skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did watch it. (And I have watched it once before years ago.) Design is also an engineering constraint. All of these constraints are interconnected. None are wholly independent.

The “fashion” argument is particularly silly. Fashion and style are concepts that have existed as a part of human nature longer than manufacturing, corporations, or even money itself have even existed.

Having the latest flashy accessories to show off to potential mates is something that was literally invented (at least) 75,000 years ago by Neanderthals, not GM or Apple.
Dirty Money on Netflix is pretty good.
If the world doesn’t, the earth sure will. We could be gone in a near instant, and by millions of years it would be like we were never here at all.

If we assume Warren Buffett isn’t foolish, I would venture to guess this is exactly what you might say if you are 90 years old and want to keep your investments and status sound through to the final years.
97 years old means he was born in the mid 1920s. He lived through the Great Depression, WWII, and other stuff. His perspective is probably seeing terrible things happening in the past and then the good times that happen afterwards and projecting that into the future. I don’t know if it is ridiculous or optimistic based upon past experience.
> It would be very difficult to construct something that would be self-replicating/hype-incentivizing but not reward early comers the same way.

Can you clarify what you mean by "the same way"? I wonder if you meant "reward the early-comers in _some_ way."

Yes, early miners of a cryptocurrency have an advantage, in the sense that there is less competition in computing resources. However, when you factor in risk (i.e. likely return on investment and opportunity cost), this "advantage" may not seem worth it. It depends on one's risk profile, awareness, opportunity, and skills.

Thinking along game theory lines, when designing a system that requires up-front work, it seems clear that early participants will look for risk-adjusted rewards downstream.

I don't know if I agree with the "very difficult" aspect of your comment. Many real-world systems exist that are not clearly explained by game theory; humans are more complex than their theories.

Just to give one example, family genealogists typically are more than happy to share their historical research and family trees with others without expectation of personal gain. They do it largely because they want their ancestors to be remembered in the context of history. Of course, there is also some incentive for the _ genealogist_ themself to be remembered and perhaps to be perceived as important. But my point stands -- family genealogists don't expect to be compensated at all, much less in a pyramid-scheme kind of way. They are happy to create something of value and share it. Of course, a big difference between these family trees and cryptocurrencies is that the former are non-rivalrous.
The solution to the problem of not storing crypto on unregulated exchanges is not a regulated exchange. The solution is your own wallet/private key.
He is saying that technological progress and societal changes might make fossil fuels more popular. This could be carbon capture technologies or a sudden desire to go on cruises because some hip Netflix documentary.
I don’t want to be tricked by some sellers setting the price at 99 cents + 15$ shipping
Talking about nazi dogwhistling is spreading theories about a conspiracy hidden in plain sight with the goal of destroying the western order, taking over the world, and executing the genocide of several peoples.

Thus, you yourself are guilty of antisemetic dogwhistling.
I think part of the problem is that mining was a very clever solution to a logical puzzle that seemed impossible to solve. Like bloom filters, it's tempting to find a use for it, because the algorithm is so cool.

However, the theory and practice turned out to be very different. Neat algorithm can't be used as an excuse for the whole ecosystem that emerged around it: insatiable electricity usage of PoW, pump and dump, ransomware, money laundering, etc.
Exactly my point too. MASERs (the forerunner to LASERs: 'M' stands for 'Microwave') seem to have been forgotten by the general public.

Pretty much anything a LASER can do can also be done by MASERs, and that includes "damage at a distance". So we have weapons in orbit which are supposed to be banned.
> Don't expect much adoption love.

This is disappointing to me, even though I'm no longer at Microsoft, because it means that Windows is now the only major platform where there isn't an official modern platform-native UI toolkit that people are likely to use. Win32 isn't really a good choice for new applications because it uses an antiquated graphics implementation (GDI). Win32 also doesn't make it easy to tweak or extend the accessibility implementation of a standard control. All of this means that for developers of native applications, Windows makes it harder to do the right thing with regard to accessibility than, say, Mac or iOS. If WinUI 3 actually took off, it might fix this.
There are hundreds of us!
The one thing we can suppose is that there is a motive: someone somewhere is trying to accomplish something. So who are our actors, and what could we infer? If they are extraterrestrials then what do they accomplish by conspicuously revealing themselves to the United States Navy and seemingly no one else? Why is the phenomenon unique to the United States Armed Forces, with seemingly no other armed forces or private actors having the same frequency of encounters?

