skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have an axe to grind, friend, and using hyperbole and warped quotations of what I said to take it out on someone whose net worth consists of 99%+ non-bitcoin, and 98% not crypto currency overall, is the wrong target.

By all means, continue grinding your axe if you really got to get it out, it's all very baffling and amusing.
I think a ban is questionable and likely backfires for those in charge. Also banning based on what grounds? The US and many others see it as an investable asset.

Governments will likely start to buy/mine large amounts... that's seems more likely at this point.

I'd be surprised if the US government isn't doing this very soon (or has already)
Kind of a hypothetical scenario for me—backing up 50TB to cloud would saturate my uplink for a full year and more. By comparison, it’s about four days of drive time on LTO-5. So while LTO-5 is a plausible way for me to store 50TB of data, cloud storage is decidedly a fantasy.

Personally—gonna say I don’t trust arrangements where I know the other side is losing money on the deal. This includes “unlimited” storage. I put “unlimited” in quotes because all of these other services with unlimited storage have, at some point, gotten shut down their unlimited storage plans. That’s why I compare to B2… not really interested in gambling on those things. So I would take B2 as the baseline for comparison when you're talking about this much data.

Amazon once had an unlimited storage option, if you recall. One data hoarder was recording cam girl streams and had just north of 1 PB in his Amazon Drive folder. Whole thing got shut down shortly after.
It’s so they can feed your info to the CIA.
The reference point for the Swiss national height network is 373.6 metres.

So they can somewhat ignore rising sea levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metres_above_the_Sea_(Switzerl...
What is your basis for saying that (1) is pseudoscience? A mere photo can be used guess political preferences fairly well. Why not personality?
And for about 150 years they enjoyed such a rise in living standards, until the gains were erased in the early 1500s, leading to the Great Peasants' War in Germany.
Seems like not a problem? Help me understand the problem? Someone would rather click around? No access to power shell?
For a moment I was wondering what a micro Line of Code is... then I noticed the mention to the Library of Congress.
Right, so you want whats best for you and your profitability, with no consideration of the expense to the employee.
You don’t have to use Strike, all lighting wallets are interoperable, and no need to exchange to Fiat since Bitcoin is legal tender.
France: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...

> PARIS — The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.

> The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron.
> In a cashless world, there would be no lower bound on interest rates. A central bank could reduce the policy rate from, say, 2 percent to minus 4 percent to counter a severe recession. The interest rate cut would transmit to bank deposits, loans, and bonds. Without cash, depositors would have to pay the negative interest rate to keep their money with the bank, making consumption and investment more attractive

I can't believe policymakers have the gall to even consider substantially negative interest rates. That is just beyond f*** up. Proposing shit like that is a big part of the reason why people believe in crypto - these idiots can decide to steal the returns of your past labor with zero accountability or democratic process behind it.

As much as I dislike Bitcoin, this kind of stuff really just pisses me off so much. This dissatisfaction with central banks is the heart of why people believe in crypto. All my life, I've struggled and worked incredibly hard to build financial security - who the hell are they to take it away without my permission?

We just wake up one day and find cryptic IMF papers about this shit and are expected to shut up and deal with it? Maybe 5% of people even understand what negative interest rates would mean, 5% of those are even aware that they are being considered as policy objectives. Central bank fucks just aren't getting the message - this is about a failure of democracy. Where is the messaging about this? Where is my chance to vote or debate on whether we should do this? Who put them in charge?

Everyone who is excited about central bank controlled "digital money" - please take some to consider the policy implications. It's not just new and better technology - the tech is cool but unimportant. It is a serious and irreversible shift of power towards even more undemocratic systems.
> And if you have to set up and migrate a client/server DBMS for the library, wouldn't you also have to do the exact same steps as if it was running as its own process somewhere the network?

You would not. The HTTP (say) API objects are versioned separately from the DB (or any internal implementation detail) of the service. This is abstraction: your API interfaces don’t change despite any internal changes.

To illuminate this a bit more suppose you do share such a library anyways. Having 2 independent services let’s you upgrade each of them independently. You aren’t forced to update all of them at once.
Why do you assume that they never do?

