skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to spend crypto at any merchant massively increases the liquidity of crypto - it provides more places where one can convert their crypto assets into goods and services. Reducing dependence on a small number of centralized crypto exchanges for liquidity provision is good for the decentralization and robustness of the crypto market as well.

Also fiat networks can be censored by financial institutions and government, as we saw with the financial blockade on WikiLeaks a few years ago, and have seen happen against pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong recently. Direct merchant acceptance of crypto provides an alternative when such financial controls are put in place.

Merchant adoption of crypto is an unmitigated good for crypto, from any perspective you look at it from. It's puzzling to me when some crypto enthusiasts see no point in
it, when it is really the entire point of cryptocurrency.
No, I'm accusing you specifically of being dishonest.
I'm not sure which category I fall in...

Is the reason that the outlet might be reverse polarity, and if that's on your mind you've probably checked that it's safe?
It’s giving people the option to do something else for awhile and get a small bonus on top. I had numerous jobs when I was young that had similar incentive structures if you wanted it. I doubt my managers were picking it up from Goebbles.
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Thanks for this. I am reading the whole thing now.
I think that the sockpuppet problem is a manifestation of the larger crisis of truth. Look how, now that we've even better access to easily verifiable information, we still have salaried media professionals and politicians pushing lies about simple objective facts.

Whatever unwritten structures that used to prevent that kind of thing have broken down, and it's not just social media doing it. Trump was a perfect manifestation of this problem - he was able to lie about everything and everyone in the most trivially contradictable ways, but faced no consequences for that. Instead, some professional media organizations backed him up.

Only now are we finally seeing lies crest into the territory of legal action, and only with the most extreme cases - like the Dominion lawsuits.

For every smaller kind of dishonesty, it seems like there is no consequences to brazenly lying. Anybody can lie about anyone as long as it's crafted such that the victim isn't in the position to sue (particularly if the victim isn't an individual but an amorphous group, and so showing standing and damages is functionally impossible).

I mean, we've basically left it up to the social media companies like Twitter to enforce basic social contracts like "lying about a global disease in ways that encourage the spread of disease is a bad thing", and their users are bristling at that.
Can any former Amazon employees confirm if Amazon is indeed a cult? Do we need an intervention? Blink once for yes, twice for no.
They're doing this along with the Spot robot though, they clearly know how to make legs (quadrapeds) work.

They haven't managed to master bipeds yet, but it's understandable given how hard controlling those are.
I disagree with this comment strongly, but I do not believe it is a deliberate troll or insult. It should not be flagged IMO.
[F]or Fancy, who now runs the digital learning non-profit Rumie in Toronto, Canada, BlackRock’s move, and the ones it has inspired, contain a fundamental flaw: the climate crisis can never be solved by today’s free markets.

“It’s not because they are evil, it’s because the system is built to extract profits,” he said.

Investors have a fiduciary duty to maximise returns to their clients and as long as there is money to be made in activities that contribute to global warming, no amount of rhetoric about the need for sustainable investing will change that, he believes.

My view increasingly has been that until accounting of natural capital --- both resources and sinks --- changes, market mechanisms cannot deliver sustainable reform.

Virtually all existing progress has come about entirely by recognising natural capital accounting, though at times indirectly. Risk, insurance, social and political resistance, internalised externalities, assuming at least partial costs of imposed (and externalised) costs.
The pronunciation is already normalized in English, and most people already pronounce it correctly in English for other English speakers.

Expecting non-German people to speak with German pronunciation is plain arrogant.
Could go one of two ways... https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Obvious for you: an internet-literate, tech-adjacent, analytical, skeptical type. I appreciate your generous optimism with respect to the intended audience of these messages but I have seen sloppier attempts that have been successful enough to push the needle from one side of the other.
Seems like making it part of the mass of the car results in a lot of waste when the car is eventually retired as it would probably be hard to separate anything recyclable.
Representatives were supposed to scale with the population so that one rep could reasonably represent all of the people in their district.

There are tons of ways to restructure the US legislative system that would ameliorate the current problems -- uncap the number of reps, allow individuals to override a fractional vote of their rep, split representation into technocratic branches and let everyone vote for a different rep on each domain, let people vote for committee membership, switch to approval voting or proportional representation, introduce term limits for reps and their staff, etc.
I'm more or less going this route. My current plan, if I do strike out completely, is to enroll non-degree near my hometown and build some credentials & relationships in the local department while working. It's a top 50 Mathematics program, so it should still provide what I'm looking for.
Maxwell should produce an electric motorcycle called the Demon.
> there was a requirement for a person to walk ahead of an automobile

Yes. In the UK this requirement lasted until 1896 when it was removed by an act of Parliament [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives_on_Highways_Act_18...
Yes, the Lorentz Transform describes coordinate transforms between two reference frames in motion relative to each other. For the question of why FTL travel blows up causality, that's exactly where you should be looking. You asked how to find a frame of reference where causality was backwards, well, if you learn the Lorentz Transform your questions in that area will be answered.

