skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Every time I spend bitcoins I pay capital gains on the amount I spend.

If you don’t, you are committing tax fraud.
Bitcoin is a leaf node in the network, like "dollar". Bank account is at a higher level. A bank is a business that provides lending
,transfer, and custody services, the currency can be anything, including bitcoin.
As I addressed in my comment above. 17 year olds are allowed to sign up with their parent's consent, but are not allowed to deploy outside the US or take part in any hostilities.
Southeast Asia’s hottest tech deal would devastate gig workers
The rich get richer is a truism. Crypto can't change that, it would take a complete political revolution.
Think of the crypto programmer who make it possible for poor Venezuelans to have an island of crypto inflation stability when their Bolívars are worth toilet paper. I don't know of any feel goody NGO where a Harvard grad could feel woke working at that could do that.
How to Download Cryptocurrency Data for Backtesting
OOoooooo "Harvard"
Thanks! I enjoyed working through the 100 Pandas Puzzles repo and would recommend it - I've found myself going back to reference my answers many times. Thanks for the critique on the links, I hadn't realized how hard they were to see until now. I'm in the middle of refactoring the site and I'll add that to the to-do list.
I don't think everyone who wants to check and balance the monetary power of the government is anti-tax. I think most of us would just rather they have to do it through legitimate means. Cryptocurrencies cannot be bargained with or taken over. If governments want to print and debase their fiat currencies, they are free to do so, but there will always be an elephant in the room that never does that because it's incapable of doing it.
True, but similarly just because the number is big in an absolute sense also doesn't mean it is actually a worthwhile target for reducing emissions. There are plenty of lower-hanging fruit.
are resumes valid anymore ?
"We're the best, because we fire the worst!"
That's quite a cynical and uninformed view point. Buildpacks have been around since 2011 in Heroku and Cloud Foundry.

The core goal of the Paketo Buildpacks project is to improve corporate control and compliance when building OCI images. This is driven from the needs of large enterpise with many disconnected teams all pushing images.

How can an enterpise ensure all those images are built using standardised base images? How can they rebase the base image of running containers without needing every team to rebuild their image using the latest security fix? Buildpacks solves these problems. "Look, no Dockerfile" is a bit of a distraction from the projects main purpose.
I've read some of the criticisms, and I'm not sure that I disagree with you. But let's be clear what "unconvincing" means: it means that there is a single object and hence very little data, and what data we have isn't impossible to explain with non-ET reasoning. There's definitely some weird and unexplained stuff here, and if the result of convincing society "hey there's an outside chance this is a non-natural object and we should make plans to look for and investigate future such objects" is that society ever-so-incrementally does that, we'll end up with more data than we'd have otherwise.
> any subreddit with a large population seems to have fallen into a pit of lowest common denominator group think from which they'll never return. I don't think it's their architecture that's to blame

You should! Have you ever wondered why subreddits suddenly go to crap when they hit the front page? It's because people upvote without considering the subreddit that it was originally posted in. And that's partly because Reddit's design doesn't make the originating subreddit obvious enough, partly because you don't have to navigate to that subreddit to vote on it, and mostly because the front page hits a large number of unsubscribed folks that don't know the sub rules. So as people are idly scrolling through their feed, they see something funny, they go "heh, upvote." and move on. Whoops, that post was in r/Unexpected, and it wasn't unexpected at all. The top posts of that subreddit slowly become more homogenous with all the other popular subreddits, and we say the subreddit has died.

The most savvy subs will implement a stickied comment system. The top comment in the post will be stickied and allow people to vote on whether the post really belongs to the sub. They're able to filter out highly-upvoted irrelevant content this way, even if the sub hits the front page.

> why are there toxic posts on any of these platforms

People exist, there is no way around this. The best we can do is design around mitigating it, not amplifying it.
This is correct in my experience. It also cuts deeper than just advertising or selling user data. It's the classic exposure argument. Give me the service for free and someone else might pay for it who hears about the service through my social network.

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, this line of thinking can even be completely reasonable for various services that have low costs associated with the free offering. It's when the free offering costs a significant amount to operate that you start running into trouble.
"Apps" and "algorithms" seem to be driving literally everything about society now. I don't think this is a good thing, nor do I see the trend reversing. These giant black boxes now control the levers of modern society, and the companies that own them get to hide behind their "terms of service" to avoid any responsibility for the damage being done.

Every significant review system is being gamed to the point of being unusable, and yet stories about not being able to trust them keep being reported as if this were somehow noteworthy. For every one of these stories that rises to a thread on HN, how many other small time vendors are getting screwed by someone who is willing to pay a room full of people in some 3rd-world country to debase their competitor's online presence?
Good point, I'll add that to my to-do list
> It's volatile because deflationary currencies are inherently volatile.

