skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense. Wittgenstein and Nietzsche didn't write anything that could be mistaken for a textbook you could learn your HoP 101 with.

What you say about factual shortcoming is just one of the reasons, not the main one by any means, at least from my experience.
DoH is unfortunate.

I run my own custom openbsd router and use IP masquading to re-route any traffic on port 53 to my local dns server. My local server does caching, ad blocking, DoH resolution. Obviously with applications using their own DoH resolution this breaks as my local dns server gets bypassed.

Any application ignoring dns in a dhcp lease are bad net citizens unless the app gives the option to explicitly turn this on or off.

It’s also planed obsolescence, what happens when the hard coded dns servers get turned off? Everything just breaks.
And then they forget to update it or nvidia discontinues it and someone hacks in to it and your room mic gets posted on one of those open ip camera lists.

This is not some tin foil hat idea. You can go on reddit and browse peoples personal spaces being broadcast for everyone to see.
"with little positive effects to show for it"

It's an efficient store of value. Here is a dilemma - you have 10 million dollars. You need somewhere to park your money. Do you follow the Chinese businessman pattern and buy real estate in Toronto? That seems complicated - picking a property, being subject to the real estate market, etc. Often these houses sit empty, since you are on the topic of wasted resources.

Do you buy gold? Gold is as useless as Bitcoin, in terms of intrinsic value, your special snowflake "industrial applications" of coating McLaren F1 engines as a heatshield and superconductivity aside.

Buy stocks? How do you pick them? A financial advisor certainly won't do it properly for you. And the fed is pumping out USD.

Of course USD is going to deflate.

So, Bitcoin suddenly doesn't seem so useless.

"is the huge energy waste"

Gold takes a lot to store, secure, and transport. BTC replaces that with mining.

"The second one is that it makes illegal activities easier, and at a larger scale. It's quite common right now for companies to be coerced pay millions of dollars to anonymous criminals, all enabled with cryptocurrencies."

Every single transaction is on the chain. At this point they are worried that Monero is insecure. There are even conspiracy theorists saying that "the man" wants blockchain currencies as the norm due to the "nowhere to hide" policy.

And yes, you can create a wallet on some hotspot, and it is "anon". But let's be honest.

"Unless equally sized positive effects would emerge"

It's a secure place to park cash that doesn't deflate by nature.

edit: If you downvote, try to explain what you disagree with.
idk where they are getting those numbers though. I've had classes, jobs, etc. which all use Slack, I've never used Microsoft Teams even once. Both my undergrad and graduate colleges give me a free 365 subscription though, which means that me and every other college student could have been counted
Take all of my cash and break it into units/chunks. The size of the chunk should be the biggest size you can make it such that I wouldn't even raise an eyebrow to lose a whole chunk. I make decisions to invest/divest 1, 3 or 3 chunks at a time. When I decide to make a move I divide a chunk into about 5 parts and try to dollar cost average into a position. The time scale for the dollar cost averaging depends a lot of the events/contexts surrounding the trade.

I put money into a mix of long and short stock positions as well as long call options (LEAPs). The shortest call options I would do are quarterly, where I will listen to the earnings call, watch how the market reacts in the next day. and then set a call option that expires after the following earnings if I think the stock has been unfairly punished. But I usually stick to call options > 1 year. I have about 2/3's of my total portfolio in stock and 1/3 in options just to get good leverage.

This is sort of where I landed at right now. I didn't have any strategy going into all this. I am the kind of person that likes to learn for themselves and I knew I would lose money doing it. I just tried to know my limits and not lose too much when I thought it might happen. Looking back there was a time when I had maxed out my margin account buying AAPL as it was tanking in September. I sold that margin off for a big loss. I made some really stupid choices. But I learned and processed everything I did.
The settlement layer is purely peer to peer. Governments can enact laws to make actions illegal, and tougher for centralized entities like banks and corporations from using it. But there are addresses out there known to authorities with hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen bitcoin - and there is absolutely nothing they can do to prevent it from being moved. If you have the private key, you own the coins.
Money is a self-organizing system of resource management.

Bitcoin is better money, because it allows for more pure self-organization, as a result of its money supply being predetermined by hard-coded algorithm, rather than by fiat decree.

This single benefit far outweighs the mentioned negatives. It has the potential to completely eliminate the boom/bust cycle, eliminate currency manipulation that facilitates international trade imbalances, and free hyperinflated jurisdictions from that aspect of their poverty.

Many think these expectations are unreal, and that's fine. I'll see you when we get there.
> but this is a perfect use case for Rust

Idk it seems like for someone prototyping things alone, Python is the perfect langauge
you don't need to be "legally responsible" to not want unnecessary covid exposure on your campus!
As a recent Brown grad this makes me feel sick. I should have known but at the same time I did not expect this level of surveillance.

