skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty impressed with some of the DeFi projects that are being developed. There have been some growing pains with issues like contract bugs and liquidation events during high volatility, but they seem to be improving.

MakerDAO has a pretty well thought-out economic model that lends out stablecoins to borrowers that provide crypto collateral: https://youtu.be/wW1IEZeWY4k

Seems like a good way to get access to spendable funds to buy something like a car without losing crypto exposure and subjecting yourself to capital gains taxes.

It doesn't work as a way of leveraging your money with a small "down payment" like you'd do with a traditional auto loan or home mortgage.
Well, for one it should (at least try to) protect all civilians not just "its own".

I agree with you that no one can make it go away in a day, and that is a big problem. Every day of the conflict causes more pain, more casualties, and expands vicious circle of violence.

I guess that current generations are lost cause, as long as we always frame it into "us vs them", "we are good, enemy is bad", the conflict will never end.

Maybe the solution is one state, with citizens, not religious groups, maybe it is two states (dunno if that is even possible at this point).

Also, extreme conditions in Gaza and West Bank don't help. Imagine if young people there have an option to go to real university, have a nice job, a house. Would they be willing to blow themselves, killing many innocent people. (Not to say poverty is the primary cause of attacks, but that level of desperation certainly doesn't help)

Don't wish or do anything to other people which you wouldn't want for yourself. Imo, that should be a good start. To change the world one must start from himself.
> Inflation is a tool to push wages down, you can collectively bargain against labor with inflation.

And labour collectively bargains to ensure pay remains on track with inflation, so no problem
I think one part of the moral calculus that's missing here is who the "victim" is in each case. A substitution of somebody being shot for somebody being burled is obviously not a good outcome; on the other hand, a substitution of a burgler being shot for an innocent average joe being burgled is... still not great, but you must admit it shifts the scales.
My half-cynical take: The US Air Force successfully conducted a PR exercise designed to argue why it needs more budget.
>There are some protocols emerging which lets you keep ownership of your coins and still lending them out.

how is it possible? When you lend your assets, someone can give it to other person. You cannot keep ownership of something others control?
No, it isn't because he removed all taxation. MMT is also about using money to destroy taxation and eliminate inflation.

In other words, MMT is about understanding the mechanism behind inflation. If you know how inflation works then you have full control over it. You can raise and lower it at will and use this power to actually achieve policy goals.

For example, by injecting money exactly where it causes inflation you can directly cause inflation. It sounds obvious in retrospect and it explains why current central bank policies fail to create inflation.

The money never reaches the hands of people who actually spend it.

Once you reach your policy goals you can stop printing money. Meanwhile if you create money fruitlessly without achieving policy goals you end up creating more money than necessary.

The irony behind MMT is that by printing more money you end up printing less money.
Except no one is demanding prohibition.
Dumb. OP is dumb for sharing this
I would like to apologize to you for calling you a potential bigot, and though I personally feel that other places in the thread have done a good job speaking to the counterpoints about just how awful I believe Cromwell to be, after I collect myself and read through everything again I'll try to offer more than just emotionally driven attacks. I flew off the handle because this is obviously a personal issue to me for various reasons, where as for you this is most likely of detached academic interest. Not justification, just explanation.
I don't think that is obvious at all. I would assume most illegally owned guns have been legally owned in the first place so gun laws can have a big effect.
You can pay taxes in Bitcoins here in Canton Zug, Switzerland.
Not quite.

People are using NFTs as stores of value. Despite spending, the owners are not illiquid and are much more liquid than fine art collectors, as borrowing at decently high Loan to Value ratios against the NFT can happen in the subsequent block.

Given your existing predilection, knowing that probably also just moves the goal post for why you think there is something wrong with it "omg, now there's leverage!?". But its just an efficiency on the existing art world which has all the same stuff just much slower due to poor data and information, and nothing to do with the pseudo-intellection abstraction of value.

In a single protocol (standardized class with a set of standardized functions), art provenance has been disrupted, art appraisal has been disrupted, art insurance has been disrupted, art lending has been disrupted, and art royalties have been disrupted.

You will just be seeing more participants in the collectors market because of it, and a market that moves faster and can attract more capital globally, instantly, during a period of massive currency creation.

Its not anybody's problem that new galleries/marketplaces have fees for the artists. Its not anybody's problem that there will still be a ton of starving artists that will never get bids on these platforms. Its not anybody's problem that a buyer ends up with an asset that might not be valued the same or higher or ever get a bid again. Its not anybody's problem that a lender winds up with an illiquid asset. Buy art you like and from creators you like to support, maybe some times you won't get outbid.
164 states have already signed an anti-personnel mine treaty, and more countries will join in the coming years. 48 million land mines have already been destroyed because of this Ottawa treaty, and this is a moral good.

