skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timing seems like like he would likely have known about the accusations I agree.

Having said that, I gotta think Epstein (or really anyone up to this stuff) was pretty good about feeling out who he could victimize and who he could rope into his things ... and who he couldn't / it would be risky to do so. That probably means not revealing too much to folks he could use for his own purposes... but would want to avoid involving in the really dark stuff.

I gotta think folks who are up to this kind of thing at scale are reasonably good at sidestepping potential land mines / folks who might not be down with the darker things he was up to. Thus I get a little skeptical about the idea that anyone associated had to have known all the details.
But the network is only incentivized to be exactly secure enough from Sybil attacks that nobody bothers to try one. There’s no added value in being more secure to Sybil attacks beyond that. Just like there’s no added value in hiring extra fire-fighers once every fire gets an instant + effective response.

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The problem with Proof-of-Work systems that prevents this logic from actually translating to a sigmoid curve in number-of-miners, though, is that any left-over electricity that isn’t going into “good” mining, could instead be going into Sybil attacks. It’s as if every potential fire-fighter who isn’t hired as a fire-fighter, instead has a chance of being recruited by “Big Fire” to one day work together to all set fires at once.

If-and-when governments actually establish their own cryptocurrencies, massive distributed purchases of electrical capacity for the sake of mounting a Sybil attack are exactly the sort of thing that state intelligence agencies will try to track and prevent ahead-of-time, such that nobody will ever be able to gain that capacity in the first place. Just like right now nobody can really build a stockpile of plutonium.

But as long as governments don’t care, and attackers are free to be economic actors buying up electrical capacity, then there is a specific effect we see today: rather than the network’s electricity consumption just growing to a certain absolute amount, the set of all Proof-of-Work networks are incentivized together to consume a certain percentile amount of global excess electricity consumption — 51% of it, specifically. Such that, at any point, there’s not enough electricity left over to even theoretically mount a Sybil attack against the largest network. (The smaller PoW networks? Basically screwed.)
Just be sure nobody mistakes it for the .idea/ folder intellij products leave behind and deletes it!
Yes, he used his connections to Harvard explicitly to pressure women and law enforcement. Multiple Harvard faculty are also accused of raping girls Epstein provided.
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I think of this as analogous to self-supervised pretraining followed by training on a smaller labeled set. When you study theory you can ground it on music you've listened to throughout your life.

Also to improvise confidently you have to internalize the theory, not just understand it and memorize it at a conscious level.

I'd say "intuitive knowledge" is a good way to sum this up.
And your 4G cap is what you had with 3G?
> Bitcoin is the digital gold for the cryptocurrency universe atm.

It's digital tulips, not digital gold.
The sense of colonizing Mars is abundance of raw materials (a whole planet worth right there) and the convenience of gravity (put something down, it tends to stay there). Space has benefits, but is defined by being devoid of resources, and stuff tends to drift off.
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Except that most gold being traded under the "store of value" premise doesn't exist, it's "paper gold".

Also, gold is the one most manipulated market in the world, having both banks, central banks and governments actively interfering in its price discovery.
Probably a dumb question, but would that also theoretically increase the likelihood of someone to doing a 51% attack as there would be fewer unique users mining as electricity becomes more cost prohibitive?
5G is quickly getting a reputation for reduced battery life.

Are there any technical mitigations coming? Or just heavier phones with bigger batteries?
OK, but this isn't an example of it. It has never been against the law to know about a crime and not report it. You only get in trouble for that in totalitarian countries.
That's how free speech works in the modern world. You have to waste your time, energy, nerves to refute a total nonsense that zombie-like mob find useful in supporting.

An egocentric profit heavily overweights truth and sense.
> Nearly everyone associated with him and his foundation should be non grata in all parts of the academic community.

This is horrible and completely inappropriate statement.
I didn’t understand going through HTML to render it with a headless browser instead of rendering the PDF directly with Ghostscript or something like that.
I’ve been playing piano for over 40 years, the first 10 years through lessons. I’m not good, as in I can’t and do not want to perform for people. I play for personal pleasure which means I might play it once every few weeks.

