skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the quarrel here is about the definition of "legal tender". Its literal meaning is not "reliably redeemable at a bank", but rather "required to be accepted by anyone as payment of a debt". These can diverge easily. For example, I remember that Sweden changed its banknotes a few years ago, but the old notes were redeemable at banks for a set period of time. The old notes were definitely not legal tender in the technical sense because private individuals and shops not only were not required to accept them, but actually did not accept them anymore. That doesn't work well with the definition of legal tender!

However, the old Swedish notes had not lost their value because they could still be redeemed.

In a formal legal tender situation, you could to some extent require a private party (within the relevant jurisdiction) to accept the notes in payment of a pre-existing debt. You could contrast this with "having value", "being redeemable", "being in circulation", and "being widely accepted", maybe.
Makes sense to me. Why not use nature to help us?

And I have a hard time imagining the mental framing necessary to overthrow centuries of hard work and optimization.
> That's a bad analogy. Defendants cannot avoid a hearing. Employees can just get another job.

I don't share your quibbles, but all right. How about this:

A worker without a union is like going to court without a lawyer.

A lot of court cases are optional. You can always just not demand what you're owed or pay whatever your asked. If you lose, just hope the next person you do business with will be more trustworthy.

> Starting businesses is hard. It entails a lot of risk. Risk that was never taken by employees. And employees are not bound to the fortunes of the company the way owners are. If the company loses money or goes belly-up, the employees get new jobs. But the owners must simply bear the loss.

So what? None of that is a convincing argument that non-business-owners should not benefit form organization. It's not like owners are the only ones taking a risk [1], workers do too. Do you think they somehow fantastically shift into equivalent new jobs whenever their laid off? Workers invest in company-specific knowledge and put down roots near their employer that are harder relocate than capital, for instance.

You also oddly fail to differentiate between groups like the struggling small business owner and the private equity firm billionaire who lays off 10,000 workers just because he'd prefer that he and his shareholders be richer. Whatever sympathy the former deserve is not due to the latter.

[1] they're the only ones risking capital, not the only ones taking a risk.
Most of the users of the gig economy doesn't want homeless people driving them around, or walking their dog, or cleaning their home.

The gig economy is not a good replacement for the full spectrum of casual labour.
Twenty feet wide and fourty feet long is like 6x12 meters per floor.

That’s as big as my entire house, and we can fit 4 rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom in there.

2.5 rooms per floor would be the height of luxury.

Why do you say these are terrible?
Prominent for what? He comes across very strange, writing things like this:

"Global warming is a very serious issue, but most of the impacts are in the future. There is much we can do to address global warming, both in terms of adaptation and mitigation. There is, in fact, much reason for optimism."

(I do agree that there much we can do, but most of these things are hard problems of collective action)
Plundervolt: An Attack on Intel's SGX
Not at all.

Firstly, the royal family could care less about the welfare of the average Saudi citizen. Secondly, the royal family has full control over the fund (with zero accountability).

Given these two facts, there is much less harm if they play hard and fast with the fund. Besides, most of the royal family already has their welfare guaranteed for life in the form of personal investments and the monthly salary.
Kong has the useful property of peer-to-peer validation. Most paper currencies printed in your basement don't.

Tokens loaded onto Kong Cash instruments and exchanged ephemerally in person between party A and party B are more anonymous than tokens sent directly from party A to party B electronically which will be recorded for everyone to see forever.

It's programmable money. It's cooler than non-programmable money. We're putting it out there as a toy.
Science Fiction Author’s Stolen Photo Creates False Cancer Impression
Teacher: Be sure to mention the most important concepts we learned about in class in your essay

High school me: “Real-time data and analytics and machine learning and AI creates unpreparedness by corporations and Big Tech companies.”
I've been working in crypto for 10 years (well, the only "crypto" that existed back then was Bitcoin) and I agree with zelly's criticism.

