skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All you need for micropayments are low fees - that doesn't require a pseudo-anonymous collective keeping a shared public database of transactions.

Oddly it kind of does, but for bad reasons.

Existing rules for payment processing basically require the payment processor to eat the cost of fraud. That means you can't have small transaction fees because they have to cover the cost of fraud or the payment processor goes out of business.

A payments system where there is no "payment processor" middle man to foist the cost of fraud onto thereby doesn't require that middle man to charge high transaction fees to cover it. In principle that could allow lower transaction fees.

> Companies like stripe, apple, google or banks like monzo could offer low fee transactions for example between two counter-parties who are both customers, bypassing payments networks and taking on a little more risk for a lower fee.

Scenario: Mal uses your payment service to buy goods from Alice, Bob and Carol and pays you with a credit card, possibly stolen. As soon as the goods change hands, Mal (or the real owner of the card) disputes the charge with the credit card company.

You have a bootstrapping problem. You need a way for the customer to get money into the system which doesn't impose the cost of fraud on you if the charge gets reversed after the goods change hands.

This could also be solved by changes to the law, but easier said than done, especially with a bunch of incumbents enjoying the larger vig from the status quo.
It's intentionally obscure, I believe the stated reason was that moldbug only wanted people to use Urbit who have buy-in in the form of having spent/wasted a significant amount of time and effort
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Much like clothing lines making deliberately cheaper items for so-called 'Factory Stores' in outlet-like malls.
> Trying to figure out what i3 gives me that the Pop OS tiling wouldn't

I don't know how other people use i3, but I didn't see anything about stacked / tabbed layouts. They've become so baked into my workflow that I can't use anything without them for my personal laptop, at least- work forces me to use macOS :(
You misunderstood, it is not the word "cojones" I was mocking, just the hilarious misspeling some people use, I have seen "Cohones","Cahones", "Koojonehs" and so on
Please name me some of these impartial third parties, then? Can’t be hard for you to track them down if they really do exist, after all they should be on some immutable blockchain somewhere...
Not mine. It's 32 bytes exactly!
Asking a candidate's hobbies is a recipe for pure unconscious bias. It immediately hooks into your preconceptions about the type of person you'd expect a snowboarder/surfer/sewing enthusiast/furry/birdwatcher/lego collector/"I don't really have any hobbies besides programming"/whatever to be. There are better ways to get a glimpse at culture fit and creativity.

When I was younger and working in game development, I probably got asked about hobbies. Nowadays I'm generally pretty good at directing conversations like that politely back on track.

As for mentioning something you want to do with your kids in 5 years? In a job interview? I don't understand it but I suppose some people want to talk about their home lives during job interviews.

And thanks for reminding me one of the reasons I left game development. I don't miss having just work/work balance. :-)
The team I work in has a product manager, a designer, a cloud infrastructure automation engineer, as well as seven software engineers. Together we collectively advocate for our users and help with those tradeoffs.

> As for "Ultimately it's not about trust, it's about

> accountability and predictability" that's precisely

> the characterization I reject.

How do you know if you're effective? Perhaps it's a difference from one company to another but I don't think it's unfair that my manager (and others dependent on my team's output) want to scrutinse my decisions, and the outcomes of the team.

Likewise, I can scrutinise the choices of engineers with weekly sprints, to ensure the goal is hit i.e. a timely release with flexible features, or a feature complete product that might overrun.

JIRA doesn't magic effectiveness, agreed. It can help show the truth of the decisions taken toward a goal and how work is progressing. I'm not advocating waterfall (any estimate of "this fully specced feature should be finished in two months" is pure fiction) but JIRA or other similar products can work to let managers know ahead of time, "We're not going to finish this by our initial estimated delivery date." That's a useful tool.
Prices wouldn't significantly change. You still have people/pension funds/governments with lots of money to invest (the people who currently buy mortgage debt). How would you prohibit this money from just buying houses and renting them out?

And even if you could lower prices, how would you compensate the current homeowners for destroying the value of their largest asset?
I like this a lot (was actually thinking of building something similar)! Some feedback I have:

- When I log in with my Google account, my name is shown as undefined ("Hi, undefined!").

- It would be nice to quickly select/unselect all of my calendars (I have a lot, but only one I really need to use).

- It would be cool to select a date range and then ask it to spit out all availabilities based on my calendar without needing to manually select available times. Although I like the current opt-in way too. Just a thought, maybe no change is needed here.
Yes, certainly. And that's somewhat my point - the freedom to create these fictitious works is already limited by existing laws, we don't need new ones specific to this medium.

