skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you an expert in this field? I’m not so honestly you don’t have to know a lot to know more then me, but here are my guesses:

a) You underestimate how forested the temperate regions were before humans started significantly altering them well after the agricultural revolution.

b) You underestimate how well humans can gather and store non meat foods without agriculture. I bet an average group of humans knew where there were fruitful nut trees, know when they were ripe, know how to store the nuts, and know how to sprout and grow knew once in a favorable location. I bet roots have the same story. See you don’t need agriculture to grow things, and I bet humans have been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years.

c) You underestimate how hard it is to hunt with stone and bone tools. Apart from fishing, game is mostly seasonal in the temperate regions, so there would always be seasons where meat was scarce. It takes a ton of effort and coordination to hunt a single animal, you are not always succesful, and when you are, then storing the meat becomes an issue. So your best bet is to share the meat with the whole group, and probably leave some for other scavengers.

As I said, I’m not an expert, but realistically I don’t see how pre neolithic humans could have eaten even close to 100 kg a meat per year.
People sometimes ask me what my “number” is, like how much net worth or “money” I want, what would I do with it

I say “I want to be able to afford appeals court where my rights matter”

Infinite appeals court!

Most people plea out, cant make bail, dont have counsel buddy buddy with the judge enough to get you bail, and lose the ability to keep good counsel for more and more motions and appeals

I want that, there is almost no pride in American rights if you cant afford them. People tie their whole identity to a system they arent even part of
This is anti-vaxxer fud.

If you look at places that have high vaccination numbers, oh wait, there aren't any. Israel is leading the world with only about 20% of their population having undergone a full vaccination regimen, and it takes a few weeks after the second dose for immunity to reach its highest level. Given how fast they are vaccinating, a very high proportion of that 20% was given that second shot in the last few days.

In other words, there is no place on Earth where we would expect vaccination to have an impossible to dispute effect on the top-line deaths or hospitalization numbers... yet. Give it 6 weeks.

To your other points about side effects, nearly 100m people globally have gotten at least one shot. The mild side effects which require a day off work are completely worth it, and the severe ones happen extremely rarely, to where a risk adjusted decision even for a very young and healthy person would still be to get the vaccine.

Only one of your points is even mildly valid, that the vaccines haven't been out long enough to know if there are any long term health issues. While we won't know this for generations, because of the definition of "long term," we also have no reason to believe that there would be long term health issues, while we know that SARS-COV-2 infection can DEFINITELY cause long term health issues in a significant minority of people infected.

Lastly, many folks pushing anti-vaxxer propaganda are selling something: usually quack cures. Ignore the parent comment, and focus on the facts.
My university won't give me an IP, so I can't plug my laptop in. Solution was to fire up an old windows machine and grab the MAC off that.

I did politely ask for an IP before doing that, but they said it was a security risk.
He is a private person.

The games are published by an indie game studio.

Normally this is done over an separate, non personal, account. Sometimes even multiple non personal accounts for multiple products.

So RE-LOGIC's Google account should not have been affected.
As cars get heavier, even small speed differences matter in a crash
No, software isn't models.

Software is text written in a mathematical language.

Doing a visual interpretation of math (or interpretative dance, or a song, etc) isn't going to end in anything useful.
Personally, when I installed the app, there wasn't one built in. I just still had it lying around.
Yes, I suppose we would all love to have blocked time but it doesn't take into account the availability of others, add a spouse and kids to the mix and you're pretty much Swiss cheesing life. If the pandemic has proven one thing, it is that we can be pretty flexible when push comes to shove. So, maybe the focus of articles like these should be how to save the details from the current context when switching to the next one.
Your naivety of bitcoin use cases is very stuck in the Silicon Valley perspective. Not everyone has ways to store their money, earn interest on money, and receive loan opportunities.

Bitcoins accessibility to people without banks is an extremely valuable asset to the world. This is at least 30% of the world population.
Are you sure they didn't fix this? I remember getting those all the time, but haven't encountered one for several months now.
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Are btc’s 13 dollars fixed costs? Because western union’s arent
Interestingly, not much about ML. Surprinsing for lisp which, if I understand correctly, has roots in AI...
> extremely regressive

Wouldn't call it extremely regressive.

> The poorer someone is, the more of their assets are likely to just be some cash in the bank.

The poor generally have less cash in the bank than the rich.

> - it is a permanent loss of quality of life for people on fixed incomes.

Those living of fixed incomes are rarely the poorest, either. Pensions in many countries are tied to inflation.

> This is the justification for nearly every government action.

