skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, first mover advantage counts for something, but come on - how has superior tech not yet left it in the rearview.

To me it demonstrates perfectly that this market is largely speculation based on brand recognition and number-go-up-tech rather than any use of the currency. If it was based on use and capabilities then yes, we would expect BTC to be superseded by its more capable cousins.

But it's not.
That's a feature. Willingness to avoid onerous regulation or even break the law to benefit users is a good thing.
It is interesting that you specify Australia there. As articles like https://www.wsj.com/articles/australia-tries-to-shed-status-... indicate, Australia has a reputation for being one of the easiest places in the world to sue for defamation.

Australian views on this should therefore NOT be taken as a norm.
I'm no good with a soldering iron but I know a bunch of people who would be very happy to replace that socket for a thousand euros :)
Show HN: Cropping.Rocks - free Social Media Image Cropping
Hey all,

I made this to selectively share on social media with friends. This function already exists in several social media platforms, but the difference is that Khuro only displays posts where your friend chose for you to be in their post's audience.

I hope this can be a way to guarantee each post is personal and private in who reads each post.

You'll have to make an account, but it's extremely easy. We provide Sign in with Apple or Google, so you can make an account in literally seconds.

Please let me know what you think! Email is will@khuro.com. :-)
1. whataboutism

2. Most currencies are fiat, not gold-backed
Maybe if we gave every country nuclear weapons we could stop having proxy wars through poorer/developing countries.
That is a brilliant video, perfectly cromulent.
Why are they banning the methods instead of saying how the pricing should be displayed. E.g. why say you cannot have "noindex" instead of saying "the pricing information needs to be in plain-text, human-readable, accessible, indexable..." and so on.
Would your feeling change if we discover that yearly boosters of the COVID vaccine will be required indefinitely?
Tailwindui.com adds React and Vue support with examples
You have it completely backwards. This policy isn't subsidizing risky sex. It's the opposite--subsidizing STD testing to make casual sex less risky.
This is so inspirational. He gives billionaires a good name. I love people who have a philosophy without exceptions.
I think we have done some experiments with that already but I can’t recall what the outcomes were.
Except it's not opt-in for a certain subset of actions of the government. For instance they can't block a discrimination suit on sovereign immunity grounds.
Let's talk about some concrete evils, then.

How many students have you pressured into signing NDAs as part of your "hardship process"?
Yeah I do that too. It's a hacky work around though and I'm still not entirely sure it won't show you online briefly once you turn data on again. I know it shows you as online if you answer a message using the notification bar. I tested that one. It happens as soon as you click reply.
There are good pieces of advice in founders’ self-reported experience, but it needs to be taken as a distorted data point rather than absolute truth.

Founders tend to rewrite history in ways that benefit themselves presently. It’s human nature, but it’s finely honed in founders who are pitching their personal brand on social media. Even the humble, self-deprecating anecdotes are usually carefully filtered in ways that make them look good in the present, or as something they can wear as a badge of honor for overcoming.

I worked for a small startup that nearly died because one of the founders made some really bad decisions. That same founder now writes a lot of Medium thinkpieces about how to be successful, including advice to do some of the things that were clearly not at all beneficial to our startup.

Take everything with a grain of salt.
Great point. While not everything is appropriate to share in response to someone else's "Show HN" post, I've definitely seen (and appreciated) others linking similar projects. It usually is in the context of saying something like:

- I tried this too, and can appreciate that you solved way harder things than we expected to have to deal with
- I had this idea too but like your execution

I think it's very fitting, especially since we are celebrating not just the idea, but the execution that someone did to be able to show it off here.
“exact opposite of debilitating impostor syndrome” is a nice phrase.

But I don’t think that we should “take some of his claims with a grain of salt”. That implies reserving credit, which is appropriate if he is making claims about facts. In fact we should entirely discount his claims about how the universe works or the efficacy of his approach to physics until he can demonstrate that we should pay attention. The burden is entirely up to him, and the only yardstick is predictive power, of which his theories have zero.
You are so right. I get happiness out of 1 of every 100 hn stories. This was a big one.
The problem is that you are solving the issue from the wrong direction. Like getting people to stop littering, the answer is to regulate the producers of the waste, not the end users doing the wasting.

The answer is to lobby governments for green energy, not rail against people doing PoW. People who fold at home are using a lot of energy also.
Bootstrapped a love for trivia to six-figure ARR
Children would lie about their age and download NSFW-capable version awyway if both are first party.
Advertisers (and PR departments) are fragile to activists and political winds.

