skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want to help them build a new house.

Sure, and you can then agree with me that the first step in building a house for someone on land you own is to give them title to that section of land. Then you get to help them build. Otherwise, you're just holding them hostage.

> My belief is that if someone is wronged, they deserve to be made whole

You can't make someone whole after killing off all their ancestors. The US has done undoubted wrong. You can't fix it. It's only pride that makes you think that the government is in any way capable of making this whole. Leave that to God, man can't do it.
Well, the bad news is that this method is unsustainably expensive, then. And it also fails the test of avoiding oversight, so...
I was invited to work on a project implementing a country-wide firewall, of the sort used in Saudi Arabia to censor content from its citizens. I gave a very flat "no". Not a chance would I put my efforts into such a thing.

The company never hired me again. I would call it a mutual separation, since they went ahead and worked on that project without me, and I won't work for a company that is so greedy they'd throw morals and ethics to the wind on that kind of contract.

One staffer even admitted to me he felt icky about the whole thing. Why do it then? You sold out, bud.
> Basically, if you include a donation link in your app without proving non-profit status you could be committing fraud,

How is it fraud to ask for donations without being a non-profit?

> Google also has to report non-tax exempt profits made by any app/content they host in many locations,

I am not familiar with google's payment model, but is there no way to charge users except through Google for google play apps?
I agree. There were times in the past where I thought dang was favoring YC companies (it's worth mentioning GitLab is a YC company), but in retrospect I think I was seeing it because I wanted to see it.

HN continues to surprise me as the best moderated community of substantial size anywhere on the internet, and this thread exemplifies why.

Thank you dang for making HN what it is today. I know I appreciate it, and I bet 99% of everybody else here does as well.
> frozen apple pie sellers will tell folks to take the pie out of the aluminum tin and put it in a glass or ceramic baking dish to make the pie look homemade.

What's even more ironic is doing that completely changes how the pie bakes, likely making the result even worse. Those heavy ceramic pie plates mean it takes longer for the pie to get up to temp and cook, often means the pie sticks to the plate, and makes it more difficult to cook the crust properly along with the pie (you could prebake the crust, but not with a frozen pie). I'm pretty sure most businesses use pie tins (foil is wasteful and structurally a poor choice).

I guess the whole goal is perception and convenience, not necessarily quality.
Good example of how justice should be blind to all but the law.
You can ban cars but still allow cargo trucks to drive through pedestrian streets, that is what Zurich in Switzerland does. People and cars can share space just fine if the cars are few and slow enough.
Related: In 17 days the door closes on StackBlitz’s payload of a RaspberryPi server hosting 1000 web apps [1], so if you’ve got something you want in orbit, act now.

> the plan is to broadcast a public wifi hotspot that passerby aliens can tap into while their teleporter beam slowly slurps up unsuspecting humans

[1] https://deployto.space/
By that measure, the problem is the pricing of energy, not Bitcoin.
Here's my 2c.

Why do you need to discuss anything at all?
Work is where I work. I'm being paid for my time and professional expertise, not my opinion on anything else. I don't get why would I be allowed to spend that time on conversations not related to work.

Being allowed to have some short talk, maybe discuss something quickly, like a game last night or something, is and should be more of a nicety. Nobody gonna stop me from doing this. But I don't see why we should be allowed spending long periods of time discussing other important issues.

There are meetups, we can get together after work, go for a beer etc... And have those conversations in our personal time if we deem it important. But not during business hours.

Work is for work. So banning conversations is reasonable imo, and not only political.
"deny someone their existence"

This is one of the most overused, vague and inaccurate arguments. Nobody is denied from existing. These kind of extreme claims cause more friction than any actual discussion of the issue at hand.
any updates???
Or $68/transaction supposedly if electricity cost at 11 cents per KwH is used. Actual transaction fees run around $0.20 for on-chain which implies either math is wrong or per block reward is sufficient still (total blocks I believe are fixed with increasing difficulty).

Does this analysis take into account secondary network transactions? For example wire transfers are relatively expensive to process still, but are often used to settle huge volumes of things like ACH payments, nightly sweeps etc.
I don't view this as a political issue at all.

If I ran a company and had LGBTQ employees, I would not want what you just described because it would be creating a hostile environment for those employees.

Coming into your workplace and telling your co-workers that they don't deserve equal rights under the law is just a shitty thing to do. It's an issue of basic respect and has nothing to do with politics.
yeah, but he knew his stuff so it at least sounds plausible
Agreed. It was a necessary step to the next stage.