Yes, and in many many cases, that justification is entirely justified. Where it isn't, the problem typically is bad government, not government.
It also sounds exactly like Ferguson's Imperial College epidemiology model that apparently compelled politicians into imposing hard lockdowns (and was likely wrong by at least an order of magnitude):

- "a single 15k line C file that had been worked on for a decade" [0]

- code review of the model: [1]

- corresponding HN discussion: [2] (including sad appeals to authority: you're not an epidemiologist)

- other HN discussion [3] (including ridiculously blaming programmers for making C++ available to non-programmers)

[0] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872369556074496

[1] https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093944

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222338
Western Union has made this possible for >50 years now.
Lack of oversight is the main feature, it only scares old women (not even all of them, who would have guessed but my grandma asked about btc in a call a year ago.) and why is deflation bad?
“This system is an absolute mess that is impossible audit and so there is no way that the company using could find bugs in it either.”
Bitcoin smoothly moves between store of value and next level of banking whenever fees rise to high to transact or a new tech which is totally gonna make it scale and be affordable for micropayments respectively.

As a store of value it is utterly unusable due to volatility. Like gold, another perennial favorite of a similar crowd.
Prosecutors aren't necessarily blessed with bigger budgets in a lot of places, they simply have a separately-funded (and very well funded at that) investigative body that is the police or sheriff's office doing the really expensive part that the defense, especially a public defender's office, will only have a skeleton crew to do. The problem is that defense may not have the resources or knowledge to use inadequacies of something like this as a defense in the first place, and may not be able to effectively cross or direct an expert because of the lack of specific expertise and the reactive nature of the job.

It's not that the venn diagram of tech-literate and criminal-defense lawyers are entirely separate circles, but having been "that guy" in a public defender's office for even basic stuff like cell tower triangulation accuracy to finding proprietary surveillance video codecs to decode exculpatory evidence, you really need to start at square one while the prosecution have the whole police department's resources, expertise, and initiative at their disposal. You can afford the expert, it just won't do any good when you don't know what questions to ask that will actually be effective. And unsurprisingly those who do have experience in technical, specialized fields tend to get poached into the private sector or out of trial (really plea) practice all together, so the knowledge/bullshit gap will still exist and there's no real consistent way to bridge it.
Also the defense is many customers while the prosecution is bulk.
I've always wondered how the philosophy and life insight of the ruling elite varies between public and private comments. Most of the advice here seems fairly anodyne and unobjectionable. Perhaps a little overly focused on a certain kind of "success" but still nothing I would think of as wrong or manipulative or anything.

But when he goes to something like Bohemian Grove and has conversations to share insights and advice with the small transnational group that essentially rules the global political and financial system, do they also sound like this?

I don't have any first hand knowledge whatsoever but my gut feeling says the answer is likely no.
Ok, and if the owner in our hypothetical scenario was my government, then I might change my mind.
The bitcoin lightning network address this issue. It already works, adoption is slowly increasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Do you realize you didn't counter any of my arguments, along with assuming I'm naive on the topic?

Perhaps you [and everyone else] should also be required to divulge if you/they have financial interest in Bitcoin whenever communicating about it.
its already normal right ? Github Pipelines or CI/CD bill this way.
Actually the best example of this abstraction was Heroku with its "dynos".
Those that disagree usually argue for a far less democratic way to influence what goes on. What's an improvement on representative democracy?
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> Don’t be naive, the majority will accept the money and gladly.

I wouldn't accept it to sneak the change in, but I'd probably be
But again what's the effect on taxation?
I didn't say it was factual. I said it was strange that the person relating the parable-within-the-parable is identified as a "philosophy professor". This is a comment on the narrative properties of the outer parable.

Followup: why isn't this demonstration given by a "history professor"? They wouldn't be more relevant, so...?
Every time I read some list of advices on life I can't help but remember Mary Schmich's apocryphal speech "Wear Sunscreen" [1] (and made famous by Baz Luhrmann [2]), from way back when the Internet was young and wild.

Even though I think "Wear sunscreen" is not a great advice.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
At this point I'd be more than willing to pay a monthly for Google services if it meant I knew I'd get prompt support if something went wrong. I've looked into getting a GSuite account but from my reading like there are some incompatibilities with services that I use on the free tier.

I already use Google's paid-tier for their storage and I use their domain registrar.

I get that I'm using a free product so that means they have to do customer service on the cheap. I get it. I'm happy to give something that's mission-critical in my life mission-critical payment without the pain of migrating to a new email provider.

