skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When paying earns you passive income
WDYT about a user-owned online payment network powered by cryptocurrencies?
This would be like PayPal: members create an account & use it when they shop online at participating merchants. When a user creates an account, they "top up" by transferring funds from their bank account to this payment network account.

Shoppers are co-owners of the network, and merchants are "clients" who pay a small transactional fee (0.1%) for sales. Shoppers get shares of profits from the fees. The quantity of funds an individual shopper receives depends on their contribution to the network specifically:
-Keeping a balance on their account when bootstrapping the network
-The volume of transactions made

If Alice joins our network & spends $1000 w/her account @ a participating store, the merchant is charged 0.1% in transaction fees ($1 in this case). This fee will be instantaneously divided among all shoppers in network but the amount of profits received per shopper will be in accordance with the volume of their spending within the network.

Each account created is a non-custodial wallet. The rules for shopper remuneration will be determined by a set of Ethereum Layer2 smart contracts that act as autonomous intermediaries between merchants and shoppers. The network will get a share of the revenue to fund network maintenance.

The network will use interest-bearing stablecoin tokens. Prices will be denominated in these tokens, but users will only see traditional currencies displayed. These tokens will cover fees for converting traditional currencies into crypto (ramp services). They will also provide extra interest to be redistributed within the network.

Merchants use the network because a crypto infrastructure means instant access to funds & 24 hour transfers to their bank accounts. The 0.1% fee is lower than the standard 2-5% transactional fees.

For shoppers the network is a means to generate passive income and participate in a business that's more equitable.
WDYT?
When is someone bringing this out for infrastructure investments. I want to be able to own 0.0001% of a sub-sea cable between UK and Europe.
You should write a book.
I suppose Capitalism/Socialism/Autocracy/Democracy/Religion/Atheism should lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_N...
The Apple ecosystem can be enticing, but once you’re in there's no going back
Probably the miasma theory. Bad vapours and stuff.
I wish I could! I'm not preaching anything here, my own personal projects look nothing better than this, as I'm a developer, not a designer.

And even if I was a UI/UX person, I think this is a deeper problem than a patch could solve.
And higher management fees probably.
Then he would not have had access to the body of knowledge accrued by others to build upon his theory of infection. He would probably have made some scientific progress - provided the circumstances did not make him a brick layer instead - but not the same as what he did 900 years in the future.
It doesn’t need to.

Pretty clear from reading it that no one wanted to admit they’d been stolen on their watch, so they kept up some kind of pretence of it being lost within the library so they wouldn’t be public hounded for being responsible for its loss.
All academic research libraries of proper size have been digitizing for decades.

Cambridge University Library is no exception

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/digital-co...
The point is that it combines the responses from a survey of readers on "what they think that almost nobody agrees with".
Personally (I'm not that fat) I tried eating less to get a nicer body, but whenever I do so I feel tired or dizzy when exercising. Yes, I lose some weight, but it also feels that my powers are gone. I now eat whenever I am hungry as much as I want, but exercise more. I no longer have the dizzy problems.
I agree with the above, and also would add the following:

* There is usually no clear way for a UX designer to contribute. Note with this example, under 'Contributing - Tasks I could work on' it doesn't mention UX, and the only way to become a committer is to "show us some of your patches, or solve some issues" - none of which involve UX.

* There is a slight obsession in the open source community to use only using open source tools, while the majority of modern UX practice is developed on proprietary tools (e.g. Figma).

* Design by committee is the most frustrating and slow process, and great UX design comes from strong decisions by great designers rather than community votes.

* There is an underlying assumption that if you contribute UX designs and put them in the Wiki they will be ignored, so there is no point. It's not the same as code where there is a one step process (i.e. commit), the whole team needs to embrace the UX and then work to commit it to code.
That's just how so-called "Rationalists" like to write. They have a lot of interesting ideas that are fun to learn about but the core community itself is basically a bunch of computer programmers who believe they can solve the worlds problems simply by thinking a lot and writing a blog post that uses a big metaphor.
I mean yes, a universally accurate progress bar would be impossible, but that’s vastly different from a mostly-accurate application-specific progress bar. The point of the article is that most software barely even tries to give you something reasonable.
I would guess miasma theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory:

“The miasma theory (also called the miasmatic theory) is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, Ancient Greek for "pollution"), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air. The theory held that epidemics were caused by miasma, emanating from rotting organic matter. Though miasma theory is typically associated with the spread of contagious diseases, some academics in the early nineteenth century suggested that the theory extended to other conditions as well, e.g. one could become obese by inhaling the odor of food.”

I think that’s an educated guess in the basis that this was a wide-spread theory, and fits the experiment performed.
See https://landx.id for the equivalent for property micro investments in Indonesia.

