skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same reason why bad stuff happening/violence/etc sell so much better in news to the point that our news organizations bring bad news to the front with such a craze for clicks/views (advertising money mostly) that if one just reads the news and not look at actual statistics/numbers one would think we are living in the most violent/deadly time ever existed for humans.

In reality in the western nations at least it is the safest/nicest time to live than ever before and tomorrow will most likely be better than today (barring climate change I think)

For whatever reason we just find conflict/violence captivating as long as it is not happening to us or our close friends/family
Tesla's policy I believe is 7 days.

I think California allows returning a used car within 2 business days and under 250 miles.
So you're an accountant, or a tax lawyer? If not you might want to give that a massive, giant, IANAL because that's not even remotely accurate. So wrong in fact, the IRS specifically calls out the fact that vehicles are not exempt from gains taxation.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/like-kind-exchanges-now-limited...

>Effective Jan. 1, 2018, exchanges of personal or intangible property such as machinery, equipment, vehicles, artwork, collectibles, patents, and other intellectual property generally do not qualify for nonrecognition of gain or loss as like-kind exchanges.
The Visionect Server is able to automatically pre-optimize the images before they're rendered on the device display (e.g. grayscaling, contrast correction).
That’s not true, converting one asset class into another or in fact any trade would normally trigger a capital gains tax, it’s currently complicated with crypto because it’s new and haven’t been fully tested yet as far as the law goes.

From Tesla’s perspective they don’t care they assume and rightfully so that you are responsible for any taxes and accounting obligations on your end, it’s not any different than buying a Tesla with normal currency from profits you haven’t paid taxes yet on.

It doesn’t even have to be a trade with a mutual exchange, if you say want to gift a house to your kids or your spouse and you transfer ownership you’ll be liable for capitals gain tax even tho no sale has actually occurred.
How about sugar free energy drinks?
The letter I'm citing is also the one against Stallman. Which contains such relevant figures in the Free Software movement as "Z" (signature number 2771), or "stick" (signature number 2528).
You are talking about centralized exchanges, which is something built on top of Bitcoin - much like the current banking systems. You are not required to use that with Bitcoin. With Bitcoin someone anywhere can have a "bank account" where the asset doesn't loose its value based on local circumstances.

I assume you argue that a single army/government could take out/control miners - which would be the better discussion to have. That's where we would talk about the value of the Bitcoin network.
I’m not qualified to have an opinion here, but interesting to note that Thom Yorke of Radiohead has never learned to read sheet music (and they have a decent number of piano-based tunes)
> Why would an open source project reject commits for mainframe support? Because you don't personally use one in your business? By that logic we should dump 99% of the drivers in Linux because I personally don't have a need for them.

I think it’s less a hard rejection than a realistic analysis of the support costs. Platform support is expensive and the extremely wealthy companies using mainframes tend not to contribute resources on an ongoing basis. A really big one is CI & other infrastructure: if you actually want to have a project support your platform, the developers need to be able to run tests regularly including things like proprietary licensed compilers. Getting an open source project to support a platform really requires stepping up here since otherwise you’re just getting the untested illusion of support.
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/VKdqx
get back to me if you want some info for this program

email: acerboi124@gmail.com
It seems that humans are always barreling to the next crisis with no strategic plans in mind. We are always making it up as we go along.
Public toilet expert creates blueprint for how Oz can improve loo management
The article addresses this. The Alcubierre drive started out using immense amounts of (negative) energy, then people figured out how to reduce that amount by 60 orders of magnitude. The authors think similar techniques might be able to optimize this one.
>Xi’s downfall will be his inability to wait patiently.

He is 67. His time is limited.
And here's the truth about the 'average' prices in that article. They are heavily skewed by the high end houses, not the ones the average person buys. Ive owned there for 35 years and my two houses have always within 10k of the average price. Now, the average is 160k higher? That'll happen when the high end houses are selling for 10 million when we rarely had a house over 1 million a few years ago.

