skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is obviously a problem if you expect small or even medium-sized transactions to be recorded on the blockchain itself.

It's less obviously a problem if the blockchain is able to function as a "trust anchor" for additional protocol "layers", e.x. Lightning Network.

TBD whether that actually works in practice at scale, but I believe it's Bitcoin's only hope.
> those rules, exactly how you have stated them, can be--and are--used to clamp down on valid political speech.

As far as I can tell Twitter has not “clamped down on valid political speech”, but only on targeted harassment, threats, and so on.

You are complaining that supporting a racist worldview gets someone called out as a racist by other users of the site. But that’s expected and healthy discourse for a democracy. There’s nothing in Twitter’s terms of service that says people can’t make fun of someone or call them racist.

This is entirely different from getting banned by the platform for e.g. inciting violence.
That’s why I like posts like this from GitLab. They are clear what their priorities are so you can choose what to build with your hands.

Lots of people don’t care or don’t have time to evaluate the thousands or millions of customers using software. The evaluation never ends so even if you shut off the really bad one, there will be another.

Picking a legal limit let’s me focus on other things.
The important part is that someone has to mirror it.
I think those are interesting data points, but it's hard to take that data and clearly conclude there is a non-problem.

For one, 50 years ago in America, women were unintentionally at the frontline of computers perhaps because high numbers of women were the "computers" before machine computers were introduced. And when the machine computers were introduced, the departments of women "computers" got exposure to them perhaps because of a high overlap in the departmental "compute" functions.

Similarly if you look at high level women in computing from 50 years ago, they often got chances to apply their extraordinary skills because they happened across extraordinary opportunities - in some part because no-one else was above them for unique job, nor was there a formal role to hire for and choose between a woman or man. Another contributing factor might be the nature of war as well as the newness of the tech that created a temporary gender-blind vacuum.
Oh, they have those in Europe, they are called "political parties". Some countries have lots of different parties, like "Pirate Party", for example.

Generally you can have a political party for any which cause you want, and then vote for the candidate that the party has nominated.
Here is the proposition: let's make an inherently deflationary currency suitable for black market transactions that will become even more polluting with every transaction.

CryptoKidz: I'm in!

But haters gonna hate, and downvoterz gonna downvote. what evs
No problem! I'm here to help clarify any doubts.

I believe in this specific case, there was a local optimum that random search (with the parameters we selected, which we actually tuned as well) was not able to escape.

In most cases I think you would find random search doing better than random parameters (unless we have the paradoxical situation you described), so your intuition is correct in the general case. But in this case there is no typo on the table!

Does this answer your question?
That may have been true 10 years ago. In DC, the nicer neighborhoods have some of the best (top 400) elementary schools in the country. This is driven primarily by wealthy younger couples choosing to stay in the city rather than leave for the boring burbs.
Alright! We can't build multi-story, multi-use, walkable neighborhoods in San Jose now.

Is the proposition then to create more land to work around these restrictions? Why wouldn't the same forces apply on the new land?

What I am saying is that there's enough land already for the vision you have for the infilled areas. Your post is implicitly saying that it's easier to literally create land than change zoning laws.

And it might be, but let's be clear on what the problem actually is -- and the lack of land it is not.

EDIT: just to emphasize: Brooklyn has 2.5x population on (1/2.5)x area, and is growing -- all within the confines of an island.
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Pray tell, who are you quoting the phrase “righteous and justified” from? It must be coming from someone’s perspective, but it certainly didn’t come from me.

I’m an American, but I’m not America. I can love my country without condoning war crimes. The one does not contradict the other.
This is not a fair comparison. The OC was not talking about proselytizing, they were talking about how to create an inclusive environment at work. We cannot create an inclusive environment at work if we are not allowed to openly talk about groups who currently do not feel included and why that is.
how do you know it?
I think string theory approaches this idea with the holographic principle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
HN think segwit is BitCoin hahahaha

BitCoin is a world computer
> As others have commented, per-transaction is a very misleading metric.

Can you name a better metric that we can measure?
Snapping my fingers would be a nice trigger, like "ok Google" or "Alexa". Synchronising the sound with the gesture would cut down on the false positive rate, and it's something I'm unlikely to do unless I want to interact with my phone.
If it could penetrate my pants pocket, being able to snap my fingers next to my pocket, and then perform simple interactions without having to pick up my phone would be nice. Pick up, hang up, volume etc
I wonder if part of that is that a lot of flagships seem to have unlockable boot loafers now, with a force wipe to do so. Does that have a measurable impact on the number of people trying?
It confuses me because I regularly hear "bi-weekly" to mean "twice per week". I don't think I've ever heard someone say semi-weekly. Usually you can make a good guess of the intended meaning from context, but the two time intervals are similar enough that it's frequently ambiguous.
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Indeed.

