skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a shaky analogy I’ll admit in advance, but drugs are also considered property in the US and that very possession is a crime itself. Possessions viewed by the government as harmful will eventually be legislated away, as you say “a crusade.” But to assume that the US is just going to let crypto walk through and displace the dollar (the pillar of the modern economy - the IMF uses the dollar as its barometer) is just ludicrous. Either crypto will be outright banned or will be mutated through legislation into a centralized currency - the very thing it sought to solve.
heroin is considered a property, too, i guess? i'm not in the US, so i'm not sure, but it at least used to not be a good thing to get caught owning heroin.
That's exactly my point. If sponsoring options is done by the community, and is relatively easy, then fewer proposed options in one category does suggest that this category is unpopular with the community.

If there are several variations of anti-RMS proposals, it suggests that enough people care about the specifics of how the rebuke is worded, etc., but that generally there is enthusiasm about an anti-RMS stance.

If there are fewer pro-RMS proposals, then either they were proposed by people who don't support that option, but are putting it forward because they think it should exist as an option (as you suggest), or because there are fewer people who are enthusiastic enough to care about the minutia of how a support message is to be worded. Either way, that seems to me like less enthusiasm around an anti-RMS proposal.
> I wonder how this process would look like and how long the new teeth take to grow.

It's a long, long way off- I can't understate how much you would not want to try this on yourself yet. It's far more likely you'll see gene therapy cures for lactose intolerance and things like that first. Currently the procedure shares a lot of risks with an organ transplant. Autoimmune disorders, months or years of medication with dangerous complications, long-lasting or permanent changes to your endocrine system and hormones. The best case is you get a new tooth that is malformed, misaligned and highly vulnerable to decay. The worst case is that your jaw dissolves and you're on immunosupressants + prophylactics for the rest of your life and you die 20 years early from pneumonia. So... there are some bugs to work out.

If they do work it out, it'll probably look like either a weekly/monthly injection or a tiny implant. You might need invisalign afterwards, and you might need to have the old tooth pulled first. Risks will probably be quite low, but the process is long and complex enough that it might only be for exceptional circumstances. It will probably be much better than total dental replacement, maybe better than a single implant, but probably not better than a crown. Personally I'm most excited for the possibility of a third set of teeth for later-life people who would otherwise need dentures or who just have to suffer from tooth pain.
Interesting observation.

The party roles have flipped in the past as well.

The Democrats used to be the southern pro-slavery party.

I believe Lincoln was a Republican.
You have children books being critical on Capitalism here in the West too.
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How in the world is the (US government at least) going to stop a business from accepting whatever they want as a form of payment?
Calories in, calories out (CICO) will certainly work for weight gain or loss.

But cardiovascular exercise, muscle strengthening, etc do confer other whole-body benefits that going for the french fries won't convey.
Presumably that data would include time, amount, and vendor... but not item-level details. Right?

There's something else going on here.
I abandoned GA because they wouldn't do anything to fix the problem with referer spam. Unless they've finally fixed it, a lot of the stats they produce are from non-users.
OpenJDK is the original version of Java with a few features stripped out, not a reimplementation.

See the History section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK?wprov=sfla1
> And the rights to own are protected by the constitution.

You don't have a constitutional right to own absolutely anything, though. If you buy grenades, for instance, the state will seize them and imprison you. Someone already mentioned Executive Order 6102, regarding gold.
They are legal, for now. Once crypto becomes big enough to actually affect the changes it seeks to, we will see legislation shooting it down. Turkey is just one of the first examples.
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When studying history, I sometimes wonder - how certain things could have happened? Some of these seem ridiculous or unbelievable when you look back.

Now I know how it happens. Some people do something strange, then their number increases, they are very vocal, they're 100% sure what they do is right, they're very emotional about it, and at a certain point it seems like they are the majority. They do certain things like revolutions, usually with a bad result, and you can't do anything, you can just watch it powerlessly and hope it doesn't end badly this time.
ok I’ll take your bait and it’s an easy answer the smart ones don’t. We aren’t even in the first battle of the coming war to wrestle currency back into private hands. My question for you would be why do you think governments even stand a chance? Try shutting down the internet, US SEC chairwoman admits will be very hard to stop without extreme technical measures. Please tell how are they going to stop cryptocurrency? With silly bans like Turkey’s? What a joke.
Yes. The question to ask in these approaches, from an appropriate technology standpoint, is the locality around creating energy storage and what it would take to maintain the storage device, not just conversion efficiency.

For example, one may argue in a given situation one should use an induction cooktop from an efficiency standpoint (and also particulates reduction). Another may argue in a given situation one should use a woodstove if they can source the wood in a sustainable manner and can create maintain the woodstove itself locally. Not asserting a right answer here, just outlining some tradeoffs.
There was a great article a few years ago about how Dell ditched all of its manufacturing to improve its balance sheet for Wall St analysts. In the process, they basically built up Taiwanese companies like Asus into competition at Dell shareholder expense.

