skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still question the early bag-holders of Bitcoin. Where are they and what do they do now? I think Litecoin came at a time when more people had an awareness of cryptocurrency, it's more democratized during the initial phases because of Scrypt and GPU's being the dominant mining tool at the time. ASICs shifted that balance again but I still have my doubts about who owns the majority of Bitcoin.
> I agree with your overall point, albeit I'd restrict it to work done for others.

Some work done for others is a calculated stepping stone to the opportunity you want. I've done just that over five years to get out of data science and into the job (now small business) I run.

Planning is vital.
People should know more about how the 911 system works
This is wrong - This playbook actually came out of fixing Healthcare.gov. The original version of Healthcare.gov that failed and had all those issues WAS contracted out.

Your premise that the government should just contract out tech is bad because it already does contract out the vast majority of it. And the results are still bad in a lot of cases.

This playbook has become something that a lot of contracting companies that specifically focus on doing good dev work specifically call out in their websites and marketing. Ex: https://digitalservicescoalition.org/#/story
> Russia want

In writing, even,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Hmm apologies, I was wrong.

The Catalina release notes[1] said they would remove it and I was sure they mentioned it again in this year’s WWDC but apparently it’s still included after all.

[1] “Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, and might require you to install additional packages. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app.”
It's very encouraging to see Matlab losing ground in the educational space. I don't know why so many engineers let their foundational skills to be locked behind a proprietary ecosystem like that.
I don't know much about economics. Is short selling "gaming the market"? Doesn't it help to counterbalance bubbles? I'm speculating wildly here; hopefully someone can educate me.
Hi there, thanks for making this! I just bought it and will have a look. I've been learning flutter and godot the past weeks, I'll pick one of the ideas and try to implement it.
Happy new year as well and good luck for your ventures!
This seems like a very serious breach. Expect zero-days to run rampant the next 10 years.

I don't know if to pat Microsoft on the back or give the ma scolding.

If you are up against a military intelligence hell bent on discovering attack vectors produced by the private commercial industry then this is a losing battle-whoever has infinite resources win.

In this case the governments of the world can print unlimited money and has to access to the top of the creme, we are talking 0.0001% of the population working on discovering the next zero day vulnerability.

How does a for profit corporation go up against an adversary with infinite resources?
> Capitalism is about maximizing outcomes within the context of a system.

No, that's rationality (in the social science sense) not capitalism.

Capitalism is a specific politico-economic system that reached its peak of dominance of the developed world in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries that was named and first systematically described and critiqued by its 19th Century opponents.

(The two are connected in that there are popular arguments for the optimality of capitalism grounded in the assumption of rationality.)
It was a nonbinding referendum. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask why important policy decisions are being made by a simple majority of the voting public.
Did you watch the linked videos? They explain what is happening physically. It's not as simple as a macroscopic analogy to particles ping-ponging around. It relies on the wave properties of atoms and subatomic particles, mostly electrons.
The point is that European culture is not linked to the European Union.
That's a problem with our categories, though. We assign static labels to pieces of a dynamic system.

All what we consider life is essentially one big ongoing chemical reaction. We are just repetitive patterns in it, and we see repetitive patterns in it, and we label these patterns. But these patterns are changing in a way imperceptible to us, until at some point we realize the thing we're looking at is different than what it was in the past.

Religion could be viewed in the same way. We see stable, slowly changing patterns in the information flow. Patterns that tend to turn noise into more copies of themselves.

It's also important to remember that when we say that some life form or piece of information is "trying to survive", we're anthropomorphizing it. The pattern doesn't have a will and isn't trying anything. The interactions between the pattern and the noise, or other patterns, tend to yield something similar to the original pattern in question.

(That's all a sophisticated way of saying that life is like Game of Life, where we identify interesting structures and give them a name - but in code, those structures don't exist in the first place. It's just a grid and a set of rules.)
I think the difference is that currencies fluctuate against each other, whereas if everything is priced in Bitcoin, its whatever you're pairing it against that's fluctuating. Goods (ex: loaf of bread for 200 satoshis for example) would stay stable
Is that wrong? What other new asset class was developed this rapidly?
> Traditional finance does not allow you sovereignty over your money.

