skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were quoted saying the move "cements [their] Irish roots [and] provides enough space to gradually expand our team."

It'd be a breath of fresh air if CEO's could just say it like it is. I think more people would trust their brand and be more willing to invest in them. Our inner monologue wouldn't have had to fill in the blank with a possible hidden motive. Addressing the most common reason why companies "move" to Ireland could have been an opportunity to build trust.
Same heuristic applies to HN accounts.
Sure I'll try: schema, Master data management, thoughtfullness of upstream and downstream usage, potentially optimization...
Used to think elections were the feedback loop to address these sorts of problems.

That is no longer clear.
The Black Chamber: a brief history of crypto from Ancient Rome to today
EU and US: They have both been talking about it in spurts, and they do wake up every ~6 months when the time changes, but no serious action anywhere.
It seems to be a perennial problem, as I was looking back through old tweets and saw that in 2010 I was complaining about the same thing.

In my search results today, they're doing a good job of putting wikipedia style facts onto my screen, while simultaneously pushing wikipedia results further away from the top. I'm usually shown lots of "news" related results - maybe some kind of optimization for temporal relevance?

It's hard to know how to respond to a request for something like "octopus hat". As myself, I know I would prefer to see results from Etsy over Amazon for this particular query today. As an outsider, I don't know how anyone would know that without being around me for some time, and knowing the exact mood/mindset I'm in at that moment. In comes all of the data collection to make this algorithmically/heuristically possible. It's a bit concerning that everything coming up at the top of the results for this query are trying to sell me something - making, thinking & doing are falling way further down the page.

It makes me curious what a naked search experience would be like these days, without the personalized bubble. I try it from time to time via DuckDuckGo, and when deeply curious I suspect I'll try to navigate Google through tor.
Technology rarely wins against policy. The government can and does use force. It’s no skin off their back to lock you up for a few years of they suspect you’ve got money you’re not “sharing” with them.

In America all they have to do is ask you if you have crypto, and you tell the truth or risk going to jail.
The better solution is they both use their own mastodon instances with different rules and the instances block each other.
Interviewing Albert Einstein via GPT-3
You're more likely to go fishing in a data lake. Nobody fishes in a warehouse.
This is an entirely different point than mine about harvest.

It is entirely possible it is in some way related to human activity. It is also possible that it is completely unrelated. Booms, busts, and radical ecosystem changes do happen all the time in nature.
Did a quick search because I was curious, this was the first result:

> Data lakes and data warehouses are both widely used for storing big data, but they are not interchangeable terms. A data lake is a vast pool of raw data, the purpose for which is not yet defined. A data warehouse is a repository for structured, filtered data that has already been processed for a specific purpose.
> When I soldered a pin header to the hole and rip it [off], I could nicely see the cylinder filled with solder covered by the copper from the hole. Again – just like you do it on a pro board.

This made me chuckle. Tearing out the vias is definitely something that happens, but never something I've meant to do...
> I feel like I'm saying "the emperor has no clothes", but doesn't anyone else think this NFT art thing is bullshit?

I don't think the implementation is interesting. I don't think the technology is interesting. I think the concept is extremely interesting, though not in the context of the NFT linking a user to a digital artwork.

If people believe a product has value, then the product has value. If consumers are willing to pay money for it, then the product has value.

People are willing to exert considerable effort to submitting the first comment on a popular youtuber's latest video. People are willing to spend considerable money in order to "own" unique items on roblox. None of these items have any marginal cost to the creator, the hard work has been done, but they are an interesting auxiliary product to the creator's product.

I think an interesting intersection lies between the thinking that lead to NFT, the idea of community and the implementation of smart contracts. Being part of a community, with bragging rights and smart contracts and agreements and sanctions and a culture and so on, becomes much more interesting if people are willing to take the leap to believe that the investment is worth the value they get in return. I think NFT is the proof of this, and the implications of this worry me deeply.
Yeah, I can picture the dude trying to make the national grid something else than a bitcoin input stream...

Crypto isnt bad for the environment, it s more terrible for energy efficiency. I d rather spend what miners spend on an entire justice / police / law system to ensure contracts are trusted and enforced.

The one thing that is sure here is that when people try to collect on their newfoubd wealth, there might be some price pressure making everyone poor again.
The energy density of uranium is so high that the amount you have to mine compared all the other metals that are mined for even renewables when building a power plant is tiny. Heck you can find rocks in the mountains of Montana and Colorado with so much natural uranium they have that greenish black color from so much natural uranium.
Wise words. Information should be treated as toxic effluvia and HIPAA compliance (as well as GDPR and related laws) should be considered as superfund cleanup procedures. They are expensive, complex, and fraught with legal risk.