It could be that the United States Navy is simply front running the narrative. Keeping the discussion focused on extraterrestrials means other plausible avenues are not explored.
For a start "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines Through his hallowed foundation. The world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine":

https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-gl...
That's not just Amazon though. I bought a band saw from Lowes that once I opened the box had clearly been used and dropped, so much that the base was bent.
I could see my kids easily getting into a bidding war.
The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides
No, people believe the model is effective. There is no scientific method, it's what middle managers are comfortable with and could easily be garbage.
Well it’s nice to think driving school buses with the windows down this past winter may have significantly helped to avoid transmissions between households.
This is a really really big one if you ask me.

It seems to me that many if not most people I meet fall into one of two camps.

The folks that just don't care at all and do the minimal amount of work they can get away with not to get fired.
The other side is folks that care so much about it that they spend so much energy on as to ultimately be unhealthy for them and also making it worse for the rest of us (not taking vacation, unpaid overtime etc.

It is very rare to find people that care 100% while at work. But after ~40 hours each week that's it. Sure I'll stay later for that one meeting that's sorta important and needs to start at 4:30p.m. But you better not try that every day from now on. Want me to be on call for a fixed rate that has nothing to do with my salary? I can't log an hour for a 5 minute call at 1am and I can't take time off in lieu? Good luck getting me on that rotation!
Neither of which are very intellectually honest. The hard measures required to stop climate change are going to have a strong impact on energy costs which will adversely impact the poor and lower middle class.

The New Yorker is wonderfully tone deaf and plays right into its market of people who wouldn’t feel the difference between $3/gal gas and $8/gal gas.

These kinds of comics miss the point when people’s actual concerns are about being able to afford their commute or keep their heat on. Until they actually address the tradeoff being proposed, it’s just anti-intellectual Facebook feed bait.
Get yourself checked for Periodontitis [1]. (Assuming the bruxism is self-diagnosed based on your lack of dental practice visits.)

This is a common condition whereby bacteria get between the gum and teeth. It starts with sticky "plaque" from food and saliva, which hardens into tartar, which can get below the gumline. Bacteria grows in the tartar, which in time causes inflammation. At this point the damage isn't permanent and will be fixed by a dental clean. The inflammation causes swollen gums, which may be sore when brushed, and in the longer term the bone around your teeth recedes away from the inflammation. The receding bone leaves gaps around the teeth, which exposes their roots, making them sensitive, and the gaps exacerbate the condition by providing the bacteria a difficult to clean safe harbour. At this point the damage is becoming permanent, but treatment can prevent it from becoming worse. Left untreated over a period of years, the bone recedes so much that your teeth become loose, eventually falling out. End game is false teeth or equivalent. It's possible for the swollen gums to cover up the other symptoms by the swelling gums temporarily filling the gaps left by receding bone. The disease progresses over many years, so it's easy to ignore until there are permanent effects, but early treatment (a dental clean) will make it go away.

In the years before permanent damage the only symptom can be an occasional gum soreness which goes away after a few days and doesn't seem worth worrying about.

As far as I can make out, brushing delays Periodontitis by slowing tartar buildup, but over a period of many years it's not enough and one has to eventually go to a dentist to get the tartar scraped off, so Periodontitis causing bacteria have less places to live. Basically no dental visits over a period of many years with a typical diet = Periodontitis with permanent effects.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/periodontitis
not even millions, 1 would be enough… probably half that even
Hopefully the labs doing gain of function research in the US will increase their bio security levels as well.

https://www.thestreet.com/latest-news/the-next-pandemic-coul...
Don't fall into the trap of thinking people disagree with you because they are ignorant. That never works, usually because it's wrong. Consider the possibility that most people who are into cryptocurrency are as aware of the many down sides as they would need to be, but have come to a different conclusion than you about them.
> "The company is not adapting to a world where environmental, social, governance (ESG) considerations are becoming much more material to performance," BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, said after the meeting.

This quote says it all. It's expected that companies make certain symbolic gestures because they are seen as "material to performance" not because they make the world better. I don't think these gestures are actually material to performance (and they certainly don't make the world better). I suppose this is a good test.
http://archive.is/ryCiU
That didn't work for me. Going to incognito mode worked, but it's very annoying to have to do these workarounds, even if they are minor
One of the most common arguments used against Bitcoin is "it's only good in black markets." That's essentially what OP said. Do black markets not operate when Bitcoin is banned by government? Is this not the essential function cryptocurrency exists to serve? The outcome in Turkey for Bitcoin will be indicative. I have a timeline of 5-6 more years before I count it out.
https://longnow.org/
> the technical idea of a distributed chained ledger with no central point of trust, that was cool.

