skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would consider that low if they’re selling millions of burgers a month. Every large scale system has imperfections and it’s unreasonable to expect 100% safety or 100% perfection on some other metric. Then there’s the question of attributing the deaths. For example the people who died may have had other complicating factors.

If it ends up being food poisoning at some unacceptable rate of occurrence with provable link to McDonalds burgers, I would welcome investigations and incremental improvements. What I wouldn’t do is call for McDonalds to be defunded/abolished, or for fast food to be replaced by an alternative food system, or label anyone who disagrees as racist, or inject my ideology into schools/companies, or censor those who disagree. Nor would I participate in repeated rioting resulting in several deaths and billions of Dollars of damage.

Instead I would work within the system, in a legal and civil manner. I would welcome an open debate in the spirit of classical liberalism. I would want a nuanced understanding and nuanced set of actions to result.

Lastly - would I spend time defending McDonalds on forums? Probably not since it’s not that important to me and I have other fast food choices. But I only have one local police force to depend on. And the safety of my own family and property hangs in the balance. So I would definitely engage on that topic.
I expected a gif of Balmer.
I just unfollow people who have no Twitter-discipline and post random useless personal stuff, even if they do post quality tweets every now and then. Best to keep your follower list small and selective. Quality info will still get to you.
It’s art! It looks great. It happens to also be useful but that’s not the main reason to buy it.
Same. I have a lot of ideas, a reasonably effective filter in the days time frame, and not much filter at the moment the idea pops up. I don’t post much and never where I expect many people will see it. I try mostly to agree with things I find true and important or fill factual data where I have the energy. (I posted answers to a lot of COVID questions on Twitter. Doubtful it had much effect but whatever.
Haha, I just learned this recently. It's on the menu in their app. I always order short now when I am in a mood for "unhealthy" drink
A permissionless system will outpace the incumbents eventually. Just like the web made all other platforms completely irrelevant.

It might not be bitcoin, but it certainly won't be Bank of America coin.
Yes, 15 apparently still in service as of 2018.

https://austinot.com/austin-moon-towers
Blood thinners reduce blood viscosity increasing flow.
Aspirin is commonly used together with ephedrine and caffeine to form an ECA stack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECA_stack
>how much energy does it consume?

I'll give you a hint: it's less than 1MWh/tx, which is what bitcoin uses today.
>If I just spin up a PostgreSQL database and tell people "hey, I'll store transactions for you – super energy efficient" obviously nobody will use my system.

This happens all the time and there are more of those nobodies than people in the cryptocurrency space.
I said their goal was to unite the world under communism, because it was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split

> In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sino-Soviet debates about the interpretation of orthodox Marxism became specific disputes about the USSR's policies of national de-Stalinization and international peaceful coexistence with the Western world, which Mao decried as revisionism. Against that ideological background, China took a belligerent stance towards the West, and publicly rejected the USSR's policy of peaceful coexistence between the Eastern and Western blocs.
Thanks for putting it in context. This is exactly what I'm looking for. (making it practical, I'll take care of that myself).
LLC is cheapest but sometimes it's not good enough - it's pass-through for taxes which means your personal taxes are impacted by business profits. You may need to have more tax assistance because this - YMMV of course. The "file the taxes under your own return" is a double-edged sword. I've been burned in the past on this.

I've created LLCs in the past but my next company is starting as a C-corporaion just to avoid the tax entanglements since I already need the same tax people either way, so why not take the added advantages and greater protection.

Where you start your LLC matters a lot. E.g. CA is one of the worst - you have to pay minimum tax at founding and then every year: $800+ last time I formed one. NY was far easier - there's a minimum annual but then no minimum tax so no revenue no tax.
There is effectively no difference between a dividend and a buyback. You're trying to claim that doing a reverse buyback is different than just paying taxes, but they would have the same effect.
>... and the huge load it puts on the GPU market

Point of correction: Bitcoin is mined with ASICS not GPUs
Assasination of Union activists and uprising of 10k armed miners (1921)
It’s true, it’s been verified via other sources
My understanding is the patents aren’t the major obstacle today. There just isn’t enough volume yet to drive down production cost. LEDs used to be real expensive too.
Some articles' job is to spark a great rebuttal. This is a great read, and great debating. Nerd-bait-ey information density so high.

The economic equilibrium of the Bitcoin economic model is as follows: the total cost of all electricity invested into the network over a 10-minute period strives to be equal to the present financial value of 6.25 Bitcoins. If electricity becomes cheaper, then more electricity gets poured into the system, producing the exact same output. That is why Bitcoin is not a battery — Bitcoin is a sink: its economic output is constant, regardless of the amount of resources poured into it.³ When miners pour more electricity into Bitcoin, they don’t get more Bitcoin; instead, the entirety of the Bitcoin network becomes more secure. Security is not a commodity,..

