skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens when trillion-dollar American luxury device manufacturers are no longer able to contact their manufacturers in China?

The relationship is mutual and losing manufacturing contracts with large international companies would deeply affect the Chinese economy.

Admittedly, the Chinese government has very long range vision compared to other governments and can unilaterally enforce austerity on their working class population in ways democratic regimes cannot.

That doesn't mean that China can alienate its international business partners with impunity.
We're already successfully killing third party cookies and most browser fingerprinting strategies. This is an attempt by a browser to build an intentionally user hostile mechanic to compensate, but we can kill this too.

We just need to continue to make it increasingly impractical and expensive to track users until it stops being considered a viable business strategy.
China is controlling over 50% of the mining power for Bitcoin. Giving away control over currency to Bitcoin equals giving China control over currency. A 51% attack to rewrite blocks with new transactions doesn't even need to happen. The miners just have to not include certain transactions to inflict massive economic damage.

This is the case for all decentralized crypto currencies. If you don't know who's appending the chain and thus creating currency and/or including transactions, you cannot be sure it isn't your enemy.
One of the most important features needed, to respect privacy, and help with security, is Ad Blocking.
I think the language in results.txt is a little confusing. What I think it's saying is:

113 people preferred option 1 over option 2

137 [different] people preferred option 2 over option 1

and presumably the balance of the 420 didn't express a preference. Or at least that's how I read it.
its legitimate. distasteful but legitimate.
That’s cool but isn’t it similar to the incentive pay programs or RSUs/ESPPs offered by traditional employers? Not to mention that once the company is large, it’s hard to feel you have that much control over the success of the entire company.
Exactly. What many people who tout the idealogical benefits of crypto don't understand is that it's not a technology problem, it's a political problem that can't be solved by technology.

This with Turkey is a good example. If it's illegal for a business to accept crypto, there's nothing crypto can do about that. Turkish businesses need to comply or face fines and shut downs. What do you think will happen most likely?
I always attempt to remove cruft form links before sharing/publishing/including. Cruft is in bad taste, and sharing it is bad manners. This assertion may well reflect my bad taste, and even bad manners toward people analyzing the provenance of clicks!

Maybe https://docs.clearurls.xyz/ (extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers) will strip wprov from URLs at some point https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/920

Another thing that ought to be built in for browsers to live up to being agents for users.
The proliferation of “buy tool get battery free” deals means it’s not as much of a pricing headache anymore - more of a convenience thing.

Milwaukee continues to sell batteries for their far outdated NiCAD.
That website is borked, half the content is off screen on mobile.
You make some very interesting points. I don't know why it was modded into invisibility. Speaking for myself, the prostitutes, sorry that should be ‘sex workers’, don't benefit from the job. Who does are the pimps who control the industry. In the case of the Internet that woud be the cyber-pimps. It's a very self-destructive ‘lifestyle’. You'd be better off flipping hamburgers. I know this is a novel concept to some on here but prostitution is degrading both to the ‘sex workers’ and their clients.

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Quoting @notsureaboutpg: “This hasn't led to a decrease in trafficking in the countries that have tried it though. Many of them in Europe have become trafficking destinations for women from other countries. There's lots and lots of studies out there that show that decriminalizing prostitution does not lead to lower trafficking or better outcomes for prostitutes.

Also the rhetoric we use here (defeatist, people are going to solicit sex and break the law so let's make it easier for them, etc.) is in stark contrast to how we talk about problems we actually want to fight in our societies like obesity, racism, worker mistreatment by employers, etc. In those situations we never say that people are going to do such things anyways and criminalizing it just makes those who do those crimes more unlikely to change, more unlikely to get back into society, more distrustful of the system, etc. In those situations we spend tons and tons of money at the corporate and the government level trying to teach people these behaviors are wrong and to not engage in them.

Why can't we do that with people who solicit prostitutes?”
I wonder how much cheaper the entire system would be if the government just paid them to not have sex.
A key point of this is that if they consider it a security flaw, they will backport it into point releases for WordPress blogs that haven't done major upgrades in years.
You could automate product filtering so you only ever see those that meet your personal ESG preferences. Such smart filters could eventually use supply-chain blockchains for verification.
And here I was hoping they'd address the blight that is surveillance advertising.

We need a bill of rights for our data. These companies are spying on everyone. That's fubar.
Viglink, CJ or direct affiliate offers on a CPA/CPS basis.
Discord, Rife with Violent Extremist Content, Cracks Down on Erotic Furry Art
Same for me, and in the beginning it happened often enough I am too quick and pressed the wrong one ...