That is wrong. Maybe you mean 'fixed supply currency'.

There is nothing inherent in deflation, defined as 'general decline in general price level' that makes it volatile in terms of purchasing power.

The old pre-WW1 gold standard was deflationary, but it was also as stable as any system humans have ever come up with. It worked by banks adjusting reserves depending demand for their base currency.
Thank you for this. I will signup and check their offerings. If we can use the tools in the browser on linux, that is fine.
This is a horrible decision.

All the data we have suggests AZ is probably 100% effective at preventing death from the South African strain.

(Mostly) everyone agrees we want to have a vaccine that is:

-safer than not vaccinating

-effective against death

-actually available to use

AZ is all 3 of these in South Africa (and everywhere).

It also provides some additional benefits, like:

-cheap

-no cold storage

-easier to administer

By banning AZ you aren't trading it for Pfizer, you are trading it for no vaccine.
Frankly, the logistics of hiring make this a reality. I remember helping my boss hire interns, and picked a few out. Later on, they found out that they weren’t able to go to all of the schools that they wanted, they could only choose 2. Where did all the people from other schools go? Straight in the trash. Same deal with hiring full-time employees in my experience. Random, usually understandable circumstances preclude a huge swath of applicants from even being evaluated. And for many places, it doesn’t even matter, because they have so many candidates that they can’t distinguish between them at that level. But from a personal POV, it can be disheartening to get rejected from job after job if you don’t know that like 75% of the time it has nothing to do with you.
The level of heritability of many traits is far from settled, AFAIK, and given the long shadow of Nazi racial pseudoscience, there is a certain air of suspicion around anyone who researches the topic of heritability too eagerly, at least in the West; China does not seem to have this particular taboo.

And I am not even surprised, the possibility of governments latching onto this and "streaming" people towards whatever they are found to be gifted at, cannot really be dismissed.
The original reason for free speech was to allow people of different creeds to work together against government.

The Bill of Rights is establishing as a baseline the policies that were found to reduce tribal conflicts in the European empires — having a strong central identity as a state (eg “American Destiny”), but allowing individual tribes under the state a great deal of freedom in religious practices. As a secondary purpose, it tamped down the worst state abuses.

The anti-religious messaging, the anti-conservative messaging, etc undermine this and are bringing back sectarian strife inside the state.
Again, I agree tax preparation should be easier. Most income is already reported to the IRS, so it stands to reason that the government could calculate my taxes for me.

I still think we're playing into the tax preparation industry by calling it daunting. I maintain the current process, while inefficient, is in fact easy for most Americans.

The IRS provides free fillable forms regardless of income level. The process for individuals is to first collect all of one's tax documents, read the instructions, and copy the numbers into the correct boxes. The forms calculate most of the math for you. If you make a mistake, the IRS will likely tell you. Not perfectly efficient, but far easier than I was led to believe.
I love all of his tutorials, good recommendation
Bitcoin != Cryptocurrencies

It's like using the term "COBOL" when you mean "programming languages", and then criticising COBOL's modern utility in that context. The parent comment was about crypto (short for "cryptocurrencies") in general, not Bitcoin, which is 12-year old technology, and broadly not fairly comparable to current cryptocurrencies or their applications.

You are as correct that you can't do much with a Bitcoin as you are that you can't do much with COBOL. This doesn't however mean that programming sucks.

If you're interested to learn about the space and what's going on in it, visit https://coingecko.com, select "developer", and sort the list by "Commits past 4 weeks".

This is a list of currently actively developed projects. Click a few and visit their websites. For example, SC, 4th in the list, is a incentivised and decentralised cloud, which is up and working right now. You can earn money from spare storage.

There are many such projects pushing various different boundaries of technology. I too find it baffling how uneducated and "luddite" many on HN are regarding blockchain and cryptocurrencies. There's a whole world of activity going on, and many here are missing out.
I would submit any of them are fine. The important thing is not leaving your coins there, and transferring them to a private wallet ASAP.
> Have you considered the wasted energy of a government halving a fiat currency holder's purchasing power in a year or less?

In what way would that waste energy?
Yes exactly, I want to be able to do rich auditing of the predictions. Not sure about performance yet, still prototyping!
You can do code review on every single commit while not being able to make overall analysis of the massive codebase.
>"solely"

Which presumably means that they can be used as a filter so long as a human is making the final selection.
I don't know the question that preceded it, but this kind of presumption of fallacy is not helpful and is akin to trolling:
"Thinking that we are unique and special and privileged is arrogant [...] The correct approach is to be modest"

Maybe his opponents are not being arrogant, but simply didn't come to the same conclusion as him, based on honest assessment of the facts.

