skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is somewhat tautological that Watergate is more consequential.

The tautology being that important people are important.[1]

Applying wishful thinking for the moment, what would America look like today if popular movements in the 60’s had never been infiltrated? What would the civic culture of America look like if regular people were “allowed” to participate in the public sphere without such underhanded tactics from the the government’s side?

But I guess all of that is inconsequential, wishful thinking or not.

[1] Infer disclaimers.

> This is to help dispel the notion that the press are adversarial, truth-seekers, thumbing their nose at authority. And the purpose of this argument isn't just to deflate the pompous self-esteem of the press, but also helps explain the press' _lack_ of adversarial, truth-seeking reporting on other matters of _extreme_ consequence, such as the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, NAFTA, etc.

You predictably, given the demographics on this board, think that _the point_ is to stick it to The Man, The Press, or some Important Person, in order to embarass or dress them down.[1] And yet that is just a bonus, and was never the point at all. How many small-venue lectures has this man held, how many letters and emails to people-of-no-consequence has he sent, etc.? All in order to support and connect people working in grassroots movements (he explains this in the same interview). Not in order to, once in a blue moon, land a somewhat mainstream interview in order to tell The Press off to their faces or to combat other Important People of Consequence.

[1] Andrew Marr was so “dressed down” that he some years later cheered when GB and the US invaded Iraq—that interview had no impact on his view of the press or his role within it, as the Propaganda Model would have predicted.
Have you tried reaching out to Nicolas Chaillan or anyone within the AF CSO about some of your observations regarding where Cloud One/Platform One are missing the Mark? Nicolas is pretty active on LinkedIn and he may be open to input that could lead to some positive changes.
They certainly had a timer though.
that‘s not true.

Would be true if bitcoin was full premined, but it wasn‘t.

There are still 900 new bitcoins mined per day, and with an open source / patent free environment the space is a competitive market, the cost to produce one should tend towards the price of selling it (less so when the price rises quickly).

So how is at least a dollar lost (for every dollar won)?
…and Gibraltar will enter the Schengen zone, abolishing all border controls on its border with Spain (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55497084)

Once that comes into effect, the Spanish/Gibraltarian police will be allowed to enter Gibraltar/Spain when in hot pursuit and to continue observation operations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Police_and_judic...)
They have similar levels of customer loyalty that baffle some outsiders, but at least one has a reputation for outstanding polish and customer experience and the other one has awful customer service and quality stories you can find every day.
>And PayPal was somehow banning the client for some reason.

Maybe the russian was on OFAC's sanctioned entities list? (only half joking)
Is it really that big of a deal? Was it worth years of discussion and one upmanship from both sides of the debate.

It’s a bit annoying, but the UK could emerge stronger or weaker from the whole situation.

One thing’s for sure, I wish we spent the last 4 years preparing for a 2020 scenario instead.
Some German company, I believe the Deutsche Post/DHL, was changing their email servers to not deliver emails outside of working hours. Granted this works because all folks are in the same Timezone, but it is such an elegant solution. Just not deliver the mails until the next day. If it is super urgent you can still call. Would be cool if that was a mail client feature.

I have no work mail or chat on my private devices and actually move all incoming mail to a temp imap folder which I don’t sync to my phone or laptop. Then a cron job moves it to my inbox between 8 and 8.
Sonic 1 Prototype Finally Found
Time to emigrate from the U.K. to a more enlightened country.

What countries would you go to as an English expat for a better life? Where can you change a useless English citizenship for another?
Out of spite? Why is that what you think the EU is like?
Part of the job mathematics does in science is developing tools for describing patterns - any patterns. We've also learned to deal with uncertainty, so we can now describe approximate, probabilistic patterns as well.

Thanks to this, if there's any pattern about a phenomenon to be found, we likely can describe it already; if not, there's no good reason to believe we won't be able to describe it in the future. That is the first step towards an explanation (second being tying the pattern to theories that fit other observable evidence, and that have predictive power).

If there's absolutely no pattern to be found in a phenomenon, then it implies the phenomenon doesn't have any consequences on anything - which implies it isn't even observable in the first place. From that follows it isn't even worth thinking about.
This is solved on the vendor and the buyer side by using "acceptable thresholds of difference" that can be specified with a configuration file. For example, Coinbase Commerce uses this mechanism.
I don't see anything in your post that I disagree with so I find it interesting that you said I was flat out wrong in my assessment. I will say that below average competence is probably the wrong phrase, mostly what I meant is that it attracts some people who are not driven to execute and are fine with putting up with bureaucratic roadblocks to getting things done, when the kind of people you really want are those that are driven to removing certain roadblocks. Those are hard to find.
You’re leaving out the crucial details as to why any DNS queries or connections were made, while also still clinging to some allusion of malfeasance.

