skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the Fed and/or congress want a big money printing and/or tax hike, but to make it happen, they have to take a huge proportion of the profits away from the rich and give it to everybody else in the US and Europe. But to give it to everyone else they only have to get the money out of the banking system and into the banks. Then, they can decide if they want a bailout or no. We already have a banking system running at 100% capacity...

I'm not saying I'm against government regulation. I certainly am not. At all. I'd like to see some way to control inflation and the monetary system for good. But I'm against it getting too out of control in the first place. That's in my own interests. Maybe I'm wrong on that. I don't mind inflation. When it's controlled I want it to decrease, because, as I've said in other posts, more economic growth creates less government interference and I think that's what we want for Bitcoin. But I don't want anything that gets too out of control to stop the currency from appreciating. When it's artificially forced onto the market I'd like to see it to decline and be replaced with something, maybe a currency with a higher cap or something.

It's all up to us, the Bitcoin community. You choose to participate in the process or you don't.
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Sure, but if you're solving the same(or at least somewhat similar) problem to another company, the one with more resources absolute has an advantage and will probably in the long term edge you out by having more features or sniping your prospects with better marketing or any of the other things you can do when you have a large war chest.
It's interesting that the Sony Experia Play phones never got anywhere. They were pretty impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play
I've been in many such debates and Laynes Law indeed keeps rearing its ugly head. I've never found an agreement on what OOP really is. Flame wars often break out. We can point to a particular language and say "this is how language X views it", but that's limiting.

As far as whether to use OOP versus functional, I'd also add imperative and relational into the choices, and say "pick the right tool for the job". RDBMS are powerful tools if leveraged properly that keep you from reinventing collection-oriented idioms in app code.

However, picking the right tool for the job is hard to create clear-cut rules for. Experience matters, and so does the domain and team structure (Conway's Law).

Further, I find OOP is very limited in languages like Java and C#. For example, why can't annotations be handled with the existing OOP engine? Why invent a new kind of thing rather than leverage or expand OOP? And why can't one attach an "on click" method to a button object? Instead, screwy lambdas are often used. If Java did OOP right, it wouldn't need lambdas for that. The "listener" object would be hidden away for the majority of UI coding: the UI coder shouldn't have to know or care about it 99% of the time. The guts are inside out.

Finally, I often find functional hard to debug. It's easier to "X-ray" the intermediate steps in imperative and OOP. I know saying this angers FP fans, but I stand by it. Perhaps it's subjective, but I believe it's a big reason why FP doesn't expand more in practice despite being around for 60 years.
>Sponsors are paid in “founder shares,” bought at a discount and usually amounting to 20% of the common stock of the future company

Can someone explain the flow of this transaction to me?

So this 20% is from the capital raised and used to buy 20% of the acquired companies shares at a discount and then given to the sponsors? Or is it something else.

Also I thought there was a management fee too, like 2%, similar to PE and Hedge Funds. Which is decent money for sitting on it for 18 - 24 months.
> It seems like there should be 1, 2, or 3 DMV programs. The same for building codes, tax codes, etc. And prison software. You can be more like Massachusetts or Mississippi or Montana (hypothetical examples) but pick one and harmonize with it.

Kind of defeats the entire purpose of having states to start with.

If we want to make the US a centralized, unitary state, let's do that through the elected central government and not through deferral to IT contractors.
I thought that Hal denied being Satoshi in his final days?
If what you are saying is true then this is literally the housing crisis with variable rate loans and a collapsing market putting everybody underwater. If the value of the item used as collateral sinks then you go from fine to broke in an instant.
Rather than the parent's comment coming across as mistrustful, yours comes across as apologetic for authority.

The idea that someone in authority, on being reminded that they're wrong, will turn around and do what's being asked by their subject is contrary to virtually every study on authority and, indeed, daily experience.

This entire discussion is in response to an article highlighting the prison system's refusal to update a system to provide inmates with their guaranteed rights.

Of course the state, in principle, makes such exceptions. The question is whether those exceptions are respected. And especially in light of the context in which we're debating (the article), yours and not the parent's seems the extraordinary claim.
Ugh
Didn't realize HN converted lines like that. I was trying to make it a bit more readable. Thanks for the heads up! (Too late for an edit)
Yes you are right. I looked into the authors research and found a more recent paper that breaks it down by age

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

Figure 3 has risk ratios sliced by age+sex
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Ugh, c'mon. I mean, there's plenty of weird garbage in finance that it's entirely reasonable to throw shade at. SPACs aren't really one of them.

