skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that it takes some USD cents and a couple of network confirmations to transfer any asset to a different wallet, right?
Check out copenhagensuborbitals.com - Copenhagen Suborbitals is an amateur crowd-funded, non-open source human space programme.
If the new contract is worse, leaving the union isn't sufficient to get back to where you were, because the employer won't offer the old terms to non-union members and the new terms to union members.
It happens all the time. Maybe the most famous is the Porsche/VW saga.

It doesn't reflect badly or any weird moral thing like that. It's just business.
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Bitcoin being a bubble and/or crashing is a meme nowadays - and a very uninformed one, since it has crashed at least 4/5 times by now, and none of the crashes was permanent.

Everything has an end, but at this stage, there isn't any more indication that the end will be soon (or even not-so-soon).
You misunderstood the context of what I was trying to say.

What I was trying to say, was that Jack Ma is a native Chinese (Mandarin) speaker. And he’s very good at it.

If the debate was held in Chinese Mandarin, then Jack Ma would’ve probably emerged as the better presenter. But since the debate was held in English, then Jack Ma was at the disadvantage.
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One thing that surprisingly hasn't happened in the 30 years since the Human Genome Project is a Nobel Prize for the work. There are examples from large physics projects where the leaders were awarded the prize. Surely Francis Collins and perhaps Craig Venter are deserving.
Dumb question: how does one sell a SaaS in practice?

Hypothetical scenario: solo engineer develops bitcoin trading platform. Wants to sell it. Then what? What steps does the engineer/founder take to sell this?
In other words; throwing money at a tree doesn't turn it into a chair, and throwing money at a keyboard doesn't write code.
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I would like it if the collaborators were in a cluster on the right of the Company name, rather than inline. It would make it more clear that this is a related concept.

As you eyes go down the left side of the page you would read contiguous CV info, supporting information would be a little more segregated to the right.
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I'd say it's mostly a signal to noise ratio issue.

Google famously said they didn't really observe correlation between alma mater and performance BUT it only applied to folks they actually hired.
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How does the language compare to a language like Idris ?
XMPP is supported by a large number of clients, but running a server and getting everyone on clients with comparable featuresets is a nightmare. It’s a cluster of disparate standards, and it’s overwhelming. I’m sure it’s doable if you have the time to invest, but it’s not straightforward if you’ve never done it before.

Matrix is pretty straightforward on the server side of things, but the client UX is invariably mediocre. Vector—the official client—exemplifies everything that is wrong with Electron apps. Slow, clunky, poor UI, poor platform integration. With the default home server, it can take seconds for a message to go through. At least it’s far more customizable than Slack; it has an option for everything, which, as a power user, I quite like.

I haven’t tried Mattermost, but it looks like some of the important features aren’t FOSS, at which point it’s just another Slack as far as I’m concerned. I’ll gladly pay for support, but for SSO? Meh, might as well stick with Slack; at least everyone and their dog knows how to use it. (This is, of course, an opinion that stems partially from ignorance; I haven’t actually tried Mattermost, and if I do, I might fall in love with it. But my time is limited, and I can only evaluate so many products in a day.)

Not that Slack is much better here: their threading system has so many UI/UX issues. Ever had a thread with hundreds of messages? For your own sanity, I hope you haven’t. Ever tried to send an image to a thread from iOS? It’s possible, but only by pasting the image into the text field; the normal attachment button isn’t available, and Share buttons in other apps can’t send to threads. And, of course, the recent uptime issues.
So weird to use two different decimal separators. Confused me for a second.
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I have been using represent.io for this purpose; nice to see some competition in this space.
Ok... so why not just buy some dark blue LEDs and put them anywhere you want without the complexity of interfacing them with your computer?
I actually think people are fairly wrong about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

If you approach some notion of valuing bitcoin, the clearest store of value reasoning is that it can act as an intermediary between different fiat currencies without being beholden to any source currency.

