skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not confident about this, but I suspect ..."

Totally agreed with this. I love that particular bit of phraseology. I use it all the time both in verbal and written forms. I can't be sure, but I suspect that it is a very useful phrase.

In my experience, it's a nice way to state something, but "soften" the statement a little so that it's less likely to invite challenge.

I also like the phrase "In my experience" for similar reasons. It's a way to state something, but it seems to evoke a challenge less often, because who can really challenge your lived experience?

For grins and giggles, I decided to search HN and see how often the "I suspect" phrase is used. Turns out it's quite a lot:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I first thought this was a parody, but apparently this is serious, so here are some serious questions:

- Why should anybody trust you as central authority?

- How is this different from an Ponzi scheme?

- What prevents you from just making up accounts and printing coins for yourself and your friends?

- What happens if your datacenter catches fire?

- What happens if hackers get write access to your database?

- How do you 'encrypt' and email address, do you mean salt and hash?
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Good way to profit off all those lofi beats youtube channels someone else made.
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La plus grande bourse américaine de crypto-monnaies fait son entrée en bourse à un moment où le bitcoin atteint des sommets.
This is one reason why CEO pay has skyrocketed: hazard pay. Something goes wrong, even if the CEO had no idea about it, and who gets vilified and maybe even prosecuted? The CEO. Just saying...there are trade offs for everything.
Outlawed? I don't think that will be possible. Bitcoin is part of the US financial system already!
ARKW is an ETF and includes GBTC.
Bitcoin can only be demonstrably free of government controls by continuing to operate after being made illegal. I wonder if its creators actually intended to make it a target for legal sanction by building in conspicuous environmental costs.

Could there be an equilibrium where energy efficiency is achieved because miners have avoid using a noticeable amount of electricity to avoid legal trouble?
No opinion on the thread, but his current startup involves streaming a chrome instance from the cloud, which feels very "Internet in 2021"
>That would literally beat the current situation by a country mile.

I don't think google agrees.
There's nothing racist about acknowledging and respecting the fact that BIPOC people have different experiences and are marginalized. You seem to be making an argument that that's prejudiced, but in America it's inescapable. If you're born Black in the US, you had a way higher chance of dying and your mother had a way higher chance of dying than if you were born white.

And besides, race is more than skin/eye color. It's culture and experience. For example, there are higher rates of asthma in Black Americans because we tend to put polluting things by their neighborhoods and schools.

But, broadly I think you're just being disingenuous. You can't seriously think this stuff is just about the color of someone's skin.
> Now, whether or not that's worth the high percentage they skim off the top is a whole 'nother question.

This isn't how it works where I live. As a buyer, you pay no commission. The seller pays his agent a commission and your agent negotiates with the seller for a portion of that commission.
They do, and would if asked!

Question: Do you feel more fatigued over the past year?

Common Answer: Yes.

Question: Are you having a harder time concentrating or focusing?

Common Answer: Yes.
I was reading a local paper and came across this : https://www.lapresse.ca/maison/immobilier/2021-04-13/le-tour...
The article states a name that doesn't ring a bell and mentions she owns the property with her partner.

When visiting the link to the realtor's platform you are greeted by that 3d model. Some faces are blurred out, but mostly on paintings and some statues so I think the realtors just use automation and call it done.

Visiting the study, I zoomed in on a cabinet with trophies and awards. Turns out you can read the name of that person on some awards, view his face on a photograph.
https://www.viacapitalevendu.com/montreal-ville-marie-montre...

Searching for the name in the article confirms she is the partner of a major news anchor in Montreal Qc. and that this is their house.

I understand public figures need their privacy but obscurity shouldn't be solely relied on, especially if you have a newspaper advertising your house without saying it is your house.
HS Debate cured both my "umming" habit and my relucance to speak in about a weekend.

A game we played in debate was where a person had to talk about something in front of a group without saying any "ums". If you said "um", your friends got to throw soft items (wadded up paper, plush toys) at you. It cures "umming" in seconds.
I'm going to suggest "How to Live," a biography of Montaigne with several rules encapsulating his philosophy of life. One of them is "read voraciously, and forget most of what you read."
There is no real disadvantage to dead reckoning as long as the system is always powered up.

The system just needs to know it's start location (the car factory) and can correct any errors in dead reckoning using the compass and maps.

GPS is so cheap now that there is no reason not to use it, but a system built with dead reckoning today would work just fine.
In addition to those, Matt Might has an article that breaks down the steps as well: http://matt.might.net/articles/cps-conversion/
If anyone else is confused, the language has Spanish keywords. My browser automatically translated the code snippet into English for me, leaving me wondering why the language "has received the love and support of Hispanic users around the world".
> One could possibly implement a polyglot programming language using a similar mechanism, and translate localized versions of keywords into (human) language-independent bytecodes.