Nonetheless I must admit that I find Oumuamua very compelling as a candidate for alien technology; maybe I 30% believe it.
Can't we just tone it down a bit? Yet another overly-polarised argument.
> I don't want to rely on a currency which is managed and beholden to an unelected cartel of corporations.

Great, don't think we have any currencies that are run by a cartel of corporations (yet), although Facebook's currency was probably gonna end up being that.

For cryptocurrencies, they are usually run by "miners" who can be anyone, not just corporations. You can run your own miner, or your own node, hence they are called decentralized. This feature does not exist in our current centralized currencies, and is one of the main selling point of cryptocurrencies.

> I prefer representative government by elected officials.

That is great that you feel that you are represented correctly in your government, I am really happy for you. For many other people in the world though, that does not exist or if it does, doesn't work out in practice and people don't feel represented. You don't have to look very far to discover which countries I'm referring to.

For people living in these countries, where they don't trust the central bank (like many don't trust the central bank in the US to have people's best interest at heart), cryptocurrencies offer a way out of the system without going off-grid and leaving the option of having things to trade with, without going back to a goods barter ecosystem.
P1 and B.1.351 avoid natural immunity gained from the original COVID19 virus.

So if we did nothing, then P1 / B.1.351 would have reinfected the country anyway. Manaus (Brazil) got reinfected and its hospitals are overflowing with P1 infections, even after achieving 76% infection rate last year.

I say this because there's a large number of people who actually believe that "do nothing" is the correct response. Now with the hindsight of these new variants, we now know for sure that "doing nothing" is the wrong answer.

Not only does "do nothing" fail to prepare against future variants, it CREATES new variants as large masses of the population mutate the virus.

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It is increasingly looking like vaccination is our only option. (or really, has always been our only option, and we're only gathering proof today that this is absolutely the case).
Obviously it depends on the specific situation, but the most interesting and difficult work I’ve been involved in requires figuring things out that would be intractable if everyone just focused on their tasks and didn’t make time to collaborate on something that wasn’t their direct goal. That doesn’t mean you have to let people waste your time, but it does call for an artful approach at balancing tasks, relationships and organizational goals.
I honestly cannot believe these incidents (plural) never reach top management. It’s just not possible.
That's pretty much all the things you need to design to be an automaker these days, perhaps with the exception of solar panels.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that you are more likely to be hired on, if your parents are friends with the owner of the company. As for a video interview, I would totally clam-up. If you do want your application to make it to the top of the pile, then what you do is this. Fill the page with white-on-white very tiny words that are designed to hit the AI buzz word detector. You can extract these from the company "Mission Statement" :s

https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-09-01
Taming infinities: adding tail call elimination to Ink runtimes
State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
I'm finding that this isn't as much an eyebrow raiser as it would have been 2 or 3 years ago.

Source: haven't been "on" Facebook in probably 5+ years at this point. I have a dummy account with bunk info for Marketplace and a few FB groups, but have no friends.
that's not how burden of proof works
The hands-off reputation-based approach isn't enough to regulate food and drugs, or aviation. I don't see why for-profit forensics companies should be trusted implicitly.

Also related: we know that funding bias [0] is a real problem in science, despite that scientists' reputations should (ideally) motivate them to resist such biases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias
I think smart contracts with dollars would be just as good
In case anybody still wonders, I guess realducksoft (the poster of this thread) is the DuckSoft on GitHub, who discovered this problem with help from another GitHub user studentmain.

They are both developers from China, which is why their English isn't very good (My English is bad too, sorry). However, based on my observation, they've spend years on the related field (Let's just call it "Secured Data Transmission"), that makes them the pros here.

So personally, I trust their discovery and believe what they have found is indeed a critical security vulnerability that could threatens people's safety, especially when the service/program was designed to put a middle finger in their government's face. I hope Signal can make something better than this (, and it seems they are trying [0]).

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec...

Off topic: There are only 2 useful posts in the issue #15, one was the #issue-568737654 and another was #issuecomment-774982590, the others were mostly spams. I don't think it helped the situation isn't it?

Oh, by the way, I encountered studentmain once. He was the one who "recovered" the few comments that I replied to an issue under Shadowsocks's GitHub repository from the his email record. The word "recovered" is because I intentionally deleted those comments to protect myself from been exposed too much, and he just pasted everything back on including my name and ask me "why so careful". So he cares about the Privacy of the others now? Well, kudos to him ;)
> but you aren't, and it isn't.

Any decent person with an ounce of humanity knows it was a barbaric crime. Then you have your Bush, Trump and I suppose you for your enthusiastic support.

> describes yourself and your comrades.

It is the big bad commies, I tell ya, but we will make america great again.

> And yet, the same organization that perpetrated it still rules China, and under essentially the same ideology, only slightly tweaked.

