skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your proposal isn't trustless anymore

not black and white. I didn't say to drop collateral channels to have credit, but to use credit in addition to collateral on receiving side. Also, on ETH those credits are enforceable (as i answered below) so it is far better than a custodial balance.

> where its no longer common to get payment failures?

nothing changed, the inbound capacity flaw is fundamental. Download a wallet - you can't receive a payment - full stop. Until this is solved say goodbye to adoption. With credits on both sides the total capacity of the network skyrockets. And somebody is taking the risks anyway, either liquidity providers as in delusional LN model, or users themselves as in XLN.
Just wondered the same and found this: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...
In my experience, I have seen literally 0 devs that are trying to increase miner profits. No one is worried that miners aren't getting paid enough.
A month later I'm sure Elon will be talking about how he sold solar roofs and batteries to miners and is again accepting BTC and Doge.
Neurosignal decoding was the topic of my PhD (which, to be fair, I quit after a year).

Every time an article comes up on the topic, I read through the comments section and realise how full of shit we all are here at HN. Then I read another article and assume the commenters are all smart people who understand the topic at hand.

I can't remember what the law that describes this is called, but it is absolutely real.
In such cases though I always have a nagging suspicion they are fixing things I don't need or gold plating the service. It definitely happens to some people.

So, I always feel better with a small amount of understanding to arm the BS detector.
You're saying we should rename the popular nut spread (the one that pairs well with jelly) to something like "peanut margarine"?
> Coinbase banned all salary and equity negotiations for its future hiring and instead plans to offer identical pay to every employee in the same position and location in an effort to eliminate the lingering effects of early-career pay disparities.
Why? Singapore doesn't tax capital gains. There isn't anything Canada or Russia can stake a claim to.
If the police are using untraceable cash, that should tip anyone off that what they are doing certainly isn't something good, even criminal.

Law enforcement always needs to be visible and held accountable to the public, never any 'exceptions'.
Some people just can't see the economic absurdity of it. Imagine if the FED announced that future USD would be printed into the accounts of USD holders by balance size, but that you have to have a high initial balance to be eligible and that the poors need to assemble little pools of other poors to split a reward. That's proof of stake as proposed. It's that simple and that stupid.
bitcoin was already unpopular with environmentalists when tesla started accepting it
Chia is a great project, but proof of space and time is just another expression of proof of work. In this case the work is to procure disks, which are made from stuff, toxic stuff. I don’t think an environmental argument for chia works, no solar/wind farm can magic up Silicon for SSDs.
Is the premise here that beyond beef et al. are trying to trick customers into thinking they are buying regular beef? A moment's thought reveals that to be utterly absurd. Their business model is entirely dependent on people buying their product specifically because it is plant-based. Seems like old-fashioned protection of a favored industry.
A lot of overlap with Knime and Rapidminer. Why approach it with visual programming vs the direct execution graph approach like they do?
How bout just don’t use it. You can lie to your dentist. He’s going to just tell you to floss more either way.

He’s just pushing it on you because some pharma rep came in and bought him a nice steak and bottle of wine at the Capital Grille.

Same as how you get all those shirts from Splunk and USB drives from Salesforce or whoever at ReInvent.
I have no judgement either way about misanthrope, but I think it's become clear that Elon Musk is one. He laughs when his words harm people. He intentionally causes suffering in the world. He isn't trying to save the planet, he's trying to get off of it. He coerced employees to work against their better health. He likes Trump, if you don't like Trump. He's eliminated right to repair. His rockets burn a lot of fuel and produce a lot of CO2. His satellites block the the view of existing telescope infrastructure and add a lot of material to LOE space. He's extracting billions of dollars from the tax payers and he's the richest guy on the planet while people are literally starving, homeless, and suicidal.

For many, who once believed in him, their eyes have been opened. More to come, I'm sure. Slowly but surely, humanists are starting to see that Elon isn't on their side...

Any of our sides... not even his own employees, customers, or shareholders.
> a barely sentient milquetoast "democrat"

Much to my surprise, the "milquetoast" has had one of the most successful starts to a presidency ever. Whether it is the civil war (uncivil??) within the GOP or the fact everybody underestimates "Sleepy Joe". He has had a great start to his presidency.

Any non-Trump candidate would look good just by not tweeting at 3.00am. Sleepy Joe is more effective than Sax-playing Bill or No drama Obama because no one is paying attention. And that is good for America and the world.
i agree, but it will never happen.
Elon didn’t take a bet.

Bitcoin and crypto is basically a gamble. But what Musk and Tesla did wasn’t a gamble.

What they did was to effectively monetize Musk’s cult like following and his well earned reputation. They knew with the greatest certainty that the news of Tesla/Musk supporting crypto would lift crypto, so they managed to make money off it.
> it makes little sense for Igor, Zina and Rustem to climb back up the slope in a weakened state if they knew the tent was inaccessible from tons of frozen snow on top of it.