But things like sight reading come very naturally to me. I read music the way that I read a language. I don’t have to think hard at all to recognize notes, chords, etc and then to play them. So my ability to pick up a new song is faster than even my wife, who is about an order of magnitude better than me. She can transpose songs, learn songs by listening to them, the whole gamut. But in that one small area of sight reading, I can pick up a moderately complex song pretty quickly relative to my wife, despite the fact that I practice much less frequently than her. It must have something yo do with how the brain is wired or some sort of hand eye coordination, but it’s very interesting how I perceive sheet music vs her.
I wasn't a fan of their approach to that issue, but still strongly support the EFF. I do wish they would take a more principled stand against #ImaginaryProperty, but someone recently explained to me, and I concur, that people should incorporate 10 or even 100 new non-profits to do that as #EFF has a big portfolio and shouldn't be expected to do everything. If anyone out there forms new orgs to work toward #IntellectualFreedom and #EndingIp, please drop me a line and let me know what you need!
Only one half of the equation (new residential) is affected by NIMBY-ism. No new residential is fine, just don't build more office space then. That requires local governments not to endlessly expand spending though, so obviously impossible.
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Melatonin has contraindications with many psychiatric drugs, due to it being a serotonin precursor. Hallucinogens can also trigger people with mental health issues into mental breakdowns or crisis. I think sleeping well and biking is great advice, but be careful when recommending drug usage to people already on psychiatric drugs, or just in general.
I can envision scenarios where you're buying multiple copies of these things - gifts, book clubs, etc.

Advertising doesn't have to work universally - it just has to work better than not advertising at all. I could very well imagine situations where it is cheap enough to advertise to everyone who has purchased those same items to get additional sales from those duplicate purchases and make money after the advertising spend.
In my city, a ragtag group of socialist and union activists is fighting to raise the minimum wage, keep the city dock open to lobster fishermen rather than yachts, get paid sick leave for essential workers, reduce rents, etc, and we are doing it with referendums and other such tactics. Our signs are hand painted. We are all volunteers with day jobs. We have no money, and our opponents in the real estate industry and the chamber of commerce have millions of dollars and the best lawyers money can buy. (They are all Democrats, if it matters). We want our city to be a city for families, not wealthy tourists.

But I see on this very page people saying that we are somehow the elites here? Excuse me?

There is a vast difference between the socialist left and the neoliberal center.
The negative inference comes from the fact that you can't push an affirmative defence at trial that you haven't hinted at during questioning.

So, if you are arrested for beating up X, and you invoke your right to silence, THEN at trial you put forward a defence of "I wasn't there!" without any substantive evidence to back it up, the prosecutor can say "well, look, if there was an alibi, why didn't you tell the police about it?" The judge is supposed to then instruct the jury that they can draw an inference as to your honesty on the grounds you didn't bring it up during police interview.

The legislation that brings that into force are ss34-39 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/III/crossh...
That might be, but they did get substantially changed in form in Arab countries, and what we call Arabic numbers is western Arab script.
You are wrong. The fiat part comes from how its value is determined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
I agree with you.
I believe mcdonalds makes most its money from franchising and royalties earned by mcdonalds franchises rather than food.

McDonalds is cheap in US but some countries it’s considered a luxury
Who said it wasn’t an individual choice? Many things you’re perfectly within your rights to do have negative or perverse consequences.

For nearly all artists, their “personal” Twitter was always a billboard. If you have been enjoying people’s art, but never given them any money for it, it’s hardly surprising they turn to some strategy that might make them money, is it?

If you have been financially supporting artists you like in some other way, this doesn’t apply.
> Wrong. I can use it to pay someone to do work, for example. "Work" in both societal and physical senses. That means the energy is not lost in a bitcoin.

That moves the definition of battery far away from normal usage. That means anything of monetary value is a battery, whether it’s cryptocurrency, a $20 bill, or a piece of gold.

Paying someone to do work has the actual energy come from another source, such gasoline or food.
The "twist" is a 15.6-inch 4K (3840 x 2160) OLED touchscreen.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/Th...
Then how do Nicaraguans get out of roundabouts?
„Safety“ sits right next to „green“.
I've also heard good things about lean.
In ideal world, we'd transfer wealth from football players, singers, actors, traders etc.
Totally agree. If Substack or self-promoted book has good value - I am thankful that people promote it.

Dismissive attitude makes you miss out on a lot of opportunities.
The word 'safety' is propaganda.

These monitoring devices are installed to limit company liability, limit company losses, and limit driver 'free-time' which the company pays for.

Using the word safety, is legitimizing Amazon's spin on this technology.

Please do not spread that garbage. These devices are installed solely to increase company profits.
Hum, no. The crust is full of Fe already. It is probably much cheaper to get it from dirt than from this asteroid, but it's concentrated on a huge amount of places.

If it was about the core, the answer for Ni would also be obvious.
We can sell it to a resource hungry galactic civilization. :)
I don't think it would help. I could see ownership being interpreted either way:

- the author owns this asset type and they publicly support it - they would benefit from the price going up; maybe they just want to feed the hype. Therefore the author can't be trusted.

- the author doesn't own the asset type and they publicly support it - their actions contradict their public opinion. Therefore the author can't be trusted.