I'm stretching it here, but assembly would tick all boxes here.
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I have feeling someone German/Russian is already working on this one. Davay geht los :)
It's entirely consistent with the regular rules of spelling and vowel length. Compare taping vs. tapping.
Anecdotal, but I have a niche calculator SPA that fluctuates between 1k-10k visitors per month. Most visitors are frequent fliers.

My donation button (top center of page) has only been used once over the span of 5 years, even though it gets praised across various forums and communities within the niche.
Reminds me of this skit from Portlandia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX0IDdJMxko.
"Excess energy" is a myth.

It's 2021, and transmitting energy across the power grid is easier and more efficient than ever before. No one is building hydroelectric dams in the middle of nowhere without a way to transmit that energy to somewhere else. It's still better to send the energy somewhere where they can replace coal-fired power plants than it is to burn it up mining cryptocurrency.

> Bitcoin mining is a great way to monetize energy that has a low market value and would likely go to waste.

It's exceedingly rare for energy to "go to waste".

Miners do not really care about anything other than profit. As long as the profit out of their operations is greater than the cost of electricity going in, the machines will be running.
There are more than a few, but none of them are nearly mainstream:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

A lot of these start as passion projects by native speakers and don't gain much traction. Actually, here's one that was posted just over the weekend, so maybe didn't get a lot of attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26771369
I think the general understanding is that the visceral animosity has to do with the nature of the betrayal. His fund was shopped around largely to other wealthy people in his community; they thought they were making money hand-over-fist (particularly for all of the charities and whatnot they could have just been funding directly), with an "in" that people outside couldn't access. Finding out that Madoff had actually lost all of their money wasn't just a hit to their pocketbooks: it struck at the solidarity of their community, at their sense of self and goodness, at their egos. In short, it stripped them of everything that being part of the fund was supposed to magnify. It's not just embarrassing, it's devastating; all of your psychic and material fallbacks have been wiped in one fell swoop. When something like that happens, you don't want to admit that you were taken for a fool; you need a scapegoat, and you need him to be a demon.
I love this!

Would love to see chat added. Then it'd really be a cafe.
The accusation sounded credible - his main idea seemed to be that GE oversold insurance schemes that were detrimental to GE if the average lifespan increased. Which it has.

On the other hand, there were some conflict of interest issues - I am not sure what the exact issue was.

But on the whole, the issue seems to have disappeared with the great Covid bust-boom of the stock market.
"A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that the energy use from Always On devices across the US accounts for 23% of power consumption in the average household, or a quarter of any given electricity bill. Our own research confirms this."

23% of energy used by households is by always on devices.

Not "tiny".
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Yeah and knowing the programmer personally at the time I have no reason to believe he would not have known what he was helping to facilitate. Eventually the two programmers asked for their pay to be in diamonds like they were working for a James Bond villain and that is not how you do if you are ignorant of what they were doing.
Accountability - I believe users should know when I mint coins. They should also be able to verify that no double spend is possible

Your structure isn't a blockchain though. Transaction 0 does not indicate where the original coin value came from (there was no "minting" transaction).

So users can't actually verify double spends.
> Why should anybody trust you as central authority?

You don't have to.

Regarding reasons to trust me - I build in public (https://twitter.com/TheBuilderJR). All transactions are published on the "central chain". The story of how CC came to be seems reasonable

> How is this different from an Ponzi scheme?

There is no cashing out. All transactions are transparent as opposed to opaque.

> What prevents you from just making up accounts and printing coins for yourself and your friends?

You are trusting me the same way you trust Gmail. It’s a tradeoff between trust and efficiency that I think should exist in between banks and crypto.

However, since all transactions are published + there is no off ramp, I have very little incentive to tank the coin. Also, the more people who use it means more donations for me!

> What happens if your datacenter catches fire?

What happens if GCP's data centers catches fire?

> What happens if hackers get write access to your database?

What happens if GCP's databases get hacked?

> How do you 'encrypt' and email address, do you mean salt and hash?

Poor word choice. Perhaps obfuscation is a better word. I've updated the whitepaper accordingly.
Sure, but that's a Bitcoin problem not a crypto as a whole problem.

