skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gold ban was more nuanced and therefore not really a parallel to bitcoin.

First, the government forced people to sell gold to government and forbade hoarding it.

Bitcoin market cap today is $1 trillion. It would cost US government a pretty penny to re-purchase BTC owned by US citizens. That's today. Within a year market cap could be $2 trillion.

What if they just ban it without purchasing current Bitcoin? Even a two bit lawyer would immediately sue such law as unconstitutional. To me it's clearly "unreasonable seizure" under "unreasonable search and seizure" clause.

You think taking guns away is hard? Try taking hundrends of billions of dollars from tens of thousands of Americans.

Second, apparently the reason they did is: FED wanted to print money but they had a stupid rule of pegging us dollar to gold so to print more money they needed more gold.

This doesn't apply to Bitcoin (and I'm guessing the rule is long gone).

So in my opinion outright banning of Bitcon by U.S. Government would be unconstitutional and buying it out is already too expensive to be politically viable. Imagine a bill that would set hundreds of billions of dollars on fire.
There's a wide range between secret trials and not publishing peoples name in national media.

An approach used in many contexts is to make the information accessible but put limitations on publication whether permanently or only until a conviction is made, so that people with an interest in a case can investigate while recognising mistakes are made.

[another approach is various levels of barriers to make access inconvenient, e.g. forcing you to go to an office to look up records rather than making them easily searchable; or for tax information in Norway: the tax information is public, but unless you're media - who get a copy - your name will be accessible to the person you looked up]
Any good bug report will save a developer HOURS of trying to understand the bug and where it's coming from.

"X is broken" is about the worst JIRA ticket you can ever get :/.
I meant more in terms of anyone who has been in software industry long enough , 30+ in terms of age was just a safe boundary.
> I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.

Freedom of speech isn't the freedom to not be publicly judged about what you say.
Not at all! It sets a dangerous precedent.
Today it is supposed immunity to an over-hyped malady, tomorrow you have to prove you've had proper training in diversity and/or some sort of societal compliance.
>Cash enables tax evasion, sponsoring terrorism, all kinds of

99% of bitcoin use is speculation, which does not create any value for society, only wastes energy, and illicit transactions. Cash is actually useful, but it is indeed being used more and more for illicit transactions.

>Should we ban cash?

Maybe?
I think that bletting involves frost and defrost also. I could be wrong. The trick does not work so well in Persimmon.
They can do that too
WTF ?

"The installation alludes to the ephemerality of the border between natural and artificial, real and virtual, evoking the possibility of a delicate and invisible technology."

Just a look at a forest in my Belgium country. 99% chance it's not natural. I don't need 49 projectors and associated wasted CO2 to demonstrate that... A very simple walk outside plus a bit of comment would just do it.
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And one day the maintenance software might even work instead of being constant worry
Even that example is very suspect - lampooning sexism is not sexism.
Irrelevant to the question of destroying the planet.
Projects can switch to proof of stake. no mining, people don't lose money, still decentralized.

I specifically pointed out that it's not about banning bitcoin. Make bitcoin a PoS. You can keep trading, you can keep being decentralized.

bitcoin and PoW are separate. bitcoin *can* be updated.

Why so defensive on PoW?
Tell HN: Stretch – a new Boston Dynamics robot
While doing research for my newsletter I came across this CBS News report on Boston Dynamics from yesterday: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-dynamics-robots-humans-animals-60-minutes-2021-03-28/. You can see the robot around 11:15 timestamp of the video.

The concept seems very similar to the Handle robot minus the balancing as the robot is closer to a traditional wheeled ground robot. It's interesting to see Boston Dynamics focusing on project that can be quickly commercialized.
This was changed in 2019: https://www.robots-viewer.com/robots/checksum/64dc55e4da9cc8...

robots.txt version from 2017: https://www.robots-viewer.com/robots/checksum/8029662cfb040c...
I guess it could be said that 1800 of the demographic which reads the Evening Standard is not an accurate reflection of the British expat population too. Unless we have demographic data on how they were polled, it can't be taken at face value. My data was also mostly a reflection of the expat demographic I was in touch with most (45+ male and female), so I guess that observation too cannot be taken at face value without a more randomized set.
> But given that the ledger data is public I could see it become regulate so that to buy and sell crypto you need to go through a Know your customer(KyC) process.

You already need KYC today for most exchanges. This status quo is unlikely to remain, however, given that Decentralized Exchanges are likely to become cheap and efficient in the future.

> The can pretty much track in real time when illegal transactions are taking please by cross referencing if transactions from black listed to white listed addresses are taking place and fine instantly.

