skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole point of a trustless transaction is that you don't need to worry about who the counterparty is. You don't need the leverage to sue somebody because fraud is not possible.

Payment reversal is not possible, fraud is still just as possible as it is with a traditional transaction. If I were selling a fake van Gogh, I'd prefer BTC for the transaction, but if I were selling a legit van Gogh I'm not worried about being sued over, a wire would suffice. I would think more than twice about transacting with anyone in large amounts who insists on transacting in BTC.
What does "within their own borders" mean?

I'm in Australia. If I buy ads on Google I believe I'm actually dealing with Google Ireland, because the money goes there.

But they have servers in Australia. But their headquarters is in the US.

The EU approach (~"oh, you want to move where you measure your revenue around? Ok, we will look at global revenue") seems like a logical response to the way multinationals use corporate structure to avoid tax.
> Most people are roughly the same in terms of physical and mental capability

Most of the people on the street? Yes. Most of the people in a history book or at the top of their fields? Not remotely. The author of this is in the second category.
In Wake of Pipeline Hack, Biden Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity
As far as I know all crypto is considered securities by the IRS.
Right, men are a minority in many fields (like Biology) but you would not call them a 'minority' group.
His doc repeatedly said programs that are aimed at a helping women and people of color should be ended. And that diversity of gender and race should not be a goal. I don't think it's a big leap.
What I don't get is, why people are talking about environmental impact per transaction. Transactions or not, the computers are churning constantly to solve the useless function that would produce the hash with the most 0s in it.

It really doesn't have anything to do with transactions(the fees are only a fraction of the profits). The energy impact would be precisely correlated to the fiat price since the miners will be paying for the energy and equipment in fiat.

Transactions or not, the higher the price, the dirtier the proof of work blockchain is.

Just look at the most recent block: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000002865...

reward: 6.25BTC
fees for transactions: 0.5BTC

total revenue: 6.75BTC, that is ~ $350K at the moment.

Each block is mined every 10min on average, so it is 2.1M per hour. So the total energy consumption is limited to $2.1M per hour or $1.5B per month at this price. It would be $150M if the price was $5k instead and $30B if the price goes to $1M per BTC. When that happens, 1 transaction will amount to the energy consumption of an American family for 1 year or more. At $1M per BTC, $360,000,000,000 worth of energy would be wasted per year on calculating a hash of a block that is functionally exactly the same with the same amount of transaction as the one calculated for $360, $3.6 or $0.03.

I'm sure I'm missing something like investors betting on price increases, infrastructure elasticity etc. but the correlation must be roughly like that.
The scientific community is wide.

You can speak for yourself, and perhaps even the community of nuclear scientists as a whole.

It stands to reason a group of scientists working towards developing nuclear power are going to be proponents.
To me, it's like gold=Bitcoin, I can fully trust it and know that it will be here in 100 years from now, functioning just the same and that my wallet from today will be perfectly functional, and oil=Ethereum, it's an awesome platform that allows me to run a variety of different financial operations with different assets (including Bitcoin), but it's much more nimble, things are a lot less set in stone and I frankly have no idea what it'll look like in 100 years from now or even if it will still be the dominant defi platform.

A parallel is like, today we only have 1 thing that's gold and many banks/financial institutions that provide variety of services. All these institutions combined are worth a lot of money (the largest banks combined have roughly ~2T$ in market cap[1]), but gold market cap is like 11T$.

Just my 2 cents, I own both and hope both succeed.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/431751/leading-banks-usa...
Well, if you favor watching your neighbors rot instead of contributing to raise them up, if you consider taxes paid for social welfare to be theft, you don't have to stay in California. Nobody forces you to live in a society.
Ok, and then the new version is only supported by chrome. So they still need to keep their old rendering engine up to date. Will the other big browsers ever go along with supporting it? Or will that work be lamented as google trying to own the web and just updating standards that benefit their bottom line?
Haskell (or adjacent language like Ocaml, Scala, PureScript, Elm) is definitely a prerequisite to getting something out of the post.
I have no idea what this means. Are you suggesting the delivery of paper mail in the US is an idea whose time has passed? There are both generations of people who would disagree with you and people in different circumstances that would as well.
As usual, it’s taken out of context.

He is comparing Bay Area girls to a girl he was sleeping with whose family moved here from Russia when she was a teenager and who “had spent years backpacking through jobs in rougher parts of the world”.

This is the reference to “worldliness”.

Being raised in the Bay Area compared to the experience of a family descended from Russia is of course going to result in a different upbringing and personality.

I don’t think this is hard to argue with unless you are naive to history and have not spoken to those who lives through 20th century Eastern Europe.

