skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refers to a John Steinbeck quote, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
It's a crypto derivatives exchange serving non US customers.
>Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college.

If you have never read any of the Soviet era Science books, you absolutely should get hold of some and go through them. They were succinct and to the point with the density of information being quite high. By comparison, most modern text books are so verbose and sometimes dumbed down that it becomes quite a chore to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Dover publications has some good ones starting with Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et.al. There is also the I.M.Gelfand series; Functions and Graphs, The Method of Coordinates, Algebra, Trigonometry etc.
There are other considerations too. Like buying into a tech that's largely backed by dirty energy.
It's a real stretch to claim that the Aus govt's anti-encryption agenda originated in China.

Especially since any penetration of encryption within Australia would likely be turned against foreign agents (including the Chinese).

Also AFAIK we're still stuck in an unequal trade war with the PRC so they're not exactly flavour of the month around here.
> It's to get reduce the reliance on a single centralized entity that may be corrupt, inefficient, or malicious.

This makes sense only in places with very corrupt legal systems.

But if the legal system is corrupt in favor of one side (let's assume it's the landlord), why would the landlord mutually agree to arbitration?

Please provide a very specific example of something that happens now that a smart contract would fix. I can't think of anything.
Other tracking scripts like facebook's require cookies unfortunately, so a banner is a must
Counterpoint: they sell ~8 hours of their day. Selling that to the highest bidder ignores that there's different environments that might be better or worse for everyone's general sense of fulfilment. IMO, chasing highest pay only is a recipe for an unhappy life that only pays off on the short term.

No one should sell themselves short, but choosing, say, a 100% worse environment or a dead-end technology stack for a 5% higher pay (or whatever) is not wise.
In training interns I had to figure out what part of my coding advice to them is best practice and what part is just the way I like to do things.

It's good to know the difference and it gave them the space to challenge me on some of those methods, which in turn helped me write better code.
That’s how bubbles work. IMHO, the best case scenario for crypto is that they are the web companies of the 2000s, so there’s a chance some of them will become an amazingly profitable investment, while most will go the way of pets.com. And that’s the best case.
Although his case is somewhat overstated, he isn't wrong about the direction that the US (& it's IC partner countries) are heading.
The difference is that stocks can be "valued" whereas crypto and other assets that lack a revenue stream can only be priced.
if you legitimately have no idea, then you don't have any more information than the market does. why would you trade at all?
> We need to use this plan to limit the 1st US amendment, and the equivalent EU laws. Otherwise wrong-think will prevail.

Nothing good happens when government tries to regulate thought. Nothing good comes of the government pointing a gun at citizen's head that can be fired without due process.
Thanks, that explains a lot.

I was kinda confused by the complexity of the results, but if it is about ranks, it all makes sense now :-)
Cool story and I see absolutely no problem with his behaviour.
But at least if a stock goes down, there will be some reason you can point to after the fact as a cause. So you can at least make a hypothesis, test it, and see how it turns out. You might be wrong in any number of ways, but there's usually going to be some traceable logical connection between events that happen that you can get information about afterwards (sales go up, sales go down, etc.) and the effect on the price.

With crypto, I don't have that same sense. I buy, it goes up, I'm a visionary genius. I buy, it goes down, I'm a fool. I can't really point to any reason why either scenario happens, no testable hypothesis. Other than a very few events, like the coinbase IPO, that is.
You have a sense of a company's prognosis and the industries they operate in.

Bitcoin is a bunch of hope, hot air, and hubris. I suppose you could say it's an industry of its own, but I think it's harder to project than, say, the tech industry.
More than that, they could put multiple weight sensors on the platform to make sure an adult is on it in order for it to start and continue operating. As an added benefit, it could use the signals from the sensors to detect roughly where the user is stepping, how hard they're hitting it, how frequently, etc. That would be useful for gait analysis and other fitness-related stuff.

Additionally, a sensor on the motor could detect a sudden increase in power required to keep the belt spinning at a particular speed (such as something getting under it). This would trigger an emergency stop and possibly an audible alarm.
Here's the letter that details the concerns about RMS: https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

It's significantly more detailed and complex than "allegedly defending Epstein".

Here's the letter supporting RMS: https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
If you don’t have any thesis beyond “hey, it could go up,” then you are gambling. That doesn’t mean you’ll lose, sometimes gambles pay off.

You should no more feel bad about not having won gambling on btc than you do about not having picked the winning lotto numbers last week.
Just like any forex market.
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> They are going to make government, lawyer and bank services a lot less necessary.

All the benefits of smart contracts are available with regular old software.

Why hasn't software destroyed these services already?