Context: We pivoted our crypto exchange startup into LandX because we (the founding team) got sick of people trading over hype. Fractional ownership of cryptocurrency is awesome because it let anyone get into the game. What if we can do the same for something solid on the ground? So LandX -- for Indonesia.
But the same goes for the chickens that remain to lay eggs.
Stepping back, purges are a bleak aspect of statecraft - and executive management. As a leader, what do you reasonably do about an insurgent movement? Once they seize power, they will need to purge you and your supporters, so there is a zero-sum aspect to this.

Develop mature democratic processes? Those will take decades, and imposing them just means Potemkin structures that keep you in power.
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Someone's been watching too much Tennet.
Nope, as proven by performance tests,

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

And the fact that M1 has special instructions dedicated to optimize RC,

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...

Memory overhead in languages with tracing GC (RC is a GC algorithm) only happens in languages like Java without support for value types.

If the language supports value types, e.g. D, and there is still memory overhead versus RC, then fire the developers or they better learn to use the language features available on their plate.
> Just because China is bad, doesn't mean the US isn't.

This is true, but I more often see the opposite implied: Because the US is bad, Russia, China, and Iran shouldn’t be criticised.

It’s often goes:

A: “China did a bad thing.”

B: “Yeah well, America did a bad thing too, you propaganda-addled fool.”

A: “Yes, but all these people in China...”

B: “Hypocrite! Dupe! Racist!”
>Every time I hear a guy complaining about how bad their online dating experience is I ask to see their pictures.

How often are you having these conversations?
There's even precedent for it: the iMac/iMac Pro. The Pro model has workstation-class hardware in it while the non-Pro does not.

Ideally the enhanced cooling from the Pro models would trickle down to the non-Pro. By all reports the (i)Mac Pro is virtually silent but in the low-power ARM world a desktop machine that size could almost be passively cooled, even under load.
The screenshot of the documentation looks nice
Maybe not so contrarian here, but in general (USA centric - not American but I live here)

On tech:

- Social media companies should be legally responsible for stopping mob justice and harassment on their platforms, since it would create financial incentive to make better tools and policies.

- Social media companies shouldn't be responsible for censoring political speech (edit: by major politicians), that should be up to the government itself.

On government:

- Every citizen should be allowed to vote regardless of circumstance (i.e. even people in prison for heinous crimes), since I don't think the government should have much power over how it's elected.

- The national debt isn't as big a deal as the media or politicians make it out to be, since the USA is primarily in debt to itself in its own currency.

- Major government officials should be paid a lot more, and in return have major life long restrictions on what they are allowed to do financially both during and after their tenure.

On life:

- Veganism is the only moral choice for diet (non-vegetarian [so total hypocrite] here). I think we're going to learn an uncomfortable amount about animal cognition in the coming century, not to mention the climate impact.
My favorite part of this is that they proactively offset the carbon emissions from their electricity usage via https://www.cooleffect.org/

Is there an easy way to calculate the climate impact of a software project? I’d love to do this for my next project.
They had me until point 5. Yes, systemic race and gender discrimination are most definitely real and most definitely problems. No, you don't have to tie it in to everything.

I do agree with their main point though. It is indeed unequal. It probably always has been, except that until recently it didn't matter so much since companies saw themselves as part of the community. Now, when corporate greed has reached gargantuan levels, it's become a problem.
Actually I'm a UX Designer and tried to contribute to open source projects, but it seems that it's always about graphic degin. Anyway, I'd be glad to contribute to some projects that need UX, if you know some, let me know!
This may be unfair. As (I think) the Slatestarcodex guy put it, rationalists are one of the few groups where "Chesterton's Fence"[1] is a sufficient two-word rebuttal to many arguments.

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
“The act of killing“ is a truely impressive and disturbing movie!
Our most important users (read: $$$) were also the most sophisticated. They also appeared to like numbers... as numbers helped them when they complained back to us that our system sucked. If we took information (as bullshitty as it was) away, they accused us of hiding the truth. As Calvin said to the monsters under his bed... they lie, I lie. Our process was very heavily weighted near the end...so if you made it to 90%...and hung on, it would very likely finish. Again, you need to know your users and play to their strengths/weaknesses and track metrics.
I strongly disagree. They lied to themselves and to the world believing the notebooks have been misplaced and not stolen. The ‘no lie’ approach is clearly a part of the problem.
I receive the MyAnalytics emails where I work, and this sounded like it was based on the same thing as categories seem similar. Disabling is good, as they really have no value, and are just another distraction to dispose of in email.
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Whoops! Time is weird these days.
Strongly agreed.