A friend of mine has severe OCD and OCPD, and his brain very much seems like it's stuck on a loop. I know some autistic people express the same thing.
It’s cool to see this in software now! My little hack was useful enough for me but I didn’t bother taking it any further because I didn’t want to fuss with patents.
Bitcoin could disappear tomorrow and the biggest impact to the economy would be Tesla’s stick price.
I feel like you’re being way too harsh on the people who buy gold and silver. The fact is both of those commodities do tend to hold onto their value very well over long stretches of time. Sure, investing in an index fund would have yielded more money but we only know that in hindsight. It’s not universally true that the stock market gets people the best returns. The fact is that gold and silver, while dumb and simple elements, will last longer than any company or government will. And there is some value in that. I don’t fault risk averse people for investing in scarce resources.
Microsoft's Surface Book line have 3:2 screens and are absolutely wonderful (though the price premium might be even worse than Apple).
> But when do we stop accepting transactions with ECDSA keys? I suppose at some point someone will try move 500,000 BTC from addresses that have been dead since 2010. Hopefully we'll have a consensus by then.

It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a consensus right? All the stakeholders would benefit old coins being lost forever (because the value of their holdings would go up), and there's no point in opposing it when you can just shuffle your old coins to using post-quantum signatures.
> Then the total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all the wealth in the world.

These people flat out don't understand how currency works. They don't understand where it comes from, how it's created, how it's destroyed, or what gives it intrinsic value.
Not all O365 licenses come with Powershell access. And yes, I'd rather click, CLI commands are not discoverable unless you happen to find a mention of the commands in the documentation.
The article's premise is that people want to buy gold and Bitcoin because they are both stores of value and they're bearer assets, which means that you don't need a third party to store them for you.

That seems... somewhat suspect as an explanation, given that most people who have substantial holdings in either store them with a third party. I think that there's not much in common between most current gold holders (who are looking to hedge against drops in other markets), and current crypto holders, who are often speculators,hoping for big returns on investment.
I hold a decent amount of Eth for this reason, but I actually think the biggest risk to either Bitcoin or Eth as an investment asset is not that crypto will fail, but that it will succeed enough that enough that institutional crypto users are sophisticated enough to create altcoins (or just hard forks) for these kind of banking-reserve use-cases.

Market cap for crypto can go up by 100x but crypto overall could still be inflationary by adding new niche crypto asset classes.
Or it would force the bigcorps to divest their social platforms and run them at arm’s length, maybe just as shareholders/investors.
This second episode with Dom D'Agostino discusses potential cancer treatments with the ketogenic diet:

https://tim.blog/2018/06/05/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event
I've seen this a lot with my own circle of friends, I think there's a few reasons why "techies" don't like it as much:

- they already trust the government and their institutions and don't see the need for it,

- they hear all the FUD and don't want/have time to research further,

- maybe some feeling of having missed out (especially for those that knew about it very early on or sold it for very cheap),

- seeing some "stupid loud mouths" who yolo'd and made a lot of money in it.

It's very interesting to see.
It depends, if 3rd party marketplace and direct sales were split up into separate independent companies, the "sold by Amazon" items could easily flow through as 3rd party marketplace sales. And they would also be free to sell "sold by amazon" items on any other platform, even competing directly with the 3rd party marketplace and leaving it to fester. Product listing quality is already about on parity with eBay so it's not a big stretch.

Possibly a better solution is to make all of the sales and inventory movement data available to amazon internally, available to anyone externally too. For example, the private lable shenanigans would die off quickly with more competitive pressure enabled by giving external players access to the same data Amazon has internally.
“Software eating the world” now applies to money.
Aren’t there already (computationally small) quantum computers right now?
So it’s essentially not possible without a Windows machine? Seems like a strange restriction especially if this capability existed before and was taken away. Especially if the IT team command and control is Linux which is likely
I wouldn't mock the parent so quickly. See page 24 here for the game that's being played: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3242314

Particularly the section "Stepped-up Basis on Death (Die)"
> I would just say I learned from 20 years of reading and mistakes.

One thing that's crazy to me is that when people make mistakes, in most cases it's forgotten or swept under the rug. Whereas if they do a full post-mortem and share it with the entire engineering organization, they're teaching everyone a valuable lesson (possibly multiple lessons) for free. If that lesson prevents the same situation from happening again even one time, they'll have "paid off" the first mistake, and it cost them nothing. Free money!
I've no axe to grind with you or anyone else.

I disagree with your bolstering the thesis that you should invest 1% or more of your portfolio in any given long-shot simply because you won't go broke if it went down. That's bad investment advice. Longshots aren't bad, but they should be backed by thesis.

Certainly when there's evidence of rampant market manipulation in your target asset class. That there's plenty of evidence for.

Primarily however, I'm responding to your counter that it's surprising people react with certainty. I'm saying I have evidence to back the claims I make. That's where my certainty comes from. I was offering citations.
I see both sides throw random facts and numbers around when it comes to energy consumption - so the truth is probably somewhere in between. It's an issue, and its gonna get better over time. So I'm less sure if it's really that big of a problem.