There's no reason to think libel laws wouldn't apply to deep fakes the same way the apply to a photoshopped image, or a textual lie.
Is the pantry GUID the only form of security for all objects? Can this be rotated should it be compromised?
I think Seaside had the same issues with scaling.
The main thesis of the film, that the essential issue is not climate change but runaway consumption, is hard to deny.
Right now they seem to have an enormous theme of winning over developers, of all kinds, for all platforms. I would say it's to sell them tools, but most of the recently-headlining MS tools have been free. Maybe it's just to garner general goodwill. Maybe it's to draw people to Azure. I can't quite see the strategy, but it's a very clear theme behind many of their recent (publicly-facing) efforts.
Well, he does also rides his bike to work more often than he drives.
> It’s really a loss for consumers across the United States.

> The reality is that a large part of the fintech sector still depends on the data provided by Equifax. Their data is also used for KYC and other security use cases.

> We have started Truework (https://www.truework.com) to break that dependency and give consumers control of their data. If you’re interested to help us, please contact me by email.

I would be curious to know more about how you give consumers control over their data. I took a look at your link but it is not clear to me.
There are not even that many jobs. How many people do you think it takes to run a strip mine? Take a look:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Li...

https://earthfirstnews.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/narm_aeri...

It turns out that the biggest competition for coal jobs is more efficient coal mines- in this case the strip mines of the Powder River Basin.

It's all the more astounding that solar is cheaper than coal.
More power to ‘em. Yearbooks are a racket
A well-deserved perennial. Some prior discussions:

2016, 53 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079826

2017, 11 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095393
https://urbit.org/faq/

> Urbit started back in 2002 as Curtis Yarvin’s personal project. Curtis developed the original prototype for Urbit and, separately, wrote a blog on history and politics under the pen name ‘Mencius Moldbug’.

> In early 2019, Curtis left the Urbit project and gave all of his voting interest (both as address space and voting shares in the company) back to Tlon. He retains a non-voting, minority interest in both the address space and the company — but is not involved in the day-to-day development or operations.

> Curtis laid the foundation for Urbit by delivering its first prototype but, since 2013, it has been refined and almost entirely rewritten by a community of developers. No one working on Urbit today had anything to do with Curtis’s writing. For the most part, we couldn’t be less interested in it.

Thought this was interesting.
The deeper pockets wouldn’t be the problem. You give permission to financial institutions to share your data with the credit reporting bureaus, so good luck fighting that in court.
VBA seems to have null, empty, "" and nothing, all of which have different semantics. But only variants can be null or empty, I believe; if you have a typed variable like a Date or a String, you're out of luck.

And then, I was using either Power Automate or SharePoint/odata and it turned out "null" does not have the "normal" null semantics, and to test for null, you simply check if something is equal to it.

I think I remember from using SQL Server that there is a option that you can treat null either way.

Microsoft has a weird relationship with null.

On the other hand, I'm sure someone has complained about Oracle's idea that empty strings are null values. And once you think about it, SQL's handling of nulls is weirdly inconsistent, because the special handling of them doesn't always apply in aggregates.

Somewhere I had a book by C.J. Date/Hugh Darwen in which I remember a rant about how nulls are a terrible offense against the true relational model.
Sorry, let me rephrase in the way that I did in another comment: it seems that to be a codepoint, it needs to be useful in plain text scenarios.

Emoji are useful (arguably I guess) in plain text scenarios because they exist to convey additional information about an author's emotion, and that author might use plain text. The external link symbol is not useful in plain text scenarios because it exists to convey additional information about an author's preceeding hypertext, and that author isn't using hypertext.
In the US they cost anywhere from $15 - $30.
Svms are, by default, linear models. The decision boundary in the Svm problem is linear and since it’s the max margin we may enjoy nice generalization properties (as you probably know).

You probably also know that decision tree boundaries are non Linear And piecewise. It’s not so straightforward to find splits on continuous features.

Ie If the data is linearly separable then why not. Even using hinge loss with nns is not uncommon.

You probably see gbms winning a lot of competitions compared to svms because a lot of competitions may have a lot of data and non linear decision boundaries. some problems don’t have these characteristics.
Professor steps one level up in awesomeness :) .

Skip here comments regarding AI online courses, questions related to AIMA and PAIP books. It's not quite a good opportunity to inquire about finer points of JScheme or even ask clarifications along last September interview with Lex Fridman. The art of maintaining approachability for beginners and reference level of usefulness for advanced is not easy, but it's demonstrated - and here is flipped on another human side. Peter, thank you for your works for all of us.
Real reason: "oh, look, we might be able to spend less for this person's work"

Tactic: "well, we'd be taking a risk by hiring you, what if you do something bad again? or if this turns in to a PR problem?"
Very few rich people will actually get any richer, but that doesn't mean that yellow journalists and political activists won't be able to convince the general public that they did by carefully starting their measurements at around the time the stock market was it its lowest, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/billio...
> I would love to hear what aspects you think it has that could be relevant in whatever context.