At least make the "answer" button green.
I'm concerned about the model of people in poor counties dabbling in speculation in a system with irreversible transactions protections ... seems like it just as easily could go horribly wrong.
Sorry friend, I wasn't angry and wasn't the one who downvoted you, I'm just very passionate about mosquitos...!
You're welcome. FWIW, my understanding is that the technology has improved _a lot_ since then. You should be in a good place.
Not as far as I know. If an option X beats an option Y, and Y beats option Z, and Z beats option X, you have a cycle. This is the case in the GR for option 1, 3, and 4.

If there are no other options beating X, Y or Z, they all 3 end up in the Schwartz set. We then have to determine which is the weakest defeat in the Schwartz set and remove it, and then determine the Schwartz set again.

Edit: Clearly I was confused, and changing it creates additional cycles.
I'm so tired of stories about "grit." Take it from someone who got into Harvard after the death of one parent and the mental breakdown of another: everyone's got a breaking point. I happened to experience my breaking point after I got into an Ivy League school, but all those traumas were cumulative.

What we are experiencing in this country is a strip-mining of infrastructure, support, and education. Then instead of stories about reinvestment in our next generation, we're fed pablum about 'grit.' "Oh, I set your house on fire? Here's this awesome story about someone who got a PhD even after her house burned down." We're looking at the wrong problem.
It sounds like you're not familiar with why whataboutism and ad hominem attacks do not create a counterpoint to an argument.

I'd like to encourage you to read a little more to try and gain a deeper perspective on how issues are framed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
There are plenty of successful companies run by a single person, especially in tech. I had one myself for quite awhile that sold elementary school gradebook software.

Simple online SaaS that required very little manual effort but provided a lot of value and saved lots of manual effort for those who used it.
My first reaction to this was "most crypto mining is done on hydro power because it's cheaper," but then I remembered that demand for power is currently outpacing the growing supply of renewable energy, so many this theory isn't all that crazy.

In any case, given that I have yet to see a single non-criminal, non-speculation use for crypto at any real scale, I find ideas that would normally sound a lot like conspiracy theories much more plausible.
Short, clean URLs. I hate all those fbclid&utmz&affiliateid&xyz parameters with a vengeance, often they end up longer than the actually meaningful part of the URL.
No, it is not. In many countries, one can return the product within two weeks, no questions asked. Why wouldn't they, if they get a better deal from an ad?
Japan under US occupation was a depressing case-study of this:

> Immediately after the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the Japanese Ministry of the Interior made plans to protect Japanese women in its middle and upper classes from American troops. Fear of an American army out of control led them to quickly establish the first “comfort women” stations for use by US troops.

> By the end of 1945, the Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs had organized the Recreation Amusement Association (R.A.A.), a chain of houses of prostitution with 20,000 women who serviced occupation forces throughout Japan.

> Five months after the occupation began, one in four American soldiers had contracted VD. The supply of penicillin back in the U.S. was low. When MacArthur responded by making both prostitution and fraternization illegal, the number of reported rapes soared, showing that prostitution and the easy availability of women had suppressed incidents of rape.

> John Dower, in his Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, cites author Yoshimi Kaneko's claim that while the U.S./Japanese-sponsored brothels were open “the number of rapes and assaults on Japanese women were around 40 a day,” but after they were closed, the number rose to 330 a day.

https://apjjf.org/-Terese-Svoboda/3148/article.html

Fair warning about the source: There are descriptions of some really nasty incidents in there.
That’s actually exactly the point. Tanks and jets are pretty useless to extract private keys. They were great and confiscating gold or nations or oil fields. Fiat currency is tightly linked to war. Your immediate reaction shows that. But your tanks and jets are garbage and your governments should stop spending resources on them, they won’t help in anyway trying to confiscate crypto currency.
But institutions like Goldman Sachs aren't going away if Bitcoin suddenly became the world currency, so including them in such calculations is misleading.
I said in and out of the ecosystem. Not talking about P2P transfers.
It's quite disappointing that very nearly the entire discussion here misses the key proposal of the article:

A public-ownership rental option might solve this problem, at least in part. The foundation of the program would be quite simple: public ownership of housing, acquired or built with government loans—though run by local for-profit or nonprofit property managers—and rented at market prices. No saving for a down payment (or being given one by family) and no qualifying for a mortgage. The only requirements for participation in the public-ownership option would be (1) move in, and (2) pay rent.

Though admittedly, the lede is well-buried nine 'graphs in, and the clickbait title has succeeded in self-sabotaging this particular discussion.

The idea and organisational structure behind it strike me as potentially interesting and a notable shift in addressing what I'm seeing as a Big Problem.

Not mentioned in the article is the concept of land banks, instituted in some countries, and parts of the US, though not within California where the Russel Lewis Centre is located (UCLA). Contributing tax-lien and abandoned properties to such a public ownership rental proposal would be tremendously useful.

