skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Saving the Jews was not on any country's radar entering WWII
&
>Reports of mass murder of Jews weren't verified by the USG until 1942. I would still argue that saving the Jews did not even crack the top 10 reasons for the USG invading Europe. After all, they verified these reports and still waited 2 years before making landfall.

I absolutely agree with these.
are you being serious
Personal responsibility is not an excuse for disregarding the suffering of others.

The war on drugs was a fundementally bad approach to fixing the problem. If it had worked and drug use had dropped near zero over a decade or two, you wouldn't see the current level of support for ending it. There are other cases where removing personal choice is not controversial (such as seat belt laws, incarceration,

In fact, the failure of the war on drugs is an argument against relying purely on personal responsibility to solve the problem. Simply punishing people and expecting them to learn enough about the consequences of drug use to make the responsibile decision to stay away failed.

It turns out that sometimes to get people to a place where they can take full personal responsibility, it requires giving them some help.

We should strive to avoid removing personal responsibility and choice. The better job we do of providing the tools and support needed to make good decisions (i.e. ones the deciser will look back on without regret), the more respsibility we can easily allow.

For examole: If we do a good job of protecting amd treating gambling addicts, that facilitates opening up gambling to more people in more locations.
Almost no one remembers Gary Kildall, either. Yet no computer (or for that matter, compiler) would be recognizable if not for his achievements.
Unfortunately the github page and the website don't explain what the OS actually is.

Anyway, it's on Wikipedia and is fairly fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Some research for you:

https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2020/11/09/uniswap-liquidity-pool...

https://docs.aave.com/faq/borrowing

https://defirate.com/synthetix/

https://defi.cx/makerdao-how-does-it-work/

As for collateralized loans, they are the norm in traditional finance, too. When you take out a mortgage, it's collateralized by the house. When you borrow for a car, guess what happens if you don't pay? Unsecured, revolving loans are usually credit cards, with very high interest rates.

If you're snarking about the $30B in lending activity on crypto (up from less than $1B a year ago, on pace to 10x over the next 12 months), because it's collateralized, you don't understand what percentage of lending is collateralized and how big that market is worldwide (hint: its hundreds of trillions).

> That's because these entities make money by charging for API access, and the existence of defi isn't going to change this.

The point, for your intentional ignorance, is that the DeFi system is completely open. Open source, open access, pluggable, and composable. In that sense DeFi follows the Unix philosophy. And that is just one reason why DeFi will take over ever greater portions of the existing system. It is going to eat traditional finance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

> Then you clearly do not understand how tax law or finance works. I humbly suggest you get familiar with it, and quickly, lest you end up with completely-avoidable penalty fees (or in a jail cell).

You clearly don't understand that Coinbase just went public as a company and that many more legal entities exist fully legally in the crypto ecosystem such as Gemini, Avanti, Greyscale, Galaxy, Kraken, etc not to mention overseas entities in Europe and Asia. There's nothing illegal about participating in crypto.

I understand how to do addition and subtraction and how to do FIFO and LIFO. In fact, there's software programs to automate it. Who woulda thunk it.
or sparring for boxing or martial arts, or track and field heats, rowing, ...
Bitcoin is a worldwide network storing $1 trillion in value without a central party or government. That has never happened before. Are you sure you're just not open to considering the technology at all?

Ethereum is another one to look more into. Smart contracts are doing things that no classical solution has ever done. Have you done a deep dive on how the technology of Bitcoin or Ethereum actually work?

FWIW, I think plenty of the altcoin tokens are garbage, but some of the top players, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, are doing things that classical solutions simply do not allow today.
Apple AirPods alone generate as much revenue as the whole of Netflix.
Sort of, you can still nail people for this stuff. It’s just a question of reasonable doubt and what they expect to happen.

