skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it as a hostile work environment at all. People can message me whenever is convenient for them and I'll read and respond whenever it's convenient for me.

I work with people from different time zones and people who like to keep different schedules, some waking up very early or working very late, and I myself wake up pretty late. It just doesn't make sense that I should demand people message according to my schedule, but I'm also not going to wake up early or work late to match theirs.
No civil service job can make us replace political appointees with well compensated civil servants like Singapore and the UK have.
What's your definition of "true innovation"? No, Apple did not invent an ARM ISA CPU, but the they also pushed the hell out of all available technology in their design and implementation. The amount of innovation in that far surpasses pretty much anyone else in the mobile space. You should really read into what they've been doing with their in-house SoC team since the A7.
All investments have an inherent risk. Typically there is a direct relationship between risk and return. The more risky an investment is the higher the return investors demand. Thus, when considering an investment, a key question to ask is whether the expected return on the investment is commensurate with the risk that this particular investment entails. This is called a mean-variance analysis, and before investing in BTC, or in the stock market for that matter, you should probably do exactly that kind of analysis.
2008 is a great example of why fiat currency is helpful. The government can simply create more to stimulate cash flow and/or prevent a crisis of confidence in a non-government institution.
Bitcoins can be destroyed. Practically speaking, gold cannot be destroyed. In my mind, this is its advantage. No world government can delete gold.
To concur:

My laptop running Windows hangs periodically requiring a hard reset... if I watch Hulu on Chrome. At least twice a week and sometimes multiple times a day.

At least Windows in the 90s had the decency to put up a blue screen — now it just hard crashes without any display or debugging information.

Telemetry and forced updates are a slap in the face on top of the quality regressions.
I wonder how many people who complain about forced updates also complain(ed) about having to support users running decade-old versions of the OS/browsers?

It really wasn't that long ago that most commercial software still had to support IE8 (released 2009), for example, because that's where the user base was and they didn't upgrade.
Not to mention that all the complaints about "putting strain on NHS" were started by Murdoch's Sun.

From my experience:

1. I have a lot of friends from all over the world, that live in the UK. They have been there since their late 20's, make far more money than the median, and hence contributed a lot of money to NHS

2. I was living in UK during the Polish influx, and what I observed was that British people would prefer to use Polish builders as they were doing better work and got things done faster. My landlord was complaining that she was unable to book her favorite Polish builder for some work in the house.

Not saying that this is always the case and there weren't people who arrived to UK to take advantage of the better social services, but that's what my experience was, and maybe it's because of the specific bubble I live in.
Well, it’s the landlord’s decision. Not mine. They’re not a management company, and I’ve suggested alternative methods like Venmo.
The latter. Usually when my Microsoft Surface Book 2 (the flagship consumer device, for context) BSODs for the third time in a day because MS couldn't be assed to fix compatibility/thermal issues with the graphics card that was one of the highlight features of the device, or the tablet undocking (another highlight feature) fails, or their "Modern Standby" drains the battery from 100% to 0% overnight (Is it the 3AM wake-up to phone home? Weird ancient USB controller issues? Who knows!), I tend to just go to reddit or the Microsoft support forums and see how many other people are complaining without finding any solutions. No time to blog.
Pretty sure the modern machines that

1. Print the money

2. Harvest the Cotton and other raw materials

3. Transport the money

4. Secure the money (even in electronic form)

5. and about 100 other things

All use "energy" the point of the OP's comment was about "wasted energy" which i would image is tied to climate change

The idea that "printed money uses no energy because it is old tech" is just ignorant
you can and would declare capital losses on gold sold at a loss. Cash does not have gains/losses, as they are themselves the unit of accounting.

The inflation effect causing cash to lose value is something you suck up - it's incentive to invest the cash.
I've noticed that the term "thru-hike" is being stretched in its meaning. Not that this is especially egregious. A more global term would be to call these "treks". And some of these aren't exactly "long-distance" either.

I've done the Paine Circuit (which includes the "W"), and would never call it a thru-hike or long-distance. It sounds weird to me to call any loop hike a thru-hike.
Helicoptering others who maybe haven’t processed (perhaps they’re losing more relative to you?) and suggesting a stiff upper lip is pompous Brit af
I'm mostly guessing at this because I'm not very familiar with Lightning Network, but I think they'd need to be closed out periodically as well in order to settle up? Plus, I think you'd ideally want an account with each vendor that you deal with, not just one account, otherwise I think the channel would probably need to be managed by some central authority who manages the accounting between you and whoever you're keeping these side accounts with, which seems not great for a number of reasons....and then on top of that there's that 350 million is just one country, let alone the entire planet.
Head uut aastat!
We don't want anything to do with them in the context of an EU replacement including open borders or any form of of political or monetary union. The UK is a part of our history and we will always have ties. I don't think there is any will to give them preferential treatment over other trading partners. We are looking out for ourselves and any mistakes the UK makes they are going to have to wear like adults.

