skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lead VC and others are US based, or have operations in the US.

Were they able to segment investments, so that only non-US investor money flowed into the sale? Does having US-based VC organizations participate create a nexus for the SEC to have authority?

It will be interesting to follow the legalities of this, so perhaps others can model the sale and use to successfully float new tokens without scrutiny by the SEC.

Or does the "Duck Rule" not apply to this sale? What say you Gary Gensler?
I'm not sure how this cuts against the claim. In this case, wide views at the time were wrong, and Facebook knew lighting money on fire was worth it... if it kept the spigot flowing.
I’d like to see a way to opt in to this behavior, for example with a “use await” within a function or module, similar to “use strict” but without making it a global setting.
Yes, because we all know that insulin can be had for ten cents a vile right now....oh...wait.

Can we please stop trying to rationalize an irrational market. There is no reason to believe that the age of the drug has anything to do with it's profitability.
Questions for Solana bulls from a crypto noob:

1) ETH bulls say that Solana is not really decentralized. It achieves scalability by limiting the network to only a handful of validators; why not just use AWS at that point? Why are they wrong?

2) ETH bulls say that security of a proof-of-stake is driven by total coin market cap; the more cap, the more expensive an attack. This makes ETH more secure than Solana. ETH has an unbreakable first mover advantage for this reason, they say.

3) ETH bulls say that ETH plus Polygon (or similar level two solution) is just as scalable as solana, while retaining the above two advantages of ETH. Why is that wrong?
When talking about the concept of monopoly, it's quite relevant which part is under discussion. For example, a lot of video content I consume is from Instagram or TikTok. This stuff is real and it counts. Creators there often have little to no YouTube presence, and are relying on their platforms for the same question of discovery, and your claim about 99% of their revenue simply isn't accurate. This is a quibble, except for the fact that when we're talking about monopoly, every exception counts.

"If you want to make a living, you have to host on YouTube." If you want to short-circuit a lot of the work of audience development by having a recommendation algorithm point a firehose of eyeballs at your stuff, you have to host on YouTube or a comparable platform. However, that is a very different thing, and not a technicality at all! The business model of a YouTube creator is precarious and contingent, because their relationship with their audience is so thoroughly mediated by the platform that the platform's whims give and take away. ("Hit the bell so you don't miss a video") Essentially, there's a risk of taking the dependent-on-platform-aspect of this business model for granted in a way that obscures the alternatives people really do use these days. (E.g., I know we probably all hate those Wordpress sales funnel things, but from the perspective of "how do I make money from my content" they're genuinely an option we should be contrasting here)
>JPMorgan’s analysts said the large commercial paper holdings may suggest that Tether is struggling to find a bank willing to take its cash as a deposit.

Hmm, I wonder why?

>The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has released guidance saying that banks can take deposits from stablecoin issuers only if the coins are fully backed by reserves.

Oh that's right, because the one coin that's supposed to be 100% backed, isn't.
Yes, made LLVM if I'm not mistaken
In Germany we had specialized magazines, and I'm sure there were similar things in most countries. I bought a CPC664 in 1985, and there was a magazine called CPC International. It had articles about all sorts of things - programming languages or documentation for chips like the CRTC. There were also program listings you could type in; I believe I got an assembler that way. Another magazine had a BASIC compiler. Similar things existed later in the Amiga days.

There were also books. One of my favourites was an annotated disassembly of the CPC's two major ROMs. 16KB basic operating system, and 16KB BASIC interpreter.
Digitizing rare objects would go a long way toward preserving them: A digital copy is not the same thing, but it's far better than nothing. It also provides near-immediate access to people worldwide in a moment, instead of to only those who can travel to a certain location and schedule a visit to the rare artifacts room. It's a great democratizing of information (I'm preaching to the choir, I know ...).

It's surprising to me that such work often has to struggle for funding (IIRC). I would happily support a tax increase to cover a nationwide and worldwide digitization project: It's a one-time cost (beyond ongoing storage and bandwidth), and provides so much value for eternity.