> “If the tenant and the notary both vote that there is bullshittery going on with the property, rent is suspended.” sounds like a reasonable thing to include.

Why do you need a smart contract for this? The tenant can do this right now without any software help or public ledger.
So here's the thing - I don't understand the liability thing. At least here in the UK I have disputed transactions on my debit card several times and every single time the charges were reversed during the phone call, I had the money back instantly. Is that only available for credit cards in the US?
A thesaurus is one of my favorite dev tools.
Not “password”, I’m referring to a “passphrase” for unlocking an SSH key.
I'm waiting for a Tether collapse to create my long position, but I'm starting to feel like Michael Burry in the Big Short: the market can remain irrational for a long time.
They should have gated this vote with a yes/no vote on whether to vote.
To be frank, it doesn't matter how much sense it makes in theory when in practice it has obvious downsides.
Thanks! Appreciate you saying that :)
He went down to a strict 2000 kcal/day. Strictly and honestly counting calories always works for weight loss.
Interesting, thanks for your reply. How do you deal with timezones? In our case, for our default dashboard view, we could pre-aggregate everything per hour but often daily, weekly, monthly denominations are needed, which is where the timezone comes into play. Do you pre-aggregate every possible timezone or just update the views for each user individually?
> there is nothing stopping anybody from making something better

They already did. Half the crypto ecosystem is already better than Bitcoin if you're trying to build a functional currency. We're talking about a coin that doesn't have any privacy guarantees, it's not exactly hard to improve on that.

When I talk about religious loyalty, what I'm getting at is that it turns out the Bitcoin ecosystem doesn't seem to care that much about stuff like privacy, and whenever anyone brings up Bitcoin's flaws, or the fact that it has been outclassed by other coins, suddenly the conversation is all about "stability" and the trust of having an old coin that hasn't fixed its problems in 10 years.

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. It turns out that PoW is unscalable and prohibitively expensive, which is a barrier to real decentralization, but we have people on here arguing that's a good thing. It's understandable that Satoshi didn't know in advance every problem, but it's not understandable that in all of the years since then, the Bitcoin community has largely failed to evolve or learn anything about the initial flaws that the coin had.

And this is honestly a tricky conversation to have because we have to keep dancing around the fact that Bitcoin is a speculative asset and that very little of the community cares about making a currency at all. But the community won't acknowledge that, so instead we get a lot of weird deflection around "stability" and we all have to pretend that the community is in good faith actually trying to create an alternative to cash, and that people genuinely believe that Bitcoin's tech is the best way to do that.

But obviously that's not what's happening. Nobody would really look at the state of Bitcoin and argue that it's best-positioned to replace traditional currency. It's worse than cash for privacy, it has higher transaction fees than almost any other payment method, it doesn't scale environmentally, and it takes 10 minutes to add a new block. But... it is for the moment an excellent speculative investment because the speculative market is irrational and doesn't care about technology. And the speculative market benefits from pretending that it exists for some kind of grand purpose rather than just as an end to itself, even if doing so makes it harder to accomplish any of the original goals behind the coin.
In China you do need an ID/passport to get a phone number and/or a internet contract with one of the 3 ISPs. How is this new?
What is the hypothesis? FB listening through a phone? The (closed?) Laptop? Alexa?
Nothing a healthy 5 billion USDT injection can't fix, just wait a few days.
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I am actually trying this right now.

I'm skeptical that it will work because I only ever seem to lose weight when really trying

By definition this will take at least several weeks to see if it is working

I'll follow up next time someone re/posts this article or similar
It's called election 83(b). For it to work, the company grants you restricted stock instead of options. The restriction is that the company can buy back the stock on a vesting schedule, so it's effectively equivalent to stock-options. The difference is that you can buy all of them on day 1 at fair market value and pay no tax.

It's usually done for early employees who join before multiple rounds of funding occur.
Thank you for sharing your story. I'll be going through the same procedure for my canines at 22. They never grew and my parents didn't have the money for implants when I was 10. Hopefully it won't be as intrusive as it was in your case, though I cannot say that I'm all that excited for the bills :/.
I didn't imply there is ambiguity in the result. But there is a difference between "what we agree on as a whole community" and what the majority opinion is.

The community agreed on no comment, full stop.

A significant preference was also shown for removal over reinstatement.
Is there a way to look at history IF it is done on private browsing?
I wouldn’t expect an automated process to be using a human’s account to access a remote system.
I had a machine running OpenStep, so it wasn't too bad to debug. Certainly used a lot less paper. I miss that old UI.
There's a 3rd axis missing - Customer Centered which can and should drive both Product-led and Sales-driven.

Both Product-led and Sales-driven alone are putting the cart before the horse. The horse is the customer first.

