skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, thank you for the coherent argument. Going to start with what I think your central argument is at first.

"why do I want people not to invest their money"

You don't - you absolutely don't want someone to park their money in BTC and avoid spending it. It's an economic inefficiency. It's also the nature of people to hoard wealth - that's why they buy land to "sit on" and why they buy gold. Both do not have the world OR wealth distribution. That's also why in the US, we have a property tax - to keep the wealthy from hoarding all the land without generating a profit on it (assuming they aren't living on the property.

Conclusion - we need, or at the very least have used stores of value throughout history that are not "investments" in the sense of efficient use of resources.

"What are the benefits of BTC over existing stores of value?" ("USD" in a bank account, USD (cash), gold, and property).

The ones I listed above - USD depreciates. It's trite but it's also true - you cannot hold USD without losing wealth. Gold has no intrinsic value, you have less control over the asset unless you store it in your basement (managed by third party), you cannot easily move it or transact in it.

Real estate is entirely too complicated for a non-professional to invest in. Same with land.

BTC does what cash was supposed to - you buy it, it sits there, it doesn't depreciate.

Now, you will correctly say "No, I buy BTC at $20,000 and tomorrow it's $3,000". Completely correct and true, but the bet is that as it becomes more established it will become a more reliable store of value than a nationally backed currency, kind of like currency was when it was backed by the gold standard.

Hopefully that helps you understand my viewpoint without thinking I am trying to shove my opinion down your throat, as most crypto debates go that way, and it's definitely not my intent. I don't even hold crypto, nor do I necessarily think it's "changing the world".
> Lyn talks about investing, so she shies away from long-term speculation

Isn't that literally what investing is?
BTC as a currency has some merit. But people are treating it as an asset class.

Crypto as a major asset class is a Brave New World. Its the first major asset class whose value is entirely inferred.

Bonds are tethered to a future income stream, typically valued from a present income stream + future expectations.

Stocks are tethered to real work, company assets and profits.

Precious metals are tethered to something that is either impossible or uneconomical to produce, far beyond the challenges of crypto mining. The world still cannot produce or practically destroy gold. Bitcoins can be completely destroyed - doing so isn't even difficult.

Bitcoin is a string of characters. If Bitcoin is never used as a currency, only a tradeable asset, we run the real risk of people suddenly and simultaneously questioning what it is they own. There is no floor underneath that price. Even a bankrupt corporation has a price floor - the used office furniture sold at auction. Bitcoin can trade for 0. And might yet.
> 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.

This doesn't sound any different from cash. Which is why existing systems of taxation don't rely exclusively on the banking system. When you buy a television, you don't self-report the purchase and pay sales tax at the end of the year, the vendor charges it up front. When you're paid a salary, the employer withholds income tax. The businesses, in turn, have their own income tax, and want to report the employee's wages to be able to deduct them from their own taxes. They want to report sales in order to be able to legally deliver those profits to shareholders. So what's different about cryptocurrency here?
What about the head?
As others have mentioned, that's a very difficult question to answer. Philosophy is huge and incredibly subjective, often based on what each persons perspective considers a certain context of reality to be worth philosophizing. Personally I enjoy Bertrand Russell and Terence McKenna very very much, I've invested a lot of time in both of them. .
Going “obsolete” isn’t uniform. A product can go obsolete for your use case without going obsolete for mine. An audiophile might consider a platform that doesn’t support the latest surround sound protocol as “obsolete” while I would not even notice.
Ah, so this one: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/david-mamet-teaches-dram...

$200 is quite a steep commitment, but with this recommendation, I'll probably take it.
There are no new inventions in finance. Be it tulips, joint stock enterprises, junk bonds, or good ol debt, it's all been done before and will all come crashing down yet again, taking the speculative euphoria with it.
Any source on them being profitable vs having revenue? IIRC they were very inconsistent in charging users, depending on the country, platform, time you signed up, etc.
> study after study shows that broadly this is just luck

quite confused at this one, what studies? as an example, surely the fact that page and brin created PageRank for web searches led to google being so successful https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20994361/google-alphabet-...

> best there's no behavior to encourage, person A just got lucky

the behavior of ... understanding and creating a useful service like pagerank? or amazon?

> relying on this dynamic entrenches privilege

this is quite ridiculous, this is only believable if you consider having 3-4/5 quintile parents as 'privileged' as having ten billion net worth. equally so when you look at where their parents came from (quite often, poor farmers who immigrated) or their history (jews who had to leave poland or germany due to the nazis js)

> because it's much harder for women and people of color to become the next Steve Jobs

so? heard of 'lisa su'?
The whole point of Bitcoin is that it isn't controlled by any one country and that more can't be printed whenever the country wants.