Also you might want to let Snopes know. They still have it as “unproven”
Lack of a pedestrian/bike path on the Bay bridge is also mind bogglingly dumb.
problem solved, I updated the plugin and it was misconfigured
It may be an easier sell once the consequences of Brexit are less theoretical and more practical for a few years.
There’s a problem with this argument.

The middlemen are being created again yes, but they are being replaced with mostly open-sourced software solutions like smart contacts and auditable ledgers. Bitcoin started the party, but the other projects are now finding their feet with technology that uses open consensus as the basis for open, functional, opt-in systems.

Look at Gitcoin, this would not have been possible without the Bitcoin project gaining traction.
Now it's time for uk politicians to find the new scapegoat for their impressive incompetence. Here's for a stupid and xenophobic clown, a decade of ugly politics and the struggle of people hopes that, unfortunatly, will still be unanswered...
Now let's hope that the rock bottom that tories just hit will be the opportunity for people witb ideas and human values to step up.
The traditional comic book style lettering is also ALL CAPS which may have influenced his preference https://i.imgur.com/Po3IJAa.jpg
If you literally think your UK citizenship (no such thing as English citizenship) is useless you can renounce it right now if you want to?

I guess you won't? So maybe it isn't useless?

Ignorant.
Is there some agreement with Instagram and TikTok to be included here? Or are they just crawling and displaying?
It's perfectly consistent to feel European and also feel that EU membership is not a net positive for the UK. Being pro-Brexit does not make one less of a European.
"it's a bit annoying". WTF?
If ever.

Well to be fair, probably the engineers want to on some level, but there is a business mandate to not (and there always has been).
A better way of specifying 'train' would be to add 'or part thereof' to the definition, especially with those tiny image fragments they give you. So yes, part of one railway car is defined as a 'train'.

Another part of that problem is that the images given are usually US-centric.

Many of us from other parts of the world expect to see those boxes where we post our letters as not blue, but red or yellow, or perhaps something different again. A blue box is just as likely to be a rubbish bin for us 'foreigners'. And our taxis might not be yellow, but black, white or some other colour.

Unfortunately, where acute vision is required to differentiate items, faulty vision will often lead to bad selections. Maybe spectacles can fix that, maybe they can't.
Eh, memes (or the theory about memes) are so early-aughts.
Much more important is democratic reform.

No more unelected religious leaders in Parliament, no more unelected upper house at all, and a replacement for FPTP for the Commons.

However, I don't think the Copenhagen Criteria are this specific.
This is one of those articles where everyone is just better off if they don't read it at all. Besides mixing up misconceptions on how git works and where git's version control mechanics ends and branching patterns start, the article reads as if the author is presenting misconceptions as past errors and current misconceptions as truths. I get it that everyone has their personal learning journey, but that doesn't mean everyone benefits by watching the mistakes taken throughout the trip.
Little to celebrate here. The main outcome is that it’s now going to be much more of a pain in the arse to perform lots of basic functions that we took for granted.

There is now a bunch more red tape involved involved in buying or selling goods or services to other European counties. It’s harder and more expensive to move for work or education, both to and from the UK. The UK now has a customs border inside it’s own territory (which is fairly mad in itself). We end up trapped in the wake of the EU with far less influence on what that environment looks like.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s hard to find many positive opportunities that arise from it.
> To the gone and lost forever like "Oh My Darling Clementine"

> He hold his heart when he telling rhyme

> When it's his time, I hope his soul go to Heaven

> He nasty like the old time Old No. 7
Flash Trek: The Search for Snoop
Technically, this clock is either always right (if you load the page at noon/midnight) or always wrong. It's unlikely to get be right twice a day.
> Unless there’s an anti-tamper incendiary device or something, I suppose.

This seems like one of those things that exists only in movies. What value would I gain from having my valuables destroyed?
Have you ever tried arguing with someone who is not only incorrect about literally every claim they’ve made, but whose grasp is so bad that their claims are mostly incoherent if you know what the words mean?

I once made the mistake of “debating” with a fundamentalist young-Earth Baptist Creationist who set up a microphone and speaker in the middle of Cambridge some time around 2008. He said too many wrong things too quickly for me to actually counter them all.

One that still sticks in my mind was him saying “Ladies and Gentlemen, I have found the kernel of this man’s beliefs. Either you believe in eternal energy or eternal God.” - literally every part of that sentence is false, but the dumb was too shocking for me to respond to.