One tricky thing, though. The few times I saw someone trying to implement the task count, it would sometimes be the case the count couldn't be determined beforehand! So I'd see progress reports like: 1/123 done.... 42/124 done... 45/2616 done... 68/98213 done...

I think scandisk (or whatever the disk scanning utility that runs before Windows boots is called these days) was prone to such ever-growing task counts. I don't know what the right answer here is, except maybe try to split your process into a "planning" part and "execution" part if possible...
I love the fact that it has been added to OpenStreetMap[1] 6 hours ago!

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8162265901
Can you link to some precedent for our education?
> Are you sure about that 250$ number? Because I don't think that's a very realistic number.

I'm not a student but it's pretty close I think.

I invested $350 into a Chromebook that runs native Linux[0] about 4 years ago and it's still going strong as a secondary machine I use when I'm away from my main workstation.

It has a 13" 1080p IPS display, 4gb of memory, an SSD, a good keyboard and weighs 2.9 pounds. It's nothing to write home about but it's quite speedy to do every day tasks and it's even ok for programming where I'm running decently sized Flask, Rails and Phoenix apps on it through Docker.

If I had to use it as my primary development machine for web dev I wouldn't be too disappointed. It only starts falling apart if you need to do anything memory intensive like run some containers while also running VMs, but you could always spend a little more and get 8gb of memory to fix that problem.

I'm sure nowadays (almost 5 years later) you could get better specs for the same price.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/transform-a-toshiba-chromeboo...
You had me at "To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in." gripping read.
i'm pretty sure the contrary is true.
How does Windows check executables? I hope they don't do the same. Does it come with a master list of public keys from manufacturers to check the signature against?

How does that work for new vendors?
Yeah Home Assistant really makes things better, but there is only so much it can do when manufacturers do things like this: [0]. These devices are not your own, resistance is futile.

Only Tasmota or ESPHome flashable device for me from now on.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/TPLINKUK/status/13286876591333990...
> I have literally seen tens of thousands of pounds of garbage dumped on public land.

Yes, and they shouldn't be.

> The idea that some out of the way and moderately interesting art is a priority is laughable.

I don't think it's that interesting, but besides that I don't follow your rationale. Because some people litter against the rules, we shouldn't clean up this thing someone put on federal lands? Even so, wouldn't large pieces of litter take priority over smaller ones simply due to human nature?

I really feel like you're stretching here. Frankly, it's interesting to watch people defend some thing they just found out about and have no attachment to.
Hard disagree. Building, shipping, and learning from my mistakes is the only I was able to actually apply anything I learned from books. IMO the best method is to do both - start building now, and read books relevant to whatever part of the journey you're stuck on or need help with.
So next time tell us who you see win, then we'll know the opponent will win! :)
An additional challenge is that, if I get a PR of which I don't like the specific way it's been done, I can patch it up myself. And if it's a feature I don't want added at all, I can already turn it down at the proposal stage, before any code is written.

With UX, however, the contribution itself isn't the proof that the contributor actually knows what they're doing. I've been excited about getting a UX contributor in the past, but then with all due respect what they turned up with was even worse than what I could've done - and this was not just a matter of taste and expertise. But it's rough to turn it down after the work's been done.
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What a great idea! It complements really well with stock investments.

Good luck!
Eat less calories, or even better: less calories that you actually absorb.

You intestine cannot extract every calorie, especially those in unprocessed (fiberous) plant cells get excreted.

I find eating more helps me: eat more volume/weight, of less calorie dense foods. Diets like WFPB and raw mornings-and-or-afternoons do that for me.
The meals that some athletes eat are outrageous, so there has got to be something to maintaining a high metabolism. You'll never do it with just walking and weight lifting though. When I was way skinnier I had hobbies and habits that had me doing high intensity cardio multiple times a day. As those went away I gained weight, even though my diet has not changed much. I'm sure getting older is a big part of it too.

I have no answers though, I was sure not drinking, and being on chemo therapy all year would help me lose weight, but somehow I gained.
Yeah I was wondering forever to how that were emulating x86 faster than native x86 its because they brought ram internal. But the ultimate black box is a better word than vendor lock-in. If they are gutting all the common stuff I wonder what dragons are lurking. Like this is the kind of design change that introduces something like meltdown in my opinion. Maybe MacOS can hide these things but there is definitely some hardware issues there its to many moving parts for it not to be.
Agreed. I this trend has made us all a lot more wealthy (and obese) as more people spend less time farming their day away.
Corporate vs family/sole proprietorship could be one way to describe.
You should join us over at http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php if you haven't already. We would love to see your collection and hear stories!
Homes are not investment vehicles to make people wealthy..