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In college, I was studying in the enormous main library. There were private cubicles with doors around the edges of the stacks, going up six floors - a great place for quiet and to not be found, when I really needed to focus. I didn't tell anyone: nobody knew I was there or ever went there.

I remember one night I took a break and walked from the cubicle through the stacks to the elevator lobby, to use the bathroom. As I approached I heard a faint sound, getting louder, kind of like a bell. It was the fire alarm. It had been going off for 20 minutes. Five large floors of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves beneath me; nobody knew I was there or ever went there.
If someone's interested in learning about the evidence for Ivermectin, I've written a summary of the main notes from the Ivermectin Global Summit.

This is a good introduction to the overwhelming wealth of data showing that Ivermectin is a safe and effective in the prevention and early treatment of COVID-19.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/nj9713/ivermect...
> a strong anti-vaccine stance that and are promoting Ivermectin

I would assume that the core of this sentiment is something like “vaccine is a semi-permanent modification of immune response while ivermectin is a temporary chemical adjustment”

I’m just guessing though.
All my main CS coursework was done while SSH'ed into a class cluster, but I took a bunch of electives where you're like working w/ docker, doing android development, etc. where its nice to have a fast machine.
Pointing out that it's cheap for you, while you couldn't get it right, isn't a good look.
I think it's a bit fanciful to believe that post-apocalyptic people would have any interest in studying or learning from the past. Archeology is a very recent invention. Mostly, people just looted whatever old things they found for their immediate use or destroyed them because they didn't matter. The world will be awash in old crap by then too or if it isn't, the time capsules you leave will be just as gone as everything else.
Discussed at the time (of the article, not the future):

Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864392 - Aug 2018 (155 comments)
I'm very skeptical of this interpretation, if only because LSD doesn't just (or even mostly) cause "noise" hallucinations. It makes you actually notice the tiny details and patterns in everyday things. Not a different reality so much so as a deeper awareness and appreciation of the reality normally perceived.
> ridiculous strawman argument to attempt to equate legally required and life save medical insurance to airline travel

Untrue.

> Well, they are, so I‘ll lay it out.

That cost calculation is completely ridiculous without taking into account the capacity of the plane, overhead, seat class, disability status, ticket type, volume of luggage and a million other things. Which is why tickets are broken down to "ordinary adult" and "ordinary child".
Free service -> non-free infrastructure / development -> corporate revenue -> who's really paying

In this case, it's advertisers.

Which is why all the antitrust suits are brought "for" the ad industry.
GSConnect (which I already use) is written as a GNOME shell extension in order to provide support for clipboard sharing. Unfortunately, none of the mobile-friendly shells/desktop managers support GNOME extensions (yet). There's an effort to port GSConnect to Phosh-based environments (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/issues/514), but that's still exploratory. It's also possible to install KDEConnect on Mobian, but it doesn't work fully and the UI isn't quite mobile-friendly yet.
I use kolourpaint for that. If you don't want the Qt dependencies, also try mypaint, I used it in the past and it works well too.
Magnetic tape have simply a far bigger working area than HDDs.
An HDD have only it's disk area, multiplied by the number of disks.
Magnetic tape is wrapped which make the total surface way way higher.
Well there isn't, and I mean it. They do way more harm than good.

There isn't anything wrong with using existing secure and regulated methods (Paypal, Bank Transfer, etc), Cryptocurrencies claim to be decentralised when underneath they ARE still centralised and manipulated, especially Bitcoin.

I will only admit it has been a good run, but now it is time to for the regulators to step in.
There's not a single thing we can do? Where do China's products get sold? Here. So it seems to me like there's lots we can do.
Well, what are the upsides? I can't think of any that our existing system can already do.
They have a lot to do with each other.

