skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes are easier to do now with automated tooling. You can also get VISA or MC debit cards that will automatically sell your crypto from say, your Coinbase account at point of purchase.

You can invest in Bitcoin through an IRA. I believe most retirement funds are looking into adding Bitcoin as an investment option. Fidelity has talked a lot about this in recent months.

You have far less privacy in the regular banking sector.

FDIC deposits wouldn't make sense. Banks needed the FDIC system because they do fractionalized lending with limited reserves. Bitcoin cannot be lent out in this way. It's true you have to trust whatever exchange you store your coin in if you want convenience, but you can also quite easily store Bitcoin in a wallet that you control, and back it up with physical keys that you can store stamped on some titanium in a safety deposit box or wherever you like.
So drinking that glass of milk selectively inconveniences people on the basis of race how?
> which isn’t even that big a deal because the communities already produce unlicensed translations of just about everything

I think those community translators will be very happy to have some of their work automated.
Definitely agree. We just haven't found the right mechanism that can balance creating beautiful communities for people to live without enabling NIMBY abuse.
Yup... there are a lot of counter-examples of what actually-bad CEO's leave behind. (HP comes to mind... but that's far from the worst case since it still exists.)
> I'd probably go Google since they would be the hardest for someone to get ahold of

An excellent case of "it's a feature, not a bug".
Except the 2nd generation (Xbox 360) was the only Xbox that wasn't x86. It featured a 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon CPU [1].

It was also Microsoft's highest selling console ever [2]. Note that the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 each individually outsold it though. As a result, Microsoft has never outsold Sony with an x86 PC-like console, despite trying multiple times.

Ironically, recent PlayStation consoles have been x86. Maybe Microsoft kind of won in the end? It still doesn't run Windows through, so maybe Microsoft was right from the start?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...
It astounds me how many of these official sites look like bad phishing attempts.
Traditional outlets have the plates held on by just one screw. That screw runs through a piece of plastic that is just 0.4 inches (10 mm) wide. The screw pulls the whole plate against the wall, which probably sticks out a bit due to an uneven surface. That stress point, right at the screw, will break.
>"That would require you to create some association between your personal and work account right?"

Obtuse af. Is this default assumption that the user is the one who has to "create" associations in the company's systems based on anything? The big tech cos have been social mapping since before 2012 and they undoubtedly register when two accounts use the same IP.
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There are probably bigger worries in the surveillance area already (smartphones etc). I’d be more concerned about their potential use for assassination. How heavy does a bomb have to be?
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What's the trouble with sharing a credit card number? Pretty useless without the associated information (expiration, cvc, pin)
You should get rid of the gun or put it in a safe when you are not using it for sport. It's too dangerous to have it just in the corner. It's more likely that you or a family member will use it against yourself or someone else you love.
The primary principle of HN isn't startups, it's interestingness. Ads don't tend to be interesting. Being money-related isn't the issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
There are actually several great bars that I miss from there. It is hard to describe just how much better candy bars are in Canada. Even bars that have the same names as their U.S. counterparts are clearly better made in Canada.

I think it’s probably the type of chocolate that is used; whatever “chocolate” is in the U.S., bars taste like 80% wax or something. That just isn’t what chocolate is like elsewhere.

Also, the variety. In the U.S., you go to a vending machine and you see like 5 slots that are just different kinds of M&Ms, 3 kinds of Milky Ways, etc. In Canada, there are so many options that vending machine slots are usually entirely different things and you have to go to a 7-Eleven or something to see the extra types of M&Ms and stuff.
That was my comment actually.

Lol, I should probably pay more attention to usernames :)

I've worked on the payment processing end, but as I said that was several years ago, as well as on the consumer data end (e.g. using services like Plaid). You could equally be right about what ends up going from Stripe/Braintree/etc to Visa/Mastercard/etc, though comments/links about Level 3 payment data make me think that the itemized level of detail will increase in usage, and also as you say transactional data is certainly bought and sold outside of the payment networks.
Youtube exploits creators’ work to make viewers at a cost of hosting said videos. It would be a pretty symbiotic thing but with the recent direction Google took I would rather not partake. Also, I barely use youtube. And I used to pay for for example google play music but as usual, google killed it.
> This virus is just one and it is likely to get worse. We need to invest now into large scale computer simulation of vaccines or things will become much worse.