Another simple flaw of Kong is that when I receive a Kong note, someone could have intentionally fried it with, for example, high voltage on the I2C contacts to damage the secure element without leaving any visible defects. So I need to verify each Kong note I receive by reading them over NFC using a smartphone. Not great for usability.
ah, back from 2017

Also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436195
You could cache a list of existing notes directly from an Ethereum node for offline verification; this cached information would work for verification until the claim date in the smart contract.

Correct, there is no secret service that will remove counterfeit Kong which is why you should verify it yourself or only accept it from parties you trust and have attested to previously verifying it. Habits around verification would likely be governed by the prevalence of counterfeits in a local money supply. If I hear about a bunch of 1 Kong notes failing to verify as counterfeit, then I'll likely verify every 1 Kong note before acceptance.
I am paid a salary, and it's understood by my employer and I that some business days I may work less than 8 hours and some business days I may work more, some days I may arrive later and leave later, and some earlier, and additionally I may work on weekends and holidays. So, my employer doesn't really have a leg to stand on if they say that I used time I sold to them to pursue my own interests, because there is no explicit agreement that any specific amount (or "non-fungible unit") of my time is theirs. Neither can they say I used their equipment or resources, if I didn't.

What basis remains upon which they can claim that I used "their" time and/or their resources and/or their equipment to conduct personal business?
Really unfortunate that Google Stadia has a name collision with y'all. :(

You don't even show up in the "stadia" search results without the term "maps" added.

If it wasn't scary and expensive to sue Google for a name change, this seems like a case of Google (probably unwittingly) crushing your brand and trademark with their own.

Have y'all noticed a decrease in search traffic (or general brand/product awareness) since Google Stadia launched? And if so, do you plan to do anything about it?

Really cool product! Your maps look slick and super clean. :)
From the "white paper":

"An additional 7,340,032 Kong was issued to the Kong project for discretionary Kong noteprinting and distribution. The upper bound for Kong token created after five years (the point at which only the recurring lockdrop rewards remain) is roughly 72,700,000 Kong."

So, the promoters of this skimmed off 10% before launch. Or, more like 20% of the first year's production.

Now, if this was set up so that it's denominated in something they don't control, like Etherium or Bitcoin or dollars or euros or yuan, it would be more interesting.
>What is a lovely property of Kong is the only digital breadcrumb is leaves is when notes are loaded at creation and unloaded at de-circulation. Every person to person transaction of the instrument leaves no digital record or footprint.

What problem does that solve for me though? What benefit does that afford me? Why does that matter to me?
Which countries have a significantly low car theft rate?

In the US:

>...in 2017. In 2018, 748,841 vehicles were stolen, down 3.1 percent from 772,943 vehicles in 2017.

Meanwhile in Europe:

>...Police in the EU recorded on average 697 000 car thefts yearly over the period 2015 to 2017, a 29% reduction compared to the period 2008 to 2010 (yearly average 983 000).

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-auto-the...

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...
I’ve often wondered why SBCL hasn’t been used as the basis for some of the newer lisps and lisp-alikes. It’s performance is pretty great, and is worlds closer to Clojure than the JVM.
China's Plan to Fight a Nuclear War Against America: Nuke U.S. Cities
Except that real cash, in comparison, has no digital footprints. Why the hell wouldn't I just use cash?
I think boarding houses were generally a combination of bachelors and widows (who presumably got the house when their husbands died), at least the combination as shown in Sherlock Holmes is, I think.
humans do not have only one state, one performance criteria or one mood.. on the other hand, of course sensors can read data that humans cannot, for some set of hardware and inputs. I like the comment above. It is too early for large generalization.
Little advice for future submissions: title + (url OR text)
"What more do you want? Criminal prosecution for violating Facebook's internal policy?"

Reminds me of this Parks and Rec!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw
Draw the line because you can not sell a banana
Yes I am. I feel as though I have little to no control over my condition. I'm sure I could learn to automate something. I just have no direction as where to begin.