What do you mean sovereignty? Do you mean property? Traditional finance is not only compatible with the ownership of money, it relies entirely on it!
If the limited supply was the only thing bitcoin had going for it then it would merely perform exactly like gold but it is over performing which means there is an additional irrational component driving bubbles and busts.
> Your post disgusts me

I'm happy to hear reasons to change my mind. What's disgusting?
Not successfully at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nin....

(Perhaps successfully later on with the DMCA.)
Can wormholes form naturally? What process makes that happen?
Safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines
A sad day indeed, and - as predicted widely - there is not a substantial upside to Brexit in sight.

Following UK politics, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the country is being held hostage by a Conservative (and Unionist, hah) party: past governments have been singularly focused on keeping the party in power and the country be damned. But this is not all: I think Brexit could have been much less destructive if it were not for the remarkable incompetence of and rash decision making of the last few governments.

It has been fascinating to see a country play its hand so immensely badly, even more so because the hand did not even need to be played.
That’s consistent with the biography by Ashlee Vance: Elon pushed for Windows and C++ because he believed it was a more mature ecosystem.
Right, but most code does things other than that as well.
Thanks for existing HN.
By that logic we would expect the German states to vote them self out of the German federation, Scotland and Wales to vote them self out of the UK, Nigeria to break apart, etc. And not only that we should expect it to happen with hostility towards the old nation, e.g. no trade unions after independence (unlike e.g. Catalonia not only voting them self out of Spain, but also out of the EU).

However that seems not be happening, nor does there seem to be any will towards it.

It seems people actually quite like each other, and they like to be able to visit each other, and trade with each other, even though they speak different language or have different religion. In fact in the world today, tribalism seems to becoming more and more on fringe.

I don’t believe for a second that people voted for Brexit because of tribalism. Some might have, but they were definitely a tiny minority.
I think that's an insightful way to put things. While getting a chance to do some science with my kids during this crazy time, I was forced to put things into words and (relatively) simple terms for things that I always felt I was lacking knowledge, because of a similar type of teaching as you described. But as I began teaching some simple concepts, I for some reason had a better understand than I ever have, and was able to put them into very simple terms.

I feel like so many teachers are on autopilot with various topics that they don't know how to explain the most simple part of a concept, and instead make it infinitely more complicated and it seems magical.
An Anglophone union wouldn't be a terrible idea.
Thanks, I just did!

Looks like a ZWO ASI294 MC could be interesting. It's "only" Micro 4/3 and $700 in the cheapest config but having USB-3 and drivers may be what I was looking for.

Full-frame astro cameras are unfortunately around $5k+ (albeit with a resolution similar to a $3.5k A7RIV).
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.

There are also very easy to understand number-theoretic and combinatorial results, like the Paris-Harrington Theorem [1] and Goodstein's Theorem [2] which are provably independent of Peano Arithmetic.

The latter has an interpretation as a "hydra" game: there is a rooted tree (hydra), and you can cut off a number of heads in one shot. The hydra grows back a finite number of heads according to a specified rule. The question is, is there a strategy to slay the hydra?

The surprising answer is that any strategy will work(!), but you cannot prove this fact inside Peano arithmetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Harrington_theor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem
Please humor me as to where this fictional place is. If you're born in a place you will have a birth certificate and can get documents to prove you are supposed to be there. I've never been to a country where this wasn't true. If you immigrate to a place you'd equally have documents to prove you should be there and can acquire things like a driver license or id cards to take with you. Barring complete war zones or jumping the border wall, I don't know of a place where this wasn't the case.
Could they be Dyson spheres?
Yes, nationalism and xenophobia go hand in hand.
There are 100K Australians in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australians_in_the_United_King...

There are 900K plus Australians who were born in the UK. Australians who have a British parent or grandparent and can thus get a UK passport would number in the millions.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/almost-30-per-cent-of-the-austra...

Two of Australia's last 3 Prime Ministers did part of their University Education in the UK.

The ties between Australia and the UK are substantial. Many Australians would be keen to work with the UK for some kind of trade deal.

A CANZUK style deal wouldn't be the EU, but it might be beneficial to the countries involved.
I have no special love for Mozilla, and I’d love for there to be a true alternative.

I don’t see any answer to the question of how an alternative browser would be funded in what you have said, only your statement about it being lazy to think that only Google could fund them.