Here's a chart showing the actual average prices: http://www.chpc.biz/uploads/9/7/9/5/9795010/chart-calgary1j_...

The top purple line shows single family homes which peaked at about 500k in 07, about 14 years ago. Now they are supposedly about 550k which is only a few percent rise per year. This is totally consistent with my own house values.

The CBC article says prices are up 9% from last year. It doesnt bother to mention that they aren't much different than 14 years ago.

Edit: I recall about 10 years ago when someone built a house in a nice part of Calgary that was over 3M and people were surprised there was a house that expensive. A quick check shows there are several homes for sale over 10M now and there are over fifty at 3M and up. The high end stuff keeps rising astronomically.
Open? In what universe? They are blatant GPL violators: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hl09g7/onyx_boox_chi...
Let's say that an individual gets the recommended education and is given enough loans to leave school with 60+k in debt.

Unless that person is able to get a _really_ good job, this debt will sap any momentum they might have otherwise developed by living wisely and saving/investing.

Now since for better or worse, people are driven to form partnerships and create offspring, and this will likely occur before that student debt is paid off, what kind of start will the children have? Will the parents be saving for their children's college funds?

The value of critical thinking and ability to learn is great, but for most people in the above situation it will not compensate for the financial situation they will find themselves in for many years after they've forgotten much of what they learned. Also, the stress of their financial situation will actually have a greater influence on how they think than what they learned in school.
Hi. Yes, we have a 32" Place&Play product but currently can't be used as a replacement for the Joan product line. On the other hand, we have smaller 13" Joan devices available.
A Nickel (USA 5-cent coin) weighs almost exactly 5g, which is useful to know.

So 200 nickels is a kg.

16 Psyche's mass is 2.72x10^19 kg. Let's say 10^19 kgs of that is nickel.

With that you could mint 2x10^21 US-nickels, equivalent to 10^20 US-dollars.

The article reports that the asteroid is only worth 10^19 US-dollars, so we could buy 10 more asteroids with all the nickels from 16 Psyche.

And thus solve all the world's problems.
I'm really glad to see this here. I don't have a better word readily available than sexism for trying to talk about patterns like this but when I use the word sexism, I think people think I mean "Men are intentionally exclusionary assholes just to be assholes because they simply hate women." and that's never what I'm trying to say.

I find my gender is a barrier to getting traction and my experience is that it's due to patterns of this sort and not because most men intentionally want me to fail. But the cumulative effect of most men erring on the side of protecting themselves and not wanting to take risks to engage with me meaningfully really adds up over time and I think that tremendously holds women back generally.

I think gendered patterns of social engagement also contributed to the Theranos debacle. I've said that before and I feel like it tends to get misunderstood as well. (Though in the case of Theranos it runs a lot deeper in that she was actually sleeping with an investor.)
Fair enough. If you want to transact in a unusual, volitile currency, you should expect the counterparty to be unwilling to take those risks. If you don't like it, you can always just sell your BTC for USD, and buy the normal way.
Ah, there we are, we don't disagree. You are talking about net value and I am talking about absolute value which are of course very different.
> But it's not much of a foundation for a popular SF series.

And yet it was the foundation for an enormously popular (deservedly so, IMHO) SF series.
Minor note, NFTs are on Ethereum and not Bitcoin. Ethereum is already quantum resistant and has slot in solutions to make it quantum secure when needed (they aren't in use right now as they are less efficient). Quantum computing is not an existential threat to NFTs or blockchains.
This is a pretty terrible take. First of all it only applies to refunds. Second, if you are afraid of missing out on Bitcoin gains then DON’T BUY YOUR CAR USING BITCOIN.

I have spent Bitcoin on things like web hosting in the past, I paid probably $150 worth of Bitcoin on a server when the price of Bitcoin was less than $10k. If I had kept that Bitcoin it would be worth around $1,000 now. Does that mean I should be allowed to ask the web hosting company for a refund or should expect them to refund me the full amount in Bitcoin? Absolutely not.