The emergency use authorization for the vaccines was predicated on there being no effective approved alternatives. If there's an effective approved alternative, the vaccines lose their EUA and are back to being clinical trials until full approval.

So anti-vax people want an effective treatment to be found to invalidate the EUA. Pro-vax people don't want an effective treatment to be found because it would invalidate the EUA.
My chromebook pixel from 2013 stopped receiving OS updates a few years ago.

My MacBook Pro from 2012 still receives updates and works a charm.
I'd guess those two approaches converge on a similar number, but using the median density is pure statistics, while removing unused land is more of a judgement call.

The median approach does risk minor artifacts based on the divisions used to calculate density (census tracts in the United States), but since we're looking for a median value, and census tracts are pretty small, it should be reasonably precise.
Way too many previous related threads to list, but here are the big ones:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Surely a loop over regexes is not the smartest solution that one could use for this? We do have algorithms for looking up multiple patterns at once and such, right?
There are quite a few difficulties with this vision:
1) Aren't Jews entitled to self determination? That was the whole point of Zionism which the U.N eventually supported.
2) The only example of a binational state we have in the middle east (Lebanon) suffered many civil wars and horrible atrocities between Christians and Muslims. The animosity between Palestinian (Muslims) and Israeli Jews is older and stronger. Would you consider moving 300 million Chinese to the U.S to make one big happy democracy?
3) The problems we have now can look tiny compared to some Islamist fundamentalist regime over the whole area (something like Hamas, which is the body most Palestinians prefer). Where is this expectation of democracy coming from? It's an extreme rarity in the middle east: "Israel is the only democratic country (qualified as a "flawed democracy", ranked #28 worldwide) in the Middle East, while Tunisia (#53 worldwide) is the only democracy (also "flawed democracy") in North Africa."

But yeah, the current mess makes any change welcome I guess, even if it's destructive.
The thing that really defeats the ivermectin argument is simply effect size (or, equivalently, drug effectiveness). For a drug to be useful, it needs to have a larger effect than existing therapies. The larger the effect, the more useful. And the larger the effect, the easier it will show up in studies.

Ivermectin's trial results are mediocre at best. So it can't be that powerful a treatment. It's probably helping a bit, or at least not hurting, but it's not a wonder drug. We'd have seen that if it were!

So then you get into the usual lines of bullshit, as we saw before with the hydroxychloroquine people. "Augment with unicorn horn dust" and "dose more" and "dose earlier" and all that. But COVID-19 is the sort of disease that is impractical to dose too early, so "must dose very early" just means "drug is useless".

Thus the facts are clear: even if ivermectin works, it isn't useful. It was a great hypothesis to test. It failed in the clinic. So it's irresponsible to continue beating against it when we have better avenues to pursue.
Why the emphasis on "Black physicist"?
I've never seen "${COLOR} physicist rethinks the 'dark' in dark matter".
I would argue it's the other way around - FOSS UI/UIX is two decades ahead, because it didn't participate in the UX regression that has plagued us in those past two decades.

This isn't entirely true, because e.g. Gnome has been an enthusiastic adopter of all those anti-patterns. But, unlike other platforms, you still have other DE options to choose from.
PoS security driven by market cap is like saying that the richer the top 1% is and the more they’ll be incentivized to protect their funds. It’s not necessarily wrong, but it throws out a lot of other factors out the window. For example, who is this top 1% and how much do they care about the crypto.
Lebanon currency drops to new low as financial meltdown deepens
There's https://curlie.org , it even links to some old-style websites in its collection. I think there are some other sites with similar ideas too, where you can create groups and share bookmarks ( like https://groups.diigo.com )
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003 (and the artifacts that were not recovered presumably sold to collectors), the Delhi Natural History museum burned to the ground in 2016 (total collection loss) and the Brazil National Museum burned down in 2018 with huge losses.
How am I not at all surprised that Eric Weinstein is also a proponent of chronic Lyme.
I sell in USD, and then once a month they transfer my sales to me using Currency Cloud. At that point it gets converted at the mid-market rate + 0.25% IIRC. Since they don't actually make international transfers using banks, that amount is what actually arrives in my bank.
I'm quite interested in this topic.

