skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet makes risky behavior more accessible by very nature of connectivity. You can talk to someone on the other side of the world with much less friction. Similarly, a fintech company like Robinhood decided to make stock trading more modern and reduce the barrier to entry.

Granted, this wasn't really a big change in accessibility if you wanted to trade stocks. One could simply goto Fidelity ore other brokers and do the same thing. However, Robinhood's app is much more approachable for someone new to finance.

Reducing the barrier to entry isn't a bad thing and will always lead to some percentage of new comers doing dumb things. That doesn't mean Robinhood is encouraging it intentionally. I think its merely a side effect of their apps approachability for someone less familiar with financial instruments.
It seems that these batteries solve the problem they are supposed to cause (Taking too much power). If you can put these in a charger then they can pull whatever power they need from the grid over a long time, then dump all their charge into an electric car in no time when the car shows up. I can imagine some huge batteries sitting in a 250 MW "Filling" station that are slowly being filled from a grid power line at a couple megawatts.
This sounds made up
shouldn't everyone attending a top school be decidedly coasting along in some way about their education, so they can optimise preferred areas?
Why not both? Why are these things supposed to be mutually exclusive?
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Yes, but when I exchange bitcoin off chain, I'm giving up a lot of the benefits of using bitcoin in the first place.

Lighting in particular solves transaction speed by introducing additional potential security problems that need to be accounted for, particular closed channel type attacks.
I'm always surprised that companies interview based on obscure knowledge in specific PLs. If you know the fundamentals of CS (not just A&DS), you can learn a language in a month (sometimes a week). Concepts translate between languages.
How're you getting to 5% loss YoY due to inflation? Estimates on inflation for the USD rarely top 3% for years during the last few decades [0]. Certainly there might be an uptick this year but extrapolating that to "You'll lose 10k a year if you just hold 200k" doesn't really make sense. And certainly you'd hold that money in index funds which have pretty decent returns or even bonds which don't pay out so much these days but have some returns I believe.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-b...
Both.

But then again, Hedge funds for rich people also encourage risky behavior (leveraging up their models, as imperfect as they are from time to time is definitely risky).
In Ireland the Supreme Court told Subway they had to reclassify their 'bread' as cake due to the sugar content. Regarding the payment of taxes.

When it comes to nutrition -- as a good general rule once you buy fresh good ingredients it's actually quite difficult to make unhealthy food regardless if you add too much fat, salt or sugar to your recipe -- the corollary is if you buy commercial food served ready to eat it's quite difficult to choose something healthy.
As a noob who owns some bitcoin and ethereum (both stored on an exchange), how does tether being a scam (which I do believe in) affect me? I don't hold any tether myself.
So this issue implies that there is a startup idea? I think there is a technical approach to solve the issue, by providing a system to let the escrow service provider to inspect and confirm the transferring of the source code, something like using a remote desktop (something like a temporary VPS) to where both the seller and the buyer have access, and during the delivering of the source code, the seller upload the code, compile it and run the result, and all the process is recorded. That way, if the buyer don't mark as 'received' in a given period, the platform staff can check and confirm the delivery and close the transaction.
Always loved this. I wish people would dream more like them.
Unit test and regression test are not in conflict.
https://www.kline.sh/

Statement from the ex-Freenode Staff is now official.
Robinhood seems to being doing both, but it feels like small retail investors are getting the blame for a speculative bubble that they have little fault for.
Milton is a genius, but this particular thing won't continue for the simple reason that, if as in Denmark, you have to be tested 3 times a week to have an always current pass, then the public will notice and be strongly incentivized to care.

And that kills these kinds of programs, unless there is a very good reason.
Samsung is still at it, kinda, they recently released the Galaxy Book Pro 360, which is a foldable in 13.3 and 15.6 inch size with Super AMOLED display, touch and pen support etc.
It does very well for anyone who uses it as a store of value over a long time span. It's obviously not a currency, there are other coins for that.
"Passing as male" isn't really a thing on IRC, or even on many forums/BBS's. The default is a totally genderfluid nickname.
There’s no shame in that. I’m from the US and I’ve had McDonalds in both Japan and Switzerland. It can be nice to have something familiar when you’re feeling out of place or homesick.
Healthy?! It's fast food, with (sometimes) vegetables.
However, people or their clients use /msg NickServ. The passwords are sent to something identified by a nick only. I don't believe you if you claim people are doing a /who NickServ and checking the hostname mask first.

