skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does VISA create and secure an asset that is open source, decentralized, censorship resistant, permissionless to participate in?

Apples to oranges. VISA can't do those things, it is a centralized settlement layer for US Dollar transactions. So when we selectively compare the transactions per energy metric, we are conveniently ignoring the fact that VISA is not responsible for securing the stability of the global US Dollar network.
Don't you have to pay interest on your average balance even if you pay off your balance every month?
I wonder if some bitcoin whales are fronts for oil companies that are buying up bitcoin as a way of increasing demand for electricity and thus maintain demand for fossil fuel power generation. Renewable energy is getting cheaper over time, which would tend to drive out fossil fuel electrical generation, so if demand is dramatically increased due to crypto currency mining then demand for fossil fuel plants to stay operating will be maintained.
OK nevermind!
Still—multiple implementation has an impact on the reference implementation.
With google docs style collaborative editing, can connect to an existing cluster to run code in it. You can run one instance of the Livebook application and have different livebook docs run for different Elixir projects you happen to be working on.

Not sure what parts are in Jupyter but I've heard collab editing isn't.

Pretty hype about trying this for some living docs and teaching. Will see if I can do anything neat with it. Already tried it some.
Showcase your repositories in your static site,including updated stars,and forks
All is needs to be is a list of keywords associated with your advertising profile.
They will not roll over, but they will lose anyway. Fighting technological change is like pissing straight into the wind. We've seen it happen multiple times already, even in our lifetime.
Didn't he violate their terms of use by inciting violence that led to multiple deaths?
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You seem to vastly, vastly underestimate the scope and powers of governments, specifically the US government. The internet - the symbol of free speech and a free world long before Bitcoin claimed to be - was a military and academic project for robustly securing the US communication infrastructure in case of nuclear attack. It benefited the US. How does crypto benefit the US? By taking away its ability to regulate its own currency? Seems like a lose to me. And the government does not like to lose.

The internet would be terrifyingly easy to shut down. Point blank. For the truly technical and nerdy, maybe we could return to a Usenet situation but for the overwhelming majority of people (and it is the size of the user base that gives the internet (and supposedly crypto) its power - network effects) all it would take is shutting down ISPs, which historically are extremely compliant with legal action. Just try torrenting something and you’ll quickly realize how little your ISP cares about the “free and open internet.”

Also, I don’t see how Turkey’s ban is “silly” in anyway. Crypto is banned there. That will deter the vast majority of people seeking to use it. The ones who manage to weasel around using arcane technical methods will find themselves in an empty room - what’s the use of owning crypto if no one accepts it?
So long as flagrant copyright violation also continues to exist online, bans pose minimal threat to cryptocurrency diffusion. This time is not different.
It's a terrible policy:

- Making only one side of a transaction illegal is absurd.

- Because the customer assumes more risk, they are often more antagonistic. Sex workers have to more explicitly offer to protect their customers from legal repercussions to maintain their business, rather than the the mutualism of same risk (with legal or illegal for all).

- Legal work is always the least exploitative; that's why big agriculture wants migrant workers etc.
In my experience, relying on "prettifier" websites is directly a result of the lack of canonical, well-supported CLI tools for prettifying most programming and markup languages. It's such a weird glaring gap in dev tooling.

There's a CLI linter for pretty much every language I've used, but how would you prettify a valid YAML file? Any reformatting will change it semantically.
They sort of already have. You can install Windows 10 without any key, and without registering.

There will be a water mark on the bottom corner of the screen, and a couple of the settings will be difficult to change, but all the upgrades work(if you want them)
There is no expiration with functionality either.
> An incentive to evict someone. Money.

Welcome to mafia shakedowns

> "Social/Legal consensus" that performing the physical eviction is the right thing to do.

That "social/legal consensus" is called laws, and they are enforced through a central authority.

> If the state and breach of contract is transparent on the blockchain

Who exactly is deciding "the state and breach of contract"? You can start from the fact that smart contracts are not even written in a human language.

> A way to confirm the eviction to pay the evictor.

People were paying each other for thousands of years without smart contracts
"80% recievers" aren't regulated, so there's no paperwork when they are sold and then finished by the buyer.

Of course they would be subject to regulation once finished, but there's not any record of the firearm.
"All your crypto currencies are belong to us."

The government could roll over your tiny little hovel with tanks and jets, and you won't be able to do a thing about it.
If you don't know what the parent is in Gerrit then how can you run CI on the patch?

And if you do know what the parent is then how is it different from a "PR"?
Voting procedure is documented here [0] section A.6

I agree that it would be nice to include the total number of ballots in the final results, but that isn't really relevant to the results.