Now, the warp does affect things. We're now playing with general relativity, not just special. You're locally moving at less than light speed. Does that warping also fix causality? I'd want to see that proven, not just assume that it magically does so.
> I wonder if the correct way to view it is in fact a very terse domain-specific language

Honestly, na. It's pretty verbose. There's a lot of weird ass things in there like "Skip basepairs until you find the matching terminating sequence" (I think it's AG .* GA but its been a decade since my bioinformatics course), but you still have to include the non-AA-coding basepairs in the middle of that.

Compensating for that is the fact that there are like, multiple independent programs; if a ribosome is offset by a single base pair, the result is entirely different. If it runs the other strand, the result is different. And instead of crashing like any program would, biology just learns to use all of those possible encodings. In part, this works because there are 64 possible codons but only 20 amino acids, and the redundancy allows a substitution to affect only some of the offsets.
That is correct. But this is only for March 30. On the day before the buy/sell liquidity were roughly equal.

You can click on a point in the time series graph to see this.
I think you're right. It was a bit vague and I thought it was about the article's title itself.
And no mention of the unreciprocated romantic interest, which to me is the most interesting facet of their relationship.
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This is how technology always works. 200 years ago, most of us worked on farms. 100 years ago, most worked as domestic workers or in factories. Now most are white-collar or service workers. As technology evolves, so too do our jobs.
It's Greece-Turkey, as others have said. Turkey has burned through much of it's foreign reserves, tourism is fucked and we could see Erdogan whipping up nationalist sentiment in the face of major economic difficulties.

Longer term, as Putin slides out of the picture with his medical issues, Russia is an interesting candidate for instability. The Chinese might try to solidify their land grab in the east, but the bigger worry is Russia breaking apart and imploding.

Europe has zero capability for warfare in the Pacific, so that is irrelevant.
Couldn't you use something like monero but, I guess then you couldn't audit it.
As I was reading the above post, I started to remember reading an article on ribbon farm. The next response is someone posting the article I remember. The Hn bubble is real and in some cases has surprisingly low-entropy.
It works with Python 3 just fine.
If China takes over Taiwan, chip manufacturing is probably the least of anyone’s worries.
NFTs are the new copyright. Gear up now.
He is still the CEO. He will step down later this year.
To be honest I don't want to go into JStor to search for studies that support my viewpoint and lob them at you in a game of citation tennis. But, I will distill my viewpoint down as best I can and leave it at this:

People claim that critical thinking is not taught in schools because it's an easy claim to make when you perceive that so many other people are thinking uncritically. But, make a claim they disagree with and watch how good they become at it. Everyone falls into a trap of thinking that society at large lacks 'common sense' or 'critical thinking' because we all assume our worldview is true and anyone who disagrees must have deficient thinking. Ultimately I think people are taught how to think critically, but the real problem is when they choose to think critically. And that, I think, is a result of human nature, not lack of education.
Par for the course.
>How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters?

Setting aside the reasons this situation exists and the problems it's creating, I believe the usual methods are mail, e-mail, and phone calls.

Or if that doesn't work, then torches and pitchforks.

Everyone who knew about the DMCA before it went into effect hated it, but the monied interests pushed it through. Corruption in action.
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Yeah, I actually think the group that is least susceptible to this is millennials, who group around the anonymity of IRC / early 4chan / etc, but before people were even pretending to use real identities on the internet.
They guy had a very big mouth, was a reality-TV star, and a life made of nothing but tabloid drama for the past 20 years.

I think you can attribute a LOT of the sensationalism to the man who basically swam the sensationalism ocean for most of his life.
You are letting them off too easy. It’s probably a game of stag hunting.

I don’t think this blacklisting applies either. You are ignoring the fact that whistleblowers can operate anonymously.

