skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the answer. I'm interested in this product. What sort of evidence are you providing? In case of tax authority audit what kind of evidence format I can present to them when using your tool?
Also what is the data source that returns the name of the company? the "execution" property states very low numbers below 10ms but when I open network tab in devtools and check timing I see TTFB is about 500ms, what the "execution" time corresponds to? Is that the time taken to validate format and the rest of the time is spent on checking VIES database?
Phil Gramm and John Early have been trying to spin a story like this many times in the last several years on WSJ.

Indeed there are always different numerical outcomes when you change your methods and definitions, so it is possible that by their definition things aren't as bad as the "other numbers" show.

However if you look at the national minimum wage of $7.25/hr, compare that to inflation or productivity, you'll see that the lowest earners are worse now than they have been for decades.

Ironically, they want to focus on "Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and some 100 other government transfer payments". Those services aren't needed by people who earn enough to actually live on. The reason those services have increased is because the people who need them are not being paid reasonably. This is also why the top earners (particularly the top class who "earn" via capital gains instead of "income") have seen their wealth balloon over the same period that is being debated about.

The authors can choose any definition they wish, but at the end of the day, there absolutely is a vast and growing disparity between the lifestyles of the <50% and those of the >10%.

When we reach a point where one individual theoretically has $200 billion (not liquid of course, but plenty of that is), and there are still children without food, there is something wrong. What is considered fair will vary from person to person, but there are limits.
That's true about the pure act of parsing and generating an AST. Bit once we want to do semantic analysis, this is no longer true.

Because of procedural macro, it becomes practically impossible to find all occurrences or rename a particular symbol regardless of the #ifdef or #[cfg] or whatever.
In hindsight, I'm not happy with the word "claim" either, but I don't want to edit the comment again.

Let's go with "hypothesis" for the sake of argument:

In this case, we have a basket of competing hypotheses, none of which have any solid evidence going for them.

Yet, some of these hypotheses have not been dismissed as conspiracy theories. Those were the hypotheses that conveniently fit a "humans encroach on wildlife"-narrative.

I'm just pointing this out as "interesting", I'm not arguing that this circumstance gives validity to one hypothesis over another.
It is crypto. It does not have to make sense.
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Yes, lots and lots of people (I’d say millions) are smarter than some people that have made lots of money, it has always been like that. Yes, I did read more compared to the likes of Bezos or Page, but I’m sure the same holds true for lots of HNers (Gates looks like he reads a lot but he’s reading lots of fluffy stuff, or so my impression is).

And yes, in the very long run people who read more have a more lasting influence (and you could say their ideas “control” the world more) compared to the people who have lots of money, that’s why nowadays Machiavelli is still actively discussed while the Fuggers are mostly just an interesting Wikipedia entry.
In a vacuum you may have an argument, but income inequality is really a proxy to multiple larger issues. A big one is lack of healthcare and/or health issues driving people to bankruptcy. Second, which many people here are keenly aware, is the cost of education. And finally, people having few other options when in a crap work situation.

So yeah, it doesn't matter that Bezos has more material wealth than any of his workers, but what matters is that healthcare will not bankrupt him and he can easily send his kids to school.
As such, we should also admit that this benefit is potentially worth $0 to a healthy person.

I didn't do that calculation on a "for me" basis: I looked at the generally advertised cost. Paying in advance is cheaper for anyone taking out a policy.
Go vegetarian, or even vegan, if you can.
The point is, why do you store energy at all.

It's not because you'll need it later. It's because you can sell it later.

If there's no way to monetize excess energy (because we lack storage), people won't invest into making excess energy. And since renewables produce a lot of excess energy it makes them less desirable than they should be.

Analogy to broken window fallacy is totally warranted. But please notice that what broken windows do is extend capacity of glaziers. And if windows are broken cyclically then at times when there's not much demand for window repair additional glazier capacity will be used in other ways like for building glass skyscrapers (I'm stretching analogy, I know).

Renewable energy is not a scarce resource, so it's unlike the glass from the fallacy. And work put into creating too much renewable energy is work well spent given horrible state of our power network and our over-reliance on polluting energy generation methods.

The fallacy in broken windows fallacy is that additional money earned by glazier will somehow benefit the economy, and that's not the case. What might possibly benefit the economy would be oversupply of glaziers, which could make some very beneficial enterprises economical.

It's like with education. We know education is of a huge value to society. But we don't have in the economy a good way to funnel more money into education, especially to the places where it's most needed.

If you figure out a way of pouring money into training new teachers and paying them, so you have oversupply of teachers on the surface of it you are wasting resources, but additional teacher capacity even if it's often underutilized or used to 'spin the wheels' will benefit society.