It’s the same issue as a phone call about having someone assassinated can be a “smoking gun” even if they never say what they want to happen.
Put yourself in a crucible situation. You'd be surprised how effective it is. I have managed to set myself up that way, and even I'm surprised at how much I've grown in a matter of months. As a direct result, I sleep well and have a positive outlook on the future.
California unveils new math program,encouraging teachers to punish good students
There's a famous quote from John Wanamaker that goes something like:

"Half of my advertising budget is wasted. The problem is, I don't know which half."
No, I don't think that would be a coup attempt. I also don't see how that bears any resemblance to the events that actually took place on 1/6 when people built a scaffold & tried hunting down VP Pence to hang him on it.
YouTube never worked before ads.

Prior to Google's purchase they were running at a massive loss, burning investment money. That's not working by any normal definition.
What’s the best set to buy right now?
Why should they? If I take the same tests as US medical students and pass, am I not at least as good as they are?
Not really. I think we should operate such that consumption is slightly negative to begin with.

imo, buying something you need is good, but then you don't need an ad to tell you to do it. Buying something you want is good. Buying something you neither need nor want is bad. Allowing something to manipulate you to want more stuff seems bad compared to it not happening.
> He avoided any examples

Because most people following HN knew about what SPECIFICALLY he was talking about.

This was a reaction, not something that happened out of nowhere.
Predictions for Agriculture during the 2020s decade
What's the link between WebSphere and the Olympic games?
The degree to which our institutions worked and did not work in preventing the overthrow of the government is absolutely relevant. If you misrepresent how close something came to success, you dramatically reduce your abilty to learn from the event.
> If your machine is stolen and off*

Locked. macOS has used the IOMMU to block access to RAM from external devices for many years and on the newer Macs you’d need to compromise the T2 as well.
Sorry if this was asked already but is Synth chromium based?
Because the intent of the crowd was not to attack police, that was a byproduct. The intent was to disrupt the process whereby power is transferred from one leader to the other. The fallacy therefore is one of false equivalency.
Heinous idea to give to Americans going to college instead of starving people or something.
> means that the state of the world is described by some list of numbers

How is that different from hidden variables?
Note that GAE has two flavors:
- Standard (constrained, more shared bits)
- Flex (supply your own container, get your own instance)
This isn’t a link to anything.
This is a very prescriptive approach to language, as in prescribing meaning to words. It's a philosophy of fixed meaning that does not allow language to evolve. The alternative camp would be descriptive, as in allow language to evolve and define its rules based on how people actually use it. At the end of the day it's not one or the other, but a balance... your objection seems rather attached to the usage you know.

Recognizing this dichotomy is useful when thinking about shared values, such as programming styles, ethics, and money. DFW's Consider the Lobster has an essay called "Authority and American Usage" that covers it well, originally printed here: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...
Can you expand on the idea that the Kardashians produce pornography for women? Sounds like it could explain why I don't get it!
Doesn't this sort of report typically come just before somebody gets made an example of? I wonder who's first.
If I fits I sits: An investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in cats
Very actual real utility here?

What's utility to you? Is buying a in-game COD skin utility? Or how about roblox bucks? How about the trillion dollar derivatives market?

All those things easily disrupted by DeFi.
I don't know anything about this guy, and I don't care.

Can we discuss the merits of his claims instead?
Oh this triggered some memories! Yes, I've worked for companies that made you return the old pen to get a new one.
> Plausible deniability is a thing.

It only works if you don't hold actors responsible for consequences, only for knowingly doing wrong. For example, if Tesla cars periodically exploded when the batteries drained to zero, Tesla couldn't say 'well, we didn't know'. Nobody cares; it's your job to know. In fact, it adds to the failure that you didn't know (though knowingly selling that product might not be so hot either - not a perfect example).

When does law and regulation require knowledge? When is knowledge part of your responsibility? IMHO, there are civilians and soldiers. The mom & pop convenience store can say 'we didn't know' about some things; Whole Foods, with its resources and expertise, had better know.

