skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest counter argument to that is that transition to proof-of-stake based Crypto should be encouraged.

But the article only makes sweeping statements without much depth. .

"Cryptocurrencies disproportionately victimize vulnerable people and those in marginalized communities without access to traditional investments or financial advisory"

The same could be said about large segments of the traditional finance and banking industry. Yet nobody wants a blanket ban of this sector.

It is a very low effort article, that has a very clear bias.
In conclusion, none of the points addressed in this article hold strong ground.
Reddit gold seems to fit here. It makes no sense to me but it seems to be working. I find it funny the threads complaining about Reddit's recent horrible hiring an mod decisions all had TONS of gold lol
There's something odd about the 2019 MBP Bluetooth hardware. The most interesting part is that just plugging in a Cambridge Silicon -based USB dongle can kill it permanently: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250944058
It's not entirely true though, most of the code base is still C++ and there is no plan to migrate the rest.
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Agreed. Hitachi makes a rather famous "muscle relaxer" called the Magic Wand.
>If we ban sweatshops, how those children are going to make money for their family?

That kind of sounds like a good point to me... if I was going to ban child labor in my hypothetical country, I wouldn't do it until I had school lunches or some other child aid program set up to start at the same time. Banning survival techniques without offering alternatives sounds like a way to make people's lives worse with good intentions.
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Any 'virtual cursor' fans here? Do you know if v4 supports it? It is a long time requested feature, but not as common in recent times...
There are many problems with Proof of Stake (inflation, centralization, etc). Cardano mainnet doesn't even exist yet. Smoke and mirrors.
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What's wrong with AGPL that doesn't fit with our ideas?

We were on the MIT first and got into a situation where a large corporation wanted to take our code and resell it to tens of thousands of their customers and they made it clear they didn't want to contribute anything back to our project whatsoever.

We are a two person team putting our own time and savings into this and it could have instantly killed the project and the chance of becoming sustainable.

We changed the license and that was a simple way to stop them without changing our principles/ideas. Could have gone proprietary too at that stage but we didn't.

Everything is clearly explained here https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses
They do! Gas taxes, bans of gas vehicles, required emission standards, etc.
It's an interesting claim you make about the authorities making something up. Compare your views on COVID mask usage and the changing requirements/recommendations from the authorities (CDC, WHO, whatever your local health organization is) with Muslim countries' "made up" justifications. At least the Muslim countries are consistent.
> The artist, or a company, could easily just maintain a database showing who 'owns' which artwork NFT

What if hackers hack into it and scramble all the data. What if the artist happens to alter the data him/herself?

I think a decentralized database is a small benefit (when we're not discussing the environmental externalities).
The feminist was a spook: Gloria Steinem and the CIA (2015)
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AFAIK, crypto is very popular with right-wing.
You can put an external mobile modem and make it a failover wan connection. That way you still control the network via your wifi equipment but have that still available.
Which inconsistency do you prefer?

• "90% less than x" does not equal "10% of x"

• "90%" does not equal "0.9 times"

• "0.9 times less" means multiplication and subtraction (x - 0.9x) but "1.1 times less" means division (x / 1.1)

This is one of those cases where we know from the context what was meant but that isn't the same as what was said. Normalizing this abuse of language introduces unnecessary special cases and discontinuities for readers/listeners to deal with and creates ambiguity in situations where one of the two interpretations is not so obviously wrong as it is here. It's better to keep the rules simple: ratios, percentages and "times" always involve multiplication by the original value, and "more" and "less" refer to addition and subtraction. There should be a deterministic 1:1 correspondence between the phrasing and the formula.
Samsung is nearly 40% of the SK economy. An attempt to put sanctions on it would SEVERELY cripple their economy. And I would expect a backroom deal before they want that blow.
How exactly this contradicts relationship between social class and lifespan?
More fools trying to impose physical-world scarcity economics into a digital world of plenty. Data wants to be free, so how about we let it be?
Gold mining is also environmentally intensive, as is transporting gold for trade.

Proof of stake is also a "mining" operation insofar as it produces a limited supply at a macro-predictable rate.
I know people like you. One's a great product designer, technical enough to understand literally at a glance what needs to be done to solve the user's problem, but there was a great skill gap when it came to his actual code. I still have HUGE respect for his work.

Don't sweat it. You're only "bad" because you haven't exercised the proper skills. If you want to keep coding, skill up! Maybe take a course online that will show you the proper techniques for working in e.g. JavaScript. Learn the design patterns that will give your program the "proper structure". Then start looking for jobs in the field. You've been at it long enough to have an advantage over more junior peers with more experience coding "the right way". At the senior level, soft skills start tending to dominate technical acumen. Play that card to your advantage.