Just because I walked by a Chase bank right now... I mean, wouldn't it safe more energy if banks would start turning off their lights from 5pm to 8am and on weekends also?
I don’t disagree there are worse places in the US, just that talking like that averages out throughout the US is t an accurate portrayal. It’s fairly isolated. Most Americans don’t experience what you’re afraid of
No matter if what you say is true, the vaccines still prevent any of that in the first place. So…………………
The author doesn’t say the pendulum is swinging back. They’re providing many (valid) failure modes which were not evident at the start of the “revolution”. We’re just building tools that make it easier to build and operate micro services and being deliberate about when services should be split.
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/KernelAbstractions.jl
Isn’t quantum computing nonsense though?
Perl Myths by Pritesh Ugrankar
the argument was about wether humans and neural nets learn in a similar way. I don't see how what you are saying has any impact on that
Most people hack on this stuff for work, and time is money. OpenCL is just a lot less productive than CUDA for most tasks. The NVidia price premium isn't big enough to make people switch over.
By the time we realize that this is about to be reality, it will already be too late. I really do hope that Bitcoin Core devs and the community make a collective effort to approach this while it's still not necessary any time soon, than be caught with our pants down and leaving users too little time to react. Negotiation for a solution will be years, rollout on the mainnet should also be a year or two, and there should be a gap of several years after activation of whatever new signature scheme until it becomes necessary.

So if we're being risk-averse and having the worst-case in mind, it's time to get the ball rolling now.
Powershell runs on MacOS and Linux, too

MacOS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/instal...

Linux: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/instal...

I'm not sure what you mean by "not possible without a Windows machine."
> “Had the secret courts and BS not been there we probably would have had a different view on trump.”

It’s the other way around, really. The negative view was there first: Trump created it by his own actions and bizarrely obsequious behavior towards Russia. Looking for an explanation, people reached for rumors and complex theories.

But the truth seems to be that he was just very eager to become best buddies with dictators. There’s no need for direct collusion when one person is Putin and the other is a fanboy who hated NATO and every other international structure just on instinct.
This is what I am hearing from the Bitcoin crowd

1. Bitcoin mining will eventually halvening away and all security will be funded by transaction fees.

2. Most transactions will move to the Lightning Network and be practically free.

As the LN will remove the need to pay fees with it combining so many transactions, the Bitcoin network will thus not be worth mining on, and will thus be able to be easily attacked. As the security of the network is diminished, it will quickly become worthless.

I don't see how this works long-term.
Eh, sports is an entertainment industry.

All the drama about striving to be better, and fairplay and cheating, is all just to entertain.

So this scandal is about as important to real world morals as the disappointing last seasons of Game of Thrones.

Scandals and drama, up to a point, increase engagement. (But that has to be managed carefully.)

Btw, I'm not saying that anyone in the industry has to consciously think like that. It's just what the competition with other forms of entertainment rewards.

The Cheetah doesn't have to understand how it runs fast, it just has to run fast. The entrepreneur doesn't necessarily have to understand the customer, we just need enough people trying so that some of them deliver what people are willing to pay for---even if those trying have the wrong idea about what they are doing works.
That's pretty disappointing, everyone and his dog running any sort of hosting company allows customers to set this kind of stuff from a web UI.

It's probably a nod to the complexity and complications of running and developing office365.
The proposal doesn’t even know.
I wasn’t the one who brought up Backblaze.

The idea behind having two copies on tape is that it’s an easy way to get redundancy without special software. This makes it comparable to Backblaze, which presumably uses erasure codes, which allows them to achieve better redundancy with lower overhead (Backblaze’s storage can survive a higher rate of failure, and the encoding requires less overhead than a second whole copy).

What would be unfair is comparing Backblaze against a single tape copy.

However, two copies on tape is a pretty good backup. Paranoid, even.
In-line documentation getting out of sync is a purely organizational problem. If documentation is valued by the organization inline documentation won't get out of sync.

It's the easiest to keep in sync. It lives in the code it documents. It's in the same version control repo and the same version of the source building a binary can build the docs. If it ever does get out of sync with the code it's the most straightforward to fix because it's the same process for fixing an issue in the code itself.
Coming to psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and schools near you...
Not just because they are a bearer asset but because their scarcity retains purchasing power orders of magnitude better than paper money.
Youre so pathetic. You steal a network when nobodys watching, steal channels that have no allegience to you or your service, and then act salty when your users leave.

Your reputation before all this is why i never signed up for PIA in the first place, and after this just confirms what a true dunce you are.
Excuse the swearing: but pretty fucking cool.
Bitcoin has been dead hundreds of times already, it can die one more time [1].

1: https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/
The reason is that this is a societal and economical issue, beyond tech.

