skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the taxation work with bitcoin domestically, this is always one point that I never understood.

Globally , how does a global currency like bitcoin would hold for international taxation.
“Same with gender”, but not (in my opinion) sex.

Sex is bimodal, and genetic - though there are are rare chromosomal disorders, and disorders of sexual development, these are not normal variants and shouldn’t be considered a distribution.

There’s a suggestion that gender is innate and therefore (I assume) genetic, but do we really want to recreate the once anachronistic belief that most men and women are genetically predisposed to behave in masculine and feminine ways?

(Not intended to be flame bait, but I thought someone ought to express the now rarely heard gender critical position)
> 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!")

This is just an awful example. There is not a free speech right to pay for your own speech by committing crimes, and nobody claims or would claim that there is. Similarly, you don't see the argument made that vendors enjoy the constitutional right to sell fake pills. What spammers want to do, and what anti-spammers want to stop them from doing, is to advertise real pills, and yes, there are extensive free speech implications there.
In the same vein, I highly recommend the ironic self-help album "Dancing For Mental Health" by Will Powers (sic).

https://open.spotify.com/album/4242hiYk7PAArDAd6XSWbZ
Amazon has tremendous numbers of contractors and employees who handle customer issues, seller issues, and partner issues.

Google, on the other hand, pretends to be a good provider of lots of software services, but if anything ever goes wrong with any of them, you are screwed, including if it's a premium service that you pay for. This is why you should never allow Google to control anything that is important to a business of yours or to your personal life.

Google has tons of sales reps on the ad side who will be happy to give you a rationale on why you should spend money more aggressively on their platform, but even they will sometimes be useless at fixing problems unless you are a truly massive customer for them. If you ever need to talk to a sales rep, you can get a Google ad person on the phone in minutes, but they will tell you to bid more aggressively and to buy more display ads.

If your problem with Google is that you aren't spending enough money on display ads, they're Johnny on the spot; they've got 9 trillion hammers that they want to sell you for that particular nail. Need help with anything else substantial related to a Google service? We have a robot you can e-mail for that, and that robot will ignore you.
My experience was with using Tor Browser to access websites using cloudflare.

I'd expect it to be based on the Accept request header (and possibly the Content-Type response header to prevent bypassing it). Or perhaps even the Content-Type of past requests to that url.

But I don't really understand what the purpose of these captcha checks is in the first place. Handling a captcha challenge is more expensive for the server than most GET requests. Perhaps it's done in anticipation of later POST requests (which can't be blocked transparently without breaking the functionality of the website).
Suddenly Final Fantasy is coming to PS5
«send money to your relatives back home» → I suggested to the recipient we use Western Union, but he had been banned from WU. Thus demonstrating the censorship-resistant value of Bitcoin. Other services we briefly considered seemed like I would have to first go through a verification step which would have taken ~24 hours, so not a solution. Remember our transaction was made in under 1 hour.

«SMS banking» → Non existent in our situation (US recipient)

«Hawala» → Maybe, but unworkable in our situation. None of use have used Hawala, we wouldn't even have known WHERE to look for Hawala providers...

Thank you for demonstrating my point. Nothing could have beaten Bitcoin/crypto in this instance.
Since virtually none of the most popular domains are signed, going to the trouble of installing a local DNSSEC server isn't actually going to protect you from anything. Meanwhile: if you're in North America, your ISP is almost certainly collecting and warehousing your DNS queries, and DoH immediately breaks that. Plenty of people use DoH through Pi-holes, for what it's worth.
I don't bother with online applications anymore - I don't think I've ever had a single experience where doing so didn't result in an automated rejection letter or simply no response. Seems like a total waste of time.

Applying via human connections (whether it be a friend, coworker, or even a recruiter - first or third party) has been tremendously more successful.
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The advice isn't bad at all, but then you've heard it all before. Most people tend to figure most of this out by the time they are in their mid-thirties, or never do.

I can only speak from my own perspective, but the irony is that the people I tend to be deeply impressed by don't tend to follow this sort of mechanistic or "optimized wisdom" approach to life. They tend to be more chaotic, less rational (sometimes dangerously so), often dickish but always displaying a vision of life that is deeply felt and never sterile. It may sound paradoxical and counter-intuitive, but you could follow all of the advice from the post and still lead an uninspired existence that doesn't amount to much in the end. Some other posters here mentioned how the list felt like an accusation, but I would say in my case that I felt a rush of melancholy from its superposition of being both solid actionable advice but also deeply wrong in ways I can't fully express.

