skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religious people asking others to judge the Word Of God by whatever standards humans happened to have at the time the books were written is an implicit acceptance that their religion is completely made up. What happened, God Changed their mind in the meantime?
People have been saying this about crypto for 10 years and bitcoin 30x'ed despite all the negativity, with tons of big institutions loading up on it behind the scenes. It's here to stay.

When you buy something at the store, the cashier doesn't question you how you got the money. They don't care. All they know is the currency is the proof that you did something, or sold something that other people valued.

Valuing a unique crypto hash is no more ridiculous than someone valuing a painting, old baseball cards, ancient pottery and all the other random stuff people collect and trade that are nothing more than a decoration.

Well, except crypto completely mobile, easy to exchange and can't be taken from you like all other the assets we have been exchanging since the beginning of time.
Can someone explain what is proof of history? I tried to read the white paper but don't understand what PoH is supposed to achieve or how it interacts with proof of stake.
They stole the idea from the laptop on https://browsersack.com (desktop only)
> …if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. - Scott Alexander
When Standard Oil was broken up, it wasn't a 100% monopoly. Nor was AT&T. I'm not sure what your criteria are, but if you're just being pedantic, it doesn't seem to have any historical bearing. The great monopolies of US history that prompted legal change never had complete control. They just had de facto control due to outsized influence and predatory (or at least anticompetitive) behavior.
Regardless, you're being needlessly antagonistic.
The potential downsides associated alcohol consumption are well understood, and this understanding has permeated most societies.

The same cannot be said for porn consumption. While studies exist, this is not a well understood topic, and big claims are going to be met with skepticism and demands for evidence.
> Generally my point in this discussion is that you should not bundle together factory farms and slaughterhouses in the US with, e.g. small dairy farms in the Pyrenees or Austria, or Bantu farmers in Africa, etc. There is one way that people eat meat in the Americas, Australia and China, and quite another in other parts of the world.

The countries which you claim aren’t factory farming are just importing much of their meat from countries which do, see: https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/poultry-meat

And even if you assume the existence of supposedly “ethical” animal agriculture — which is considerably farcical given the non-consensuality of murder in any case — it’s inherently irrelevant because these niche models of food production don’t scale to feeding the world.
Oh I'm not saying that commercial interest automatically makes a study BS.

I'm saying that commercial interest is commercial interest so why would it fund a study that isn't commercially viable?

Ivermectin isn't a money maker. It's a life saver. Vaccines and other new solutions are money makers and life savers (they hope)
When Instagram was purchased by Facebook it was not viewed as a competitor at all, it was widely viewed as a terrible decision with FB massively overpaying.
> Why so much glue? Because the right glue to use depends on the materials being joined, and the context in which the joint will need to survive (moisture, temperature, duration).

On that topic, I am obligated to link to a wonderful no-nonsense guide choosing on the best glue for your particular materials:

http://www.thistothat.com/
To paraphrase what an old boss said “they just happened to make the best music when I was the most emotionally vulnerable”.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/07/iv...
The other post about this got flagged, I wonder why
You've missed speculation and gambling. Not to say it's a great use case but it's the biggest. Most people buy them because the number goes up, not to buy drugs etc. Which is perhaps a bad idea but not actually illegal.
The one thing I like about any engineering and sales position is that you just can't lie about your skills, you can either build or sell something or you can't. There is no bullshit you can create at least within the organisation. And contrast it with other managerial jobs, where you can pretend to do the job as long as you can and 'network' around and when you're called out, you can just jump to another ship.
So then what's the point of this thing then? All these crypto things reek of ponzi schemes and I have yet to see an application of it that makes me think the technology is good/needed. So far, crypto is a solution looking for a problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494894
How can you create a coin, get investors into a private token sale (or even allocating pre-mined coins), hype the trojan horse onto the public to get them involved, then getting the coin on main exchanges and then investors dumping the coin causing it to be worthless. All this being unregulated by the way.

This happens all the time with these projects most recently ICP (Internet Computer) and just one of the reasons why this is all a complete scam.

There is a name for this type of rinse and repeated scheme.

There is no reason why this can also happen to Solana, rendering cryptocurrencies even more worthless than real money.
I wish we'd just ban all unsolicited ads already.

The world would be so much better.
Why will you owe instead of getting a refund? What has changed this year? Are you a 1099 and you didn't contribute enough? Because if you're a W2, and you haven't changed any of your amount withheld, you're just making more, and you got a refund last year, and it's the same employer...I'd be shocked if you ended up owing.