Ironic, as the lack of “worldliness” that those refute, is the same quality that prevents them from appreciating the sentiment in the quote.
This guy is a joke, that people on HN use him as a source for anything is sad.
This is an excellent news for cryptocurrencies. It is tragic that most real-word integrations seems to focus on Bitcoin because it was the first mover when there’s hundreds of other cryptocurrencies that are more efficient and green than bitcoin. Bitcoin is pretty much the same it was in 2009 whereas there’s been a LOT of advances to question why anyone would own or use bitcoin today.

Now I’ll take bets on what cryptocurrency they’ll settle on next. Will it be algorand? Avalanche? Celo? The choice will be hard.
> The bill will also keep companies that produce food from...cell cultures, not slaughtered animals, from using the label “meat,”

Do we need to make up a new word for “chunks of bovine muscle tissue” if it wasn’t cut out of a whole-ish cow?

Sounds to me like it’s about entrenched farming interests throwing red tape at a perceived threat, not “truth in advertising”. No plant burger or vegan cheeze on the market is nefariously hiding their true identity. They actively market their non-meat-ness, to appeal to their main demographic of meat-avoiders, in big green letters on their packaging. There’s no confusion between their earthy/futurey brand names, versus the old-fashioned-farmer style branding of their slaughtered-animal (their words!) counterparts.
AnandTech says there is one separate integer division unit in the A14 Firestorm which is what the M1 is based on. The article even mentions an increase in latency for integer division for the A14.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/Firestorm_575px.png
There's also a few potential compounding layers in this.

- big corp buys btc, makes btc legit, raises confidence and price

- new cryptomillionaire find new friend in musk, and consider tesla the car brand of crypto, spend their money on tesla, including bitcoin, so tesla bitcoin wallet grows, while the company value grows while the asset grows..

it's all shower thought but I found it a fun business trick
"Whenever you port a big program to another language it is important to be conservative, in my view."

Either be very conservative or just tear things up. I think the middle ground is the worst, where you can't decide whether it's a rewrite or a port.
>This is, I think, the mother of all false equivalencies.

I kind of set you up for this one.

> don’t think it’s right or proper to equate discussions in a diversity channel with the monstrously hateful discourse that often occurs on nastier subreddits or 4chan and the like.

The point I was trying to make is, one person's "hateful discourse" is another person's relatively benign politics. When "hatespeech" is anything right of Trotsky, math[1], acronyms[2], getting to work on time[3], objectiveness[3], etc., it's no longer just the nasty stuff that every agrees is disgusting and has no place at work. Now "hatespeech" and "white supremacy" can be practically anything.

>For a very stretched definition of “marginalized,” perhaps.

It's not a "stretched definition", it's literally the definition [4].

>Shopify is a Canadian company based (I believe) in Ottawa, so I don’t think this is really a useful thing to discuss. Shutting down these conversations is happening far outside the place where you allege conservatives to be marginalized.

I was under the assumption that the majority of the developers and such are out of the Bay Area, even though it's HQ is elsewhere. If most of the workers are in left-wing areas, then this holds.

>I think it’s dystopian to simply accept mistreatment.

Depends on if you believe it's mistreatment or not. If I view it as consensual and positive, who are you to say otherwise?

>You deserve better; what incentive do you really have to settle? Unless you’re a CEO shitposting under a throwaway … you aren’t going to get what they have. Like you admit, they don’t care. Why roll over and accept a raw deal?

I'm fine with not making as much as a founder, CEO, etc., I'm not a jealous classist. I live a life that 99.999% of humanity could only dream of living, make a solid income, great benefits, etc. I don't view it as a "raw deal".

>The company is nothing without your labor.

Your labor is nothing without the company. Again, we agreed to work where we work.

>No employer would ever agree to that in a contract. In fact, most employers would never let you put anything in a contract, actually. That’s risky from their view. So this whole line of thinking is self-defeating: you and I both know it’s not a viable option. Why bother debating it? I mean, hell, Coinbase just said they won’t even negotiate salary anymore, the one thing you could actually negotiate for. It’s not an option, practically speaking; it’s just a way to shut down discussion.

Then don't apply to that company, find another company that is more inline with your ideals/morals, or contract, or start your own company. Also, vote so that you get the benefits that you think you deserve by law. Just don't complain the way you have when not everyone sees eye-to-eye with you.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/math-suffers-white-supremacy-accord...
[2] https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/school-renaming-SFUSD-a...
[3] https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/17/smithsonian-a...
[4] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/marginalize
But think of all the jobs and money involved in moving those trees.
This is so 2017 and a lot of people just don't want to realize it, because of personal gain.

