skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
STX - Stacks is built on top of Bitcoin and allows smart contracts through proof of transfer.
By the geniuses that brought us ePrivacy Directive and GDPR. Might be cheaper to just tell tech companies they're not welcome in the EU.
Most of the criticism appears to come from misguided CRT roots. Thus the criticism itself is suspect.
> Is this true?

Yes. Go here: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ and select before February this year (big spike in volume) and look at the transaction volume chart below the price chart. Steadily increasing rather than jumping, going down and jumping again. I'm guessing transaction volume for Coinbase looks the same way, as people need fiat money for cryptocurrencies and others place fiat money in cryptocurrencies no matter if the price goes up or down.
Yes but I can imagine that if you start packing atoms really tightly (as in a black hole) then you lose entropy. On a normal scale, the number of harddrives you can pack in a sphere grows faster than the surface of that sphere.
Oh bitcoin can certainly still fall precipitously, but over the past decade of following Bitcoin, I've often told people to "invest like it could drop to zero at any moment" and that scenario seems much less possible as institutional investment in bitcoin grows.

The governement could still 'kneecap' bitcoin, but 'killing' bitcoin is approaching being a political impossibility.
Stock up on Behringer gear. Haters will call you everything from cheap to anti-semetic, but their synths hold up just as good as some of the biggest contenders on the market.
> the GPT/capita numbers are essentially flat

We haven't quite reached this level of AI dystopia yet. Give it a few years. ;)
What difference does it make? Shares trading openly on the market is as explicit a valuation process as it gets.
This is really awesome. Also interesting that the satellite has been operating way longer than designed. Just like the rovers on Mars.

I really wonder whether we will be sending fuel up to refurbish the satellites or that satellites will become disposable with planned obsolescence.
Nice to see elixir get a but of competition in this space.

They are fighting an uphill battle to beat the OTP + lib-cluster + horde combo that elixir developers have but that autogenerated api stuff looks neat.
Correct, so basically the lowest point(periapsis) of the new orbit cannot be any higher than the point where the collision happened.
Our lives are being shaped by powerful organizations so we should shun progress because it helps them too! Let's all burn our phones and dismantle the internet, it's the root of all evil, I tell you.

After we destroy AI we should make sure nobody does any data analysis by hand or other means. Just to be sure. Because there are people who would justify the exact same decisions even without AI. They just use data to do what they want. So let's destroy data too, and math so nobody can do anything biased or wrong.
I echo this sentiment lol, in general, why would you? I think it's pretty barbell shaped. Either you're going public in the sub-20B range, or you wait until you hit $1T+ like Aramco. That's not to say there won't be folks in the middle. But why go through the reporting requirements if you have no trouble raising capital, and only have to answer to a small group of smart money? May as well just buy back shares from your employees at secondary.

I know there's certain pressures - like the 7 year clock on RSUs, and there's still a cap on outside investors right?
> Which would naturally preclude them from being in the Air Force in similar numbers? Or some worse actual policy of exclusion?

The prevailing theory is that they're more likely to have kin in neighbouring Malaysia.

Singapore is perpetually fearful of being annexed by Malaysia. (These days, it's more like propaganda to keep mandatory conscription relevant.)
Ultimately, proof of stake has the same property. The value of the network that the stake protects is rooted in some kind of real world value. The tokens from the network can be traded for fiat money that is worth something. So, unless the value of the network being protected falls to zero, the stakes themselves are worth something. An attack on a proof of stake network still requires the resources to procure the attacking stakes. So, you still have a direct relationship between the item being protected and the cost of the protection.
This is terrifying. I wish I had more power to help other than voting for democrats.
Interesting, making downvotes costly seems like a good system. Though downvotes seem to work pretty well as-is for HN, I rarely see dead comments that were killed by downvotes rather than anti-spam features.

If we take HN as reddit 2.0, what would be HN 2.0 I wonder? If I were the one to make it I'd create a system to promote the comments of people with professional expertise on the subject being discussed. HN has mostly solved the politeness and flamewar issues but IMO one its major flaws is that people speak authoritatively about things they don't know about.
100% agree.

Coinbase is a total ripoff fee-wise.

No one uses them outside of the US because they aren't competitive at all, either on rates or on features.
Or maybe we could. Just make them go enough to negative without option of bankruptcy... Paying at couple billion back after selling all the holdings and property don't sound too unreasonable. We could even leave them some money to live like sum equal to minimum wage.
Very good demonstration of how that sounds: https://youtu.be/IsE_8j5RL3k?t=433
They didn't perform worse. It was a trade off between cpu performance and battery performance. They choose longer battery life over raw cpu performance. I think that's a valid tradeoff to make for a device that should last through the day on a single battery charge.
The Gini coefficient is a relative measure. It is possible for the Gini coefficient of a developing country to rise (due to increasing inequality of income) while the number of people in absolute poverty decreases. This is because the Gini coefficient measures relative, not absolute, wealth.
In Capital in the 21st Century, Piketty is looking at wealth groups (top 1%, top 10%, rest of the population). And it paints a very different picture.
Maybe city states aren’t that bad of an idea, after all.
The listed examples seem reasonably good.