There is a book, with presumably more information: The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach. https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9781642831337

Somewhat inexplicably, the article fails to mention this.
In some places they never did.

Slowing the spread of a virus and dictating what people can trade with is an apples to orange comparison. This is not a good rebuttal.
Interesting article. Two comments:

1. I have always thought of (eventual) consistency to mean consistency between replicas: how in-sync are the replicas in what they "store". Whereas, internal consistency as defined here seems to mean how "multiple reads" can lock into the same storage state. I believe the two concepts are orthogonal, so comparing the two concepts didn't feel natural to me.

2. If transaction ids are monotonically increasing (an if), isn't it possible for subsequent reads to lock into the maximum transaction id of the first read? For example:

select credits, max(txnid) from table;
select debits from table where txnid <= max_txnid;
The thing is you can disapprove one piece without understanding the whole system.

It would be pretty easy to show that a) sound is not being continually recorded and streamed over the internet and b) the device is not using enough processing power to decode speech. Both have been done, so this is veering into conspiracy theory territory.
I did an afternoon of googling for information on the hospice industry to satisfy my own curiosity. Then I fired up my TV to watch some streaming television. Now I'm getting video ads for hospice services every time I watch TV.
DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
I was up basically all night so I just wasn't reading straight. I think for most people it would have been apparent even without the quote.
> The Turkish central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies as a form of payment from April 30, saying the level of anonymity behind the digital tokens brings the risk of “non-recoverable” losses.

> A lack of regulation, supervision mechanisms or central regulatory authority, combined with the potential for criminal activity and the high volatility of their market value, mean digital tokens entail “significant risks,” the central bank said in a statement on its website.

How is this different from any other raw material that one can use to purchase goods?

If a store allow it, one can buy goods in gold, silver, chairs, or Magic: The Gathering cards, which come with all the same problems.
Ad absurdum fallacy
I don’t think Amazon stack ranks per se. at least for engineers, I found their perf process well-thought-out. For example, “meets expectations” is usually good enough for a promotion or pay raise, unlike the practice at similar companies where the expectation is to exceed expectations.
The current US administration nuked Canada's Keystone XL pipeline investment ($8 billion) with the stroke of a pen (due to climate emergency concerns). There is less crypto value intertwined in public securities than that (roughly $4 billion), ignoring Coinbase's valuation (which, if crypto is outlawed, I'm unsure the government would place much value in maintaining; there’s a reason executive insiders cashed out significant portions of their equity holdings at listing).

But, if you believe otherwise as a capital market participant, buying and holding Bitcoin is a fine play to back such a belief.
> It turns out that having a fixed number of coins that fluctuate wildly in price is very bad for building a currency, but we have people on here arguing that it's a good thing.

sorry, is that just because you say so? the success of bitcoin is the only thing i need to point to contra every point you make. if it's so bad, why does it work? maybe that won't always be the case, but so far the market has deemed it sufficient. nobody is making anyone use bitcoin, it's just the best schelling point.

btw, wrt privacy -- chaumian coinjoin has made great strides in popularity in the last year. it may not be zcash but it is still quite possible to use bitcoin in a private manner.
It's not that simple. Have you ever had to do anything with real legal complex matters? For example for patent suits, I am not sure if I didn't prefer a qualified and experienced set of judges over an anonymous hobby crypto arbitration court..
Don't kid yourself, you can get (and will) screwed in every which way.
I also don't know much, but I think there is a lot a lot of illusion going on about "smart contracts"
Microsoft is slowly giving up on Paint 3D apps integration in Windows 10
Reducing calories on the plate was way easier for me too.

It was both important to control portion size as well as content though.

So for me, the key point was adjusting my meals to make me feel fuller, so I could reduce portion sizes without feeling hungry.

I primarily did this by increasing the relative amount of protein and fiber, and trying to reduce fat or carbs.

For my saturday steak I swapped french fries with peas, and cut the butter for the bearnaise in half.

For my "tacos" I limited the number of tortillas, increasing the amount of salad and also swapping out regular iceberg lettuce with romaine (more fiber). I also stopped using additional oil or fat for cooking the mince meat.

For breakfast I swapped butter for mustard or similar, and tricks like using more mature cheeses so I could use less cheese while still enjoying a lot of flavor.

I think the important thing is being honest with yourself about your goals and limitations, and use that to find something you can live with.