We are not getting the Empire band back together. I know modern conservatives have lost the plot but we can't turn back time like that. CANZUK as popularly described is a complete fantasy.

The reality is as sovereign nations trying to have influence in our own regions, often with countries with their own experiences of colonialism, any signs of subservience to an ex-colonial power is far more of a hindrance than a help.

I do support stronger ties between Canada, Australia and NZ though.
EU's stated objectives go far beyond just facilitating free trade, with most of their budget allocated to unrelated projects and goals. To the extent that the EU does facilitate free trade, which is indeed one of its goals, I have no objection, but I believe we can do away with a huge amount of big government/globalist excess and just go for an explicit multilateral FTA with as little bureaucratic overhead as necessary to enact such a treaty. That would look distinctly different to the extant EU.
My understanding is that the inability to control inflation is a “feature” of BTC, not a “bug”. I strongly suspect that this will eventually make BTC too rare for owners to trade very often, and not practical as a day-to-day currency.
Yikes, broken link. This one should be fixed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin...

(Hint: if the last character is not alphanumeric, put a # (a blank URL fragment) to work around HN's autodetection of punctuation)

(Edit: I don't recommend percent-encoding URLs, mainly because certain web servers react differently to percent-encoded URL, like https://www.google.com/search?q=world+dog and https://www.google.com/search?q=world%2bdog (first one is interpreted by Google search server as space, second one as a plus sign) while a blank URL fragment is guaranteed to be safe.)
Right, but in crypto world most people regard coins held in custody as different from coins held in a private wallet. The Mt Gox experience was a good lesson on this topic, if it’s not your keys, it’s not your bitcoin.

In comparison, very few people distinguish paper cash money from a bank credit backed by a fractional reserve.
Didn’t the conservative party win a general election in 2015 in which the referendum was a manifesto pledge? So the conservatives promised a referendum and won that election - that seems like “the consent of the governed”, doesn’t it? And the british public could have voted for labour in 2017 or 2019 if they wanted a softer stance on Brexit, but they didn’t, and the Conservatives won both those elections too, albeit with a minority government from the 2017 election. Maybe that means something, in terms of what the british electorate thinks?
Then the police start ticketing cyclists exceeding the limit.
I disagree, I think Bitcoin is excellent digital cash, but not of a great currency yet.
How does this scheme support offline spending and also prevent double spending ?
Bitcoin adoption in venezuela is Absolutely fake/nonexistant

Bitcoin is only used as a bridge for exchange VES:USD a.k.a money laundering from corruption and drugs, with some remittances transactions caught in the middle of those laundry waves.

there is absolutely 0 adoption for bitcoin in Venezuela, Im a bitcoin enthusiast since 2011 and I hold bitcoin and I live in Caracas (capital) and move around all tech communities and yet to see a real crypto transaction. Some people used the “get rich quick” schemes from DASH and other silly alts and tried to make a big media (international media) about Venezuelans using bitcoin to try to money grab international money into their scams, they manage to convince some stores and local food chains to “accept” their silly cryptos but of course no one uses, yet they got the money from their international sponsors trying to force adoption in the country.. there is hillarious threads on DASH forums about it

You can read my other post on details on the only use for bitcoin in venezuela, that big money laundery called localbitcoins
Consumer inflation is well defined and a policy goal so it does make sense. The problem is that you have to clarify which goods are inflating, otherwise you run into misunderstandings.
Apple Silicon was started by Jobs
The UK has consistently been ranked one of the least racist countries in Europe, both pre and post referendum.

Do you know what stokes division? Demonstrably false narratives and accusing vast swathes of people who hold myriad views on an immensely complicated subject of racism. Whatever makes you feel better, I suppose.
It’s the opposite; being a racist (and particularly a credulous racist) makes you likely to oppose Europe. Remember this, for instance? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag...

And also the whole narrative that everyone in Romania and Turkey was going to move to the UK, and so on. Race-baiting was a big, important component of the Brexit campaign.

Obviously not everyone who voted for Brexit was a racist by a long shot, but it’s naive to think that it wasn’t a factor.
My point was that the government has control of the internet, and thereby all activity on the internet.