The SPAC itself has to do its own IPO, and has to disclose what it plans to do. And if you decide to read those disclosures and they say that they're going to use the money to buy whatever company they feel like in whatever industry strikes their fancy after they've been smoking pot continuously for 72 hours, then that's your choice; you can also light your money on fire if that's your thing. But maybe you should pick one where the managers have an investing philosophy aligned with yours, and who plan to use the money in narrower ways that you agree with?

Obviously you don't get as much information about the business (because there isn't one yet) as you do in a traditional IPO. But so what? If you're investing in a SPAC you're saying that you have a chunk of money that you want to invest, and that you trust the SPAC's managers to find a good way to invest it better than you'd do on your own. And that's not at all a weird thing to do. It's not significantly different from giving your money to a hedge fund or VC fund, or (as a retail investor) investing in an actively-managed mutual fund or ETF (which are maybe things that most retail investors shouldn't do, but still have the option to do if they want to).

This is just not a big deal. You can simply choose not to invest in SPACs if you don't like them. The IPO market is generally closed to your average retail investor anyway, so having fewer conventional IPOs doesn't really affect retail investors. (SPACs are publicly-traded before the reverse-merger, though, so if a retail investor does really want in, they can do that, with shares usually trading pretty close to the original $10 price until acquisition rumors start flying.) Regardless, my sympathy for people who throw money they can't afford to lose at other people without doing their homework is at an all-time low.

SPACs aren't going to cause the next dot-com crash, or the next Great Financial Crisis, or whatever. They may be in a bit of a bubble, and they may start to decline (and hard) in less than a year, but it'll barely be a blip.
Because that's unfortunately how the world works: you have to sell to people the importance of what you do.
> I took some money out of my savings and did some reading about pump and dump success stories to help build my confidence...

How did that reading not include noticing that “pump and dumps” are designed explicitly to prey on people via market manipulation? The whole premise is that the people you convince to push the price up have to be bag holders so that the sellers can get off the ride at the top.
This was an elderly freighter, for which months of idle time in between owners isn't exactly uncommon in normal times. And in the case of this aircraft, it was actually acquired last year because the charter operator saw an increase in demand.
Just because someone could get into YC doesn’t mean they want to.

That means the signal isn’t there, even though the company is just as good as one that did enter YC.
Right, that’s my point: the recipient of those Bitcoin is receiving stolen property / dirty money. I’d expect that the US government could easily seize the property (as they already do for cash) and potentially imprison the recipients.
I mean they probably mined other Bitcoin along the way. I’m pretty sure they could have cashed in at points without touching those earlier addresses.
> The current situation is that you know a potential replacement will be late and over budget, you just don't know exactly how bad it will be.

The solution to which is “stop doing big-bang replacements of nontrivial operational systems, instead of incremental ship-of-theseus replacements, using something like the strangler pattern.” And that applies to initially automating existing manual processes, too.
Yes sometimes emulators have bugs, but they do a good enough job that most people aren't willing to go to the trouble of using the original hardware. Also emulators can unlock new capabilities such as better graphics.[1]

Human brains are far more resilient than software, so my guess is that emulated brains won't have brittle corner-case bugs like emulated software. People today do all kinds of crazy stuff to their brains and remain functioning: drugs, sleep deprivation, getting hit in the head, fasting, aging, etc. If subtle changes to our brains could cause our minds to stop working, we'd know by now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel-art_scaling_algorithms
I’m assuming Griddy didn’t allow users to set a cap. That should have been illegal even in an unregulated market.
It's also possible Satoshi gave Finney access to that email and more just in case there's something important enough, I guess.
Betteridge's law seems to apply…
I think you are being argumentative at this point.
> he'd renamed his parameters with single characters to guarantee future work.

Then they hired an intern with compiler experience and suddenly his help wasn't needed anymore
View source, then copy & paste the relevant bits into an .html file.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think such an experiment would pass an ethics review. Researchers would probably be limited to investigating people who, for whatever reason, were forced to subsist on ocean water.
The switch does wonderfully for combining stick/button, touch, and motion controls
There is no information here about what the media companies supposedly did to earn the Democrats' displeasure, nor about the contents of the Democrats' communication to the media companies.
Knowing that Commissioner Carr is very right-wing, his screed would be suspect without knowing the full story.
Initially, the offending code was password-protected. However:

> While this worked for about two years until May 13, 2016, Tinley's scheme was discovered when he was out of town and he had to give his password to Siemens' employees because of a time-sensitive deadline that required the spreadsheets to work.