Each voter submits a ranked choice vote ballot. The table indicates that 113 ballots prefer option 1 over option 2, whicl 137 ballot prefer option 2 over option 1.

The majority calculation is a bit weird. All Debian votes include default option, in this case that is option 8, "Further Discussion". Preferring an option over the default is seen as a general "approval" vote, while prefering the default is considered "disapproval". The "majority" votes looks at the ratio between approval and disapproval. For instance, option 1 had 203 votes to apporove and 186 votes to disaprove, giving it a ratio of 203/186 = 1.09

Voters are not required to vote on all options. Excluding private votes, they release every individual vote once voting is closed, so you can see how many abstensions an indidual option received; but it appears that this has not been released yet.

[0] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
Managing up is a thankless fools errand.

Managing a team shouldn’t be a political drama.
You're saying the US legislation will directly attack the multiple $100Billion+ public traded companies in the crypto space? (Assumption is that Coinbase won't be the last company in crypto to go public).

I don't see that happening anymore. There's too many startups with too many smart people working in the space and a LOT more people (including the legislatures) invested in Crypto.
> Coming out of the covid-19 year of sloth I've put about 15 pounds back on

My mom calls these "the covid 19".
I got rid of my friends
"Except the receiver/frame is the part that is FFL regulated and treated the same as an assembled gun from a sales/regulation standpoint - so they are not in fact 'Ghost Guns'”.

I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to - the 80% receivers/kits? Those do not have serial numbers and are not considered firearms until you make them 81%+.
interesting theory but sounds more like a conspiracy theory.
> Except that's not Debian's agreed-to voting process.

I'm not suggesting they'd have to do that, I'm saying that there's a very good reason why we usually do that. As organizations become more and more political, I expect that to hit harder and for more of them to adopt secret voting.

> Certainly the votes of elected officials are not secret.

And I find that reasonable. You want to know whether the person you voted for actually does what they said. In Germany, parliament votes are public, but important votes are secret.

For the less important votes, they'll just ask for raised hands and note who won, but not who voted in what way (we now have TV channels film the votes and then use interns to determine who voted what).

For important votes, they're done secretly: you can tell who voted, but not what they voted for. There's no way to hold them accountable, the system is working as intended.
They would regulate the on and off ramps, obviously. What use is there for cryptocurrency that can’t be converted into USD? Some, currently, but I would bet that killing the off ramps would severely damage the viability of crypto.
When your initial goal was to find cheap GPU instances did you look at Genesis Cloud ( https://www.genesiscloud.com/ )?
They currently offer Nvidia 1080ti and apparently soon RTX3080 and RTX3090 plus some AMD types.
I think exploitative in this context refers to the prevalence of sex trafficking in sex work.
Why don't they do it now, rather than wait for it to inevitably become a problem?
For better or worse, McKinsey and outfits like them have an ability to package a given set of advice in a way that the needed audience will be more likely to heed. Partly because they can MBA the lingo, but also just from the imputed competence that comes from having spent a goddamn boatload on their brand name.
I’m sure those manufacturers will find a way to not shut down.
new options are only proposed when existing options do not represent all available opinions.

similar proposals can also be merged, and only options that make sense are being sponsored. and they are sponsored also by people who oppose that option because those people believe that the options should be balanced.

the existing options list all sensible outcomes. i can't think of any other pro- or anti-RMS option that would even make sense.

based on that i can't see how you want to extract any data on popularity
You're welcome. Despite what the other respondent said, yes they are immune to all forms of decay and have actually increased my strength by 4D6.

I am not actually sure if they can be replaced if needed. Maybe they could hold a 5G antennae or something. I'll ask my dentist next time I visit.
If you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint, humans likely have the ability to run to either escape from or to hunt prey. Long-distance running would not have held much use in day-to-day life.

So our bodies are efficient at running, but maybe not meant to be running all the time.
As a technologist, I'm sure this is an enjoyable mental model to hold (tech speaking to and overriding traditional power), but let's look at Edward Snowden's situation for example. He's persona non grata with no recourse (albeit for violating the law with, arguably, moral and ethical intentions), and there is nothing preventing the same happening to those who deeply believe in crypto and attempting to subvert government regulation by using it for the transfer of money or value.

This is far different from battles such as PGP's export as a munition [1], which at least had freedom of speech protections as the argument for challenging the US government's position and regulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
If you can prove this, at least in the USA, this would be a serious violation of HIPAA and severe penalties would apply to entities who disclosed, knowingly received, or paid for personal health information without the patient’s consent and used it for an improper purpose.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
It would appear that there are already at least two plugins that take care of this for those who'd like to do so before it's rolled into the WordPress core:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/floc/
They should just resurrect the OSI protocols.
Even if you wanted to use another mode of transport it's often impossible if you live in the suburbs / exurbs.