Cost of running this public tamper-proof database is $4B + Personnel + Amortizing cost of ASIC Forms, Say $6B

Where does the money come from? This Database isn't selling any service to Enterprise or Government or Public to get revenue. So, the $6B money has to come from Bitcoin holders or new suckers.

Every year it has to get $6B new money just to maintain the current value of Bitcoin.
The loudest segment of the discourse most influential on Googlers, but this caveat is usually inherent when we talk about "public discourse". (If you've studied Foucault, you'll recognize that power and influence are inherently tied in with the concept of discourse. Public speech happens all the time, but it only gets labeled "discourse" when it influences or is intended to influence society in some way.)
The problem with exchanging BTC for untraceable cash or vice versa is the people you would be dealing with are probably criminals who are not above robbing you of your BTC and/or cash.
Very interesting context, thank you!
The article has an intentionally inflammatory title and is more opinion than journalism. It's not a good faith exploration of the topic.

Dang's editorialized title is.
> Why do you think LGBT rights (first item on your list) is something that should be discussed at work?

Because what if you are an LGBT person and such things materially affect you? What happens when you bring your same-sex spouse to a company party? What happens if you realize you were born the wrong gender and decide to (publicly) transition? Suddenly you are not just "discussing" politics, your very identity is political (and that distinction is something imposed by society on you).

Also note that in the US not every state has laws against LGBT discrimination. There's currently a lawsuit before the SCOTUS to decide if the existing federal ban on "sex discrimination" also applies to sexuality and gender identity but with the current composition of the court it's likely to be decided that those categories are not protected under the law.
>So banning conversations is reasonable imo

I think that's a very sad thing to say. Say conversation is banned but "small talk" is allowed, where's the line between that? And like the guy above said, there's also no line on what's political - even talking about a video game like you said can be political.

So in the end, I believe that would end up with people just avoiding talking to each other at all, to avoid any complications.

And that "Why discuss anything at all?" could be applied to other places - "Why discuss anything political at a school/dance class/supermarket/bar? You're just here to learn/dance/shop/drink-and-relax. Those conversations are _banned_ here".

It seems like a slippery slope to ban this natural social interaction.
Those other companies at least serve some other nominal, societally engaged goal, besides making money.
>Why do you think LGBT rights (first item on your list) is something that should be discussed at work? There are laws against discrimination and companies have to comply, but I don't see a good reason why this kind of topic should be addressed at the workplace.

Because the discrimination laws as they are currently setup in the US do not protect LGBTQ folks in the way they protect others. For example, in many states people can still be fired based off their gender or sexual identity [1].

I don't have to give a second thought to bringing my significant other to an office holiday party. If my coworker needs skip that same party out of fear of being fired for bringing their significant other, that is a workplace problem.

[1] - https://www.fastcompany.com/90369004/lgbt-employee-protectio...
> Combined with leftists generally understanding conservatives much worse than the other way around (this has been shown by large scale ITTs)

This seems the opposite of true, but I'd be interested to see some sources to back that up. One of the few reasons I still use Google News is because it oddly links me to conservative news sites more often than I'd expect. I'll click on some of those links just to see what the "other side" is talking about, and I find their characterizations of liberal viewpoints to be pretty bizarre most of the time.

On the flip side, what I read (as a liberal) from conservative sources tends to be what I expect.
It's also a great way to whitewash history. Want to educate the next generation about Hitlers atrocities? No money for you.

Basically anything war seems to be getting demonetized these days. Advertisers only want to appear next to cats on roombas.
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The results aren't necessarily better because of the Google knowledge of you, because they are pretty good results even in Private browsing without being logged in.

It just seems to me that HN search does a simple keyword matching and reordering based on points without any ranking (please someone correct if I'm wrong).

So freshness doesn't seem to have any value, but the reality is that, at least in tech, very few content is evergreen. Also, when you try to reorder by date for example, you'll end up with a lot of empty threads which again are not that useful. I'm not sure if there's a way of eliminating empty threads from search results.
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How might we evaluate dark patterns?
A regulation is coming anyway; the CDA safe harbor, which is what both those complaining about what the big tech firms are censoring and those complaining about what they are not censoring are targeting, has been under broad, bipartisan attack for some time, under a variety of different pretexts. Pm
This is such spineless bs.

It was proposed to clarify that GitLab is committed to doing business with "customers with values that are incompatible with our own values."