I am complaining about having nothing to do because I want work to do, to contribute to a team, to work with other people and befriend them, but it's hard when I feel so arbitrary.
>November 2910

They seem to have gotten information about the bug from the future :P

This could also show that trhey released it in a hurry since they did not fix that typing mistake.
So why not just use regular cash?
Funny story, in my undergrad I worked at UMIACS and we had to install a set of foot pedal mice buttons in an office next to Minker's. The user would move the mouse on their desk, but click with their feet.
Yes because "the west" is really respectful of Freedoms....

No nation on the planet respects liberty. None. You just have assimilated the oppression your government places on you so be something "you dont care about anyway" or "I never wanted to do X is the first place" so as to delude yourself in to the belief you are free

No Different than many of the people from nations that we view as "totalitarian" but they claim to be free
> I became disillusioned with modern scientific research, especially biology, because I believe that most of what is published is simply false or wrong

I’d love to hear more about that. Do you have any good examples?
"The Faroese government had asked the court to put an injunction in place on the basis that publication of this information might damage the relationship between the Danish Commonwealth and China. On Monday this week the government then submitted a request to have the injunction remain in force."

Hm.
or ((t>>8|t%23)&(t>>7%11))|((t&t>>13)*(t>>6|t>>9)%35)
When you imply people are making choices compared to others. What evidence are you making your assertion from besides assuming people choose what happens in life. People are born with variables that factor into what path they’re forced to experience. I think it’s great when people take a step back and try improving these paths for the benefit of the persons health. Otherwise progress from previous generations is being not used to the fullest.
If there was no foul play - good. Who cares about breaking a stupid record? That kid won't be able to break records all his life, so good on him dealing with a "failed" milestone now. We have way too many prodigies milked for their parents' ego.
Firefox Voice Campaign
> I would oppose a cartel of companies acting in a way that extracts too much money from consumers. We have a whole area of law for dealing with this. Unions are a cartel of employees who use the threat of financial harm to limit the freedom of employers and individual workers from freely entering into mutually beneficial work arrangements.

How so? An employer has a monopoly of jobs at a particular workplace, so why not let a union have a monopoly of workers to fill the jobs at that workplace. IIRC, union representation is at the workplace level, and different unions can compete to represent the workers at that workplace.
DIY Healthy Cookbook: 27 meals for Christmas with less than $5 / meal
If they’re forwarding each click to a different VM to avoid persistent tracking then that wouldn’t work.
Some early ideas:

Dynamics exercises. Capture amplitude changes, so users can practice crescendos when using acoustic guitars.

Solve the reverse problem, but for singing. Given a song, extract it's melody and replay as a karaoke with scores.

Guitar Pro compatibility is more important than you think. You'll probably have to differentiate yourself from Yousician.

Cheers.
I see so many people here frustrated with the fact that the creators are giving nonsense answers. It's important to remember that this is a money-making scam. Asking them how their technology provides any value to users is like asking a Nigerian prince about the philosophy behind constitutional monarchies.
With regards competition, what server chips is Apple producing exactly?
If you're handing off physically then just use cash. How is this any better?

The exit to real currency will always reveal Kong transactions at some point. Real cash is more anonymous because it's seamlessly transacted everywhere.
I doubt this version would hold up well in a salt water environment. The chips will ultimately have a conformal coating leaving only gold contacts which should fare better.

We have considered more robust variants that would fully seal all the components, but this is a v2 problem.