If they did it any other way then the customer would be the one taking on zero risk. If the price of Bitcoin went down you would keep your car, and if the price went up, you could ask for a refund to increase the total dollar amount of money you already spent.
This is a thing in Germany, too. People leave stuff by the kerbside, and a lot of these people collect whatever looks nice or simply take all of it, fix it and resell it, sell it to a recycling center or (sadly) dump it somewhere else. Highly doubt they're doing it the proper legal way, but it's extra cash in their pockets.
> How is immigration a better solution?

The impact on finite, planetary resources is less taxed by immigration (1+0) than by birth (1+1).
People are free to disagree and I certainly do.

You can claim that the failing of the Culture are scenaristic conceits needed to have a plot for a book, that's an easy cop-out. The Culture is what the books shows. That its flaws were only made up to have a story doesn't change that.

In my opinion, when people claim the Culture is a prefect utopia, they base their view on a non-existent Culture, that of everything good seen in the book with the unsavory part s excised as book-writing-fodder unnatural warts. Bu that's different thing, a made-up, cleaned-up version of the Culture.

To me, the Minds clearly are toying with humans for a subtle version of cruelty.

I'll just take the "Player of Games" as the most explicit example (although "Surface Details" is pretty telling too): the Culture has been monitoring the Azad for decades, fully knowing how corrupt and evil they are, horribly torturing people 24/7. Yet they take decades before even setting up a contact. Ironically (if we can call it that) the novel ends with the events the Minds claim as their reason for not intervening directly.

I find the Minds behaviour described through Special Circumstances to be consistently amoral.
Yearly bitcoin consumption: 120TWh
Blocks mined per year: 52560 (One every 10 minutes: 6 * 24 * 365)
Transactions per block: ~2000

2283MWh per block. 1 MWh per transaction.
Why do you need that much energy? The article claims that the proposed mechanism could lower the energy requirements by 60 orders of magnitude: reasonable to have a grid connected prototype.

I’m as skeptical about this as the next person, but the universe doesn’t make its rules based on my intuition.
"There’s also the pain the customer will feel knowing that they could’ve bought two Teslas if only they held on to their BTC for a little longer."

Dear internet. When are you going to get over this bitcoin thing? It is getting silly.
There is such a steady stream of anti-Amazon news articles now that even a single driver quitting is enough to make national news. At least according to Anabelle Williams, who seems to be on a jihad:

https://www.businessinsider.com/author/annabelle-williams?op...
By Amdahl's law I was referring to things like:

- Communicating with customers

- Writing documentation

- Testing (be it automated or manual)

- Other stuff that may seem bureaucratic but nevertheless are essential (paperwork, tending to CI, tending to HW, etc).

This stuff (or at least some of it) is harder to scale. You can scale up the coding part quite a bit, but the overall process of SW development is held back by the above. You're not going to find someone who is 10x when it comes to talking to customers. Often managers will find the so-called 10x programmer and assign him to duties to maximize output, and have someone else do the work above. But he's still not a 10x overall, as he is simply not doing the work of other developers. That's why I said "within a very narrow domain".

Now if you can get a 10x developer who can scale all aspects of the job, then sure - pay him/her 10x.
Just came here to ask about this too

Seems a bit sketchy for the other article to be on front page, but its newer, more-upvoted rebuttal to be removed

@dang if you see this, I would love to understand the reason
Moonlight Towers (Austin Texas)
That's something you can literally demonstrate with accurate clocks and a mountain. This is a mathematical construct that is interesting but it is zero percent closer to any sort of demonstration of the effect let alone an actual implementation. It's frictionless pullies and spherical cows in terms of actual demonstration.