So...that means that GitLab will allow code to be hosted on their servers that powers AI/face recognition that puts people in concentration camps. Or have their organs harvested while they are alive.

This is no different than IBM giving accounting operations to the Nazis. Truly despicable, but hey at least they're making a buck.

Assholes.
Why do you think they are pumping dozens of billions into cloud and especially AI? At its heart, according to the founders, Google is not a search company, and not an ad company. Their primary long term goal is the creation of real artificial intelligence. The ad business provides the money. The money buys the best people and all the infrastructure. The user-facing business provides the data. By all accounts you need a trillion dollar setup, as much talent as you can , and pretty much all the data in the world to get started.
> I think you are intelligent enough to understand it on your own.

I wouldn't be asking if I could. How does "Software Freedom Conservancy" damage the "Software Freedom Law Center" trademark?

> So we can safely assume he did not do anything you say, he's innocent until proven guilty, like any of us, right?

Given the lack of independent corroboration, it's certainly reasonable for you to assume that I'm mistaken or lying.
They rank by popularity by default (up votes), but I agree generally their API doesn’t seem to do ranking.
Canonical (ubuntu) tried this.. it didn't get far for some reason. I wish it did.
> When people go and talk to women who started out in the tech pipeline but left, many say that the reasons they left are that they felt unwelcome in some way: they were harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc.

That "many" sounds anecdotal. Since we're doing that: In my experience woman don't go into tech because they enjoy other, more social, jobs more.

> One reason 50/50 makes a fine straw goal is that there is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry. It's not like the NFL, where well-understood human sexual dimorphism is relevant. Women were heavily involved in the early days of computing and built some of the early foundations of the field, like the first compiler.

There is an obvious reason. Autism-like traits are more prevalent in men.
> barely allowed into workplaces in general within the last 50 years

Pardon? 50 years ago was 1969. Not discounting the fact that lower class women have always worked, the 60s saw a huge growth in Women's liberation, with the first woman to be a Fortune 500 CEO happening in the 1972.

To say Women were "barely allowed in the workplace" during the 60's, 70's 80's and 90's needs significant proof.
Though not strictly pizza Chris Bianco has lemon, rosemary and pecorino focaccia in his cookbook https://www.bakingsteel.com/blog/lemon-and-rosemary-focaccia
You did not actually refute any of his claims or demonstrate in any way that his argument 'does not hold water'.

If you truly believe that 'interviewing is completely random' then I have some other, far deeper concerns you might want to address before we even remotely broach the subject of gender disparity.

Moreover - you're totally missing the point: it's not sexist to merely make the argument that 50/50 hiring can lower the bar. It's just intellectual rhetoric. Maybe it's good maybe it's bad, but it's not inherently sexist.

Ergo: if you don't agree with the PC, even if you make a reasonable argument (or even one that's very good) you're put out to pasture.

This is just one example of PC insane enforcement, there are many.

Which is why it's probably better to avoid such subjects because even intelligent people seem to have difficulty being tolerant, or even navigating the issues.
That is a vast oversimplification of how Twitter works. People absolutely see tweets from people they don't follow, all the time. Sometimes it's a promoted tweet, sometimes a retweet, sometimes just by browsing through trending topics. It's pretty much impossible to use the platform in such a way that you'll only see tweets from people you follow, and nothing else.

Agreed that Twitter isn't a message board, but that's a much closer analogy than calling it a phone call.
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Because values are useful for different things. I think casiotone is confusing lack of values with specific values. GitLab has values but they don’t include stopping specific companies or orgs from using their service, other than illegal stuff.

They even call out efficiency as a value. That’s not the same as “we want to make money.” An artist may value art more than relationships so they are a jerk to helpers.

This doesn’t mean the artist lacks values or that the artist wants to make money. It just shows specific values.
The old city center is a warren of narrow streets and must have been hell to navigate. Seems that it was a dying city center slum and this was a key step in gentrifying it.
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> Please stop putting words in my mouth.

They’re not. You’re choosing maximally loaded phrasing at all points and then acting like you’ve been wronged when your posts are read into with the tone with which you decided to write them. If you are actually interested in discussion, it would help if you didn’t have a predilection for immediately poisonous phrasing after which you want to be granted generosity and assumptions of good faith.

Like, we've had this discussion before. You don't get to write like a jerk and then take umbrage when people react to you like you're a jerk. You get out what you put in.
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Your hypothesis regarding harassment or being made to feel unwelcome is reasonable and always needs to be explored. But it is not the only hypothesis, and other factors are probably also in play. I disagree that there "is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry" and I suppose the argument would then hang on the word "obvious".. are the other hypotheses obvious? Perhaps not to people who don't study evolutionary psychology.