There is a strong movement for banning anti-personnel mines precisely because they are horrific weapons that kill and maim indiscriminately.
No different from city light pollution preventing optical telescopes being near cities.

Or radio pollution causing constraints for radio-astronomy.

My guess is that cheap reliable worldwide internet connectivity will help science overall by far more than the costs of modifying terrestrial optical observations to mitigate the extra satellites.
Developers Web are building their extinction (or not)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation It's something they've been doing for a long term. No idea if it's accurate and it probably isn't very, but not sure what else they should be doing.
Note: I speak about the outsourcing for startups, for enterprises it’s completely different.

Regarding professionalism:

there is no difference for developer if he works in outsourcing company or in the product company because in the end of the day he wants to be proud of his work. (If he is a great talent)

Thus, for the fair comparison of outsourcing vs employees you have to put both in the same conditions: the same communication, the same management and the same hiring process.

Being in outsourcing business for 10 years I have a lot of examples when founders thought that outsourcing company can build their product for them and I saw success cases only when they treat an outsourcing company as a partner and the project team as their internal team. In opposite case there is a big gap between business and engineering that you don’t have with your core team

I hope that you got your bad experience because of the unsuccessful choice.
What advice do you have for somebody who is yet to retire? Buy a stock which is about to boom?
I guess we could use dollars for paper mache if we stopped believing those have value.
This is also a feature since contractors can be told upfront what to do in deliverables and the medium for deliverables. I plan on using contractors in the future.

I look forward to not having to inspire or align people and just tell people "this is what I want".

Their skin in the game is their reputation for repeat work.
C++ certainly, and I would not be surprised to see Rust in the near future.

I have not seen anyone use Nim or Zig yet. There are also some special-purpose languages like Fortress (apparently now defunct), Coarray-Fortran, and Chapel, though none seems to have achieved too much market-share.

Personally I have almost entirely switched to Julia (from mostly C), which lets me do my everyday plotting / analysis / interpretation and my HPC (via MPI.jl) in the same language. Fortran definitely still has some appeal as well though.
To block all these ads and tracking, I am already using DNS over TLS/HTTP, NextDNS with custom DNS block lists (including almost all CDN's, Google Services, fonts etc), ADblock Plus with custom lists, Ublock Origin, Firefox, extensive browser settings (blocking cookies or JavaScript unless whitelisted, blocking almost anything except images), isolating websites in Firefox containers, custom privacy settings for each website I have an account at, DuckDuckGo, iOS with only necessary apps and very strict settings, Arch Linux with custom settings, etc etc...

Yet there are still ads or tracking. And it doesn't look like it's getting any better or easier to opt out.
Nice, I tried the demo, seems very similar to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/

Curious if there is something very different from buymeacoffee that I may have missed ?
I think the claim was that the technology to enable the transformation has largely been achieved, not that it's been installed. But you're right, there's a great deal more the experience curves we're going to be able to go down, so the costs of renewables and storage should fall even more.
The IRS asking for taxes to be payed in dollars is one of the factors that gives value to those paper dollars, but it is not intrinsic to those pieces of paper it is an extrinsic factor.
"Then in September in the midst of the war game, actual Chinese combat aircraft intentionally flew over the rarely crossed median line in the Taiwan Strait in the direction of Taipei an unprecedented 40 times and conducted simulated attacks on the island that Taiwan’s premier called “disturbing.” Amid those provocations, China’s air force released a video showing a bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons carrying out a simulated attack on Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. The title of the Hollywood-like propaganda video was “The god of war H-6K [bomber] goes on the attack!”

In case the new U.S. administration failed to get the intended message behind all that provocative military activity, four days after President Biden took office, a large force of Chinese bombers and fighters flew past Taiwan and launched simulated missile attacks on the USS Roosevelt carrier strike group as it was sailing in international waters in the South China Sea."

Countries do acts of aggression all the time. Last June 20 Indian troops were killed in Himalayas clash with Chinese army. The political question is when it is enough to declare war.
> set of UTXOs as collateral, and the moment any of them move, which is easily monitored

not possible. Once collateral is moved, it's moved. You can't even call it collateral if the other person can easily take it away in front of your eyes. It's only collateral if it's locked up and has a dispute period (see: payment channels collateral)
This was fixed:
https://securitytxt.org/.well-known/security.txt
SpaceX is taking concrete steps to make their satellites as unobtrusive as possible without significantly compromising their design. Beyond that, this is really a choice between developing space and not. Quit with the FUD about Musk “dodging” questions, etc.—say what you mean, which is that you think pristine night skies should forever take precedence over the economic development of space. Or, if it doesn’t sound good stated so straightforwardly, don’t.
Also Waifu2X (don't be put off by the name).

https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

It has several models for processing animation and photos.