Economy is prone to getting stuck into local optima and sometimes you need countereconomical nudge to get out of it to be free to travel to better optimum. I hope crypto can be such nudge for renewable energy production by sort of filling the gap of lacking storage capacity technologies.
This. And correlation between the income/wealth spectrums, because if the higher incomes accrue mostly to the already-rich then wealth disparities can accelerate even if income disparities contract
I have to unfollow people on Twitter whenever they start pitching their Substack, affiliate links, paid courses, or other money making enterprise. I use social media for information, not to be turned into a money-making asset for those I follow.

Weaving markets and cryptocurrency into the fabric of a social network sounds like a dream come true for people trying to monetize their followers, but a nightmare for anyone who actually wants to follow them.

BitClout also uses some nasty dark patterns to get people to sign up. They scrape your profile from other social media sites, then assign it a “value” with a dollar amount. You have to sign up to claim the value, but after signing up you discover that the value isn’t real and you aren’t claiming the supposed money that was waiting for you.
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Both are true. The pirate ship being sunk is absolutely a running gag in the Asterix series, and in fact I had a vague recollection that the raft scene also appeared more than once, but once I took a closer look, that appeared to be wrong. So, lots of ships of this particular band of pirates being sunk, and once they are posing on this raft in a classical way.
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Caused me to search for "IDACOM". The PT500 protocol tester is pretty neat. A color screen luggable with seven separate MC68k processors, all running FORTH. And pretty cheap ($120+shipping) for a used one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Idacom-PT500-Protocol-Tester-E40...

Here's the guts: https://imgur.com/a/tz0Y4BZ

Looks like a MVME bus system.
What about training ML models as another example? It requires a lot of energy as well (and I expect it to be more significant in the future), and the optimal power draw should depend on the price of energy. Of course it requires GPU/TPU pricing to change depending on clock speed, which is hard to sell to customers. So yeah, for now Bitcoin mining is a more scalable solution.
The high deductible plan likely comes with an HSA which is perhaps the most tax advantaged way to store funds. That may not be as valuable to you as $2000 deductible coverage but the equation isn’t as stark as that dollar amount.

Anecdotally, every time I run the numbers for my family the high deductible plan comes out ahead so I view an offer without one as less appealing. Though most employers offer both.
It can be utilized for heating human occupied spaces. Humans need a lot of heating.
This might help:
https://javascript.info/
This is exactly how science should work. You can't perform a study, look at the data and pick a result that suits your bias. You're supposed to suggest a hypothesis, and conduct your experiment. If the results contradict your hypothesis, it doesn't mean the opposite of your hypothesis is true, simply that your hypothrsis was false, and that's ok.

It's also more impressive that they have simply published their results, rather than burying them and running another experiment.
Archive of original Thomson Reuters article here:

https://archive.md/ws6T3
Not to mention that chemical sources are harder to detect from distance with sensors.
For f**'s sake, when will people with money stop funding every stupid idea just because it involves (blockchain|token|social|web3.0)?

This whole ecosystem starts to really remind me of Ponzi schemes.Im quite curious why regulators don't see the same thing.
Posse Comitatus only limits certain limited portions of the military from enforcing domestic policies, such as law enforcement. It does not limit SIGINT collection or other prescribed governmental functions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

This comment, like the GP comment, serves to illustrate many people hold strong opinions on subjects where those opinions do not align with any evidence.
Oof. "It wasn’t until 2015 that Webster’s Dictionary removed the phrase 'having the color of a white person’s skin' from it’s official definition of the word nude."
Ultimately only consumption inequality can be a problem. Wealth only matters when it's spent.
Sort in memory constrained environments is interesting from a historical perspective. Mainframes did have small memory compared to data at one time. The solution was “disk sort” a process to sort files in chunks into sub files and merge the sub files into the final sorted file. Sorting is a pretty big deal in batch systems even today.
Is it? Give me an example of such a thing happening.
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Pinker's written about this I know. The order looks something like this https://www.hip-books.com/teachers/writing-about-reading/adj... (although there are exceptions, of course!)
How is that rational?

For one, if we assume it was released from a lab and that was intentional, the what was the intent?

If it was to do what happened — kill millions and devastate the global economy — then the right reaction is a very severe cold war or possibly outright war. We literally could not allow it to happen again.

But if it was released from a lab unintentionally, the right reaction is to spare no expense, regulation and treaty to secure such labs from this ever happening again. This would go for all labs like this, not just Chinese ones.

These are entirely different reactions with entirely different costs and long-term ramifications for peace and stability for our world.

