skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use a money with an issuance scheme that doesn't derive from pure costs (useless things like hashing), the underlying incentives of that money will seed its own destruction.

What happens if you have a coin based on "useful work" and you "solve" the problem you were hoping to solve. Now a lot of "miners" leave the network, presumably because they were only there to help solve that particular problem. Now you have a weak system, and a system subject to 51% attacks by adversarial miners, and therefore not a good money/coin.

I don't see how HN commenters (in large part) don't get this. It's the Single-responsibility Principle, just in a different context.
Yes, it's just about finding a way to come up with the largest and thus most shocking number. It's sensationalist but not useful.

The US population is 330 million and 500k people have now died of Covid. So for 1/3 of all Americans to know someone who died of Covid each victim must be known by 220 people on average. Now, a quick look at Google suggests that this is within the range of the number of people known by the average American (and maybe on the low side) [1] so saying that 1/3 of Americans 'know' someone who died of Covid really does not convey any new information.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/the-average-ameri...

Edit: Ahah I see you did the same calculation in another comment!
Is there an easy way to determine which companies are which? Do I need to be well-studied in business, or is there a chart or key statistic I can look at to tell one from the other?
> probably is now

Here are the facts we know about Tether being backed:

1. They used to say they were backed 1 to 1 by cash.

2. This was a direct lie.

3. They now say they are backed 1 to 1 by cash and "cash equivalents", not otherwise specified.

Which one of these facts is it that you are basing your claim that they "probably are now" on?
>I would not eat a vegan burger, never bbq a vegan steak. But chili or spaghetti bolognese with vegan ground meat can be really delicious since flavors and texture are overpowered by other ingredients anyways. Same with lots of sandwich meats.

I agree with this. Of course there are some plant-based "substitutes" that are just not the same in terms of taste/texture. It's often easier to just treat them as their own thing -- it's not a replacement for a hamburger, it's just a black bean patty in a bun, and it can be pretty good!

That said, while I'm all in favour of more "substitutes" and lab-grown meat, etc., I think it's also helpful to branch out and try different cuisines that don't rely so heavily on meat. There are plenty of absolutely delicious Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Mexican dishes (just to name a few off the top of my head) that are completely vegan. They're not relying on "meat substitutes", they're just....using delicious ingredients that happen to not be made from animals. And those often end up tasting much better than trying to figure out some substitute for a big hunk of steak or whatever.

At any rate, I think ultimately, any attempt people make to cut down the amount of animal products in their diet is a good thing. You don't need to go 100% all beans all the time...but cutting down meat consumption can make a big difference in and of itself.
I'm not the parent poster, but here's my take:

Heat - Live somewhere North. There's very little of it.

Radiation - No wi-fi at home, put phone in breast pocket.

Plastic, micro plastics - Never buy anything plastic, if possible. Buy food whole in paper bags from local market; prefer glass and carboard containers. Buy cotton/silk/etc clothing, never anything made of poly-anything.

Tap water - Live where it's clean.

Teflon - All my cookware and utensils are titanium, steel, or wood. No aluminium, no coatings.

Antibacterial soap - Buy the simplest, free-est of additives soap you can, intended for sensitive skin and allergics. Wash clothes with Sapindus saponaria fruit ("soap berries") and vinegar.

Underpants - Just don't wear them.

An interesting side-effect of such a clean lifestyle is that a fungus clogs my drain about twice a year, since my graywater has no chemicals in it. Had to learn to take it apart and clean it :)
I mean, why are all these lengthy intermediate steps necessary? It's only a matter of changing the default value of one damn setting. I've had third-party cookies disabled for more than a year and the only websites I've had problems with were ridiculously poorly-made ones — like AliExpress, that for some reason has a zillion subdomains and relies on third-party cookies for authentication.
That first sentence is an awful way to kick off a comment about population genetics.
> If I was 15, you'd see me dead in one of them Amis.

Yes, at least the Smart looks ok. But that Citroen thing is totally ugly: it reminds me of the car that the billionaire was using in one scene in Silicon Valley when leaving the restaurant, where it's actually only half a car. But Silicon Valley is satire.

It's weird that a country like France so well known for its luxury brands and "savoir faire" can come up with such an ugly car.

I'm not 15 and yet there's no way I'll ever use something as fugly as an Ami.

A Tesla Model S or a Porsche Taycan looks good though (and also looks like something that as a higher probability to save your life in case of a frontal crash).

