medellin has a very strong developer community with a give first mentality of helping, they also have meetups that feel like every single day, also a lot of U.S. companies have engineering teams in Medellin. KiwiBot, Splice, Envoy, Snappr, AI Fund, Landing.AI just to name a few. Then there's the large global software agencies like Accenture, Huge, Globant, Yuxi Pacific. They all speak english.

I think you might just be in the wrong silo. I've reached out to directly via DM on twitter.

Also, relevant https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/andrew-ngs-ai-companies-ex...
That's a neat side project, and I like the idea of having a quick website I can go for testing quick requests rather than having to open a full-fledged app.
Skype has 300 million monthly active users https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/skype-publicly-launches-sc...
Leave Asian Americans?? Asian Americans have the highest income of all groups of Americans.
More Airlines Ban MacBook Pros in Checked Luggage
typo in title: owing --> owning
Shrug Why would that be high? It seems to include the required yearly checkup, and a 450L brake change that wasn't necessary. My (diesel) BMW X3 cost a little bit more than his car to buy, and I expect to average the same maintenance costs over say 5 years (his car was second hand when he bought it, too). BMW official dealerships are quite expensive, what you get for it are exact quotes within minutes on the phone, reliable planning and always new, OEM parts. Whether that's worth the money is for everyone to decide for themselves, but I don't think this is 'golden car' territory by a long shot.
I think so much of it reflects its decades as increasingly underfunded state asset, in an era when having a state asset at all is almost unacceptable.

I imagine budget for proper replacement displays, modelling, maintenance and restoration is far harder than it used to be... Some of those exceptionals, both known and lesser known in storage, deserve far more than they now often get.

> recent closure of the old Wellcome collection ... powerfully evocative atmosphere

Ugh. That hard to define atmosphere is the part that seems to being modernised away, and a good part of what I increasingly miss. Whether it's too many "clean" experiences with acres of empty space and a few exhibits spotted around, or the changing nature of the interactive models I'm not sure. Certainly I think a lot of the screen based stuff would be better as interactive experience on the website than in the building, though when it's additional to other means, it can often work.

I wish a lot more of how they managed was additive rather than replacing great swathes with a whole new design. Most, though not all, of the new plastic and electronic approaches seem far poorer in terms of lasting, and often less engaging.

The parts I often enjoy most are the esoteric, failed but promising ideas, and the day-to-day that we forgot. So I like the odd little packed displays of thirties electricals, analogue computers,

> By the passage of time, it had become a sort of meta-museum

This is one unexplored area they could do so much more with. Beautiful teak and brass cabinets with a perfect cutaway replica of a steam turbine or whole power station might not be the modern way to do it, but they were lasting and beautiful of themselves. 8 or 10 year old me couldn't leave the place until I'd turned every handle. :)

I'm sure there's scope for a huge, and fascinating self-referential meta-museum of presenting museum science, model making and all the other back room activities through the ages. Include some of the long forgotten exhibits that included the scent of machine oil, carbon electrical brushes, the metallic bite of a little ozone and sprinkling of burnt dust - like all machinery used to come with. Oh, and a selection of those ancient models the kids can try, and fail, to break by winding too fast.

Maybe we need a museum of the museum - maybe that's V&A's territory. :)

I just hope that now Manchester Science and Industry are under the same group it brings the London Science Museum up, rather than Manchester down.
That definitely seems like something that would conceivably exacerbate the inequality effects, in the USA at least. But it feels to me to be too gradual a shift to explain the elbows in some of those curves - it's not as if Nixon reopened relations with China, and then companies instantly started outsourcing. Is it?
Growth of African rural e-commerce
I'm a bit lost. I get that genetics are not typically isolated to "just one bad thing", but I feel like you're dodging the point.

To say that say a trait we only know to be a significant marker to mental retardation isn't inferior, due to moral reasons seems in bad faith.

I am very accepting that technically (as I mentioned in other posts) we are in over our heads, and are likely to make mistakes. Frankly, these are games we don't have the understanding to be playing. However that is not what we're discussing here.

What we're discussing is whether or not we can morally proceed with any type of engineering. As if doing so would without fail become "lets make black people more dumb, because we don't like them" or w/e. This seems poorly thought out to me.

If I view engineering as yet another medical tool, then lets look at the existing medical tools. Could I not make pills that selectively hurt specific groups more than others? Yes. So while the stakes are likely higher with genetic engineering, I'm arguing that I don't think we should, or even can, be making scientific medical decisions based on wishy washy what-ifs and moral gut feelings of right and wrong.

Lets focus on saving lives.
> this is not at all an alternative to Postman - it does the job very beautifully and minimally.