Don't collect information, don't store it, unless absolutely necessary and you can't find an expert certified third party to handle it for you.
I wonder if it holds up at the state level.

Each state has different firearm availability and laws.

Some states have very liberal gun laws, including automatic or semi-automatic weapons and concealed carry. Others have very strict laws, and with limited types of guns available and a loaded gun in a car or concealing a handgun would involve jail time.
Being conservative does not mean being a hindu nationalist
I'm going to judge this book by the cover. "False Alarm" is not the title of balanced work.

vs something like "Analysis and review of historical climates data and indicators of human impact"
Did you read the article?

"In India, despite government threats of a ban, transaction volumes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in crypto-investments, according to industry estimates."

All they will end up doing is push crypto into the dark markets. They simply do not have the capacity (or are sophisticated enough) to go after the crypto holders.
The recent interview with Nirmala Sitharaman, the current Finance Minister of India, claims otherwise in an interview given yesterday.

Here's the interview:
https://youtu.be/kHYQ730R-aA?t=1855

So I don't know who's more senior than the FM of India that Reuters is getting their info from.
Hospitals wish they could destroy your data as well, state laws dictate that hospitals and doctors retain the data, in some states for as long as 15 years.

Hospitals would love to treat you as new patient every time through the door, that way it’s your responsibility to inform them of everything and anything that might impact care, it would eliminate a ton of liability for the hospital.

Start writing you state government officials and get your laws changed.

If worked for a social networking company, and I work for a hospital, you are a fool if you think hospitals have more data. At the social networking company we knew about all you health issues, we knew about your affairs, your spouses affairs, everything you’ve bought in the last 10 years, we knew if your children were actually yours, everything your children were up to, we ankles to n all your text messages, all those years their chatting you platforms, we had reciprocal agreements with them all. We knew everything you ever searched for, every porn site you visited, all your fetish’s, how much you made, your bank amounts. EVERYTHING.
And to try and control their monetary policy. They mostly fear what can happen to their central banks of crypto takes off and they don’t have a “handle” in it.
I guess at a place like Google, going above your manager makes sense. Like, where the fuck else are you going to go? It’s sort of only down from there, so certainly take the opportunity to maximize your career in that event.

We are not far off in thinking. Do what makes sense strategically. I’ll stand by the point it is pointless to do this kind of stuff at a bumble fuck Fortune 500 company. Know the battlefield, best of luck.
> We can afford the current social safety net we have pretty easily.

Really? Taxes havent covered the budget in years.

Correction: 2 decades
> Hindu nationalism

Bad policies are not Hindu Nationalism. Also, the electricity is very scarce in India, most villages doesn't have 24h power and even big cities sometimes have issues keeping the lights on. With this in mind, banning mining is not a bad idea at all.
Key observation. In recessions (liquidity crunches) the cake grows more slowly. Maybe if we increase liquidity a lot (i.e. print money) and give it to the bottom tiers who will spend it (increase velocity) then the cake will grow faster!

We don't have good models for how the economy actually works. Until 2008 most models didn't even have a financial sector. Currently economic models can't accurately predict the velocity of money or even explain changes after the fact very well. We still have no consensus among economists as to what causes recessions.

So this is an experiment but the claims that it is "obviously" going to lead to inflation are flat wrong. We are going to learn a lot from this experiment. If we need to pull back to bring down inflation, we have tools for that.
> In this scenario, would one's rate be set in BTC, or fiat?

You set the rate in USD, and do the currency conversion upon sending.

> I'm struggling to understand how a (non-crypto) business could want to hire a contractor at - let's say - 0.016 BTC/day

You’re right, BTC is too volatile to set the price in it in advance. But it is a perfectly good payment method.

It’s true that if you need the money you receive in BTC to feed your family tomorrow or they starve, then BTC is not convenient and too risky due to price fluctuations. But if you’re a reasonably compensated professional or a business with healthy margins, there’s very little downside in receiving 10—20% of money as crypto, and potentially very high upside.
I'm always amused at the lack of imagination of people that ask "what could possibly go wrong?" yet come up with nothing leading them to make posts like the GP.
The larger abalone had already been wiped out in the Monterey area by sea otters and withering syndrome even before the purple urchins ate most of the kelp. Otters are the primary predators for abalone and when the otters were hunted nearly to extinction then the abalone population exploded. But then otters were protected so they ate many of the abalone, and withering syndrome killed others. I still occasionally see small abalone while diving.

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Laboratories/Shellfish-...
> You can't have all the modern day luxuries (cars, airplanes, electricity 24/7)

I'm still feeling this argument out a bit, but... what can an individual actually do about it? Even if you look beyond how little any individual family contributes to pollution, in comparison to even some of the simplest industrial ventures.