The same you dont see the irony on criticizing China (btw the Cultural Revolution and the BLF were criminal things) and yet get your panties in a twist because a COMMIE dares to criticize the best country in the world(TM) says everything about your mental state.

Bye kiddo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8EMx7Y16Vo

Who am I a kidding I'm 99% sure that you are white, male, over 40, socially inept and "libertatian". A walking,talking stereotype.
I would find it extremely unlikely to work that way.
Does it get better in the 2nd season? I've watched the first, and consider it to be 13 hours of my life completely wasted. The show was just dragging the viewers along pointless tangents, never ultimately revealing whether the "magic"/"tech" in the story exists, or the protagonist is just delusional.
Currency means the current instrument of exchange.

As a currency, gold is too heavy to be practical and too malleable to be trusted without testing it every time it is used.

Bitcoin by nature would seem to avoid these problems, but it does introduce the new risks and limitations inherent with passwords.
One of the purported benefits is security, however from my experience in the financial software industry, I have to say - good luck getting your software validated where a major part of it's build chain is from an external "community".

politelemon here is spot-on in this regard: dockerfiles provide a higher level of transparency. Although they do have a higher developer-error surface area compared to more higher-level build chain solutions, it is absolutely necessary for many software industries that require stricter software validation.
> buy bitcoin - tell everyone around how revolutionary it is, so they buy it and what you holding increases in value, then tell them to do the same.

That's actually not what's happening. Bitcoin got big because Tax Evasion. Or not literal tax evasion maybe, but attempts by wealthy chinese citizens to sequester their finances in a place it can't be seized by their government, which is largely the same thing.

Add to that the expected rush of genuine criminal activity, and that's why crypto got big.

The libertarian philosophy stuff and pyramid nonsense is a sideshow. Bitcoin is about enabling crime (even, again, where that crime seems "justified" to western eyes).
Before Covid I had a recurring 12p-1p busy block in my calendar to prevent folks from dropping lunch time meetings on me. After work from home started, it became 12p-5p.

Highly recommend this. Gives control of your time back to you.
> it requires trust that the asset you are receiving is roughly equivalent in worth to the asset you're giving

Checkout uniswap. Which is a decentralized exchange which the smart contract ensuring you get X asset for Y btc.
This sounds a lot like making sure you have adequate "Maker time":

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

That said, even if you're a manager you can benefit from the consolidation of things to keep you focused during the blocks you do have available if it works out for your team.
Some of my favorite "Intro to Bitcoin" pieces -

"Bitcoin For The Open Minded Skeptic" - https://www.paradigm.xyz/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic...

"Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter" - https://www.microstrategy.com/content/dam/website-assets/col...
You don't need a legal standard. You just need to put doubt into the minds of a jury. You can get an expert to stand up and say "I'm an expert in computers, and I couldn't understand how this DNA test works. I think it's likely there are mistakes in it that neither I nor the people that made it have discovered".
The problem with this sort of thing is that because it's interstate commerce, states usually do not have standing to regulate effectively.

The Federal government struggles to implement new regulatory authority because of political challenges. Various groups of stakeholders will declare any such regulation an infringement on free speech (ie. "The constitution gives me the right to sell fake penis pills to fund my radical political agenda!"), biased against marginalized minority or cultural groups ("My marginalized constituency of blind, alcoholic yak herders have a religious prohibition against reading contracts"), or a unfair mandate restraint of trade ("The Chamber of Meme Commerce believes that this rule will cost 10,000,000 jobs in the meme industry and kill puppies."), etc.
Google has humans, but not for humans.
How much is Google’s bot detection worth? – By hCaptcha(2020)
this is a dumb argument, you know exactly what someone means when they say "alien life", you're just twisting a definition to eek out a weird feeling of victory
Skaffold also has first class support making it really easy to deploy to k8s https://skaffold.dev/docs/pipeline-stages/builders/buildpack...
They don't get made if they won't be sold. So if enough people didn't buy them, they would stop making them. Similarly, if enough people participated in voting for real change, perhaps we would see it.

That's the argument anyway. Personally, I think such coordinated effort is too hard to pull off because you are up against highly sophisticated media campaigns paid for by politicians and industry.
But people do choose to use US Dollars. Emerging economies facing currency problems frequently become "dollarized" on a de facto or de jure basis precisely because the currency is so liquid (internationally) and so stable.

Inside its borders the US Dollar also derives value from chartalism, but the currency clearly has other sources of de facto value.
The defence can rarely afford their services.
A senior economist from FRED explained why there is the surge in M1. Basically a reclassification of parts of M2 in M1. Definitely not -- OMG end of Dollar, money printer going brrrr :-)

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
Hyundai, Kia no longer collaborating with Apple on car production