I wasn't taking issue with what you said, just trying to understand how well-grounded it was. I personally have little familiarity with Urbit, just a bit of curiosity (enough to read a few HN comments on the subject).

> If you want a Turing complete combinator VM with transparent serialization of all values, there it is.

I guess the piece that's missing for me is why you believe that set of properties forms a complete set of requirements for the language.

Like maybe they described Nock as "a Turing complete combinator VM with transparent serialization of all values," so then finding something else fitting that description is supposed to be equivalent—but I wouldn't consider it to necessarily be so, since people often speak informally when giving some abstract summary like that (it's not necessarily meant to be exhaustive).
There's a kind of social enterprise in the UK called a CIC, but the requirements to open a CIC essentially say that it can't have any political nature to it - in other words, you can't criticize or disagree with the government as part of the operation of your CIC. The CIC must be vetted before it can be established. This effectively limits CICs to following the status quo, with little chance they can be useful as a vehicle to bring about any social change that the government doesn't take a liking to.

Opening a CIC also establishes an "asset locked body," which effectively gives part ownership of the assets of the company to the government. There is no way that assets can be moved out of one of these bodies, but only transferred between them, which can include other CICs, non-profits and charities etc. No way of getting your assets back into private hands if you sign up for one and the government decides it doesn't like your plans for instance.

Simply running a private company, and donating some of your profits to charitable causes (with tax reductions) seems like a better way to keep control of your company and assets, and perhaps you could put into the company's bylaws restrictions on what shareholders can take out of the company, and what percentage of profits should be put towards community goals.
That looks like it might be a decent quality build instead of a plastic piece of junk build quality I experienced 5 years ago. I have been using Dell with pre-installed Ubuntu since, but it is a little underwhelming and of course my audio isn't working now. I was looking towards a ThinkPad with Fedora for my next machine.
I can't speak for the lower two questions, but Pop has gone the other direction on snaps. The default method of app installation is apt, but if that is unavailable, it will use flatpak from flathub.
No, the original chain was about the choice of being full-gas all the time for your employer or pace yourself.
I really like the app but that monkey icon turns me off big time, allow me to not have the monkey and I'll buy it for sure.
congrats you managed to hit an unprecedented level of condenscendance...

Spoiler: because you assumend he can find a job bevause he's desperate.

Your problems are not other people's.
If you're saying that someone who is below a certain income cannot get a loan - how are they going to go to college? Pull-up them bootstraps and find some more money under the couch cushions? You do know that scholarships are not like a dime-a-dozen, right? It's not like every university waives tuition at middle class incomes.

If you want to limit the cost of college then doing it by putting caps on how much a university can charge could be a more straight forward option than hoping costs come down by limiting loans to those who can't afford the cash option. (e.g. If a university wants state funding then they need to cap their student costs) Even then - loans would still need to happen for people who can't afford much more than their basic housing expenses (if even that - think about kids who get kicked out at 18).

You're speaking in a lot of "if market forces behave the way we all think they should thanks to basic econ like supply and demand" but that's not how things always work in the real world.

Considering ~50% families don't have any retirement savings and don't have an emergency fund, do you really their kids are gonna be able to afford all the expense things associated with college? (Remember - these people just got out of high school! They have likely never had a job and have no money at all)
>Netflix

Hah. If properly paying for films requires you to install quasi-rootkits that spy 24/7 on your personal life, and pirating gives you a high-quality .mkv you can play anywhere you want, I damn fucking well know which one I'll choose. "Brave but big sacrifice"? That's just devaluing those words.
They're basically spam at this point. I'm just asking to not be cold-called.

And I really have no desire to work for that type of company. Love it as a customer, but not my cup of office.
It’s buzzword-themed, and unfortunately there are lots of funds that are buzzword-themed. Not many of them turn out to be competent or wise investments though. Mostly they are just after mug money.
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Apple is doing... OK. They are still down 13% from their highs.

Boeing is trashed and announced layoffs.

GM is as well and are suspending their dividend, Ford isn't exactly happy either, and plenty of other S&P giants.

Disney has taken a huge hit due to sports/ ESPN revenue, theme parks, and cruise lines.

Small businesses aren't on the S&P 500, but unemployed people and small businesses all buy from companies in the S&P 500.

Apple also happens to have a massive cash pillow to soften their fall. Nobody else has reserves like Apple and a lot of companies have substantial debt.