This seems like a logical leap to me. Yes we need to do something to make us less open to viral threats, but you don’t present any evidence that improved computer simulations can be a useful tool in helping develop/test vaccines faster.
... or, we could nudge companies to go to LFP batteries, which can be made without cobalt, and have much better safety. It takes a lot more to make them blow up.

The energy density's a bit lower though, but not so low you can't make a Model 3 with it for the Chinese market...
The reasons to wait for the vaccine are very different (and legitimate) than the reasons not to wear masks.

The vaccines seem to be causing serious side effects. People are going into anaphylaxis (at higher rates than usual) with the vaccines. Bell's palsy, 105 degree fevers... This isn't like the annual flu shot, or getting vaccinated for measles, where you get the shot and that's it.

Holding off on vaccinations for SARS-COV-2 is not at all the same as the stupidity of not wearing a mask.
The fundamentals don’t change fast and are what everything else is built on, so I would start there.

For example, if you don’t have a traditional CS degree, https://teachyourselfcs.com/ is a curated and effective set of books.

If your trying to understand complex systems, I would read Designing Data Intensive Applications, which is perhaps the best and most useful technical book I have ever read, and covers the most important parts of distributed systems. A lot of what’s in the book are fundamental distributed systems, from the 70-80s?/newer things from early 2000s built by BigTechCo
>but rather the fact that it presupposes an AI that is essentially human; with all the same emotions, goals, and vices that a human would have.

Which is just further anthropomorphization in sci-fi. Same reason the aliens are little green men, or at least bipedal.
I can't speak for the other signers, but while I happen to agree with Domingos's position on the NeurIPS impact statement (that it's misguided and injects a lot of additional political bias into the already-too-noisy-and-biased peer review process; and that in any case the responsibility for mitigating negative impact of new technology on society should fall more on those who develop the technology into products rather than on scientists doing basic research) it's not the main reason I signed the letter. (Nor do I support all of Domingos's views in general, nor his poor conduct on Twitter; I think changing the conference name from NIPS to NeurIPS was clearly the right decision, for instance.)

Rather, I'm alarmed by what I perceive to be a collapse over recent years of the Overton window when it comes to any topic vaguely in the vicinity of politics, ethics, or DEI; especially (but not only) on Twitter. Expressing anything short of the consensus "right" opinion (even on matters of ethics or moral values that are inherently personal and subjective) has become a gamble, with the stakes your job, reputation, and online and offline safety. Probably the most eye-opening moment for me was the recent attempt to "cancel" Steven Pinker---a rigorous thinker who has devoted a not insignificant portion of his time and influence to advancing inclusion in science---over the flimsiest of reasons (out-of-context tweets from literally decades ago). Of course, he has not been the sole target of the Twitter mob (see also: Yann Lecun, Scott Aaronson, etc.)

I have great respect for my conservative colleagues and respect their opinions, though I myself am a liberal and my personal politics likely has little overlap with that of Domingos et al. I also strongly support broadening inclusion in STEM and have not hesitated to lend my support to victims of harassment and abuse. But there is vast difference between holding people accountable for misconduct, and silencing people who merely dissent by expressing unpopular or "wrong" opinions. CS faces many challenges ahead at the intersection of ethics and technology, and we will need an open and respectful forum, tolerant of ideas from a wide spectrum of political beliefs and personal values, to make progress.

Relevant WaitButWhy, where academic Twitter currently lies very much in the right column: https://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
As someone who flew an airplain into the statue of liberty on purpose (in a simulator of course) - it was purely out of interest what will the game do, not violence.
The same goes for the torture scene in GTA5, it didn't "feel" violent, it felt like you playing a part of the story in an alternative reality. Again, out of curiosity, going along with all the torture methods available.
Bullshit, he was a frail old man and there was absolutely no justification for this. Nice try at painting it like the cops hands were tied.
Death to 2020
> it's getting more and more difficult to search for on YouTube

Just to be clear, since this sounds conspiratorial - it is most likely difficult to search because 60 minutes is a copyrighted show and they have an official YT channel but only carries segments of their episodes. So, I suspect it is quite difficult to find any full episode.
thanks. i take it that you don’t have to collect sales tax?
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Yeah I don’t want to live in the country you’re describing. It’s better to have the odd bomb go off than the police snooping around based on mere allegations.
So if I work from a coffeeshop all the other coffeeshop patrons would be considered Google employees?