Does PoH encourages the "excessive" use of hardware and energy like PoW or PoTaS (chia) does?

I'd be very interested in any solution which scales its resource usage with usability/throughput rather than token price.

(I'm probably missing the correct terms)
Looks interesting, do you have to manually populate the tickers?
Asking because on line 36 there's a stocks variable.

https://github.com/tstewart161/Reddit_Sentiment_Trader/blob/...

Seems like the comment below line 36 says you do, but I thought the algo was supposed to pull those for you.
I mean I technically called the guy I was responding to an asshole which is a personal attack, which should get flagged per the rules on this site. But the "hurr durr old dumb programmer get corona and die" was bad enough I felt that was a measured response.
So Clubhouse has gone pretty well has it? Considering that Twitter, Discord, Reddit, Spotify and even Facebook is getting in on Clubhouse's format.

Also, every time a VC comes along and does this with cryptocurrencies, there is almost a guaranteed complete dump in the price coin, only hurting the general public.
It is a good idea IMO, especially with GalliumOS (a Chromebook optimized variant of xubuntu) so you can run Linux natively.

Back in 2016 I picked up a Toshiba CB35 Chromebook with a 13" 1080p IPS display, 4gb of memory, 1.7ghz Celeron and a 256GB SSD for $350. It weighs under 3 pounds and has a backlight keyboard too.

It still runs great today and despite the low end specs it can deal with some programming work loads (Dockerized web apps, a bunch of browser tabs, mp3 player, editor with 40+ plugins, multiple workspaces, etc.). It's not slow either. Even decently sized Rails apps with Webpacker reload nearly instantly while developing and there's no type delay.

It's been a really nice outdoors / travel laptop for someone like me who normally uses a desktop workstation.

I wrote up a whole review of it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/transform-a-toshiba-chromeboo...

If you can still find this exact model at that price point I'd consider it today. It's one of those rare combos of hardware that's really good at a fair price. I wouldn't insta buy it, but I'd at least keep it in the runnings vs a 2021 model, especially at that price point. With lower end machines, newness isn't always a deciding factor for goodness.
Trauma of Mystical Experience
Is this because they're a monopoly or because they're better than the competition?
At least it will be open source in 3.5 years. I'm ok with that compromise.
How to go full-time in the Music Industry
https://archive.is/LhfYj
The hardware requirements wrt memory to run a validator node are just insane https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs
They are also storing the data in S3 (ingest bandwidth, storage). Plus running an RDS instance (instance cost, x2 if replicated, bandwidth again possibly x2 or more, IO cost) as well as local storage (EBS size/IO cost). And the size of the raw metrics might not be the wire size, especially if it’s uncompressed JSON. My guess on reviewing the post is that a lot of their savings were inter-AZ bandwidth conservation. But it’s hard to say without poking around in their AWS console :)
Curious, you have a source ? from the wiki "with a constitution promulgated on 12 September 1848. This constitution provided for the cantons' sovereignty, as long as this did not impinge on the Federal Constitution. The creation of a bicameral assembly was consciously inspired by the United States Constitution, the National Council and Council of States corresponding to the House of Representatives and Senate, respectively "
There is another possible conclusion. Namely, that what I wrote is indeed true as to why I didn't post links. This topic is sort of like an anti-vax topic. I can post lots of links that vaccines are safe and worth taking but if someone is too obtuse to even bother to look up the relevant information themself then nothing I post/say will sway them. Hence, posting links to scientific research to an anti-vaxxer is meaningless. It's not a "no true Scotsman" argument because I'm not making an argument. I'm simply stating why I didn't post links. That isn't an argument it's just a rationalization for why I didn't post links to the research.