New account because I don’t typically leak this much personal information. Maybe that speaks towards my concern about this. All I can say is that I’m glad I graduated before facial recognition and other massive surveillance tools became mainstream.
IP you can use a VPN. Mac you can use the randomization method mentioned in the article. Swipe Card/Cameras there is nothing you can do.
you can just do the transaction in any other country and then convert their currency to ours. and nobody can stop you trading coins for things.
I wonder if it's because reading books is more niche compared to listening to music or watching TV. So a higher percentage of book readers are enthusiasts who prefer to own rather than stream.
Or F#/C#. Rust will have memory fragmentation over time.
Or maybe they can sleep well at night the rest of their lives, knowing they changed the world?
>If they can't get that down on paper correctly, they're not worth taking seriously.

Amusingly, the OP got shirty at someone* further down this thread for calling them names, but with an unfortunate textual blunder which exposed the hypocrisy of their own name calling (not to mention total lack of self awareness).

I pointed this out but got downvoted to oblivion of course. Classic goose / gander politics.

* (and rightly so btw, that kind of conduct has no place on HN)
My samsung tv was connected to the internet which let it auto update and now the basic ui like volume changing is incredibly slow. Its super painful to just switch between hdmi devices.
A statement on Timnit Gebru from her manager Samy Bengio
Perhaps Montaigne's Complete Essays as well (In the translation of M A Screech), since he lucidly summarizes most of what developed till his time, and also analysed and explained in very clear and understandable manner how it all affected his manner of living his own life.
My dumb tv has 4 hdmi and like 3 different composite inputs
Some Black Startup Founders Are Thriving in a Pandemic Year
Posts like these make it clear to me that the author does not really understand money, not Bitcoin. It's hard to reason about what Bitcoin's advantages are without first considering what the purpose of money is and the analysis from this article is mostly just sniping at the edges about some of the perceived flaws and not the actual usefulness which is the good part of the trade-off.

For a better understanding of money and why Bitcoin is a better money, I would recommend this article:

https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoi...

I'll also toot my own horn a bit which also delves into this confusion:

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances/...
> A rebellious offshoot of the Fatimids under Hasan al-Sabah, a student of the Fatimid House of Wisdom (Dar al-Ilm), would later fight in the Crusades and come to be notoriously known as the Hash-Hashins (or the Assassins).

Lots of misinformation you have there in one paragraph. Read up a better researched history.
> It doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t any initial conditions even prior to measurement.

This is the EPR argument.

> Bell’s inequality doesn’t negate this.

Bell shows that there is no measurement you can make, even in principle, that will give you the information you need to predict the outcome of a quantum experiment.

You can, if you wish, insist that those initial conditions exist notwithstanding our inability to measure them even in principle. But you could equally well insist that the outcomes of quantum experiments are determined by an invisible pink unicorn. Both hypotheses are equally unfalsifiable (if QM is correct).

I have actually coined the term IPU (Invisible Pink Unicorn) as an intentionally derisive description of hypothetical constructs that cannot be measured even in principle. Many QM interpretations contain IPUs. Bohmiam particle positions, for example, are an IPU.
Just in America alone... more Americans have died of automobile accidents than total deaths in World War 1&2 __combined__. Going by your knee-jerk reaction that maybe a few people died from an internet forum, we also should absolutely abolish automobiles, right? I mean, automobiles crashes have literally killed more humans in ONLY America, than both world wars, terrorism, and extremist hate speech combined. Why do vehicles get a pass? And then this just leads us to the old "NERF the world" sentiment in which, every single thing humans do is dangerous enough that maybe we shouldn't allow anyone to do anything at all? Right?
The issue is that it is hard to make money in scientific software, especially for life sciences. You usually get a bimodal distribution: really big, entrenched, and massive software firms and the rest have <100 headcount. There is no middle ground.
It's the greenest type of residence per capita.
The difference is it’s biophysically infeasible for any human to mature and live as a 12 foot tall adult, considering there is a very small number of 7 feet tall people in 2020. Whereas there is no such constraint for any given sequence of numbers if the lottery allows for them to be drawn. I would rather wager on whether you will continue being an annoying pedant. I prefer my odds there.
some hobbyist observations, please correct me if I'm wrong:

>I’m still trying to piece together what exactly how much control governments really lose under Bitcoin, whether I can see that as a positive or a negative, and whether I agree with Dalio that governments would (or could) take action to prevent it.

I don't think they could control it at all, as I will get into in the next post

>The enforcement of debt and the ability to track money seem, to me, like some of its most important properties

I don't think you could track money at all, because I think in a world where bitcoin is dominant, you can bet that you would have many other cryptocurrencies as well. And you can today exchange btc for monero, ethereum or whatever and back again and it's virtually untrackable who owns it or where it came from.