I should add that even a corroded chip should ultimately still be accessible; you might have to pull it off of the bill and decap it.
This is particularly funny for me as a person who works for an ISP at layers 1 to 4 on the OSI model. There's always some real hardware somewhere running it. Can't escape from the bare metal, only abstract it away behind layers of obfuscation.
I replaced "photoshop" with "photo editor" above. I don't see anything wrong with the title otherwise. The project creator wrote it, so it isn't editorializing.
Let's not forget that worse is better. Electron is worse in almost every conceivable way; therefore, it is better.
I began laughing aloud about here...
> Any given cloud at any given time has at least 14 zero-day attacker-controlled lightbulbs (they make them blink SOS in Morse)
...and then I stopped laughing when I realized just how true that probably is.
Schien immer sehr aufgeregt zu sein
"Wir wollten eigentlich keinen Kuchen, aber meine Mutter war es wirklich
uns zu wollen , eines zu bekommen, und ich bin wirklich glücklich gemacht zu haben. Dan wirklich nicht
keine Sorgen über ihr Aussehen designer abendkleider lang, solange es gut geschmeckt. Wir gingen für eine Mischung
aus Schokolade und einfacher Schwamm, verziert mit ziemlich einfachen Art-Deco-
Formen - eine Zeit, die ich liebe. "

" Unsere Fotografen waren James und Lianne. Sie waren fantastisch und haben uns wirklich zusätzliche Mühe gegeben
hatte wirklich besondere Bilder von unserer Zeit. Sie kamen sogar zu einem "Besuch vor Ort"
mit uns ins Theater, um den Raum im Voraus zu überprüfen, und machten eine
kleine Testsitzung mit uns.
https://www.mekleid.de/
> Kong is the first crypto-cash

No it's not.

- https://casascius.com/

- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Casascius_physical_bitcoins

It looks like Kong might be the first crypto-cash with an issuer that hasn't seen its private keys. And that's cool, but it'd be good not to exaggerate what this is.
Would that be the case if you were to buy that sandwich with, say, euros instead? They too could appreciate between purchases.
> Widely deployed trackers are limited in how fast they can try new tricks.

How so? Tracking scripts are often included by a script tag that points at a website. Can’t the code be updated, “deployed” to websites immediately, and take advantage of the relatively slower release cycle of Safari?
The problem is how to make a sound cash instrument backed by cryptocurrencies. It matters because cash is the dominant form of payment worldwide.

Section 4.1 goes into how to manufacture these so we're not the sole entity. Manufacturers of mining equipment set an...ok...precedent here. I think we can do better in this space which is why we're trying to minimize trust in these black boxes and move to open silicon with ARX - section 5.1. [1]

[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRNRCocj4PwKMXrd1jeUGw7ASQSuEk7BDJu5Ks...
Reading many opinion pieces from NYT, I wouldn't cry if the vast majority of those journalists became unemployed. It's outrage journalism and thus not worthy of my time or attention.

NYT does do good journalism, but, even for a company with their credentials and resources, its share seems to be ever dwindling as time goes on.
> "If people like me can't be sure our home life won't leak onto the sidebars of corporate presentation, or the recommendations of software our kids are using, we'll stop using it entirely."

What a fucking joke. You and I both know there's no escape, here; we're trapped here forever, and things will always only get worse and they will never get better, and there isn't a god-damned thing we can do about it.
Also, why not apply this to an existing coin, like Bitcoin, rather than inventing yet another freaking asset?

Oh yeah, because then the founders can't get rich in the ICO. Yuck.
Decades of experience using Debian. Package quality and ease of install were indeed always a priority (and security may have been claimed as one), but reproducible builds were not seen as necessary for any of those.
I don't understand any of this.
Apple also runs ads in Apple News.
Scandal: U.S. embassy in Cairo is stealing taxpayers funds
Hello,
I am a startup founder from cairo, Egypt.

I read an ad about a trip to silicon valley funded by the US state department and sponsored by U.S. embassy in Cairo.
It's a j1 visa exchange program trip.

when I called them on their landline in the ad, they responded on phone that there is no trip.

I made a Facebook post, and then they called me back apologizing, saying it was a mistake, and there is a trip.

I researched to see who traveled in previous years,and found out that those who traveled are all rich kids with a ton of money who don't need or meet the criteria for such funded exchange trips that are mainly targeting people with less opportunity to travel.