For example, gold has the advantage over bitcoin of being a physical tether - you can make stuff out of gold, people like pretty gold things, etc. But to deal with gold you typically are tied to some source fiat currency. I don’t just mean at the time of purchase when you buy gold in dollars or yen or whatever, but the entire process. Unless you yourself take physical possession of the gold and interface to the exchange, then gold as a store of value can only be retrieved by selling in the source currency you bought it, that is used by whatever custodian is holding it for you. Maybe they would agree some exchange rate to give you the proceeds of your sale in a different currency, but it would amount to the same transaction as selling it in the custodian’s original currency then paying an exchange fee to switch to another fiat currency. Most people, even large investors, won’t bother. Gold purchased in dollars is basically just a store of dollars with transaction costs to get to anything else.

Cryptocurrency has significant potential to be different. I could buy bitcoin in dollars, but open a French bank account and realize the proceeds (without transaction costs) in Euro if I want.

For most stable world currencies, it’s not a big deal (though hedging away from fiat currency for some small amount of cash could be valuable for some). But for people truly exposed to hardship due to devalued currency, poor regional governments or fiscal policy, decline of undiversified sources of GDP, this ability to store value without going through the friction of a volatile fiat currency is a huge value.

So then valuing bitcoin overall would be a function of estimating what total asset level across the globe represents the market demand for this decoupling from fiat currency.

I don’t see bitcoin ever growing to the monetary totals of stable world currencies, it will never grow to the size of precious metal markets, but does that mean its current total asset level is right? I doubt it. There’s lots of room for it to grow just based on this minor usage as a shield from fiat currency for store of value.

The biggest risk in my eyes is whether governments will development ways to regulate bitcoin such that it loses any of this benefit of decoupling from fiat currency, and it becomes like modern gold markets where it’s entirely fronted by a particular source fiat currency depending on geography where you want to transact.

A big risk of course, but the point is that it’s not trivial to dismiss actual tangible benefits of crypto as a value store over alternatives.

You could compare it to fine art markets and freeport holdings in that sense, just without requirement of custodians and more accessible to average people.
The meat thing is an absurd claim that I think is meant to indicate that the tweet is a joke. Not sure how seriously it should be considered.
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What if it takes 9 months to have the booster shots available? People will be vulnerable for 6 then.
Some of these hospitals are being over-crowded because people haven't been able to come in for basic surgeries. People have died because they haven't gotten heart surgeries. If someone comes in for getting their wisdom teeth out, and tests positive for CoV2, they're listed as a COVID case, even if they have zero symptoms (and with 40+ PCR amplifications for each test, the false positives are high).

Hospitals are over-crowded ever year in the winter for all kinds of seasonal illnesses including flu, strep and others. The Bakersfield doctors said as much back in March and were censored on all platforms for it. They're also overcrowded because America's health system is just bad as expanding care for bad seasons in general, and we haven't really noticed until this crisis.
> If you consider that the government is always the enemy and it can't be fixed and should instead be thoroughly destroyed, then and only then do cryptocurrencies make sense. It's not about good vs. bad government, it's about no government.

Certainly not. As I keep telling people here, cryptos are property, not currency. Why should governments be in the business of telling people what type of property they can and can't own?

A coin is nothing but a couple of large numbers that are easy to multiply together but very difficult to factor...that's it. If the people of earth want to assign large fiat currency values to complicated key-pairs, then why shouldn't they have the right to do that?

Of course crypto-traders need government...like we need libraries and schools and police and all that, just like everyone else, right?
Very reasonable and generous to allow someone to generate revenue with your tool as a backend component as long as they’re not offering a verbatim automation SaaS service with a clone of your code. Kudos and thank you.
Somewhat off-topic, but this reminds me of the impressionist/pointillist styles of painting. There the motivation is not to use a smaller palette, but to typically use a richer palette (including colors on the opposite side of the wheel) so that the image looks much more vibrant and realistic on zooming out, circumventing the limitation of one (flat) color per location.
I mean, so do corporations in this country.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/49421240
Even worse is the term "precoiner" (i.e., someone who hasn't "found the light" yet or whatever) which strikes me as about as insulting as saying to someone, "oh, you're not gay, you just haven't found the right woman yet"
I found the article.