> extreme economic damages

We're talking about Venezuela, which has had extreme economic damages caused by a government trying to maintain control over its population. It seems that they don't care about damage, only power domestically, not internationally. The comment we're replying to said that Bitcoin is valuable in transactions with Venezuelan counter-parties because of Venezuela's government's damage to the domestic economy.
> How does a for profit corporation go up against an adversary with infinite resources?

The largest corporations are wealthier than some nations. Governments do not have unlimited resources. When national security depends on corporate security, governments can subsidize it with some other parts of their own "infinite resources".

Not saying I disagree with your point overall, but this rhetoric rubs me the wrong way.
Anti-hate groups want Facebook to block deniers of Armenian Genocide
> Interesting, my comment was solely in response to your complaint about naming convention... you've expanded your criticism quite a bit.

My point was always that spreadsheets are poorly structured for complex problems and that the logic is obfuscated. Just pointing out additional issues. Nor is my previous post exhaustive.

You are comparing worst case Python programming to best case spreadsheet designs. As soon as you compare a typical moderately complex Python program to a similarly complex spreadsheet, things fall apart.
The underlying asset is utterly worthless, for all the reasons posited here in the article and more — that people are willing to pay you for it doesn’t change that.
> Is it possible to lose all my photos stored in the cloud?

Yes. Cloud services have lost customer data before, but it's more likely that you'll lose access to your account with the cloud service. Many people have lost access to their Google accounts, for example.

> Are there any other better solutions to store photos safely ?

There is no single fool-proof thing you can do. This is an exercise in risk mitigation.

It's not terribly likely that you'll lose access to your Google account, but if you do, you'll lose everything off this is your only backup.

If you only have your photo library stored on one hard drive, it's likely that the hard drive won't be readable after 8-10 years (depending on luck and wear).

The best solution is to have multiple copies of everything, in multiple places. I wrote this up after many of my beta users asked me this exact question: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/
"Google Cloud Platform at less than $150 million Annual Recurring Revenue & left at around $4 billion (excluding Google Suite.)"

I suspect he used abbreviations generously since he actually posted this on Twitter and ThreadApp is just merging multiple tweets in an article format to make it easier to read.
Australian person here. When the summer temps are routinely over 30C and winters have many rainy days, cycling in casual clothes doesn't work except for only very short distances.

Most commuters in my city that ride more than 5km to work have adopted at least some lycra as part of their kit. It handles sweat better in summer and can be rinsed of sand then spun and air dried in winter, so you aren't getting into cold wet gear for your ride home.

My city commonly has a sea breeze with a wind speed over 35 km/hr in summer. A lot of committed cycle commuters end up adopting road/racing bikes simply due to it being more efficient energy wise. Riding a hybrid or MTB into/across the sea breeze is significantly more fatiguing.

Many people here also cycle casually for exercise. These are more leisurely rides specifically for fitness. It is rarer for people to ride to the shops, restaurant or a friends house. Why? because they don't want to turn up sweaty in summer or wet in winter.

Note that cycling in general has grown in popularity in the past decade here, regardless of the above:

http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6237-cycling-participation...

Australians are a sports mad bunch. We have had the Tour de France televised on a free-to-air channel for over 20 years now. Since the early 2000's this lead to many more people becoming interested in road cycling, especially men. This resulted in more cyclists on the roads (especially MAMILs). The increased number of cyclists on the roads, has in turn lead to more people being inspired to get on they bike for a leisure ride or to try cycling to work. Prior to that many people I spoke to would cite having to ride on the road as a big factor in deciding not to try cycle commuting as they perceived it as too dangerous.

So cycling as a sport has had a big part to play in getting more people cycling in general over here.
Government is a monolith, the goals of the individuals that make up the government are irrelevant.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the most terrifying phrase in the English language is "We must do _____ for the greater good"

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
He is responsible for one of Wikipedia's more persistent edit wars. He preferred his name to be styled in all caps, but Wikipedia's style guide requires names to be capitalized more conventionally.

His Wikipedia page therefore suffered fairly persistent revert-wars until it was recently made semi-protected.
For those who don't know, Ray Dillinger is one of the first people to review the Bitcoin source. He collaborated with Satoshi prior to the first release:

> In November of 2008, I did a code review and security audit for the block chain portion of the Bitcoin source code. The late Hal Finney did code review and audit for the scripting language, and we both looked at the accounting code. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous architect and author of the code, alternated between answering questions and asking them.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-startin...

To pick the first point of his critique:

> The pseudonymity of coins being owned by the bearer of some
cryptographic key is a failure; People have been eavesdropping and aggressively analyzing the block chain from day 1. And the block chain will always be there, it will always be public, and it will always be subject to further analysis. And we are learning that analysis of that record is sufficient to destroy any pretense of anonymity or pseudonymity.