Because of this, governments could no longer do any automated taxation, they could no longer have any verification of who owns what, and so they would have to manually tax everyone based on manual observation of physical assets, as they probably couldn't look into most peoples actual financial records either, unless it was voluntary. This is untenable of course

>I’m also interested in what a world with a fixed amount of currency really looks like.

It wouldn't be fixed in reality, and nobody would really know how much money exists and each currency and inflation would have to be determined individually and you would have booms and crashes based on just how individual markets supply/demand progresses (i think?)
Notice he doesn't say she resigned immediately.

Do you believe she fabricated Megan's email?[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364735446331392
Surely at least one of the flaws in human thinking is thinking that one can simply remove the flaws by enumerating and preventing them.
>It's the in-person 1st impression. That impression can't be erased with another hour of time with the person.

I honestly don't think that I show any personality within the first 15 minutes of meeting someone. I am polite and interested, sure, but 15 minutes is about the minimum to organically hit on conversation that moves past that level.
I'm pretty sure the last time my internet was down I couldn't get into anything but the wifi settings. But I'll try it next time, thanks for the tip!
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https://secushare.org is attempting something like this. Unfortunately not even a prototype exists.
Pork barrel spending has not been a thing since 2011 when the House banned earmarks.

This info is woefully out of date, and at least some attribute the sharp increase in partisanship and gridlock to the ban on earmarks preventing horse trading.
Generally you don't want to get to close to cashew trees. The seed and other plant parts contain urishiol. This is the same compound in poison oak/ivy that causes allergic reactions.

In general people who harvest cashew fruit wear lots of protective clothing.

Also, fun fact, the seeds need to be heated before being eaten. There are no truly "raw" cashews at your grocery.
This has been happening for a century with first-party advertisements and "sponsored content" that is baked into the content being consumed.
I guess the key difference is that less startups have bilked investors by peddling fantastical dreams of post-fiat ancient coin based economies.
Thank you for sharing this tip!
Ultimately, you will need to exchange your bitcoins for _something_ for them to have provided you with value (dying with a horde of bitcoin, stocks, USD, ect is a waste). Yes, there are many bitcoins moving around that the government cannot influence, but who cares? Go try and buy a car with these bitcoins, and it will be a different story.
I do think mass moderation is impossible. If they tried to remove things that were obviously illegal and kept to that I would fine to accepting that. I appreciate there is now government involvement which brings it own complications especially with regards to an international business. So maybe it is just not possible.

> In terms of debate, one thing sticks out if you’ve done a lot of philosophical debates, that people are bad at it. That is to say, you need to learn how to debate. I would think moderating can suffer from the same lack of experience.

Funnily enough a friend who went to Berkerley University was making the same point about debate today in a discord chat. I will admit I am more of a layman but try to stay away from many of the common fallacies in argumentation. It is an interesting idea that moderation itself is something that would need experience.

> I am not quite sure which platform you are thinking of in the first complaint you state.

I would say reddit being the prime example. People always bring up the really vile stuff e.g. r/jailbait, r/natsoc (or whatever it was) as examples, the first I would remove in a heart beat as it isn't a free speech issue. However the list of subreddits and the posts that were being removed were often a lot less controversial IMO.

However one of the other comments, somewhere else in this thread I responded listed a lot of "right-wing" content in itself is somewhat objectionable. People have to remember that includes centre right libertarian types (like myself, I am a free market capitalist) and people who just believe in more old fashioned traditional values.
I suspect that in this case, a more reasonable interpretation of Chinese would be 'the people living in the area that is now China' rather than 'speakers of modern day Mandarin'.
Urgent appeal to Paul Graham, etc.: Please help kickstart Common Lisp revolution
We had one, but it was discontinued back in... 2010!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
Right. It's scaled up. I suppose that if people became suddenly interested in old stamps to the tune of billions of dollars, stamp-dealing would also start competing for resources with the rest of the economy.
I am the kind of person that just learns by doing. I hear the word "call option" and I start chasing down what it means. I start buying them just to touch and feel the mechanics of how they work. I am a hands on learner who just plays with things. I want to build intuition. If I get stuck or having recurring thoughts/pains about something I will look on Google/youtube to get to the bottom of it, but it takes time and practice to arrive at these questions.

I recommend just getting into it. Dip your toes in the water, it'll feel a bit cold, let it warm up and eventually you will be swimming in the deep end.
It's amazing to me that there are still people out there who don't use adblockers in 2020. The web is unbelievably painful to browse without an adblocker.

I've also gotten into the habit of using uBlock Origin to kill all of the "Accept Cookies" type popups without ever clicking accept. Those are just as intolerable as ads to me.
Google Anything, So Long as It's Not Google (2005)
This will be downvoted: Ideally you should not write tests.
I already knew how extrajudicial university kangaroo courts are, and this is a private university, so they literally can do what they want. Their burdens of proof and right to due process are already non-existent, and what would be Fourth Amendment rights in a real court are weaker than what you'd find in a FISA court.