Personally, when I'm doing something professionally, I never want to say 'I didn't know'. It's embarrassing. Unless it's some oddball thing that isn't even worth thinking about, it's my job to anticipate and to know. 'I didn't know' means 'I wasn't doing my job, and I don't even understand that my responsibility or what it means to be professional.'
I don't know anything about these authors, and I don't care.

Can we discuss the merits of his claims instead?
> i have a hard time fathoming the combination of ignorance and privilege that would lead a serious, thinking person to make this claim.

I think of myself as a serious person and what went down surrounding the 2020 election absolutely looked like a coup to me. The sitting President and his associates tried to prevent people from voting; once votes were cast they tried to prevent them from being fully counted; once the votes were counted they tried to get the votes thrown out; once the votes were included, they tried, by force, to prevent the election from being certified.

The sitting President and his associates actively stoked a riot and prevented additional support from police and national guard from being provided to secure the Capitol.

Taken in totality, that was a fucking coup attempt. A politician attempted to take power by force.
>Also, there is a pretty major cult in the US that has been forming around one Dr. Fauci as well that has plenty of weird dancing and TikTok singing.

Said cult began very early: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/31/fauci-fan-t...

Soon apparel and votive candles (!): https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/anthony-fauci-poll-f...

Don't forget DC declaring Christmas Eve "Dr. Anthony Fauci Day"! https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/dr-fauci-day-dc...
The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight
I am really pleased Epic is conducting this lawsuit. Even if they lose the lawsuit, it seems likely they'll end up with at least a partial victory by shining light on Apple's practices.

Apple has been a great thing for the world but I find their App Store practices extremely distasteful.
Or that, at scale, there really could be many people that will actually land tails on ten consecutive coin tosses.

And we often kinda say, ‘hey that’s life’.
I see your perspective but I disagree with the conclusions.

Let me put it one other way: if he didn’t organize people and then make that speech, do you think there would have been a riot at all?
VueJS – Dedicated Web Worker Implementation
A Study of Hiring Discrimination at a Jobs Portal
WhatsApp is doing fine despite months-long backlash over policy update
I have a lot to read before I get excited but if the team is here: Can we get DCAT for sets that are otherwise only discoverable with OAI-PMH? Seems like a divide between govt and academic repos that hinders harvesting.
Tax is not even remotely solved, thanks to anonymity on these currencies. How can tax be solved if tax fraud is not solved?

> they do mind that the securities laws have lots of unnecessary contigencies added to them

Specifically what? What laws have what aspects, and more importantly why were they put in place, and why should they not apply to cryptocurrencies (but to other things?).

You're talking as if laws sprung from nature, somehow.
The other replies to your comment don't seem to address your fundamental point that the Kardashians and their kind are in a different category than other celebrities. Their skills are not acting or singing or sports, but rather generating news to keep themselves in the headlines. I don't really recall this being a category until the start of reality TV, and even then it was short-lived after the shows ended. It wasn't until Paris Hilton that I was really aware of how powerful this category can be, and others have figured out the formula as well, leading to the Kardashians and other influencers. The successful ones have the social intelligence to know how and what kind of outrageous or salacious news to generate to attract people who like to feel envy, indignation, and a sense of superiority to famous people to watch their antics, and thus feed the hype machine that keeps them in the spotlight and allows them to reap the rewards of that spotlight.
It’s not about beer.
Very interesting machine.
The target market is for food and other processes that require food grade ingredients or just very clean air.
If they can get cleaner air with less power and maintanance then its
a go.
And the initial model is slated to be 10 to 20 hp ,so the size of a big deepfreez,hundreds of pounds.
100% duty cycle,air and water filtration,clean outs,drains,etc,all has to be assumed to fit into an industrial
environment.
Yep! :)

Go, change it. Run!
I don't know anything about this author, and I don't care.