.. Bitcoin is indeed incentivizing the creation of cheap power sources, but those sources are not going to be used for anything...

I learned more about bitcoin in a few minutes than so many hours of people talking while saying so little. Glass of ice water in hell. I can now deduce that the "equilibrium energy cost" of bitcoin is currently $45m per day.
I’ve considered something similar to this — essentially make a matrix like they did in the old days with CRTs.
See my other response to sibling comment.

TLDR: weight gain is not from body using less energy but from your regulating machine being put out of balance.

Body on caffeine will still use more calories, but your brain on poor sleep will make worse choices and you will eat more just to offset unhappiness.
The equivlent in North America (in terms of being a once popular, now nearly forgotten fruit) is the Pawpaw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba
I think China will become more powerful in the future so they could be better off being patient. Which is what I think they'll do.
I liked the first two books, but Use Of Weapons is killing me right now. It has some long descriptive passages skipping back or to the furure? Cant do it...
Perhaps. But in this case, 15 ppl is not a "study". Furthermore, this had no control group.

This is not the type of information we come to HN for.
I don’t know enough to answer but I can say Bitcoin is tempting me to learn c++ to understand it. And it’s purely geek motivations not profit. A goal would be to contribute to the codebase and I’m happy if I could get there in 2 years.

I’m quite fatigued with regular web dev feature implementation programming but something more “pure CS” like Bitcoin would be a lot of fun and I’ve always wondered how P2P systems work at the nitty gritty network level
Whenever I read something this far off the mark, I genuinely wonder if it's total lack of intellectual honesty, or, having drank so much kool aid that this argument genuinely makes sense.

Bitcoin transactions require the solution of a completely useless and expensive to compute mathematical computation. THIS IS BY DESIGN, TO MAKE IT SCARCE.

In the short term, we are facing a critical shortage of computer chips because bitcoin miners are buying critical infrastructure and using them to do absolutely useless math to speculate on an obvious bubble.

In the long term, we absolutely need to solve global warming, and the only way we will do so is if we figure out a way to decouple carbon emissions from productivity on a global scale. Bitcoin makes this task much harder - by its very definition, bitcoin literally scales with energy consumption. Energy prices and bitcoin prices (plus fixed costs due to mining equipment) will always be in some sort of equilibrium. Second - we need those chips that are currently calculating completely useless hashes to actually be put to use in productive sectors.

IF your attitude is some variant of - fuck you, I don't care about the world, I just want to get rich profiting from this bubble - fine, I can't convince you to care about the rest of humanity. But please - be clear eyed about this: there is not a single credible global warming scholar that believes Bitcoin will help. Not one. The only people who try to push forward incredibly shoddy thinkpieces about how Bitcoin/NFTs will help global warming are obviously Bitcoin speculators or paid shills.
Here’s another one from 4 months ago with lots of discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726
Dromornis Stirtoni: 'Demon Ducks' Were an Extreme Evolutionary Experiment
You need to get out more. I grew up in India and watched this trade off play out in real-time. Yields went up, taste and quality declined. But still not as bad as the US.
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/03/05/microsoft-exchang...

https://kemptechnologies.com/blog/top-15-tips-to-increase-ex...
Follow up questions:

1) how did the conversation come about? Who brought up cryptocurrency in the discussion? Did you ask him how it was going on a random phone call, or did he call you explicitly alert you to the issue?

2) how old is your nephew?
https://magpiebrule.ca/2021/01/12/the-self-defenestration-of...

Andrew Scheer (former Conservative Party of Canada leader) learned this recently.
> a minor mishap in which ″there were no serious injuries or radiological problems, the ship remained fully capable to perform any mission required of it and there was no damage to the reactor.″

> Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman, responded: ″We did not try to cover anything up. Everything about this incident was properly reported through Navy channels.

That's neither a cover-up, nor damning evidence that the navy cannot safely operate reactors.
China’s millennials, Gen Z leading nation away from American culture
it's because sleep regulates the hormones that control your appetite

if you mean poor control of your body's natural drive to eat which is imperative to our survival, then sure

very few people can consistently control this "impulse" -- the best way to control it is to get adequate sleep and regulate your hormones
I may not understand. I put in a salary, $5 annual gross, and created a link. I tried the link and was presented with a prompt to enter a number. I entered $3 and got a message, incompatible (or something like that). And I couldn’t try any other numbers.