A person like the author does impress me, as they probably are living up to whatever potential they were granted. I envy their wealth, freedom to work on interesting things, and the fact that they worked towards something and achieved it. But I don't get that sense of unstoppable awe and desire that I get with people like Hemingway, Napoleon, or even those few anonymous, adventurous and idiosyncratic souls you once met that you still think about from time to time. You probably have an example of the latter in your own life that instantly came to mind when reading this, or perhaps you can extrapolate a description of them through the knowledge of the world you've garnered so far.
I recently read about the spectrum of homosexuality. Its not a black and white issue. I don't recall the Kinsey scale being the article I read, but it seems relevant. If this is the case, it seems less likely its a single gene. Perhaps its multiple gene expressions accompanied with environmental factors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
Not entirely. The idea of a gay/straight binary, though, is pretty outmoded.

Some people probably do have agency over their sexuality, or respond to incentives other than gender/sex. And part of that’s probably social.
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Sometimes it decides that I'm actually searching for pictures of QR codes and gives me Google Search results for similar pictures of QR codes, which is kind of useless.

As for the second part, that's your personal risk tolerance so I'm going to leave that to you. Google is generally a high-trust brand in America, so most people will find the risk tolerable. If you don't find it tolerable, you shouldn't use it.
Yeah, I might have lied when I wrote "fact"...
> there's the element of not having a choice while ending up with a significant disadvantage once these mechanisms falsely trigger.

Some people would call that racketeering.
A nice feature would be to show where that season airs.
HN is understandably focused on the tech industry implications, but this bill actually doesn't single out tech companies in particular. It applies broadly to all industries, which I think holds bigger impact.

Monopolistic power is not just wielded by monopolies, but by duopolies or companies colluding cartel-like. I'd very much look forward to greater scrutiny applied to industries like:
- Tax preparation (duopoly of Intuit and HR&Block)
- Dating apps (near monopoly by Match Group)
- Eyewear (near monopoly by Luxottica)
- Poultry (near monopoly by Perdue Farms)
...
https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/#:~:text=AWS%20Snowmobile%....

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665948-Resto...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3048163/in-cuba-an-underground-n...
Some people might think this is a foolish metric, but I think it's actually very telling. Once the information is more widely available - would y'all be able to list who is custodying the BTC for these companies and how?

PS: I'm not surprised at all that CoinGecko beat CoinMarketCap to putting this page out. If any HNers want to read an inspiring bootstrap success story. CoinGecko's is great.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/tmlee/status/1346272039296876544
>They may actually signify a well-tuned process to identify compliant, mediocre individuals that don't produce results, stand out, nor are self-motivated, but rather aim to please the boss, without question, and to "fit in".

You might be giving them too much credit. I suspect that may have been the original intent of the question, but was mindlessly aped after appearing in an article by countless hiring managers and recruiters.
could still be a mix of genes. agree with your last sentence.
Oh? Is the government interfering in your ability to say what you would like to say in an online space?
Is there any trait that is strongly linked to a single gene?

Whenever I hear a news article that there is no X gene, I am completely unsurprised. The idea that a single gene would uniquely determine a particular trait, as if it were a variable in a program like "bool has_blue_eyes", seems oversimplified and unrealistic.
I work for an e-mail provider.
This is very painful part of our work. Part of our services are free and ad supported. We are disabling, queueing thousands of mailboxes per day. Captchas and user scoring does not help that much. There are very cheap services were people manually will solve recaptchas/hcaptchas. Even required phone numbers (normal users are pissed when we ask for a phone number to use account fully but we don't have much choice...). There are phone number farms which are used for account verification also
Does anyone not working for Google have an opinion which isn't a variant on "Serves Google right"?

I assume that many Googlies also have that opinion, and a few others are sure that this can be fixed, because they don't recognize that this is a systemic cultural problem. There's only been one Abcedarian unit that ever understood customer service, and they (Google Fi) dropped it on the floor and beat it to death within 3 years.
I bought myself a copy of your book recently. I have not worked through it back to back, but I enjoyed taking a look at known things through the lens of CL.

However I have to admit that the reliance on additional external libraries kind of had me a bit disappointed, but I can understand the reasoning and advantages behind such a decision.
Oh, so not the material nominal pound for pound cost?
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Thanks for this! I made something similar but for knowing when your fav movie director releases a new movie:

https://directoralerts.website/
“Coders” vs. “Creatives” – Can't we all just be Designers?
Its utility is not in its ability to be used as a medium of exchange. Bitcoins value comes from:

1) There is no central authority that can print more

2) It is deflationary. There is a limited supply.

