skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to completely eliminate scarcity though? Sure it is for everyday things but there will always be scarcity.

Even if we can replicate entire planets, someone will want to own the original earth. Also no matter how good our simulations get, there will likely still be demand for the world's oldest profession (along with attempts to regulate it).
There isn't much evidence that bartering ever was the way people did business.

Lots of evidence for lending & borrowing though (debt).
> software rollout
Nope, don’t want automatic over the air software update. I want it in the field when others have tried it, found issues and then I get it.

> autopilot
Again, don’t want a half baked marketing-speak technology. Driver assist with sensor driven safety features are all I want.
Don’t want extremely intrusive analytics and camera monitoring sure where after any accident the car company CEO would be testing how it was my fault.

Supercharger network is the only thing that will ever make me want to get a Tesla, hopefully other networks will soon be sufficient.

Yes, Ford dealerships and in fact all dealerships can be shady, but for other cars I generally don’t have to deal with them once the warranty is over. With Tesla I’ll have to deal with the company for the life of my car.
Or anything like suburbia. I live in Gainesville, Florida, very near the center of town. It's a 130K city limits burg, and our property still has a yard, and good use for trucklike patterns. I solve that with a Cheep Jeep at the moment.
Pentagon UFO Videos Not Aliens
I sold cars for a brief portion of my life. The independent dealership model is more predatory and rent seeking than people understand. I'm saying it looks worse from the inside than it does from the outside. It's an entrenched financial interest as well. It will be destroyed eventually but not before taking it's toll on ordinary people who just need to buy a car.

At one time it was a useful financial tool to keep production high and reduce the shock (to manufacturers) of fluctuations in demand. Today with a streamlined and JIT supply chain, easy financing for buyers, and the internet, the independent dealerships really have to fight for every penny and the only way they can do that is by screwing you.
Reminds me of the George Bush ragdoll physics demo.
I call my truck my, "moving living room"

I love it
Are they becoming deadlier? Or, did they just rise higher in the list by virtue of the fact that other threats were mitigated.
I don't see anything good about these intentions.
lets see if it even ships in 2022.
What do you mean? Like boating, boondocking, 4-wheeling, house work, fishing, going to the dump, landscaping, etc?

You may live in a city, and never need to move anything, but for lots of people they use a pickup every weekend.
"People with coin" in step 3 is way too broad. And indeed, ETH PoS has a consensus protocol to decide which "people with coin" get to validate, and that doesn't work by "because the blockchain says so".
Not at all, but it is easy to convert such Kindle to money. I am a hardcore Kobo user myself
https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/side_by_side.html
Your biggest constraint is programmer productivity, not server performance.

Your concerns are further diminished ~ every two years. Please re-evaluate your assumptions on that timeline.

This position was established by the company that owns the one of the largest server farms in the world? Are they looking to save on a few x-large instances? Seems short-sighted to me.

Sub 50ms response times are very achievable with Rails.

Throwing another server at it is a very reasonable response. Especially when you want your team to remain productive in a cohesive, batteries included framework.

Plenty of real-world Rails examples to demonstrate this.
This is an absolute disaster. A startup where you give people scraps of allegations and sicing them to go perform acts of vigilantism in exchange for bounties has to be one of the most reckless and idiotic things I have ever heard of. Even if this eventually results in a solved crime, how many other times will it result in innocent people getting piled on for no reason, potentially hurt or killed, or cases against actual criminals being muddied due to interference from vigilantes? There is already countless cases of failures like this from the Internet. Random people are just not qualified to do this kind of thing.

I vehemently oppose this. In fact, I am genuinely pissed off.
We will never achieve utopia by elimination of scarcity.

The most valuable commodity in the world is power: the ability to get others to do what you want. Even if all you want them to do is leave you alone, it still requires you to have power to prevent them from coercing you.

Power is always relative. Being a millionaire does not give you unbridled liberty if everyone around you is a billionaire.

Thus there is a natural incentive to never have enough. It's always useful to have more if for no other reason than to prevent bad people who would harm you from having it instead. This means there is a natural incentive to create scarcity for others.

Good culture and institutions can mitigate this but there is no natural stable equilibrium where we can all automatically live in peace without effort.
"Just like an Iphone!" - wait, what? An iPhone changes week to week? Since when?
> Anyone else think it's anti-consumer to not be able to opt out of these 'features'?

Yes, absolutely.
I don't think tomaw was aware that freenode ltd owned anything apart from the freenode live conference, until the legal discussions happened. So from his point of view it would have been a case of "Why should the people we ran a conference with in 2017/2018 have access to our domain?"
Effects of Periodical Cicada Emergences on Abundance&S of Bird Pops (2005) [pdf]
You can tow stuff with a Hilux or a Landcruiser too.
Looks great! Where did you get it from?
> And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, Frame suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. “We need to build this into the product and we will,” he wrote.