If you hate coding, maybe the softer aspects -- PM, PO in an Agile shop, Scrum master, UI/UX design -- are right for you.

It's up to you though. It's not too late to build your skill on the coding side of things.
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I see the situation in the exact opposite way. Passing a Carbon Tax, while sensible, would run in major opposition because it would basically effect every citizen. But banning cryptocurrency would be much easier since the majority of the population doesn't own any and it can be framed in very positive terms.
It's a bummer because zkRollups and their ilk in particular are flat out amazing new cryptographic constructions, but because they weren't developed by Schneier or Rivest or DJB, the wider programming industry is ignoring them.
VerifiableC[1] provides Hoare rules for (a large subset[2] of) C that include function calls, pointers and heap allocation, and some amount of concurrency. It does use an extension to Hoare logic, called separation logic, to achieve some of these features. In particular, separation logic's frame rule is instrumental for the modularization needed for semantics of function calls.

[1]https://vst.cs.princeton.edu/veric/

[2]excludes setjmp/longjmp, unstructured switch statements, goto and maybe a few other moderately exotic constructions.
Yes, "it runs entirely in the background" means it tracks the hell out of you, across websites.

Basically you are blocked if you care about privacy and refuse this tracking.

That's what I'm willing to call "hostile". I'd say, it's even worse than picking a few pictures, which is already hostile.
Same. I heavily block google scripts and hate reCAPTCHA with a passion, but hCaptcha really takes the cake for the most painful captcha experience.
No, I don't have many grievances, just one: Stallman was falsely accused in a campaign led by Selam Gano and this false information was spread worldwide. I don't believe in consequentialism. In this case, Selam believed that by destroying Stallman she will somehow protect women in the future. That's perfectly fine, but please use only true arguments, not falsehoods.
Wikipedia has a lot more utility than a website about a current event you're gonna visit 2 or 3 times before the issue is resolved. It's a lot easier to justify that donation.
aaand it's gone again.

It seems like bitcoin and RMS are two impossible topics for HN now.
Yes, it is. I work in a university and we were given these masks. The inside is dark grey instead of white, and it even advertises on the box that they are made with graphene.

I have worn them for long periods and so have many of my colleagues. I have not felt any throat scratching as described in the news, however.
I think the discredited part is mainly that presence of small crimes can increase likelihood of major crimes. There's still pretty good evidence that more vandalism, run down buildings, littered streets, etc. can increase the amount of nuisance crimes. So sure it's not going to cause more murders, and policy-wise it doesn't make sense to over punish minor crimes, but community cleanup could still be helpful for reducing things like petty theft.

Which I think is consistent with this, having shitty surroundings leads people to treat their surroundings shittier is pretty analogous to being surrounded with cheaters making people cheat harder. The leap is that this will somehow escalate to worse/more violent crimes.
I loved TextMate.

But I think the facts speak for themselves now...

- their site is now little more than a vanilla bootstrap theme

- their News section hasn't been updated since 2014

- the blog appears to be miscellaneous developer notes that may or may not even be related to TextMate

...I'd agree with the sentiment that development appears to be dead.

That said, I think Sublime is as worthy a spiritual successor as any. (It also may be the biggest reason for TextMate's demise.)
Hi! Thank you. I’m pretty sure it’s on the roadmap.
That remains to be seen. Ethereum has their own way of solving PoS weakness and Cardano has their own way. You need to read more.
Most cryptocurrency activity is speculation, but so is a huge proportion of what happens on Wall St. Are we going to ban hedge funds? What about casinos or even worse state-backed lotteries?

It's the same sort of hypocrisy as deplatforming Parler. While I did not weep for Parler, YouTube and Facebook are the largest platforms for alt-right/fascist propaganda. YouTube's "rabbit hole algorithm" is by far the most powerful engine of indoctrination, and while the most egregious stuff has mostly been kicked off the platform it's still full of "soft pill" fascist/racist material. I am not sure things like Qanon or the alt-right in general would even exist (to such a degree) were it not for YouTube.

A ban or tax on proof of work mining is tempting but it would just offshore that activity. I suppose you could ban PoW cryptocurrencies but there are many alternatives.

This is generally a shitty article.
The celebrities don't care about the farmers or their causes. Celebrities (of all stripes, cultural, intellectual, economic) need to virtue signal. The need to virtue signal comes from establishing their virtuousness to justify their incredible privilege. This inherent fairness is built into our dna as an evolutionary mechanism.

Combine this need to virtue signal with social media's vast reach and you get the spectre of celebrities as diverse as AOC, Mia Khalifa, Greta and Rihanna tweeting in support of farmers.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20210311-surprises-about-french...
> With windows, (and I suggest systemd) you're either all in or all out.