Oops.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/siemens-contr...
It's a great approach if it worked for them; protest and activist groups started with that approach but have changed their processes because of the problems mentioned by the sibling post.

People interested in this topic may like the book Direct Action (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2331-direct-action) on the history of protest movements.
Yes there is a lot of development being done in the hybrid space as energy storage solutions aren't quite good enough for the longer range flights currently. One example is a VerdeGo Aero. Hybridization is also a good transition technology to all electric solutions as the electric infrastructure continues to grow.
The Pyra is actually shipping for the first preorders. Several people I know have received their unit.
It’s kind of hard to believe that given the amount and technical forensic evidence that must have been left by Satoshi we don’t know who they are.

Coding style and mannerism. Windows, Mac, Linux? IP addresses or user agent logged anywhere (mailing list)? Comment structure and style. Git / SVN commits. English writing style and mannerism. Digital fingerprints.

Surely there must be a technical trail to investigate.
It's a lot better than last year, when code blocks didn't even wrap on mobile. The only formatting HN allows is paragraphs, italics, and code blocks, with auto-links. So you're forced to do lists as a bunch of paragraphs.
Crazy how people buy computers nowadays based on which OS you are allowed to run on it, right? Almost feel like the early 80s all over again, but less for technical reasons.
I know my comment isn't relevant but my favorite literary rivalry in history is definitely Hemingway and Faulkner.
Is there a RSS feed for Gitlab (Community) releases?

I found the releases page here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/releases

But /rss or /atom (or .atom like GitHub does) do not have the feed.
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Almost certainly buy getting an EE degree. I’d imagine. Most technical fields are not like software where anyone on the street can be employable though self teaching. I won’t pretend to know anything about the intricacies and culture of hiring from other fields, but I’ve never heard of someone going from software->engineering and I’ve seen those threads a number of time.
> Does this mean that transportation professionals are bad people and solely to blame for the transportation pandemic in the U.S.? Certainly not. But just as Dr. Semmelweis’ peers in 1847 bristled at the idea that they might be killing their patients by not washing their hands during medical procedures, a portion of transportation professionals are also actively hostile to the suggestion that they bear some responsibility of the death toll in this country, despite being in the best position to do something about it. Many more who are well intentioned were not prepared by university curricula to think proactively about applying ethics to design and end up learning from peers to do things as they have always been done. For others, the profession just represents a paycheck and they have not considered the issue. Still, another portion of engineers and planners have recognized the problem and have worked to bring reform from within. The development of manuals from organizations like the National Association of City Transportation Officials and engineers pushing for lowering speed limits in communities around the country are good examples. Unfortunately, these individuals are often stymied by the great barrier of the infamous “standards.”

Yeah the problem is systemic and our transport networks have to become more suited to bicycles if we want to tackle obesity and carbon release.
You will not have 5g everywhere and Stadia does not have every game in existence...
If you really want a mindblowing take on notes, try Eastgate Tinderbox. http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

Sadly, they really don't do a good job explaining the program, but it hearkens back to the early days of hypertext theory.
Technology is itself a middleman in most cases. You still have to trust the technology itself and the person/persons who created it.
Sounds like a suitable task for formal verification languages like Coq and Isabelle.
He obviously wasn't clear enough about this, but if you're just trying to use the tool, download the binary release. Don't use go get as an installer. They're trying to be multi-OS compatible, an autotools that doesn't assume every system has a /usr/local or whatever the Windows equivalent but not assuming everyone has a %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Low\Roaming or whatever. It does assume everyone has a home directory and an environment variable indicating where that is.
I always found it amazing that Deftones managed to change their sound with each of their 9 albums over ~25 years, never fell off quality-wise* and never alienated their fanbase (even if some of those releases weren't 100% to everyone's taste).

It's very rare for a group to avoid the "churn out crap" stage of a musical career.
> You can solve this problem pretty easily by using free software projects.

Yes, but not just using existing ones, but having public agency specialized software be developed in the open in free software projects, which could then be forked, remixed, or used as is with or without upstream contribution, as appropriate, rather than closed silos.
>There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner.