SASL is definitely an improvement over NickServ.
You sure aren't. One of my buddies worked with an older woman who owned a bunch of self-help-y type business books, they were talking one day and she said, "You know, I noticed we all owned a bunch of these and it wasn't changing the way anyone worked." I thought that was pretty salient. The demand for ideas seems to be much more based on the satisfaction of novelty and being "in the know" and much less on actually utilizing any of it. These publishers try to feed that demand continuously, which is just kind of a ridiculous quirk of the human brain, and like any other irrational demand it has no inherent limit. So like you said they start scraping the bottom of the barrel.
You'll spend more in electricity than you will make.
Watch a 'blind' robot successfully navigate stairs
The population is growing more obese. Got that. We are headed toward AI computers to do things for us. Got that. We are launching more satellites into space. Got that.

Wall-E may end up being prophetic.

The thing I'm interested in more is turning people to something better without arguing (which doesn't work).
There was a time where the 'hackers' where in the minority for IRC, basically the time where IRC was replacing BBS-es, FIDO and phone/teletext based chat solutions but before ICQ was a thing, and AIM/AOL was never a real thing in western/northern europe

Ie, think DALnet and the explosion of minor IRC networks in the 95-98s
You only need to look around for a moment to find an example.

There are people living under governments that don't allow their citizens access to the global financial system (i.e. capital controls) and are often living in high inflation environments. Storing their wealth in an unseizable asset, even $100 worth, means that they are decoupled from their government financially and can escape their hell hole with their wealth in tact.
Sorry, but I won’t / can’t answer that.
>Global capitalism has been terrible since its inception.

Cool. Now, do something useful and suggest a better option. Utopia doesn't exist.
I'm not sure what you want sources for?

Trump being racist? Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/FragileWhiteRedditor/comments/ecajm...

So people who support him are also probably racist, or at least okay with him being racist.
Sure, you don't need GA for that. In the same way that you don't need AWS, you could just deploy to on-premises servers.

But people pick AWS because it offers a lot more than just a storage bucket. Same with Google Analytics. It offers a ton of ecommerce analytics including custom tags that can be set by the shop owner. TeeSpring is probably not a full-service Ecomm platform like Magento. It's likely that they are piggybacking on GA's built in Ecomm tracking and reporting capabilities, instead of reinventing the wheel by doing it themselves.

FYI, Ublock Origin also blocks links to "sponsored results" shown on Amazon search.
>The problem with this approach is that its counterproductive, as many prisons act as graduate schools in crime.

As are the streets.

In this model of 'removal', I'd say that the main point of a prison is to take a more crime prone demographic (by that I mean age, gender, ethnicity, location, wealth...the whole ball of wax) off the street until they are older and less likely to do things that the straights don't like.

In the long run, I would expect for universal surveillance (and the increased ability to parse data we are seeing) to be the main driving force in social control rather than mere warehousing.
> I don't think intelligence is correlated with poverty much

This is contrary to the available science. IQ and earnings are strongly correlated.
I tried to find a proof online one way or the other, but there seems to be no concrete consensus. It's possible that whether or not elliptic geometry is a subset of absolute geometry is a consequence of the formulation of the axioms - since you can modify any axiom involving the existence of parallel lines using something like "If parallel lines exist, then...".

Certainly the way I learned it was that the parallel postulate is the only axiom which distinguishes the elliptic, Euclidean, and hyperbolic geometries.
> artificial chemicals

What is the distinction between an artificial and non-artificial chemical?
There are no promises of returns.
There is no subjectivity here. We are not discussing the perceived value of cryptocurrency. We are talking about the value of the PoW algorithm. It is objectively wasteful. It is wasteful by definition. It's entire purpose is to force computational resources to spend cycles on computationally expensive problems that provide no value to society. It is an interesting an novel idea but it does not scale and that is a problem since there is a very real cost to society in expending significant amounts of the planet's resources for no gain.
What's your investment strategy, if you don't mind me asking?
That's your internalised view of the world. It's not "male passing", it's "human passing".
what's really dumb is the fact it takes 3 days for a trade to settle. why can't I buy $SPY and get my money immediately? it's 2021, jeez.
All crypto tokens are Ponzi schemes
> Regenerative ag with animals and produce on one farm seems to me to be the healthiest and most sustainable path forward.

What's the evidence for that being healthier? Moreover, what's the health improvement relative to the cost? SV engineers might be willing to pay 3x more for something that's 5% healthier, but not a single parent household making minimum wage.

>Also saturated and animal fats are good for you. Chemically expressed vegetable trans-fats are not.

This seems to be contradicted by the available scientific evidence.

>The effect of saturated fat on heart disease has been extensively studied.[23] There are strong, consistent, and graded relationships between saturated fat intake, blood cholesterol levels, and the epidemic of cardiovascular disease.[8] The relationships are accepted as causal.[24][25]

>Many health authorities such as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,[26] the British Dietetic Association,[27] American Heart Association,[8] the World Heart Federation,[28] the British National Health Service,[29] among others,[30][31] advise that saturated fat is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The World Health Organization in May 2015 recommends switching from saturated to unsaturated fats.[32]

>There is moderate-quality evidence that reducing the proportion of saturated fat in the diet, and replacing it with unsaturated fats or carbohydrates over a period of at least two years, leads to a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease.[23]
> Why would you also disparage the millions of people who are happily finding value in it?