This is not the case with systemd. Although these projects live in the same repository, distributions can pick and choose them depending on your priorities.

Granted, this is obviously not something most end users come in contact with and even know since very few people actually build distributions. As an end user, ripping out a core part of a distro to replace it is always a painful experience. Regardless of whether that component lives in the systemd repo or somewhere else. Systemd actually makes ripping out core parts easier, which is why arch adopted it so quickly, but that's another story.

You're just throwing vague and incorrect statements out there, sprinkle "Windows" on top in the hopes of eliciting an emotional response.
Until the environmental problem is clearly solved, it still holds strong.
She's a great illustration of why we need instant runoff voting.

She won the 2020 Republican Primary for the 21st district in Florida with 14526 votes out of 34156. That's 42.5%. The remaining vote was split among 5 other candidates (8724, 4194, 3221, 2421, 1070).

It is highly likely she would have lost to any one of them in a two person race, but because they split the vote you end up with a a situation where a majority would have preferred any other candidate to the one who won.
Those are mostly not subsidies. A tax deduction is very different from a direct payment.

I'm not saying that drilling a well should be deductible. However calling it a subsidy is a different matter.
A friend of mine decided to pursue music production around the same time I started in software engineering. We're both 20 somethings. We swap war stories now and then.

I get to hear about how he's working with his mentor to do vocal production on a track getting pitched for Maroon 5, The Chainsmokers, etc. Sometimes the tracks take -- the artist likes them and decides to move forward. Usually they don't and it's a lot of getting your hopes up for nothing. These major artists have lots of songs getting thrown at them on any given day. To date some of my friends biggest credits are vocal production credits on a couple billboard top 100s. A single track will have 50 names on it between writing, production, studio performance, etc.

My friend's mentor is late 30s and mainly does songwriting. He's been trying to do a solo thing but just isn't marketable. However, just recently he "made" it with a feature on a top 100 song and a couple songs picked up by major artists. The checks cleared this last year but the songs came out a couple years ago. He went from "how do I pay rent" to 7M literally over night. He moved to WA to dodge CA income tax. My friend has been able to tie a couple big checks together over the years, but it's been tough. One year it's 100k, the next it's 20k and all from ads and random tv shows.

I'm consistently shocked when talking with my friend just how little music matters in the music industry. The people who make the most look good, sound good, and hell they're crazy talented. But they aren't the people who've written the lyrics or the melodies that define our culture. We probably can't name those people.
I wonder if there's an "I am Spartacus" sort of BSSID that a whole ton of people around the world could use, and it wouldn't matter as long as there aren't two of us within radio range of each other. I assume 00-DE-AD-BE-EF-00 would be worth a try..
This article seems to intentionally ignore the core reason for cryptocurrencies; escaping inflation and control. The article then proposes to use the law to bring those people back within the control of fiat and government oversight.

I no longer think the environmental argument is really plausible here. Clearly crypto mining is emitting using a lot of power and some of that is CO2. But the competition is fiat; backed by fighter jets and nukes; literally. How is it that someone can't steal your money? The bank makes sure. How is it the bank can be sure? The cops protect them. How is it the cops aren't overwhelmed? The military protects them. Law and order stands on the backs of a lot of stuff and CO2. Bitcoin is an example of one little piece of this not needing all that stuff. Instead it's protected by this mining fleet. And if you want to contest ownership there's no one to invade, no one to attack; the best you can do is make a fleet and try to mine. It's a small step in the direction of getting away from all these endless wars and control. A little step away from needing to point guns at eachother to protect our pile of stuff. And this author is saying "point guns at them and make them give it up". That's crazy. Just leave them alone.

(If you need to point guns to save the environment, do that specifically. Carbon tax CO2)
Inflation and centralization are just as possible on PoW (see Binance Smart Chain) and just as easy to avoid on PoS.

Cardano main net has been around a long time. It just doesn't support smart contracts yet.
The thing is, Im not sure Brave really needs a cryptocurrency. It seems that a centralized DB would be enough.
I usually see people who have a lot of disparaging things to say about stuff they clearly have a misunderstanding of as missing out on the fun. Also he doesn't seem to realize that despite lauding Japan's payment infrastructure that SBI Holdings utilizes ripple to make the remittances go fast... they're probably going to end up relocating in that country, leaving the USA even further in the dust

https://www.coindesk.com/japan-xrp-ripple-suit
Two of six tracks on her first album. Didn’t check the others.
I agree, partially. I also think that the front end of a compiler is more broadly useful skill than the back end stuff. However, I believe that most people would be better served knowing how to work with a recursive descent parser instead of a bottom up parser generator, which is something that the dragon book spends a lot of time on. For this reason, one of my favorite compiler books is munificent's Crafting Interpreters.
What does someone with a hardware wallet expect? If you can just use a phone app, then use a phone app. But if you want the convenience of an app, what do you expect the hardware wallet to do exactly?
You know capital gains tax already applies to all crypto transactions, right?
I didn't say that there were no alternatives, but just that bitcoin does provide value.