The stock market hasn't quite priced in damage yet.
Not sure about noise cancellation as we never had an issue, but what you describe about ~20 participants and muting intuitiveness doesn't match our experiences with a wildly tech-illiterate audience.
> I know when I was 25 I was damn sure I knew better than anyone twice my age.

This is why I've long believed voting systems should restrict the voting age to 16-28. After all, whom would you rather have voting: people wracked with doubt and who fear their own ignorance, or people who know everything?
No, I can’t think of any big company I support.

Amazon, Google, Apple, Exxon, etc. are all built on exploitation.

My point wasn’t that Amazon is more evil than other corporations, I think that’s only marginally true. Probably only because of how much more efficient they are than a lot of companies.
Nock doesn't have the notion of lambdas. The language xkapastel links does. Why doesn't Nock? No clue.
Parents option would likely get around privacy regulations in some countries. So they can do the “much more work” you mentioned and also sell decent hardware for zero down on a contract, getting a bigger total market and more surveillance info.
If you're not going to answer a question, don't bother replying.
I doubt that headline is really correct: likely the lawyers have some cash to show for their efforts. Who cares about the actual claimants?
Null in SQL databases is more complicated than that.

Quote from Oracle documentation: "Unless otherwise stated, group functions ignore NULL values"

So, sometimes operations on nulls don't produce null, and in fact that's considered normal...except when it isn't.
I would never dream of using a Xiaomi phone without Lineage. Or Huawei. Or Samsung. Or any phone, actually.
How about being able to actively camouflage, hop around like a ping pong ball, stop in midair and turn on a dime? The projections idea, as unscrutinized as it is seems much more in line with the description of the objects.
Thanks for the kind words, this means a lot to me :)

I hope you find some good use out of Pantry, very excited to see what you come up with!
You are being too charitable. Nock does not have any interesting properties and does not meet any serious constraints besides being obscure.

Here is Nock's origin document, for reference: http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

Some of the ideas are interesting but they are independent of Nock. Any combinatory logic would do the trick.
MS has a huge legacy market, they don't want to end up as the next oracle where every dev relentlessly argues to move to a different platform.

Making tools/functionality free such that existing devs don't want to jump, and new devs consider azure is a reasonable business strategy.
There definitely are positive externalities to education. But I doubt they are even within an order of magnitude of the benefits of training and signalling which accrue to the individual.
>While true

Is it? I never understood the reasoning. What makes you think Apple is better than Xiaomi/Samsung/Google/whatever?
I understood the Perfect 10 case to be decided not on the merits and on a pretrial motion, and that the standard for fair use is not the same. Almost certainly the plaintiff will make a prima facie case, and an affirmative defense is needed then only on the pre trial motion. If the case went to trial the statutory text(arguably)does not require it to be raised as an affirmative defense.

I agree that Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music supports it as an affirmative defense, but it is not the most modern case law even though it is the only modern supreme court case. Mattel v Walking Mountain Productions in the 2nd did not use fair use as an affirmative defense. Cariou v Prince, also in the 9th and denied certiorari is a modern case that did not depend on fair use as an affirmative defense. In the appeal they did question whether fair use is an affirmative defense specifically.

Would you say that congress intended fair use to be an affirmative defense?
See my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035383. I've worked at two FAANG companies plus Uber, if that helps.
Good to know, thanks for replying!
> I don't know what "your own airwaves" is suppose to be.

Sorry, I meant it's using channels/spectrum and creating interference. Admittedly less of a concern than power IMO, since a stranger could easily broadcast their own network too—they're open airwaves.

> The electricity being used was already going to be used for your own use, so there is no additional cost to you.

But that's not true, is it? Surely, if there's someone else using my router to download and upload data, I'd expect that router is going to be using more power and increasing my electricity bill by a small amount.
5-10 years is insanely long for a startup. Few startups even survive 10 years.
Paragraph one sounds like Hanahaus.
Disaster planning for less crazy folk
Thank you - I followed a link that said "open source" and it took me to a list of repositories (which is nice, we all like open source) - but I apparently didn't land on the install-link (to be fair, I didn't look very hard).

I'm not sure I'm a fan of many approaches I've seen (gitlab omnibus is not a docker install, BTW).

You appear to be supporting alpine Linux - and also Debian derived systems - via packackes?

Packages, obviously, is a nice way to install software... If I wanted an appliance - I should set up an alpine vm, install source-hut components I like, point it at a managed postgres instance and a smart mail host - and assume I'll only ever need to do rolling updates via apk - and distro upgrades via alpine?

Is running on Debian likely to be as smooth?
That’s for next episode in June/July for Q2.
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