American education is not helping either, like most people don't know about Austrian economics for instance - which is kind of a background you need to have been exposed to, to have in depth discussions that go beyond the typical posts you get on forums.
Those better engineers picked the wrong hill to die on with EINTR since it was never worse. It harmoniously reflects the way hardware works and hasn't threatened UNIX's long-term survival. His ideas could be more appropriately applied today to Node and Rust which made a devil's bargain adopting a quadratic packaging model.
> If the Korean people recognise Lee as King, why not?

What makes you think they do?

The Joseon dynasty, which Lee claims to be the heir to, never ruled over modern South Korea. It fell out of power when Korea became a vassal state to Japan in 1910, and was no longer extant when South Korea regained independence in 1945. The last member of that dynasty died without issue; to claim that a distant relative of his is now the "king of Korea" is a distinctly minority viewpoint.
It’s not just cybercriminals who want to MITM. There are nation states who have been tapping fiber optic cables for a long time.
Shared B cell memory to coronaviruses and other pathogens varies by age group
My experience is that there is a major difference between their consumer and business lines. The business lines are generally pretty solid; the consumer gear is made of whatever parts were in the bins today. (Most manufacturers have the same distinction.)
It may not be pseudoscience. But even if the methods are accurate, it is still prejudice.

> (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.

> (countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
The Satoshi Mindset – Bitcoin, a stoic response to a financial problem
On January 03 2009, block 0 of a new distributed system was mined. Contained within, was a message, “The Times,03/Jan/2009, Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”, revealing some of the thinking behind its genesis.

Taking into account that this was in the midst of the financial crisis, and combining that with later writings, we can infer that Satoshi wasn’t happy with the economic system he found himself in.

What’s interesting though, is that instead of complaining,grumbling, whining, lobbying politicians, voting,protesting, occupying wall street, or any of that — ALL which I might add, never achieved any of their desired outcomes — he dared to create an alternative, and asked permission from no-one.He saw the problems of the world and what he could do about them without crying out or bawling out to anyone.

Satoshi started all of this when he sat down and figured out how to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem.

Echoing this sentiment back in 1993 with the Cypherpunk Manifesto, Eric Hughes famously declared, “Cypherpunks write code.” This amalgam of recognizing problems, having technical skills to potentially fix them, and then taking personal ownership for trying to do so is probably one of, if not the most important qualities our species has.

Human history is littered with these feats — monumental forces of will which flip the script, change reality, and reveal new pathways for being.

It’s not about idolizing Satoshi or others. The point is that in order to solve big problems, we must first look inwards and take responsibility.

Our civilization’s heavy reliance on electronic technology means that now more than ever, you have a chance to come up with real technological solutions and nudge our species in a better direction.

So in closing, I just want to get across that it is down to YOU, and no one else. Stop shaking your fist at the sky, and shift your mindset.

credit/source: https://vocal.media/theChain/the-satoshi-mindset
He made that prediction when Bitcoin was worth a big 0. Back then if you told anyone that one day it would achieve prices of 63k$ per coin, they would have told you you're just crazy, yet here we are. Let's see where we are in 10-20 years from now.
Marxist Chinese spies need to stop trying to get pregnant by arrogant US leadership, then threatening to abort it to sway trade policy. That, and stop killing millions of poor elderly people with a horrible bioweapon over soy bean prices. You are humans, not lawless animals. Act like it please.
The point wasn’t FMRI per say, just that it would limit the science to observational studies like FMRI, which cannot reproduce the results of things like ICSS. Also such research may have large implications for understanding and treating addiction. The first step is understanding it.
You define Hinduism as an ecosystem of ideas, with no clear boundaries, sometimes adopting ideas from Buddhism as well as other tribal rituals.

In another comment you said that casteism was brought by the West to India. (I do not agree with this but lets go with for now). So it clearly follows that Hindus (Hinduism) adopted casteism from somewhere externally. This is not for debate because we have seen and continue to see Hindus practicing casteism for whatever reason.

Hinduism can be simultaneously extolled for adopting "good" ideas from Buddhism but is also beyond criticism for adopting casteism from the west?

You arbitrarily laid the boundary for Hinduism at "caste" arguing that it was brought externally and hence not an inherent Hindu feature, yet somehow you take pride in Hinduism being a religion that does adopt external ideas. Which one is it?
If you pay attention to news coming from both sides of the political spectrum, you'll find out that Trump did it too. Both sides have abused power, and I don't see any force that will stop such abuses of power from continuing and getting worse.
A lot of people believe SDI in the 80s was a similar phenomenon. Agree with you, gonna have to "press X to doubt" on this one.