skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that it is intrinsic, and to argue about that, we have to think about what it is that makes a US dollar a US dollar, and not anything else.

It's clearly not the piece of paper, because I can get many pieces of paper at the store for much less than a dollar. It's not the ink either, since even if I were to get the same ink that's used to make US dollars, mine would be worthless. It's not the pattern of the ink on paper either, as even a photocopy of a bill is worthless. It's not the combination of the paper, ink, and pattern of the ink on paper either, as even if one were to were to pay their taxes with a facsimile of a real bill, they would get rejected.

The intrinsic value of a US dollar comes from the fact that the US government is saying that these specific pieces of paper and metal are special. These special pieces of paper and coins are the only ones that they will accept for payment of taxes, and that's the intrinsic value of them.
I think I understand your issue now. And yes, in that case I totally agree - all else being equal, an employee of the outsourcing company will care less about your success than your own employee.

But now you're comparing employees, not employees and contractors.
Autism is correlated with advanced parental age. Perhaps that improves the evolutionary adaptiveness of a child with a systematizing mindset who will innovate long-term benefits.

Consider it. What do old parents imply? Long life expectancy, social stability, slow life strategy. A systematizing kid with low EQ will do well in such a small tribe. Relationships will be simple and long term investments will pay off.

Now look at how fatherless kids turn out well-adapted for a fast life strategy. That's probably a basic mammalian trait for social species with pair-bonding. Look at how young male elephants are feral unless properly led by old bulls.

But I bet autism is exclusive to humans and maybe chimps.
The universe doesn't need anything, but life has a 'need' to spread everywhere it can.
It would be way better to not have to "game" the value there if it is going to be garbage data.
> Designed to ensure food, housing, sustainability, and security security for the global populace and cut back on runaway inequality

Why do you think a deflationary currency built on staking assets would reduce inequality?
It's simple, you can't ban it. You can ban the on-ramps and off-ramps, you can't ban p2p transactions.
Per this article Mark Juncosa has lead the development of the satellites

https://qz.com/1627570/how-autonomous-are-spacexs-starlink-s...
Governments do not want to ban things, they want to have them subjected tk kyc, aml , taxes if possible.
They are also slow to adapt, laws cannot be passed with the stroke of a pen.

And btc is not really anonymous.

The government does not need monetary policy to be in charge. They need firepower and a monopoly on law enforcement.
‘A probing speculative mind” is the rule for what goes into philosophy? I’m sure that the people who came up with a technical basis for creationism also were probing and quite speculative making creationism a philosophy.

Some vague “ a probing speculative mind” is not a good definition for a field of study. It’s way to broad and lacks preciseness.
Reminds me of The Hhitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

> Belgium is the rudest word in the Universe, yet by a strange coincidence, also the name of a country on Earth. In the Secondary Phase of the radio series, it is stated as "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means, and in serious screenplays.
Package managers have existed on Linux since... I don't know but I've never used a Linux distro without one.

The difficulty isn't technical, it's social, if you build a third party store you have something like Homebrew or Cocoa. It works, but it's never going to be used by the majority of users.
For posterity of these comments, I did not mean that form of ATM.
This is why the raise in minimum wage should be compensated by also offering government jobs that do pay minimum wage or slightly less. Given enough time people will actually end up getting their minimum wage or even more than minimum wage.

However the talks about a $15 minimum wage actually have one very interesting detail. There are no plans for an immediate hike. It's going to be raised over time which means companies have enough time to adapt. It also sends a clear psychological signal to everyone that the times of cheap labor are going to be over because it is something that is happening year by year.
When it comes to cenrsohpip and selective enforcement of rules, twitter is the worst of the social networks. THE CEO has lied about ghosting and so many other things. terrible company.
According to Wikipedia, when he worked in advertising he wrote the slogan "Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water.".
It is not fixed yet. Twitter lets you decide if you want to appeal the block or delete the tweet. Many people will appeal.
Ya. I started chewing thru History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast last year. It's been great. Learning that many of our current debates are millennia old helped me calm down.

Regrettably, since I skipped college, my awareness of the classics and liberal arts is very deficient.

Now I firmly believe K-12 curriculum should include (age appropriate) ethics, civics, classics, logics, epistemology, etc. In response to "fake news", some progressives are advocating "media literacy". That's not nearly ambitious enough.
Yes you can, you could shut down access to seed peers IPs, to miner pool IPs, at the exchange level, etc.
Grocery stores stayed open but with limited capacity. Pharmacies stayed open, but small independent groceries and specialty food stores closed.