When you do it right, you get all three!

When you simply use a recipe book of heuristics without understanding anything about economics (btw a university Economics course teaches you next to NOTHING) and your particular market, then you are practicing Cargo-Cult Superstition business. You might as well strangle chickens and wave the entrails over your lobby door for all the good it will do you!
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"Poorly researched but strongly held opinions" are really unhelpful and perhaps too common on HN.

> Comments like "companies should just pay their taxes"

*HOWEVER* it's very cheeky to selectively demand better opinions while also taking a side.
They have a deadline in about a month to reveal what exactly their "reserves" are comprised of, could be the moment.
Old trading wisdom: there is more room for it to go up than down.
But you can talk people into selling BTC and buying ADA or some other proof of stake coin.

I think if pension funds etc go into bitcoin it'd be an environmental disaster so it's probably worth campaigning against that. The energy consumption comes out kind of proportional to the bitcoin price.
He said they were quarterly.
All crypto coins are fundamentally the same thing, easy to create or fork, and not backed by anything permanent like a government, so the value of them should approach zero over time. There's nothing supporting BTC's price, and I'm of the mindset there are shenanigans occurring to keep it afloat.
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
Wasn't too familiar with DJ Hero. Took a look... dang. That would be an interesting and challenging project!
That’s true of everything.
This was such an amazing book. I had bought the paper copy and the page where they showed how to put text on a circle was amazing. It is so well written and easy to follow.
What point are you trying to make? Nowhere in the post does it say the job doesn't pay enough to cover rent. If you are spending a large amount of life employed, it's reasonable to trade off a percentage of the maximum possible renumeration you can achieve in exchange for making that time as pleasant as possible (eg if you luck out and end up working with a group of people you care about and who care about you). It's not as if any extra money you make can ever buy you that time back

There's nothing wrong at all with just seeking maximum income at all times, but that's normally to some end (happiness, security etc): if what you're seeking is partially served by a given job, then you often aren't really gaining much by sacking that job off for one that pays more
Again though, defensive gun uses is not a proxy for lives saved. In general adding guns to a situation where murder is not the intent will increase the number of lives lost.
I have been developing a new command line tool for working with BitTorrent metafiles.
It supports .torrent files for the recently released v2 and hybrid protocols.
Benchmarks show it outperforms other metafile creation programs like mktorrent thanks to fast multi-buffer hashing using the Intel ISA-L cryptography library.
Bitcoin seems to be approaching the realm of "too big to fail." A trillion dollars disappearing overnight could very well precipitate an economic crisis, and no democratically elected government wants to take the blame for that kind of eventuality.
Any plans to support a DT-1990 or HD-600s? I was wondering if the Beyer build may be better but I have no idea what drivers are in these; should I go with the AT build that you mentioned? (I'm mostly interested in gaming and media consumption, despite my cans)

Also I'm not entirely certain why I'd want a subscription as opposed to a one time purchase, do ears change very much over time? (Not saying your pricing is unfair or anything, just curious.)
I don't know the timing of the events you describe, obviously. Is it possible that after you got angry at your girlfriend, she searched on the web for "waterproof USB keys", thereby associating your IP/system with that search?
Bought a cordless screwdriver at Amazon, now get lots of ads on Amazon for cordless screwdrivers. Bought a dishwasher, now get ads for dishwashers. Dumb I know (or I'm dumb because I don't get it)

Other comment explains it though: Many people return the dishwasher or screwdrivers (they might have ordered several) - Amazon wants to make sure you buy with them (though my account history should show that I practically never return things because I hate getting returned things as new).
"connect to an existing node" is going to be amazing.

I imagine two interesting uses for this.

1. producing reports. Connect a livebook session to your system in prod, run a livebook (which pulls data from DB eg), then get back a report. User engagement, cloud resources consumed, p90s, or an incident report...

2. manual database intervention. Suppose you need to manually make a batch of changes to the DB. It would be very cool if you could run a livebook inside of a sandboxed checkout (a temporary transaction) and write your db changes, then write your code that verifies that the db is in a state that you want it to be in. If you mess up your code, then you just terminate the transaction without committing. Then when you're happy with your notebook, you run it once with a commit at the end, and then save your notebook immutably in your records so that you can keep track of what you've done.

I think for intervening in prod, it would be very cool if someone could figure out how to extend erlang distribution over websockets so you don't have to figure out complicated mechanisms (open up ssh port, forward encrypted epmd, e.g.) to get into your system in prod
Why would it change language semantics? Haskell’s polymorphism to my eye seems about the same as rust’s, and it doesn’t need to worry about object safety
Said the people laughing at those who bought at the $30 peak in 2012...
Its usually both. So you get into the great situation where you did great but the firm did poorly, so you get a doughnut. As you move up the ranks, the process becomes less murky.
Governments could always impose tariffs to countries that have lower standards on the issues you mentioned and level the planefield.