Once something requires more energy than fusion reactions can provide you are at energy levels that transmutes or obliterates matter. That's the point your space ship can't exist anywhere near the reaction site.
The amount of caffeine in a coffee depends on its extraction method, the grind, and to a lesser extent on roast. An espresso actually has much less caffeine than a cup of drip (60mg vs 200mg). Generally the longer you leave the beans exposed to water the more caffeine comes out, up to about 400 minutes when making cold brew. [1]

I doubt Starbucks is deviously out to over-caffeinate its customers (although if they were, they've got my vote!) but rather the difference is attributable to variations in their brewing process.

There's a limit to the amount of caffeine that can possibly come out of a bean, and so I would say that unless there's evidence they're spiking the brew, that Starbucks coffee is roughly the definition of an "average cup of coffee"

A Venti is 590mL and 415mg of caffeine, 700mg/L of coffee. Based on the chart in [1] that would be roughly speaking the midpoint of roast kind at the 150 minute mark making cold brew, 10g/100mL of coffee beans (Figure 1). Or approximately a dark roast, coarse grind hot brew (Figure 3).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740146/
You are right, I should have used short term and very short term.
Coffee is a lot more than caffeine, though. It contains a whole family of monoamine oxidase inhibitors, which have a host of effects on the nervous system.

That said, Red Bull very likely contains several types of flavonoids that also act as MAO-B inhibitors.

Coffee, on the other hand, contains both MAO-A and MAO-B inhibitors mainly from the Harmala alkaloid family. Some of the compounds are neurotoxic.
Didn't experience any outages. Seems to be working fine
I'd rather predict 3) A spaceship large enough and self-sufficient enough that many generations of society can live and die on the spaceship at sub-light speeds. Not the flashy sci-fi solution, but the most likely.
You've missed the point entirely in your rush to assuage yourself that France isn't "uniquely" evil. I never did nor did I ever mean to insinuate that France is somehow unique or uniquely awful in its colonial history. Most colonial histories are horrific to discover. All I did was insist that acknowledging this history is the first step in engaging with France's historical past in good faith.

France's colonial history was appalling, as were many if not all colonial histories, but the article at the heart of this thread was about France's particular postcolonial history in Rwanda, not about other colonial or postcolonial situations involving other countries. And my original response was to contradict someone trying to flatly deny any French culpability whatsoever in the atrocities committed in Rwanda in the 90s. Whatever you're trying to do here with "well sure France was a horrific colonial overlord but so were X, Y and Z" is completely beside the point.
This is false. It's not an opinion and not a guess. You must calculate capital gains taxes every time you send bitcoins to anyone in exchange for anything.
This would definitely not fly in most parts of the world. Taxable events pretty much occur whenever one asset type is converted to another unless explicitly excluded. And since car registration basically ties the car to a named person, it's a particularly difficult form of private consumption to hide.
Yes exactly. There was also this one prior where the author built the panel/frame themselves: https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
Sure but none of that is a reason to require a cloud app intermediary.
The word is actually of Greek origin. Who spread it is difficult to tell.
Literal energy isn't the same thing as capital.
There is no causality paradox with warp drives.
Between Republicans and Democrats I totally agree with you! Which is why I don’t associate with either party.
Same! Periods of low exercise correlate with lower moods for me and lower moods mean less will power which makes keeping my diet in check tougher. The opposite is also true.
Why? The downsides are obvious and the realized upsides are extremely limited. The best thing I can say about it is that it's enabled cheaper international money transfers for some people. The worst thing is that it consumes an entire nation's worth of electricity. Compare those two things; is it worth it?
I suppose you would need to ask, scientifically, what do you mean by "give you energy".
Do you mean purely a kind of psychological energy, a will, motivation?
I'm gonna say 'proof needed here'. What you're really saying is, if a government or all governments do stop it, you're boned.
I am assuming that the nearest star is not reachable in a human lifetime (even given some breakthrough in longevity).

The big problem being fuel and how to carry it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Required_e...
But all else is not equal. Unionized negotiations change a lot of things.
In the case of a safety recall in the US, the manufacturer gets to choose from three options to address it.

