skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, point taken, that only because anyone puts time into something, does not mean it is a reason to pay for it.

I disagree with the second point though. In the end people need to put food on the table and I for one am glad, if people can do so by doing things they enjoy and that add value to society. If I like some project and I see, that it was only enabled by people putting forward effort, even though they are not paid to do so initially, then I often think about supporting them. My idea of a good future is, that more people can add value to society not in the jobs they do not like to do, but instead in the projects they would like to do and can live from that. I don't think it is a small case. In fact I think this is what should happen more often, so that we get away from a model, where everything is measured in how much it costs and towards a model, in which people show how much value things brought them, by supporting creators.

I think this would help reducing gaps in society. Someone who can not afford to give a lot can still make use of things, while someone who can give a lot is able to support more people.

It reaches into every area of our lives. Currently we have social media networks, where the users are the product sold. Instead we could have social media, where users, who can afford to support, give in order to keep the service alive and running. There are already people, who crowd-finance their Mastodon instances and work (time working on) those and similar projects.

Maybe this is something that is quite far from our reality right now, but at least I am seeing some cases of it in projects, that I support.
Also goes to prove that system was broken. It should not be possible for single individual to corner any market in prison. Either spendable money or amount of items sold per prisoner should be limited...
Actually, fun fact, if you remove the clearing of the body, the HTML approach is faster.

At least in firefox here.

Benchmarking is difficult.
I think the dollar undoubtedly has several orders of magnitude lower direct pollution costs, but also have several orders of magnitude higher indirect costs.

It's a pretty tangly web, so hard to know what to lump in as a comparison but in the superlative case consider: the federal reserve, many bank/FI departments tasked with securing and transferring money safely, auditing (public ledger has many benefits for transparency and reporting), money transfer industry, international relations, lobbyism, US military dominance, etc.

Bitcoin has zero employees, probably only thousands of people working on Bitcoin-interfaced systems. The network uses a large amount of electricity, but that's kind of it - there are few other costs to account for. All of those industries above collectively employ millions of people - should we account for only organizational energy consumption or do we also account for salaries and thus private energy consumption of all of the individuals necessary to support dollar hegemony?

I think it would be really interesting to find a number for "for each dollar in existence, how much is spent per year preserving the dollar's position as the global reserve currency?" How does this number compare to inflation? If it is greater than inflation, does that mean that dollar hegemony is unstable and its fall is inevitable?
English's large vocabulary actually makes it easier as a second language.

Adults are really good at learning new words, but struggle with morphological and gender systems. Complex morphology seems to have some benefits that push languages towards including them, but are only sustainable when those languages are predominantly learned by children, who can pick up morphological complexity easily, not adults, who can't.
Zcash privacy features aren't even on by default. You have to explicitly choose to make private transactions. This isn't good for a coin with Tor-like properties such an anonymity set. In practice, that set will be small enough for users to stand out and be identified.
Perhaps OP meant "I take AI computer scientists over EU politicians"?
>Coinbase has less than 10x the volume of Binance

You're assuming the volume on Binance is real.

Given that they have no reporting requirement (do they even have an actual jurisdiction they're based in?), it's rather unlikely.
Why is just Bing linked on HN?
Choosing to die on that hill of technicality seems like a silly choice. People say "human" but they really mean "a person who diligently considered the content, probably watched the video more than once, understood what they were watching, and possibly has a chance to debate with another human". Or, you know, a reasonable definition for "human in the loop".
I was not familiar with the character but he sounds like such an asshat in that clip, trying to formulate his opinion as a "question".
NPM often gets flak, but just right now I installed youtube-dl on a raspbian install and it has brought over 100 dependencies including adwaita-icon-theme, libqt5printsupport5, libgtk-3-0, x11-xserver-utils, libwayland-server0. However installing it from pip demands nothing and the program works. (yes, I know that it can use ffmpeg to remux videos, but from pip it also works without that).
Is there anything out there trying to tie this or compare to Weinstein's theories? They seem to be of a similar geometric "unifying" theory flavor, and both universally rejected by the larger physics community for unclear reasons.
> So we have a company that is making money on a virtual money that is basically mostly based on no real value at all.

So ... just like a bank?

Exchanges are financial service providers. The value they create comes from the offered service.
Will election polls be more accurate now that Trump out of office?
Yes, but that is not what the GPLv2 death penalty is.

The principle if true means that one can never obtain a new licence when coming in compliance except by gaining permission from every single rightsholder which for large projects can be thousands. — this is theoretically true by the letter of the GPLv2, but the common legal opinion is that this provision is not legally enforceable.