I can't do without electricity 24x7, because I live in the north. I'd freeze to death. Think the recent crap Texas had to go through, for around 8 months of the year.

I can't do without a car because my commute is around 20 miles one way. I - quite literally - can't afford to live closer to work; the prices are on par with the bay area ($600,000 1,000 sqft condos), despite living in a very sparsely populated state with "competitive" wages in the $80k range for experienced software developers.

I could (and have) done without airplanes, but the alternative (if I want to keep my job) is to drive for around 18 hours. Not terribly friendly. The bus is closer to 48 hours, with prices on par with the airlines.

It is, for all intents and purposes, impossible for me (for a vast majority of people, I'd posit) to live without a job, without electricity, and without a car. And, realistically, I have very little control over my house, my car, my food, etc; these are instead largely based on my salary.

I get what's been made available by the market to me at a price that I can afford. It's not as if the market will change to less profitable products just because they're a bit better for the world. And it's not as if I can suddenly afford more expensive products just because they're better for the world.
If you're interested in more Wirth I recommend his book, Compiler Construction. It's a great small piece on building a language from scratch.
Yes but the question is can we now not trust videos too? (Of course that was already answered with the first deepfake but soccer-mom deepfakes would be a whole other level of "videos can't be trusted".
I would expect that the subs don’t need to be interdicted directly, but rather just tracked and the land-based operations raided. Not interdicting then directly leaves open the chance to trace both ends of the supply chain.
Extortionist Journalist Picks a Fight
This is exactly the perfect use-case for Monero. A transparent ledger (like BTC & ETH) could very well lead to serious legal trouble.

Unfortunately, fiat on-ramp/off-ramp will still be an issue. Not impossible to overcome, but certainly a huge hindrance to crypto adoption in India.
Assuming this is the book "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" I don't think you can seriously take it as a piece of serious balanced research.

The book titles itself based on what it is, which is the same thing as hundreds of other books peddling cherry picked facts to say that the "establishment" is wrong on climate change. These books take whatever micro-divergence from climate models is currently being observed and trump it up as a refutation of all climate models and of the entire macro-trend.

15 years ago it was the lack of deep ocean warming which has now been observed. I'm sure that in 2021 there are innumerable discrepancies and poorly understood phenomena which could be used for this purpose.
Except that the species that essentially defeated nature and rose above it is defined by our ability to cooperate. Sure, competition is common in nature but that's why it can't win against a cooperative species. Cooperation is an ideal and its bizarre to me that we place competition on the pedestal that we do.

Competition gets you strong (or dead) individuals but weak societies.
Sure it won't change for individuals but if you're a business and want to accept Bitcoin, it will be flat out illegal.
There's a huge difference between 'standard practice' and 'technically within your rights.' If it were standard practice, there would be no shocked opinion in Ireland and abroad.
I'm not sure what you base "Technology rarely wins against policy" on. There was a huge war on drugs in America, but people figured how to grow pot indoors, and the dark market thrived, you can even buy drugs off the internet and have it delivered to your home.
I'm not certain that an SVG file counts as a web browser.
Windows itself does not, 3rd party firewall/HIDS software (ZoneAlarm, Outpost, etc) for Windows has done this by intercepting APIs to do things like call executables with internet access, OpenProcess calls, raw disk IO, registry writes to startup entries, etc.
Yeah to get wireless AC, I had to install a modded firmware in my aging T430.

Here's hoping/cerebrating that's forever in the past.
What the shit is that incoherent bot-generated garbage about? I quote:

> Knighting one's trophies by going to websites that are found on a high search engine usually results to a grand total of over 200 examples of people arguing about who they should get MLG Reduce Jedore's or sungdrive lightlyLink Je tried 2 jesus takers, Grukkis and Saint Michael he stayed in hiccupWith the weight off krush or koMaSpirit lostin his health up
Tesla batteries are sweet, but ~22 days isn’t long enough if you’re off grid full time. I am trying to keep power generation 100% solar rather than burn diesel/gas to charge batteries when I can. So 2.4kwh per day might require roughly 500 watts of additional solar panels in a sunny locale. More solar could be added, but there are some space and weight limitations on a vehicle. I’m at 1400 watts of solar now.

Anyhow, just hoping they can figure out how to get the average power draw down over time.
> Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing

"Didn't do enough" is an opinion, and the satellites you saw were ones that hadn't reoriented themselves and so aren't representative of how they'll look in the long term as you implied they are
Any theory that suggests a particle causes illness is still unproven.

Any theory that suggests particles jump from human to human and cause illness is also unproven.

All studies where they’ve attempted to prove it, have failed.