Given what I know now, I think he technically blasphemed against his own faith multiple times… but I don’t think I convinced anyone who was on the fence.
They all declined already.
De jure, yes. However, in practice the UK remained subject to EU law and retained freedom of movement and single market access at that point. De facto, Brexit happened 90 minutes ago (I am amazed that the Tories didn’t get more upset about the fact that it the appointed hour was midnight CET, not GMT).
More details: The story behind finding the elusive Sonic 1 prototype rom here - https://hiddenpalace.org/News/Dreams_Come_True:_Sonic_1_(MD)...
Yeah, I get this. I had a discussion with a friend about his son's education. He was divided over "do I teach him to do good, or do I teach him to be selfish? Because there doesn't seem to be any downside to being selfish these days".

I've generally experienced outsized rewards from being selfless. But then I have struggled with defining my ambition, so all rewards seem awesome. I have friends who are laser-focused on an outcome, and for them my "do random good stuff and the universe will give you good stuff back" approach is insane. They're all "fuck everyone else, I need this" and it seems to work for them. But that comes with zero sense of social obligation. And I can't see how society is supposed to work if everyone behaves likes this.
“i was born in switzerland, therefore this clock is swiss made. QED.”
How do they decide how big to make the slice for each service? Is that still manual?
I myself have only used it on MacOS, Chrome OS (and Android), so supported in most places?
What do you make of the X-shaped trace between the -7044 and -7042 chips? I'd expect tape to have constant width, not an irregular island like that. But then, you've got more experience with this.
I actually looked at BYOD computers and it only happens when a certain non-Microsoft software cough AV that sounds like coffee cough tried to modify the start tiles/menu for no good reason (corrupting the file in its process and forcing Windows to reset it).

Note: I'm not in the US. It seems that Americans tend to complain about this more. I don't know if it was deliberately done or not in that case.
> Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK.

That's a wild exaggeration. The UK is a tremendous export market for the US, we want everything to do with them, there is a lot in it for us ($700 billion per decade in purchased goods). Plus we have a rough split on trade, one of the few major nations we don't have a large trade deficit with.

The British import more US goods than the Germans do, and nearly as much as the Japanese do, with a far smaller economy.
I think it's part of the aesthetic of being a comic book villain, because comic books are typically in all caps.
Well, I think the UK got a fantastic deal in the end. (I'm Swedish.)
Out of “you already used up your special treatment last time around”?
Sure, there are limits of non-tax-traceable payments in a few places. The part that surprised me was literally "carry too much cash" which is not quite the same thing.
Agree. I'd always argue that this was broadly an anti austerity / inequality vote: people just basically pissed off with having a rubbish life voting against some notion of "authority" or "centralisation".

The sad fact is that it's exactly these people (in the Midlands, NE, those on lower wages, in rural communities, etc) who (generalising a bit, not much) voted out - these are the communities who will be hit hardest.
State machines are wonderful tools
Most of the criticisms in this thread seem to be missing that Bitcoin is only layer 1. Bitcoin isn't Visa or cash - its gold. Rather than shipping gold across the Atlantic, large institutions will settle in a few minutes in Bitcoin. L2/L3/L4 solutions (built into Apple Pay, etc.) will allow for instant payments for coffee, allow for privacy similar to physical cash, etc.

Before this is possible, the price has to stabilize. Just takes time to go from $0.1 to $10M per coin. Once Bitcoin has eaten all the "store of value" value & only appreciates at the rate new wealth is created, L2/L3/L4 solutions will go mainstream.
Not the person you responded to, but I'll take a swing.

In many org, you don't just write a JIRA ticket. You write a ticket. It ends up in the backlog. You are in the middle of a sprint. you are not allowed to change the sprint. 2 weeks (or whatever) later you have a meeting, where you have to argue for your ticket being next. That probably doesn't result in success, but pretend it does. Then it gets assigned to somebody that essentially knows nothing about it, because developers are interchangable, don't you know? Meanwhile you are stalled because that refactor made sense to do before the ticket you are working on. So you work on that one, don't move it to complete, and get dinged. Or you do it anyway, knowing you will have to do the work a second time once the refactor is done, but hey, you'll get so move multiple tickets to 'ready for test' next sprint or so, so yay, you measure well, can't wait for bonus time!

Yes, I just described a horrible process, but pretty much how it goes in most places. The very first thing people forget, and fight strenuously against, is the agile principle "people, not process"

To offer the counterpoint, if I am refactoring sw that runs in a flight computer or something, even more process is needed, because you need to test extensively before releasing code that can kill someone. That check in can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars if you touched something that is now going to have to go through lengthy QA.

It just depends on where you work, and the cost of bugs vs rapid response to problems/requests. In my experience orgs try to build a workflow that would suit the space shuttle when the product is, well, less important and serious.
That's less than a tenth of the population.
Because he wrote it that way.

Because it's a scream, and all caps are a way to express screaming in text.
Yup. I mean thank you, Captain Obvious.

Are you surprised that people are inventing the institutions that people have already invented?