The GPLv3 fixed this unintentional problem, as the GPLv2 was never written with the idea of thousands of rightsholders in mind.
Agreed. That's why I settled with using the standard theme (Breeze) with some minor panel changes to make the system work a bit like macOS: global menu on top, small self-hiding dock at the bottom.

The whole thing took maybe a couple hours of experimentation two years ago, and I've since been running with the same configuration.
LOL! Nooooo

I stand by the Ñ!
I think for those languages (I know French and German have them, unsure about Polish) there is a central body which "controls" the language, meanwhile in English we don't have one.
It's a big internet cliché to boo companies that don't (yet) make money. The flip side would be to yay companies that do.

Not that many humans are consistent in that way, but someone out there must be!
These are hardware fixes not software.
If you haven't seen the DeFi space you are missing out. 10-20% interest on crypto holdings. If you know where to get interest rates like that...
Have they tried just putting the video on a VPS VM and a single static web page with a synopsis of the video? Unless there are tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers, one should not even need a CDN. Happy to test this to see if things have changed. If there are tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers, there are about 35 or so decent CDN vendors out there. Some of them are quite affordable.
The thing is that it isn't your language, even if you're native English. (I'm not, I'm Hungarian, which is a 100% weird language not too similar to any other.) Most programming languages, especially the ones used for introduction, use a very limited vocabulary. This e.g. pretty much looks like python, I'm sure it has no more that 40 keywords.

Most of your programs will not be keywords, i.e. symbols from the programming language, but the identifiers you define. Now you could use your native Spanish (or Russian or Hungarian, etc.) for those, but even that is not very useful. When you think about the program, you think with the constructs of the language (and also, as you get better, with the patterns you have learned). Then you express those thoughts with the language and the constructs you have created.

The only place I can imagine this making sense is a scratch-like block language. But I'd say that even then it just hinders learning and development. Sooner or later you'll have to switch and the later you do the harder it will be.

Also, this can be a great motivation to actually learn English. For me, at least, it was.
Of the estimates I've read, it seems like BTC uses about 60% green energy. Which is about double the 'green-ness' of the broader energy economy, but it's still a significant amount of 'direct pollution' from carbon sources.
It's also unclear to me why that, in turn, is a problem. There are several fuzzy areas in American free speech law as it stands, and arguably most people are already happy to allow (and encourage) regulation in other important areas of life, from medical/food regulation to warranty regulations, to electrical safety regulations, to frequency band regulations. The 'power of the arbiter' there is almost never brought up as a problem, despite the fact that this immense power can have very real consequences.

If a democratically-elected government can be trusted (by the populace who influence the laws) to regulate what you can sell and what you can transmit in the airwaves, to regulate the minimum amount you can pay people, to regulate the age at which someone can be employed, etc. - why shouldn't the same government, subject to the same safeguards against misregulation, also have the ability to regulate this portion of speech too?

This is more of a devil's advocate argument than anything, but I'm interested in your thoughts.
Not directly related, but I find the aforementioned proportionality fascinating as I found recently that the cell size is critically bounded by it:

"Therefore, as a cell increases in size, its surface area-to-volume ratio decreases. [...] If the cell grows too large, the plasma membrane will not have sufficient surface area to support the rate of diffusion required for the increased volume. In other words, as a cell grows, it becomes less efficient. One way to become more efficient is to divide; another way is to develop organelles that perform specific tasks. These adaptations lead to the development of more sophisticated cells called eukaryotic cells."

Source: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_Gene...
> coinbase always came out on top despite the high fees

Commissions tend to come down as markets mature (with some exceptions like real estate) so I will be curious to see if this occurs in the crypto market as well. I suspect that appeal to the masses will not be a long-term durable advantage.
Yeah. I was trained as a fundamental analyst. Multiple expansion doesn’t even explain the relative valuations. It feels like a popularity contest sometimes.
In Poland if you signed a contract for a set period of time and there is no clause about breaking the contract early, you are on the hook for the entire duration of the contract.

For rent specifically, you can arrange to have a mutual agreement with the landlord if you for example find a new tenant, but by law the landlord does not have to accept anything.

Some contract also have punitive clauses in it, saying that you can break the contract at any point with 1 months notice, but you have to pay 3 months' worth of rent.
They explicitly want to say small, and they plan to phase out many projects, in the hope that others will carry on.
Andrew Huang is probably the worst example of a OP-1 user when it comes to music production and not music production teaching. AFAIK, Huang is more of a Youtube-educator than musician.
It really is a shame Spanish didn’t become the lingua franca since it does have almost a 1:1 spoken and written.