But then... As the (french) saying goes: to everyone's bad tastes. My bad tastes are Model S and Taycan, pick yours!
Most seem to require a cookie to the pin the session or to match the passed state
I would say the QAnon example demonstrates how useful the model actually is. It has been fed some [false] knowledge and answered in perfect accordance with what it has been taught. Doesn't this mean it is can give useful answers to real questions if taught real (scientifically proven) facts?
Maybe their hobby is not tinkering with Nextcloud and they would rather put that limited time/energy into setting up k8s clusters or developing a web app. Who knows?
The point is with limited time one has to pick their battles and maybe setting up zpools and a full next cloud docker compose isn't what they want to spend their time on.
Of course there are always exceptions. More than likely, people on here aren't thinking about NASA software.
Please name the regulators you think have verified Tether's backing. And once you've listed them, please explain why even though they missed the specific points at which the NYAG has proved Tether was not fully backed, you still think they can be trusted.

(I ask only for my own entertainment, of course. If Tether were actually backed, they'd publish regular third-party audits from a responsible accountant. Anybody thinking it's backed is a fantasist that could make Baron Munchausen seem resonable.)
Oh actually maybe only Coinbase
What if the error only occurs after ~1TB of data has been created?
It was a crown corporation (like Canada Post is) until 1995. I checked the date since I wondered if it was already privatized. CN and CP are really recognized and somewhat romanticized brands in Canada as they are a really important part of history, to connect the country from East to West. Are the freight railroads not well known in the US?

One funny thing is the Canadian CN is..CN. It has extensive operations in the US
Stocks prices get negatively impacted by rising interest rates. With interest rates at ~0%, there's little money to be made in bonds, savings accounts, or anything that pays interest income, so people put money into stocks w/ the hope the stocks will go up. When interest rates go up to fight inflation, there's more incentive to put money into bond markets, which means there's not as much money going into stocks, which means stock prices don't go up as much. Housing prices also tend to go down as interests go up, as rising borrowing costs mean fewer funds are available for buying a home.
You'd need to do better than that. How exactly does printing USDT lead to BTC price inflation? I haven't heard anything convincing yet. Most of the vol doesn't come from the BTC USDT pair. Exchanges don't seem to be doing anything shady like manipulating the price upwards by themselves.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting Tether. Tether may completely fall off the edge of the world and nobody would care. There would be a minor impact on the price of bitcoin and things will move on.

As I mentioned, I believe the proof of insolvency is weak, but I don't think it matters long term either way. Better alternatives will supercede them soon enough. USDC and possibly Libra will be excellent choices.
It’s not really surprising when anyone pushing crypto to you also happen to hold a lot of crypto. It’s self-serving advice 100% of the time. It’s pretty much a staple also to call every other crypto you don’t hold a fraud trying to steal the spotlight.
And what about fingerprinting? What is this good for if you can
be tracked so easily anyway?

At least cookies give you some control. The alternative seems worse.
Cross-domain ads possibly become less effective.

OTOH on-premises ads, like inside Facebook, or on Google's results page, should remain pretty targeted.
I’ve heard the whole name for this is Total Cookie Protection/Identity Protection, or TCP/IP for short.

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Olive oil is the most obvious one
Maybe an axiom as in being something we assume (because we can't/won't figure out whether it is actually true) this and base our decisions on this axiom.
Freight train implies cargo transport, while you’re generally correct from my point of view, I think the more apt comparison would be freight train vs. semi

Also, looks like your car gets ~230Wh / mile, that’s pretty efficient compared to teslas, what kind of EV do you have? Are teslas just that inefficient or are you including ICE hybrid engine use in that measurement? Model 3 gets ~315 - 350 Wh / mile
> Hobbyist subreddits are extremely valuable

I recently subscribed to r/AskElectronics and I have been amazed at the supportiveness of the community. Every time I've posted a picture of some stupid noob mistake I made, I get a deluge of responses helping me understand in detail what I did wrong, along with some good-natured stories of people remembering when they made the same mistake. It's lovely, I'd bake every one of them a pie if I could.
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I think this article is a lot more practical: https://learnui.design/blog/color-in-ui-design-a-practical-f...

Eric Kennedy does a great job of giving me rules-of-thumb to work with so that I don't feel like I'm just making arbitrary adjustments to numbers.

And I think the examples he provides look a lot better than the result of the original tutorial above.
>Whenever I hear these statements, it always sounds like "I need to have an identical copy of this skyscraper in order for me to be able to replace one tap on floor 42."

The building industry also has the problem the OP describes:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/yHGn1.gif

The problem as I see it is that people who go all in on unit tests tend to be dogmatic about it and suffer the above type of issue whereas the people who want, broadly speaking, to run things as realistically as possible are pretty aware of the real constraints.

Moreover modeling larger is also frequently cheaper because the real thing often comes for free while creating elaborate frequently changing unit test mocks has very high opex.
It's pretty amusing in the context of YC specifically, and less so HN, given that Coinbase is very likely to become the most valuable YC company to date.
Get them to install docker on the VM and add you to the docker group. You can now use docker like VMs to run tests.
Even if you have people doubling or tripling up the work on something useful, the end result is infinitely more useful than bruteforced hashes.
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For instance PostgreSQL's performance might be very different depending on the size of data query has to operate.
Also if you deal with something like search results, it gets pretty annoying to deal with "well, I don't have enough data locally for this particular thing I develop".