If you want it even tediously automates the scaling of videos and GIFs by exporting each frame, upscaling, and joining back together.
A Beginner's Guide to Mecha (2019)
> "but they’re not incentivized to do anything beyond beyond what they’re asked to do and will need to be highly managed"

What skin in the game does an FTE have? Aside from maintaining benefits, which personally I think is preposterous to tie to full-time employment anyway. What else is there? Stock? Contractors are eligible for stock.

Even so, I don't need anyone to do anything beyond what they've been hired to do. Why would I need someone to go above and beyond? I just need smart, competent workers.
The war mongering here is so silly.

Let China reassert itself as the dominant power in Asia. That's none of our concern.
> Once again, blame can be heaped upon the goddamned Boomers.

As someone who actually believes there is a lot of merit to this stance, you do almost nothing to persuade anyone of its truth. You're making a bold claim with very little evidence. I don't know how much boomers are to blame for certain problems today, but I don't believe it's all of them like your comment implies.

I genuinely would enjoy hearing more evidence to support your claim if you have any to share. So far you've only used deductive reasoning based on principles, which is essentially worthless when talking about something as complicated as the world economy and military might over a timespan of decades.
43.3% of taxpayers don't give a penny to the IRS [0]. So there's a substantial portion of the US tax base where this value does not apply.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/242138/percentages-of-us...
Yes but that's equivalent to some legally binding contract collateralized by physical force that stabilizes the position of an extremely productive socioeconomic institution that manages world power.

Which is to say, there's no such thing as intrinsic value. There are scarcity-inducing constraints, including constraints pertaining to market access through intersubjective laws. We mistake the "intrinsicness" of the US dollar to its ubiquity, like fish in water.
> However, even when community spread was wiped out in the summer of 2020, we would have a few cases imported each day, mostly from the US

Is this really the belief? Canada’s inferiority complex wrt to the US has made their perception of COVID out of touch with reality.

There was always significant community transmission in BC, even in the summer. Cases never went to zero, the lowest point was ~10/day. And it’s likely underestimating by a factor of >5 since testing in Canada was not done well. (This is despite the popular perception. Anecdotally, in Washington my family was able to roll into drive thru testing sites and get next day results for free, and in Canada it was a >$100 appt at the retail pharmacy and 3-5 days for results. I don’t how it is now, but Washington has been doing ~3x as much testing per capita as BC since early summer last year.)

So even if essential travelers crossing the border was importing a few cases a day (extremely unlikely IMO, and zero evidence supporting this), it would be accounting for a small single digit percentage of cases.
UPDATE: I'm in Denmark (EU). On nintendo.com, I don't get a "Buy digital" button. If I go to the region-specific site nintendo.dk, the search function is broken, many games aren't listed, and there's no buttons to buy games or any login functionality at all (it seems half-baked). If I go to nintendo.co.uk (the UK site), I can log in and buy digital, hurray! What an incredibly inconsistent experience!
Yeah, that sounds horrible. Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t aware of this
That’s a lot of words to say “this is a good change and nothing has been lost.” Incredible that this post has almost 200 comments.
> I don't think anyone has the ability to shoot down enough Starlink satellites to make a difference.

Not with rockets, but maybe with lasers? What damage can a single one do? Could a country deploy them at specific orbits to have enough coverage to destroy a sufficient amount?
I'm not sure the risks are that high. I mean in a downturn you might see revenue halve, if you work for someone else you might be the unlucky one whose salary drops to zero.
> Anyone have a good argument why we can't get $10 per month high speed internet in rural areas in the USA?

do you have any idea how much it costs to dig a trench? look up a calculator for figuring out the present value of a perpetuity that pays $10/mo. that will barely cover somebody digging a trench through your front yard, and laying fiber in it, let alone doing that down miles of rural street.
A couple points:

1) 1200 is a small percentage of the tens of thousands of satellites that the full system, plus the other similar systems will eventually consist of.

2) Being able to go outside and point out a satellite has absolutely no relevance on the satellite's impact on professional astronomy.

3) It did not "seem to have worked". SpaceX experimented with reducing the reflectivity of their satellites, but only some satellites have that reduced reflectivity, and astronomers found them to be only marginally better.
For anyone doing HPC work and hasn't tried GFortran >=10, I highly suggest giving it a go. We switched to it for the arm64 improvements, but surprisingly also found a 20% speedup on the x86-64 target. My best guess is that it's a combination of IPO and autovec enhancements.
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When I read about DeFi I imagined it to be something very different from this. This does not sound sustainable at all. It does sound like a confirmation that this is growing very rapidly.
That will change as NFT marketplaces migrate to rollups.
This is a very valid point. In my workplace we have contractors and FTE engineers all paid by monthly salary. The contractors are by far more efficient coders. But it makes sense, they attend only standups and they waste no time in HR and corporate rituals,
Many github projects do this for free:

https://github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
Well, of course. No question is more scientific than "which rainbows are better than which other rainbows?"
Good points all. Also, this is awesome.