> “My concern, as a virologist, is that if you wanted to make a vaccine-resistant strain, what you would do is to build a cohort of partially immunized individuals in the teeth of a highly prevalent viral infection,” Bieniasz told STAT. Even rolling out the vaccine at all when there is so much transmission occurring is far from ideal, he said, suggesting it would have been safer to beat down the amount of virus in circulation before beginning the vaccine deployment.

>“You are essentially maximizing the opportunity for the virus to learn about the human immune system. Learn about antibodies. Learn how to evade them,” he said.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/04/britain-takes-a-gamble-w...
> it has crashed at least 4/5 times by now, and none of the crashes was permanent

What do you think a bubble is?
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If you are completely new to this I'll suggest http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
> Not really; through WIPO, the US has "rationalized" every other signatory nation's IP laws to match its own.

That's not really true though, there are some real differences between copyright laws in different countries:

* US copyright law appears to recognise the ability of a copyright owner to relinquish their copyright to the public domain pre-expiration, German copyright law denies them that ability

* US copyright law has the concept of fair use; Australian copyright law lacks the concept of fair use, although it does have the significantly narrower concept of fair dealing

* Most EU countries recognise the concept of "moral rights of the author" in their copyright law, US copyright law generally speaking does not (it does for copyright on visual arts works under The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, but not in general)

* EU has the concept of a database right, which protects the contents of a database from copying even if the work of assembling was mere "sweat of the brow" involving no originality; the US does not, and mere "sweat of the brow" does not meet the copyright standard in the US (see Feist vs Rural Telephone Service Co)

* US law says that accurate photo-reproductions of public domain 2D works are themselves public domain – see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp – there is no independent copyright in the photo since there is no originality involved (selection of camera angles etc), and mere "sweat of the brow" is not enough for a copyright to exist. It appears – although not completely settled – that UK law, by contrast, has a weaker threshold of originality, such that mere "sweat of the brow" is enough. This was the crux of the dispute between the UK National Portrait Gallery and Wikipedia. Since it never went to court, we can't know for sure what the UK law actually is on this topic

* UK law provides special protection to specific works. For example, even though Peter Pan is out of copyright, there is special legislation requiring commercial productions based on certain Peter Pan works to pay royalties. Likewise, there used to be an "eternal copyright" on the King James Bible and Book of Common Prayer – that "eternal copyright" has been abolished, but still applies by a grandfather clause until the late 2030s. By contrast, the idea of specific works being legislated special IP protection is rather unheard of in the US (outside of trademark law, wherein the US does it too)

There's a lot more fiddly little differences. The Berne Convention, WIPO, TRIPS, etc only mandate the broad outlines of IP law, the fine details are up to each country and different countries do different things. Every country has its own statute law and case law and differences inevitably emerge
Let's see what happens when there are less people who want to buy bitcoin than people who want to sell bitcoin. Sellers without buyers will end up holding a bag of excrement. Almost no one buys it to use as a currency (except criminals) but because of fear of missing out and desire to make a quick buck.
> Wikileaks made a request to the US government that it had to know the US government would refuse (for the reason I gave in my other post in response to you upthread). It did that so it could disingenuously claim that it gave the US government a chance to protect people's names and the US government refused, making it seem like it's the US government's fault

It's the U.S. government who committed war crimes here and used secrecy to conceal their crimes. Of course it's the U.S. government's fault. The option to not commit war crimes and use the secrets act to conceal it was there. They didn't take it.