So... like git?
It’s a shame that every Reddit alternative (like voat and now ruqqus) turns into such a cesspool. I wish there was something like the Reddit of 10 years ago.
One of my biggest fears of cryptocurrency is that the government adopts it and forces businesses and individuals to use it. Everything is taxed automatically and all the details are retained forever. Want to sell a bike on Craigslist? Now your income and sales tax are applied automatically. All of your purchase information is now centralized in the hands of the government forever.
whaaat? I never knew there were auctions if another player didn't purchase. does it occur when a player doesn't have the money to purchase yet too?

the fandom wikipedia page says "Interestingly, this is one of the most-often overlooked aspects of the game." ya don't say.
It's not like pinboard made any actual arguments in his tweet storm, either, unless you count "we all know that cryptocurrency is a scam" as an argument.
Presuming you have enough workspace to place one of the plastic racks down beside your prewash sink, loading the trays is way more ergonomic than loading+unloading a regular dishwasher. They don't just do it for throughput. Personally, I'd love to have a residential-class dishwasher that has that kind of modular load system. Would be wonderful on my back.

> and it’s designed for an environment with lots of ventilation

Speaking of, you know what the #1 thing I would design into a residential kitchen if I were building one from the ground up? A fume hood. Just a literal chemistry-lab fume hood box, but where the shroud folds away and the base of it is an induction cooktop. (In other words, it's just a really fancy above-the-range ventilation system.)

Imagine what you could do with that:

• No fear of burning your food setting off your smoke alarm — just drop/shut the shroud around the cooktop, and all the smoke would definitely be going out the vent, not into your house.

* You can grill indoors (with e.g. a Hibachi) with no fear of CO / CO2 poisoning. (Just shut the shroud while the food cooks, and only open it at the end. As a bonus, the extra airflow will make the grill into a convection grill!)

* You can vent your kitchen (and through it, the rest of your house) really quickly, if you're e.g. clearing something rotten out of your fridge.

* You can do real chemistry to make stuff, if you like. For example, given a fume hood, it'd be safe to make a CO2 generator to refill your soda-carbonator gas canister.

* Landlords would no longer have to worry about their tenants turning a house into a meth lab, because even if they did, the house would in some sense be safe to use as a meth lab, with much lower risk of volatile chemical explosions.
Dubious indeed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Institute_for_Respons...
Curious that anyone thinks using Bitcoin to donate to Wikileaks is any more anonymous than doing an ACH transfer.
I disagree with the comment regarding the tech stack. It does matter - it only doesn’t if you’re willing to spend more money scaling worse preforming applications.
Usage in what sense? Beanie Babies once commanded a high price but they too were never a good payments system.

Many people are certainly buying in to crypto with the intent of selling it later at a profit. But that’s unrelated from its utility.
> At this stage, it'd probably be 2023 (Windows 8.1 formal end of support) before I can realistically look at transitioning away from tried and trusted (and universal) Win32/GDI to something else, especially considering that Microsoft is still promising that they might try to get their shit together in terms of allowing Win32 apps to use modern UI APIs with the NOT YET FINALIZED AND WAY TOO NEW TO TRANSITION TO WinUI 3.0

Electron Rufus confirmed.
She refused to do the interview after she won her match, and generally as the #2 player in the world she has lost very few matches...

Moreover, the contract which requires her to speak to the media also says the penalty for not doing so is a single monetary fine, which she has already said she accepts as the cost for not participating.

The news is that the Grand Slam events are attempting to unilaterally change the rules on her to include additional penalties not provided for in the contract.
Why is cryptocurrency/blockchain necessary for that?

You could have all of this with open banking standards.
You can think of it as clang, but controlled by a lua engine instead of the CLI. It's not just macros, you have control over generation of build artifacts. By default you're running in JIT mode, but you can at any time bundle up some procedures and spit out an object file or link them into an executable.

You can also call back into Lua from the native code, and use it to generate more native code. You get back some of the cool self-modifying executable techniques of the days gone by, without having to completely YOLO it.
Yup. I have coworkers in central America where getting a new apple is both a huge PITA and far more expensive than in the US.

One of my other friends had a Dell service business for a couple years, so I'm definitely familiar with how it all works. He uses macbooks these days too.

Working with smaller / early stage startups I've never had an IT dept that I could pass it off onto.
Not a bit! Could be life-threatening. I'm unsure what the flashing does, but please reconsider it?

EDIT: Just checked and the effect is only visible on Firefox. Works fine in Chrome.
I am not impressed with this.

As others have mentioned, this is overly complex.

It looks like a computer game where game state is laid out with cards and chips. And we, the players, have to execute instructions like computers
Getting Covid-19 after vaccination is incredibly rare, CDC report finds
Or maybe it's a blind spot of people who don't understand what motivates corporations to produce work.
The article misses the point here.

