skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One factor of that appeal in the US is that you have to provide your SSN to the exchange you're using. There's a lot of intangibles that Coinbase brings that overcomes the activation energy required to punch in those numbers on a web form.

Just an anecdote but, much to my chagrin, I've had a largely dormant Coinbase account since 2013 and haven't received any notable spam or evidence that my contact info has been handled sloppily.

Recently I started the enrollment process for a couple other popular exchanges and almost immediately start getting some gnarly spam of topical relevance.
Do professionals use the OP-1? I can imagine a person doing music production for a living not willing to do any significant part of their job on a device the size of a chocolate bar.

Who's the thing even for?
Whoops my mistake, I realise now that I misread you completely, sorry about that.
Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that is very hard to change. This property is critical for sound money, including for the emission schedule.

Other coins are easy to change and so cannot be relied upon to preserve any properties, including emission schedule.

Vast majority of coins is also not decentralized at all and being so prone to get effectively regulated.
The two themes I'm noticing from this list are "Lean heavily into a founders/startup community" and "Ask tough questions often". There are several bullets around coaching, bouncing ideas off of other (external) founders, leaning into internal cofounders strengths/passions, etc. I would generalize to say these things are not specific at all to the first 18 months at a startup (or startups in general). Leaders should be communicating with other leaders, teammates should be relying heavily on other teammates, all humans should seek counseling (via therapists, coaches and friends). A significant part of this process is knowing when to just smile and nod through unsolicited feedback/shitty advice. This is also totally unrelated to startups.

To his second theme (ask tough questions often), it's just the common trap tons of startup founders seem to fall into. "We don't know if users will pay for this" should be one of the first questions you answer, way way before "How will we scale" or "What tech should we use". Managing worry is identical to asking tough questions (why are we worried about this and how do we overcome the worry). Mitigating risk is identical to asking tough questions (what could cause us to fail that is in our control). A part of being a leader is being unafraid to ask questions that need answering, even if their answers may be painful or scary. Most people aren't capable of looking hard at all of their possible failure scenarios honestly, and even less are able to objectively move forward with the findings of that examination. It's a tough ego game to play.
I want an OP1 so bad. I just can't afford it. I watch videos of people making music with them on youtube for hours and get so hooked. I was really worried this post was about its discontinuation which will make them spike even more in price.
" will actually be effective"

Effective in doing what?

Everyone is caught up in ridiculous AI mythology, and misunderstanding the nature of the tech.

AI is just one approach to solving a problem, and will invariably make up just a small part of more complex systems involving mostly classically approaches.

Not only is AI not hugely special, nothing we do or use is mostly 'AI' to begin with.

From the article:

"AI systems used for indiscriminate surveillance applied in a generalised manner"

So does this mean as long as we're not using Deep Learning, we can indiscriminately surveil?

And what if the 'surveillance system' doesn't use AI, but the cameras themselves have AI embedded within to adjust focus? Does that count?

What if the system doesn't use AI, but the supporting services do?

It's basically ridiculous.

If the government wants to regulate 'mass surveillance' - that sounds like a good thing so do that.

If they want to ensure privacy in certain domains - great - but it has nothing to do with 'AI'.

Edit:

Futhermore:

"Mr Leufer added that the proposals should "be expanded to include all public sector AI systems, regardless of their assigned risk level".

"This is because people typically do not have a choice about whether or not to interact with an AI system in the public sector.""

This is laughably bad, because again, there is not such thing as an 'AI System'.

A broad ban on on AI in the public sector would almost guarantee European stagnation in every sector, for no good reason at all.

Will they ban Google Search in public service? Google assistant? Google navigation? Those use AI.

Will they ban AI signal processing for anything related to government?

They'll have to ban Tesla as well, there's a ton of AI in every unit.

Will there be a single automobile in 10 years that won't have AI components? The EU is going to ban all of them from use in public service?

Even today, AI is almost universal in every day systems, that is only going to increase quite a lot.

In 5 years, you literally won't be able to use any tech without it touching some form of AI.

Mr. Leufeur has no understanding of what he is talking about.
So much BTC FUD on HN - it's kind of disgusting.
So basically English spelling is trapped in a local minimum. An small change will make spelling closer to some dialect, and further from most other dialects. The current situation is suboptimal for everyone, but at least it's a Nash equilibrium.
The value of gold is supported by huge militaries all around the world, including the US military. Just like fiat currency, it derives its value in part from the large group of people with guns willing to commit violence to support its value.

Bitcoin doesn't have an army of people willing to commit violence to support its value. At least not yet.
There should be freedom of speech, however that needs to be balanced with the ability for centralized services - or trust networks - to form and allowed to moderate, without a centralized single government entity dictating what may be said or not to avoid potential tyranny - nor to force all organizations/platforms to be required to share everything [minus whatever "hate" list is deemed inappropriate by the government].