We could say the industrial revolution was a great disaster as if disrupted how people worked, their relationship to labor, capital, etc., but it also enabled us to get where we are today.
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I'm not sure if the article is right or wrong, but the commenter above you was probably getting at this:

You can see how much money a block miner receives for a block of transactions, and given the money they received, and an estimate for the cost of power, you can estimate how much power they might have been willing to expend on it

Going off the guy's link, I guess it's 24 cents to get into the next block, and a block has about 500,000 transactions, so whoever mines that block gets $125,000. Assuming 4 cents per kWh, the presence of only one miner, and no other operation costs, he'd still be breaking even if he expended (1 kwH/$0.04)*$125,000 =~ 2,500 kWh per block

(and by the same napkin math, that's 6 kWh per transaction)

What's weird is TFA seems to be using a similar methodology (but looking at total bitcoin mining revenue instead of an individual block), and yet they came out with a number 100x as large. I'm not sure why there's such a big discrepancy.
Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed
Can someone tell me whether this is ever going to change? When the last bitcoin is mined?
That's great, but you could argue that AML/KYC has pollution costs of a different nature in regards to personal liberty. Whether or not they do me suggesting that is about as baseless as suggesting bitcoin has huge negative externalities.

Without explicit evidence of a market failure it's probably fine to assume that negative externalities are factored into sticker price of goods as the opportunity cost of product X eventually must take into account those externalities as applied to everyone.
Maybe?

They can still use the same tracking mechanisms, I mean when I order from the pizza place, they don't contract it out, so why should I care of my amazon seller does?
If I understand the argument, he isn't saying that those horrible things are fine and should be allowed. He's saying that it's the government's job to do something about them. Once the tech companies took a bite out of that poisoned apple, their fate was sealed, to become government-controlled.
> Some sellers can request disbursement at any time

This applies to very few sellers.
This isn't a bad idea and I would vote for it, but I can't imagine the political battle to build this would be any less hard than the one to fix density and transit issues with the land already there.

Americans don't love to hear this but the political battle here is fundamentally a class war between the people that own property in California and the people that don't. The haves will also fight this proposal for the same reasons they are financially incentivized to fight the proposals to improve the existing land. You can technology your way out of some political problems but probably not this one.
That is why you use monero if you don't want government to spy on your every purchase.
I'm not trolling, but what's the difference between Pipedream and Microsoft Flow?
These threads are always a trip. So many addicts in here.
I have similar feelings, but if you apply this attitude uniformly it's nearly impossible to participate in the economy at all, since it's mostly riding on fossil fuels in one way or another.

At least with bitcoin you could theoretically throw up a pile of solar panels and directly convert that clean electricity into money.
Transaction costs are currently being socialized across all holders. The block reward is sold to pay the power bill creating downward pressure on price for everyone.
Oof, I know that pain. Or a similar one. I use the tiling window manager i3 - so I don't have windows stacked on top of each other to flip through, but I do have plenty of workspaces to flip through.

I wrote a small thing to help me manage creation and navigation of named i3 workspaces using dmenu (and I love it) but the first improvement I made was to add the ability to flip between the two most recently used workspaces and bind it to Alt-Tab. This immediately drove me up a wall by jumping to workspaces on different outputs (laptop screen, external monitor, etc) which was correct but remarkably disorienting. The next improvement was to make toggling only consider workspaces currently on the focused output. [0] I'm quite happy with the result (though there are still some bugs involving tracking workspace age while shifting them around between outputs).

There is a further improvement I'd love to add but don't know how - I want the Windows Alt-Tab behavior where Alt-Tab enters a "switching mode" and then as long as Alt is held down, repeated tapping of Tab fires an action (in this case, cycling focus to older and older targets). I haven't been able to find a key binding program or recipe that supports this kind of interaction (I'm currently using sxhkd).

0: https://github.com/mosbasik/fluidspaces-rs/blob/dev/src/bin/...
> I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything to disturb that?

I'm not usually a "the people in power are actively trying to keep the workers divided amongst themselves and seeing one another as the enemy, so they don't organize against the people who are actually keeping them down" sort, but in this specific case... well, there might be a bit of that going on, at least for what "political discussion" usually means in the context of SV-type workplaces.
Am I the only one that finds the article strange?

I mean:
"Most times, they can’t vote on the House floor..." - In the quoted text 'they' refers to the delegate that the Cherokee nation would get.

So they are fighting for a delegate with no floor voting power.

Then the article seems to conclude:
"...the new delegate would give extra weight to Cherokee Nation citizens’ votes — a so-called “super vote.”