Of course, it could have been worse. We could have ended up with French as the lingua franca (yes, I know what franca means) where there is almost no correlation between written and spoken language.
What you're proposing here doesn't scale. What if everyone decided that there's no value in justifying the legitimacy of the next steps following the existence of laws they each saw has harmful? If everyone did that, there would be no laws left to enforce...
Whether this works on not depends on the team structure and person writing the task. Yes, directly writing tasks is more efficient, but it requires the person writing the task to deeply understand the perspectives of both the development team and the people using the software.

Most teams don't have (enough of) these types of people. It is fairly common for teams to primarily consist of people who are non-engineer users, and technical engineers who aren't intimately familiar with the users' jobs. If your team has these groups working together, and these lines aren't clearly drawn, then you often get people overstepping their bounds: users demanding technical changes that make no technical sense, and developers building features that make no business sense.

And this isn't a fault of the users or developers, it's a failing of process. People inherently want to decrease friction in their requests and their interactions. Five completely reasonable requests over the course of a year might add up to a horrible application -- not because the user or the developer was at fault for making a bad decision, but because the entirety of the goal was never communicated. This is what user stories do: force different groups to fully communicate.
It might be like rails in the sense of prioritizing the developer experience, but the goals are quite different. Rails is a web framework designed to build websites. Encore is a backend framework designed to build distributed systems. In practice that means the feature sets are extremely different, with very little overlap.
> and maintaining orientation for that will itself require fuel

With some gyroscopes, I think they only need electricity for it, not actual reaction mass.
Paying for a lobbying org seems like a pretty good reason: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3679495-square-fidelity-coinba...
That one predates Reddit's existence, it was already being passed around the internet in the 90s. There are a couple of slightly different variations floating around.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991006200917/http://users.ox.a...
I would include the energy needed to maintain trust in other currencies including efforts to prevent counterfeits, which I might argue includes some portion of a nation's militaristic might. Trust is an even more ambiguous, yet crucial aspect of maintaining a currency's value, tied up in the "order" or predictability of the society using the currency, which involves various legal systems and at the most basic level, relationships between its peoples.

It takes a relatively minuscule amount of energy to maintain a database of numbers associated with certain people and entities, but quite a significant amount to make it mean something.
Well, just run it thru an AI summarizer )
Grab a Novation Circuit, sounds like the perfect musical gadget for you.
No, mostly because you come into topics about serious issues and opine inanely about how science is a religion.

You talk past the topic. You get called out on it. You double down. You loftily say that we're talking past each other, when you're the one who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion.

Naturally your experience must be that people are talking past you. Because you don't know how to engage in the conversation, you just know how to divert.

If you insist on talking past the topic then pointing out that we're talking past each other is your first step to, maybe, perhaps, noticing that your approach to this conversation is the problem.
Very interesting; reminds me of this one:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-am...
Wolfram has the air of a crackpot. A really, really, really smart one who has been successful, but a crackpot nonetheless. I just flag any Wolfram content I see here these days.
Kind of sad to see the funny dancing dog robot video and then its first application for police surveillance...
Japanese AI robots and the American union’s last hurrah
The guidelines aren’t publicly available, but the Reuters article on this describes a couple of the effects:

... the new guidelines meant, for example, that working-level meetings with Taiwanese officials were now encouraged in federal buildings and could also take place at Taiwan’s representative office.

... U.S. officials would also be able to attend events at Twin Oaks, an estate in Washington that served as the residence of Taiwan’s ambassador until the United States switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979.

However, it quoted a U.S. official as saying there would still be some “guard rails,” such as not allowing officials to attend functions at Twin Oaks on major Taiwanese holidays that might complicate the U.S. “One-China” policy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-diplomacy/unit...
The common vaccine ingredient at the center of J&J, AstraZeneca drama
You are assuming a huge amount about how universes are generated, a process about which we know basically nothing.
> Government use of AI is far more menacing to me than a business using it.

I think both are equally menacing. The problem with business usage is that we're "trusting" them to be good stewards of that capability.

There's not much preventing a business from abusing such power in a covert anti-competitive anti-consumer fashion, or worse, selling access to that power to the highest bidder (as a service!).
When is Coinbase going to start working on the Portfolio section? It's been ass for years. A basic unfilterable list of transactions without the years is embarrassing.
The US Democrats are right wing.

It’s interesting how the Biden story was buried so quickly by both Twitter and Facebook, but that’s just part of a fight between two right-wing groups in the US.
Monero solves this with ring signatures. Every transaction is automatically signed by a lot of wallets and there's no way to tell from which wallet the coins are actually coming from.
> My Pet Peeve: Some people will interrupt others conversationally, and it's not nice. Conversation should be back/forth, not interrupting. You can always say "Let me finish my thought first". You can also have default responses to buy time: "Thank you, that's a great question" gives them a nice compliment and buys you 5 seconds to think.