Shut up and take my money, Google.
Bitcoin is offering the 30%+ of the worlds population that is unbanked an opportunity to do so. Bitcoin is providing those living in a poor economy a route to economic alternatives.
Lol and who will punish it? Love this thing, might be the thing that saves the world from collectivists.
How is there a network effect if people aren't using Bitcoin to make or receive payments? Bitcoin is no more useful to me if my friend uses it versus a stranger. "Meme effect" is more like it -- the more hype there is, the better it is for anyone holding coins. The value comes from convincing enough new people to keep buying in. It's like a ponzi scheme in that respect.

I don't think $100 million paintings are a good store of value or medium of exchange either. But again: at least many of them are nice to look at.
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Oh wow blast from the past. I played so much Soldat, and probably spent nearly as much time in the map editor.
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The last REST API client library that you will ever need
Google's known to have too much faith in their automated take down systems. In the past there were known ways to abuse the system to take down any account.

There's probably something similar here. Of course Google is loath to admit it.
You would have to show that bitcoin transactions are globally uniformly distributed for that claim to hold well.

The rest of you argument hinges on the idea that the value created by bitcoin on-chain transactions is equivalent to that of airplane usage (the fact that our current air plane usage is wasteful aside), an argument I won't get into without evidence-of-good-faith
This is one of the major issues with Bitcoin that'll probably remain unsolved on the main network. As far as I'm concerned at this point the core bitcoin model is impossible to change - any large changes will simply split the community as seen with Bitcoin Cash.

We've had the Lighting Network but that's not seen good adoption and has it's own problems. Sadly Bitcoin has first mover's advantage, name recognition and good reputation that can't be replicated by other more innovative solutions.

Can I ask why you chose Bitcoin specifically to make the transfer?
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Checkout Google one: https://one.google.com/about which is more of a personal plan but come with support.
Ha, I don't think you understand what you are saying. Okay, so what would happen if say transaction volume was 1000x current? how expensive would fees be? What would have to happen to make the hashrate go up so those fees are cheaper than credit card transactions (~2%) let alone ACH (Free)? Whats the point of bitcoin if buying a $3 coffee comes with $2 in fees too and the transaction takes 8 days?

It would seem you would need much more more and faster mining equipment to keep the fee low, right?

Bitcoin at current scale couldn't possibly run mass scale daily transactions as rates are WAY too slow and price variation is too high. You would have to scale mining as well, which seems a bit obvious to lead to massive global power use. the PoS work seems promising but has ZERO traction anywhere right now and has its own massive dangers, right now the entire market is basically the Gamestock drama but everyone seriously belives and thinks that this will be the future of money like as if the people investing in $GME were thinking Gamestop may just put walmart out of business.
I would like to see some sort of cryptocurrency to be successful, just to satisfy my inner nerd, but I'm afraid most of its problems might not be technical in nature.

Cryptocurrencies have potential to drastically change how recognition of value is created and distributed, so that's definitely an avenue to explore. Most of the big cryptos that are out there today don't really try to explore that, and currency is something external to value generation and recognition. I'd argue that even fiat currencies are actually closer to the value generation (as the money creation happens when banks give out loans, which at least are supposed to make world better). Purely from cryptocurrency perspective the only thing that it values is keeping the ledger alive. Exactly those self-sustaining by all means mechanisms are what leads to rot in many areas of life (academia, politics, corporations, you name it).
Cryptocurrencies as it exists today is nowhere capable of replacing currencies altogether. That doesn't mean cryptocurrencies don't have their uses. Almost everything illegal is now being done using crypto.

When people look at bitcoins they think of 2 things.
1. A form of investments that will give fantastic returns in future.
2. A technology that solves a problem.

Its the 2nd point that is more important about but the 1st that will always dominate conversations.
Your whole premise is based on a very arbitrarily low value of collecting your plain text data? From a company that is a machine built for monetizing this specific thing? And that they wont because their users care about trust too much, users of Facebook products but specifically whatsapp? And you think the rest of us arent compartmentalizing our issues with that company enough?

this is.... I’m speechless, I ran out of words for this absurdity
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I am positive that you can send to a bank account. If you use the app, the fee is around 3 euros or 5.
My thing is, I've never been bit by a dog bigger than a border collie. I've been bit by chihuahuas, Scottish terriers and whatever those small scraggly white dogs are. I can never remember their names. And these were considered home ready dogs. I feel safer around an abused pitbull than by a "well behaved" chihuahua. I'm not being funny or macho about it. I'm dead serious. While an adult guy like me doesn't care about the little rat bite, that's going to traumatize a little kid away from liking dogs. Not to mention the breeding of extremely poor body traits that torture some of these dogs. They may look cute, but these poor things succumb to a wide range of abnormalities... I guess I'm just bias in general. That whole tea cup dog craze made me really polarized on the issue. I hate self interested, abusive breeders.
I give him props for leading with the caveat, "I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem hollow…". It'd be difficult for a list like this not to sound trite.
Bitcoin is nearly useless as a currency. Every time I've spent it on something, I've regretted it. Example: The bitcoin I used to buy that mechanical keyboard in 2014 would be worth more than a new car today...
I really appreciate this effort. I'm coming back to Common Lisp after a long absence and I'm very interested in understanding what the most relevant projects are these days.