Even if you changed employers, it's unlikely you'll end up owing (at least, not much); while the new employer won't know what bracket to start withholding from, the extra amount you'll be paying into social security is an extra 6% that will likely cover much of it.
I bought the original Chromebook Pixel when it was new for something like $1.3k. At the time, I believed this the best way to get a slim laptop with a high resolution screen and good linux support. Debian did run well on it, as I expected, but I soon came to regret the purchase and will never buy hardware from Google again.

EDIT:

It lost audio about 3 or 4 months after it was out of warranty, both out of the speakers and headphone jack. Left speaker failed first, then the right, then the headphone jack. I can only assume it was some sort of hardware fault, since sound no longer worked in ChromeOS either (and HDMI audio continued working in both). But good fucking luck getting such a thing fixed on a product like that from a company like that. Now I have a Dell XPS with a 1080p screen, which is good enough, particularly considering Dell has a much better reputation for support/repairs.
I'm not sure the Jewish would be a minority... Unless you're including "The right of return" in you calculations. But that shouldn't be a given.

There can also be a constitution that requires special majority to change. But yeah, like I said, this doesn't solve all the problems. It just seems the problems this leaves us with are easier to solve. The reality is that all these people are gonna need to figure out some way to get along. And that's all this is, a bunch of people, Palestinians, Arabs, Jewish, Christian etc. Within the right sort of framework this could work. It could still be a homeland for the Jewish people but it can also be the country for other people as well who enjoy equal (-ish?) rights.

Not unlike many other western countries which are Christian but minorities get equal-ish rights this could be a Jewish "western"/democratic country with about half the population not Jewish. Could work. You may say I'm a dreamer ;)
Ah yes, Amazon isn't a monopoly. That's why I often use the alternative online shopping site that has nearly every mass-produced item imaginable at low prices and low or free shipping. Same with Facebook: it's good thing there's that competitor of theirs that nearly everyone is on, catching up, organizing local events, buying and selling stuff. And man, I don't know where I would be without that other Internet search engine that rapidly and intelligently indexes almost everything online as soon as it's up and has been so fine-tuned over more than a decade that it has an almost psychic ability to correctly interpret even the most vague, misspelled and deranged search queries. It's truly amazing that humanity managed to make such a wonder of technology not just once, but twice!

Really, I don't know what the lawmakers are thinking. Competition is alive and well on the Internet! Innovation has never been higher! Absolutely nothing has gotten worse since 2008! Boy I can't wait for the next version of Firefox. It totally won't be even more like Chrome this time.
It's easy to find research on the topic. The research supports my view.
It's rather simple: remove it from the origin repo using BFG Cleaner or whatever, then ask devs to delete and re-clone the repo. Not everything needs a complex technical solution.
If you design your low power computer to handle JPEG (eg with a hardware codec), then using JPEGs will be cheaper than uncompressed formats because there are less bits to move around.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496987

> "When you see [flagged] on a submission, it means that users flagged it (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's pretty easy to guess - just read the first part of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html."
> I found 3 pentagon confirmed videos today of Unidentified flying shapes going super fast. Whatever they are, this is pretty surreal

If you're talking about the 3 videos I assume you are, I'd recommend checking out Mick West's videos on them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
Google has some where around 80% of the search market in the US which is possibly enough to qualify as a monopoly.
> The DocC tooling isn't going to be anymore effective than doxygen or other auto generated documentation without good architectural documentation. A function definition is nice but knowing you need to decombulate a frobnob before snizzlizing or that decombulation can only safely be done on the main thread is often more important.

Explanations of design intent might be the most underrated kind of documentation. There's so little of that nowadays in general, in any technology. Personally, I blame shortened attention spans, the death of programming books, and the rise of Stack Overflow. I'm not familiar with the Apple ecosystem, is it really worse in this regard than others?
I don't think anything but a massive political realignment will fix our structural problems. The US has no functional labor/green party.

The right has elements of populism but serves the owner class. The left has a progressive wing that's basically powerless. In most other democracies these elements would be aligned in a progressive green party. But split as they are in the US, they're powerless.

Under Obama, Democrats had a veto proof majority for 2 years and didn't do much to help income inequality. Trump talked a lot about helping blue collar workers but similarly did nothing. I'm afraid both parties are too corrupted by big business
> The token sale, which was completed earlier this year, was only made available to off-shore investors

There does seem to be some regulatory testing going on here.
Most setup x on raspberry pi guides really mean setup x on debian.
Navigation – Spacecraft Solar System Exploration
There’s a grey area between censorship and editorial choice. For example is YouTube disallowing porn censorship? Pornhub seems to be doing very well.