People were asked to queue 2m apart and wait your turn. We didn't bitch and moan about it, we just did it. 4 weeks of hard lockdown then 2 more weeks of slightly lifted restrictions, and in exchange we got a full summer of nearly completely free movement with cases being counted on one hand per day.
Sure, as long as it's not legislated (see 'Volksverhetzung').

I mean, my subjective judgement could tell me that you're a fucking faggot and that I should beat the living shit out of you. It would be right for me to have that subjective judgement, but it can't be for monopolies, nor governments.
so it’s just like most other art then
Worth also pointing out: That's the 9th flight of Booster 1051. And it had a perfect landing.

The goal of this design of Falcon 9 is to handle 10 flights with minimum refurbishment. Right now, it looks like they're within a couple months of achieving that goal for the first time, with booster 1049 close as well, at 8 flights.

SpaceX is soon going to reach a point that they don't need to build more Falcon 9 boosters.
What do you mean by pool IPs?

edit: after your clarification, you can easily use tor, IP addresses can be easily changed, miner's don't have to use the same IP address, they can solve the block wherever they want and broadcast it from wherever they want. There is even satellite blockchain connections now.

At exchange level, that's what I mean by on-ramp and off-ramp, that would only push exchanges to decentralized platforms and to black markets.
Agree that his premise is entirely an economic one. From first principles, nuclear energys's marginal cost is very inexpensive (similar to renewables).

What's basically needed to bring the cost of nuclear down is scale, investing more in production. This is why new approaches to mass producing small scale reactors is so interesting. It should allow nuclear to get competitive with renewables, and having a diverse energy base is definitely a good thing.

Also, fusion holds the most hope for massively decreasing the cost of energy. It's a game changer, and it's close. It's possible that fusion allows things like mass carbon capture, powering reforestation efforts, and more.
Yeah there are a number of various factions across the US that vocally want to drive society in a direction actively hostile to me and my friends. Many of these have subgroups that engage in military-like training. Best fucking believe I’ve thought about fucking off to somewhere out of the way and building a fort recently.
Ask HN: Why is Twitter locking anyone who tweets “memphis”?
That's not really possible to enforce. The smart contract is loaded into the Ethereum network. Anyone on the network (who is rich enough in network terms) can place a bid, and the winning bid will be automatically selected by the contract code.
Furthermore, at that level of wealth, it's pretty much just keeping score. I'm not going to feel sorry for someone with $450M even if, as in Jassy's case, he thoroughly deserves it and more.
Isn't this basically thread-sized "EL Wire" [0] woven into a fabric?

The hard part presumably is turning it into an addressable matrix, not simply weaving it into a fabric.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescent_wire
They really didn't. And they certainly don't work now; just look at how completely overrun with spam Usenet is these days.
Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code [pdf]
I come to the conclusion that Twitter is user-hostile based not on complaints but rather by details mentioned in this post (user suspensions in response to posting 'memphis' in a tweet.) It doesn't take much else to make this determination.

I will note that your thought exercise is a statment, least in part, of Masnick's Impossibility Theorem (Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well):

- Any moderation policy will anger someone

- Content moderation is inherently subjective

- Errors at scale result in many errors over time

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masni...
>A store of value is not threatening

Quite so. After all, every other store of value is mostly owned by the ruling class. The way to neutralize the threat of a new store of value is simply to own it. I don't think it is too late for that. Elites already own 6.5% of the total supply: https://bitcointreasuries.org/
> promptly responding to merge requests

This counts as work to me though?? Like there's something that feels like it's not real work because I'm not writing code, I'm reading it. But it's 100% real actual work; if you weren't doing it they'd have to hire someone else to do it.
Is Lego CAD, website has some pictures: https://www.leocad.org/
If you did care enough to debate about it, that's okay.
People forget that government authority comes from their monopoly on the right to bust down your door, take your physical possessions, and imprison you. Sure, you might have billions of dollars worth of BTC, but that's no good for you from the inside of a prison cell or if the government prevents you from acquiring the physical possessions that wealth normally lets you buy.

If you come up with some way to cheat the tax man, the tax man will come up with a way to make you pay interest and penalties. One man can evade all of the taxes, and all people can evade some of the taxes, but all people can't evade all of the taxes. The state always wins and will always take as much of a cut of the economy as it wants to.
My explanation is that Bitcoin is precisely the opposite of anonymous. If everyone started to use a currency like this it would almost impossible to hide transactions without obviously using something like a "bitcoin laundry service" which in itself would be easy to make illegal.

Essentially, you want to guarantee a way for governments to be able to track every transaction, this would be the way to do it.