Can be hard with Lisp due to the long history and strong backwards compatibility. I've started using Screamer for the first time today and that was written around 30 years ago...
But how would one actually know if a result is a false positive or not?

Sure, in extreme cases it might be obvious, but if you just know that one test gives more matches than another, not knowing which one is the one giving false results?
you can send it to different pick up locations.
Apps that offer what should have been offered by the OS vendor in the first place.

Bundling can be seen as bad in terms of competition [0], but it can also be good for the user experience. I wonder if these apps go unimplemented for fear of regulation. It might be silly to think of a barcode scanner (or other small utility) in that way, but, if the app is so silly, then is it really worth the risk (not just from regulation, but from having to deal with bugs)?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Watching this now. Some comments while watching.

I disagree with using the Python Image as an example of an issue with DockerFiles. Since that is something that as me pulling the Python image I don't need to take care of and that would be the same as any "gynastics" that Buildpack may be taking care of behind the scenes (If I understand what you were showing correctly).

You mention issues with images and vulnerabilities, but I fail to see how exactly BuildPack magically addresses this issue other than claiming that it just isn't an issue because it is "better".

IMO in the beginning it sounds like you are determined to make managing a Dockerfile as hard as possible when it really is not.

If one of your arguments is that having the choice of images (different applications have different needs even if they are the same language) is an issue your argument is fundamentally flawed. Yes there are a lot of tags for images, but they are fairly well organized for most of them and should not take long to find what you want to use.

It is great that BuildPack produces a standard Docker Image. But nothing about this changes my opinion that this is an opinionated builder that when you get to the point that you need to do something a bit funky or weird in your application or build process you will end up needing to ditch it and build a Dockerfile anyways. I don't see what benefit this has to an internally built docker image that we use in our applications so the Dockerfiles in the dev's repos are 10 lines max.

Using a "From" image for DockerFile is just as reusable as Buildpack, so that is not an advantage. Again near the end you claim BuildPack is "safe" but why and how?

If you are using Docker and your mitigation of something like heart bleed is "years" (for your images at least) your not using Docker properly and is likely a flaw in your CI pipeline and not something that this tool will magically fix since the issue is somewhere else in your pipeline (including people in that pipeline).
my comment was just a harmless MySpace reference.

Good work An.
Pushing candidates who actually question the requests being made to select themselves out of the running sounds like the ideal recruitment software for a consulting firm.
If their argument is that their codebase is basically unreadable, then I see why they're scared someone might find some bugs here and there.
I feel like Google is a case study in an engineering only company. Everything is reduced to a technical problem. Incentives are aligned to solve technical problems. No one wants to work on something unless it is technically interesting and new. There is no incentive at all for delivering an excellent user experience over the long term - which usually can't be done with tech only, and involves a lot of dredge work of continuous introspection and improvement.

We see this again and again. The cynic in me sees Stadia as yet another internal promotion scheme, masquerading as a product.

I doubt this will ever change. The internal momentum of the company culture will make it so. What does it mean for investors? Google has enough money they can just buy their way into markets indefinitely. It will probably keep them going, but I don't expect huge growth. I'd probably be putting my money into other stocks if I had to choose. I honestly don't think people would miss Google much if it was gone.
I’m glad it’s working well for your use case, especially with the final expert evaluation.

What it makes me think of is genealogy, part of which can be thought of as the process of assigning records (birth, marriage, death, census, etc) to entities (natural persons). These are complex determinations requiring understanding and correlating multiple records, and analyzing them in terms of information which is not explicit in the records (eg, knowing about relevant place names, name changes, etc). In the case of businesses, imagine trying to figure out the connection or lack of connection between the many Ray’s Pizza shops in New York City, as they open, close, and change names, locations, and owners over time.
Tesla Invests $1.5B into Bitcoin
The focus of "AI" has shifted over time from symbolic processing (something lisps star at) to neural network machine learning, which requires more brute-force power.
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https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pizza-10-years-laszlo-hanye...

The pizza was 10k BTC (now ~$443M). Tesla bought about 25k BTC.