This doesn’t seem very productive way to negotiate with a potential employer.
> Combating bias requires understanding how and where it manifests. In light of the substantial gender imbalance in real-world investments, our results suggest a larger-than-expected bias against female entrepreneurs in other settings.

The reasoning appears to be something like, "Because there is a disparity, there must be an anti-female bias somewhere and since there's only a pro-female bias here, the elsewhere anti-female bias must be so strong as to overcome the pro-female bias here to produce the disparity". There seems to be an implicit assumption that disparities are proof of bias when in fact bias is one of many potential causes of disparities.
Oh, I don't use LTE on a mobile phone. All of my devices (phones included) connect to a router with LTE uplink that runs VPN 24/7; the mobile carriers can't be trusted with any unencrypted data any longer, as T-Mobile is happily publicizing. None of my phones get sim cards.

I was referring to a laptop in my original statement. I usually plug it into the LTE router directly with a gigabit cable, or use Wi-Fi which generally exceeds the uplink capacity. 5G fixes that, for a wireless LAN.

As for why you'd need higher bandwidth on a mobile device, it is simple: to live-stream the 2160p@60fps captured from the device's sensors. Another good reason is app updates: doing app updates on a mobile device frequently includes a few gigabytes of downloads. Same with laptops, of course, which are increasingly connected via mobile data. Many AAA games have updates in the 20-200GB range.

A lot of this kind of stuff assumes that someone is on mobile temporarily until they get back to a "real" wifi connection (iOS didn't let you download any apps over 2GB on mobile data for a long while). For some of us, or all of us at some times, there isn't a "real" connection to go back to.
Ask HN: How does Fastmail's BCC filter work?
Fastmail has an option to create email rules based on BCC addresses (Settings > Filters & Rules > Create Rule > To/Cc/Bcc). I was under the impression that BCC information is not present in the email header. How do they do it?
...No, the existing armies of the world make it possible. Why do you think Coinbase, Kraken, etc, are in the US and not in Somalia? Hint: it involves a police and an army.
Given that human beings are very successful at breeding, I don't see the point of extending lifetimes so space can be explored by geriatric astronauts.
Police and those that support them (their families) are the real domestic terrorists
It's odd they didn't speak of caffeine itself as a supplement, and instead mentioned coffee.

Caffeine is a pretty common ingredient in any pre-workout, and you can get 200mg pills online cheaply.
It is a nice thought; that religion is the communication of useful (not literal) truths.
However religion is also about control.
As Jesus said: "You are my friends - if you obey me."
It's probably bots
Yes, especially if you have passive lifestyle. But it is not all that much how many calories you burn, but about what it does to your body in general.
No, but I successfully bought a car with couple of magnetic disturbances on a disk at my bank and another time, with a stack of pieces of paper with fancy signature.

That these things have any value attached to them is only due to people agreeing to it and believing it. Which makes them no different from seashells. While seashells would be a lot less practical in todays world they have been used in the past.
Hi pitorrro,

this will be a rather lengthy post. Sorry. I try to be brief.

There are multiple angles to "evidence", depending on which perspective you take. First the "evidence" you need to prove you validated the VAT ID, the second is having proof that you have two pieces of customer location evidence to be "allowed" to reverse-charge invoices (and not charge VAT).

What Vatfy provides is a unique evidence identifier that the European Commission assigns to each validation. This is what you can provide tax authorities with, which proves that you verified a specific VAT ID and at with what data, date, etc. This is stored in your Usage history in your Vatfy account. In addition to that, Vatfy stores the location data of your user together with that validation request.

As a registered business within the European Union, you must collect two pieces of customer location evidence to comply with the European Union's tax laws. These can be either "the billing address", "the location of the customer’s bank", "the country which issued the credit card", "the IP address location of the customer’s device" or "the country of the SIM card (in cases where the purchase was made on a mobile device)" (https://vatfy.com/documentation#evidence)

In addition to storing the evidence identifier provided by the European Commission, Vatfy provides the part of "the IP address location of the customer’s device". For your second piece of matching location data, your payment processor should, in most cases, be able to provide you either a "Location of the customer’s bank" or the "Country which issued the credit card". Or you can provide "The billing address of the customer" yourself.

The execution time in the JSON response corresponds to the time it took to validate a VAT ID with the European Commission, store the results in the database and provide a JSON response. Or for calculations or VAT rates fetching it basically tells you the time everything needed to run and return a result. The time it took to send your data to Vatfy or the time it takes it for you to receive the result are not reflected in that timing.