Again, talking here about the "run the world and click on things" approach vs developing against tests / API schemas / whatnot.
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Thanks, that's nice to hear. There are certainly generalizations that have arrisen, we're not building this out of thin air but with reference to a lot of work done over decades (semantics, standards, pre-existing tools). It's open source, there is significant infrastructure there that could be grabbed and re-factored or extended to meet other needs. Of course the whole project is also a test of the oft stated, rarely proven "open-source it and people will join/contribute" too ;).
I think it is important to shift AI ethics to become more of an investment but that requires more tooling to evaluate AI ethics problems and the business risks.
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M-Pesa was used by over 90% of Kenyan households in about 2 years after its launch. I could go on.

Mobile computing has changed the entire world; it’s not plainly obvious that cryptocurrency would change it even more or is substantially more difficult to execute on.
I grew up south of Ottawa and remember this storm well. Ice 10cm thick on downed power lines and transmission towers. I lived in a rural town south of Ottawa (Winchester) and school buses would be cancelled on any rain that happened when the temperature was below freezing. The literal first day of the ice rain (that lasted for a solid week) was on the first day we were supposed to go back after the xmas break. School was out for two weeks (so a straight month off). On top of that, it was the year of the Mike Harris teacher strikes, which meant we got a two week break a few months earlier. When we did eventually return to school, the army and requisitioned our gymnasium and they cooked us all free cafeteria food for two weeks.

Winchester was an Ontario Hydro hub, so I was only without power for about a day and a half (we had a wood stove, too). So this nerd had internet and video games. The only "tough" job I had to do was help my grandfather clear his driveway of the thick ice, which took hours (salt was impossible to come by at this point).
Yes it does but as someone else mentioned, it can be really challenging to work with. Its difficult to visualize the structure of the document. Its difficult to program against. This was one of the problems which I wanted to solve when I created unify-jdocs. Agreed that it may not do all the things that JSON schema does but it does all those which are required 90% of the time. Along with other things like not having to generate any model classes (code generation) and being able to read and write any path in a single line of code. And being able to merge JSON documents into another. Strong typing has its pros and cons. In my opinion, for complex JSON documents, going the strongly typed way makes making change difficult in the long run. Think of JSON documents the size of 3000 JSON paths going 10 levels deep etc. You can read more about this Java library at https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs.
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> I'm hopeful for a future of monetary pluralism.

My big concern about monetary pluralism is what happens to US citizens, when their day-to-day currency stops being used as the reserve currency for the world? I have trouble imagining any way in which that turns out good for me, as someone living and working in the US. Anything you can do to assuage my fears, since you seem to be educated on the matter?
This seems to come from thinking that Markup languages are not as important as programming languages. I find that misguided.
Sort of. There are many many people hyping Bitcoin (and various bitcoin-adjacent projects: mining rigs, wallets, dodgy unregulated exchanges, etc.), and most of them have a vested financial interest in it.

BTC didn't get to the price it is today on the backs of a few cypherpunks experimenting with decentralized digital currency technology.
This may be misunderstanding the function of PoW. Bitcoin PoW provides three things: selection, security, and incentive. The compute resource burn is an externality, although, it also ends up providing an important function, economic distribution. For PoW to work,it has to be hard to produce, easy to verify, and most importantly, attest to one and only one state of the blockchain. The last part is where this fails as PoW. The solution to a puzzle is meaningless if the same solution can be shown as the result of two different inputs. So the puzzle must be practically unique to each proposed block (infinite possibilities), and ‘fair’ to each proposal. If you can find a useful puzzle with these properties, please don’t hold back.
AING folks have been doing lucid dreaming for years, their Russian forum at forum.aing.ru has 400k messages, so if you're interested in the topic, there's something you can learn from them. They have a number of attempts to make contacts with each other while lucid dreaming.

You can check out the English version for their stuff here: https://obe4u.com
FWIW I understood and appreciated your highlight of this inaccurate sentence by reversing it into a short phrase.
Who said it was a challenge?
When does grunt work move beyond challenge to the point of not being worth it?
I got out of self hosting because my time is too valuable. It did teach me lots of new skills, so that was great!
However, somebody not wanting a time sink, is not them avoiding challenge.
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There's plenty of usefull work that we won't run out of.

SAT solving is the prime candidate, because we have A LOT of NP hard problems in our day to day lives.

Weather simulations are another one, drug research is another one.

For the latter I'd argue that if we're at a point where we've erredicated all disease, we've also transcended as a society to a point where money has become obsolete.
This lawsuit only covers up to 2019, when the Tether supply was only a fraction of what it is now.