Society gives PR departments far too much power. We should be electing governments that enforce reasonable standards, not relying on what is essentially DDoS to achieve social mores.
Are you using a text editor that can't index your repo and do search-replace within? Vim and emacs both do this easily.

If you're not using an IDE, have you considered that by DRY-ing up constants, you're adding about 2-3 steps to even see what the value of a constant is?

Jump to the top of your file, figure out where the import is from, open the other file, then find constant name.

You also force your code reviewers to do this in e.g. GitHub, where there's no convenient 'jump to definition'.

IMHO, if your starting point is that you won't use sed, can't use a good IDE, and won't configure your editor nicely, then you're just creating a lot of unnecessary work for yourself, regardless of whether you're doing DRY.

Power tools are appropriate if you're building a house.
Matrix has a whatsapp bridge
A rallying cry for national service
How to fix “Class '' not found” error with PHP (2018)
YouTube using you.tube would lend credence to the rest of the .tube TLD actually.
Anecdotal evidence
It turns out that intuitive reasoning for orbital mechanics is not easy. Two satellites having a head on collision become space junk because now you have many fragments that themselves can't control their altitude or deorbit. Fragments that are ejected from the collision cannot have more than energy than they had originally, nor can they change direction very much. If pieces are ejected vertically, they are always going to have less lateral velocity than they had going into the collision, therefore will end up in an elliptic orbit with a high probability of colliding with the atmosphere at perigree.

See "can you throw a baseball from the ISS and hit the earth" (No, you can't.)
The end result of the EU saving this small amount of money is that they are now way behind countries like the UK and the US, on vaccinations.

The economic damage to their mistake to do that is will be way larger than any small savings on doses.
sure. they dont get access to all robinhood transactions. their trading algorithms do the work. if you know a few ms in advance the trades you can literaly make money out of it. and this should be clearly advertised when getting into robinhood.

Your argument that it is to help retail traders to enter for cheap into trading is fallacious. It is exactly like saying getting into real estate nowadays is a no brainer due to low interest loans. even tho the loan means borrowing money for 30years and living like a slave to pay a rent that the generation before you got in 10years. In the same ways FB makes money out of people Citadel and Robinhood does it 0 conspiracy there
The Rate of Return on Everything (1870-2015) [pdf]
Flamewar comments will get you banned here. The idea of HN is curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. Do you think that a religious ideological sex war falls in that scope? It does not. No more of this, please—and see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810504 also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I love that there are people trying out new conceptual models of physics that rely on vast computational resources (like hyper graphs).

Does anyone know how this framework handles ‘spooky action at a distance’ ?
PoW is open-membership, because the means of coin production are not tied to owning coins already. All you need to contribute is computing power, and you can start earning coins at a profit.

PoS is closed-membership with a veneer of open-membership, because the means of coin production are tied to owning a coin already. What this means in practice is that no rational coin-owner is going to sell you coins at a fast enough rate that you'll be able to increase your means of coin production. Put another way, the price you'd pay for the increased means of coin production will meet or exceed the total expected revenue created by staking those coins over their lifetime. So unless you know something the seller doesn't, you won't be able to profit by buying your way into staking.

Overall, this makes PoS less resilient and less egalitarian than PoW. While both require an up-front capital expenditure, the expenditure for PoS coin-production will meet or exceed the total expected revenue of those coins at the point of sale. So, the system is only as resilient as the nodes run by the people who bought in initially, and the only way to join later is to buy coins from people who want to exit (which would only be viable if these folks believed the coins are worth less than what you're buying them for, which doesn't bode well for you as the buyer).
> Most of those cases haven't quite been "healthy."

25% of those who died under age 21 had no pre-existing condition, according to the CDC analysis. https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/09/15/75-of-youths-who-...

I believe the data does support my statement that hundreds of young and healthy people have died from covid. The risk is close to zero, yes, but still greater than the reported risk from this vaccine.

Close to 3000 people ages 25 to 34 have officially died in the USA from covid-19. If the same 75%/25% division the cdc found for under 21 applies to this group, that’s 750 young and healthy people who died so far just in the age 25-34 age group.

> COVID is largely avoidable, if you don't mind being avoiding others

Huge assumption. Many workers need to work in person and are going to be exposed. Many others live in a home with someone who is an essential worker, or doesn’t believe in covid being dangerous or taking precautions.