At least reddit seems to have learned their lesson (both the company and the users).
I think a lot of people don't realize how many regulations are designed by incumbent domestic companies explicitly for the purposes of making foreign companies and upstarts noncompetitive.

You're right that CAFE is literally designed to favor trucks. And the definition is so vague that even vehicles like the PT Cruiser are considered Light Trucks for the purposes of CAFE. It is also designed to hurt small cars, because vehicles with footprints (wheelbase * wheel wide) smaller than a Mustang (literally, to the square inch) have to face ever-more-strict CAFE standards.

As a result, cars like the Fit are might face a CAFE penalty while a base F150 does a-okay despite getting like half the fuel economy. And that's not even getting into BS like flex fuel credits (basically, being flex fuel capable is like adding ~5mpg to the vehicle CAFE score).

This is exactly why every small vehicle is a crossover anymore (they are light trucks for CAFE purposes), and why cars like the Civic get are today, the size an Accord was in 2005 (CAFE is less strict the larger the vehicle is).
If you read the doc, it says voice2json is layer on top of the actual voice recognition engine. And it supports mozilla deep speech, pocket sphinx and a few others as the underlying engine.
> if you send digital goods then the customer usually doesn't pay VAT.

VAT might be annoying in the sense that it forces me to ask for an address if I'm selling software to someone who lives in the EU, but that's basically fine. I can do that as a US company, and I can pay higher taxes, that's not a problem.

But if I'm building a software company, I don't have the resources to set up a foreign company to handle everyone in the EU who wants to buy a copy of my software. In practice, that requirement would mean that most single-person software teams outside of a few allowed countries can't sell to the EU.

Eventually you just get a lawyer to answer questions like these, but it does kind of sound like if I'm understanding you correctly, I should just be excluding any EU residents from buying anything I make regardless of the privacy policy, unless I have a zero-knowledge product. Which... being zero-knowledge is tricky because VAT exists, and I don't think I can not collect EU resident billing addresses and still pay taxes in an auditable form.

Maybe that's fine though, maybe that just means in practice you have to contract billing to a company that has an EU office, and then the problem is gone.

I should have phrased this differently, I know that GDPR doesn't constrain what EU residents do. But in practice it doesn't really matter to me if it's legal for them, it matters to me if it's legal for me. I don't know, apparently I need to do more research on this.

Interesting though, I appreciate you taking the time to elaborate.
I think I do my best thinking when jogging slowly.
Take over the world as: bacteria, easy. Virus, easy, but a little random. Fungi? Now the player needs to start thinking. Source: Plague Inc.
> The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucil
> Put frequently used options on top

Yes! I was thinking the same thing. I would expect the author to suggest automatically guessing the user's location instead of blindly placing your own country at the top.

The rest of the document is precious, though
Better 20 grand for a truck than a prius
> It's not like battery replacement is very viable on modern Macs

Why? Apple still offers battery replacements for modern Macs, and some more adventurous types of people still do it themselves. They're glued to the chassis, not spot welded.
I think attitudes like this are why so many people don't respond well to math
Weekly? No. But it has happened enough times (20+) in the last eight months to justify a vehicle that can do it, among all the other things the truck can do that my honda cannot. Also, depending on the weight of the loads you're hauling in your trailer (lumber is obviously fine), you could be putting a lot of people on or around the road in danger. The brakes on a WRX are not designed for towing.

I don't understand the weird fascination with people trying to convince others that they don't need a truck. Does it occur to you that I was aware that trailers existed before getting the truck and that their existence factored into the decision?
That's like calling love exclusively a response to a chemical reactions, and I don't think the broad audience believes in that way when using the word 'love'.
Now when can we expect a real SUV built on this platform. A Ford Explorer or Expedition, whichever shares the platform with F-150
Individual fiat currencies have collapsed in eg Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Weimar Germany. However, their currencies were not the reserve currencies of global trade. Historically, the international reserve currency was gold, but now it’s just other fiat currencies. So we have to trust that the ECB and FED won’t repeat the mistakes of other fiat currencies.

The FED seems like a trustworthy bunch who know what they’re doing. But then again, so did the CDC two years ago. So, hmm.
Whats a "known" genesis block?
I have done it twice. The first time I spent about 3 months riding my bicycle around the US. Then spent a few months looking for a job. It was not a good market. The second time I spent 7 months in New Zealand and Australia. Half the time biking. Took only 2 months to find the job I had before I left. I was trying to get one in a different city.

Make sure you have your health insurance lined up, in case you have a hernia in Australia and get it operated on then... never know.

Have a better 'back to work plan' then what I had.