Because it's an environmental disaster causing a bunch of modern issues and the defenders are being annoyingly naive about.

BTC uses a ton of power, requires a ton of equipment. They solve a problem with TWh of power that is simply solved globally with kwh of power. It is beyond wasteful.

> Well done creating your amazing straw man.

Nah, BTC is just beyond pointless. You are arguing that it's special, but have a hard time actually articulating WHY it's special "If you can't see this, then I don't have time to explain".

That's the same line cult members use defending their faith. It's a mental shortcut to avoid critically analyzing something you've bought into.
> Detractors cite electricity usage, but overall it uses much less electricity than the traditional banking system

The traditional banking handles thousands of transfer per seconds, and many many many more assets and assets types than bitcoin. All things that bitcoin is not able - nor designed to - handle.

It's like saying that F1 engine are consuming less gas than trucks. It's only valid if you only look at it from a very specific angle. Sure, in total trucks are consuming more than F1, but both in consumption per km and in versatility, trucks win. F1 engines are not ready - nor designed to - be a suitable replacement for trucks engines.

Bitcoin and cryptos consume order of magnitude more electricity than the traditional banking system if you put them in equal terms. It's only logical since one is supposed to work in zero-trust environments while the other doesn't.
Articles like this strike me as FUD no matter how hard i try and read them another way. "Risk" is such a wide spectrum when it comes to financial investments. Just look at the crypto crash today, and there are hundreds of billions invested there still. Robinhood giving younger people access to options is hardly a doomsday risk scenario in my mind.

Robinhood may well be responsible for a generation gaining investment literacy decade(s) before adults have in the past. Some of these young investors might be burned early, but i'd take the long view and wager that those who start learning now come out ahead in 10-20 years.
Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
Reusable code blocks in data science
The history of anti-semitic Zionism is not too pretty either

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
>How would cryptocurrency free us from financial tyranny?

Inflation is theft. Crypto prevents this theft.
Not showing the partial leads to a more authentic experience.

For true authenticity, click targets for the partials should get much closer together as you go higher (I haven't actually mapped what it does).
> XMPP & Matrix bridge together fairly well these days

Does Matrix support OMEMO for e2e encryption?
>Currency is a broad term, like service. Like many broad terms, it is often misused and that leads to the broader meaning. Currency can be used for different things.

No? A currency is a medium of exchange for goods and services.

The secondary meaning that you're attempting to allocate to "currency" is already amply described by the word "asset".

The two are not the same, and assets are not meaningfully regarded as proto-currencies in the way you suggest.
Yes, sorry, I should've said "page" instead of "site"
admins: the title should be "How corporations buy and sell food made with prison labor"
Top streamer says Twitch revoked her ability to run ads without warning
This story is just so I’m clear and leaves me full of questions. It’s a complete mess, despite the numerous semi-official statements trying to clear things up.

Things I’m wondering about:

- why was freenode being sold in the first place?

- for what was it sold? For money? And who was paid for the sale?

- Did whatever freenode was sold for go back to support the IRC-network? Or did someone weasel it away for themselves?

- why would anyone buy and IRC network? What did they expect to gain by owning the network?

- Why was a volunteer-run IRC network even registered as a business which could be sold?

Can anyone please help me understand?
Of Mice and Men: Mutation Linked to Autism Impairs Oxytocin-Mediated Behavior
It's not even 1% of the world's energy consumption. If you want to stop wasting tremendous amounts of energy, all you have to do is stop trading with China.
When it began it was worth nothing and when it ends it will be worth nothing. Zero sum.
Only in the same way that all credit card companies encourage risky behavior.
Maybe they'll just take 30% of any crypto mined on their card. That seems fair.
That's a great idea...

until you have to review the code on SaaS Git host site
Google Photos adds protected Locked Folder, more controls for Memories
I'm not sure why I didn't think to go to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Atmos says it's a format that stores up to 128 audio channels with 3d spatial information for each. Pretty cool!
It's not. If the market cap goes up, it's because the price of bitcoin goes up. If the price of bitcoin goes up, the mining reward goes up. If the mining reward goes up, the block reward that incentivizes mining goes up. The mining market is in equilibrium when miners expenses approach the block reward, so mining uses more energy as the market cap goes up.
That article doesn't debunk anything lol Goldgar's points are still just as valid.
While I agree Rust might be the future, there are a ton of platforms where C is still the only real option. Like for example many microcontrollers. Or legacy computer systems.