Can we discuss the merits of his claims instead?
Yeah what I meant is that it just increases the possibilities of awkwardness. Piss of cake, piss process, etc.
I've been pulled over many times. Here's what I do:

1. put my hands on the wheel in plain sight and keep them there

2. when the cop says "driver's license" I say "it's in my wallet in my right front pocket. I do not move.

3. cop says "ok, you can get your wallet".

4. I use one hand to get my wallet and the license.

5. cop says "registration"

6. I say "it's in the glove box" and I do not move.

7. cop says "ok you can get it"

8. I move slowly to get it.

What I never do is lunge for my cell phone, reach under the seat, turn around and try to get something from the back seat, try to grab the officer, try to drive off, etc.

Nothing's perfect, but your odds of survival improve greatly by doing this.

Yes, I've been held at gunpoint by a cop, too. Been robbed at gunpoint as well.
I agree that's one problem. But even without stalking as a business model, the point of ads is mostly to manipulate people into buying things with little regard as to utility.

Look, for example, at large advertisers like Coca Cola. Coke spends ~$1 billion/year in the US alone on ads. That's not because nobody has heard of them. The point is to shift money into Coke's pockets.

Almost all advertising provides no net benefit to society; it's just an arms race between companies competing to manipulate people. If we banned it, we'd quickly find other ways to get people the minimal information content it contains. We'd definitely find ways to spend the $1tn or so that it consumes now. And that's not even counting the benefits from less waste and market distortion caused by advertising.
> It's not mutually exclusive. And I'll throw out there that the days of the most competition in the ISP space, the days of dial up, had these same provisions on the books. Since it was based on phone lines, the last mile providers were all full Title II Common Carriers, with these same provisions.

Yet since regulation was introduced, the ISP market became consolidated. This is yet another example of an unintended consequence of regulation. Proving compliance has costs that the smaller ISPs are less able to afford than the large ISPs.

> but no one can point to the actual burden except in vague, propagandistic terms deeper than name dropping "regulation".

I encourage you to re-read my previous posts & pay attention to what I'm saying, instead of replying with formulaic propaganda. I point out many of the burdens, effects on the market, opportunity costs, effects on distributed computing, regulatory capture, regulatory pork, compliance costs, etc. I can go to the EFF website to read your arguments. The contexts have changed. The burden of proof is on you since you want more laws.
Here is a popular list of available jobs.[0] The site started by listing day work jobs which means a job that is only day to day. The captain usually picks up the day workers in the morning who are crew between jobs and they sand the rails, varnish, clean bilges, wash the yachts, and detail the metal work. The site lists lots of other more permanent jobs too and is a popular resource for people in the industry.

> "144192 5/4/2021 Yacht Looking for 8 day workers to wash and detail yacht on Monday May 10th. 8 hours. FT LAUDERDALE"

That job probably pays $15 - $20 an hour cash under the table and the chef will make them all lunch. Not a bad gig job. 8 day workers? That's a lot, they wouldn't need that many people for 120 foot yacht[1]. The price of that yacht probably starts at something like $18,000,000. It would be a nothing burger to install anything on that boat with nobody noticing.

[0] https://www.daywork123.com/JobAnnouncementList.aspx

[1] https://www.denisonyachtsales.com/yachts-for-sale/?brand=&mi...
Your argument is: don't use the internet because electric utility providers are profiting off you.
> How does being a victim imply that nothing can be done?

Because if you had no role in the matter, you couldn't have prevented it.
Preserving and Unifying Open Source
Cut a pipe on the back of a fridge and it'll run open circuit just fine. Doesn't make it appreciably louder. (beware, some fridge gasses are illegal to vent to the atmosphere, and others are pretty explosive)
Most of the comments here seem to revolve around "traditional" crytocurrencies that are more or less copycats of Bitcoin with no real value-add.

I think what most people don't realize is how much crypto has changed since 2017, mainly through Ethereum and the concept of smart contracts. The idea of running (immutable) functions on a decentralized network combined with transaction of value has so many interesting applications, that I believe we haven't even scratched the surface of what's possible.