Any new currency or "coin" that a country develops completely misses the mark, and is literally no better vs Bitcoin than their standard currency.
This might be the opportunity to unironically recommend tinfoil hats.
I agree that people are (in general) responsible for the bad actions they take, whatever the underlying causes are.

That doesn't mean there are no underlying causes.
You can go back from network settings back to settings or something like this. just poke around.
Discovered it when comcast went down for 4 days and wanted to run kodi on firetv
Hi, Thanks for asking. We actually have a few ways to achieve this:
1) as mentioned, slash supports graphql subscriptions
2) you could write a custom mutation with our new @lambda directive. Do your changes then call out to your webhook
3) we have been discussing hooks after a mutation internally, but I don’t have a timeline for this yet.
We can't, but we can certainly judge that perspective to be counter-productive.

I'm concerned about outcomes. Let's stop for a minute and assume that I'm an unfeeling, non-empathetic person who doesn't care about anyone but himself. Even then, I would advocate to allocate more money to homeless services, regardless of how that money is used, because doing so would benefit me: I don't want to see human feces on the sidewalk, or used syringes, or disease-carrying rats running around near tent encampments, or mentally-ill people screaming at me as I walk by.

People who adopt the attitude that we shouldn't give people a generous safety net because they haven't done anything to "deserve" a handout are quite simply cutting off their noses to spite their faces. They're making their lives actively worse just to "teach a lesson" to those "undeserving" homeless people.
Previous discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190573
Still doesn't work for me in Firefox on Windows
I noticed writers trying to come off as highly educated and pompous often write sentences that are too long, with too many adverbs and adjectives. Not to mention excessive use of passive voice and useless phrasal verbs. This is precisely the type of writing that needs an editor.
As with any tool, if you don't use it properly it can hurt you.
Earmarks and pork are nothing other than corruption. The SLS is the clearest example.

US taxpayers have invested close to $20B in a launch system that was outdated the day it was designed and will literally cost 100 times more per pound than commercially available launch systems.

The first reason it's so costly is that the US congress required it to use solid rocket boosters, which increase launch risks, and substantially increase launch costs.

The second reason the SLS is so costly is that congress required it to use RS-25 engines, which were some of the most expensive rocket engines ever designed, originally costing $45M a pop. They were so expensive because they were used on the Shuttle and had to be refurbished between launches instead of expended (destroyed) every launch.

But not only will the RS-25s used on the SLS be expended every launch, Aeroject is getting $100M(!) each to build new ones. And it forced the SLS to use one of the worst possible first stage fuels, Hydrogen, which requires carrying a massively heavy cryogenic tank, construction of has held up launches for years,

By contrast, each SpaceX Merlin which has roughly half the thrust of an RS-25 costs around $500,000 to build, 200 TIMES LESS! And uses a far more compact and effective first stage fuel.
In Event of Moon Disaster (1969) [pdf]
Ah yes, nothing more positive than making the exchange of child pornography easier and safer for the peddlers involved.
It's be interesting if they were offered a cut of the damages. That would create a pretty crazy incentive structure.
Curious which country is this? A public list of censored sites seems an odd thing to exist
Disconnect from campus WiFi when possible. When not, stick to the Brown Guest SSID with MAC randomization. Always use a VPN.

For swipe cards, tailgate into buildings. Brown's building access is so restrictive, and the experience of being locked out is so universal, that virtually all Brown students are conditioned to hold doors open for each other.

For cameras, there isn't as much as you can do to protect your privacy. The camera map included in the blog post displays OpenStreetMap data. It's very hard go anywhere near Brown without getting caught up in its camera dragnet. You usually cannot avoid cameras altogether, but you can minimize your exposure! And the one bright side of 2020, in this regard, is that it's normalized wearing a mask!
This is the spanish wording from the original article

>Como tal, no serán anuncios publicitarios con fines comerciales, sino más bien de servicios, siempre ligado a la comunidad o a la app

Which has the same meaning as the english translation in the article.

As such, they will not be advertisements for commercial purposes, but rather for services, always linked to the community or the app.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of confusing how the system behaves with what your actually allowed to do.

Legally computers can’t give consent even if it seems like they do so. This is why people can be convicted of hacking for going to public URL’s etc. Presumably, the same rules apply in the reverse where if people are unaware that’s what’s happening then it should be illegal to track them like this.

If anything it’s legally ok because as a student they may have unknowingly agreed to such somewhere.
Typo in the article’s title
> group norms have evolved over time, incorporating the experiences and knowledge of many people

While this can often be true, it's not always true. Furthermore, it's often a testable hypothesis, and in those cases, it should be tested, not just assumed.