* systems which establish priority
in the dispatching of emergency services
* systems determining access to or
assigning people to educational institutes
* recruitment algorithms
* those that evaluate credit worthiness
* those for making individual risk assessments
* crime-predicting algorithms

While I'd also like to see autonomous military devices banned, banned AI that makes opaque life-changing decisions about individuals seems reasonable. We already say that these shouldn't discriminate and we've seen ways AI can allow discrimination through the back door.
Better yet in a database with consistent schema
>Not sure if this comment was meant in earnest or not

Somewhat satirical with a hint of truth - the article purports to solve the problem of ADHD reading stacks. It did so in a long windy form going all over the place which is generally the opposite of it's own advice. My summary fixes that by applying the article's premise to itself.

I generally have strong agreement with the article. This is as someone that has a significant amount of partially read kindle titles on the go right now and who recently managed to get his browser open tab count down to single digits for the first time in years.
Multi-lingual documentation is premised on the idea that languages derived from English are better or at least good enough. The premise of this language is that they are not.

The Python community is not committed to multi-language documentation. And it has the ideology of "unpythonic" as an excuse for denigrating anyone who might be.
So very true. I usually ask what business outcome they are looking for and then tell them how I'm going to deliver that for them. Saves a lot of hassle.
This is how I always thought of User Stories and tasks are just a list of items that need to be done to complete that user story.
Rust – Pin and Suffering
Sorry for the meta-discussion (which I know is against the guidelines), but I'm finding it really hard to respond kindly to your comment, given the overarching tone ("no respect", "hard to swallow", sarcasm about parts, "shitty pricing"). I'd love to engage with you on the merits of pricing for what the market will bear, CoGS including software and craftsmanship, etc, but I am not able. Perhaps that's my failing, but I'd like to encourage you to be less acerbic in the future.
Terraform 0.15 General Availability
Similarly in Norway the authority in charge often proposes Norwegian alternatives to Anglicisms, but they'll yield if an import becomes dominant, and will even reverse official reforms if they fail to gain traction.
Seems like books fit that description.
Communications infrastructure is essential for any developing/developed nation. It's easy to take for granted while living in an urban center of a 1st world nation just how game-changing communications is. A truly global, easily accessible network has the potential to lift millions out of poverty through facilitating economic growth of remote, unconnected areas. Dismissing satellite constellation networks as merely "faster internet" misses the bigger picture.

Also it's worth noting that communications networks is but one application for LEO satellite constellation technology.
There could be a price that worked but I don't think there are many businesses that can go offline for several months and come back fine. I'm most familiar with the industry I work in, (O&G), where a day not operating is an incredible loss. Is shutting down the oil refineries and petrochemical complexes what is best for the country? I just struggle to see how this wouldn't just punish normal workers and furthermore just make the economy worse off as a whole
Whatever path you take, keep in mind even "legal" hacking can expose you to dire legal consequences. Inadequacy of the judicial system is at fault here and it's not going to change anytime soon.

For this reason it's a good idea to keep a lowish profile. Good luck :-)
Love Planetes, I always tell my friends its Gravity done right.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803342
> The advantage of this system is that nobody gets downvoted, but at a steep cost: we’ve lost half the potential information.

A Mr. Claude Shannon would like a word. I joke, but when you have controls on voting rings and co-ordination, downvotes are necessarily noisier. An upvote is effectively neutral engagement with the content, where a downvote actively reduces engagement. From the perspective of wanting to mine the constructive engagement out of the collective minds of the audience, downvotes are about as meaningful and information dense as a fire alarm.
I don't know much about finance but based on what GP said, the biggest difference (aside from the acronym) is that one is a fund-raising event and the other is a liquidation event for shareholders. I read the latter as Coinbase's investors said at a board meeting, "Ok, we're ready to cash out now." so they held the DPO.
Those people are capable of speaking for themselves and don't need your advocacy. Rethink your approach, muddling equivocator.

There is no good strategy to convince the unscientific. Your project of seeking a good strategy is deluded nattering which adds nothing.

Your strategy, in other words, is bad.

To reiterate: Referencing the bad arguments of other people is stupid. Don't do it.