1. Fix it for free.

2. Replace the vehicle with a new vehicle.

3. Purchase the vehicle back.

Bitcoin potentially provides arbitrage with the third option. Safety recalls are not uncommon. Suppose Tesla ships an over-the-air software change and then recalls the vehicles.

State by state Lemon-laws also might come into play.

At a minimum there is nothing buyer friendly in the clause.
Yeah, working out regularly makes me think twice about ever drinking enough to get even a minor hangover. Plus, a good exercise routine inspires a good diet because after all that time and energy working out, who wants to mess it up?
Fair enough but the consumer can also play the same game at time of purchase. BTC up today? Buy a car. BTC down today? Do not.

Either way you get the USD equivalent back. I can't imagine someone actually caring about this. If you think it's likely that you will return a car, maybe think about such a large purchase a little more?
Labor was once fighting for their rights with rifles and unprecedented multicultural unity. Workers knew their enemy very clearly and knew how to attain their goals. The alternative was starvation and corporate enslavement.

Now the concern is deleting tweets. Embourgeoisiement has slowed and confused the struggle of labor. The reckoning of the owner class is long overdue, as evidenced by this typical hubris.

In today's world, this reckoning must be at once international and complete. We have the infrastructure for liberation on a global scale.
That many miscarriages brings so much sorrow that I don't know how to empathize.
Quest for Speed: Indicative Survey in Improving Performance (Numpy/Fortran/C++)
No, I mean that bitcoin as a whole would be back to 2010 values should these exchanges not exist. The only reason bitcoin has value is that leeches decided to speculate on it, and leeches need a centralized exchange.

Centralized exchanges are the reason you don't pay 10000 bitcoin for a pizza. They're the reason why it's even accepter, because there's at least one large place that will exchange your coins for cash.
Current scientific thinking suggests that we do not even exist - our sense that we are a conscious self that makes choices - is only an illusion.
Wait a little longer and you'll almost surely get comments pointing out why the top comments are bad as well lol :)
I didn't like Use of Weapons. I found the plot cliché, the usual super-elitism of SC pushed to the unbearable point (the fact that the main protagonist would be such a unique and uber-warrior / strategist / whatever) and the source of his emotional turmoil over the top.
Short documentary on Super Mario 64 world record holders
Every once in a while, I see a video that leaves me full of motivation, such as There Will Never Ever Be Another Driver Like Dale Earnhardt. This video, to me, is one of those. I know a lot of people here are interested in SM64 speedrunning due to the game's technical nature, and those people will certainly find it interesting. But, I think even people outside the community will enjoy this video. Very well done!
There's a discussion of a rebuttal to this here-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612952

(Also it's newer and more upvoted but for some reason no longer on the front page?)
in this scenario am I a battery because I can make my own wood?

and is the tree I am cutting a battery too?

wouldn't it be easier (and more sustainable) then to plant trees than mine bitcoins?
The transaction could be entirely pegged to the dollar.
If bitcoin stopped existing today, the environment would be better off because right now the impact is negative. It could only become net-positive, if there are changes in the future. Even if you believe such changes will happen, I think you'll have to agree that this is speculation. It's not net-positive for the environment, it might be net-positive for the environment.

That's unrelated to it being negative-sum though. Running the numbers on this is trivial. You can only profit from bitcoin by selling it to someone else for more than you paid for it. Inevitably for some people to profit, some people have to lose a corresponding amount. This alone would make bitcoin zero-sum. Some people, miners, are special though in that they are by design always making a profit. That they extract from the network making bitcoin negative-sum.

As a consequence it's positive only for those people who find a loser to sell to, are miners or "shovel" makers (electricity, hardware, ...)
We somehow managed to survive nuclear weapons (so far). But imagine things as simple as a pathogen or invasive species from space the kind of mess it will create when a year later covid is still not under control.
Thanks, I didn't know about Splash, and I like it! Too bad my system admin disabled the Microsoft store.