skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we just get a few words from that sleazy archetype of a banker (Jamie Dimond) on record of what he regarded BTC to as just a few years ago? It's worth repeating as this is some serious crow eating in the finance sector that unless you've been in this space won't really register.

Seriously, the idea that this imbecile has any shred of credibility or honesty in him has been proven wrong time and again, why is he still allowed to be CEO of anything is a travesty and shows that the 'failing up' in the finance World is all too common and should finally put to rest.

The losses they incurred by not embracing thier tech is one thing, but wasting time with patents and chasing trails of BTC killer with smoke and mirrors was what cost them the most.

> Why would you pay a middleman to run an actively managed fund for a single crypto currency?

It's a pretty straight forward answer so I'll break up into parts: first, people suck at security especially with OPSEC in regards to finance. We in the Bitcoin community have made immense improvements to that end, but we forget that for critical mass to occur we have to create something with equally complexity as online banking without just repeating it's same flaws, which despite my own biases, we have not fully achieved. It's a trade off between security, cost, and ease of use: you can only have 2 of 3.

Second, in situations like these it's assumed that it should be counter balanced with he fact that most of the mega corps and online businesses constantly have their data 'hacked' and with regards to BTC (irreversible txs) they will need to have counter-party risk to make them whole--so who better than a welfare queen like JPM?

I'd like to believe we have reached a sort of ease of use when it comes to BTC that suits all demographics as I recall what it was like syncing up QT and triple checking when BTC was below $1,000, but the higher the price gets the higher the stakes are and while Hardware wallets are the standard for that for a reason, it also requires that we have the lowest barrier of entry possible which means solving for seemingly non-issues. With that said, you have people who have sent their life's savings in ETH to a fake Elon Musk twitter account, so you can only plan for so much.

Personally, I think this is where the YC FAANG types are needed most, you people build UIs for this demographic, and if you can see past your chip on your shoulder for dismissing this tech you can see their is still tons of money to be made in doing that. Hopefully, you stay around for more than just money but I don't see how going to a moon shot startup like Rocketlab (which I'm a fan of) is any 'crazier' than getting involved in the BTC space, as for the alts YMMV.
> because any possible exception by definition leads to a consequence which restricts speech.

Sorry, should have been more explicit - edited to clarify that I was talking about exceptions to what qualifies as free speech in the first place, not exceptions to what consequences constitute restriction.
Samba with macOS Spotlight on FreeBSD with Elasticsearch
I'm making a silly, unfair comparison to be sure. It's just an interesting line of thought, not necessarily a credible one ;)

I can imagine that the first time such policies came up could have come from security or legal teams discussing foreign politics around the water cooler and thinking "We should perhaps have some policy in place, just in case".

Fundamentally, that's no different than say; implementing a D&I policy or climate actions in response to employees discussing news stories on Slack, in my mind anyway.

Just going off first principles, as us HNers love to do, I can imagine if you never had political discussion in the first place, policies such as "offsetting perceived risk of foreign governments" would never be bothered with until they're actually tangibly impacting you (ie literal foreign spies or whatever)

The whole thing is kinda moot anyway since I'm sure HR and legal teams will be discussing these things in some capacity unavoidable, just not in view of other employees.

Perhaps even more importantly, what defines "politics" is extremely vague in the first place.
$60 remote. You can get a Fire TV with a better remote for less.
> Just because the right is currently infringed doesn't mean the right doesn't exist

So obviously inmates should also be allowed guns too right? Where's the NRA's "AR-15s for Inmates" campaign? Hyperbolic? Sure. But it exposes the fallacy that the right (or any right for that matter) is absolute. Just like the First Amendment doesn't mean shouting "I have a bomb" in a crowded theater is protected speech the government can't criminalize.

> The operative clause is ...

Oh, so the first part is just irrelevant flavor text? Let me put this in context [1]:

> Under the Articles of Confederation, from 1777 on, states were required to maintain their own “well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered” with “a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage.” The states would appoint all officers under the rank of colonel. The confederation Congress was permitted to “requisition” these militias for the “common defence,” but only “in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State.” If other states didn’t furnish their share, Congress could ask complying states for more than their proportional share—but the state legislature was guaranteed the power to refuse, even in an emergency. And even when the militia was under federal command, the state legislatures would choose replacement officers as well.

You continue:

> Other countries with less recognition of the right to keep and bear arms just resort to other forms of violence

From your link, less murders per 100k than the United States (4.96) include Niger (4.44), Somalia (4.31) and Libya (2.52).

Some other developed nations: Australia (0.88), England and Wales (1.21), Germany (0.95), Norway (0.47) and Japan (0.26).