The CEO of one of the Taiwanese companies said something to the effect of “American managers like ratios, I prefer cash”.

Leadership is different than management. In a growing company if some McKinsey alum solves all of your problems with a spreadsheet and fancy PowerPoint, you’re in trouble. Likewise, if some engineering team is setting money on fire building the platonic ideal of an application, you’re in trouble. Good leaders marshal those resources to make the sum of the parts greater and better.
Doesn't that effectively kill small companies, who don't have time or money to spend on figuring out how to deal with taxes in 200 countries?
Every person involved should be criminally charged for kidnapping and torture. But they never will be, because they're just "doing their jobs" and "part of the system", and the main purpose and function of "the system" is to isolate its cogs from responsibility.
Saying someone is "wrong" then jumping into a pedantic point isn't very constructive.

Ultimately using your own figures (400 Vs. 600) it doesn't alter the person above's overarching point: That most of the weight loss was from diet changes (as is typically the case).
That's the sort of thing you buy a new one because one broke and now it shows up how tatty (worn, old, messy) the other one(s) in your house are. Or someone asks where you got it ... "oh, I can't remember but Google ads showed me the same one of available at $diy_store", or whatever.
>our comparison of survey results with official election truth indicates that the use of a so-called secret ballot yields more accurate, valid self-reports of voting on socially sensitive ballot issues, such as supporting taxes for elderly services.

https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/59/4/568/19401...

>regression analysis shows that social forces appear to have a greater effect on vote choices among people who doubt the formal secrecy of the ballot.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23526132
VISA is a layer 2 solution, it makes no sense to compare it to Bitcoin directly.

Compare Bitcoin to the energy usage of federal reserve and resources spent on securing the US Dollar (implicit and explicit), because that's what the Bitcoin network does. It secures immutable property via a decentralized, open source protocol.

If you want to compare layer 2 solutions, compare Coinbase or Paypal's internal settlement of Bitcoin transactions to VISA. Those metrics are much more relevant.
Marketing is a legitimate business reason.

Other example, In the US, lots of jurisdictions have restrictions on ingredients. For example, dextromethorphan and pseudoephedrine.

If you are buying over the counter medicines that contain these, in some jurisdictions, you need to provide an ID.
The Texas BBQ lore I recall reading says that it was thrifty German immigrants who first came up with the low and slow method of cooking brisket in an effort to not waste an otherwise nearly inedible cut.
Between large web publishing platforms and all alternate browsers blocking FLoC, I think we could kill it, yes. WordPress is used by a lot of marketing focused folks though, so we'll see if WP is able to land this.
Microsoft's c codebase is heavily annotated with custom annotations they check at compile time. It's not as powerful as Rust, but very cool.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-sal-...
The article does not discuss the revenue Microsoft is still likely making from selling Windows 10 to OEMs, which I imagine is why it has not yet done this.
You would imagine this is what people want. I'd generally think people want to leave in free, secular, uncorrupt societies. Turns out that's not always the case.
Google has such a monopoly that it will take a lot to overcome their plans.

Glad to see WP taking a stand - I never knew that FLOC would be so bad. The WP proposal made it clear that it’s a discriminatory technology.
Indeed, and it's no surprise that this attempted cancellation of RMS is being pushed by the pronoun enthusiast crowd. These tend to be the type of people who simply can't stand any dissenting opinions to their dogma.

Unfortunately, the more tolerant attitude of just agreeing to disagree seems to have gone out of fashion. Now the preferred option is to destroy a person's entire career and slander their reputation with deliberate misinterpretations of what they've said and done.
800 watts is not actually very much heat. A typical small space heater is 2000W. I have no idea what you intend by implying that 800 watts is not as many BTUs as 600 watts--watts are literally a measure of power, i.e. can be converted to BTUs per hour. And yes, all those 800 watts of power your computer draws do end up as waste heat [1].

> I'm pretty sure it's going to be wasted watts too instead of using a real heater.

That makes no sense. You literally cannot "waste" waste heat, unless you are venting it to outside or something. If your space is not getting warm enough, it's because your computer is not generating enough heat!

[1] only a very miniscule amount of the power consumed by a PC actually permanently flips bits on harddisks or SSDs or transmits bits across the network. These take extremely low amounts of power.
Yea, would have been a neat alternative.

But from my perspective, it lacks a couple of the benefits of USB vs. what we had before.

First, data and power in one connector. Sure, some very low-power devices (like mice) could cheat using the DTR or RTS pins of a serial port, but that wasn't nearly enough for a scanner or hard disk.