That being said, I am not anti bitcoin, I just don't see it as a privacy thing.
The same go for modern conventional warfare.
Technically governments can't ban anything but they can discourage anyone from doing something by levying massive penalties if they are caught. Which in practice means those without power go to jail for it while those with power can do whatever they want with it.
Demystifying Page Load Performance with WProf [pdf]
Everyone always says nuclear is expensive but what if the world (or significant portion of it) decided to go all in and build enough nuclear to replace fossil fuels in the next 2 decades. What would the price be then?
> Yeah, apparently just paint one rotor blade differently to make it stand out and birds will stay clear [1]

The study you're citing was only studied 4 wind turbines, while the evidence does point towards this working, I wouldn't say that the existing evidence is conclusive. Also, the turbines with the darker blades still killed birds, just less bird than the turbines with standard blades.
> No, actually I mentioned it because I thought you skipped out on the fact that money isn't a static amount which we drain out with UBI in this quote:

You can’t print your way to GDP. If you’re suggesting the government just issue the extra money without funding it, you’re just diluting everyone’s existing money because you haven’t increased the production of the economy. Constant issuance of amounts this big needs to be funded or the massive amount of demand for the same fixed amount of goods and services will just cause hyper inflation.

And if you’re arguing that giving people UBI will make them work more and not less (enough to account for the GDP loss), that’s a pretty extraordinary claim that hasn’t been backed up by any ongoing UBI experiments.

> But thanks for assuming I'm arguing in bad faith, lol.

I’m not. I’m pointing out the incredible road block for UBI and you’re refusing to address it. It would fundamentally alter the economy to become the highest taxed of any first world countries and we would have the largest monetary entitlements per capita ever. Nothing like this has ever worked, none of the communist/socialist states (even at their peaks) gave out this much in income.

People who are against UBI are concerned with that. It has nothing to do with lack of empathy.

The problem with UBI is that it’s not solving a particular problem so there are no efficiencies to be gained. Like if we wanted to solve housing, we could have the Army go out and build houses at scale and the per house costs could be quite low. No such economies of scale come into play with UBI.

You’ll find more support for federal government built housing and federal government provide food than you will for UBI when the reality sinks in of what you’re asking the middle class to sacrifice.
I'm in Wisconsin, just got it, and am seeing 65-115 down, 15-40 up. I was hoping it would be better than Hughesnet, but I didn't expect it would be quite this good. I did have about a five minute downtime yesterday. Not too shabby!
"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
Not everyone who tweets it gets blocked. It's not clear why.
Fair enough about not focusing on dereministic/not deterministic, although I would still like to know your opinion on it.

As far as I can see it, both a deterministic and non deterministic reality can't possibly have free will. Is this fundamentally a false dichotomy then (there's some other category or interval to reality that isn't covered by deterministic/non-deterministic)?

You can't really use your free will as an argument for reality not being ( deterministic OR not deterministic ) since your feelings of being free to pick X instead of Y could potentially be an illusion.

I.E. you think you have free will, but enough computing power would be able to predict all the things you'll decide or the relevant probability distribution
If I get called at a weekend for say an hour or so, I get a choice - either 6 hours salary or a day off in lieu.

If it's a 5 minute call I don't bother with anything official, just have a couple of hours off during the week.
Cool cat sprite!
The post glosses over the most obvious explanation: because any serious and widespread ban will cause its price to soar, and this will be both an embarrassment to the state(s) in question and, if it truly is threatening in some way, make it moreso.

I'm astonished at the way this is hand-waved:

> Remember, if governments truly believed Bitcoin were a threat, they would outlaw it and shut down cryptocurrency exchanges. This would crater prices and liquidity. It would not be the end of Bitcoin of course, but it would be the end of Bitcoin’s dream of displacing gold.

...what? Is there any example of government banning something and that thing later appearing in an illicit market at a lower price? I can't think of one.
> He was voted 10th greatest Briton in a national poll there in 2002

It was a TV competition the first round of which was a survey of 30,000 people. The voters who got him on the list and to 10th place probably aren't that many people to call “monsters”. (You were probably referring to all Britons other than the 9 ahead of him, but that’s simply the wrong set.)
Not every country controls its own currency [1]. Sovereignty and monetary authority are distinct.

(I’m personally increasingly convinced that the U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status no longer benefits America [2].)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador

[2] https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/56856
Sure you can. Banning doesn't mean eradicating. Making it illegal or taxed heavily would push it underground and tank adoptions. People will still be able to break the law and use it, but no businesses will invest.