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/second-...
> "Household gun ownership went from 45% in 1980 down to 32% in 2016"

Gallup seems to indicate that gun ownership in the United States rose back to 42% by 2020?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
This is a very long read but incredibly interesting. I'm only mildly in to crypo, but I had no idea there were old forums I could read through.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0

In that thread they identify an integer overflow attack, and satoshi troubleshoots it, writes a fix, and releases it. They talk about how to get miners onto the right chain and affects it will have on difficulty and missing BTC. August 2010!
They can't make it compatible with superchargers without some sort of integration with Tesla's system. When you go to a supercharger on a Tesla, all you have to do is to plug the car. No apps, not sign up, no credit card. The supercharger recognizes your car and the bill shows up on your Tesla account. This alone is ages ahead the competition.
There's urban chargers at 72kw and highway superchargers at 150-250kw max charging rate. The urban ones are often at major shopping destinations in high traffic areas.
Disclaimer, I work for TransUnion. The following thoughts are my own.

The theory behind this implementation is that probably no one other than you knows what the amount of the mortgage you took out in 1999 is or the size of the car loan you took out in 2015. So in theory it confirms that you are the person who the credit report belongs to. In practice it gets tricky because there are plenty of people who have super boring credit files (e.g. they only have a credit card and have never had a loan). With that kind of user you end up in the situation where the questions either ask about information that can probably be gleaned from public records or the answers end up being “none of the above.” For those users specifically it is a pretty useless solution. I remember signing up for Credit Monitoring and thinking that anyone with a passing knowledge of my life could answer the questions.

It turns out that verifying that someone is who they say they are without needing to see a valid ID is a hard problem to solve.

Is it a great solution no, but before data breaches became so common it was a somewhat reasonable solution. In today’s world though I would agree that it is a pretty terrible solution, but I don’t know how you would solve that without requiring notarization from a trusted third party that the person is for sure who they say they are.
Yes, and it varies immensely by amount of activity.

I add at least 1500-2000 calories a day when I am lifting in addition to normal training (as in, 1-2 hours of intense exercise every day).
Counterflow air-to-air heat exchangers mitigate much of that cost.
There is an interesting discussion here about Moderna not enforcing their COVID patents, and I think it is related to Bill Gates'remarks about the usefulness of voiding the COVID patents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941407
HNers seem to think that it doesn't matter because of two factors:

* Setting up a mRNA vaccine factory is complicated, it needs time.

* Most money will be made in a short time.
This notion appears to go against all the expert advice against (ab)using anti-biotics. Sure, less infections means less chance for mutations, but due to the fundamental forces at play, the resistant mutations will spread faster through the resistant population and eventually become the prevalent strain.

Unless you can eradicate the virus or bacteria completely (mass effective vacination), the tools we create to fight them are really only delaying the inevitable.

>If some variants do evolve that escape the vaccine, odds are good that they will be less dangerous than the original, not more.

From my understanding, this is not the case. It's pure chance whether a mutation is advantageous or disadvantageous. If you are looking on a per-mutation basis, then sure, it's likely the mutation is disadvantageous. But at a population level, it's likely that atleast one advantageous mutation will emerge reasonably quickly when we are talking about something at the scale of several thousands of infections.
I confess I downloaded and installed Quartus couple of times, yet never dared to use it.. Every time I tired, it went against my subtle soul. :)

I believe, sooner or later more vendors hop on the train and get their FPGA inners documented and received support from FOSS tools. Also I believe there's a room on the market for a couple of fabless startups offering small-to-middle-tier FPGAs that have only FOSS tools (very small investment in software is needed).
For reference: https://youtu.be/_aV91djgwEc

I'm astonished this made it to production. Red tape and bureaucracy means nobody is willing to push back against a feature that is bad and potentially dangerous (maybe not any more dangerous than touchscreens though).
I can't disagree with much of what you're saying, and still as a Canadian there is no realistic amount of money that could incentivize me to move to the US.

For Montreal, the French thing is largely true, meaning you would generally have to at least pretend to be learning French. I find that the requirement gets ignored regularly however when yours is the only decent CV in the pile.
Title needs to append “... unless you have a Tesla”
They don't know how much of this is DDT but they have reason to believe there is a lot of DDT out there and the stability of the chemical is a big issue for cleanup efforts. From the article:

The U.S. banned its use in 1972, but the chemical, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, is so stable it continues to poison the environment and move up the food chain.

One thing we do for petrochemical spills is release microbes that digest petrochemicals so the spill can be broken down. I wonder if we could develop a similar means to clean up DDT.
I don't find this argument convincing at all. Just ignore the lidar in situations where lidar and vision conflict and you have the original decision.