It shows that Tether had no desire to correct the situation with the unbacked Tethers. Why does it matter why the Tethers were unbacked? The fact is that they were unbacked and Tether continued operating as if they were.

Why would anyone trust an institution that has already demonstrated they don’t care about backing and, moreover, that they’d rather hide that fact as much as possible until forced to reveal it.
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AAA piloted such a service, but there wasn't enough demand when you can tow an EV to a charger without the cost of rolling batteries on wheels to the EV [1].

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15346575/placebo-on-wheel... ("Placebo on Wheels: AAA Charging Trucks Seek to Remedy EV Range Anxiety, Prove Mostly Unneeded")
It has? Bitcoin isn’t an alternative to the existing system for people. It might be a digital alternative to gold for people hedging inflation or in failed states, but its transaction fee is just way too high to be a practical alternative to anything but, like, wire transfers (Visa and ACH are WAY cheaper except for huge transfers... and Bitcoin isn’t particularly fast, either). And this high cost is driven by the fundamental non-scalability of the blockchain which requires other layers for the little people (and this is partly why you have people doing business through large companies like coinbase or whatever instead of the vision of decentralized cyberpunk utopia where everyone is at the same level and can directly make transactions using just math... which is the part of the original Bitcoin white paper that was fascinating to me). It’s primarily NOT an alternative to the existing system except that, as a speculative investment, it’s crowding out other more productive physical investments.

I suppose it is helping people think outside the box, but I fear that Bitcoin is sucking a lot of air out of the room. We should be pushing for instant and extremely low-fee ACHs, alternatives to banks like credit unions where customers—as owners—hold more power, etc. Hopefully things move in that direction.

That startup people see cryptocurrency as a way to lock up rents by becoming new gatekeepers for the blockchain (like banks are for the traditional system) or whatever is really a betrayal of the hacker ethos IMHO.
Not personal, maybe your unfamiliarity with Docker means you're not the target audience. I mean getting people up to speed with Docker is a bit of an ocean to boil, and this project appears to be small of resources...
> That makes the assumption that these people were looking for news sources anyway.

It doesn't assume that, it assumes that they would have looked if they didn't get advice at the bus stop. If I have a cut and want to know if it needs stitches, I go to the hospital. If someone at the bus stop is a doctor and tells me that I don't need stitches, then I don't go to the hospital. However, I would have gone to the hospital if there wasn't a doctor at the bus stop.

News is the same. I want to keep up to date on the news. If Facebook doesn't show me the news, I have to go to a news site to get the news. However, if Facebook shows the news and I was going there anyways, then my news needs are taken care of incidentally.

> I can't provide evidence either way, but I would be entirely unsurprised if there were a large percentage of people who don't look for news with any regularity at all. They wern't interested in hitting up a news site.

I think you're right, but it's because they get enough news from Facebook. It might be enough news for you or me, or the kind of news we like, but it is for many people.

The interesting question is how many of them would look for news if Facebook stopped serving news.
It depends on your usecase. Containers for me has nothing to do with this.

I use containers for sites like AWS where it doesn't understand the concept that I might want to switch regions or accounts but only in some tabs so that I can work on multiple parts of the network.

This obviously does nothing for that.
> The world would certainly be a strange and sad place if the best thing for everyone to do with their wealth was hoard it in currency.

Wealth is never held in currency, ever. It's a physically impossible thing.

When a person holds savings, it doesn't prevent humans from working, or raw resources from being used, or land from being purchased -- it just means that person is not redeeming a claim on those resources at the time. Their failure to redeem at a point in time does not preclude others from doing so: otherwise said, for every debit there's a credit.

But historically, you don't have to take my word for it. The United States had deflation and 0% interest rates on government bonds for 100+ years during the period between the National Banks and the Fed. You held money in cash at 0%, because when you purchased goods later, your dollars were worth more.
We tried for several months but after starting and following a workout regimen for a few weeks... it just happened!

It's amazing what a little exercise can do for your body!
If you're on a mac or Linux system, you likely have a JSON formatter already installed

`python3 -m json.tool somefile.json` or `cat foo.json | python3 -m json.tool` will print it in "one line per node" format. 3.9 introduces a --sort-keys switch for sorted objects also.
My job title is "technical chap". I have no job description apart from "make all the things work". I could be replaced very easily ;)
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Oh yea, and also you get that fuzzy "I clicked random things around, so everything should work, because I run everything locally" feeling. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Such a terrible advice. I've been several times involved in companies where this approach was followed, and where you could only run your own service with mocks, and we had incredibly better results with the latter approach by a far, far, far amount.

Just imagine an Amazon developer running amazon in its own laptop (or cluser, or server, or whatever... multiply it by the number of devs... it is insane).