I would rather look into how good of an argument someone is making than trying to guess the reasoning behind their portfolio.
The price of Bitcoin is determined by speculation, not its value.
I would think the mining of gold also has massive negative externalities, including carbon output.
It’s not weird, the article isn’t about that. The premise that the author was responding to is that Bitcoin represents some fungible store of electricity, and would somehow magically drive energy costs down.

That’s an interesting thought experiment but, wrong. Other than utilizing low cost electricity that would otherwise be wasted, there’s no way to transmutate bits into electricity.

There’s a lot of bikeshedding about the wastefulness of minting virtual money with electricity. End of the day, people will do whatever they want to generate profit. Some poor bastard in Africa is toiling away right now in a dangerous mine to extract gold ore for investors. Right now, it makes economic sense to buy Electricity in China to produce internet money and bypass capital controls.
Your argument does not hold water: Gold consumes vastly more energy and produces vastly more CO2 to produce and move it than Bitcoin does. Or does the pollution from gold somehow not matter?
The team behind ETH has proven itself to be adaptable. I haven't seen a single issue they haven't at least tried to solve.

I expect them to get better. The Bitcoin Core team is basically not a factor anymore.
I forgot about Lean, but yeah I’ve heard good things too! Hillel Wayne has a good email list I recommend where he sends weekly posts on different tools :)
Aside from its noble properties and industrial uses, gold is a terrifically lustrous metal that most every human being in history has admired and desired. Its ability to convey wealth, luxury, power, and beauty has not diminished for thousands of years.

Bitcoin is a ten year old project, written in mutable code, that's invisible, intangible, and essentially replicable by any number of competing crypto projects or forks. It may be useful, or it may not be. It may stick around, or it may disappear. Either way, it's not seriously comparable to gold.
Did you read the post?

> Why did I build this? I saw something similar online a few years ago and I couldn’t find it for sale so I decided to built it myself.

It is lazy that he should have done some searching make a more concrete cite than just mention that he remembers seeing it. But at least he mentions he was influenced by prior art.
Me. I frequently have LTE in places I use the internet, and miss the gigabit connection I have at home.

10Gbps would, of course, be even better, at home and mobile.
I don't think either zope.interface or spec is really thought of as a nominal typing system? Certainly not spec. zope.interface of course can late-bind classes to interfaces but only because it's actually a runtime thing and Python late-binds everything.
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I disagree. You can be pro something and not have it or anti something and have it anyway. But the people who are most likely to lie or spin the truth for personal benefit will be those who own it and want to see it succeed, unless you can short Bitcoin. Even so, I think it's less likely that people will short something they think is legitimate than to buy something they think is illegitimate.
The “what happens” from the last paragraph:

“The light under the drone was melted, and sensors were damaged from the extreme heat. He reports that the drone still works, but the vision sensor underneath no longer functions and gives constant errors during flights.“
Is there something like this with math? Linear Algebra specifically?
Bitcoin is nonsense, except there are altcoins who are trying to do actually valuable stuff.

Because everybody takes Bitcoin and it's got huge name recognition, it's sort of a gateway to the actual useful stuff.

Bitcoin obviously should have been patched 1 million times already, but the fault on all its issues is on the Bitcoin Core team, who are AWOL and have refused to fix any issue that's relevant for years.
The author's correctly identify the limitation that the research does not account for bias subsequent to meeting the email authors, but as others have pointed out, it does not mention the limitation that they did not send out pitches proportional to the real world. This is an incredibly obvious causal explanation, and puts in a bad light the scientific integrity of the authors. Which is a shame, because their actual study is interesting and seems fairly rigorous.

I read through the actual paper to see if they mentioned this limitation somewhere, not just the abstract, and could not find it. If someone else managed to spot some small clause buried in those pages, please mention where.

On a different note, why are academic papers so unnecessarily long? There was a lot of repetition in this one.
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A lie is a mismatch between what I believe and what I say. It has nothing to do with objective truth.

We sometimes talk about lying versus telling the truth, but this is a shorthand. What we mean by telling the truth is saying what we believe to be true. No reasonable person would say that someone is lying if they say what they believe to be true, but it turns out they are mistaken.
Perhaps most people realize that attaching their real name to supporting RMS puts them at risk, while there is little to no risk behind the opposite?
The material, when you sell it next year, has a lower net present value than when you sell it today. If you spread out bringing the stuff to market for decades or centuries, that will have a marked effect on the posted value.
We spoke to them and they admit it. Furthermore, we're not asserting "religious dogma" by simply reading their books and calling them out on not following them.
Well there is a value, albeit a small one.

Bitcoin is a ledger.

If you hired an accounting firm to keep track of who had which assets and handled transactions, there is value being created... valuable work being done.