Unfortunately in practice other considerations get more weight.
See, this shouldn't cause a deep sorrowful void within me, but it does.
Value of Bitcoin is a matter of belief. There’s absolutely no way of putting a justified price tag for the coin (at least for now).

It can be that people just thought others might think the China news would be bad and therefore decided to sell. In speculative market you are all the time trying to guess what others are thinking.
The other link is also a lot more detailed.
Yeah but based on what? That everyone decides to buy Bitcoin?
According to some, he's been an out-of-touch, controversial, abusive voice for FSF for a while. The MIT/Epstein stuff is what gets talked about, and might have been what brought this to a more general public attention, but it's not specifically what the calls for resignation are about.
Interest rates are also important, if your game has a banking system with a central bank that makes monetary policy. If agents can start businesses, or take mortgages to buy a house or a car, that would be very cool to see the impacts of that in the simulation. Also, heritage has a very important role on wealth accumulation, if there's a way to make wealth and return on capital part of the system. This whole thing is too interesting.
Cause you might regret your decision in 10 years. Not participating is a decision just as participating is.
Looks pretty nice, and I am very much looking forward to someday playing through your make.

Now something that I must say, but know that it may not be universally shared.

I see you are making a 3D game. But there is a very particular reason why games like Crusader Kings/Europa Universal is/Civilization/Rimworld/Prison Tycoon/Factorio are 2D. They are inherently numbers games, and appeal to specific crowds. These are ultimately tabletops or rather very complex spreadsheets and ultimately as a player you re being statistician. There many successful franchiseare s on the contrary, like Tropico, StarCraft, SimCity but after playing through all of them, I've realised that fancy 3D worlds, while very pretty, take the toll on cognitive processing. Dwarf Fortress, while 3D with multiple layers, forces player to look at, deal with and think about only one at a time, with very distinct..uh..visuals and they do the job better than anything else.

Ultimately you want to convey the information to player as fast as possible, make it as instantly identifiable, and intractable as possible. Graphics, especially faux 3D like Ck3 or Civ4/5/6 are pretty nice and help with that ultimate goal, not hinder.

Just my 2c, and something to think about. Be assured that I'll play your game regardless (I spent many an hours on Tropico series, along with every other game listed above. No regrets :))
Bitcoin is meaningfully decentralized because miners alone do not decide the fate of Bitcoin - there are also users, businesses, and developers as major actros. The 51%++ actor cannot kill Bitcoin, only cause inconvenience. The worst that could happen is a successful DoS that would force a hard fork to another PoW algorithm.

PS1 The full nodes are actually very well decentralized.

PS2 The physical hash power is skewed towards China, which is not ideal, but it tends to decentralize to US, Canada and to lesser extent other countries. It is improving.
If your company allows for it, you can early exercise and file a 83(b) election so that even as your options vest over time, you only pay taxes for the spread between your strike price and the fair market value at the date of the early exercise, rather than the date of vesting. The taxes can be 0 if you early exercise when the fair market value _is_ the same as your strike price.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earlyexercise.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/83b-election.asp
Samsung will end the megapixel race
Most people look at the stock-to-flow chart as the leading indicator. https://digitalik.net/btc/
I already have the 4K docking station that I’ve been using for a couple years and have been interested in getting on of the M1 Macs.
Your hypothesis is that people voted opposite of their beliefs? Or that they chose not to vote at all?

Both of those feel like possibilities, but probably not in any significant number. In absence of evidence to the contrary, I'd say it's reasonable to look at the results of a vote as evidence of how people actually feel.

Edit: Vote numbers seem consistent with other votes in Debian's history, so it does not appear that a large number of people elected not to vote.
Thanks, I was confused when the article claimed that and wondered if I'd missed some great new home-chemistry breakthrough!
And that "value" can also go to 0.
For our engagement , my new fiancée gave me a complete set of the Landau-Lifschitz course and I gave her a diamond ring. Both gifts were clear, glittering , timeless.
I don't. But the 'what if' game keeps me up at night sometimes. Buying and holding BTC isn't as far-fetched as guessing the right lotto numbers. Even smaller-scale stuff, like if I had taken half of my vacation fund and bought BTC 6 months ago, which would have been a pretty acceptable risk (it's all gravy and already set aside), that would be a non-trivial amount of money to me. What if I could max out my kid's college funds just by making a few different decisions? That's the kind of thing that gets me.