There is evidence that more freedom and equality for everyone to be in any job they want leads to even less women choosing STEM careers (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...) That might be because of social issues you mention (harassment, under valued, talked over, underpaid, stalked, etc). It might also be a result of natural selection causing women and men to differentiate in useful ways wherein women were more attracted to nurturing roles, and men more attracted to technical challenges.

I don't think it's useful to pick one reasonable hypothesis and ignore other reasonable hypotheses. Let's explore all the useful ideas and recognize how little we actually know for sure.
You are absolutely factually correct in your analysis, but you are completely missing how business works.

Fundamentally, there is value to most businesses in being able to just buy a decent solution to a non core competency.

That’s where Algolia and AWS and basically all service companies come in... a medium scale clothing manufacturer with a booming e-commerce site may well know they have no clue how to do search, and no clue how to assess and hire individuals who could implement it, and no clue how to find and hire a cio who could put together a team from scratch who could do this on a reasonable timeline.
I’m the opposite of a libertarian. I completely support the civil rights act and the governments ability to compel businesses to provide service to members of protected classes. Donald Trump does not belong to a protected class. How is this hard to understand, I don’t get it
C'mon, it's 21-st century, we need electronic cash we can send to a person we don't know instantly with a press of a button without revealing ourselves. We could use more traditional banking if only anonymous accounts were legal and banks were banking secrecy was guaranteed.

I've never bought anything illegal (but some weed perhaps) yet I feel very uncomfortable every time I have to share my personal details with any party.

I also want anonymous P/O boxes.

I just bloody don't want any party to track me nor tell me what I am and what I am not allowed to buy (unless it's a weapon of mass destruction or a human slave and there are other ways to bust people selling these).
Thanks.

> First, it's quite difficult to measure with exactitude.

I wondered about something like that -- the mechanism really is exact to tiny accuracy, no fuzz, but it's super tough actually to measure that accurately, or some such. If my startup works, I'll return to physics!!! I promise!! Thanks.
> The organization cited research that shows that biological changes in puberty make it difficult for the average teenager to fall asleep before 11pm

I didn't follow the citation, but that would be my suggestion for the first place to look if you want to understand their theory better.
Not even then, and that won't be for a while. Even though about 85% of all BTC have been mined, the process gets exponentially slower the closer you get to the final blocks.

After the last BTC is mined, miners will still presumably be able to profit from block transaction fees. That might help power a little bit since they'll worry more about being efficient with which transactions go into a block.
Canva's story from 2018 (it wasn't an overnight success)
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Start charging immediately, and put up a real pricing page with SLAs. Find out as soon as possible if people will actually value this enough to pay for it.

This provides a signaling of value, creates a real business relationship, and directly contributes to the lifespan of the vendor.
I believe you and your parent are saying the same thing. (You can see this same discussion playing out in this same thread.)
This whole comment section tells me that almost no one on HN really understands OOP.

OOP is not about nouns. It's about establishing protocols between subsystems. What you're describing are the typical fake "dilemmas" of someone coming from a static, class-oriented programming languages like Java.

Look up Class Responsibility Collaborator exercise.
For those who are manufacturing private label items in China, tarrifs are have the potential to be damaging (depends very much on the product category).
Well, what do you actually care about? Why choose, for instance, cost per transaction instead of, say, cost per USD (or equivalent) transferred?
It's impossible for a company to be entirely non-political. By choosing to stay quiet and not vet potential clients, Gitlab just made a large political statement. Choosing to not discuss politics means implicitly endorsing the current status quo.
Secretary of State, i believe.
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This is what I'm baffled by in all of this discussion. Work is not a place for politics. Maybe some light-hearted stuff, like discussing a ribbon cutting or some generally agreeable policy change (like a change to paid parking).

Even with very, very close co-founders, politics was an extremely rare discussion. When it did come up, it was generally in the context of how certain things affected the business. Even then, it was with a deep understanding that the other parties where smart, well-meaning individuals.
Another possible take: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-ins...
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That really makes no sense to me. Let me explain. Certain types of places / events are extremely distressing to me because of sensory factors. Now, when I have to attend a conference for work, I have extreme anxiety - the anxiety is caused because of the sensory distress I know I'll be facing. "Local" vs "general" doesn't seem to be a useful distinction for me. I could be misunderstanding you.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure being harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc. are universally true.

I've encountered at least two at every single one of the 15 or so jobs I've had prior to this one. Most of them weren't in tech and I'm a man. Having a shitty job isn't exclusive to being a female in tech.