That's a speculative statement. "it makes little sense" as an argument is weak on its own, but is 10x weaker when it's based on supposition you just invented regarding the state of their tent and their somehow knowing that state well.
I despise LFS.

I’m sure that if you know how to use it... maybe... you can figure it out.

That said; here’s my battle story:

Estimate the time it’ll take to move all our repositories from a to b they said.

Us: with all branches?

Them: just main and develop.

Us: you just clone and push to the new origin, it’s not zero but it’s trivial.

Weeks later...

Yeah. LFS is now banned.

LFS is not a distributed version control system; once you use it, a clone is no longer “as good” as the original, because it refers to a LFS server that is independent of your clone.

...also, actually cloning all the LFS content from git lab is both slow and occasionally broken in a way that requires you to restart the clone.

:(
For a rebuttal to your analysis, please see this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27136533
Wouldn't it be fair for Intel to feel bad about that?
I've sold my TSLA weeks ago but I am keeping my crypto ;)
Open source != zero cost.
Keep in mind that bitcoin is software. It can, and will be upgraded. If Ethereum ends up leading the way with proof of stake and it ends up being a success, then there is no reason to believe that bitcoin wouldn't follow in its footsteps. Crypto is a concept, as much as it is an individual coin game. Bitcoin may not end up being the leader, but your money will definitely change in the future, and it will absolutely be because of crypto currencies.
The actual transactions must all still be transmitted, so this "compression" is actually a way to avoid transmitting transaction data that has already been received by the other side. Bitcoin already does this and while maybe xthinner is better (I don't know) its absolutely not a 99X improvement over standard bitcoin. The problem with the bch people was that they were reckless and dishonest, not that they didn't occasionally create interesting things and have good points. It was a community that was problematic, but still contained some people doing good work.
My mom had a lot of trouble with this. The best route ended up being to stop and talk to the workers every time she saw a cable company truck. Eventually, she met the foreman for the team that wires up new housing developments. He was able to give her a number to call. Thousands of dollars, dozens of phone calls, and about two years later, she had cable at her house!
Completely different from a VC firm giving you $100 million in exchange for some equity with the understanding that they just might lose it all and get nothing back.

What do you think a tax deduction for mortgage interest is, if not a way to avoid taxing individuals on part of their revenue?
It’s so funny how everyone just plays this definition game. Try to expand a definition of something bad to include everything you don’t like.

At this point I don’t think white supremacy even has a meaning anymore.
True, it is more complex than it might seem at first glance. One of my EE classes had us go out to a power plant to tour it and they talked about some of the complexity (because grid wide you get larger swings). They used to count on something like 80% of the households turning on the oven at 5PM while dinner was being prepared. They had actuarial staff that really dug into these numbers because some conditions would require starting up a 'peaker' plant and that took 3 - 4 hours to bring online from dead stop, about 1.5 hours from a "warm" start.
Or, did someone higher up leak information to Musk on upcoming regulation?

I guess we might know if Musk sells his coins.

(And no--I have no evidence. I just know wealthy boys get information. Even the people who didn't like Musk did 180's after his ingratiating performance Saturday Night Live. For the record, I have always liked Musk.)
Or he thinks that the best thing to do for the environment is to pump up Tesla by any means necessary.
Given this thread is about rural areas that's not really an issue. Believe they have mentioned it being an issue in dense cities initially at least.
You don't have to do too much homework at this point to see Biden is fading. He isn't the same man he was 10 years ago. I voted for him, but lets not kid ourselves.
Individuals are broadly taxed like companies in most western countries, it just turns out that most individuals don't actually incur many expenses in producing their income.
Is that...surprising?

By definition those who retire have enough wealth to not work.

The headline and the article make it seem unusual that working class people aren't wealthy.
It’s crazy that we’re at the point of such massive globalization that sophisticated companies can literally play different business/tax laws of countries off of each other
I think it's probably indicative of a trend that Tesla doesn't want to incentivize any further. Tesla's mission is all about moving away from fossil fuels.

Prior, lean was towards renewable sources like hydro because of lower cost of surplus energy.
A local publication had one of the best first person accounts of TBI and the resulting rehab I’ve ever read and I always think about this whenever the subject comes up.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/apr/21/cover/
I cannot pull up studies now (on mobile), but it’s believed to be more of an issue about change of identity than disability or brain injury.

1. Audio Narrated Version of New Yorker Article: https://share.audm.com/share/newyorker/mind-machines-kenneal...

2. New Yorker Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/do-brain-impla...

My work in AI revolves around biophysical signals. I do not use AI generally in this case but I use a 19 channel EEG (using an EEG cap) for experiments in closed-loop controls. It requires a lot of RAM (ideally 32 GB if not more) to prevent latency.
bring on the ARM support
Bitcoin incorporated Compact Blocks which similar improves average case behavior.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawi...