It's really quite easy to find stuff written about the destructive aspects to porn.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/201...
I don’t think either LSD or Shrooms causes hallucinations (like seeing a creature that isn’t there.) Mushrooms make me feel strange and see a bit blurry but it’s mostly an internal thing and makes my wind wander. LSD is a bit more intense, visually, like colors become more vibrant and my mind creates detail in even the simplest of items (peeing in the toilet damn near gives me a panic attack.) I’ve only ever heard of people seeing things in movies other than maybe sitting in the dark and seeing “demons” but my mind does that already by trying to give forms to the visual noise of darkness; again just not as intense.
> I've done computer security stuff for a while. Chromebooks are, by far, the best computer security model I've seen.

How can you talk about security if there is spyware on every Chromebook? I mean Google Chrome. Everything you do is recorded on Google servers, not only that but Chrome doesn't integrate any anti tracking protections like other browsers do (even Chromium based ones like Microsoft Edge), because it's the interest of Google to track the users. Not only that, but Google Chrome has a lot more security vulnerabilities than the competitors. I wouldn't say it's secure, and I would never do something on a Chromebook or in general in a Chrome browser, since it's like giving the access to Google itself.

Regarding the operating system, how can you trust more a system from Google than a system you build yourself? If you are paranoid you can buy a machine that supports Coreboot and even run your own trusted BIOS. If you don't want to take this seriously, you can setup your secure boot by creating your own keys, installing them in the firmware, and signing the kernel that you compile yourself. I don't know why you would have to be that paranoid but whatever, to me when I have an encrypted hard drive and my computer stays in my bag is more than enough.

> Almost everything can be done on the web today

You can't do programming in the browser, you can't do graphics, video editing, 3d modelling, you can't connect to a remote computer with RDP from a browser, you can't even have a full office suite in the browser (Office 365 in the browser, Google Docs, etc are limited), you can't play big games in the browser, you can't connect to a VPN from a browser, a webmail it's worse than using a desktop email client, you cannot have an advanced video/audio player in the browser (like VLC), etc.

Also, if internet doesn't work you are basically screwed, what do you do? Stare at the screen and play with the dinosaur game?
I’m very confused by why PoH is being presented as novel, maybe I’m misunderstanding? As I see it, PoW and PoH both appear to be solving the same problem of establishing a sequential order of events within a distributed system, except PoH doesn’t present a mechanism for trusting the sequence.

In PoW, each event that is to be published must be accompanied by the hash of the previous event in the sequence. In PoH, the same is true. In PoW, you trust that the chain of events is correct, because work has to be put in to generate each hash, as there are conditions on the digest prefix which determine the difficulty. With PoH… Um… I’m sure I must have missed something, but there’s no inherent reason to trust any chain. It’s just a sequence of hashes, with no difficulty requirement. The actual trust in a certain chain comes from an unrelated proof of stake system, I guess. Very weird, I’d appreciate if anyone could help me get some clarity on this.
This made me laugh.

Also, at least one eggdrop.
Ivermectin is great against many parasitic worms, and it's probably not going to kill your collie anymore (those lines died off a decade and more ago).
What rewriting of history? The PC (and then volume server) era very much saw previous vertical silos tiled into a horizontal structure with x86 at the processor layer and Windows at the operating system layer. In the 1990s, a lot of computer companies were ready to concede the OS crown to Windows.

(To the degree I'd argue with the statement, it's that it was as much Intel's doing as Microsoft's; Andy Grove even dedicated part of one of his books to this.)
There's also a social aspect, where any problem that you encounter is immediately pinned on your choice of a peculiar setup, and becomes a story that gets told and repeated. You may have a professor who is suspicious that you are wasting time on what seems like a quixotic pursuit.

So you actually have to go way overboard to ensure that your stuff always works perfectly, and that nobody ever sees you trying to troubleshoot something.
That approach can be described as "Big RCT Fundamentalism".

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/randomiz...

https://youtu.be/LkIKCbwBcLU?t=1940