Reminder: in 2017 woocommerce, square, steam, ... Started to add crypto currency as payment method and then removed it again.
Google translate handled all but that pic, Theo! Thnx!
A Soprano On Her Head is available at archive.org, and I found a seller for Bold Beginnings here: https://www.naomialdort.com/book-bold-beginnings.html
But then just use their framework and not their hosting service, i do not understand the issue. I serve my homepage with Next.js on my own k3s cluster with no issues, image optimization and all.
Can someone help me make the time show right on HTTPS://chatcomm.net?
Would such a strategy be illegal?
Why do we assume that it can be fixed? Even if there were no time constraint at all, and you could abolish all moderation tools to spend an hour carefully analyzing each individual post, I suspect you'd produce a lot of valid moderation complaints from people with different but reasonable assumptions. I don't think there exists any good strategy for moderating such controversial issues.
> Musk smartly decided he did not want to risk his half a trillion dollar company on random bitcoin fluctuations.

so musk realized finally that bitcoin is volatile. he's an idiot. his stupid appearance on snl confirms this perspective for me. why are so many people listening to this dimwit. he has nothing of value to offer or say. he should keep his stupid mouth shut. he's worse than trump in that regard.
It's insane to me that you have no way to opt out. In Australia you just stick a "no junk mail" sign on your box and its now illegal to send you promotional material.
You are justifiably miffed! Return it and get the regular sonicare (eg from Costco) which has no app and no tracking.

I am the last person to suggest that an $80 toothbrush should replace a free or <$5 toothbrush but this is one of those rare things that are actually worth it. Your teeth feel 10x cleaner.
Because that's the fundamental, distinctive, unique thing about computers. That's the reason we bother with computers in the first place.

There's certainly nothing wrong with using a computer for other stuff, also. Or even exclusively, not everyone needs to be a programmer, that's for sure. I would argue, however, that algorithmic thinking/basic scripting is a very important piece of human knowledge, is it really more esoteric than Latin or Greek, which are routinely taught to high-school students?

> For that matter I could equally argue that a pure front-end developer isn't really computer literate...

There are different levels of literacy. A 7-year old and a PhD in English literature are both literate, but not at the same level. Same goes for computer-related knowledge, it's a bottomless pit, like any other interesting field.
The average dev has never taken a look at a lispy language and so cannot hate it. For the ones being hesitant to dip their toes in it, how can they really hate, what they do not know? It seems more like not being interest, than "hating" it, where "it" is the essence of such a language.

Macros, DSLs, well, of course you can abuse then, like anything else in computer programming. However, there are many examples of how they can be used in a great way. Look at some Racket macro things like typed Racket for example. Or look at pipelining operators. Or timing. Or memoization. All these are very well usable and there is no problem with using them in a team. Well written macros allow taking cool features from other languages to your Scheme dialect of choice.

Emacs is still well liked. I recommend you get on the mailing list and read a few weeks about how varied its usage is. Very active mailing list.

Libraries of lower quality? Even "much lower"? Where is your source for that? Not sure which specific ecosystem you have looked at, but that experience is completely different from mine.

Aside from the fact, that I can usually solve the problems by just using Guile features, Scheme and SRFIs, not even needing an external library, there are very clever people active in the ecosystems of lispy languages (including GNU Guile) and FP languages, outputting high quality code, often going beyond what some mainstream language library does, while using good abstractions to do so.

It is important, that languages like GNU Guile, which implement interesting and powerful concepts, continue to attract people, who want to learn more than the mainstream fad and improve the status quo. It is a great journey of learning, which I recommend to any software developer looking to widen their horizon and to improve their skill.
I am not a BCI engineer (IANABCIE?), but I think the selling point of NeuraLink is the robot surgery aspect.

Designing the full stack to be minimally intrusive seems unique.
Speculative links between schizophrenia and urbanization have been based on some sort of big city cold shoulder versus the warm pastoral P's and Q's you get in a small town. Could the simpler explanation just be "the air is dirty?"
Butarin donated 1B dollars (in ETH) to India Covid relief
The last paragraph sounds so no weird to people who have worked years of their life in firmware development.

Of course it's workable. It does have a lot of gotchas and seems to foment a propensity to reinvent the wheel (Although that also relates to the limited contexts in which it is used).

I'd generally avoid it unless it really is the right tool, in which case, just approach it in a methodical way, like every other project.
Does it though? If you actually use bitcoin like a currency to purchase goods then I doubt these laws would work the same.
All good, I don't know if I explained the idea clearly. It looks like this is a far better version of the idea: https://github.com/susam/texme
"Engineering improvements could be made to the onboard heating system" - handy for winter.