They probably started without lidar due to the cost (Tesla is one of few companies actually selling cars to customers, who are sensitive to price). The price of lidar has come down, but I would guess it requires a fair amount of expensive rearchitecture to add it in now, and they haven't bitten the bullet yet.
While I agree with the general consensus of the thread at the moment, I understand what he said in his quote.

He is talking about the safety of the vaccine, the limited production facilities to develop, and the ongoing public relational safety of the vaccine.

If at the moment, the vaccine were released and an enterprising group decided to open a new manufacturing complex and attempt to develop it — there is a HIGH chance of failure, and that comes at the risk of public safety, and the publics trust in vaccines.

This is a new vaccine, and there aren't enough experts in the field to safely produce it because they are all working at the big firms at the moment, because this didn't exist before last year at the scale that it is.

They should unequivocally release the patents for the greatness of humankind, but at the moment that is risky, worrisome, and could devalue the entire relationship with the public about the safety of vaccines, especially this type of vaccine. They should commit to releasing within a suitable, short term, time frame.
> However we do not know any mechanism that would allow the spontaneous apparition of such living beings by natural processes, like those that exist for H, C, N, O and S as the main bioelements.

Side point: One could also say that if we create silicon-based life forms to carry on our legacy, those life forms did in fact spontaneously appear, and "bacteria" and "dinosaurs" and "humans" were all part of that long but spontaneous process.

Such a process could happen elsewhere in the universe as well, but yes, that then requires C, N, O, S, H, etc. to exist for at least a few billion years.
Well, your BTC should always be in your own wallet, not in an exchange.
The famine under Mao was because of his failed policies, though.
Author seems like a jealous and insecure person
FWIW, a recent clinical trial appeared to show that nitrous oxide is an effective treatment for Covid-19: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210315005197/en/UK-...

Would be pretty cool if we had a pill that was, say, 20% more effective and 300 times more expensive.
Rails and ActiveSupport are a huge extension to Ruby and are bigger than the non Rails Ruby usage. If you read the average PHP tutorial, it starts you out connecting to a db, running raw sql and rendering templates in the same file. An absolutely horrible idea. If you start on the default rails tutorial, you gets set up with a decently safe configuration.
Dude - let me make this super simple. These rendering pipelines import the SDKs and APIs they connect with. The pipelines have tons have high value custom code. Under the GPL, they have to be open sourced if they use blender - this is 101 stuff. And under GPL it is viral, if stage 1 is now forced open, the next big set of stuff that integrates with stage 1 is also forced open and so on.

Pixar is not open sourcing their pipeline - period. Do you not understand that these companies build giant and high value software around the various engines?

Listen - I didn't realize how little you understood. This is actually covered in the Blender FAQ's because it can really bite you (even if a small player) if you build an add-on to blender.

"Blender’s Python API is an integral part of the software, used to define the user interface or develop tools for example. The GNU GPL license therefore requires that such scripts (if published) are being shared under a GPL compatible license."

This is cool if you want to use stuff - they make that clear too. "Sharing Blender or Blender add-ons or scripts is always OK and not considered piracy." But for commercial players this is an absolute no go.

This is not FUD, this is hard reality, and no commercial player is going to tie into something like this.
To me it seems very clear that merely mentioning the fact of a same sex relationship is not a political statement.

If person A mentions they are in a same sex relationship, then person B goes on a rant about how it should be illegal and how dare you bring it up, then to me person B is the one making the discussion political, not person A.

I do see how if person B is the boss, this would be a problem, but I don't think Jason and DHH are that person B.

As an example, here is a Twitter thread about another organization that dealt with an excess of "political discussion"

https://twitter.com/graceisforyou/status/1386739669866455043

That is the sort of thing I imagine Basecamp is trying to prevent.
> Tesla will be making electric cars with a range to dollar ratio that can’t possibly be matched by incumbents for the foreseeable future

That isn't true today, never mind the future. If you want range to dollars then the Chevy Bolt is hard to beat. Especially with deals like this:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/chevy-bolt-ev-available-f...

It's also important to consider real world miles versus paper miles. Tesla's EPA range figures are inflated. On paper, the Tesla Model Y should have more range than the Ford Mustang Mach E. But in real world driving the Mach E has the greater range:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmSiOo-v8s
Thanks, I understand that. Paying "immediately" was partly hyperbole, partly that I wouldn't forget about it when I started out. I've gotten accustomed to it now.
This analogy is not accurate. It is impossible to read without understanding letters; it is not impossible to program without completing simple pre-programming exercises on an iPad.

Other people in this thread are pitching simplified programming exercises as an advantageous performance benefit for children to show them before real programming. This is akin to showing kids simplified reading exercises before reading. I do not believe there is any tangible long term benefit to making kids look at a picture of a dog and choose the letter "D" from a floating letter cloud to complete __OG, and I also do not believe there is any tangible long term benefit to making kids complete simple loop structures on an iPad or in a video game in advance of actually starting to program.