Sidewalks can be patchy at best and bike lanes are an afterthought; often they include the steepest part of the road grade to shed water off to the side and include pinch-flat-happy sunken sewer / drain grates. Roads are often laughably designed in a car-centric manner, i.e. higher than an European highway with no lane markings or stop signs, turning it into a veritable drag strip.

Whenever someone in the boomer generation says "why don't kids go outside to play these days?", I always retort "look at the Outside that y'all designed for them" :|
this is one of the best use cases for crypto -- as a popular disciplining measure against governments that devalue their currency. see venezuela, nigeria, argentina... my sympathies are solely with the ordinary people who would otherwise watch their savings evaporate.
I was warned about this a lot over the years, though thankfully have not had a problem. I use an electric toothbrush now and that was a game changer in general.
The next big destination many people have with respect to internet penetration is Africa. And CCP is ahead of west in capturing African market by working best with dictators and being competitive. For example they sold their telecom towers very cheap, and they work best with only chinese phones. With this cycle, china owns major share of African mobile business in just a few years. It would be easier to to get their IP in there.
Your logic seemingly reduces to "Governments are too tyrannical to allow revolution against their tyrannical practices, therefore it's ridiculous to try."
The ones in marketing will rather immediately request that it is turned on instead.
How does Google link the real life person who bought Voltaren at a store to the online account or fingerprint that browses the Internet?
I bought and read your book. Unfortunately it is long winded and poorly written, so I advise others not to spend time and money on it. Bit disappointed that it gets misleading treatment online, I was expecting a book by an expert, but I guess lesson learnt when making judgement based on what is written online - those who post more aren’t necessarily any expert in the field!
SaaS was already taken.

So was PaaS.
> It seems to me that you are the one who is pulling in details from today, asserting that they must be incorporated into any law, and then pointing out how that's a bad idea.

You say this but then go on to pull in far more detail from today than I have...

> My lone assumption is a business that provides user-facing software. That's it. With that assumption, I'm arguing for the principle that when a business provides customers a human-targeted "UI", they need to provide a corresponding machine-usable "API" that bypasses the accidental complexity of human interaction. We know there must be a machine-friendly format before the user-friendly format, because the software is itself operating on a machine.

False. Actual machine friendly formats are not the same as the data structures that power UIs.

>> the business has chosen the architecture, and the law would mandate accessibility.
> Well this isn’t what you said before.
>This is what I said before. Having some type of public API is not "architecture". It's mandating open access to the same thing any front end needs to access anyway.

As already stated, the front end is not the same thing as an api suitable for clients. Maintaining a stable API is quite different from building a front-end site.

> Authentication and sign up: It's a public API, so this is irrelevant for read access.

Is it? Front ends often require sign up for read access. Why wouldn’t an API?

> For ordering, the same exact account system as using the web/app UI.

Wait - I thought your idea was architecture neutral. Why are you talking about the web ui?

> You keep ignoring existing implementations, pretending like what I'm saying would require some huge ground-up design rather than tweaks to what already exists.

Ahh, so this is just about how things are built today with minor tweaks.

> Data formats: The company. If a company is big enough to dictate formats, then they're big enough for developers to pay attention to.

Ok, so your law requires people to dictate formats?

> After the custom of using aggregators for shopping becomes commonplace, it becomes in their own interest to stick with common formats rather than get left behind.

Aggregators owned by whom? Google, Facebook, Amazon?

> Bugs: The company, while leaving the old "buggy" version in place for some period of time.

Seems like you have just introduced an architectural requirement to be able to run old versions in parallel with new ones. Who determines the person of time?

> you're imagining that any such law would be useless since a company could just deliberately create an unusable API. But courts see right through those type of "bad faith" approaches.

You are the only one talking about bad faith. I’m simply pointing out that supporting API clients requires architecture that is different from only supporting UI visitors.

If you are iterating on the UI frequently, and changing the structures that supports that UI, the by definition you don’t have a stable API unless you engineer one separately. No bad faith needed.
Ah, i just found out this is not exactly true: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-xray-hyperdonti...
> let cryptocurrencies take away one of the primary powers of the state: minting and control of the flow, supply, and thus value of the currency

I think crypto proponents have exaggerated the threat that cryptocurrency poses to government controlled currencies. The narrative plays well to audiences that distrust institutions and want to be early adopters of a new cryptocurrency paradigm (in which they would be at the top of the wealth spectrum), but the reality is that cryptocurrencies are additive on top of existing currencies, not replacements.