3) Everyone has agreed on the protocol, and everyone can be confident that their bitcoins are their own and they can trade them however they want. This is important.

4) There is no inherent value. This is the part that trips many people up. An items inherent value simply gives it a natural price minimum. For example, golds 'inherent value' is that it is an excellent conductor, and theoretically if the price gets too low then people will use it for just that, which will keep the price stable at that market value. Bitcoin doesn't have this - however this also keeps it from having no price maximum either. People want it because they want it. What is 1 BTC worth? There is nothing to tie the price to. It's worth what people will pay for it.
People latched onto the idea that sexuality is genetically determined because it seemed like the only viable way to defend themselves against rampant religious bigotry and oppression. It was a rope dangling into the well you were trapped in, and the well was filling with acid, but if you could just manage to climb that rope then you'd make it out. The reasoning went something like "if I can prove that sexuality is genetically predetermined then it means that I didn't choose to be this way". As if genetic predestination were the only possible reason to grant protection to a class. Some people fairly quickly saw the problem with this defense and expanded it to include other uncontrollable elements of childhood development, again leaning on the "if I didn't have a choice _then_ it has to be ok". As if choices were still somehow the problem.

But that's always been a fucked up idea. It shouldn't matter whether it was predetermined or otherwise not in your control. If it's constructed then it's constructed. If it's not then it's not. People shouldn't be oppressed for their sexuality full stop, regardless of reason.

I think the idea of genetic predestination might have been a short-term useful crutch in the past but I hope that we've begun to progress beyond needing people to explain themselves.
Great that it works like that in Poland. It doesn't work like that in most places in the rest of the world, and certainly not between X <> Y places in the world (for example, how long time would a US > Poland transfer take?).

What cryptocurrencies enables is border-less transfers, where geographic location doesn't matter anymore, as long as you have a internet connection.

> Sending money to other people wirelessly can, and will, be solved by centralised institutions

I wish I could be as optimistic as you. I have been living in three different countries for the last 20 years and heard that "instant wire transfers anywhere in the world" is coming for the last 20 years. Seems only Instant SEPA has been doing some actual work, but it still doesn't even cover 50% of the world.

And why wait for a centralized solution that might come 20 years in the future when you can use the decentralized solution that works today?
The point is that non-reproductive insects don't have specific set of genes that make them non-reproductive - it is not an inheritable trait. If it was, then it would have evolved into extinction.
> Wright took office in 2019, and underwent treatment for lung cancer in recent years.

Looks like he probably had a weakened immune system from cancer therapy, plus his age being in the higher risk range.
It’s doubtful that any AI is involved, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Google have an algorithm that decides thay X number of negative reviews must be spam, without considering the quality and correctness of the review.
"Your comment is making the assumption that the environmental factor that causes homosexuality is witnessing other members of the species be homosexual, which is a large leap of logic to make."

I think research has found that people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see others doing the same. For example, someone who would not ordinarily shoplift may do so during a riot where many people are looting stores. A 2019 survey found that "U.S. adults estimate that 23.6% of Americans are gay or lesbian", while Gallup estimates the fraction to be 4.5%. Link: https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overes... . I think this overestimation may influence some behavior at the margin.
Evaluation of Cohort assignment algorithms for the FLoC API
Cool service, use it from time to time
> In this case it’s extremely important to distinguish between credible claims of genocide and the many who would without any basis in evidence be ready to support claims of genocide simply because they’ve seen pictures of mistreated Uighur and feel bad about them. You can’t have international political consequences be based on “I saw pictures on Facebook I don’t like, so China needs to be punished!”

> As such I think it’s extremely important when people routed in facts and evidence bring forwards a credible case for what China is doing being classified as genocide.

Actually, IIRC, the question here isn't so much about what's happening to the Uighurs, but what the definition of genocide is. Basically: does genocide require physical extermination or not? There are different views on that.
Monopoly abusing monopoly.
Genes + how they are read (epigenetics) both matter equally
FB is the worst when it comes to this.

I created instagram filters this cycle for a client which I thought would be really cool; I haven't seen any from campaigns beyond the Biden Aviators (I work in politics). I wanted to do a 'i just voted' type challenge; tried many ideas and combinations like swappable campaign buttons without text showing 'issues,' branding, different voting method 3d objects.

Facebook kept rejecting and pointing to policy that clearly did not apply to what I was uploading.