It really isn’t fair to blame everyone catching covid today and say they could have simply avoided it. Also, getting a vaccine is absolutely avoidable. No one is being forcibly vaccinated right now.
Your website is pretty broken using HTML without JS :/
Between (and in defiance of) those two positions are some interesting ideas about sustainability.

On one end, "cavemen" are sustainable humans with implied cultural virtues. On the other, the pre agricultural equilibria is mostly about high human mortality and low population size.

At any given time though, people often had cultural understandings of natural ecosystems. We started being humans by living as part of such ecosystems, and undoubtedly both caused and witnessed all sorts of sudden changes and disasters... some linked to human activity.

If you live in an areas, and rely on plants, game and such... your culture is more likely to be "literate" in these things. Game can be hunted out, plants overharvested. A population surge in one species may deplete another. "Balance" can be restored, sometimes in a more or less beneficial way than before. These are all observable, and of great interest to people (those left) who make their living this way. The occasional and unpredictable flush of rabbits one autumn, is relevant to the life of someone who eats them.
Exactly right. One thing I often tell younger developers is... 80% of developing software is figuring out exactly what you want to build." Usually, the actual act of building it (i.e. writing the code) is fairly trivial.
It's not a subsidy. It's the cost of avoiding public health crises.
Search engines can index pdfs.
I think parallel reconstruction is a legitimate and productive goal, if it leads to new predictions or more efficient methods of computing results in the standard model.

So far, I think (please someone correct me if I'm wrong) he's claimed the latter but not the former, and has it as a medium-term goal to claim the former but he is "not there, yet, but close".

I don't know if he's actually produced more efficient methods of computing results, if anybody knows of links, that'd be interesting to read.

I also think that he's heading down an interesting path (parsing the universe as a graph / cellular automata), it's an interesting choice of primitives. It does seem to be a Dual of fields, though, so I don't believe it can give us any more predictive power than modern Field Theory, but I guess we'll see!
State-of-the-art Python project setup
I just looked at my Coinbase balance for the first time in a few years.

Apparently I got $5 of free bitcoin at some point in 2016 and it's now worth $800. Sweet!
The legal libel standard for public figures from NY Times v. Sullivan and Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts is that you need to be able to prove "actual malice" (rather than something merely being untrue) which is of course hard to do because it speaks to intent.
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why is XRP a scam?
Relieved that at least it has not gone the Google Reader way.
FeedBurner hadn’t seen updates for last several years and there was an apprehension it may end up like another “Killed by Google” product.
Yzma: It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?

Peasant: Umm... food?

Yzma: Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!
That is genuinely interesting.

I guess there will be a seismic shift for many things in U.S society over the coming decades, where one of the more interesting would be voting patterns.
Attempt to derail parent argument by citing inadequacy of reflection of anecdote in a general survey of literature/media
Some good previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774428
> There are so many things to consider when talking about the "energy usage" of traditional money.

Yes, so many things that BTC will never do. It's vastly less efficient and offers nothing like the range of services and products of the existing finance system.
Your existence is wasteful. If you don't like it, just don't use it? Why do you feel the need to tell others what do to with their lives and money?
> Diversifying the portfolio is the safest option; it may not yield the highest returns, but it also never yields the lowest returns.

If we wave our hands and discount all the failed democracies (that turn into autocracies, or fall apart in civil wars), and if you think that the difference between India's development in the past 30 years and China's development in the past 30 years is just a matter of 'it's not the highest returns...'

One's GDP/capita grew from $300 to $10,000, the other from $300 to $2000 in that timespan. That's not a difference of 'not the highest returns', that's a quantitative difference between remaining in poverty on one hand, and a hundreds of millions of people living Western lifestyles on the other.

I think it's safe to say at this point that the historic record indicates that democracy and economic development are likely to be orthogonal.
I very much believe that intent matters, and should matter, but the problem with intent in a legal setting is that often it is incredibly difficult to prove intent, and the defendant just has to say "I never intended it to mean that; I was thinking $INNOCENT_THING when I said it" to inject some doubt into the proceedings, often enough doubt to avoid a guilty verdict.
Because wouldn't they have to keep adding new techniques to the list continuously when in the other case they can say in what format the content needs to be available in.
One of the first things that made me realize this was watching an old interview with Steve Jobs. He'd be asked a question, and would just sit there, totally silent, for maybe 10-15 seconds, and it was obvious that he was pondering the question in order to give a well thought-out answer. Since seeing that, I've made more of an effort to actually ponder questions, rather than trying to give the quickest answer I can, and people seem to response well to doing that.
> For the foreseeable future, no one is going to have more economic incentive to prevent the loss of usable LEO than companies that build themselves around usage of LEO.