How can these two be? IANAL, so maybe someone with a legal background has some insight?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity)
Ohhh, that makes much more sense. Thank you!
This does not seem to include transactions on the Bitcoin Lightning network which are transaction that are handled offchain so they are not included in blocks. I don't have the exact number of lightning transaction ocurring but it is the Bitcoin Core developers' plan that the scaling to thousand of transactions per second will and should take place on the lightning network (this is where they differ from their competitor Bitcoin Cash which is aiming for bigger blocks and onchain scaling). Bitcoin is still a technology in its infancy ten years after being started.
> Public discourse shifted into "silence is complicitness - if you allow this speech on your platform, that means that you endorse it."

Public discourse? Or the loudest segment of the discourse most influential on Googlers?
Keep in mind groups is 18 years old. It started as an email list and I can tell you we had 12 email servers and they sat at around 2k message a second... steady. We didn't even alert until they hit 20k in the queue.

The photos in Groups was also an interesting thing. We once had a "hacker" create groups called shard1 shard2 .. etc etc. He put his porn in there and deep linked to it. We found out when we got the internet bill for the overseas bit. We were pumping out 8GB a second to China and didnt even notice the traffic until we got the bill :)

Yes, I am sure Facebook/ reddit has eclipsed it by far in data sets now, however the volume in groups isnt matched by many other.

When I left they had ~4 Petabytes of data... around 8 years ago
Yes? No? I don't know what happens when an Iranian sees a hostile app on Github to his interests and then reports it to the FBI. It'll probably work for countries close to the US. Microsoft will probably make relevant info available to the UK, but obviously not Iran.

I mean if your qualifying rule is everyone in the world, you've given Github the job of being world police. A role that won't make an earth shattering impact because bad actors can make those same programs offline. Why not have it in the light where we can see it coming? Being world police is the gov's job. Github should be treated as an american service and be required to respect only the gov's the US cares about and let the rest of the world use it on an "as is" basis.
Politics isn't an atomic unit. It's perfectly normal - and arguably the default state - to be apolitical on many if not most issues.
I think you kinda answered it yourself. For an unknown product, the store brand is a crapshoot.

The store has an incentive to stock it's own brand product beyond what the incentive for competitors is. Ie, they are going to carry a competitor either because it's a good product that sells, or the competitor has paid for shelf space (and is betting it's own money that it's product is good).

Neither of these necessarily applies to a store brand. So even if it's between store brand and unknown 3rd party competitor, I'll go 3rd party first.

That said, there are some store brand products that, having tested, I enjoy. It's just usually not worth the 25¢ to me for the gamble.
Pretty sure HN's search is implemented by Algolia themselves. It's served from algolia.com.
Here's an apples and oranges comparison.

According to the article, bitcoin consumes about the same amount of electrical energy as Austria, a nation of 8,857,960.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, ~8.6 million people are employed in "Financial activities" in the US.

BLS: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
What are your moral convictions?
To get people to move somewhere, you mainly just need jobs. Everybody wants jobs. There's no choice, people have to go where jobs are because employers have much more bargaining power.

So, create some large enough tax incentives for companies to move there, and people will follow.
Bitcoin is another wonderful example of trying to solve a people problem with technology.

A complete and utter waste of resources, which at best fills a gap while the actual problem remains unsolved.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140962
The detained immigrants didn’t choose to be piled into camps.

The hyperbole of all the immigrants arrested dashing through dangerous coyotes is nonsense.

Many of the “illegal” immigrants were born in the US. Many don’t speak Spanish. But sure, concentrating them in prisons and separating children from their parents isn’t about punishing them for being Mexican.

Don’t come out claiming I’m advancing a polarizing description of what happens with a claim that the victims of a deliberately racist camp system have chosen this.
"Secretary of state," I assume.
While Oumuamua was a sentry buoy this ‘comet’ is a confirmation device shielded as ‘interstellar comet’. I wonder who shows up next? This sectors silicon based AI wiping out carbon life forms? Just kidding... hopefully we get to see more of these interstellar objects in the next few years. Exciting!
> The first thing that is striking about this list is how many of the announcements won’t ship for quite some time.

Literally everything there ships in a month, dude.
It all depends on what you’re trying to find when you search. Google knows your background, Algolia doesn’t.

I too built a search engine:

https://demo.insideropinion.com/meta_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93...

I find it works 100x better for me, when I weight results by my expertise. Basically, returning results based on what I already am familiar with.
Did you notice how the motto is "biting the hand that feeds IT", and the logo is the head of a scowling vulture? :)
I mean, the article lays out the energy costs of competing transaction processors. But if Bitcoin is just a clearinghouse for large-scale reconciliation, then... who is the audience exactly? Large banks that have to operate using real money under actual governmental regulation have no use for Bitcoin's naive guarantees, which pretend that the court system and human ambiguity don't exist.
Given how inaccurate the average news media is at everything else what makes you think they would need to encourage that?
There's another huge factor: new technologies challlenge existing power and wealth structures.