Have goals and schedules. Have some loose timelines. RE examine your goals, preferably with a trusted friend, to keep you intellectually honest. Do this on a strongly fixed schedule. Be it once a week, once a month, every other month. I would not recommend less often then every 3 months.

My first trip was a burnout fix. My second was because I could.

I would say make a detailed budget, but that depends on your plans and resources. I did not, but I usually have a good sense of what my finances are.

Do not go into debt for this.
Syscalls are not any more UB than any other function call, though. Whether talking about write(2) or my_foo(), the call has the semantics given by the function signature visible in the current translation unit. Sure, the C standard doesn't define what write(2)'s effects will be, but that does not mean that calling it is UB according to the standard.

If the function has not been declared by the time it is first used, even then calling it is not UB - it is defined to be a compilation error (in versions earlier than C99 it was actually valid, but UB if the call did not match the actual function definition).
Have you ever seen or heard of anyone pay $1M or $100K for a .com address? Why do they do that when there's like 256 TLDs?

Why does anyone pay $20M to live in a box in Manhattan when they could buy a huge ranch in Montana and live like a king?

Some blockchains are more valuable than others. And their blockspace is limited, just like Manhattan real estate.

The reasons for this are numerous, but a big part of it comes down to security and liquidity. If you are going to create a digital agreement, you want a blockchain with a high degree of security and predictability. You also want composability with other applications so you can have access to an ecosystem and other financial services.
Some proof of stake coins tried to do fountain or giveaway distribution. Proof of work doesnt need to precede proof of stake.
Also zoom out (CTRL + -) a few times for more dancing room.

Edit: although beware zooming back in yeets them to oblivion
indeed - bartering really isn't a sustainable thing, and like you mentioned debt ended up being heavily used to facilitate exchanges. said debt in many cases ended up being centrally facilitated. the rest of history.
It absolutely does. I've been praying pretty consistently since I was very young, around 5 years old.

When I discovered that wasn't normal for everyone, even people I go to church with, I was pretty surprised.

When I started meditating a few years back, I took to it like a duck in water. I had no problem doing 20-30 minutes right away.

But I don't get the same thing out of it that I do out of prayer. Meditation is like local maintenance - a reboot or a defrag. Prayer is more like a software update, connecting back to the home server for bug fixes and feature upgrades.

It's the feeling of being connected to something greater than yourself that seems to be the key difference.
url has ?

some previous discussion:

5 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25370804

7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745009

11 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491940
It's also the "footprint" model of fuel economy for CAFE. The required MPG for a truck is based on the area of the rectangle made by the wheels. This means that for 2021, a larger F-150 is expected to get 25mpg, but something like the old Chevy S-10 would be expected to get 41.8mpg. [1]

The automakers have determined that this is not practically achievable, and so you can't buy a truck like the old S-10 or a pre-Tacoma Toyota pickup anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...
Go watch Bob Ross videos.

I'm serious. He's not a great painter, his technique is not amazing -- but he shows you exactly what he is doing and talks about it continuously. For a beginner, that's pretty much perfect.

Note that there is nothing special about Bob Ross brand anything; if you've got a local art supply place, you really don't need to buy that brand.
"Password must be different by at least 6 characters" perhaps, though that's the inverse, really.

Fuzzy matching is another aspect that comes to mind.
Does using copyrighted works to train a machine learning model make that model infringing?
This is an older study but used 37 years of data and I found it interesting to re-read in light of the current Brood X emergence. The long cycles nonetheless appear to have multi-year effects and may themselves have helped induce generational shifts in various wild animal populations. I find it kind of fascinating to contemplate what this kind of emergent effects this sort of regular natural cycle might have on populations where the general individual lifespan might well be shorter than a single cicada cycle.
No one has asked for my college GPA (2.4) since my first job out of school.
Nice! Adding it to my mega site of free image sites for blogging list.

https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/mega_list_of_free_image_si...
Are you proposing that we turn roads over to foot and equine traffic only?

The air was co-opted by planes... should we turn that back over to avian only traffic?
Not a big crypto person, but my understanding is that a part of the "digital scarcity" problem is addressed by the consensus mechanism. You can go create a fork, but (without sufficient processing power) that fork won't be able to be the longest chain, and the consensus mechanism is that the longest chain is the _real_ chain.
Governments rely on physical violence to exert their power. Crypto "elites" don't.

I see no problem with someone hoarding a lot of money/crypto through non-violent means. I see problem with someone using physical violence or coercion to oppress people.
That would include most motor vehicles, due to brake dust, tire wear, and exhaust, since the alternative of using a bicycle is always available. If you need to travel long distances once in a while, you can always rent a car.
> none of its proponents think through logical consequences.

They do. Can you point me to the page you read about heroin maintenance that didn't include anything about the consequences?