The U.S. Government proved it will use 'top secret' to hide not only information that is actually top secret but also information that is embarrassing. This would be a pretty clear motivator for the Pentagon not to respond and for WikiLeaks to go ahead with the publication.

> Wikileaks could have published that information without publishing anyone's name.

No. Names as such are vital. It lets you know WHO needs to be held accountable. Most leaks are published with names in them. There are names that the U.S. government could have suggested (not demand) to be redacted and WikiLeaks could have agreed to either some or all of the requests. They refused to cooperate. It's pretty clearly on them.

I also love how the people exposing war crimes are getting more heat that the actual war criminals who never spent a day behind bars. Speaks volumes.
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That is why I said future . Bitcoin is not ready today or even tomorrow for merchant or even peer to peer payments. Takes forever to confirm transactions and is not exactly intuitive to use.

However it is a no-brainer once it matures to be robust, faster, and have cheaper fees to use. Btw doesn't have to be the winner here since Bitcoin has competitors in this space. Might take 5-7 decades for this to be fully achieved but it will eventually replace most middlemen we have today for payments.
He was right to publish it, I as a non-American care less about US operatives than about knowing the truth, esp. considering what was revealed. We're talking about people who were complicit in the organization that claimed there were WMDs in Iraq, among other bs.
A lot of financial crime does not get prosecuted
> You list teachers, who in my opinion are the poster children of how problematic unions are.

Teachers unions are extremely important. They are “problematic” only in the sense that they are one of the few unions that have genuinely strong bargaining power these days.
The internet is a meme machine. These are just examples of what internet in-groups do to delineate themselves. Making unironic comparisons to religion is more than a little absurd.
1980s broadcast constraints didn't apply to 2000s Pay-TV programming.
Please make your points without breaking the HN guidelines. Your comment began with the sort of swipe that commenters are asked to avoid here. Your post would have been fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar and please don't cross into personal attack. Those are just the things we're trying to avoid here.

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I don't recommend working from bed, but for a pretty simple reason. If you're laying down, for the majority of your day, after about six months your back will be incredibly weak. It will then be painful to sit in a chair for an equal amount of time; and no chair will fix it. You'll have to regain your back, shoulder, neck strength to alleviate the pain which takes months.
That jumped out at me as well. I'd never heard the term, but it was instantly understandable. I'm not sure I'd dismiss someone for using it. From a communication standpoint, it does a pretty good job at concisely expressing an idea.
The import feature in Soviet Republic is especially cool to me.

If you mine/process/store all the goods needed to produce a building in your republic warehouses, you can build anything essentially for free. You assign trucks to deliver the goods and use workers to build it.

The only thing missing from that game for me, is a more informative and intuitive UI. It can be hard to understand how all the parts fit together and get a good overview of your republic.
This looks cool, I'll put it on my list of places I donate to! Thanks. If you are a part of this, good luck.
> Could you imagine a private sector union appointing the management of the company they negotiate with?

Yes that would be fantastic.
Does anyone know, do I have to pay customs duty or VAT on orders from Amazon.co.uk shipped to EU?

Last time I bought some SSDs (pre-Brexit) on Amazon.co.uk, they were shipped from France.

How is Amazon handling it now? Extra tax on Amazon.co.uk and no tax on Amazon.de/fr/etc?

Thanks!
I believe that even working on a small desk next to your bed would be better than working directly from the bed.
I really dig this. Well done.

I like the collaborator feature.

One piece of feedback, I almost missed the contact information at the bottom of the profile. Any chance of having a preferred contact at the top so it's harder to miss?
I see, yes I was surprised Google didn't have any simple to use triggers for sheets.
Please also avoid this sort of tit-for-tat spat on HN. It inevitably breaks the guidelines worse as it goes along, and is tedious to everybody else.
> 2 of the 3 dollars in your pocket have been created out of thin air in 2020.

I'd wager a guess that most of those new dollars didn't end up in our pockets.