A quick note on the flip side of this - if you want to finish your statements and go back and forth, you also have the obligation IMO to state your idea quickly and simply and not ramble on for 5 full minutes about various sub-aspects of your idea. If you do that, then I think there's no problem interrupting you to say that your initial idea won't work at all or could be done in a much better way.

I say that because I hear people do this a lot, and I have no problem interrupting them if it's warranted.
Open membership means that the chain stays alive as long as anyone in the world wants it to. This isn't true for PoS chains -- you must to acquire tokens to keep the chain alive.

> As an example, any sufficiently powerful entity can temporarily and affordably commandeer computational resources with the intention of disrupting the chain.

A sufficiently powerful entity can DoS enough staked nodes that quorum can't be reached, and thereby force a PoS chain offline indefinitely for far less energy. If they're clever, they'll buy some PoS coins first, so that once the offline nodes all get slashed, they'll be the majority staker.
I do. I also remember that both were war-torn; a colossal war ("African WWI", as some call it) happened in 1996-97, with some civil wars after that.

Both DRC ($420 per capita) and RoC ($390 per capita) are not well-off, compared to more fortunate countriers relatively nearby, like Nigeria ($2140 per capita), to say nothing if e.g.Botswana ($7k per capita).

Italy, for scale, got $31630 per capita in 2020, nearly 80 times that of RoC.
As we saw with the covid market crash, a lot of companies (like airlines) don't keep a lot of cash on hand. If they had 0 revenue for several months but still had operating costs, I am assuming they would need a loan
This is a valid comment that I'd expand to say "...without exhausting all the tools available."

For example, if you're facing lengthy search queries and are looking at partitioning the database to speed them up, many databases include helpful internal tools that should be attempted first. Proper indexing is a textbook all on it's own, and the appropriate design of full-text search dictionaries and queries is another.

The one that shocked me a year or two ago was implementing full-text search in a gigantic sqlite DB. I was preparing to migrate it to postgresql or elasticsearch because my traditional "ilike" queries, even indexed, were ridiculously slow, and I was not aware FTS was an included library.

Although FTS pretty much doubled the size of the DB, a three minute query dropped to a few seconds. Since read queries are non-blocking in sqlite, this allowed me to continue using the DB without needing a bigger, more complex solution.
I don't think declensions and conjugations matter all that much, seeing how Latin was the Lingua Franca for 2000+ years, and _the_ Lingua Franca: French, has a load of irregulars too.

But we all know that it should be Esperanto.
Next up: Weaponized drones ...
The glaring issue in this article (which I couldn't bring myself to finish) is that he equates downvoting to "evil or incorrect post(s)". Which would be true in an ideal world, but the reality becomes downvotes are equivalent to "I disagree with you".

If plentiful downvoting is allowed, discourse becomes a popularity contest. Fortunately most of the experienced users here seem to understand this and reserve their downvotes for appropriate situations.
Do yourself a favor and do some digging on the folks behind Tether and BitFinex.

Look in particular at their track record starting in Italy in the 90's.

Then draw your own conclusion about the actual existence of their claimed 46B USD reserve.
Toyota Selects ROS-Based Apex.os to Underpin Automated Vehicle Platform
Wow. I was (again) reading about this whole thing last week. Lot-cloth, Father-brother, cot-caught, Psalm by itself...

If you are interested to know more, take a look at the way native speakers of other languages utter "a" and "o" and their variations. Fascinating, to say the least.
Is this a remake of the PGP debacle? If the GDPR and the so called EU cookie law are to be taken seriously then yes, it is.
USSR did it for Russian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira

Wasn't a bad language btw. Support for pretty large numbers (up to 2^1016) out of the box, for example. Flexible data types (e.g. sets, tuples, structures, etc.). Optional typing. Not too bad for early 80s.
> But they don't have major drug problems or homeless on the streets.

Singapore has homeless people [1]. They're sometimes homeless by choice or pride.

It's more obvious if one is out and about in the housing areas at night. I walk past one homeless person sleeping on a void deck bench every day.

[1] https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/about-1000-homeless-pe...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

Private prison kickbacks for conviction are a thing.
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I second this. A Remembrance of Earth's Past is one of the best SciFi series I have ever read. I even reread it a year later, and now a few months after that I wish I had time to reread it again. I got my girlfriend, mother and many friends to read the series as well :)
I was suggesting that while you and I may know what they mean, the average person unfamiliar with programming is definitely going to be thrown for a loop, if you will.
> block generation is inflationary
> store of value.

I stopped reading at this point.