In fact its extremely easy to go after users seeing as its a public ledger and all that. You can claim some laundering schemes will protect users but any significant movement of money will be trackable unless your opsec is perfect.
It's still not just a linear feed, though. Years ago it was just a reverse-chronological feed of things your friends post. Now the ordering is "algorithmic". I can't think of any good reason to reorder posts other than to try to increase engagement, which is the problem we're talking about here.
The problem is not about understanding the concept such as "...we must all cooperate and see to it that everyone does his fair share..." because it is not a complicated one itself. The same concept has been reflected in some Hollywood movies and cartoons. The real issue is why in reality human are not embracing it and even behaving quite opposite although such a concept is very easy to understand. There could be some reasons related to how we evolved till today and not many people really understand.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t WhoIsGuard been free via Namecheap for some time? Both on registration and renewal?

Is this new service also free? If not, I’d conclude the real motive is $$$

Been happy with Namecheap, beyond the slow creep of prices.
I refused to work free overtime for a shitty quality control job and they fired me.

Best thing they could’ve done, now I have a great job with no expectation of overtime! I do much more effective work too.
They are probably talking about the Matrix.org instance being slow at fetching messages for you, additionally to the delay needed to get keys for them in encrypted rooms.

This is far nicer on smaller home servers, but matrix.org is the "default experience" of element and that's what people are judging it by.
wavefunction says> "She was of course pointing it at other people on purpose..."

Written as if she had some malevolent intent, which is absurd.

But this is what makes handguns so useful: even a hardened criminal begins to look for the exit when he sees even the most naieve person pointing a handgun randomly. Guns are indeed a great equalizer.
One that hurts poor people more than wealthy - since wages are last to inflate. Additionally, wealthy people are still able to afford necessities during times of high inflation.
That doesn't get you to saying that one is better than the other.
A lot of (most?) tech industry workers change jobs every 2-3 years and develop no particular attachment to or long-term plans for remaining at a company.
It seems to me there is one important reason which isn't mentioned here. Attempting to ban Bitcoin would just confirm the need for its existence, giving it a ton of credibility and making it all the more compelling. Any ban attempt would simply be counterproductive.
No bitcoin was not starting a new shadow financial system. Op has the wrong idea. You don't base such a system on the most transparent money the world has ever seen. Why do people even tech people think that bitcoin is shadow money when it's traçable and designed to be so? That's such a mystery. I think people want it to be shadow so they can blame it or just that they like conspiracies and illuminati.
Enforcement has been light. Companies are still living in fear of an uncertain regime that means whatever the government body accusing you of violating says it means. A primary function of law is to give you certainty of your obligations.
OK, so it's perhaps possible to ban it by completely changing the nature of the internet (and hoping that each block isn't beamed down from satellites). If that's the yardstick, then I think it's not unreasonable to simply say it can't plausibly be banned.
The old internet with webforums for particular topics, where the moderators knew the posters, was a better model.
Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
> philosophy of the art of words and ideas

Nice.

Art is short for artifact, meaning human created. So of course philosophy is an art.

The "what is art" debate gets turgid when it drifts into "fine art" vs "pop art". Whatever. It's all art. Making distinctions is sophistry.
The germ theory of disease is also well established.

For SARS-CoV-2, while there are still some uncertainties about precisely how important different modes of transmission are, it's clear that it's a respiratory disease. Quarantine works to stop transmission. Lockdowns like the one in Wuhan or those in Australia work, because they stop infected people from coming into close proximity with susceptible people. This much is understood, despite whatever other uncertainties there are.
This is a well-written article by Natan Sharansky on the realities of having to be a "double-thinker" in the former USSR.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/nat...
First step: figure out if you are a covered entity or a business associate, or neither. If not, the law doesn't apply to you. However, you may still want to follow its guidelines.

it's an onerous law and many people now cite it when they don't want to provide information, even if the law doesn't apply to them.
This is a bad article. Governments are pushing back by trying to destroy the fungibility of bitcoin through blocklists and kyc
>Basically a man fully dedicated to his job 37hrs/week creates about 1 new position a year, every year, because he makes the processes so efficient that we serve 2x more customers

For how long can an employee, ever year, double his efficiency and the amount of customers he serves? That just doesn't sound sustainable.

>as a nation

Which nation?
In Romania most of the mortgage loans are floating rate, tracking the 6 month ROBOR (equivalent of EURIBOR).
Sure, but if you ban the on-ramps and off-ramps you've mostly blocked the ways people can obtain and use bitcoins.

You could also ban mining if you wanted to, though that's slightly more difficult to enforce.
> Making it illegal or taxed heavily would push it underground and tank adoptions.

I agree with you! It wouldn't stop it though, just like prohibition didn't stop alcohol consumption. If anything, it would make the system more resilient over time. Besides, the governments would want to retain some control through exchanges, rather than lose all control and possible tax benefits, etc.
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