Things like thinblocks or compact blocks only help on average. Bitcoin must be robust for worst case.
Do people really want to have a debate on the ethics and morality of forcibly taking property, income, and labor from people or businesses under the threat of violence? Aka taxation?
Yes. Or "peanut spread", "peanut smooth", "peanut stuff". There are dozens of more honest options.
Paypal isn't meaningfully decentralized. And Ethereum isn't sufficiently decentralized. Their throughput is part of what prevents Ethereum from being actually decentralized - pretty much no normal person can run a full ethereum node.
...because we already sold it!
You’re not stuck. You just need to add printlns
> Economic theory says that (assuming a competitive market) the selling price of the object should converge upon the incremental cost to produce the object.

This does not need to apply always. Does money have the value equal to production cost?
I think it's fascinating that modern theories seem to mostly or entirely disregard the possibility that they were murdered by a small group of locals that attacked their camp in the middle of the night. That would have to be included on the obviously plausible list given the unusual and intense blunt force injuries that so many of them suffered. The article of course rather comically dismisses the premise as though it warrants no attention.

Maybe some people didn't like them traversing their land, didn't appreciate the spectacle of it, or wanted to keep outsiders out. All very common themes historically. They tracked them, chose an opportune time and attacked them to make a point to outsiders. It's not even necessary that the primary objective was to intentionally murder them, merely to beat them severely and prompt the group to leave, which in those conditions could easily result in everyone dying regardless.

Infrasound as a premise is absurd and can be safely dismissed, they wouldn't have all neglected to properly cover themselves, and they wouldn't have all reacted similarly as in such intense group fear. No group collectively simultaneously panics in such a stupid manner and somehow magically mass brute-force injures themselves all at different locations; as they were not fools and did have an understanding of the elements. They very rapidly fled in terror for their lives, as if attacked suddenly / caught off guard - whether by other people, by a falling tree (and fear of more), or slab of ice. You probably don't flee a mile to a streambed out of fear of a falling tree however, and you don't entirely abandon your group for dead back there (a falling tree/s scenario presents plausible time to regroup and seek clothing). The group of three in the streambed was killed / murdered later, as the article notes they could have never likely made it there if their injuries had existed prior (they were not killed by magic falling trees); they were probably tracked to the streambed area and attacked, after initially successfully fleeing the original attack on the camp. Those in the streambed fled over a mile, which is a very intense thing to do in such conditions; you only do that if you believe you can't safely go back to the camp for some very good reason (where going back means very plausible death; they abandoned their comrades in fleeing so far, keep that in mind). So who/what murdered the people in the streambed? The reasonable explanations drop to only a few very quickly. The girl in the streambed was found in a very unusual backward facing position [1], she looks like she was turning away, trying to escape when she died. The attack group found them and finished the job.

You slash one side of the tent to go the other direction away from the attack party, and possibly to avoid being spotted fleeing if at all possible.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/SugfSgt.jpg
Possible Fraud in Ocean Acidification and Fish Behavior Studies
Is it fine to call a piece of beef "vegan" because the cow only ate crass and corn, and never ate fish meal an other food supplements made of animal?
Nothing wrong with calling it plant protein.

Mayonnaise is just a dressing like thousand island, Russian, ranch and hundreds of others who acquired their own names.

Yogurt I'm mildly ok with since basically it just means coagulated milk and also includes the necessary bacteria.
With git-annex you have the same "one-way door" behavior: it replaces large files with a pointer to the content (in git-annex, it's a relative symbolic link which by default encodes the real file's size and hash), which is stored in git-annex's own database.
I wish people would step back from conspiracy thinking and trying so hard to explain specific injuries and apply some occam's razor logic. eg people freaked out by an avalanche are going to bolt in their underwear; simplest explanation.
It's a figure of speech and meant to be completely neutral and independent of the actual person. Just like "the face of the company", e.g. Pat Gelsinger in the case of Intel or Tim Cook for Apple.
> You are going to get downvoted to Oblivion

Wait. Why should I worry about getting down voted? These aren't points or money or bitcoin. There is no reward at the end of the day for how many votes you rack up on hacker news.

I had an opinion, I should have added more substance to the comment (I added some more below), but regardless. My opinion didn't offend anybody, I didn't purposely set out to hurt/insult anyone. I didn't use foul language. The opinion seems to be out of favor, yet no one addresses the fact that paying waiters > $20 is going to be a big problem coming out of the pandemic. (inflation, deflation, stagflation, chose your poison)

I have noticed it for a while, there seems to be group think on hacker news, kinda smells like stack overflow.
You're giving him a bit too much credit. He should have never made Tesla invest money in BTC, that's just a bad PR move. Now they have to do damage control.
I count Stroustrup, Walter Bright... and 10 posers
Yeah, I'm wondering why Google isn't building a desktop version of their office apps in electron. I can practically hear the collective sigh of relief upon those landing in users ' laps.
Bitcoin is not a security nor a protected commodity market, so does the SEC even have jurisdiction?