I just had to have that saturday steak, but I identified what about it that was important and as such managed to tweak the dish. I knew I couldn't cut chocolate entirely so instead I found ways to get the chocolate I needed while having far less of it in total.
Lump in Lenovo with this practice, canceled SKUs, configurations that are only available for intel making AMD versions at a large disadvantage
Perhaps, but "eventually in the long run" does not imply anything about Turkey succeeding or failing with this particular ban. The long run might be several centuries, in which a lot of things could happen that would make any of the current cryptocurrencies completely irrelevant.
Is it only me, or are half of the companies interested in a similar model.

Media streaming, online shopping, banking, or social media are all very interested in your real identity and a strict controlling their interaction with you.
Sure, there's absolutely no reason for customers to know or case, but that's beside the point. It's going to be the developer's job to modify or fix things in the future. You're happy with the footbridge they built, but when sales comes back and says "okay new customer, now we need to be able to drive fully loaded Humvees across" you aren't the one tearing out the wooden posts and pouring concrete.
> I think I also had issues with "async" in a closure that could not be done.

Yes, async closures are not currently stable, which is a huge pain in the ass: you have to use a regular closure with an `async` block inside, but said async block will usually need to be an `async move` block, which requires more contorsions because you can't just use stuff the closure owns as that'd make said closure FnOnce (the closure's item is moved into the `async move` block meaning the closure is destroyed). This is usually solved by putting the item behind an `Arc` (if it's too costly to be directly copied, or if you want / need to mutate it), this way you can `clone()` the arc so the async move block has its own "copy".

Alternatively, have the closure immediately and only call into an async function or method.

I can't wait for async closures, though, I'm sure others have their own bugbears but that's by far my biggest pain in the ass when using async rust.
It's in level 3 data.

https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/small-business/...
this argument is more than a little patronizing when the alternative is this: https://i.imgur.com/lSfdTfK.jpeg
Re [2] WUSB would have allowed for a single device (powered by one USB connection) to maintain usb connections to multiple devices.
>Chinas influence is strong enough to cause the AU PM to say stupid things:

The PM is basically mirroring the position of the Five Eyes alliance of which Australia has been a member for longer than Communist China has existed.
Great summary of tips

Long ago I realized the the only reason I have a job is my ability to google stuff lol
Having a specific port number to mean "pick a random unused port" is very useful when you run any application that opens a listening TCP socket and takes the port number from the config. More often than not, the default behaviour (when the port is not specified) is to use some hardcoded port number like 5555 or something. But what if you want to run two/three/many copies of this app, dynamically, without them interefering with each other? One possibility is to do manual free port detection--but it's inherently racy. Another one is to specify port 0 and get the actual port number from the application by some side channel (say, by reading it from stderr/log file).

Now, I assure you that if this "some kind of separate BIND_UNUSED_PORT" operation was available in the Berkeley socket API from the start, it would be mostly unused, people would've just used normal bind() instead (it's way simpler), so the latter option simply becomes impossible: you have to manually pick the free ports for temporary servers. In fact, there are some existing applications that actively refuse to listen on port zero, for example, "ssh -D 0" doesn't work for some reason (patching it to remove the zero check breaks nothing, everything keeps working properly), and they're somewhat annoying to use transiently.
In the US, you can’t use personal health information for marketing purposes. If you can prove this link, a lot of very large organizations could potentially be in serious trouble for HIPAA violations.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
Bitcoin is inherently censorship-resistant and unaffected by borders, so banning in any given country will have minimal effect on its usefulness as a savings mechanism unless it’s banned ~everywhere and regulatory arbitrage becomes too inefficient.

First-world governments that are relatively constrained in what they are allowed to do to their citizens may be unable to ban Bitcoin even if they wanted to.
3-4 hours workout is a lot.

What are your characters stats (I don't know how to put it): muscles, bench press, endurance, etc. ?
Less is more. One also needs good words. Read Hemingway for curtness and directness. It is a more satisfying read than something sophisticated and belabored. Capturing the right note in the simplest melody is more catchy and powerful than a complex fugue or sermon. To be concise, one needs to appreciate the flexibility and multiple facets of "simple" words.
re: wars

This seems like a novel claim: that bitcoin would reduce world conflict.
This argument seems strange to me. When you buy something don't you typically revive a physical good? It seems easier police that then the copying of various files.
If cyrpto is outlawed you aren't going to use it at Amazon or Walmart. It is also hard to see a commerce org of any size existing with out government permission.
This argument seems to assume people will only use cyrpto to buy other cyrptos. That is useless money. Money is used to buy goods and services.
> I won't say that the overwhelming majority of abuse happens among people who know the victim

Well, one could argue about "overwhelming", but I believe on the "majority" part there is no question, statistically speaking. So let's say it: the majority of abuse cases involve people familiar to the victim and their immediate relatives, regardless of any factor connected to the internet.
Yeah we get it you don't like rust.
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