If you are part of the "we", then you got what you wanted I suppose. Everybody who didn't want the inflation were left out.
Much discussion about nil in Go just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26635529
I don't see anything in the reference that you provide that elaborates on "start a war". Perhaps you could provide the elaboration?
I disagree, every ML model has some implicit statistical assumption, which is often not well understood by practitioners.

At minimum you must assume your underlying process is not fat tailed. If it is, then your training/validation/test data might never be enough to make reliable predictions and your model might break constantly in prod.

BTW shifting distributions and fat tailed distributions are sort of equivalent, at least mathematically.
The third half is the bluetooth firmware on the other device. The fourth half is the other firmwares on the other device. The fifth half is the specification(s). The sixth half is the RF environment.
To anyone who thinks a ban would never happen, look into how the US govt banned gold ownership after the great depression.
> instead you assume you have some reliable way of evaluating performance on the task you care about -- usually measuring performance on an unseen test set. as long as this is actually reliable, then things are fine.

This is the part that often fails in practice. Think of all the benchmarks that show superhuman performance and compare that to how good those same models really aren't. Constructing a good set of holdouts to evaluate on is really hard and gets back to similar issues. In practice, doing what you're describing reliably (in a way that actually implies you should have confidence in your model once you roll it out) is rarely as simple as holding out some random bit of your dataset out and checking performance on it.

On the other hand, what you often see is people just holding out a random bunch of rows.
Just made a little page for my campaign! Thanks for this! This reminds me of Obsidian Portal that a DM I briefly followed used:
https://www.obsidianportal.com/

Some thoughts:

-Looking at Obsidian Portal for the first time in years, I found a bunch of campaigns near me... last updated 5+ years ago. "Undead" games will probably be an issue for your service as well. Perhaps you could add an additional filter field for recently active/updated games.

-Following the last point, some groups might be "passively open": meeting regularly IRL, but not active on Roleplayful if there's nothing to update.

-I live in Chicago. It might be useful to have something that'd allow people to put in location tags for, say, the north side and nearby suburbs. Somebody in the city using public transit could take an hour or more to go to the other side of the city.

-It might also be cool if I could list more than one system if you're open to different options, but I can think of some arguments against this.

Thanks again! The best group I ever had (spanning ~4 years) was started with a notecard thumbtacked to a bulletin board in the back of the game shop. I try to keep an eye out for newer digital options!
Masks prevent aerosol transmission independently of whatever the official guidance happens to be today. That's a material, factual basis for wanting people to wear them - independent of whatever cultural norm different people happen to adopt around it. There isn't a corresponding basis for those cultural norms in Muslim countries, which are self-sustaining cultural norms with no material condition at their core.
So yesterday in HN we linked to a medium post of mine where I expanded on the problems of Proof of work, and linked to a change.org petition to ban proof of work to force projects move to proof of stake.

It got flagged, but nice to see that somehow the argument itself is not that unapproachable, so I'll link the petition here: https://www.change.org/StopBurncoins

It's full of links on the issue of power, carbon pollution and more.

IMHO the problem is not cryptocoins themselves as is suggested here, but just proof of work
Ah I wish, those would get far far higher. No this is what we see at typical online newspapers from purely remnant advertising (not taking into account direct sales).
The average person lifespan would however included people who got born as slaves and lived as slaves their whole life. It would also include people who died as kids or young people. You are also excluding people who need to work physically to get enough food to keep healthy.

The original claim is about how long the average person lives. It is not about oldest people we have noted in history.
I (and the person I replied to, I suspect) interpreted the title to mean that you shouldn't debug by printing stuff to the console at all, but instead do some other thing.
> Once you do know I literally just googled ‘Sublime Text Discord’ and it was the first result

This is kinda my point. I don't know or even want to know about their Discord, I want a text editor that is updated more regularly than once a year.

It reminds me of that scene from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

“But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”

“Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”

“But the plans were on display …”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.”
Something in https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim/network is worth a try.
> Most of the article's arguments work if you replace the word "Gold" for the word cryptocurrency

I don't see it. Doesn't seem to apply to ponzi scheme, or facilitating cyber attacks, or the environmental impact. Perhaps you could give some explicit examples.