Second, (mostly) no-nonsense connection of new devices. Yes, installing USB drivers sucked, but plugging in a cable is still easier that going though menus to pair a wireless device[1]. Even in Windows XP, plugging in a thumb drive pretty much "just worked".

From a practical usability point of view, I think WUSB was a regression for a large class of devices: You still needed a power cable for anything not battery powered[2] like a thumb drive or scanner, and you still needed to go through menus to re-mount a device not permanently attached to your computer (like a camera or GPS).

The remaining use-cases, like game controllers, headsets, keyboards and mice were already (barely-)adequately addressed by Bluetooth, which existed before WUSB.

[1] IMHO Apple's "magical" AirPods juuuust barely meet the threshold of "not completely annoying" when switching devices. And that's, what, 15 years after Bluetooth was invented?

[2] Strangely, USB has become the de facto low-voltage DC charging standard. It would be pretty funny to power your WUSB hard disk from a USB port.
What’s in the box?
Neoliberals, video game companies, social media companies, and big tech are ALL FOR controlling their customers and trying to control what can and can't be said on a platform.

This will get abused heavily by large corporations with shady amoral behaviors like Amazon, and plunge us deeper into dystopia.
Maybe enough people who buy chainsaws are running tree trimming crews?
It is growing and having good adoption. Not a huge language but it also has a fair share of novel features (being built on Erlang) that aren't commonly seen with other langs. So I think it might have a disproportionate visibility compared to size. Lots of work happening in the community, lots of ambitious ideas and releases.
And in adult ferrets, generating totally a new (albeit undersized) tooth to replace a normal permanent tooth! That's a big deal since ferret teeth aren't particularly different from ours, while rodent teeth do all kinds of weird things like growing nonstop. It would have been awkward if we started human trials and found that instead of growing new teeth, the treatment just made our teeth get longer and longer. Like fingernails. Needing trimming.

> Last, to confirm that USAG-1–neutralizing activity affects BMP signaling to generate a whole tooth in a nonrodent model, we systemically administered antibody #37 to postnatal ferrets that had both deciduous and permanent teeth. We observed supernumerary tooth formation in maxillary incisor like the third dentition, although a five times higher concentration, three administrations of antibody #37, and immunosuppression were required (Fig. 6, A to D). The supernumerary tooth was likely to have a similar shape to the usual permanent incisor, located to the lingual side of permanent teeth, whereas a shorter root seemed to be growing (Fig. 6, E to G). Therefore, this supernumerary incisor might be categorized as the third dentition (32).

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/7/eabf1798
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This doesn't surprise me at all. From what a poster said down thread from your remark, it's largely platitudes.

I never appreciated the nature of abuse until a friend of mine confided in me about their own experience being an abuse survivor from something that happened when they were a child. The Internet is just a high profile target. I won't say that the overwhelming majority of abuse happens among people who know the victim, but it's almost certainly close. Of the survivors I've spoken with, while this is anecdotal, it seems to me that they all knew the perpetrator personally either through church, school, family, etc. The Internet wasn't involved.

If anything, targeting the Internet may actually impede one's ability to speak out against abuse and seek out others to help encourage them to speak out, find help, or approach the appropriate authorities.

It reminds me of a sad story. A number of years ago, there was a pastor who found out that there had been some abuse of a child in his church. So he reported it and the perpetrator to the authorities. When the dust settled, the church committee fired him for sewing division and dissent when all he did was follow the law. That's kind of what bills like this feel like.
Today I browsed Google from my desktop PC about "Gundam" (the japonese anime) for about 1 hour. Pretty niche topic.

Then when I was done, I closed all browser tabs, I unlocked my smartphone to check Instagram, and the second ads I get is a Gundam ad. I have no idea how my shadow "desktop" ad profile and shadow "mobile" ad profile matched. I share no accounts between my desktop and my smartphone :

- I use different Google accounts on my phone and desktop (although I occasionally log in one or the other in private tabs)
- The internet connections are different : 4G for phone, fiber for desktop
- On desktop, I use Chromium with Ad block Plus
- I do not use facebook nor instagram on my desktop PC

So how the f. did Instagram know about my Gundam browsing on desktop.

This must stop.
OP here, it seems my account is blocked from showing up in /news. Or Am I just not finding it? Any mods here that can help?
For those who did not notice, both Freakonomics and the study being discussed in the linked article are based on the same research, with the same author Steven Levitt.
"hello sir it seems you are using a banned currency for doing business in these fine lands, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can...."
Which means that it isn't treated as a currency.