Maintaining a browser is expensive. I think if Mozilla dies, either another major sponsor would be needed or we’ll just end up with the web becoming even more Google’s platform.

In the absence of an answer to who pays for the development, I don’t see how a new browser will emerge. Killing Mozilla doesn’t create funding for a new browser.

Why I have continued to ask you this question, is because you seem to be convinced that an alternative would arise if Mozilla died.

This leads me to think that you must be aware of someone who would be motivated to pay for it. Perhaps I’m wrong about this, and you just hope someone steps forward to pay for it.
2021 വർഷം ആരോഗ്യം, സന്തോഷം, സമൃദ്ധി എന്നിവ നിറഞ്ഞതാകട്ടെ നിങ്ങളുടെ ജീവിതം. പുതുവത്സരാശംസകള് !
The problem is not with Bitcoin. The problem is the 1mb block size cap. The block size cap restricts the number of transactions that can be processed in a block. It's an artificial restriction of supply. When demand increases the price (tx fee) goes (way) up.

There is some magical thinking within the Bitcoin community that only a fixed block size will prevent centralization. I have never heard a solid argument to back that up. Everything in technology is growing exponentially (cpu power, network throughput, disc space). So in relative terms the block size is decreasing exponentially. Technically Bitcoin mining should get exponentially more decentralized. This is not happening.

If we let the block size grow at the same rate as the surrounding tech, or at least at some rate, the supply problem would go away. The transaction fee would go down and we would not need to use flaky and centralizing tech like the lightning network that mimics the financial system that we wanted to escape.

For a long time this was a theory. However several forks of Bitcoin have tried it in practice (eg BCH, LTC, BSV). Over several years these experiments have shown that if you stop restricting the block size you get a system that is dependable, cheap to use, and scalable.

My wish for 2021 is for people in Bitcoin to reconsider if they have made a mistake in restricting the blockchain. I hope they will have the courage to change their minds in light of data.
@TheCapeGreek -- I saw this comment a few days ago, I bough the book you recommended `Robert Glover - No More Mr. Nice Guy` and I read it in a day. I will be replaying it again and again and working hard to apply principles from it. I just wanted to thank you! The recommendation in your comment is changing somebody's life (mine). Thank you.
The comment you replied to is the source. What other type of source would you like for what something "seems" like to an individual?

It seems to me that asking for sources is a common technique for discrediting opinions on HN. It looks like a legitimate question but obviously if they had a source it would be a fact rather than an opinion.

If you are actually interested in how that opinion is formed ask a relevant question or point out what they are missing.

Personally I find that opinion entirely reasonable given that there are no problems I have that Bitcoin would solve better than the alternatives unless I was inclined to buy something online anonymously or to speculate on Bitcoin itself.
It's complicated. I know some minority ethnic British people who voted for Brexit for entirely xenophobic reasons ... and others who would swear up and down that they were not racist one minute, and then spend the next spouting the most hateful sort of lies. Fear and hatred are powerful emotions, and the flames of discontent have been fanned for years by tabloid propaganda and industrialised hate.
If I wanted to invest in crime I'd buy bank stocks and US bonds.
> I can't help but have zero sympathy for short sellers, and others to try to game the market. It doesn't seem like anything positive comes from shorting a stock other than someone getting rich.

Short sellers probide a valuable service to all investors, can you elaborate as to why you think they "game the system"?
Does it work internationally though?

Edit: Or I should say, “Could it work internationally?” Because afaik it does not currently.
You said the foreign conquerors adopted Han culture.
That works if your os is used by geeks. Doesn’t fly that well if you need solid, long term stable platform to build your solutions on top of.

Edit: typo
Transactions are relayed to all the nodes in the network, not broadcast. That means when a node sees a transaction from another node, it's impossible to know whether the node was the originator of the transaction, or was merely relaying it from another node. AFAIK bitcoin core also has some mitigations such as delaying broadcast to a subset of the nodes, to make it look like your node wasn't the first node to learn about the transaction.
Short sellers have been instrumental in identifying frauds for decades. Without good short seller research, investing in countries like China would be even more impossible than it is today. Short sellers tend to be the good guys, not the bad guys.
it's from his song All Caps.

"Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name"
Short selling is not gaming the market. It's an important part of price discovery which helps with optimal capital allocation.
It's both more difficult than any private company job I've had and it paid less, but knowing the impact my work had on veterans was well worth all of it. I'm extremely proud of the work that my teammates and I did there.