I think "machine preservation via emulation" may need to be a thing. Supposedly there's thousands of science papers, for example, whose supporting code may no longer trivially run...
MakeCode Arcade is terrific. Its powerful, easy to get started, free, open source, cross platform, and fun! http://arcade.makecode.com
> "I look forward to not having to inspire or align people and just tell people "this is what I want"."

What I like about contractors is that good ones will give you suggestions and recommendations for improvement, but they won't make it their life's eternal mission to throw your entire project off track by campaigning for their solution.
Are they taxpayers if they don't pay taxes?
Yeah, I agree. And this would be one reason to spin off Starlink in an IPO. So customers would be okay with SpaceX launching their constellation.
If you convert natural gas to hydrogen, you can sequester the CO2 produced. The hydrogen production facility can operate 24/7, with the hydrogen stored and only being used when necessary. In this way, natural gas could continue to back up renewables (or back up renewables + short term storage) without CO2 emission, at a capital cost per kW far below nuclear plants.

(The same argument applies to "green hydrogen"; which would be chosen would depend on economics.)
Sorry, but I'm not sure I follow. You talk a lot about "need to have" but don't actually say _how_ a salaried employee is supposed to have these virtues (as opposed to a contractor) simply by the fact that he's employed by the company.
Your case is fundamentally flawed. Just because something doesn’t work in one instance, doesn’t mean that something doesn’t work at all.

But even before we get there, no one in the US is even talking about gun prohibition.

This entire comment thread is filled with straw men arguing against prohibition when at most people are demanding more regulation, the majority of which is supported by the majority of gun owners.

Also, gun regulation works in the majority of countries with functional governance. Heck, even drug prohibition “works” wherever they really want to prohibit it (such as many Muslim countries). The problem with drug prohibition in the US is not an issue with whether it works or not, but that the cost of enforcement is too high.
To the bar point, I'd say it's a pretty common belief at this point that some combination of masks and distancing are important inside while, outside, it makes much less of a difference especially if you're at least somewhat distanced.

Around where I live, people are being pretty good about protocols inside. Outside? I don't live in a city but on trails and so forth, the common pattern is people will pull up a gaiter if they're going to pass a group wearing masks. These days, almost no one is. When I do pull up a gaiter it feels like theater.
Uh sales taxes
Someone on HN once said (sorry I forgot who):

The only intrinsic value of Bitcoin is that it is an artifact of ritual sacrifice.
The real base reason fiat currency has value is because the government requires taxes to be paid in it, and they can use force to imprison you if don't pay your taxes. Everything else is a follow-on effect from that.
I thought this was about Clubhouse the project management app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse/id1193784808).
I'm sorry for the situation you are in but you allow this to happen. You can vote with your feet and leave. I know its harder for some people, but that's just life. Decisions like this are never easy. If you can't afford to leave then you best be saving all the money you can each month to support you when you do leave. If you can't find another job then you best be training and up skilling to an in demand skill. I'm sorry to be blunt but I hear this same thing all the time, and people just let this happen to them.

For what it's worth, I'm a contractor in the UK. I get paid about twice as much a day then a salaried person. I change clients every 3 months to every 2 years. I have 8 months of living expenses in the bank. If a client wants me to do something then fine, but they pay me. I don't get any holiday or benefits, but the extra money makes up for it. Any time off is unpaid, which I feel is how it should be. I had 3 months off at the start of last year when all temp work dried up due to covid, but apart from that, things have been better then ever.

Maybe I just have the personality type for this kind of working arrangement, but it seems like a no brainer to me. You come in on a much more equal level with any client or employer.

I also think this has the added benefit of forcing interview practice and keeping up to date with marketable skills. I really think it's the anti fragile approach.

Please people, take back some contol. Sell your skills at what they are really worth.
He didn't say it's a good change. He said it's a CYA move that's become necessary.
I loaded up the demo and am impressed with what you'e achieved. However I cannot find any way to add column restraints, or mention of how to do so in any of the documentation.

Is there really no way to mark a column as "not null" or make a unique id that auto generates, or say a date column that gets set on insert?

I don't think these are very advanced features to ask of a SQL database and am confused why they appear to be missing.
> Not everyone has a SO to clean and cook for them

I do have an SO and it's not her job to cook and clean for me.

In any case, yeah, 9 hours a day is pushing it for actual productivity.