I wish they would have just said 'we don't want political filters.' Escalating to actual @fb employee emails did not work. We're not important enough.
I’ve searched for “Better Call Saul” and it’s saying that 6th episode of that series are released at 31 Dec 2020. But season six just started filming in February 2020.
Rust Foundation: Hello, World
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Sorry but this is just rambling around while you simply went around the main points, e.g. what past experiences with Arab people? The fact is that Slovakia is extremely bad place for Arabs due to racism = people attacking people based on assumptions they got based on their skin color, so it's no wonder they want to go to Germany or somewhere else where they won't be attacked and a community of their people is established. Invoking Ottoman Empire is really funny, I'm pretty sure nobody remembers it, and as you said yourself people actually weren't hostile towards Arabs just two decades ago, so it's probably not because of Ottomans. BTW speaking about "Eastern European experts helping them" is also funny, as these countries were more technologically and societally advanced than Eastern Europe was in the 70s and 80s; this is a story the communist government told you, not the truth.

Many places in ME are often significantly Christian so it's no wonder they don't react to traditionally dressed women in any way, of course it varies by place though, it's true there are places where being Christian is bad. What this tells me is that your standard of behavior is countries with non-free theocratic governments, that's what you compare Slovakia with? Lol. One would think that a free democratic country would never lessen itself to this. Slovakia has a lot of growing up to do, pointing fingers and saying "they're bad too" is not a grown up thing to do (sarcastically remarking "and they kill niggers in America" is how we make fun of this attitude here).

> Not in these countries, though. Despite urban legends and manufactured problems, that activists tried to push to show how these people are "racist".

Don't lie, I've seen it personally multiple times in Prague, Bratislava, Hradec Kralove, and many other towns - even if I was just visiting it was rather easy to see a scene like that, don't tell me I was so lucky I was there the ONE TIME it happened.
Kin-selection hypothesis also allow for some fraction of asexual or homosexual population being a positive overall (from an evolutionary perspective).
It's impossible for 2 new unverified users to sign up to your service and send money instantly within 1 hour, cash in hand. Lengthy verification steps, etc. So TW wouldn't have worked in our urgent situation.
I'm reminded of something C.S Lewis shared:

“I have often thought to myself how it would have been if, when I served in the first World War, I and some young German had killed each other simultaneously and found ourselves together a moment after death. I cannot imagine that either of us would have felt any resentment or even any embarrassment. I think we might have laughed over it"
Is the goal of this book to teach algorithms to Lisp programmers, or to teach algorithms using Lisp as its a good pedagogical language, or something else?
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There are many features that Google blocks if you have a GSuite accounts. You cannot use Stadia, post reviews in the google play store, use any of there family subscriptions as the paying account or as a family member and note application integration with google assistance. Those are just the few I can think of off the top of my head.
I also thought of Player Piano when I saw this
Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design
For complex traits, I believe people think that linear effects dominate. Which is another way of saying that they see no advantage to adding a hidden layer, which encodes interactions, compared to adding up individual effects.

The caveat here "for complex traits" means things like height, for which we know there are hundreds to thousands of common variants which matter. Some things aren't like that, e.g. simple recessive gene effects are interactions! And, with more data, this may change.
Perfect timing... I just renewed my APress Access subscription like 3 days ago. Will definitely give this a look.
I mean, yes, of course. But the fact that it's not fluid in so many individuals is part of what fascinates me! The supposed binary split is not real of course, but you note yourself a rather strong bimodal distribution. And that distribution is itself, fascinating and hard to explain.

I am gay, and I have been since I hit puberty. It's completely stable, a fixed personality trait my whole life. It's so... exact. That one little thing, completely inverted from a good majority of men. It's like someone flipped one little switch, that affected only that, at least as far as I can tell.

Bisexuality or pansexuality or whatever you want to call it, on the other hand, seems to fit many of the proposed origins, far better than exclusive homosexuality would. E.g., fuzzy pattern matching gone awry for finding a suitable mate, triggering a bunch of false matches. But it's not like that. It's very precise. That has always struck me as ever so strange.
It's more like not having a deficiency in perceiving the full spectrum of colours; or having a difference in spectrum deficiency.

If you can't see red, then I'm going to have a tough time explaining red to you.
What if Sharon is selling baskets for $10, and I found a revolutionary way to sell them for $9, I wouldn't be able to since I'd be required to share my trade secret with Sharon. What incentive would I have to innovate?

In a perfect world, where there are no corrupt or selfish people, I suppose it could work, since we'd all be working towards a greater good. But that utopia doesn't exist, and possibly never will without stripping the rights of individuals.
«how a banking system in many countries works»

Recipient was unbanked (under severe financial hardship)