These companies chose to then a blind eye on themselves and each other.
The third and most likely option is that it's trolls with too much time on their hands.
And it has to be supervised by the driver.
Seems more like a roll call check. Usually, signatures are on the outside of sealed ballots.
This would mean the disintegration of NATO, and likely at a time when China also decides to move on Taiwan. It's also unclear whether the US has the will to do more than protest strongly at UN meetings.
> they shall accept no gifts from them, neither a horse nor an ox, nor a cow, nor a pig, nor a sheep, nor a piglet, nor a lamb, nor anything other than bottles of wine, vegetables, fruit, chickens and eggs.

Remarkably similar to most corporate anti-corruption policies of today. I've generally seen wording "No gifts over $50". So a bottle of wine is fine as a gesture but anything that's expensive enough that it likely influences decision making isn't allowed.
More recently, he has been released on parole after roughly half his term served.[1] Interestingly, the article says:

In Germany, inmates can be released after serving two thirds of their term. Parole after only half of the time is rare, but can be granted to first time offenders who demonstrated good behavior and are deemed unlikely to commit crimes in the future.

I don't doubt he exhibited good behavior. I'm not sure I believe he's unlikely to commit a crime in the future. I wonder if he thinks he was singled out for something everyone in the industry was doing, and thus it wasn't his fault. He wouldn't be wrong about the first thing, but he would about the second. It's admittedly speculation on my part though.

1: https://www.autonews.com/executives/ex-vw-manager-schmidt-ge...
I would like a very simple electric car, simple motor(s), simple electronics to repair, no GPS or phone home necessary (I want to download on my time, send me a text/email/whatever about critical downloads). I want something easy and cheap to repair, have the simplicity of electric motors, and run 20 years with very little maintenance. I don't 30 computers running on my computer. I just want to get from A to B and it not cost me 80-100k for a decent electric vehicle. Tesla and others are overengineered for what they do and that complexity adds to failure rate and cost of ownership.
> You seem to have some fundamental misunderstanding about what costs memory.

Probably, hence my "How does that work?" question.

I don't doubt your example--I know it works, but I'm struggling to understand how it manages to work, since (as I understand it) the closure presumably captures the environment, which presumably means taking the address to the new `v` which presumably is the same address for each loop iteration?
I don't think they are making it illegal to go the bathroom they are just making it economically awful. If you miss X minutes in an hour, the whole hour doesn't count. You have to deliver X packages per hour everyday and one miss gets you written up, which can lead to firing.

You seem to forget that a lot of these workers are unskilled and have few choices. Amazon may be paying $15/hr but they will work you like dogs. Some people will accept that because they need the money and McDonald's just doesn't pay enough. It will be interesting to see what Amazon will have to pay if some of the minimum wage increases start to pass.
>On the other hand, I wish it wasn’t taboo to talk about money in our society. I wish I could read stories about normal people managing their finances well, from how to save wages from a minimum wage job up to managing a large salary, liquidation event, or trust fund.

r/personalfinance covers what you can do with less money.

Bogleheads or biggerpockets forums for experiences about handling more money.

For even more money, you should network and hang out with rich people and will probably need to get involved in politics at some point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics
Uh, why do you think after signing up for one credit card, you magically start getting offers for other cards? CC companies have been selling transaction data for decades before FAANG made it trendy to do so.
Some people don't think that 'fair treatment' should be determined with the bosses wealth as a factor
> I don't think you can just take the current design and "make it round."

While you are taking the rectangle and turning it into a circle, go ahead and change the design...
wow, I love Amazon for the convenience they've brought to my life but this is about as slimy as it gets...
yeah i've never really cared for them
I wish they’d been bought by smugmug instead.
You need to scold your children.

That's a metaphor - of course you shouldn't treat your reports like children. But if they possess the following attitude, it's on you as the manager to let them know that it's not an acceptable practice on your team.

> they seem to take an attitude that if they hit something they don't already know, it's perfectly reasonable to stop progressing it and just declare they need help

This advice doesn't stand on its own; you'll need both more specific tactics and a broader strategy for dealing with the situation (providing tooling or scaffolding for improving their behavior). But the fact of the matter is that everything else you do for them won't matter if you condone this behavior - which you are, by allowing it to keep happening.

PS I am an engineer-turned-manager and this is easily the least favorite part of the job for me as I get used to it. But it is ultimately your responsibility to do so, and you are impeding your own ability to improve as a manager the longer you resist doing it.
> how would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly?

I'd cry myself to sleep every night on my pile of billions of dollars. Poor Jeff.
>At the end of a buyback the company owns more of its own shares, and investors own less

No, they own the same amount (as a group, proportionally), and each remaining shareholder owns more. Furthermore, the shareholders (as a group that owned the stock before the buyback was done) does get paid, because some of the shareholders sold their stake for cash.