In practice, average people in average countries (e.g. not Venezuela) benefit more from having centrally controlled currencies than they lose. Average people also benefit from having an established currency rather than being forced to switch to one that is majority controlled by a few early adopters. If you think wealth inequality is bad now, the wealth inequality in a hypothetical Bitcoin economy would be orders of magnitude worse.

The idea that one day Bitcoin will reign supreme and everyone will be forced to buy 0.0000001 Bitcoin to get any transactions done is attractive to someone who wants Bitcoin prices to go the moon, but the average person wants nothing of the sort.
I often remove such appendages because I prefer clean, compact, semantic URLs that narrowly reflect my specific intent when sharing an article: "this article is good".

I don't want any other website/software agendas overlaid into my communication in ways that (1) leak info about what tools I'm using, even seemingly-innocuous info; (2) dilute any salient aspects of the URL by layering on excess (or even worse opaque) tracking info.

I've deleted that damn "?s=21" from the end of Twitter URLs hundreds of times.
But unless it is globally everywhere, which it won’t. it will eventually fail. If you study the history of money, which I have, basically eventually the “better” money wins. This is the case for the last 5000+ years of human history across many civilizations. What we have is the emergency of “better” money. Fiat has huge advantages if a nation needs to wage war, among many other features, but those features have lost utility over what new cryptocurrency can offer. Governments will obviously fight back soon, but I believe will lose completely in the long run.
No. He did not.
Why a troll? I asked a question and provided reasonable arguments for my belief.
- "Not wanting to rely on a central authority" is a political theme.
- In my opinion saying "I use crypto because I do not agree with my governing central authority" is not really a good application (as I asked for in my question). You don't even have to commit illicit activities in a universal/ethically right way. It suffices to do "illicit" activities in the view of the government to get you into real trouble (jail time or worse). So to say "I use crypto as an expression of protest" seems like a questionable application to me
I am genuinely curious about CCP plans if they do become a dominant influence in the world. They are attempting to reprogram Tibetans and Uighurs to erase their culture and make them Chinese. Is that the plan for all other cultures? Is the goal to make us all Chinese speaking Chinese?
I wonder whether, if WP takes the stance that FLoC is a security risk, whether they'd also consider a version of Chrome that doesn't allow opting out of it a security risk as well. And, if not, why not?
I think Instagram can usually figure it out from the Minovsky Particles given off by your PC for that short bit of time.
I agree, but just want to point out that they aren't required to be finished. If you do any work to it at all (81%+ complete), then they are considered a firearm.

I know it sounds like I'm being pedantic, but I wouldn't want anyone to get into serious trouble if they read this didn't understand the difference.
Why do you think it is quite weird? Historically, is the "further discussion" always at the bottom?

edit: I found those, so it's not that weird, but not very common: Init systems https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002 ; Delaying Lenny https://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003 ; Change to membership procedures https://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_002
Makes URLs longer and harder to read at a glance, and the reader cannot easily judge how much info they are leaking when they click it.
Yes, a theory. Maybe I'll get an idea about how to find evidence and test it.
> [the regulations] prohibit companies that handle payments and electronic fund transfers from processing transactions involving cryptocurrency platforms [...]

> [the chief executive] officer of BtcTurk, one of Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency platforms in terms of number of clients [said] “This mainly targets electronic payment systems.”
> - One thing I'm missing to ditch Jenkins permanently is general purpose job stuff... like "synchronize the production database to integration". Yes there are workarounds but all of them are ugly.

We had a job that backed up some data to a git repo and the gitlab ci cronjobs were really easy to use. It was a simple java -jar, git pull, git commit, git push script and tbh it couldn't have been simpler.
When I said it didn't exist, I meant it doesn't exist as a problem at the same scale.

Yes there are obviously employees who embezzle or contractors who defraud, but companies are generally able to police this themselves relatively effectively. It's nothing like government left to its own devices.
I don't spam C++ and I comment on C++.

There is no fight. There is made-up flame-war. Every war happen at HN and Reddit's Echochamber not at Real World.

Every languages has headaches. You won't find a perfect language ever.

You can't do serious Rust if you don't understand functional aspects.

I know C++, Haskell and Rust. Like many says Rust is a functional language disguised as imperative. There were case studies on Rust where a one with Haskell background more like to learn it faster than a one with C++ background.

The Rust book don't show you the functional parts at beginning to build your intuition but once you drive deeper you will realize what I meant.

https://ceronman.com/2020/09/17/is-rust-a-functional-languag...
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