TTFB of 500ms seems long to be honest. May you share me your current location and if you ran your validation via API or through the dashboard? I would like to take a look and see if there is anything I can do to speed up the server to serve a faster TTFB.
HN is not a place where calling others derogatory names because they have different opinions is acceptable. Please refrain from doing this again
Everyone else, please note that everything the OP talks about is not taken seriously among scholars. The cited 19th-century book is prescientific (to word it charitably) and its use of linguistic data is completely unsound – the author simply points to words that coincidentally look similar, but you can do that with any languages even if they are completely unrelated.

Generally mainstream history does not engage in tying a "lost tribe of Israel" to other peoples across Eurasia; this is very much the province of cranks and esotericists.
I don't have certainty at all. And thanks for explanation <3
Lumber isn't a permanent removal from the carbon cycle. Wooden structures have a shelf life, and eventually the wood decomposes and re-enters the carbon cycle. The only way to sequester carbon via lumber would be to bury it in a way that prevents decomposition. I don't think this is an especially efficient method of carbon capture.
> What was the subdomain I X’d out of his message? Just my Social Security number. I’d been doxed via DNS.

That would freak me the fuck out wow.
"Don't care."

If there is a large constituency that refuses to eat halal meat, it's just out of hostility towards the minority, not because of any quality of the meat. Your quote is evidence for this.
> Is it lying if it's just an omission of truth?

Yes. It's literally called "lying by omission".

> Is it lying if I believe it is true?

Yes. I'm struggling to keep from bursting out laughing because the answer to both these questions are so plainly obvious that even young children know them, even if they're unable to articulate to you why its lying.

A lie is a lie is a lie.
I got a batch of medlars from a farm this last winter! We ate the first few too soon but the rest were amazing, and very late into the winter when we dont really have fruit besides apples. I'd love for these to become mainstream again.
I also have one in my garden. In German it is called "Mispel". I wouldn't call it forgotten although I have to attest that probably only history or plant nerds know of it.

As we grow a lot of historic varieties of vegetables a "Mispel" was not so unusual for us.
Follow up question. Does intense exercise metabolize caffeine faster?

I usually can’t sleep if I have caffeine after 2pm but if I drink it in the evening but before a big workout I don’t notice any trouble sleeping.
Most energy drinks include other energy additives, which I think is where the dangers come from.

I can no longer drink red bull because it gives me really bad heart palpitations. Meanwhile, I can pretty much drink coffee all day without issue.
Bitcoin was meant first and foremost as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It has to function as a large scale payments systems for it to work as a store of value (utility drives value). The current value proposition is ridiculous and can't ever work long term. Up to 2015-17 the price was at least partially driven by the utility it had, and part by speculation about what it could be. Right now the price is driven purely by speculation and the underlying value is entirely gone. The system wasn't initially designed for this so the cracks and unaligned incentive system are starting to show. It's a shame such a great project ended up like this. It's now one of the most uninteresting cryptocurrency projects (in prospects) in the space and once people realise the whole SoV narrative is a load of crap the market will become a bloodbath. It has and will continue to set the whole crypto revolution back for years. Enough time for states to make sure they stay in control of the money society uses.
The visionect server? I actually like that it’s a relatively dumb hardware with “server” software you can choose to run yourself. It’s pretty good software especially from a hardware company.
We already do. Several grades of stainless steel use a lot of nickel, and these are used in many applications. Also it is quite expensive which prevents it from being used generally.
Is this really a eureka moment? I mean this has been pretty obvious.
>Any residential property you own that is not your primary dwelling needs to be highly taxed.

An excellent way to drive up rents into the stratosphere, both by reducing the rental stock and by having the landlords pass the tax right on to the renter (remember, landlords don't run charities and will adjust rents accordingly). So all you're doing with that high tax is giving even more of a subsidy to homeowners at the expense of renters. Regressive taxation in all but name.
Then it is not the sunk cost of the mining that drives it in your model, but the cost of new mining. (the sunk cost is mere history).

Also, it is not clear that having more or fewer miners on the network drives prices - it seems more likely that more miners reduce transaction/confirmation times, improving service levels and increasing value (to the extent that actual transactions drive value or price).
"Lonesome Dove" is one of my favorite books of all time. Like others, I put it off for a long time, but I recently read it last year and completely fell in love (contrary to McMurtry's aims!). If you have any interest in westerns whatsoever, it's a literary masterpiece.
I think you are confusing the "loquat" with the "medlar". The loquat is still relatively common, doesn't have a gaping open end, is yellow to orange, and can be eaten out of hand. The medlar is darker in color, has a very open calyx, and is practically inedible direct from the tree. The names are sometimes confused, with the loquat sometimes called a "Japanese medlar". Anyway, did yours possibly match this one instead: http://italywithgusto.com/praise-to-the-italian-loquat-fruit...?