And let's face it - all the projects being built on crypto which can cause it to grow much further cannot be built on Bitcoin in the first place.
This is also my experience. I equate my ADD to a trail of ants. If you disrupt that trail of ants, I will struggle to get back into a single file line of ants. When I start something, I have to finish. I can't just switch to something else. If I am stuck on a project, I can't move one to something else to give myself a break. I have to finish in that moment.
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Also "Working Towards the Führer" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#%22Working_Towards...
Btw centralized doesn’t mean not distributed. And so it doesn’t mean that it’s not highly available/resilient.
> Well, they sort of do that in Russia. So the CEO/founder of almost any sketchy company is a homeless person that signed the paperwork in exchange for some free vodka. Didn't particularly solve the problem.

Can you find me a reference to this? I could believe it, but by default I'd be surprised if it were true at any real scale.
But in that case this seems like a poor metaphor - congenital syphilis was brought up and is horrible, but we're not talking generation after generation here. In that case anthropogenic climate change seems to fit the bill more than syphilis does.
Right now in Poland, a writer is facing up to 3 years in prison for calling the president "a moron": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/polish-writer-...
I hope this isn't true unless an mRNA vaccine production miracle is inbound.

This will measure whether the commission has

a) Managed to solve the self-inflicted supply issues far beyond demand

or

b) Lost the last bit of sanity.
Very cool. I am also working on a non english programming language.
Github repo: https://github.com/Shafin098/pakhi-bhasha
Argentina was paying off debts when he pushed them into default to force a full payout on a debt he only paid a fraction for.

The IMF puppet president that got installed after that and that paid him off in full doubled the Argentinian foreign debt, resetting the economic situation to 2001.

An entire generation will know nothing but a broken country and regression without hope for future. People were dying of hunger in 2001 and people are dying of hunger now.

But Paul Singer got his 500% ROI.

And read up about what he did in Detroit if you think he only does it to some 3rd world countries.
Here's my two cents:

1. Make sure you know very well ahead of time how you feel about your given subjects and what you want to say about them.

2. Do #1 by spending a lot of time writing. It's amazing how often I realize that my ideas are more like vague feelings when I'm forced to articulate them by putting them into words via the act of writing.

These are obviously not comprehensive or the only ways to go about gaining confidence in public speaking, but hopefully they help and contribute to whatever solution you decide on.
Really? They can't set one foot inside in order to reach the doorhandle if the door is 90 degrees open?

And what America are we talking about, "your rights according to the ACLU" America, media portrayals of America, or in-real-life common sense America where you can have a ten minute conversation with a policeman about everyday things with no worries because it's actually no big deal?
even his son who died of cancer?
Gorgeous website, but freezes my browser :/
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Trust me, out of the box it already looks that way.
Original idea credit goes to HN user aparks517. He made https://phasedust.com and posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328399

I loved it, but wanted a little more control – theme/style, tags, disable the site, custom domain (paid feature), etc. – so I built it.

I just started to restore an old Boston Whaler, which I want to document as much as possible and make publicly available. Based on past experience, I know I will start strong and then get lazy about taking pictures and posting details. By making it as easy as never leaving my phone and just sending texts, I hope to be consistent.
My favorite investing book quote is without a doubt this one:

“Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.”

This is from "The Little Book That Beats The Market"

What is your favorite investing quote?
I didn't imply this
>gonna make it real clear real quick how excessive penalties for common civil offenses are and pretty soon thereafter the laws will change.

I like you. This is good.
Not online and not sure if they qualify, but some places pay for plasma donation.

There are online tutoring sites. Again, not sure if that's something they could do or not depending on their skills/history/the restrictions.
Oh, I'm not saying alcohol is a perfect fix for anxiety issues by any means! Just that there are a bunch of mental states that people quite legitimately try to escape by any means necessary and that could probably be helped way more with appropriate psychiatric care.
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In KDE, in addition to being able to do this full screen, you can have regular windows without any chrome if you want. You just right click on the window title bar and change settings. You can easily set a rule to do this as well if you'd like.
Except English borrows heavily from Romance languages.
> I won't indulge what kind

There's only one kind considered too controversial for mainstream.
DuckDuckGo isn't related to bing at all.
Have you even communicated with them about it?

Today might not be a great day to try that. But reach out to them and ask.
Isn't it easy to just block all `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` requests?
Companies aren't static. I'd consider Heroku (or similar) to start, but once I had funding/revenue to support having ops, I would transition away.

However, once you have developed a workflow, going back in developer experience is hard, and hacks like these become common. (I saw a team do a similar tool to avoid paying for Cloud Foundry.)
All ddg ever gets me are hyper-SEO'ed content farms.
As long as it’s funny money and there is no on/off ramp it’s fine no?
Great idea. It's hard to just be silent for a couple of seconds, it feels like the world is dying.