Creating a system to secretly map my work account and my personal account in order to prioritize my Maps suggestions seems like a huge amount of work for no benefit whatsoever.
I regularly test programs by feeding them garbage to see if they'll die but I don't think that would pass by the ethics board in medicine
In addition you have to think of the trade-offs. If the army multiplied the price by 10 to get 10% better performance, that might save a soldier’s life.

Hmm, shades of Kipling‘s Frontier Arithmetic: “four thousand pounds of education/Drops to a ten-rupee jezail”....
Fifth option would be to develop alternative tech that doesn’t use cobalt.
Update: They did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579391
Democratic ownership can counter act the tendency to grow and absorb competitors, because each new worker who gets a vote waters down the votes and control of their fellows

Non-sequitur

And a democratic organization run by its workers will have a myriad of motivating factors to balance, other than chasing infinite profit or return for the investors.

If lobbying applied to Congress is already dirty, imagine applied to less transparent orgs.

All of these factors will act to keep companies from growing to big and help keep the market in balance. Which benefits the consumers.

Another non-sequitur
Google suggested a side road apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25574961
Lobbying is speech. Make it public, not illegal.

All donations... public. All meetings... recorded and public. Air it all out. Disinfect it with sunshine.

Making it illegal will just make it hidden. It will be worse.
The problem (luckily!) is, that the thing they are trying to detect happens extremely rare. And when you try to detect rare events, even if your methods are 99.9% accurate you will drown in false positives.

I once did the maths on facial recognition tech which was meant to recognize terrorists at Berlin main station. With the known number of commuters there and an accuracy of 99.9% (which is extremely optimistic) they would have over 600 false positives per terrorist if I remember correctly. The system they had installed there however wont even reach 80%...

Imagine you have an alarm that rings twice every day, and is real and serious only once a year. How likely are you to react in time?

I think this is the fundamental problem with the "we need more data and more rights"-strategy of most police and law enforcement.

I am convinced what they actually need is more personel with a good education.

Edit: what this kind of data is better at recognizing are broad movements in society like demonstrations, protests and such things.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments, and especially not on Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You could turn a bad comment into a good comment by helpfully explaining which parts you found confusing. Better yet would be to make some suggestions for becoming less confusing.
Depends on how much people love to write "Python" that is actually C with Python bindings.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_2020
I take it you've never removed the ladder from your Sims pool after they hop in for a quick swim?
Domestic surveillance is going to tell you about Americans on American soil. Are you proposing that people in this category are getting quietly disappeared? To my knowledge we have to either charge these people with terrorism (definitely news), or wait until they’re abroad and do a drone strike (not viable with an imminent attack in the US). And the latter strategy was a huge deal the one time it’s known to have been done intentionally (al-Awlaki).
Why? I find this attitude curious the thought that all the academics would suddenly start just taking the money and twiddle thumbs. So because of this we set up a huge administrative body around it and keep the academics from actually doing the work.

I can tell you that the vast majority of academics are not motivated by money. If that was the case they would move into industry where they could earn significantly more.
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It’s probably a good thing that vague accusations from an upset ex aren’t enough to have all of your property searched by the police.
I assume you're referring to the very slight increase in cases of GBS in people who had that particular swine flu vaccine? It's interesting to note that the CDC says that having the flu is more likely to cause GBS than getting the vaccine. Both of those risks are extremely slight.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/guillain-barre-sy...
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Those are definitely things that helped build this country, but one of them - massive brain drain from developing countries - (and by the way, you missed from Soviet countries) - is based on the fact that there's something appealing about living here. Some folks like to call that freedom, or a set of ideals about how we structure things.

I agree with the parent comment that lately people are really down on the US and capitalism, and others are super positive about it in unthinking response. Capitalism has provided a lot of amazing things - avocados are always available! - but also done damage and been destructive.

Similarly, America was the experiment and inspiration for modern democratic/republican governance, and a major component in the beginning of more freedom for more people, while also having been built on slavery, the killing of natives, massive environmental devastation, and other terrible things.

The world is really complex, and simplifying things to good or evil tends to lose a lot of reality.
You've said that stuff which isn't constitutionally protected _can_ be regulated, but the question posed was _are_ maps regulated. Are they? What legal obligation to accuracy or comprehensiveness are map-makers bound by?
And are maps constitutionally protected? If political donations are speech then maps certainly seem like speech.
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Not in China
https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/eugenics-policies-are-part...

https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/10/forced-abort...