A huge number of people use the equity from investing in a house as a retirement fund. They very literally are investment vehicles. You can argue that they shouldn't be, or that there should be a class of housing that isn't treated like an asset, but that would be very hard to achieve without some serious market manipulation.
"Privacy is not a feature".
You do know that when you eat less, the amount hungrier you get is greater than the amount you’re eating less, right? You do know that it’s been proven again and again that willpower doesn’t work?

Telling someone to eat less to lose weight is technically correct, but in reality is useless advice. And no, it really is hard.

Maybe if you got lucky with a great metabolism it might be easy, but a lot of people don’t have that and will struggle.

It’s not about eating less and more about eating correct.
Interesting people.

I hadn't seen anyone arguing misotheism as an actual description of reality and (possibly eventual) omnicide as the only moral position to take on life before I ran into them online.
Eating less is a simple concept, but not necessarily easy. The author specifically mentions struggling with binge eating.
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Ha, I’ll get flagged as flamebait. Although, giving unsolicited answers to the Thiel question is perhaps the definition of flamebait.
I was about to hit 200lbs (90kg) almost a decade ago and I freaked out. I poured into learning everything I could about nutrition. I got down to about 11% bodyfat—167 lbs / 76kg with a good deal of muscle—before mellowing out a bit. It's simple:

1. Self-propelled motion to get around. Ski, bike, run, or even walk. Don't own a car. My friend sold his and bought a huge bike that his kids and groceries fit into. Yes it is possible. I've biked in -30C weather. It's not that bad.

2. Fiber, protein are your best friends. Some fats are kinda friends too, especially from veggies or fish. Sugar is the enemy. All other carbs treat like acquaintances, except for starch which can be safely eaten if it is cold where it acts like a fibre. Potato salad with bacon bits and green onions: Yes. Hashbrowns with pancakes: No.

3. Body weight workouts at least once a week. They're a bit fanatical over at https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ but the program is good. Follow it but don't push your self too hard. I got wicked tennis elbow when I was approaching a muscle up and had to take a year off.

That's it. It's simple. I don't understand why Weight Watchers even exists. Just cut out the sugar, move around, and eat more plants.
A quick scan came up with "Hundreds of parameters are tuned". This reminds me of a story narrated by Dyson (http://lilith.fisica.ufmg.br/~dsoares/fdyson.htm):
"How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.""
For about 2x the price of the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB model, I can buy a significantly more powerful X86 solution, in terms of compute and I/O.

Compared to that, what would make you go for a Pi at that price point?
No man, this is HN where everyone makes $300k/yr cash comp 6 months out of school. You didn't know?

I think your 5% number is right on point. There are almost 4 million software developers in the US. Company-specific numbers are hard to come by, but estimating, Facebook only has a few thousand developers - Goldman Sachs has approximately 9000 and several sources say FB has "less." Netflix has less than 9,000 employees total and I think it's unlikely a huge percentage of those are developers. Google has less than 30k (and that's assuming 100% of R&D and Ops groups are engineers). Microsoft has about 40k. Even adding a bit to each of these estimates, you're looking at maybe 110,000 developers at FAANG companies themselves. Let's double that to account for other companies (mostly finance) that will pay comparably - it's certainly less. That's about 5.5%.

And you touch on stock price which I think is super important. This isn't cash compensation. It's massive stock grants which are subject to losses. If some black swan event happens and one of the FAANGs goes out of business there are going to be a lot of bankrupt principal and staff engineers. Doctors don't have that problem because their $500k is W2 cash compensation.

The median software engineer salary is somewhere around $100-110k. Half the developers in the US don't even make six figures.
> Millions of horses are raised every year for their meat.

I don't know enough about the numbers worldwide to give you real hard data but the majority of all of the horse meat consumed worldwide is not from horses bred with the sole purpose to breed it for it's meat. I have the idea that it's not more than 30%.

Also the horses that are primarily bred for food are for a large part free roaming in places where other cattle simply wouldn't survive. This in contrast to other meats (chicken, veal, pork) that are often raised in factory like environments.
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I'm not familiar with BigBlueButton, but Nextcloud and Element both have a real (for profit?) company backing them, and they have full time employees working there. They're even hiring, with 7 and 8 job openings ATM.
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Is there any UI indication that OCSP checks have been consistently failing for some period of time?

My concern is less local malware (if something malicious has gained the privileges to filter OCSP, it's probably already game over) but rather networks filtering ocsp.apple.com (for whatever reason).
If there's no independent media in China, how do you explain that a Chinese magazine's interview with Dr. Ai Fen was censored on social media? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-wu... Surely if they're not independent they'd just not have published it in the first place.