BHE (Berkshire Energy) is actually heavily based on wind generation and investing heavily in renewables, more than most utilities in the US. They are basically leaders in this area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN5pRtFeHEo

For the climate resolution, listen to Warren's answer on this in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELxlV0-4yA

They let their business operate fairly independently and want to avoid creating bureaucracy which doesn't create value which is how they generally operate.

In Charlie's words: "We're about as good as you can get [in renewables] and you should worry about something else... If this isn't good enough for you we can't help you."
It's all a significant risk to the internet.
Exactly. Very well put.

I once had a Black intern come back to his desk and I could see he was unhappy, which was far from his norm. I asked him what was up and there was this long moment of consideration, clearly deciding whether it was worth even explaining it to a white guy.

It turned out he'd left his badge at his desk and got trapped in the elevator lobby, something many people did going to and from the bathroom. When asking to be let in, a white guy gave him the third degree about who he was and whether he really belonged there. Nothing like that ever happened to me, even though my intern was a sharp dresser and I looked one notch up from a hobo.

After talking with my boss, I wrote this up for HR. At the intern's request, we never even named the interrogator. I explained that it was surely an unconscious bias incident and that I thought they'd want to keep track of things like that. In short order I get an email back from an HR lawyer denying, deflecting, defending. They did jack shit. So I also wrote the Black ERG heads. They jumped on it and raised it up to the level of the CEO, which I was very grateful for. It ended up being a reasonably positive experience for the intern on net; he felt heard and respected.

But it has always stuck with me how instantly this was dismissed by the normal power structure. They did not want to hear it, and no amount of me explaining "what hurts and why" would have made a lick of difference.
And that was to a (white) manager with the backing of his (white) manager. I totally get why people targeted with this stuff just keep their heads down most of the time.
Could you post the source for the injection claim? It seems to me you uncritically accepted some YT video, website or TV commentator.
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Not even a fairly neutral "it depends" does well here.
Ah well, I'll accept it for what it is.
Oh. Other departments are better in those areas. We had troubleshooting and recovery procedures in the previous team.
If ever there was a better example of why the internet needs anonymity, I can’t think of it.
As someone's thats read the many country's and state's constitutions, all major holy books and heavily weighted side-books for different sects

Its surprising I haven't thought to read the rules for Monopoly yet

Could be an onion headline. Constitutional lawyer has never read the Monopoly(R) official rules.
You’re going to need a bit more evidence on the “criminals love gold” point. Your thailand example just shows people will scam for small, valuable, fungible things.

Gold didn’t have a rep as the hub of black market transactions before bitcoin.
It just means don't blindly trust the experts.
*and wood and plastic.
I don’t know what you mean by point 1. The qualifier I used was “everyone who got access”, and I stand by that.

Initially only nerds had access and they couldn’t get enough. When access expanded to the general public, they couldn’t get enough either.

“You’ve Got Mail” is a 1998 movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The internet was completely mainstream just 16 years after the military decided to standardize on IPv4.

If there will be a 2024 Hollywood blockbuster called “You’ve Got Bitcoin”, it’s going to be a dark parody of speculation and greed, not a heartwarming tale of how much cryptocurrency helped average people connect with each other.
> Everyone who owns an index fund benefits when oil companies are profitable.

A significant minority of people have nothing in the stock market whatsoever, and of those who do, another large portion are only invested thanks to their pension plan, and so they don't actually know that they own (possibly via index fund) shares in oil companies (and basically every other large company).
Gitlab CE? Should be a Docker pull away.
No one is going back to a Fed fund rate pegged savings account after parking stablecoins in a DAO governed yield farm aggregator.

Critics think we're in the Dotcom bubble of crypto right now, but we're still in the Usenet stages. You need technical expertise in finance and computer science to grok crypto. I would ask any naysayers to this point in particular to share their understanding of some protocol like Aave, Sushi or Yearn and how these fail to surpass similar products in the space of traditional finance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
Don't gnu/linux ISO images make up a considerable proportion of bittorrent traffic nowadays?
Someone already posted the slaughterbots video, but I just find it unsettling that the production qualities of this video, the intense music, the graphics, etc. remind me exactly of the corporate presentation in slaughterbots.

I'd almost prefer that this showed something like someone's head getting blown off their body, to demonstrate the actual brutality of what it is designed to do, over making it seem like some video game.
> then next year Engine No. 1 will run a proxy fight for all of the board seats and win

That’s a ridiculous assumption.
I've found that Moras need a sharpen before they're really fit for duty.

And at that point, may as well keep sharpening them. What's the point of having a Scandi grind carbon steel blade if you don't sharpen it? There is literally no easier geometry or grind, and who cares if you scratch it a little?

I don't feel bad losing it (haven't) or breaking it (haven't) either. But taking a dull knife, letting it get duller, then tossing it, really doesn't sit right with me.
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