I do agree with Twitter, AWS, deplatforming who they want: why would you purposefully allow a bad actor (or misguided people) to use your technology/weapons? If they're not sophisticated enough or want to piggyback on the technology of people who don't believe you should be allowed to freely incite violence, then those bad actors will learn a lesson - as they seemed to - and then they will have to rally and align with those who do fully support a lack of moderation, etc. There are other problems like a lack of data and network portability laws, and PeerTube to some degree is a bridge for that, but the laws still need to be in place as a canary - if they ever happen to get removed.

The broader issue is societal - and that our institutions have been weakened by a number of factors including regulatory capture by industrial complexes, tied with the duopoly - leading to policy that kills off and suffocates the majority of people instead of supporting them to be able to thrive. Racism, as an example, could be argued as a multi-generational health whereby narratives, role modelling, overlaid onto circumstances of excess suffering, excess stress, that prime the racism to continue to perpetuate. It's also a sign of a lack of deep, genuine community and interconnectedness; we have politicians and the mainstream media and the vast majority, if not all, global brands constantly trying to manipulate us - and the whole ad industry enabling little "mom and pop shops" from being able to join in on the manipulate to sell things to consumers, buying attention for little to no effort - undeserved, unearned attention.

It's possible that if Trump hadn't been deplatformed then he could have further incited violence, more easily, and quickly enough; Parler and other forums did at least temporarily organize at least the most avid. It's possible too - though based on the Capitol incursion security forces weren't prepared and/or lacking integrity - that security forces would have been prepared to counter whatever portion of disenfranchised (and misguided) Trump supporters would be ready to escalate further violence. But the important part to all of it is that it was a wakeup call - that Trump got voted in because who slid by the control mechanisms and corridors the duopoly had managed to evolve and strengthen over the last X decades - that there are 80+ million people who aren't happy and are prone to lies, propaganda coming from and being reenforced by these various complexes.

In short conclusion, Andrew Yang's core policies seem like the new foundation necessary to counter the majority, if not all, of the problems that lead to this current state of America; Presidential candidate, now running for Mayor of NYC.
And who decides when that "should" condition is met? Over the past few years, I've seen far too many activists react to algorithms that notice true but politically inconvenient things by trying to shut down the algorithms, to pull wool over our eyes, to continue the illusion that things are other than what they are. Why should we keep doing that?

I have zero faith in the ability of activists or states to decide when it's safe to deploy some new technology. Only the people can decide that.
That's true. Shortly after we moved out of the caves Atkinsons and Montanas invented warfare. We should have stayed in the cave. I'm sorry, my grandchild. Never leave earth.
And yet, there are people with limited resources, time or intellectual abilities for which this is not feasable.
People also fucking haaaate changes in language. Especially older people.

I had a 85 year old (yes) technical writing professor in college who insisted that we do our papers using the "Queen's English" that he learned growing up in Catholic school. He even went so far as to write a damn book outlining his rules for English writing because none of the existing style guides out there matched his view of the language.

You'll never get people like that to adopt any sort of change to the language.
> inherently their lifetimes will be measured in single digit years. But that's ok since they can be replaced so cheaply

Oh cool, let's shoot even more soon-to-obsolete pollution into the atmosphere. That's working so well on Earth. /s
Well, I was sort of thinking of drugs when I made the analogy, but the government policy response is similar (i.e. the government wants to reach into my wallet to subsidize free syringes, drug purity tests, etc.)

> Sex is something hardwired into people

This is an appeal to nature. We naturally want to do it, therefore we shouldn't try to resist it? There are many counter examples: violence, incest, tribalism, and other undesirable evolutionary behaviors are hardwired into people (and animals) too, yet our efforts to reduce/temper their influence and emergence can be quite effective (though not 100% effective). Why is sex any different? I think we could temper sexual activity with the right messaging (and more importantly, leading by example) to youth.

Something like "sex is something that should be reserved for a committed relationship, not a recreational activity you should do casually - the latter leads to a lot of problems in society. Nevertheless, the choice is up to you and here are the risks and things you need to know either way..." Obviously "accidents" would still happen, but the idea would be to address the root cause of sex-related issues in society instead of throwing your hands into the air and deciding to just treat the symptoms.
There are at least 14 applications right now to operate crypto ETFs.
In Star Trek (TOS: "Patterns of Force", "Whom Gods Destroy"), Lee Kuan is the name given to a historical political despot on Earth sometime between the mid-20th and the 23rd century.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan

This character was only mentioned in dialogue.