Not to mention, the intentional release scenario doesn’t really make sense. E.g., China couldn’t damage our economy without damaging their own. And if you’re going to choose where to start the pandemic, why start it in your own country near a bio-research lab? If it was started intentionally, it makes more sense that China was framed. (Still doesn’t make a lot of sense though because what’s the rational motivation?)
People claiming bitcoin is a battery understand nothing about batteries. It's just fake rethoric designed to greenwash it.

Batteries are batteries, fair enough.

Load shifting "are batteries" because you're not using the electricity now, but later. So it's equivalent to storing it now and using later. Fine

Aluminium smelting "are batteries" because you're shifting the location. It's like putting a battery in a ship, charging it then shipping it somewhere else (as long as it doesn't get stuck ;) )

Bitcoin mining is... ? You mined your coin now, using electricity, cool. Then to use it you need to spend more electricity. 812.74 kWh per transaction to be exact https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

This is ridiculous. This is not a battery.
Will definitely play a role in the Forbes richest person in the solar system one day.
Is this like Synthesia? https://synthesiagame.com/
Depends if they know any other programming language. As a programmer coming from another language I found the course by Mosh is really good. Also I think the web dev simplified YouTube channel is a good resource.
Aliens!

Since we're just making crap up.
In ever measure there is, life has been getting better for centuries. Life expectancy, abolishment of oppression (slavery, debtor's prisons, serfdom, involuntary servitude, military conscription in many countries), educational attainment, and even standard of living have all improved.

Finally, the word "poor" needs to be retired. I've met lots of people with no money, and very few of them were poor people.
I can't really follow the logic in this article – maybe I don't get it?

The article states that Bitcoin uses a lot of energy and as miners want to maximize profit, they want cheap energy. This is good for renewables as that is cheaper than other forms of energy generation.

Doesn't everyone want cheap energy, like factories or heavy industry? Are Bitcoin miners really more eager to push for clean energy than other industries?

The whole arguments sounds like "we need to use up more energy so there's more incentive to produce additional, clean energy".
> Mechanical turing-complete computers were a new tech

I'm aware of that. But this was simply a matter of catching up very quickly within a changing field at the time where the new machines had already proven way superior to humans. This wasn't taking place in late 40's but in early 60's - in fact, it was taking place basically at the time when the MIT team was already designing a shoebox-sized computer to shame any human trying to control a spacecraft by hand. And as for "anti-digital", isn't a major plot point of the film an astronaut not trusting a machine's results?
The post is making the free-market argument:

> In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Bitcoin is actually one of the greatest financial incentives to transition the world to clean energy.

without bothering to explain why any one point they highlight would beget any one outcome claimed by the post. In fact, there are some backwards incentives that are missed. An example would be their claim with regards to Great American Mining: rather than using mining as an incentive to pay for capturing lost methane, what's to stop producers from diverting existing gas production towards mining right now, putting demand pressure on existing supplies and driving up gas production (and leaks, etc.) rather than just capturing and processing leaked gas?

There's nothing. There's no incentive for existing gas facilities to fix their leaks when they can just pipe their existing output into bitcoin, drive up demand for gas, and therefore justify more drilling (and more inevitable leaks that they won't have any incentive to fix).

> Bitcoin isn’t bad for the environment. In fact, Bitcoin is very, very good for the environment. The University of Cambridge reported at over 75% of miners use renewable energy and now there are solutions to turn methane emissions into mining as well.

This doesn't mean anything. Or worse, it means 25% of a phantom industry makes use of dirty power, So whatever Bitcoin imposes on the world in power usage (130 Terawatt-hours of energy - https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/21/the-debate-about-cryptocur...), 25% of that, or about 0.15% of global power production, leverages dirty fuels. If all mining ceased tomorrow, we'd benefit substantially from dirty power usage coming down and more clean energy supply being directed back into productive work.

Thanks for hearing my rant.
If you are going to use electricity to heat human occupied spaces, you should use a heatpump which has much better efficiency, above 100%.
Tô put in perspective. 11 tons is less than half the tonage of an average cargo ship.
"Bitcoin isn’t bad for the environment. In fact, Bitcoin is very, very good for the environment."

wish I could downvote.
Human organisations don't run on energy and resources. They run on money.

Crypto is a weird kind of battery, where you can put in energy, take out money, and when you need energy later, buy energy for that money.

Analogy doesn't make sense at all if you skip the money part.
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Etherium has a grim trigger in to form of a future parabolic increase in difficulty that is perpetually delayed by a signed patch to prevent miners from being too conservative.
Julia has some young projects that look promising as future broad FEM/PDE discretization libraries, like Gripap.jl, but they are certainly not at the level of the more mature C++-based libraries you mention.