I think when this happens most people will realize how important the current Proof Of Work concept is. It basically means this white/black listing becomes very hard vs. PoS where the big holders could be manipulated by some government.
I've given a lot of thought to this issue and though I've wanted to give Richard Stallman the benefit of the doubt, I've come to an inescapable conclusion:

The FSF board of directors really stepped in it bringing Stallman back, especially in the clandestine manner that they did. They have squandered the goodwill of the community by promoting a controversial figure known for his toxic opinions and decades of bad behavior to a leadership position. The FSF is at grave risk of losing its funding and its reputation, both of which it needs to carry out its mission.

As such, it is appropriate for Stallman and the entire FSF board to resign. John Sullivan has made the right decision. He will doubtless be followed by others -- and hopefully, if Stallman refuses to resign, he will be ousted by the new board.

All of the leadership in open source does not want Stallman in a leadership role because of the toxic effect he has on the community, in particular driving women -- and more recently, those repulsed by pedophilia -- away. There are times to fight social pressure; this is not one of them.
Then you get labeled an "uncooperative maintainer" and people write scathing blog posts about you. There's no way to avoid the PR trap here.
This is a Windows issue, I'm pretty sure. My solution is easy, install Julia under WSL. In fact, after moving from MacOS to Windows, this is my goto solution: install as much as I can under WSL.

Problem disappeared.
I don't believe that for a second. There are more silly things than there were users of the Internet back then. Facebook and Google didn't kill anything, there is an incredible amount of silliness on their platforms too, and they don't represent even a single percent of the internet.
We happily burn through tens of thousands of dollars in excess aws billing because we have cargo culted that optimization=bad, but we don’t want to spend $500 on an IntelliJ license
That's surprising.

I only learnt Mandarin Chinese for a few months, but I did find the app "Pleco". The most useful parts are the handwriting recognition -- which worked even on my beginner-writing -- and the live OCR.

But there's also an "assemble the character from bits" thing[2], though it relies on you knowing how many strokes are in each component. I use(d) it occasionally when I couldn't use OCR, as it was fairly slow (and inexact) for me to count strokes.

https://www.pleco.com/

[2] https://i.imgur.com/lvm0Uln.png (I only pressed 木. 夏 has 10 strokes, and 榎 is listed further down in the ⑩ section, with 45 other characters, presumably in an order)
This is my goto. I think they do (or used) to scrape 4chan for the wallpapers.
You say this with such glee, when in fact what's happening is that an innocent man is being punished for lawfully using the court system as it's supposed to be used.
Your last sentence perfectly captures something I think all the time, but could never articulate pithily.
If you begin by dividing society into squirrels and hamsters then of course you already lost.
> covert it to dollars

convert it with whom? US government? Foreign investors?
> American freedom of speech

This specifically is such a weird expression.

Other than that, just because Stallman did a good thing once, doesn’t excuse him from other mistakes. And making mistakes is not itself a problem, you can always own up to them and learn. But what I gather from the discussion is that there is a _pattern_ of bad behaviour.
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RMS does not have the skillset needed for a leadership position today. If you care about the movement, it needs a leader people want to follow. Just because RMS is not at the top doesn't mean he is being denied chances and isn't forgiven. I'm sure he can continue writing code. He just isn't good enough as a leader of a broad movement. That isn't a slight, most of us couldn't do it.
this is sooo cool! I had no idea that something like that existed. Kudos to whoever has done it :-)
So what? Though he's an philosophical founder, the FSF has stagnated under his leadership over the decades.

It's like you're more in love with the Idea of the FSF than the FSF as it stands today, reflexively self-protecting its old guard and completely inhibited by the my-way-or-the-high-way attitude of RMS.
its their loss if they don't want to wear h&m.. what will life look like if you consume china-only brands?
That was very informative
Google often delists articles over around 15 to 20 years after they are put on the internet.
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Yes, in this context "be liberal in what you accept" really nicely mirrors the good old "assume good faith".
He has not just "said some sexist and edgy thing".

He is abusive against everyone around him. He has sexually harassed numerous women near him, to the point that people lock themselves in their offices when he visits.

He is incredibly, incredibly toxic. He has had a huge crowd of people trying, again and again, to tell him to stop acting like this, and to be a decent human being. He refuses.

He is a massive burden on any institution he is part of. Kicking him out is the correct decision in every case, no matter what he has achieved in the past.
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Exactly. I think a few people have called for Github to allow disabling PRs and Issues, but considering that it would destroy their business model, I don't think it'll happen. Oh well, there's always Sourceforge.
It depends on the place. I can see it being hard for the US, but Greece is small enough and shaped distinctly enough that I have no trouble zooming exactly to my house from the global map.

Maybe that only works for places near the water, though.
> I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.

I take issue with this. I'm not hugely adept at history but from my understanding there has never been a time where you can just blurt out a communication and have it be "accepted" by society - this seems to me very American and appears very detached from reality and real world experience.

Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way.

Yes, you can be killed for the communications you make - this is not new, neither shocking and has been a staple of humanity from the beginning.

Yes, you will be cancelled if your joke is taken out of context, or if some journalist finds a tweet and somebody is on an airplane and at the center of a multi-national storm [0].

Textareas like the one you typed in to make your comment give you a lot of freedom, but also a lot of power, and humans are learning with great power wields responsibility. People will take offense at your crass jokes and delete you for it, perhaps it's best to step away and not click "reply" afterall. Your conversation with a friend may be recorded or overheard, perhaps somebody is stalking you and waiting for a golden opportunity to "get" you, perhaps it's possible to form a narrative the media can use that's pieced together just to convince a group then let it spread like wildfire.

None of these things are new to humanity, and sometimes there's just nothing within your power you can do to stop it if somebody is motivated enough to want to inflict harm upon you.

That's what the world has taught us lately, more people would be wise to learn and take notes.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
The majority of client devices are 2x2 or even 1x1, so for most setups it won't make much of a difference, if any at all.

If you need a more advanced AP, you probably shouldn't be looking at all-in-one devices. Buy separate components, add as many APs as you need for proper coverage, rather than relying on a single device to cover everything.
Honestly, I also took it as throwing shade. I had to read the whole thing and realised that GP clearly wasn't throwing shade.

I am wondering why I initially thought that. Maybe a mindset of inherently better software created by Teams that's instilled within us these days could be a part of it. Trusting a lone programmer, it's harder because you have to reject the "programming".
Trying to sneak that diff in was a hugely wasted opportunity, it sticks out like a sore thumb. If they were going to commit anything, it should have looked like a legitimate change. Another option might have been to wait until just before a release and fiddle with the tags or the newly opened QA branch (if any).

Check out https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-... for another attempt, that one at least requires careful review to notice the problem
> I don't want to live in a world without American freedom of speech - where we can't be blunt and speak our minds.

While I agree with most of your points on RMS: Freedom of speech exists and is enforced in other countries. Its dawn can be traced back to ancient Greece passing through renaissance and the French revolution. And ironically, the SJW cancel-culture is a US phenomenon only, it's nonexistent in the EU at least. Don't want to rub anyone the wrong way, but from an external standpoint, I would not want American freedom of speech right now, if this is what gets you.
bitcoin can still work on PoS, we should stop thinking it as a single, unmovable, un-updatable thing.

A switch to PoS like ETH2 is not going to make it lose value, decentralization and might even be an opportunity to go beyond the ridiculous 4-7 transactions/sec limit.

Going beyond the 4-7 transaction/sec would make so that exchanges stop asking you to give up control of the money, thus making it even more decentralized.

I see only positive benefits in switching to Pos. Lose nothing, gain everything
> I’m paying 1% revenue for OSS

So I’m already paying, as you sure have read.

> but as long as it’s not everyone, it doesn’t make the developers filthy rich

You asked for suggestions, it is right there. Ask people to pay for access to the repos, or let them download for free from alternate sources. It will make big businesses pay because they require a chain of custody, while the amateur can still download for free, and it conserves all other advantages of OSS.

I do have a feeling that your comment was adverse, I constantly regret being generous when people talk to me like a thieve anyway, just because I give, but not enough (How much is enough for people like you?). Also, you are possibly trying to solve the problem of freeloaders by having possibly adverse comments, not seeing that I’m trying to solve your same issue of freeloaders by finding an incentive which both conserves all advantages of OSS and still leverage money en masse from larger businesses.
Not to mention, Brave browser detected 40 trackers. Big part of the reason I canceled my BBG subscription.
Yes, but a lot of people think it is news / journalism, and it is being heralded as that. In fact there is a good argument to be made it hurts news because it is purely editorial and summaries. It currently doesn't have many examples of empowering people to do real journalism / investigations.
sigh

Here, can we reset a bit? Obviously we didn't start this conversation on the best note, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising that it's gone sour, but that doesn't mean it has to stay that way, right? I'm sorry for my own jerkiness. Let's start over:

Howdy! I'm YellowApple, and I have some questions about the implications of superluminal communication...

> There are no tachyons, it's just a way to talk about literally any forms of superluminal communication.

So I think this the core of my question. If we can agree that these signals are not themselves tachyonic, then why are we subjecting them to mathematics that do assume them to be tachyonic?

That is: the math on that Wikipedia page seems to specifically describe signals that are moving faster than c within their own reference frames, whereas we're discussing spacetime topologies where that shouldn't be necessary - i.e. where from the signal's perspective it's moving slower than the speed of light. So if from the signal's point of view it ain't moving faster than c, how would it still result in a negative t?