Lee Kuan shares naming elements with Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Singapore in the 1960s. Lee established a hybrid form of governance with democratic and authoritarian elements.
McWhorter is a linguist (as well as a political commentator). His argument isn't that English is easier because people already speak it natively. Instead, English lost a lot of its complexity (especially around suffixes) during the Viking invasions when it was taken up by adult speakers.

This doesn't mean that learning the language is easy--no language really is. And English has some things that make it harder to master, especially its very large vocabulary.

Some of it is covered in this recent episode: https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2021/03/english-la...
This is more like banning the production of chlorine gas because someone might put it in an artillery shell --- never mind all the other useful things you can do with chlorine gas. If you want to regulate externalities, regulate externalities: don't ban technology itself.
Ha! I appreciate the update. I'll rename mine accordingly.
Eth is always moving to POS ---> THIS YEAR.\

Believe it when I see it.
> every attempt to slow the adoption of new technology has been a disaster for human welfare

Counter-example: nuclear non-proliferation treaties.
According to https://www.foxrothschild.com/publications/where-retweeting-...

“ under a plain reading of the statute it is clear that retweeting falls within the confines of Section 230’s immunity [...] Unsurprisingly, Reid’s attorneys signaled that she intended to argue just that in response to the complaint filed against her. Faced with the prospect of this hurdle, the plaintiff promptly dropped Reid’s retweet cause of action from the suit, although she has maintained her claims against Reid for allegedly false statements made after the retweet.“
Okay no. This is garbage engineering. And yes I mean that - it doesn't get much worse.

It would be better if this wasn't a site you're supposed to stay hours on.

This embeds a YT video that is streaming in HD quality in the background, even though it's only showing me a gif, so it's already murdering my bandwidth to do something we could achieve with 30kb/s nowadays.

But because that isn't enough, this site is enough to get the fans of my laptop going. I'll probably be adding 20s to every bigger recompilation just to listen to music.

Thanks but fuck no.
Works similarly for Apple laptops (but maybe stick to 2-3 years in that case). Even if you only get half price for it, it's still owning an Apple laptop... for half price. (And keep the box, they can be worth hundreds in terms of total resale price difference boxed/unboxed.)
At least they are keeping up with current technical tricks.
Sending an email using Gmail SMTP
How to use Ansible to send an email using Gmail https://red.ht/3abTS2z via #EnableSysadmin by @mrsarthak001
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I'm extremely skeptical of politicians. I give it a high probability chance of being forgiven, although I agree it's not a 100%. If it isn't, it will be inflated away through dollar devaluation and inflation. So, why would someone pay for their school and go to Lambda or have a high probability of school debt being forgiven going the traditional route? This isn't rocket science here. And your comment is quite insulting to assume that a commenter on HN would just 'believe' politicians or that I would want college debt forgiveness. I'm a libertarian. I don't want any bailouts, but I understand human nature and incentives so I know the bailout of college debt is coming.
Nice. They should probably add HTTP headers (X-Robots-Tag) to the list. Cloaking, too.
In fact it is more probable that the universe started from a very simple set of rules than a very complex java file. There are a lot of assumptions behind a java file, I mean, a huge lot of assumptions. A simple universe is not only more beautiful, but it is also more probable than a complex one.
I’m assuming it’s similar to Sweden in terms of vaccinated over 60 and fraction of vaccines that are AZ?

Sweden has only around 10% given a first dose in the 60-69 group yet and a huge fraction of the doses given to that group are now AZ, so that mRNA vaccines can be given to other groups.
The website author suggests that V is still available since the language is in alpha. In that case, no, you'd better get on writing that interpreter / compiler if you don't want to get scooped.
Spotify has a pretty rich API:

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
I really hate the online notification in WhatsApp because it's not possible to disable it. Even Facebook lets you appear offline if you want to. It's been a standard feature of messaging apps since pretty much as long as they've existed. Why whatsapp chose to make this setting like this has always just made my brain hurt.

Does anyone actually like that every time you open WhatsApp any person who has WhatsApp installed and has your number in their contact list, they can see that you opened the app with zero way to disable it? That would be bad enough on a desktop app, on a mobile app it's completely and utterly fucked.
A robotic spacecraft just latched onto an active satellite in orbit
People don't have a great history of dealing with probability on a strictly rational basis.
> But having elections in 2021 makes every Covid-related decision by definition political

Every COVID-related (or other) decision by or about government is political, by definition, independent of election timing.

Election timing may effect the degree to which the people of a democratic state have effectively direct input on an issue whose existence and political salience would not be regularly forseeable, but that’s a very different issue than whether decisions about that issue are “political”.
Yeah but the CCP then controls that first island chain and easily squeeze off Japan and SK. US carriers are kept far away by stationing missiles on Taiwan. Thus they can continually stake out control.