For my own work I would never say C++ is a nicer choice; I hate writing and dealing with C++ code. It is however a necessary choice since that is where many of best the libraries live.
They write these pieces for the same audience who watches Fox News and listens to Sean Hannity. This helps keep their base supporters (or supporters of people and policies they align with) speaking the same language and believing the same things they have been told to believe for decades.

"Poor people are poor because they are lazy or stupid."

"Rich people are rich because they worked very hard and built great things."

"Taxing the rich to pay the poor will destroy our economy."

etc. etc.

It is an important component of disinformation campaigns to reinforce the primary ideas periodically, because the audience is regularly encountering situations which disprove these lies. If the message isn't reinforced, the people will begin to question and doubt.
“Long random tokens are the most overrated technology in authentication.”

Just so I follow, did you mean underrated…?
So what if they had found bias, do they say “look we found bias!” Or do they do additional studies to make sure it’s not an aberration or improper methods?
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Same thing with job applications:

"In an attempt to increase workplace diversity, the Australian public service implemented a .. trial removing all mention of gender and ethnicity from applications.

It was found that removing gender from thousands of applications made women less likely to advance through the recruitment process compared to cases where gender was visible.

The trial found that a woman's name on an application made the candidate 2.9% more likely to get job interviews.

Leaders have now been told pause the trials"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

Its counter-productive to institute gender and diversity requirements at (tech) companies, where the core problem is at the fundamental immigration level.

For example, 74.5% of H1B migrants to the USA are from India, and 78.4% of them are male:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h-1b...

If we instituted gender and equality quotas at the migration level - ie. maximum 10% of the total yearly intake from any one country, and maximum 49% males from any one country, then we would a create a much more diverse talent pipeline.
One thing that’s not really appreciated is that the US has a very progressive income tax. In aggregate the top 10% account for 70% of federal income tax receipts at an average effective rate of 22%. The bottom 50% of households account for only 3% of federal income tax receipts, paying an effective rate of 4%.

European economies manage to collect a higher tax base as a percent of GDP. Some of this comes from higher taxes on the very wealthy. But the vast majority comes from much higher tax rates on the middle class, particularly the upper middle class- those around the 75th percentile. This is done three ways.

One middle class tax bracket rates are higher. In France, the 25k-35k bracket pays a 30% tax rate. The US equivalent is 12%. Two is having top rates start at much lower levels. In France, the top rate of 45% starts at 158k, versus the US top rate of 37% which starts at 518k. Finally a sizable percent of taxes are captured through regressive VAT taxes.
Does he exclude unrealized capital gains from his definition of "income"?

Favorable tax treatment of capital gains is already the primary vehicle by which the wealthy pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. I bet it would do a fine job of rigging the outcome in TFA as well!
Found out about this on NPR. I wish her more success.
Reducing damage to the environment should be a core goal of cryptocurrencies. As things stand now in most countries, miners can get away with burning fossil fuels to mine and profit, without paying the cost of the contamination produced. But others will pay the cost for sure. The pollution byproduct of crypto should be fixed ASAP, not rationalized.
In the past, we have seen...

So we have prior evidence...so we give more weight...

The investigators should examine all possibilities, of course.

Repeating the most “exciting” theory on Opinion News night after night...
Where is this "welfare state"? How are people suppose to get that money? I don't see it happening - it all goes to programs that suck the money up before it reaches anyone like Medicare and supporting end of life cost for people that weren't even poor while providing little for the actual poor, etc.
There's a lot more of their prior art in WSJ. At this point you could just use tune an AI writer with appropriate prior works and churn out opinion pieces like this, each unique, to send to every right leaning newspaper. Oh wait, that is actually already being done.
Nobody ever dismissed it. It has been a viable theory since the beginning. What was dangerous was pointing the finger at China and saying “this is all their fault!” without any evidence. There STILL is not evidence, but that doesn’t mean it should not be investigated as a source.

Dismissing the theory outright has never and will never be an option. I don’t like that this is what the team decided to do, and I suspect there is a lot of tension in this investigation.
It’s not just low level crimes. There are dozens of criminals with dozens to hundreds of felonies that the DA just chooses to not prosecute. People who routinely commit assault and just aren’t prosecuted or brought to court. Property crime is not enforced at all and violent crime only enforced if you’re not homeless or “marginalized” in some way. The rule of law is selectively enforced. It’s miserable and dystopian.

> The DA says he won’t prosecute because the police won’t arrest people

He fired all the prosecutors when he won... Or takes the criminals side and says they were just having a bad day or pushes some phony solution that puts the offender back on the streets.