But great speakers

Use many significant pauses.
"rate of bitcoin purchases paid in dollars > rate of dollars purchased in bitcoin"

Why don't these two numbers have to be equal?
BTC is different. It will never go down from here.
I want to know the collective mass of this 'space junk'.

It is indeed unusable now, but it is a lot of highly refined matter that is already high in the earth's gravity well.

The question is whether whether enough of it exists that it could become useful, or even profitable, to reuse/recycle it.

Once you've gotten a herding satellite to rendezvous and dock/grab the junk, how much extra energy is needed to park it in a useful common orbital location for later reuse/recycling, vs making it new on the ground and lifting it out of the gravity well again?

Seems it could be a profitably exploitable resource, if the scale is right?
Is that really a reason for skyrocketing pay though? Struggling to come up with any instances where this actually happened and such "hazard pay" was "justified."
If someone writes on a whiteboard with a permanent marker, immediately black it out with a dry erase marker. Then wipe it off.
The dry erase marker's solvent will release the permanent marker ink.
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of restrictions on free speech before; the First Amendment is not absolute. It is not unthinkable that with changing society and changing judicial review, the USA too may one day find hate speech to be a crime.
I know this is not a particularly useful comment, but I love this so much. The attention to detail is incredible, the art is lovely, the song is so nice. I love the sentiment in the statement and philosophy. It reminds of katamary damacy. The more I look at it, the more impressed I am.

Re: the detail, occasionally, the little blocks will randomly run into each other. When they do, they roll /over/ each other!

Re: performance, I've got no problems running it in FF on ubuntu.
This and - literally millions of office worker drones power a PC for MS Office/Excel whole day long for no net effective social or global benefit which the likes of Bitcoin will weed out eventually. And then one day we will replace Bitcoin with something even more effective.
I always love reading your comments...

You know, it's interesting that we highlight the health burden of other activities like smoking and some governments want to go as far as banning salt and sugary soda for the same reasons.

But on this one topic we treat people like they're monsters for suggesting we should be choosier about our sexual encounters. Not just that sexual freedom is prioritized in our society, but _exercising_ that freedom is treated like a virtue. Despite all of the obvious costs and despite the fact that most people end up being less active than we'd expect and on the other side of that spectrum a lot of people come to regret their choices.
Latino isn't a language, it's an identity. That makes it political.
That would be disappointing but not surprising. The math of QCD is so hard that errors in the parts-per-billion range seemed more likely to come from mathematical shortcuts rather than massive new physics.

Still... the overlap in the error range is so tiny that there could yet be something there. Seems like a fertile and solvable problem.
You can sue the government even though they aren't granted personhood.
>>VW, one of the two largest auto makers, makes around 300€ profit per vehicle sale (excluding luxury brands).

Seeing as it's absolutely trivial to negotiate 10% discount on any new VW car, I struggle to see how that's true? Unless you mean that VW makes 300 euro and the rest is the profit of the dealership?

Even if that's true, VW makes an absolute mountain of money through financial services. Yes, they will make very little profit selling you a £12k Polo, but VW Financial Services will make £2-3k just providing you with a financial agreement for it.
If you're confident, you'll speak confidently. Why do you want to appear confident if you're not?
Idle CPU !== full-blast GPU.
The conversation is about the respective merits of one vaccine over another. The fact that one is a new approach with no long term data on humans whether the other is a traditional approach is relevant.
I didn't downvote it, but your comment was pretty useless as far as knowledge building goes. You merely made a claim about something that's controversial, non-obvious to most of the population and has more nuance than you let on.

In this case, explicitly mentioning the antibiotics abuse and how that leads to resistance would've made a big difference in quality. Going further and explaining feasible ways about how to deal with it and how to manage the economical and lifestyle impact of possible solutions in a feasible manner would've been even better.
I will also add the VERY, VERY, VERY important step of being a layer of communication between you and the buyer. With that relay, no statements made by you about the state or condition of your home would ever be directly seen by the buyer. That's probably why realtors have those discussions with sellers and their agents via telephone as well.
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Is this something like https://dapr.io/?
Yeah, I figured that they have to exist (didn't see the Cree one, I will look at it) just due to "law of large numbers" reasoning.

It always just seemed a bit weird to me, there are more native Spanish speakers then English speakers...why has English become the lingua-franca for a base of programming languages? Is it as simple as "Apple, IBM, and Microsoft started in the US"?
This might just be the straw that broke the camels back. As far as I remember the contracts the EU signed turned out to be incredibly one sided, with deliveries getting cut down when someone found out that more dosages could be extracted, no hard delivery requirements leading to constant shortages, etc. . Not getting out of that mess when alternatives exist seems like a bad idea.