The US investing in the Chinese "pie" is useless because they're just feeding the CCP more. CCP will use the power to take over the world. US companies would get eaten by the Chinese companies and US gov would be taken over from within, once mainstream and social media is taken over by CCP hands.
Go yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater and see how you do in court.
Maybe interesting:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1SPl226SwzrfMZltrVag...

https://github.com/keithito/tacotron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijhZR43TOwc

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/a-2019-guide-to-speech-synthesis-...
Have you considered the possibility that this might have more to do with the fact that serial monogamy is already widespread (and has been since before it was commonly depicted on television) and the shows have a relatively limited cast of characters?

Even if not, are we asking the government to step in and ban Friends? Because if not, I don’t see how this observation gives us anything approaching a solution.
Building a Predictive Text Engine with Node.js
lol no.

Just no.
And I still have yet to understand why should the rest of society who hasn't bought into Bitcoin shoulder higher energy costs because Bitcoin are driving up demand?
Hi, #2 in nation, in now-virtually dead category (Student Congress), high school speech and debate nerd here. Like any good debate position, I'd like to summarize with three main points.

A. People first, point second.
Look, you're an engineer, but in a large professional setting you're really a salesperson too, and at more senior levels you're a salesperson who happened to be an engineer. Lots of comments around empathy here and I can only reinforce this point. It's really crucial to think about what the people in the room want, what their motivations are and how they might react to information. You sound like you're dealing, as an expert, with other experts in smaller groups. You probably know what you're talking about so figuring out why people are motivated to object to you is a useful tool. tl;dr sometimes people are jerks, don't let them shake you!

B. Practice, _and_ simulate.
Ok what's the difference here. Practicing is identifying low-risk venues to give presentations in and/or lead discussions. These can be on friendly teams, large group presentations or refereeing a tabletop roleplaying game etc (the last one is REALLY beneficial). Simulating is deriving from the outputs of practice things you'd do differently. After a while one can foresee what could reasonably occur, scenario plan for it and even develop escape hatches. I see my Q/A, body language, three main points in my minds eye and have plans for a couple of contingencies. You can't tell somehow _how_ to develop this but you _will_ develop it after some time working through this.

C. You can control information inputs
I find, at least in business settings, that technical experts are often derailed by bringing too much to the table. Their message is often lost, particularly with senior leaders because its surrounded by a morass of apparently helpful information...you're talking to someone and solving their information prioritization problem from the start. It's important to have a clear set of objectives going in and _ethically and truthfully (literally and in the spirit)_ align the information with your point. It's your battlefield, you make it, control the terrain you're operating on.

Additional point, don't be afraid to stop for a 2-3 seconds, compose a thought and then respond. It is a natural breaking tactic I use in meetings and it gets people to engage with you because you've suddenly paused the entire room, at will. Handy trick.
I hadn't realized that there were secret ballots before.

Recently, the House Republicans publicly voted to back Marjorie Taylor Greene (strong Trump supporter) but also had a secret ballot to back Liz Cheney (Trump critic, voted to impeach, #3 in House Republican hierarchy).

It seemed obvious that if the second vote was public that Liz Cheney probably would have been censured and lost her position.
Because Monero's the only coin that can't actually be traced or tainted. Looks like even government agencies haven't been able to break it yet. It's also actually useful as currency due to low transaction fees.
I have no idea how you could possibly assign probabilities to things like this.
Thank you, this is really informative.
Wasn’t this guy the CEO of the unnamed startup in Anna Wiener’s “Uncanny Valley”?

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/uncanny-valley-brand-names...
> You can indeed perform writes in other regions

Those aren't multi-region transactions.
That is very normal. It’s to prevent people from just creating accounts multiple times to never have to pay.
What is turbo and who is it named after? I know it's a name but I don't know of anyone with that name who is notable other than like one unpopular saint.
Part of the punishment could be that the company still has to pay all salaries and hourly wages while it’s shut down.
People can't beat me, rape me, or kill me by stealing my data. The gov can (and often will) jail me if the data it's stolen is stuff it doesn't like. Like if I happen to be buying shrooms from a friend who grew them. No thanks.
Oh, I thought you were referring to the multi-key consistent transactions, not single key strong consistency mode. I think you are correct.
You think it should be legal to make up complete lies about people and not have repercussions?
I will claim that after a certain negative threshold, some things should not be legal to be share in all forums.

Accepting that, it becomes a question of where do you draw that line.
Even if they're not, the processing power at a given price point is increasing by 10% a year, which effectively works out to the same - especially if you use these in low-cost devices that are never updated (IoT seems a perfect fit).
Maybe not. Conceivably, everyone could be on payroll as contractors except the founder.