Almost all of viral theory rests on a study where mice trapped in dark chamber got sick when TB particles were piped in. Never been replicated.
I was gifted some Philips Hue lights a few years ago. I set one up on my nightstand to turn on at sunrise (actually earlier in the winter, sunrise is the latest I want it set to). It's a much more pleasant way to wake up (with it fading in over 10 minutes or so) than an actual alarm clock. Of course, it can't travel with you but it's not a bad option for the home.
Ah yep, it's Lomborg, he's always controversial in this area, although he isn't denying anthropogenic climate change. Just be aware that he's a lecturer in statistics, not a climate scientist, and he's had issues in the past with the scientific accuracy of his books.

> DCSD made its decision in January 2003. In it, DCSD found that, by customary scientific standards, the defendant had acted at odds with good scientific practice in his systematically one-sided choice of data and in his arguments. If the book was intended to be evaluated as science and not as a contribution to the general debate, then in addition
the scientific message had been so distorted that the objective criteria for establishing scientific dishonesty had been met.
> DCSD did not find a sufficient basis, however, on which to establish that the defendant had misled his readers with intent or gross negligence. DCSDnoted, in this context, that in the preface to the book the defendant had himself drawn attention to the fact that he was no expert in environmental issues.

https://ufm.dk/en/publications/2004/files-2004/annual-report...
The problem with Monero is the lack of auditability (of token supply), no one knows if there was an accidental bug in the code that is inflating the supply.
I suspect it's tolerated because it works better; IMO the value of planning is something cargo-culted from engineering fields where changing something after it's partially built is costly. In software, usually the cheapest way to figure out whether something will work is to try it, which is in stark contrast to a field like physical construction.
I don't know a hell of a lot about Italy, but I don't think it's the utopia you're imagining.
It doesn't say what browser they're talking about

Also... what in the world is this thread format?
Mysterious Insignias and Symbols from the Classified World
Well, I guess the crazy correlation between initial server-side tech choice and valuation has just gotten a lot crazier: https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218

Edit: Based on the published data I can find, Stripe and Coinbase alone have added more to their valuations in the last year than the total valuation of the top 50 YC-funded startups including Stripe and Coinbase was last year.
The podcast "How to save a Planet" did an interesting two parter on kelp farming as a climate solution. If anyone is interested:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/94h3rvm/kelp-...
Weekly Notes 006 – Getting to Alpha and Choosing what to work on
Comparing bitcoin to Theranos is just silly.
This reaction sounds very analogous to me to when someone complains about what two consenting same-sex adults do in their bedroom.
>I did not say that I contend nothing but that I did not contend that X could be

You don't have to say that you contended nothing in order to contend nothing. Simply by not contending anything and creating some random variable X and not even hinting at would X could be is equivalent to contending nothing.

>Now you insist that you meant science and logic to be by implication a part of philosophy

Just because "logic" is part of "religionology" doesn't mean it lends any form of credibility to it. "Religionology" is still crap as a whole even though someone decided to conveniently include "logic" as a part of it. It's the same with philosophy. The whole thing is illegitimate as a whole and "logic" conveniently being part of it doesn't change that the fact that overall philosophy is akin to psuedo science.

You can't even say Scientology is completely wrong. There has got to be moral tenants even in Scientology that are correct. But none of these things allows Scientology to be even remotely legitimate.

>by popular convention

That's your type class? So Philosophy is the study of anything that is "popular." That's weak. So anything we humans find as popular is now philosophy.

The relevance of my argument is that Scientology has popularity. Creationism has popularity. Anime has popularity. There is no legitimate academic field on earth that just picks and chooses what to think about based purely on popularity. And this is precisely where the problem lies.

Because all the fields of study in philosophy are chosen by "popularity" or aka "arbitrarily" you get these strange lumps of studies that have nothing to do with each other. How does logic have anything to do with aesthetics? Why call both of these things "philosophy"

Popular convention is essentially the same as anything goes. So Philosophy is essentially a mishmash of deep thoughts of whatever people deem popular. This is the conclusion given by your own rationale.

>Do you have the same demands on your own area of expertise? Would you mind formalizing it non-arbitrarily? I guess that would help me understand your expectations.

Yes. There is a much more narrow set of demands within any field of expertise. If I'm an aerospace engineer it means building machines related to flight, not building machines related to what's popular convention.

What other field on earth is basically the study of the meaning of X where X anything that is "popular convention"? Literally that's like the broadest definition ever. Comes close to the study of "everything" which is essentially the most pointless field of study.
There are a few places that I have visited that are now rarely used by humans, yet the activity of the spammers/bots is still alive and well to the point it is litterally the only traffic. To the obvious point, that you have to seriously wonder if the maintainers of the sites/platforms are not in on it.
Without a fiat off ramp trading crypto becomes less attractive as a speculative investment.