It's interesting how much corrupted are your embassies abroad, wasting the American people money on their friends!
How much of the $700,000-$1,500,000 price of a 15-year-old house in a coastal city is due to all of these requirements adding up?

2%? 5%? It's not the reason why I was stepping around a homeless person sprawled in the middle of the sidewalk on my Monday commute.

The reason housing is unaffordable is the cost of land, availability of credit, and the self-fulfilling expectation that houses are a good investment that will grow in price.
Um, what electrician are you hiring that runs wire from roof to ground and terminates, and provides materials for just $100 bucks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Mass

Quote: "He has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed scientific venues, and served on the board of over a dozen regional and national meteorological committees, conferences, and scientific journals."

That's as prominent as it gets. Sorry he doesn't exactly tow your particular party line on all this.
GameStop Tumbles After Loss Exceeds Most Pessimistic Estimate
A small thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10630691
You know you have another year?

“The Flash” the film character dies in December 2019, flash the shitapp dies in December 2020
On the contrary, what kept me alive during the PhD was that if I do well, I won't have to get a 9-to-5 job
Looking Back on Chainer
Well, the most obvious is to have some sort of universal health care coverage that can be separated from your place of employment.
Your own comment is extremely disingenuous. Your own link states that there was very little enthusiasm for reproducible builds when mentioned in 2000 and 2007, and the first serious effort towards reproducible builds started in 2013.
I think their statement is accurate. The link you referenced is a physical implementation of Bitcoin. This seems to be "strictly" physical.
>>> that thieves could scan and replay early remote commands to unlock cars (and still can for some models!) Was the answer to not use car remotes?

That is a bad example because the solution was a technical one, Auto Manufacturers changed the way the Remote controls work so you can not simply scan and reply.
Current cash instruments are centralized.
Also worth pointing out that browsers limit concurrent requests to single digit numbers, which draws out all those requests.

My stats in incognito mode:
375 requests (94 XHR)
58 mb transfered (of which 64 resources (of which 11 XHR))
You can also use `C-g` to interrupt the diffing algorithm if you just want to get to the minimal git status buffer. In fact that is the recommended way to deal with it.
Really I would say any diploatic feud or human rights abuses that we'd rather wasn't happening with another country that can't be solved with negotiation
Man gets 14 years in prison after plot to take over a website at gunpoint fails
We've been implementing Arc over SBCL. It's called Clarc. I can't seem to find time to work on it.

There's a bit more description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550123
You should make the measurements you want to see, and publish them in the way you want to see them.
#7 right-side pic is a refurbished row of Baltimore rowhomes.

When the author says (of #1-7) "Said bans were put in place largely for racial reasons", sure, there was tons of redlining (racially biased zoning and bank loans) throughout Baltimore, but that doesn't have to do with why rowhomes aren't built more today. Rowhomes aren't built today because they don't scale up very well, and a fire can easily gut an entire block in one night. They also don't make developers as much money to build, and they're less attractive for a city that wants to keep units from becoming abandoned and unmaintained.

In both Philadelphia and Baltimore, new multi-unit condos and apartments have been going up for at least the past 5 years, in increasingly gentrifying neighborhoods. Whenever possible they are >3 floors and mixed-use, and when not possible, they are revamped and carved into condos. They all look ugly as hell, and they're all wildly more expensive. In the Fishtown and Northern Liberties neighborhoods of Philadelphia I have counted at least four gigantic excavated lots for new multi-story condo and apartment complexes, where before there had been rowhomes.

So in truth, density is going up, but home ownership is going down, while the cost of living is going up.
Did you just make an argument for trickle-down housing? I think we’ve established that it didn’t work for money. I think it’s a bit too optimistic to assume that it will work for real-estate.

What will actually happen is that the children of the original owners rent out the place for extortionate amounts, and people will pay it, because they have nowhere else to go.
Every new feature at TrueCar requires extensive documentation. A lot of our libs are open source so they need good docs. Here is an example of our UI component library's docs:

https://www.truecar.com/battery-pack/introduction