But I do agree that this case isn't "outrageous," per se. It's just a reminder of what data they have on students and the power they have over them.
And the respective TVs work without internet - the only possible attack vector (by the manufacturers) is if they start trying to connect to random unprotected wifi networks, or god forbid the Amazon Sidewalk network[0].

0: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b/?node=21328123011
I recently bought a dumb TV (Proscan something or other, 4K) where I watch Netflix, Prime Video, Youtube and Crave TV in a modified version of Chromium (https://blog.vpetkov.net/) on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Additionally I stream my Steam Library using the Steam Link deb in the raspbian repos and a set of Steam Controllers via the dongle (the SC bluetooth connection kinda sucks on the RPI4)

For best perforance, use a wired ethernet connection, and a bluetooth dongle for your non-Steam controllers and bluetooth headset.

Works flawlessly and it's a delight to have a full Linux distro on my TV.
Am I missing something? The innovation is to ... dim LEDs so that full brightness is... more than 100%...

https://youtu.be/4xgx4k83zzc
Bitcoin is just a part of a larger problem disucssed in these two articles fro m3 years ago. They are still as true as three years ago:

"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain": https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...

Follow up, "Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future": https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
I'm going to be the lone naysayer here, and recommend against Russell's book.

Russell is an eloquent, entertaining, and engaging writer. I used to be a huge Russell fan myself when I was young, and back then I would have recommended his book too.

But then I actually studied philosophy and realized how myopic, limited, and biased Russell was outside his areas of specialty (Analytic philosophy, math, and logic).

Yes, you'd get an overview of (some of) Western philosophy from his book, but it'd be really biased, and that's the wrong foot to start you learning of philosophy from.

Much better, in my view, to just start reading the Socratic dialogues yourself, as part of an intro to philosophy class, instead of being fed regurgitated, abridged, predigested knowledge by someone with an agenda.

My view on Russell extends to many of the other recommendations elsewhere in this thread of books by other authors who've written overviews of philosophy from an Analytic perspective. They might have more up-to-date views than Russell did (who was born in 1872 and wrote his book in 1946), but they tend to share his limitations.
My understanding is that is complicated, and in many cases it's involuntary.

Sociopaths are abusers because they utterly lack empathy, are prone to risk taking to the point where they will harm self and others, and may even lack the brain structures that make empathy possible. Clearly no amount of management training is going to fix that.

Narcissists are abusers because they live in a state of constant severe unconscious anxiety, trying to shore up a very brittle and fragile ego with fantasies of omnipotence and irresistibility. Most people are narcissistic some of the time, but pathological narcissists are narcissistic to the point that they cannot have normal human relationships, ever. Again - you're not going to fix someone like that with a training course, because it's more of a embedded psychological and emotional disability. Even therapists don't rate the chances of improvement very highly after extended sessions - so a week or two certainly won't be enough.

None of this has any connection to being anxious about something, like a deadline, or a date, or an exam. Or with panic attacks. Or with being an overtly anxious person who may be prone to worry. That's a different syndrome and isn't noticeably linked to abusive behaviour.

Instead, these are classed as personality disorders - so not quite mental illness, but also not quite sanity.

There are no psychotic delusions, and no loss of lucidity. But there are severe emotional distortions and disabilities which can be contagious in that they promote harm of self and others. They're also just plain unpleasant and toxic to be around.

Trying to decide if someone with one of these conditions is actually responsible for their own actions is as much of a philosophical problem as a moral one. But it's absolutely clear that people with Dark Triad issues are almost invariably poisonous in organisations and will create extremely unpleasant and toxic experiences in a work environment.
Let’s not forget that WhatsApp was an app that was profitable without ever showing ads or destroying its users’ privacy before being bought by Facebook.

They built up a massive user base while still charging several dollars for their app.
>If you have the private key, you own the coins.

Until you get arrested and the government just makes you hand over your private key.

https://www.wired.com/story/feds-seize-billion-stolen-silk-r...
I recently bought a dumb TV (Proscan something or other, 4K) where I watch Netflix, Prime Video, Youtube and Crave TV in a modified version of Chromium (https://blog.vpetkov.net/) on a Raspberry Pi 4. Additionally I stream my Steam Library using the Steam Link deb in the raspbian repos and a set of Steam Controllers via the dongle (the SC bluetooth connection kinda sucks on the RPI4)

For best perforance, use a wired ethernet connection, and a bluetooth dongle for your non-Steam controllers and bluetooth headset.

Works flawlessly and it's a delight to have a full Linux distro on my TV.
Or anything that isn’t a scripting language