How often have new pis been released in the past? Would have been useful for making guess at next one's release.
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It's a design pattern that ensures testability of the system without any dependencies on the big files.
Why would it be an act of war if what Russia is currently doing is not an act of war? We won't enforce criminal penalties against people who commit crimes against people who do not enforce criminal penalties against people who commit crimes against us. Admittedly, it's a mouthful to say - but it's a simple symmetric proposition.
I notice you didn't come back to me on my last point. Maybe that's something we can agree on ;)
Hopefully people start to focus on cryptocurrencies with good fundamentals and actual use cases instead of tradition and dog memes.

Ada can probably benefit a lot from this, since it's proof of stake instead of proof of work and has potential to be used as an actual currency.

IMO, Monero also has good fundamentals and use cases (privacy). It's PoW, but from a technical standpoint, it's much, much better than Bitcoin as both cash and store of value.
There's a local takeaway that easily sends me 10 pieces of junk mail a year. Some days when I'm feeling grumpy, I imagine myself and a few neighbours storing it up and returning a years worth to the takeaway so they can deal with disposing of it.
Does "/" have a concrete meaning? I vaguely think it means "with" or "and" or "or", but it seems more ambiguous.
The IRS treats crypto as property in general, not a currency. That’s why there are capital gains or losses with each transaction.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
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> If I ask my Jewish friends, they'll say Palestine is inciting violence. If I ask my Palestinian friends, they'll say Israel is.

Inciting violence is a broad definition.
There are two sides at war, each one using what they have at hand to fight the other side, however when we see regular well equipped troops our brain thinks "Army", while when there are random masked citizens with AK47s, we immediately think "Terrorists", also thanks to well crafted western propaganda.
As Peter Ustinov said: "terrorism is the war of the poor, war is the terrorism of the rich"; I see two sides battling, but one side just follows orders while the other defends their homes, therefore I am 100% with the Palestinians.
In Russia junk mail isn't handled by the postal service. The companies that spam people just hire someone to stuff leaflets into people's mailboxes. There's not much you can do to stop it, especially if you live in a large building.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-gaza-fighting-pakistani-ac...

Hundreds of thousands upvoted a fake hitler quote… will they get banned for inciting violence? Hopefully…?
You mean the app doesn't show posts? It does. You can't add anything, but you can see everything when you log in as guest.
This is the guy that says that young people shouldn’t get vaccinated and a couple of months ago that Indians shouldn’t get vaccinated because they already had herd immunity from infection. He literally wants everyone to get infected, and everything he has published during the pandemic supports this. Contact tracing, if it worked, would be at cross purposes with his desired outcome.

If this isn’t your desired outcome, take his reasoning with a skeptical eye.
The article you link to doesn't claim anything like that.
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Wow - that's really cool also. Cheers!
I have the same toothbrush that my dentist recommended.

I just use it as an electric toothbrush. I briefly looked up some details on the app, realized it made zero sense to install it, and now I just use it as a toothbrush.

I'm sure my dentist made a commission on that toothbrush I puchased through her, and billed my insurance for it, as well as gets some kind of kickback from Phillips to hawk their products. I guess she needs to pay for her dental school tuition loans somehow. Either way, I haven't gone back to her since.
There is a far more eco-friendly alternative to proof-of-work (PoW) called proof-of-stake (PoS).

I wonder if a serious discussion will finally begin on moving Bitcoin to PoS. This will certainly have a strong opposition and will likely lead to a fork, i.e. two cryptocurrencies will exist at the same time, call them BTC-PoW and BTC-PoS.

In any case these news are a leap forward in the crypto space. IMO, replacing PoW by PoS is a bit like replacing incandescent light bulbs with LEDs at home.
Is there anything actually binding and backing this statement? I’d love to know if there’s anything at all in regards to how public companies have to treat crypto currency ownership.
So the large blog post is just an elaborate lie?
Which currency lost 4/5th of it's value ( 20 k to 4,5 k) till covid started over a couple of years?

That's not "a few basis points"
I don't fully understand the part about Dutch shell companies, but it seems perfectly believable that Uber would have $6B in revenue and still operate at a loss (and owe no income taxes). Isn't that the big criticism of Uber's business model -- that they can't turn a profit at rates people are willing to pay while also compensating drivers?
> The environmental impact was well known before they bought it, so it's a little odd that they'd reverse course because of that.

I wonder if the original decision to accept bitcoin was a quick decision by the CEO, but now the rest of the company and the shareholders have persuaded them it isn't a public relations risk they should be taking. Imagine the headline - "Every Tesla EV bought with bitcoin gives off more CO2 than a gas car!"
sorry, how that change our sympathy to the phrasing exactly?

The whole point of having users captive, is that you can offer the crappiest option and charge for it. And by charging for it you restrict who (and how) have access to it.
I agree with you on the muscle tissue grown in a lab, if it's more or less the same as bovine tissue from an ex-animal, I think it's fair to call it beef.

New synthetic materials though should find their own nouns to use and not coöpt terms with longstanding meanings.