This value probably isn't being generated very efficiently (there's an interesting study to do, actually figure this out and don't rely on somebody's intuition) and the "value" isn't being actually utilized very widely: how much of bitcoin being used doesn't fall into the categories of A) generally morally objectionable B) toy uses fiat -> BTC -> txn -> fiat which didn't need the BTC middleman or C) speculation. [ not much ]

Mining bitcoin would seem to transform a lot of electricity into a little accounting, not free of value, but likely demonstrably of low value.
Bitcoin is money, which can be exchanged for goods & services: buy wholesale electricity, or the means to produce it yourself; so the bitcoin -> energy analogy works.

I'm not sure what you mean by "directly".
5G is several parts. The high frequency, hugh bandwidth stuff doesn't go far.

The same as existing mobile frequency stuff has about the same penetration as existing service, but because its more efficient, it allows towers to increase power to expand their coverage area. Generally towers will modulate their output power to reduce coverage when congested, hoping devices will attach to other towers; works well when there's enough towers with overlapping coverage, but not as well when towers are sparse.

It doesn't have to be purely power either, antenna angle makes a big difference, and phased antennas mean you can change effective angle without mechanically changing the angle.
The idea of Project Treble is to separate drivers from Android, and also to version drivers. When you receive a smartphone running Android 10.0, you also receive drivers "targetting" Android 10.0. With Treble, you can replace that Android 10.0, and bring it up to Android 11.0, while keeping the drivers targetting Android 10.0, and this pretty much works.

To release a smartphone with Google apps, an OEM must adhere to some requirements. One of those requirements, is that if you provide to customers an Android version X, then you must provide drivers targetting this version. You are not allowed by Google to provide an Android version 10 with drivers targgeting Android 9. This is true even across updates: if you release the smartphone with Android 9, then upgrade it to Android 12, then the Android 12 upgrade must include drivers targgetting Android 12.

The change that is coming, is that for Android 13, OEMs will be allowed to keep the drivers they made for Android 12.
Speaking of philosophy. Didn't the Buddha say "you won't be punished for your unhealthy focus on politics, you will be punished by your unhealthy focus on politics"? Seriously, politics plus social media equals missery. I have an older family member who, I was surprised to learn, has forgotten pets he cared for for years and fun family events of the past, but he certainly remembers every political slight and wrong people in Washington DC have experienced. As if an evil spell was cast to replace all happy memories with aggravating memories.

(And I think the answer is no, the Buddha did not say that.)
> Like how all fruit juice is kosher: it makes no difference to people who don’t keep kosher

I don't believe this approach has only positive outcomes. Taleb wrote[0] "It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences"

To say this leaves me feeling deeply uncomfortable would be putting it mildly.

[0] The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
> We would have to compare the costs of mining an asteroid with deep mining on Earth to discover if the Ni has any value

Perhaps I misunderstood. What do you mean by "deep mining" for nickel?
Not a fan of Nürnberger sausages, the downvote? :)
I think the people who don’t want to master reading from sheet music are not interested in learning long piano pieces like that.
> Which is what makes it even more absurd that people are claiming that adding centralized layers on top of Bitcoin is a valid solution to the cost and speed of transactions.

Who's claiming this? The Lightning Network is gaining popularity as a decentralized Layer 2 solution, for example.

You mean like Cash App and PayPal?
That type of music really isn’t a part of my life, but I can’t see why not. Even classical music tends to boil down to a melody + harmony. You wouldn’t get the exact fingerings right, but I don’t really find that interesting anyway.
That's a non-sequitur. Bush wasn't President when this happened.

The critic of Bush who spent the first three years of his term under investigation by the US's intelligence agencies was. If they'd have been doing their job maybe we'd know more about who commissioned the Surgisphere paper, and it would have actually made the news.
> That doesn’t inspire much confidence.

It does example how superfluous the TSA is.

The 9/11 commission's recommendations never included anything like the TSA - just better comm between the 3-letters and reinforced cockpit doors.
The thing that is confusing is two things are wrapped up together as "5G": (a) the actual 5G standards, and (b) the spectrum that is used. To add to the confusion, (b) is composed of frequency and bandwidth, and those are often different both between and within countries.

For instance, one of the biggest benefits of 5G is that channels (bandwidth) can be much wider, and several can be stacked together, which means more data can be transferred. But even though that can be done, there may not be enough spectrum at a specific frequency to be able to take advantage of that.

Then the high-band (millimeter wave) can have even more channels than the low- and mid-band 5G. But high-band doesn't travel far and it doesn't penetrate walls well.

If you want a good primer on it that is accessible, I recommend the regularly updated "What Is 5G?" article from Sascha Segan at PCMag.[1] I think he's the best journalist writing about 5G.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-is-5g