Racists aren't going to be convinced that Black Lives Matter but if I spend my time pointing that out in every topic about a cop killing a human being I'm doing something wrong.
> there’s no visible UI for downvoting

For you. I see two arrows - one for upvoting and one for downvoting - next to every comment in this thread.

[edit] Haha, somehow missed that this was a quote from the article, sorry :D
I agree, it was too broad an interpretation, since corporations already have a legal representation and are an economic entity, not a civil society association through which citizens relate to or exercise their political will.
I really like downvoting where you lose one of your past upvotes in order to downvote. It's a nice little filter that people who care about how many upvotes they have won't use, and puts an end to some amount of frivolous downvoting.

In a meta way, you kind of have to use a little bit of your own point capital to downvote something, so if you're highly upvoted by the community then calling BS on something is easier for you and the risk taking for doing so makes more sense, versus someone who just signed up.

I also wonder, for a site like hacker news what's the point of even showing the user the # of upvotes they've obtained?
You're welcome! Dan Deacon's music is fun, and I've heard that his concerts are a blast.

My favorite online presentation of his music is the collaborative video made by Adult Swim for the song "When I was Done Dying".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJqUvBj4rE
Anyone know if the 60 employees, who didn't agree with the mission focused approach, kept their shares?

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-follow-up-to-coinbase-as-a-missi...
And ‘Mother Tongue’ by Bill Bryson.
Sorry? They most certainly can be arbitrary numbers. [1]

You know 99% of all LTC trading on Coinbase was one account trading back and forth with itself a couple years ago. Spoof trading involves putting up a big order, then yanking it at the last second before it gets executed.

If you're the house, you can do literally anything if only the fox is watching the henhouse. As the peer response states, if you're the house, you know which orders are yours so there's zero risk of them accidentally getting filled. You put fake orders on the books, you fake close them, and report them as a real transaction in the log. The liquidity can just be pretend.

[1] https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-enforcement/cftc-f...
I think OP was referring specifically to the HN title.
They can gift some Teslas
They're not presently a thing; it's just a scandal that happened at one time in history. It's also corruption, and corruption exists in both the private as well as public sectors. In the case of the Kids for Cash scandal, there have since been lawsuits, overturned adjudications, and commissions to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

Solving corruption is orthogonal to the question of whether private corporations can perform extra-judicial imprisonment with impunity. That really just doesn't happen at scale, because it can't.
I expect Coinbase becoming a publicly traded company benefits them to a greater extent in reducing the chance of regulatory destruction than they benefit from additional access to capital.
I lived in Singapore around 2000, and my experience was the same as you describe.
> and that itself cuts a ton of orbital debris (spent stages).

Almost all upper stages for LEO missions get deorbited (or at least they're meant to be deorbited). It's typically only the high energy missions like GEO/GTO where upper stages get left in a "graveyard orbit".
If workers had to worry about the ethics of their employer getting the whole company in trouble, that would be a good thing in the sense of drying up the labor pool for dubiously run companies. On the other hand, the Justice Dept doesn't always land on the side of justice, so smaller companies could end up victims of abuse of the court system in the name of competitive advantage.
Big organization seeks to dam water with sieve, says "this time will be different"
It happened months apart and I never saw it report data errors. It could still be hardware, of course (I haven't tried to run ZFS on the same hardware), but even if it was a hardware fault this isn't an impressive failure mode. Like... what are the odds that a random hardware bug breaks BTRFS metadata in such a way that I can't even mount the filesystem, and never just breaks random files such that I get an isolated read error?
I moderate a reddit community with ~200k subscribers, and I really wish I could disable downvoting. Automod takes care of most posts that violate our community rules, and I usually catch the ones that slip past within an hour or so.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, quality posts are almost always downvoted immediately. (I assume it's by self-promoters hoping that it will cause their content to rise in the rankings.)

Hiding posts scores has helped with bandwagoning, but I wish the two options were "upvote" and "report to mods."
“one its major flaws is that people speak authoritatively about things they don't know about”

See: any thread about aeronautics, education, or (historical) warfare.
I think one obvious problem with downvoting where downvotes automatically hide content is that it creates echo chambers. The downvote button is definitely a 'disagree' button here and I think it's not really conducive to great discussions.

Then again, this isn't really a forum - it's transitory comments about the news of the day. Perhaps the argument is that there shouldn't be substantive discussion here in the first place. You're clearly meant to respond to the article more than the individual comment - the tree style commenting system and automatically hidden nature of comments down the chain both speak to that.
Reminds me of this project, titled "Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations", which I use quite frequently.

link: https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/
recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23543043
I would prefer B and V to keep being disctint letters.

As far as I know, when properly pronounced, the V in Villa doesn't sound the same as the B in Billete.