-_- wow. Way to stereotype women
WeWork Founder's Pledge to Give Away $1B
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
It opens a smaller version in isolation that I still can't zoom
Stalking the Wily Hacker [pdf]
Isn't LineageOS what you are looking for? You can take with or without Google bloatware. It is available and regularly updated for FP2, where I use it.
Google removed that functionality because of a settlement with Getty.
The one that particularly stuck with me is phonecalls from embassy numbers to people I know in Canada, claiming that I'm trying to enter China and that they would need to confirm details for me to gain entry. AFAIK this is an actual thing that they do for some entrants.

Since most people don't record phonecalls, it's easy to deny this sort of thing; and since it's similar to an official activity of the government there, I suspect for a lot of people it goes unnoticed, if it is more common.

I've never visited the PRC, and I have no intention of ever visiting it as long as it is run by the party.

Chinese students here are under watch as well, and it's not all that subtle. You should read some of the things that go on in North American schools.
It seems like the heirs of the other guy are finding legal ways to rob an insane person. It's gross the judge has not apparantly even considered this. Wright is a pathological liar. He makes stuff up constantly to get attention. Although this is a huge flaw, it's unreasonable to allow this to create facts for some other party that weren't proven in the normal way, ie a written contract.
Is this even possible? LineageOS would have to be forked by the manufacturer to be supported by them.

What would be nice is being able to pay for LineageOS to be supported on specific devices. If enough people pay $1/month or something else inconsequential individually, it should be possible to compensate the volunteers who currently work on device support.
The irony of natural gas is that while it emits half the carbon of coal or gasoline per same amount of energy release, methane is 20 times amore potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So a 3% leakage pretty much erases its green house savings. No fuel company wants to leak and waste that much methane, but stopping leakage is not easy.

One of the few facts the President got right is the US has reduced carbon emission more than any other country be converting from coal electricity to natural gas electricity. That is mainly because the US was highest or second highest carbon emitter for decades with any fractional decrease having impact. The decrease has pretty much stopped withcoal plant closures slowing.

Environmentalist se natural gas as a transition phase to full renewables.
Sadly km or ~900 miles per month.

Engine inside is small one from motorcycle, so it shouldn’t be hard to service. I was considering buying i3, but went for 328i.
Thank you for posting that. If they are in the US, 10k is considered low mileage per year. For working age adults, 18k is considered average.

Source: Bc I'll be asked ;) https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
The Time Has Come for a Real Wealth Tax [pdf]
This is interesting, but posting this on Twitter in such a format is annoying, especially when he has a blog, github, etc. I only say this because it seems to be a common format for some reason... why?
Not all Asians are the same. I’m an outlier because I graduated high school
You don't have to stick to the OEM tire. You can get a different, cheaper size, as long as it doesn't rub the wheel well or bottom out. And the exact tire and manufacturer you get, along with the conditions it was kept in, will determine the wear life of the tire. And when people complain about their tires wearing fast, it's often just badly aligned tires that could be fixed by going to a better mechanic. And buying tires online or from a warehouse is always cheaper, often by a lot.

So just because you have a certain kind of car doesn't mean you will always have the same tire wear or cost.
This means that you need some sort of comprehensive integration that tests all corner cases of features you use. You certainly can't rely on the browser vendors to implement every feature perfectly according to spec with no bugs. So you have to test it yourself. Most people test their app, see that it mostly works, and then declares the browser supported. That's why we get these things like "please use browser X"; it's what the developers checked the corner cases on.
For others having the same issue, the image can be found in the github repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wtfutil/wtf/master/images/...
Eight people indicted for running illegal streaming services
Running a Static HTTP Server in React Native
I assume the "call to action" on the linked website itself is an example of this feature?

So, as a user wanting to find out what your product is about, I go to your website to find out more. As I'm reading, it pops up a message saying "Please visit our blog to know more about NextStep" – which is exactly what I was trying to do when it interrupted my efforts.

(So the website doesn't let me know more about the product then, since you're telling me to visit the blog instead?)

To be clear, my feedback as a user of the website:

1. Don't interrupt me as I'm reading.

2. I don't want to be put into a funnel. Just give me the information without tricks.
I've wanted one of these for years, but live in the US. Would importing it work, or would my provider not support it?
I recently got a used Leaf with about 70mi range for around $7000 (total cost including fees, tax, etc.). It's extremely low maintenance (no ICE at all) and while I haven't done math in this detail yet the "fuel" price even at California's higher electricity rates is less than half the cost of gasoline per mile driven. Once you factor in the relative lack of maintenance it's much cheaper to operate than an ICE.

Overall if you don't need really long range a used Leaf is a great deal. You can get them in virtually mint condition for under $10k. Just be sure to research and check out battery health. There's an Android app called LeafSpy that will use a Bluetooth ODBII dongle (these are cheap) and can query lots of detailed battery info so you can check out battery health after buying. Mine was about average in terms of capacity loss for its age and it gets around 70 miles per charge without issue.

Also note that the Leaf's mileage estimate tends to be a little pessimistic, at least in my experience. My guess is that it's designed this way to avoid stranding the driver. Gas cars are often a little pessimistic too for the same reason. They give you a bit of a reserve.