So many people complain about the government, so few are willing to fight to fix it.
I can't tell if you're agreeing by saying "its only been 12 years," or if you're disappointed by a 10 million % appreciation in 12 years
An unsuspecting onlooker would be easily convinced that this comment is random babble generated by a bot.
> my favorite feature about the phone is the way I paid

The phone is that bad?
> Unlike a stock, however, whose value is based on what price people are willing to pay for it

This isn’t quite right. Stocks have value because they represent ownership. The price is based on the perceived value, not the other way around.

But even if no one was willing to buy apple shares, say, they would still have immense value. Shareholders are entitled to the profits.

This is not true of bitcoin, which has no intrinsic value outside of what people are willing to pay for it.

Warren Buffett made this point in an argument against gold investing. If you were an investor in 1900 you would expect stock investments to be worth more in 2000, and for gold not to be, because stocks have productive value and gold doesn’t. And that’s more or less what happened.
Hard to answer that without defining what “better” means. It’s not clear what difference you would imagine between “an expansive multilateral free trade treaty” and the EU as it stands.

The European single market is essentially the largest international free trade agreement, going far further and deeper than any other by eliminating as many barriers to both trade and individual freedom between states. In order to support that and provide a level playing field, there needs to be common set of rules on things like regulation, worker’s rights, state funding of industry and so on. And in order to administer those, you need a level of bureaucracy. Quite quickly, you’ll find you’ve recreated the EU.

It’s totally reasonable to argue for the EU to take a particular direction - like closer integration, or more distant cooperation, or less bureaucracy or whatever. But the arguments in the Brexit case in particular often seem to fall apart on interrogation of the details.
Yeah, I had to transfer a few hundred dollars between Australia and Eurpoe last year and both bank transfer and WU would have cost a lot more and taken longer than using btc. With bitcoin, the transfer was complete in about 30 minutes and due to price volatility, I was able to cash out when the price was up enough to cover all fees. It was definitely very helpful.
Depends how you look at it. The European Parliament is ethnically pretty homogeneous, for example.

The figures are hard to come by because the EU don't record ethnicity AFAIK, but in 2017 there were approximately 17 non-white MEPs out of a total 751. I think 8 of those were from the UK. Given the amount of times I've been called racist for voting to leave the EU, I always find that figure quite hilarious.
Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest
Is it really "Anarchy" if it's essentially controlled by small a clique of miners with specialized hardware that most people don't have / can't realistically have access to?
> But Apple is still Apple after Jobs

The company is very successful, but does it innovate in the same way? Under Jobs, the introduction of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad were all groundbreaking compared to industry norms at the time, not to mention the focus on usability. I'm genuinely curious which innovations compare since those days.
Trippy to have read this news here first, and not elsewhere.
You got access to the EU's internal market without tariffs (except for financial services). The EU key people stated for a very long time - access to the internal EU market cannot be decoupled from the free movement of people. But still, you won that. All because you gave access to french fishers to some fishing waters. I think this bribe to one of the EU partners has been the key impetus for a lot of renewed EU resistance in Sweden. As an example:

After reading the terms of the deal, lots of Swedes in r/svenskpolitik ("swedish politics") actually wanted the same exit deal. I kind of agree.
I'm aware of the problems with the contracting process. My experience with salary is at the state level where things are much more stark, but I also don't think that federal salaries are comparable with FAANG, particularly Google. Most at 18F are at GS-15, right?
“the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
Short answer yes.

EDIT longer answer:

You live in a society of people, the people that you interact with daily are people just like you. Some of them might be immigrants and some of them might have a foreign citizenship. That does not make them any lesser. They pay taxes to the same government as you, they abide by the same rules as you. If they brake the law, they have to answer for it just like you. The only reason I can think of why they shouldn’t accept the same benefits from your government as you is xenophobia.
> Everyone wants trade with everyone to their benefit. We also want to be friends and play cricket.

Wait wait wait a second ago you said they 'want nothing to do with the UK', now you're saying they want to trade, and play sports? Clearly not 'nothing to do' is it?
> culturally similar

YMMV
Written by a guy who holds a patent for for identifying the context of a statement made to a virtual robot.