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chinas-five-year-pla...
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Tangent but I just launched the Halo Master Chief Collection from Steam on my Ubuntu Desktop using the Proton compatibility layer and it plays really well. So I can play every game in the halo series up to Halo 4 (including Reach and ODST) on my Linux machine! What a time to be alive!
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I don't know how invested you are in the name, but there are several projects in bordering scope with the same name (I personally confused it at first):

https://www.agora.vote/
https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/865.pdf
https://www.idni.org/agoras/
Another notable one was drinking milk, the "logic" being that lactose tolerance is representative of white supremacy
Sure, well if you lose cash stored under your mattress in a house fire, or you leave a bag of money unattended on a sidewalk...or you do anything careless with things of value, you can and will lose those things of value. Bitcoin transactions take 10 minutes. That is a fully settled transaction in 10 minutes. When you Venmo somebody, it doesn't get fully settled until they actually withdraw to their account, which is at least a day.
Military radio batteries are typically rechargable and they are heavy.
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It has absolutely nothing to do with reality, the only difference from Harry Potter is that they don't call it magic but science (while the concepts are just as magical). I like these shows but let's not pretend it can be used to think about reality. It can't be even used for moral dilemmas because it's not internally consistent, the behaviour often doesn't make any sense and the implications of the technologies or events are not thought through.

The new Star Trek shows (Picard and Discovery) that are coincidentally focusing on dangers of AI are truly bad from this point of view, any AI-focused philosopher must be pulling their hair out. Before we could use it for this purpose at least the basic behaviour of people should make sense and their personality shouldn't change 3 times before an episode ends, and way fewer things should be handwaved away, and there shouldn't be literal magic (viz e.g. the Su'Kal episode).
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Yeah right, never going to use an OS developed by the Chinese government.
Google “elephant graph” or go to ourworldindata and you should find it. Population growth has been dominated by income increases. The average person in China in particular got much richer.
Trucks use retread tires to save money with the trade off of higher blowout rates.

The driver could pull over safely as each axle has more than one tire.

This is also why retreads are not popular these days (or illegal) for car use as you don't have redundancy if a tire blows.
The thread already crystallized around the previous article/title, so I compromised by taking a phrase from the subtitle of this one.
A lot of folks, including Nathan Robinson, seem to have a weird idea that proponents of capitalism think that it creates freedom. I think a more accurate way of thinking about it is that freedom creates capitalism. Black markets are a sign of the imperfect control of people, for example.

But as for what we should do about Amazon, there's a response that is more principled than just breaking up Amazon because they're huge, and that acknowledges the massive failure in history of socialist control of things. (Sorry, socialists - governments don't run things well, with exceptions that are interesting and worth study, but not yet repeatable)

We need to ban companies from both creating and distributing if they're at a certain size. This worked really well in a bunch of states for liquor laws, and would prevent the current idiocy with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple, and Disney streaming channels that have their own content. Let Netflix and whoever else wants to compete on distribution, and don't let them create their own content unless they offer it for distribution to anyone else who wants to distribute it, for standard terms.

Same with Amazon.
First rule of traveling there is never travel on one car/bus. There are so many stories about that, including a dozens of people frozen when a bus broke in the middle of nowhere
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"world's most reviled software"

Right, yeah, people hated Microsoft's software so much that they bought it by the bucket load.

Also that comment about midway being problematic. Why is it problematic!? Did WW2 not happen? Who'd actually be offended?
I believe you that it's not a duplicate, but on HN the term dupe/duplicate is kind of domain-specific: it means "substantially the same story", and I don't see enough of a diff here to escape the gravitational pull of three-big-threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Peer pressure really only works if it crosses a critical mass. Maybe early on in the pandemic government leaders could have pulled off the messaging that you recommend, but they waffled on the initial messaging. The result is that we're now polarized into separate camps, and everyone is capable of retreating into their own side to seek affirmation if the other side expresses disapproval.
Am I the only one that felt a wave of relief when opening the article and seeing that the drone was palm sized and not actually bug sized?
-54C?! I've been in places where it got to -30C and it's .. weird. Things sound different outside. It's crazy how there are animals that seem to be able to survive it fine.
If they have no duty to anyone, then they went above and beyond their duties by investigating at least somewhat. So again, why are we upset at them?
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