The best research on this phenomenon I've found has been Bernhard J. Stern's "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937), which explores multiple instances, in communications, transport, materials, energy, housing, and more.

Even disrupting workflows likely fits into this, in at least part.

Original:

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

Retyped Markdown:

https://pastebin.com/raw/Bapu75is
> I preemptively agree that Cloud Flare is not one of those organizations.

Would you please elaborate on your distrust of Cloudflare? I’m not looking to call you out. Quite the opposite, I appreciate your candor. I just feel like I’m missing some context.
Another poster mentions that you can transfer/spend it in a way that's difficult to recover:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275859

But even if that wasn't true, you could still compare expected value. For instance, if you had an 80% chance of successfully embezzling $8 million without getting caught, and a 20% chance of serving 2 years of jail, this would translate to an expected value of $1 million per year served.
A pretty good distributed orbital debris generator too...

Reminds me of "beer: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems!"
What were the admirable bits?
>Reduction in inequality between men and women has an inverse relationship with rates of women in engineering.

Who's to say there's a reduction? Have you been paying attention? There's a reason people are upset about this. Look who our president is and how many outstanding sexual assault allegations he has against him.
And those costs may or may not be apparent.
local.bitcoin.com . It's non-custodial and does not rely on a trusted third party. So it's impossible to regulate. You buy peer-to-peer directly from a dealer. You technically get BCH, not BTC, but you can convert after. This is the most anonymous way to get it.
I really wish articles like this weren't published since they're basically a call for poachers.
>central bank energy consumption index
“Nobody Lives Here”: A Beautiful Map of Uninhabited America (2014)
Does the microwave background come from the centre of the universe where the big bang was; and the light from stars on the far side, flying in the opposite direction to us, take longer to reach us than the microwave background does?
Google does censor my email to some extent. It send a number of conservative emails straight to spam.
A lot of the time I agree. I don't think I've ever had a need to opine on the merits or demerits of the filibuster at work.

But "should we deploy in China, knowing we will have to hand over data on possible dissidents?" is something I've had to deal with repeatedly. I see no way of having that discussion without getting into politics.

Of course, you can rightly say that some people just sit down and write code without becoming embroiled in the great conflicts of our time. That's true.

But the struggle for diversity in tech and equality more broadly is one of the great struggles of our time, and I know of very few engineers who do not recruit, interview, or hire. Should those people just cash their paycheck, or should they take the time to discuss an issue that nearly all employers claim to take seriously?

I think you can continue with this line of reasoning to include things like compensation (especially health insurance, m/paternal leave, and sick leave policy). And nearly everybody has a stake in the compensation discussion.

So, while I get the desire to just do the work and go home, I don't think it's so easy to separate politics from work without doing grievous harm to both. Which suggests to me the obvious thing: that the real goal of these efforts is not to foster inclusiveness or provide a better working environment, but rather to prevent a dialogue about how to do just that.
This is done in Singapore. You can buy a car no problem but you need a certificate of entitlement to register and drive it. COE price fluctuates based on demand but has been over $50k USD (no mistake).

A small island nation. Traffic still gets pretty bad but it would probably be a lot worse without this policy.
It gets better... [facepalm]

From Twitter:

Today it was announced that Yahoo! Groups is
shutting down, and taking with it a piece of
critical national infrastructure:
the Oftel Yahoo Group which is used for
managing UK phone number assignments.
Yes, really: See Ofcom's website

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/56646/s...

Original tweet:
https://twitter.com/erincandescent/status/118458732359973683...
The things that excite me the most about this aren't the backlog of games, but the TV dock, Nanoloop tracker, and making new games. I am a big fan of seeing how creative people can be with limitations. Making a game or music on this system definitely would fall in that category. I'm not aware of what the limitations are for this game though.

I like the GB studio app, though since it maintains strict backwards compatibility with the original Game Boy, you have a very restricted color palette.

I wonder if PICO-8 can be ported to this.
People have been reporting sightings for decades - almost since the last known one died.

Similar for Moas in NZ.

Or Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster.

Hearsay of sightings should not be news. Quality video evidence is the only thing that should get to a news site.
Also, despite the age of the universe (13.8B years), the diameter of the observable universe is 93 billion light years. That's because the universe expanded (and probably still is expanding) faster than light.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter are not "literally picking" the next president or the next congressman. That is delusional.