The ultimate highlight of this was a rug that UPS told me was delivered to my home. I received the alert on my phone and went outside to try to find it, but couldn't. I wasn't too worried because it wasn't unusual for UPS to report packages as delivered up to 30 minutes before they actually arrived. (Yes, this happened more than once)

About 25 minutes later, I received a call from a gentleman a couple miles away. He was washing his car when the UPS truck sped by and hit a bump, causing my rug and a couple boxes to fall out of the back and into the middle of the road (it was one of the hottest, most humid days of the year). Fortunately, my phone number was on the shipping label.
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"and he also drank juice made from pressed fish he caught along the way."

That juice is mostly water, fresh water.

I don't know too much about the central thesis of the book ie that you can drink small quantities of sea water and continue to thrive. However I do know that several/many/most? sea predators survive purely on the water they get from their prey. Maintaining a desalination plant is probably quite costly so eating them along with work in progress seems logical.

The main idea seems reasonably sound. You need to keep the salts gradients to within parameters that your body can deal with whilst supplying it with enough water to function. It seems fair that if you start off well hydrated and only sip small amounts, regularly then your body might be able to do the job.

On balance, I'd concentrate on catching fish and keeping the sea water intake to a minimum.
It depends. Some can. There would be some that cannot. Rural grocery stores are already more expensive so we would have to determine where this extra money is going.
I appreciate the extra info. How do they like it?
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The Archive is great! NValt is also wonderful.
I use Archive for a true Zettelkasten and nValt for meeting notes.
I am pretty confident someone would be a willing test subject. Just attach a world record to it: “longest time surviving on ocean water”
You are comparing touchscreen mobile phones with a technology delving into what both gold / hard value stores AND cash do for society. That is not a typical technology adoption cycle. I’m not an extremist to say Bitcoin will eat the world or even replace any existing system entirely, but I still disagree with those that say it has no utility beyond get rich quick scheme.

Referencing Wired as the killer app of the early Internet is good comedy. Bloomberg terminals were already connected, just not by this new tech.
I can't see anyone referring to the FDA directly here. Can you be explicit about the FDA approval process for what you are doing?

Where does it sit, in approved treatments?

(not a US resident, so this is at best, indirectly relevant to me but the Australian equivalent process would reflect on what the FDA said)
It's the 23rd largest cryptocurrency. It's not especially small and you are comparing it to a crypto currently in the 14th spot, meme or not.
> I would say that Postgres' cost model is quite sophisticated, and not at all primitive. Some weigh-able costs like toast size might indeed be missing, but I would not dare to argue that it is primitive because of the lack of taking toast size into account; indeed I would argue that you missing this is showing how many measured points already are available.

They aren't measured though, they're configured. And poorly-defaulted or misconfigured costs are a major reason for bad plans. They could be measured though, and that would be some low hanging fruit for substantial improvements to the cost model. Furthermore, they seem to have no effect on filtering predicate evaluation order...even when selectivity of one predicate is highly predictive, and the other predicate is extremely costly to compute.

A bigger problem is that inaccuracies compound when more complex plans unfold. A small inaccuracy in the rowcount estimate from one set of rows, combined with a small inaccuracy from a rowcount estimate for a different set of rows, joined together, can result in cost estimates that are orders of magnitude off from reality.

> You can already add multi-column statistics, which would allow postgres to optimize on correllations that cross column boundaries

Multi-column statistics do help, but only with very simplistic scenarios. You can only collect cross-column statistics within a single table. You can't collect statistics across foreign-keyed tables, commonly joined column/tables, nor are they helpful for anything but pure equality comparisons. Geospatial relationships, range comparisons, inequalities, etc.., they all get no help from multi-column statistics, unless you're going to collect them across table relationships.
Am I the only one thinking about Babylon AD? :-)
Reminds of the character Dixie Flatline in Neuromancer.

Used to joke when reactivated -- what took you so long?
Yea, that's loads better.
The con is that this guy thought he was doing the pump and dump to other people but really he was the mark.
In my last job (small company, probably not unlike the company here) I was involved in interviewing for a junior developer role. Most resumes contained a GitHub link.

But what was most fascinating to me was that these GitHub accounts were largely inactive. It's not hard to see this: the contributions/calendar feature let's you see at glance how much they've used GitHub, and it's basically the first thing you see when you open a profile. I literally clicked on GitHub links from resumes where the applicant had not used GitHub in the last 365 days.