But I do give you that the number of use cases where C is required are decreasing rapidly.
Although robinhood's app was pretty revolutionary, I think their real "innovation" was removing the cost of trades, basically forced the entire market to remove that. Before, it would cost 4.99+ to execute a trade, so if you were not buying significant amounts that could EASILY eat up a lot of profits.
I have had some of the best breathing of my life lately. Being able to wear a mask in public without the police going after you or people looking at you funny is such a wonderful thing. Cedar fever is a real pain.
Working in a sports gambling field, I know the data shows that less than 1% of total players actually make a consistent profit. I wonder how similar it is for nonpassive traders(not investors) on the market, regardless of the platform. People trading futures or actively trading might not be making much money at all. Investing has been very profitable for a layman, but I do definitely believe that trading has been over glorified as a money investment method.
> real standards body

Who decides when a standards body is real?
I’m not clear why the one picture has three bricks near each other. Do they not open into the same space?
My key has been to engage my empathy for everyone concerned. To read an article and engage my empathy for the author and the pain some know all too well is a necessary step. Yet to assume that all other readers will do the same is perhaps a opportunity to engage in empathy for them and how different their lives might have been.

I find I'm often surprised by the actions and reactions of people I have put minimal effort into empathizing with. Sometimes I find their unexpected warmth welcoming, or their callous coldness a sickening contrast.

Some - like myself - have a learned aversion to anything that tries too hard and too overtly to tug on my heartstrings.
It's technically negative sum as it costs energy and results in no value, not even a painting you can hang on your wall.
The more I learn about it the less useful it seems. Most of what you could do with it can be done with a proper database, and as for setting up something that can exist without authority, well that ends up causing all kinds of problems when mistakes are made or someone is swindled, making it into an entirely "buyer beware" kind of market, which of course is ripe for scammers and con-artists. There is also the argument that the authority just shifts from a place that is regulated to whoever owns the most compute, which to some seems liberating but to me feels precarious.

That said all of my millennial friends that have gained some wealth without working at google or being a high profile accountant/lawyer all gained it via bitcoin and alt-coin speculating, in some ways it seems to be the only viable method to do so right now, but I believe governments will crack down on it and regulate it soon, which will likely stabilize it enough to keep any massive gains from happening in the future. Also it could just be one of those hot potato style bubbles like the .com crash where whoever is left holding the expensive bag gets a loss while those who sold just before ended up rich.
Registering your Swedish non-profit with the authorities is required for many useful things (e.g. having a bank account), though technically not mandatory. There are several free services for querying the registry, e.g. https://www.allabolag.se/.

I wasn't able to find Libera Chat there, though it might simply be the case that the registration has not been finalized yet.
In the interest of harvesting downvotes, I'd have to say that I'm bored with people like Ms. Elison.

Looking at this essay, and at the summaries of her books, she's obviously in the grievance porn business.

'Poor in tech' is a real thing but needs a better champion.

Shout out to the few still-sane folks out there.
Type checking, compile-time errors won't check if the program you wrote is correct, only that it's internally consistent. That is an entirely different thing than checking for correctness.
You do need a layer of tests that actually try to prove that given some input your program actually does what it's supposed to do. That is hard to automate.

Joe Armstrong(of the Erlang fame), talks about this a bit here:
https://youtu.be/TTM_b7EJg5E?t=778

I've pointed to a specific timestamp, but there might be more details somewhere else in that talk.
Regarding that picture: I wonder if a locksmith has a "no mechanical locks" policy.

Otherwise it sounds like a case of "don't get high on your own supply".
>I don't understand what legitimate value ordinary currency produces.

You can exchange your local government currency for services and goods. With Bitcoin you first have to convert them into a local government currency and then buy services and goods. This only works because those local government currencies exist in the first place. I'll pull this out of nowhere and say that 95% of the value of Bitcoin is derived from government currencies by that I mean the reason Bitcoin is valuable is that you can exchange it for government currencies.

The other 5% are services and products that you can purchase with Bitcoin directly.
That portion needs to grow if Bitcoin wants to become a "legitimate currency" but if everyone abuses the currency by hoarding it and doing nothing with it then it might as well not exist.
What on earth makes you think that?
It's already integrated into the financial system. I'm sorry you live your life in terror of a poorly supported hyperbolic hypothesis.
Crypto in general and Bitcoin specifically are super volatile or other words, unstable. To many people, this means many different things.

For me, I am anti-crypto:

* Seen many bad examples of abuse, e.g. MLMs, scams, laundering, cyber crimes, etc.

* Bad impression with early users. Most are driven by greed with vanity more than productivity or strong values.

* Wasting so much energy for "copy and paste" with no real use case. This hurts environment a lot.