The public nature of the Bitcoin block chain, and its privacy implications, were discussed in the white paper and have been known since the beginning. So it's odd to be labeling Bitcoin a failure now, given that nothing new has developed within Bitcoin itself on that front.

What has happened since 2009 is that exchanges have fallen under the influence of the US government and its perpetual wars on terror and drugs. The on/off ramps are where most of the privacy loss is happening. Bitcoin users do the rest to themselves by lax opsec, including address reuse and address publication.

The rest of the points are not that clearly laid out. To take the very next one:

> The scarcity of block chain space has led people to re-invent every
last feature of the banks they thought they were going to be escaping.
Including debt brokering (lightning network) ...

The lightning network isn't debt brokering because no debt is involved. It's a consensus-enforced contract over bearer instruments.

The critique on mining centralization has been around for many years now, and Dillenger's analysis doesn't bring anything new to the table.
Making sure the vaccine is monitored and distributed correctly, depends on finding people who are motivated to do so, does it not?
I'd say they're linked insofar as the European Union was created by and continues to evolve through European culture.
Some of the `su` restrictions and sandboxing could be useful, but most of this list is overly pedantic and honestly for my part I would not recommend it, it would be hell to maintain and is unnecessary for a desktop user. Just operate a firewall which does not allow inbound access, and only run programs you trust (e.g. from the distribution repository, from a developer you trust, auditable code, etc.)
I wonder how his will is structured. He's currently unmarried with a number of minor children, but he has a controlling (majority?) share in SpaceX... so who gets those votes in the interim until they come of age?

Maybe he has some arrangement where the shares are held in trust, and voting power lies with some trusted lieutenant like Gwynne Shotwell?

I'd hope so — central control over the SpaceX vision has been absolutely critical over the past decade, and needs to stay that way until Starships are landing on Mars, if his vision of Mars settlement has any hope of happening.
It's not just a quantitative problem, it's also a qualitative one. You want the dollars to circulate and therefore it makes sense to look at the most important subset of goods that is relevant to the every day person.
You also have less obligations. Whilst still having access to the EU internal market.
"Año" was the go-to word my Spanish teacher used to illustrate the importance of the tilde ;)
you are exactly arguing the authors point, just in a use-case not specifically addressed. the hassle involved in transfurring funds internationally exists for a reason, and as soon we rediscover the associated problems there will be an outcry for some manner of regulation bitcoin purposefully subverted in the first place.
C# is basically the same thing from a VM perspective, an interpreted bytecoded high-level language, but tied to windows. You can write architecture astronaut shit in C# just as much as Java.

The nice thing about Java is the deployment and management tooling. It's cross-platform and mature. C# is not nearly as good in this respect, although with the open-source it is finally free to move with that.
> What confuses me the most is that people seem to have accepted the status quo.

That concerns me as well. However, despite my concern, I’m not sure what to do about it other than vote, which seems a hopeless way to go about doing things given what my fellow voters are doing.

It feels the only way to make a real change in this country is to become obscenely wealthy and then enact change via that.

And I would say my concern is greater than my confusion because I accept that corporations and the government have engaged in decades long propaganda that got us here.
Here in Brazil, we have that since last month. The new money transfer system (Pix) allows anyone to send money to a key, which can be a person's CPF (the tax ID number nearly everyone has), a phone number, an email, or a randomly-generated number. These all map to a bank account (you can also use Pix to send directly to a bank account number); the directory with these mappings is kept by the Brazilian Central Bank, and the mappings are inserted by the participating financial institutions.

So assuming my email was something@example.com, and I had asked my bank to map the Pix key "something@example.com" to my bank account, anyone could "send cash" through Pix to my something@example.com email; the cash would arrive at my bank account nearly instantly (even during weekends and/or holidays).
"Cleaned up"? They got just 43% of the popular vote!

It's even more ridiculous than America. The whole thing's rigged, 60% of the country didn't want the Tories handling this and somehow they have an 80 seat majority!
Blaming foreigners for ills they do not cause is essentially, perhaps even literally, what the word “xenophobic” means, and migrants to the UK are collectively blamed for things they do not cause.
> The consistency of ZFC cannot be proven in ZFC - this follows from the second incompleteness theorem. The consistency of ZFC is a very useful theorem.

Perhaps less useful than one might think. Given that an inconsistent system can prove anything, if you weren't convinced of ZFC's consistency to begin with I hardly think you'd be convinced by a proof of its consistency in itself.

Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem is important "in the other direction," that is its consequence for systems bigger than ZFC (or indeed PA)/larger statements that imply the consistency of your formal system in question.

(A previous comment I made on this in greater detail https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118038)