I could buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, but what good is that if I have to pay capital gains tax for "selling" the Bitcoin even though I didn't actually sell it, I used it?
Well look at how governments have been bullied and criticized by big tech. For the most part, governments have rolled over and taken it. The previous president of the United States was literally censored and eventually banned from Twitter and no one did anything about it.
I guess the general attitude of FAANG and microsoft towards open source is that if they could make money with it, it's good. Once, companies saw you could make money with opensource, other concerns evaporated. This reminds me of all those ads that IBM spent promoting linux, but, ultimately didn't end up as winner with opensource.
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In theory, I agree. I've seen plenty of mainstream media stories that have incorrect facts. Some of this might just be human - we all make occasional mistakes. Some of them seem to require being uninformed or intentional, especially when they decline to correct mistakes or they are critical to their central point.
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Most likely google will just turn off that silly opt out functionality. It's not like anyone's going to stop using their spyware browser.
Through context it seems like they simply mean 'prostitute' ... 'sex worker' sounds to me like an umbrella term for anyone working in sex industry. Is the word 'prostitute' not pc or something?

An "internet sex worker" is a content creator on OnlyFans, for example.
Drugs often cost a very specific amount of money (When I buy drugs it's always something like 4.86e or whatever, not neat 4.99) so I assume it's easy to de-anonymize
You’re absolutely right, but I think the moderation extends to sugar as well. Sugar can be used prudently and beneficially. E.g., eating sugar (or other fast digesting carbs) immediately after a hard workout will actually enhance recovery.
This is software that directly helps their business, so it's not really productivity outside of their business endeavors.
how in the world is the US government going to stop restaurants from letting people inside?
> Marketing is a legitimate business reason.

Pervasive targeted marketing is not a legitimate business reason.
The replies suggest it's not unusual or alarming

> This is exactly how a direct sale works as opposed to an
> IPO. Because no additional shares are created in a direct
> sale, the initial investors have to make a large % of
> their holdings available or there would be no stock for
> the public to buy.
> This is to be expected. Relax.
LiveRamp connects all the “anonymous” identifiers together for a household.
Because Bitcoin is property just like stock.
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I don't know, it looks like pure bullshit to me. Under their customer profile for Google there is just a random blog post about how to setup their garbage for Kotlin.

https://about.codecov.io/blog/company/google/
And my view is: if you're not paying attention to what is going on around you, you will be taken advantage of.

There is a balance here.
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> #1 is also just speculation. Because at the end of the day, you are risking $X to make $Y. You are placing a bet that tomorrow, some other people will come to value this stock (perhaps based on earnings) higher than you do today.

Some people buy stocks for dividends never expecting to sell them, and not especially worried if the price goes down after they buy. I guess the projection of dividends coukd be called "speculation", but I don't think that's what you meant when you used the term.

Other things that don't quite fit include bonds, especially short-term government bonds. If held to maturity, it's a stretch to say the value is a social construct in a meaningful way.

(Non-meaningful phrasings abound of course -- by some definitions my monthly rent is speculation, because law and order and property are social constructs and I'm betting on society not changing its mind on them, but again I don't think you were making that sort of facile point.)
I'd like to see them try that and see how that flies.
How do they plan on enforcing this? Unless their enforcement strategy is “force international companies to do cryptocurrency business in other countries.”
Amazon: “We do not, nor have we ever, stack ranked our employees.”
April 14, 2021:
A spokesperson from Amazon reached out to tell Ladders, "We do not, nor have we ever, stack ranked our employees. This is not a practice that Amazon uses."
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/leaked-amazon-docs-reveal-companies-that-encourage-managers-to-put-employees-down

November 14, 2016:
Amazon will drop or significantly alter its existing employee ratings program as part of the changes in the broader review process. Amazon currently uses employee ratings as the basis for a forced curve or “stack-rank” system — also known as “rank-and-yank” — a controversial management technique used by companies to get rid of the lowest-performing employees and identify those with the most growth potential.
https://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-radically-simplify-employee-reviews-changing-controversial-program-amid-huge-growth/
This assumes the majority of these Wordpress websites will update to the latest version in a timely manner
I am hopeful that this will help get rid of FLoC but I worry about two things. One, this will end up being treated like the "no track" headers. That's just totally ignored after IE (was it IE?) enabled it be default. That gave all the trackers a reason to just ignore it and track everyone. I don't know if that exact same thing can happen here, but something similar maybe? The other thing I worry about is that FLoC 2.0 or whatever might replace it, will be worse.

"Kill it before it lays eggs." but do we worry about what evolves from this if it dies?
Thanks. Can you explain why that might be a good thing?

If I update the diff, does it become a new reviewable item, independent from the first version?

I've never worked at a large tech company but my understanding is that at e.g. google there is some sort of monorepo, so it would presumably zoom forwards while a commit is under review. Even so, why is it not a good thing to review the commit in an explicit location in the historical commit graph?