This line of reasoning never seems to work out the way you are suggesting. It's more likely to wind up in a giant Mexican standoff once there a multiple entities who all have the individual ability to ruin it for everyone.
I enjoyed the "managing expectations" section here. It reminded me that even as an average programmer contributing to the project directly (via PRs, triaging, or just testing / running an instance) is going to be more valuable than donating $10 or whatever to a project like this.
In the case of Spanish, I can't speak for French, having an academy (the RAE in this case) regulating the language sounds like a problem on paper, but really isn't a problem in practice. The RAE accepts Americanisms and treats American Spanish just as it would European Spanish (referring to the continent(s), not the country) and encourages lingusitic diversity. Anglicisms are only discouraged when an acceptable Spanish alternative is in WIDE use (but never prohibited, as can be evidenced by the sheer quantity of anglicisms in the Spanish language.)

Spanish is very willing to accept new words, and as diverse as English in terms of decentralization. Grammar doesn't make or break a lingua franca, number of speakers does, which is where English really shines.

So what does the RAE do you ask? They write grammars and compile dictionaries, describe phonology and answer people's questions on Twitter. Just like what Merriam Webster or Oxford would do, but the RAE has official backing and creates consensus among the hispanophone countries. English is a regulated language, just not officially regulated.
> looks too niche to be sustainable

To be fair, he did say that his first target was 10 customers. I assume all 10 of them happy as he mentioned.
> I guess it's moreso what seems like extreme impracticality in trying to control people's sexuality to a finer degree than is already in place.

I agree trying to "control" people's sexuality is extremely impractical. That's why I think it needs to be more a cultural value that we collectively decide is worth teaching to kids (and leading by example), not something the government forces on us. I think that would work because it worked for me and my extended family as far as I can tell (with a few exceptions).
Interesting the mental gymnastics people are going through to defend their interests.

The cryptofolks are trying for gaslighting and Firehose of Falsehoods to cover up for their energy wastage projects.
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When learning trying to learn k8s, I found that k3s was a great starting point.

Having the ingress controller already preconfigured meant it was much easier to get up and running with a deployment and service.
Currently it only supports markdown, but I want to build this as a note taking app. I have spent most time in making it flexible to allow for plugins , I guess in near future I will write a plug-in for other note file formats.

Do you have any specific file type in mind ?
I think it was more like two days. Very quick.
It’s utter and complete horseshit to compare people doing folding @ home with their spare cycles to BTC power usage.
I liked the thread a lot, but as with all things startup I feel a lot like this is trusting a very successful horse race gambler with his perfect method to track the form.

I have a feeling with these things timing and luck is everything no matter how well you follow what worked before. I bet some startups do almost the opposite of this advice and still end up doing well just because the idea and timing were so good.
What if... people could make their own websites and host their own videos, and people could link to each other's content?
Austen unblock me on twitter. We can have an OTR chat about the current state of lambda. I promise none of it will be published if you don't want it to be.
A green crypto will not work unless it’s tied to BTC. BTC is basically a ponzi scheme built on top of ponzi schemes on top of ponzi schemes. I too was optimistic about cryptocurrencies back in 2013-14. I thought we’d eventually have a global currency that’s beneficial for all parties involved. But no. There’s simply no interest in doing that. Everyone is just in it for the money.
Provided the content is not encrypted.
They are doing that as well. They are posting general requirements, as well as providing details on specific situations. From the main project @ https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide

Section: Overview

> All machine-readable files must [...] made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.

Section: Public Discoverability

> These machine-readable files post made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.
Turkey’s grand canal plan is dividing the nation
Proof of space/time is a bad idea and you're right, it will put incentives on manufacture and hoarding of storage space.

Proof of stake involves using staking of cryptocurrency to secure the currency. In theory it avoids the resource usage of the other types of proof. In theory.
There are certain obvious advantages to using a single language.

For example: I read r/IWantOut, as well as some CS career-related subs, and I myself am an American coder in Germany. Based on my own experience, as well as my reading and hearing from others, programming is probably the best overall career choice if you want the option of living in various different countries, in terms of how accessible it is as well as having decent pay. A big part of that accessibility is English, that you can find a significant number of jobs in many countries that don't require you to already know the local language.
> true but politically inconvenient

Wanna give some examples or are you just dog-whistling?