>Dividends are payments to those who own shares, and the company does not own more of anything after a Dividend pay out.

Dividend payments aren't free. In fact, you can see that for dividend paying stocks, the share price steadily goes in the months leading up to a dividend payment, and on the dividend date it goes down roughly equal to the dividend paid.
When it comes to contemporary political events, there is too much incentive to push a specific agenda, and too little incentive to be neutral. So if you want a neutral opinion, you need to piece it together from multiple biased sources.

My personal feeling, as a first-generation immigrant, is that the West has eliminated the local incentives for traits associated with personal strength. Partly by moving jobs requiring problem-solving to cheaper countries. Partly by the corporate culture trying to refocus people's passion into areas where they wouldn't accumulate economic leverage (passion about hobbies, social issues and identity is OK, passion about the product that would make you one day start your own business is a no-no).

So we have a high concentration of strong ambitious people used to solving problems in countries like China (because the entire world literally pays them to do so). And we have a lot of softer people taking too many things for granted in the West, sitting on most of the world's wealth. This is a textbook recipe for a conflict.
> I love Buffett, but probably it's expected to be convinced by whatever you're consuming right now.

Do you mean “those people are notorious for a reason, they can convice” or “our minds are susceptible to believing something we hear repeated several times”?
How do you balance writing code with constant meetings?
Some days are quiet and I can concentrate on writing code, but those are a rare occasion. It has become increasingly common to have multiple meetings through out the day. To make matter worse, the better code I write, the more meetings I get invited in.

As I get more comfortable with my abilities the constant stream of interruptions is bugging me. How do I deal with this? I've talked to my boss that I am into too many meetings and he has said I can go offline and skip meetings, yet he expects me to be in meetings because he requires my expertise for complicated technical subjects that come up.
But were you specifically being the manager's patsy, training other workers and inducting you into a psychological culture of aligning with the manager?
Age has little to do with that. No idea why you'd draw the line at the early 80s (the time SMTP/email was born). Given the influencers' target demography is predominantly people in their teens and 20s, trusting all you can read online should be related to lack of (critical) thinking rather than age.
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/c...
Either in a desktop sitting securely under your desk at office, or "in the cloud". You would remotely connect to them to do your development. (Most of Google binaries I saw were way too heavy to run on a Macbook, anyway.) Macbooks were just for checking email, calendar, or similar stuff.
aren't they mostly betting against other hedgies /big investors? Some laugh, some cry
A tall mountain, or the ocean, are also "fearsome". The cause of fear here is the power differential, which is not itself a bad thing.
Clicked on logo, came to an extremely laggy game where I got Game Over after a couple of seconds. No idea what's going on.
More and more I'm seeing a general public backlash against advertising. It's been so large and so prevalent that people find it irritating enough to avoid products that are getting heavy pushes. I've found myself having a visceral "stay the hell away from this product" reaction on occasion as well.

My stance on web advertising has always been "go back to static, not in-my-face, non-animated, no audio, no javascript ads and I'll consider turning off my ad blocker."

I'm absolutely not letting my computer get infected through the ad networks, which is a separate issue really.
The reason is that old toaster designs had unpolarized plugs and therefore a good chance of uninsulated live wires inside, even when off. Modern toasters don't anymore, but folk wisdom lasts forever. Although you make a good point that if your outlet polarity is reversed, you might still have a problem. I don't know if modern designs are robust to that...

I learned this from a video about old Sunbeam toasters that was unexpectedly fascinating: https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
The article is basically saying that you shouldn't blindly trust authority, which is totally fair. The example is also fair, though without the nuance of the guidelines being for commercial restaurants and the like.

The issue though is that the "replacement" answers don't come from anywhere trustworthy either. The issue is the data simply isn't there.

The only "real" answer would be proper testing but if you think there is a chance of illness and death that gets into a huge ethics issue.

Instead the author points to common sense answers, while these are generally fine (talking about each ingredient and it's shelf life) I would argue that each ingredient is very different than when combined. Flour has a much longer lifespan than bread for example.

I don't have any answers myself, but it's certainly something to be discussed.

Though, no one should trust the "I did a bunch of times and I'm fine" argument, cause that's just silly for obvious reasons.
This! Interpolating in linear RGB space is the biggest issue, I'm sure it will improve a lot simply by using a more suitable colorspace. Triangles might not be noticable at all then, except in extreme cases (which are undesirable anyways).
Oh massively so, increasing proportionately by distance from place of manufacturing to place of administration. Not counting the reduction in vaccine capacity at distribution centres.