McAfee was arrested for pumping crypto, but he was lying about his ownership and gave pretty specific forward looking claims. I don't believe he's been convicted yet.
It's interesting that streamers and "influencers" seem to be replacing, or at least competing with, other pop culture and performing arts celebrities.

Though there doesn't seem to be a huge difference in practice between "youtuber" and "television presenter" other than the broadcast medium. One thing that youtube adds to television is an easy way to interact directly with viewers.
The GPL can restrict your freedom. All licenses which contain restrictions "restrict freedom" by definition. The actual question is whether the GPL license restrictions come into conflict with any freedoms YOU wish to exercise, such as the freedom to distribute modified binaries without releasing source code.

Alternatively you could argue that the mere existence of any software—regardless of its license—can only be additive to freedom and can never be subtractive of it. Under this view it is impossible to have "less freedom" because Terminal.app exists; you've merely identified a scenario where you could have more freedom than you do right now.
Increased mental health? so it's a good thing?
In my opinion, this is example of poor/incomplete regulation. Using sports as an analogy, it's like if a game was designed poorly, we have the expectation that players would act in good faith to not take advantage of rules. But players have the incentive to win, not act in good faith.
DAO fork has absolutely nothing to do with PoS. This is nonsense.
> If they’re not safe, what chance does the general (developer) public have?

Something I've been wondering is, do we really have any evidence that the average Auth0 developer is more of a security expert than any other dev?

I'm sure they have security experts on staff designing systems but it doesn't seem likely that everyone doing the building is an expert. They are as likely as any to code in mistakes
Exactly. If other currencies prove a better way, and especially if they start taking significant market share, there's nothing stopping bitcoin from following in its footsteps. There's just no point making such a big change when there's plenty of other coins out there to experiment with first.
do they pay in ADA or ALGO?
Actually yeah who knows. It does make Tesla investment into Bitcoin look completely naive and shortsighted. They surely should have known a few month ago? Did they even start selling cars for coins?

Also probably a good idea to check the real CO2 numbers, they often get extrapolated I think.
You mean like building them homes, letting them get an education, integrated into your community or perpetuating their lives in slums the way to give them a normal lives?
It's easy to just ignore the problem instead of actually coming up with a plan the help them regardless of what you think is the righteous thing.
I'm all for them to live a normal lives but maybe the Arbs nations are also to blame? Shouldn't they actually do something instead of putting all the blame on Israel.
This region can barely sustain it's current population letting a few million souls isn't practical in any regard.
Those units don't even make sense.

New money as a percentage of GDP?
“Working from home during the last year has demonstrated that I have fewer sick days, all issues were resolved by email/phone, and my productivity is up. So I think it makes sense for me to continue working from home. Please let me know if there are any issues/problem with this so that we can discuss and find a solution.”
Some of my congestion control research that helps large scale users make throughput/latency tradeoffs using simple "transaction templates":

https://utxos.org/uses/scaling/

https://utxos.org/analysis/bip_simulation/

https://utxos.org/analysis/batching_sim/

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21702
Ethereum has increased its max block size 7+ times in the last 5 years and has had zero issues doing so. “Papers” from technically illiterate authors that ignore very real, tangible evidence contradicting them are about as useful as flat earth “math”.
> has anyone ever done the modeling on the dynamic limits of decentralized network consensus?

I did in the paper this post is about (in the context of bitcoin). Look at the section on Miner Centralization Pressure: https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinThroughputAnalysis#min...

> these high tps coins all seem to get around this by weakening decentralization

Yes, that's true.

> in order for every node to have an equal influence on the validity of every other node's vote

The trick is to ensure that distance does not play a substantial role in a node's "vote". That's one reason that blocks must take so much time to be mined in bitcoin (10 minutes). Proof of work systems that have less-than-a-minute block times are just not very safe. It takes time for lots of entities to come to a consensus across the whole world.

> I suspect the reason TX speed tends to stay mired in the tens per second region is that no amount of consensus accounting gimmickry will overcome the underlying physical limitations of true global scale decentralization of consensus.

Yeah, there are physical limits. The speed of light is the ultimate limit here. You can't come to a consensus with someone faster than you can send and receive a response from them. And the minimum requirements for consensus probably require a lot more than one message and one response.
Colonial Pipeline resumes operations after ransomware prompted closure
FWIW, Sheets has been doing this for 5+ years. (Source: I worked on the team when this was implemented -- by someone else.)