Shameless plug: We're in the middle of validating/refining an idea for a tokenized e-commerce platform. The main idea is that a tokenized platform can shift the incentives for all actors to produce drastically different outcomes. So we're more about embracing the game-theoretical side of crypto than the technical side.

https://shopla.shop

Curious what you guys think, any feedback is welcome.
I support a two hundred dollar an hour minimum wage. It simply just pulls the most people out of poverty in a direct way.
Had an NXT2.0 as kid and my first language was thus labview! Quite fun stuff indeed. If you want more DIY stuff or have old (lego) servos lying around, check out brickpi [0], a rpi hat for driving the lego i2c servos/sensors.
Also, alternative firmware: https://www.ev3dev.org/ (quite a nice feeling to be turning a lego motor from console using 'echo run > /sys/class/servo-motor/motor3/command').

[0] https://www.dexterindustries.com/brickpi/.
How is what I said a false dichotomy? I'm not saying those are the only two possibilities. I'm just saying they're not one and the same, which my parent comment implied they were.
RISC-V really shines when the op-compression extension and macro-op fusion are taken into account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542963

Many of the early critiques of RISC-V have not considered that. And many points become entirely moot in light of these techniques.
The coup attempt was not in the form of the mob themselves taking control. It was the mob trying to disrupt the process of transferring power sufficiently enough to enable or inspire other mechanisms of action. There were, for example, calls for President Trump to declare martial law. It doesn't matter that their plan was vague, poorly coordinated, or unlikely to succeed. They intended to disrupt the transfer of power and executed their intentions violently, injuring over 100 police officers in the attempt. As any number of idiotic criminals in jail can attest to, incompetence in crime does not negate the criminal act.

It also doesn't take nearly as much effort by a mob to accomplish its goals when the people who would help stop it stand idly by: 1) Not enough security was provided in first place 2) Reinforcements took hours to mobilize 3) The President refused to take any action to defuse the situation.
> When the average person proposes an implausible-sounding idea, its implausibility is evidence of their incompetence.

I mean, this is basically QAnon, antivaxxers, creationists and trickle-down economists in a nutshell. That said . . .

> Are they mistaken, or are you? One of you has to be.

By default I assume I'm in the wrong. There's just so many domains of knowledge, the probability of me having enough depth of even more than a handful is highly unlikely. The hard part is distinguishing those who are domain experts, and those who are not, when you are not a domain expert.

> If you're the one who's mistaken, that would be good to know, because it means there's a hole in your model of the world.

And I love viewing everything as a mental model, because, well, it is, plus models are plastic: they can be changed. Asimov's "Relativity of Wrong" comes to mind.
wow, well, tiny/cheap/low power stuff is certainly getting quite capable these days!
Ironically, nowadays it is becoming difficult even to find a specific product that you wanted to buy.
That's actually not correct at all. Hello World is slow because you have to start up the JVM. Once it's started it's rather fast. Your web application has the same JVM startup cost but not a lot more than that.
WOW... that's frustrating! Thank you...
> most stuff that a layperson would say is reasonable for a website to function isn't a problem in GDPR.

Except revenue of course.
What if asset issuers ("crypto manufacturers") imposed contractual price ceilings/floors?

Probably more realistic with exchanges ("authorized resellers") than individual traders.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Yea there is a specific rule that prohibits throttling in the 2015 order: https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

The caveat is that throttling is allowed if it is “reasonable network management” which is defined as actions being done with a “technical network management justification.”

And this is where legislation ends, under the ambiguity of reasonable and technical. Comcast tested this when a complaint was filed against them for throttling BitTorrent. I consider throttling BitTorrent “reasonable” and justifiable under purely “technical” reasons but clearly other people disagree. Enough people probably disagree that they had to deny any such throttling practices, meaning that in practice they would likely not be allowed to throttle based on technical reasons alone.