> Are you familiar by "proof by contradiction"

I am, yes.
HN has got to be one of the few places where the censorship is so strong users feel the need to preemptively apologize and grovel to a single user when they say something that might be against his arbitrary and selectively enforced rules, something that might irk a single user in a site used by 1000s. Naturally this pre apology is followed by a statement about how people cant be blunt or speak their minds freely. How censorship is horrific. And no one sees the irony.
Never apologize to the mob. It emboldens them.
Also, even if he did, implying that it is ok to be abusive or a sexual harasser because of it is not just absolutely wrong, but a massive, massive insult to all people with autism.
>Bitcoin market cap today is $1 trillion. It would cost US government a pretty penny to re-purchase BTC owned by US citizens. That's today. Within a year market cap could be $2 trillion.

I don't see how you'd argue that the government has to pay the imaginary value that bitcoin fans ascribe to their currency. If the government removes or adds laws, it can create or destroy business models and tank stock and commodity prices. As of right now, BTC are just securetized CO2-waste. If the price drops after the US bans it for environmental damage, well it's the market. You are free to transact BTC in the rest of the world after all.
Nice calculation. Financial Times here (https://www.ft.com/content/3dc797d0-7268-49a4-b0b5-3d11479cb...) claims "90 miles if they were loaded on a single-decked train", which Google tells me is about 144.8 kilometers!
The problem is what is good for society can hinder progress in certain individuals, as in this case.

It's not just a regular weapon, being acused of sexism or sexual harassment or God forbid rape is a nuclear weapon, it can do such tremendous damage to an innocent man with zero damage to the one making false allegations that there's no wonder men a really careful.

We have reached a local peak for sexual equality, but I don't think it is possible to move forward as long as mens lives can be completely destroyed by false allegations.
I would like to know what John Sullivan is thinking, if his resignation is even related to the RSM issue. Does he want to appease the mob? Is he personally disgusted by RSM? Or does he want to be on the right side, and the disgust stems from that (I mean he is disgusted that the "right" people don't get what they want)?

I tried to google a bit and since no immediately damning statements by RSM came up, he doesn't bother me with regard to that. Yes, he wrote about paedophilia, but afaik he didn't demand it should be legaized, he just pointed out that it has created some absurd issues, like teens sexting each other being criminalized (afaik - I only googled a bit, and couldn't find damning quotes, so I assume they don't exist).

I am more concerned about the anecdotes of his icky behavior (read someone claiming he licked a womans arm, another that he picked flakes from his feet during a lecture). But I have no way to verify if they are true, so I am also holding back judgement.
> I don't want to live in a world where we can't be forgiven.

Forgiveness requires accountability and commitment to change, neither of which have been forthcoming.
> If you are not part of the organization yet, or
don't have access to a repository you should have access to, contact me at
nikic@php.net with your php.net and GitHub account names, as well as the
permissions you're currently missing.

Migrating accounts of PHP core developers by asking them for their username over unencrypted email? What could go wrong? A security incident already occurred, so we should be good on that front for a few years, right?
Well it's for good reason. He displays the symptoms so he probably has it, regardless of what he says.
> He is abusive against everyone around him. He has sexually harassed numerous women near him, to the point that people lock themselves in their offices when he visits.

Then why didn't these women report him to the whoever competent authorities at MIT? Or to the police if the crime is serious enough?
Why are they signing an open letter on the internet instead?

Please don't parrot unfounded heresy.
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> I was reading comments in another HN thread, and one poster suggested that this might arise from raising kids without bullying. Like the immune system, if we don't develop a central tolerance, perhaps we start attacking everything we find unpleasant? No basis in behavioral science, of course.

Forget basis in behavioral science, this has no basis in anything, and you’re deluded if you think kids aren’t still bullied today. What a trash take.
"Tolerance" doesn't mean someone can have any prominent position they want.

I completely support Stallman's right to say that he believes children can consent to sex. It's not sexist or edgy -- it's repulsive and sounds like the stuff Epstein used to say. But he still deserves to have friends and rights.

What he doesn't deserve is coworkers or teammates who are forced to pretend he didn't say that stuff. He said it and there are consequences.

Could any of the rest of us tweet about our theoretical support for statutory rape and still have jobs?

And the things he said that denigrated parents who raise children with Down's syndrome is arguably worse.

Twitter is not destroying careers. People are destroying their own careers.
One list is full of people who have achieved big things, and are in positions of power.

The other is full of throwaway and inactive github accounts.
This was one of the first things I saw after clicking this "enterprise-ready" title and that's when I closed the tab.

I'm happy to see someone polish up LibreOffice and ask money for it, I'd gladly market that to my family who complains about this ugly shit I install for them and my continuing refusal to help them maintain their accustomization with Microsoft products if they're not willing to paying for it, but if I have to even ask for a trial, it's not going to be worth it.