> you may argue a heroin addict has a right to heroin

Nobody has a right to heroin. What people have is a right to life; a right to health; a right to not be harmed by treatment. Current treatment for heroin addiction, especially if it's based on abstinence alone, violates each of these. Heroin substitutes are best, but they're not suitable for everyone and some people are not ready to move onto a substitute. In these cases we should provide legal heroin to maintain the habit. This would preserve this person's rights. Importantly, it would preserve the rights of the people around this person. This person no longer has to steal or sell sex in order to fund their habit.

> but does a pangolin scale juicer

I genuinely have no idea what point you're trying to make with "pangolin scale juice".

> what is the "correct" amount of heroin

Enough to maintain their current use pattern, with the aim to gradually reduce and then switch to a substitute. But with the recognition that just giving people heroin for the rest of their life is better for them and for the rest of society than forcing them to get illicit opioids.

> how much should that cost?

Diamorphine is incredibly cheap. Providing diamorphine in a safe setting is costly - you need a trained, qualified, registered, healthcare professional to monitor patients who are self injecting. You need a building that's insured and cleaned, run by a service that's subject to some form of oversight. But, again, all of this is far cheaper than just leaving addicts to source illicit opioids.

> what if the "correct" amount for me is just under lethal dose and im essentially comatose between hits?

You should probably stop talking about addiction if you're this ignorant.

> is that society's responsibility to nurture my addiction.

You keep saying things like this, and it highlights how you've fundamentally misunderstood the point. We're not "nurturing addiction", we are treating addiction with a safe, effective, evidence-based approach. Why do we give insulin to T1 diabetics? Are we nurturing their diabetes? No, it's fucking stupid to say so. We're treating a chronic health condition.

> why is a single state-issued dose compassionate care, when many addicts need 4 or 5 doses per day to feel good?

Addicts don't take heroin to feel good. They take heroin to avoid feeling bad.

> when i can longer afford the pharmaceutical dose, won't i just go back to street heroin?

Yes, which is one of the reasons

> people get hooked on gambling and sky-diving too, but no reasonable people think it's the state's responsibility to maintain those.

We should be providing addiction services to people who are addicted to gambling. So far the evidence for problem gambling is clear: more gambling is harmful, not helpful. This is the reason we don't recommend subsidising gambling for problem gamblers.
> Imagine someone like Mozilla trying to collect hundreds of voice clips from each of tens of millions of users!!

They do, and it's working! https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
I think I see the anti-government sentiment not merely as a tinge, but as the foundation and cornerstone on which the entirety of cryptocurrency rests. Every watt of inefficiency comes entirely from an obsessive desire to avoid having any trusted authority. Efficiency can never be present in such an environment.
Yep, here in the UK for very rare occasions we need to move something big (like, once every 1-2 years), we just hire a pickup or van for £50-70 depending on size. Even a small lorry with a tail lift is only £100 for 24h.

Seems like madness to buy something as big as a pickup and drag round that weight (with the poor MPG that comes with it) and deal with parking such a behemoth, all for something you do so rarely *

* obviously if you're a farmer or running a business or something, that's different - but that's not what this thread is about.
Please add (2019) to the title.
I've done a little bit of research into event-sourced databases and journaling filesystems, but not nearly enough to be on expert on them. I think this article touches on exactly the crucial point.

If I have a private key to my coins, why is someone else allowed to disallow a transfer of them? When I announce a transaction, because of the way mining works, that transaction gets sent to every miner, so that if they were to solve the block they could include my transaction.

Why is Bitcoin made up of back-links to previous blocks? Isn't a block no more than a memoization of a event-sourced log at a point of time? That's just a really badly constructed journaling filesystem.

Instead there should be no cryptographic mining PoW or PoS, all online miners would track all transactions since the last block was created. If at any point they did not have all of the transaction(which means if anyone else has reported a transaction that they have disallowed, easily compared by simply checking every miners head hash), they are considered to be offline and do not receive a mining share. All miners who are online when a new memoization is created gets a share of the reward.

Help me out here, why do we need to solve the Byzantine General's problem for this?
Yup. Abolootley!

For Andrew, the spoiled little boy with an empty toybox:

You own a brand. That's basically it. And then swing in like Tarzan to save the day from the sunshine and suddenly, all of the organizations that provided *Their* infra to *the cause*, *the spirit*, and *the philosophy* of giving back to the community took back their infra and..... suddenly the little boy realizes that his toybox is empty - Sure! Little boy owns that toybox, but all the toys inside were gracious contributions loaned to the hard working team of volunteers that no longer work for you.

Yup! we're taking back our boxes and wiping the data and repurposing those resources that We, the companies and individuals that made your little starship go, and we're using our property to reallocate those resources either to other noble causes or paying customers - of which you have neither (noble causes or paying customers Andrew).
I can see this being useful for customer support, too. Just signed up!