Also, the "conformity" case in the article involves a group of people (the confederates trying to manipulate the unwitting test-taker) who are violating a common norm (namely, that the normal behavior of people when a fire alarm goes off and smoke is seen is to get out, not calmly continue going about their business). So that case is not testing "how well do you follow group norms that make sense"; it's testing "how willingly will people follow a group that is doing something that obviously does not make sense". That's a different thing.
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> If that was your idea, wouldn't we be better served by lobbying our politicians to move the needle on the drug war (seems to be happening) instead of creating volatile whale controlled crypto "currencies" which use huge amounts of electricity as our planet faces a climate change crises and which also enables all of the other really terrible illegal things listed?

What would really be better is to push politicians to stop using the banking system as a mass surveillance apparatus and allow there to be above-board systems for the anonymous digital transfer of modest amounts of cash. Then you destroy the demand for cryptocurrency by out-competing it, and eliminate the energy waste problem.
It’s not an opinion. It’s impossible to do “nothing”. That’s as concrete as it gets.
Didn’t Jan Khoum negotiate against ads upon acquisition by Facebook?
I don’t think the USSR existed during a global pandemic. In fact, I would posit that the globalized nature of our economy adds a new twist to any pandemic that has come before. I don’t think the absoluteness of your position is warranted.

As you mentioned in another reply- diversification of ones’ portfolio is important. I, and most people, would never put all their money into BTC or crypto in general. That would clearly be a bad decision. But, why _shouldn’t_ I put <10% of my portfolio in a new asset class that has growth potential? Many people put 10% of their portfolio into all kinds of crazy things.
I guess it depends on how you define "startup." If it specifically means VC backed tech firms, sure, almost tautologically so. If not, well, I've been aware of dodgy ads for precious metals and coins and suchlike in the backs of magazines for as long as I've known how to read.
Grew up climbing cashew trees and frying cashew nuts, never have I had an allergic reaction. Any literature on this you can point me to?
It doesn't lead to peace, it leads to terrible legislation hundreds of pages deep in special gifts to special interests at a huge cost to our economy.
Didn’t Jan Khoum negotiate against ads upon being acquired by Facebook?
Because, ironically, this article is poorly written and needs an editor.
ECC can be theoretically broken with Shor's algorithm:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#...
That’s actually how SEC whistleblower awards work. I think it makes sense. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-266
Then maybe the city should allocate enough money toward giving people a place to poop and discard their needles (or, better yet, money toward drug rehab programs).

But they don't, because that's not what the voters want, apparently. They'd rather see the city drown in a sewer than give money to people who don't "deserve it".
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Strangely enough, my 2018 Samsung TV honors my LAN's DNS preference (set to an internal IP for pihole).

It breaks app and system updates, but that's an okay price to pay :)
did you forget you were arguing that billionares are inherently bad? all you argue here is that ... if laws were good, we'd hve had 100m tsla/twilio/stripe 30 years ago
I did have to do some amount of flickr scraping from the dataset. The browser also aligns and crops the faces according the way nvidia did as well. I thought it would be an interesting commentary to look at the faces in the same way that the machine did.
For anyone else not in the know, "DoH" means "DNS-over-HTTPS"

Here's an article from November 19, 2020 about the rollout and some of the criticisms/backlash:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fearing-drama-mozilla-opens-pu...
That's brilliant and looks surprisingly usable. I would like to see how this would run on the faster reMarkable 2.
massive power differentials are a physical property of a complex system. not everyone knows how to run the internet, and anyone who does has power over ... most of it. any 'scale' will lead to a larger power differential than being monkeys in caves, which already was not 'nice'
One of the big selling points of Bitcoin was it was supposed to enable free and fast transactions. As it turns out, the average transaction clearing time is 200 minutes and transaction fee is about $11. Now, compare that to Australia's New Payments Platform, which enable instant free transfers of fiat.

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-transaction-fees-hashrate

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/avg-confirmation-time
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It's actually over 3% of GDP.

NATO is an organization of countries near the Russian border. The US could easily get by with 2% or less to defend it's own borders. If Russia invades Germany we can ship and airlift troops and meet them in France (given that Germany won't spend enough to defend itself).
i still fail to understand what the issue with having billions of money is. the best part is these people ignore that money is just a stand-in for power, which they absolutely fucking hate, and that if you ban billionares people will still have more power than a billionare via other mechanisms :)
I enjoyed the article and learned a thing or two from historic details in it.
I literally said:

> They'll keep Google DNS running as long as it provides business value to them, and that's it.

As in yes: I know it provides business value to them.

> Use your brain

Please be civil in your comments and refrain from insults. That’s not a charitable way to interact with others.
I was expecting Clojure vs Common Lisp. I love scheme but it's not fair to include considering how few libraries there are (I don't even know if there is a package manager).
I suggest floor sitting, a lap desk, and whatever screen mounting solution works for you.