I really, REALLY don't understand how cryptocurrency people think these institutions were created in the first place. It's as if they think they were invented by accident the first time, and if they just restart it from scratch then they won't get invented again.

No... they were invented on purpose. How do you not understand that?
Plenty (8 of 27) of EU countries don't use the Euro. Denmark, Sweden, Norway for example.
This will kill any and all smaller platforms that would want to compete in this space.

For example, why not include COUB in search results, too (it appeared way before TikTok and is still reasonably popular)
F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfv0SOjvRs&feature=emb_titl...
Right. For Firefox, I can even remove that line and set the stylesheet using a `Link:` header. Unfortunately, that feature isn't widely adopted by other browsers.
That would be entirely counter-productive. There is little support for eliminating the pound even among Remainers.
Those new old people will have a bit less nostalgia for the world wars and the empire.
Superfind – find files including within archives
also recommend probabilistic methods for hackers as another resource to explore this space:

https://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming...
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. For example, these:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK.

But they all signed trade agreements with the UK? So this is clearly not true.
Aww, that's nice :-)
So even for one of the things Bitcoin is actually good for - moving money "surreptitiously" - it's less good at than real dollars?
> It's not one guy bartering

It takes two to barter.

> treating it effectively like a foreign currency

They really aren't. They accept bitcoins in exchange for goods/services, just like we see in any barter system.

Calling bitcoins "foreign currency" is just a desperate attempt to hide the obvious consequences of it's volatility, which eliminates it's role as money, not only as a store of value but also as unit of account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money
> losing out hugely

Would like to learn more about this. Thanks.
Try to create those boundaries.

Separate devices, separate rooms if possible, go on a 30 min walk after you closed your company devices for the day.
The attack surface is so large, I'm surprised we're not dealing with backdoors much more often (not just nation states, but also commercial hacker groups).
I have played Avalon a few times but never with the Percival mechanic. However I don't think that being "shameless" can be the dominant strategy. If you make it so you must be either Percival or Merlin the opponents can always pick you as Merlin and win the majority of the time. So you could only employ the strategy somewhere and probably much less than 50% of the time. Yes it works if no one is thinking but lots of strategies work if no one is thinking.

As to the real life analogies my opinion is this: Being shameless is a political strategy. Sometimes it's real and sometimes it's an act. Genuine shamelessness seems to do better because people who are not thinking too hard like those Avalon players who fall for shameless Merlin still often recognize a fake personality.
>State intervention to set prices to try to steer the market to make progress on social goals that it would not without State intervention is not capitalism.

I don't understand this comment. Capitalism is about maximizing outcomes within the context of a system. It's not about the rules that govern the system itself. It doesn't actually matter what goal you are optimizing for. There is also no such thing as having no policies. Not having a policy is a policy in itself.

The producer of an externality is actively using the laws of physics to extract value from all other individuals. That's not capitalism either. It's just someone abusing their power. It's like using a gun to rob someone except the harm is spread over more people.

If nothing is done against the externality then the government is implicitly accepting the externality and is effectively subsidizing the producers of the externality.

Now that we have established that government policies can be compatible with capitalism lets talk about the most extreme capitalist policies possible. Well, a capitalist policy would be based around aligning profit incentives with policy goals. Basically what you want is that companies and people that do the right thing make a load of money and those who don't, make a loss.

So what is an extreme example of a non capitalist policy? Rent control. You've just destroyed the ability for "greedy" landlords to make money off of doing the right thing, namely providing housing. Another non capitalist policy? Prop 13. The policy encourages hoarding housing instead of rebuilding and providing more housing. It's even self reinforcing because it lures normal people in and turns them into hoarders. Again, it's because you have destroyed the ability for greedy people to do the right thing.

Now carbon taxes are the extreme opposite, they are so extremely capitalist that they should bring tears to your eyes. The greediest business owner is the one that produces the least CO2 (or any other externality). It's a system for doing the right thing. The only flaw is that carbon taxes have to be global but since they can be enforced through CO2 tariffs an easy fix is available. There are extreme domestic growth opportunities available in green technologies but without the right incentives nobody will do it. It's absurd that we even have to have this discussion. People are begging for profitable domestic investments because the central banks are flooding the markets. It's not like we end up sacrificing anything if we put underemployed people to work.
I do get it when the software is only targeted to Linux* - but I encountered this with applications that supposed to be cross-platform!

* GNU/Linux
This will prove to be the worst geopolitical decision of all time.
This comment reminds me of Ramin Nazer's "Professional" (https://raminnazer.com/products/professional), particularly "A Life wasted is Nothing to the Professional."
I miss the days when “wiretapping” someone literally required you to physically tap into a wire. It’s so much easier to do it now.