Sure, sometimes they blend into each other, but not always.
Believe it or not, that joke originated in a 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468884 and the links back from there.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809658.)
The long term business is the 'innovative replaceable monthly filters' (1:22 in the video). $27.99 a month. After ten months you'll pay more for the filters than for the mask/headphones combo.

Anyone else tired of reading about Wil.i.am's low innovation technology businesses? I don't know what it's like in the US but Wired UK have covered him far more than any of the companies he's involved in deserve.
What happens if the tumbler "loses" your bitcoins?
We estimate that the amount of dust and meteorites entering earth's atmosphere is about 100 metric tons per day. Combine that with emissions from volcanoes, many of which are highly toxic, and vaporised satellites are really insignificant.
News article for anyone interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/world/asia/singapore-smil...
I noticed the pub date when the author says that maybe HN gets away without downvotes because HN is young, founded in 2007. I am glad the author turned out to be wrong.
Misofluent: Learning Japanese with Social Madlibs
2010-2015 was the golden age of YouTube. Adpocalypse effectively killed it as a neutral platform and now even mildly controversial videos get demonetized and/or removed. I therefore consider Peertube as essiantial as Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. I hope it becomes mainstream alternative to YouTube.
Except this one :)
> China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan grown exponentially not due to authoritarian rule but due to the hard work of their people and in the belief that with hard work they can change life (very much embedded in Confucius teachings).

The assertion here is that "Confucian values" led to these countries economically developing from un-developed to developed economies. Yet earlier you state the "counter example" of North Korea being an authoritarian regime that brought about economic downfall.

So,
"Confucian values" + authoritarian regime = economic growth (SK)

"Confucian values" + authoritarian regime = economic stagnation (NK)

?

These are two nation-states that had literally the same culture prior to mid-20th wars; if we're focusing on the "Confucian values" part of a culture.

What is the actual argument here? Or is this some ancient Chinese wisdom/Confucius say bulls*t?
I didn't look for examples on how to code something, I looked for examples on how to engineer the code I wrote. Clojure just assumes you have the engineering knowledge and that you'll be able to figure on your own how to glue everything toghether and this exactly where I had the most trouble.
> There is no such thing as a net-negative technology.

OK, but no one is actually arguing that. The problem starts when the technology gets abused. We need safeguards against abuse of AI in much the same way as we need it for nuclear weapons and energy and, more recently, social media (eg GDPR protections).
> No one actually wants a society being ruled by computers, except maybe the people running those computers.

Humans in charge are known for injustice, kickbacks, favor trading, selective enforcement and other forms of corruption and abuse. Properly engineered and regularly reviewed open source systems with balance checks might just get us closer to a rules-based system that provides a level playing field for everyone. Given all the known biases of current AI systems, we are certainly far from ready for it, but the prospect of transforming large parts of government into an open source "social operating system" that automatically and fairly offers basic services according to clearly coded and broadly enforced rules looks like a desirable goal in the (very) long term.

Many laws can be expressed as computer code. Where they cannot is often due to deliberate vagueness built in to leave scope for future interpretation as new cases arise. This suggests that we could express laws in computer code that raises a HumanInputRequiredException in the cases currently handled with deliberate vagueness. The resulting reduction in vagueness would remove a huge amount of discretion that currently facilitates corruption and abuse of power while ensuring ultimate human control and human-directed evolution of the law.
I don't think Bitcoin is any type of scheme. It's just a typical bubble. As a new asset class. Nothing special or schemis about it.
Government does regulate itself, sometimes. The proposal seems to be concerned with regulating the government, for example limiting "crime prediction". Also, the private institutions it's talking about are things like credit bureaus and employers large enough to use AI for screening employees.
I initially loved the idea of voting posts up and down. Thanks to seeing how it actually works on SO and here, well, I am not much of a fan anymore.

At the very least, if I ever implemented it myself, I'd require that people explain why they are voting up, or voting down, before they could vote. And I'd not limit users from being able to vote until they magically get to the right amount of "karma".

Without requiring an explanation, votes are more akin to boos and cheers than anything useful. Not a very good way to encourage a diverse culture.
> It is still a wonderful culture, people, and country.

Of course it is. But that doesn't make the problems less real.

The demographic pressure cooker is still cooking-- a greater and greater proportion of national resources go to support an ever increasing fraction of the old, and stopping this is impossible at this point. Prospects for dating and marriage are collapsing for a large chunk of the populace. Government debt is increasing as a share of GDP and with the change in the dependency ratio and declining populace default looks increasingly likely in the long term.
High Voltage wire down in Santa Barbara, CA (2015)
I think this was my textbook when I took a relational database class at UCSD Extension back in the 90s.