The trick of floor sitting is that you can make drastic postural shifts throughout the day. It's a natural way to get in a stretch. So it's the better way to sit if you find yourself squirming and uncomfortable. All you need to do desk work on the floor is a way to put the screen at a comfortable height, and a lap desk - a large one with padding will rest easily in many configurations. If you need back support there are floor chairs; I have one and use it sometimes, but not always.
> Australia and NZ are dont have an authoritarian govt

a lot of people would disagree here, see the (correct, based) coup of the aus govt over the judiciary allowing them to at will deport migrants, or the controls on going outside in australia
My main interest: delimited continuations are only valid within a specific stack extent so they're much for viable for extensive use - one could argue that async/await is kinda the simplest (and most limited) possible delimited continuation implementation.

For a better understanding, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimited_continuation didn't feel like a terrible start and I'm far from an expert here.
You don't need different tax rates, just indexing.

Lets have a single fair set of rates with progressivity. A rich man in the 35% tax bracket should pay 35% on their capital gains, just as a poor retiree in the 15% tax bracket should only pay 15% on capital gains.
What’s sad is that Aston Martin cars are so beautiful, they could go electric, raise prices to keep their margins (just like Porsche), and let people make the decisions....rich people who want clean cars would happily buy those cars.
There is zero chance of world governments moving to a currency, digital, paper, whatever, that they cannot produce upon demand. Zero chance.

Governments are proposing digital currencies, not necessarily crypto currencues. All of these digital currencies will still be managed by a Central Bank. Central Banks are literally the power base of world governments, there is zero chance they will relinquish that power without a world war or violent global revolution.

Almost everyone in Silicon Valley has been enriched by the system of Central Bank currency manipulation, so hopefully you're not expecting these same people to cheerlead something akin to a geek-fantasy gold standard.
Build quality for one. That halo effect grows quickly over time.

And there is a huge difference between 4K and 8k, and a much higher DPI.
History is strewn with chat apps that had their heyday and then died. It's a very dangerous business to be in.

Slack is a total anomaly. Technically it's not very good considering the resources poured into it, but it has had a very outsized period of dominance.
I worked scrap when I was young and helped a fair amount of DEC equip on it's way. In college I learned COBOL on a VAX-11/750.

When I needed a break I'd start poking around VMS, trying to find some way to cause trouble. Every so often the admin (diff campus) would msg me with a Hotter/Colder message or just encourage me to keep at it.

My Unix stories aren't as cheerful. Like when I brought down the only RS/6000 box for two weeks, because I redirected the entire manual into the email system. Day and night instructors made a point of informing every class who was responsible.
By modern standards, the AltaVista search engine was practically “one powerful computer for everyone”. IIRC, at the height of its popularity it was running on only a few dozen Alpha servers. The Internet was very much smaller back then.
Considering China has bought up a majority of gold in the past decade, and they're the global leader in production, I'd say CryptoYuan will have the best chance of winning out.

I assume they're keeping their designs under wraps for now, but I haven't really taken a deep look. There is some info available though:

* The Chinese Central Bank has filed over 80 patents relating to CryptoYuan, which can be checked out - https://digitalchamber.org/pboc-patent-repository/

* The European Central Bank released a report in October - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/Report_on_a_digital_...

* The Federal Reserve is apparently still just researching - https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/cent...

DDoSing another state's crypto would probably be considered an overt act of war, so I don't know how often that could happen.

I have no idea what Libra is to be honest.
> The Alpha was such a fantastic chip. I thought it would take off since you could get them in an AT form factor system

At that time period it failed because the design wasn't sufficiently open to allow manufacturing of motherboards by ten different Taiwanese motherboard makers. The whole x86 AT form factor PC component ecosystem was there to support it, except for the motherboards, which were treated as a proprietary secret sauce.

It was totally cost prohibitive to attract a large base of independent software developers. At the time the first Alphas came out, you could buy or build a pretty nice Pentium based desktop for around $2000 to $2500, when the alpha desktops cost $4000+. And this was in 1994-1996 pre-inflation US dollars. Ultimately it had the same problem as the NeXT workstation and cube, that very few ordinary people could actually afford to buy one.
Why not? You can create issues with the GitHub API (and the CLI); it's not hard to imagine a tool which would "sync" issues from a local database or some such. The reason it doesn't exist is probably because there's not a lot of demand for it.

Come to think of it, it wouldn't even be that difficult to sync this database to someone else, too. Although to be honest this doesn't seem all that useful to me.
Exactly, if the coder thinks those optimizations will buy him anything then let them enable them for that one case. And stop pretending that micro benchmarks matter for the rest of the 99.9% of code out there.

Last time I looked at the speedup you got from loop optimization it at most a few percent for a very simple loop. For a loop that has some meat it'd be noise.