It is not crucial for the development of children for adults to provide them with neutered facsimiles of reality.
> I cannot relate to people who make prototypes to throw away, I've never done it

Have you ever had that moment when you say: "Oh damn, now I got it! I should do it entirely differently!" — and then you code up a different approach, the approach that works well enough.

If you had this moment, it was the moment of throwing away the prototype.
At least for Tesla, around the eastern seaboard, this is not the case. The rest of the EV world will eventually converge to this state as the infrastructure is built out.

The leading edge of EV’s (Model S Long Range) now have over 400 miles (300+ to 80%). I-95 for example in NJ and CT have 250kW peak Superchargers spaced every 20-30 miles or so. Its not quite the same as ICE still but it is getting very close. I can imagine the technology will be there in 2-3 years and it doesn’t require any sort of solid state battery technology.
The 'common cold' is any one of hundreds of different viruses... with many different types of viruses within those hundred+ that are commonly spread.

Covid is a specific class of virus (coronavirus) of which there are relatively few variants.

If it cost $20 Billion to deal with Covid, you'd have to spend at least 100 times that for each and every individual strain of virus that tends to be viewed as one 'common cold.'

Oh, and we've already been trying to cure the 'common cold' for decades. The problem is that there's just too many of 'em.
"In December 2000, the Montrose Chemical Corporation of California and three other corporations settled their lawsuits for a collective $73 million."
so I have a firetv stick, a chromecast, both play youtube hulu disney+ etc, they're each like $30~$40 dollars, I thus have never had the need to buy a Roku stick, why do I need one and why does this youtube-tv-app matter?
The paying customer cares when your tech debt becomes so burdensome that you can no longer deliver features (or fix bugs) on the timeline they want.
look I'm not going to sit here and argue with some random person on the internet (and fwiw I'm atheist) I was literally in your disbelieving shoes and I still don't know how to convince people or if I even want to waste the effort trying

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261036/figure/...

just sit back for a moment and consider the possibility you are being lied to not by consipiracy but rather much easier apathy and ivermectin actually has proven antiviral properties that actually do something, just not specifically targeted to covid19 so it's not a "miracle" by any means

I was not just sick with covid, I was at death's door. Steroids were not doing anything/enough and pneumonia/clots were destroying my lungs. This was very early on in the pandemic and there were no treatments available.

Again, I've got nothing to prove, I don't expect people are going to listen, I'm just putting this on the record. Something's up with this being not just dismissed but buried.
So "stern talking to" is the only action a school is allowed to take?

If students know that then what exactly is the disincentive to engage in bullying that doesn't rise to the level of criminal harassment?

Shouldn't a school be a place someone learns appropriate behaviours with less risk of criminal sanctions? It seems that some form of punishment imposed by schools would be reasonable in some circumstances.
The reasons you make allusions to education debt in a contract like this is that students have priors about whether student loans are dischargeable, and the company wants to capitalize on those priors. That's the deception.
Depends on the meds, but Adderall is a combination of different amphetamines and dextroamphetamines. Some of which are added just to make it uncomfortable if you take too much.

The greatly simplified idea is that people with adhd have trouble using parts of their brain at the time they need to. So by increasing all brain activity the parts that are normally diminished are about normal. The side effect is that all the rest of the parts are amped up.
To their credit, they don't exactly censor anything. The entire voldemorting of the word is one of the more inane things about PC culture. That PC culture cares primarily about black targeted insults doesn't really say much about the inherent "badness" of the word.
I guess, I have more to say. This is such an interesting choice from so many perspectives. Thinking about it more, I think the blanket banning of all political discussion is kind of a silly notion. Now, as many others have already pointed out in this thread, employees may be wondering what's okay to discuss at all. But like they said in the post (and as others have seen from internal leaked chats), political conversations and opinions can get out of hand and become extremely toxic. Fast. It's a bit surprising how they handled this and how they possibly figured it could go over well. Especially considering their apparent already open political discussion friendly environment. Like I said before, I've never been involved in a company that has active public political discussions. To me, this does actually seem like breeding grounds for toxic coworker relations. However, as I already stated, it seems like this was already part of their internal culture. I think the right decision would just be to ban toxic arguments (and also define what a toxic argument is), and settling on a "agree to disagree" type of policy. Idk. Tough one.
Go does not have a REPL with interactive introspection and fiddling capabilities. Such a thing is key for prototyping.
Ars is stirring the pot for drama.
I've heard the claim that one of the "common cold" corona viruses, HCoV-OC43, was actually a nasty former pandemic virus (the so-called "Russian Flu" of 1889-1890, which is estimated to have killed about 1 million people).