I think some of the social media platforms are making mistakes sometimes at the moment, but honestly they’re faced with very difficult choices. Ultimately they do have to make those choices, there’s no such thing as broadcast communications platforms without editorial selection of some kind.
My only real complaint is advocates like you who try to claim that an extension is a valid solution to a feature request. Because it really isn't. People spend a lot of time customizing their environment to meet their needs. And they often don't have a choice not to update some package like a GNOME Shell. The problem is that there are huge numbers of dependencies, and if you hold back on updating GNOME Shell, you can't update a potentially huge number of other packages, and you risk your desktop or laptop installation becoming unstable.

So the "just a few clicks and you can install an extension" is really a very weak, naive argument. One might even say, one made in bad faith. I don't tell people to use out-of-tree kernel modules either, because that's not really a solution for exactly the same reason. Instead, I tell them, yeah that sucks, I suggest that you not buy Nvidia hardware. :-)
Somewhat similar: Based on the fact that if you break a holographic picture in half then the two halves show a fainter representation of the whole and not a left and right portion, I imagined we each contain the whole mind of god, but a faint representation of it, since we are only a part of the whole.

https://www.litiholo.com/blog/2019/10/11/what-happens-when-y...
Vwc: Wc (word count) rewritten in V and faster than C
Creating noise in the brain that the nervous system then makes sense of. Interesting theory.

Now if I put my mystical hippie hat on I'm going to ask you what you think noise is? Personally I think it's some fundamental property of the universe.
How so? Ken Buck is against regulating ISPs. My comment wasn't a strawman, its literally his position.

> When asked about Pai’s work to unravel net neutrality rules, Buck said: “I support Chairman Pai’s efforts to free internet providers from burdensome regulations that stifle innovation and increase costs for Coloradans.” [1]

> The Far Left is attempting to enact their socialist agenda by tearing down statues and rewriting America’s history.
> The United States of America will never be a socialist country—and we need to celebrate the Founders who made our nation so great. [2]

[1] https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/14/colorado-congress-net-...

[2] https://twitter.com/RepKenBuck/status/1301540179208007681
ImageMagick. Even has a command line interface!

On a serious note, I don’t have any problems with GIMP, 2.10 is supposed to have hiDPI support. Have you tried Krita and MyPaint?
Shares have dividend, control (voting), information and litigation rights in a company.

Tokens often have dividend (through staking and different risk taking model than shares) and voting rights. You have way less legal protection.

Because the system, e.g. Solana, is decentralised and all information is public (in the optimal case), there is less need for information and litigation rights. All market participants can have, more of less, the same information.
> Wonder how they will feel knowing their representative is proposing legislation will likely hurt their financial well-being.

If you're a rank-and-file employee in those companies and legitimately think these bills will significantly affect your financial well-being, you've successfully been brainwashed to believe that your stake in the company actually matters.
What about hands-on lab sites like tryhackme, vulnhub, cybrary?
Crypto is a relatively new technology. Illegal money is as old as civilization.

Yes, there are regulations to make it harder to carry out elicit business, but that doesn’t change history, nor does it invalidate the point I was trying to make.
Who knew that Julia could do CUDA work too? Every day I grow more and more impressed with the language.
Plenty of coins (particularly those that go through an ICO) may be considered to be securities by the SEC.
The bits I watched were just full on conspiracy type comments about how even the manufacturer is only saying the drug doesn't work due to various conspiracy reasons. I recommend people to watch it to see how much of a crank bret is and how its clearly dangerous conspiracy nonsense being spouted
Aha... well that explains why my 1060-based system didn't work.
That doesn't stop the fuel tax from being regressive. If you want to stop carbon emissions then tax carbon emissions.
We have Paypal / Bank Transfers to send money quickly, BTC is a slower way of sending money.

What is your point?
> How is that immoral if I want tasty meat?

> Because I believe it’s immoral to cause needless suffering.

It's immoral for the OP to eat meat because you believe it's immmoral?

Also, if you think that the need for tasty food, or any food, is trivial, you haven't been around animals much. The ones I know, and I don't mean only the humans, go absolutely batshit insane at the thought of food. A few days ago one of the cats over here gave birth and I realised what is that keening noise adult cats make when they beg for food: it's the same noise the kittens make when they want their mother to breastfeed them. The dogs, a solemn matriarch and her huge son start jumping up and down and cry like little puppies when it's time for food. The cats mob us everytime we step out of the house, just on the off chance we'll drop some tasty morsel. The goats used to not come near me and my friend, but then we fed them a couple of times and now they gallop to us when we enter their enclosure. The chickens catapult themselves from their perches and run like little raptor dragsters when we take them scraps to recycle (there's nothing I've seen that looks more awkward than a chicken running). A small, grey-speckled hen that I fed once or twice now runs to me whenever it sees me because it has forever now associated me with food.

Animals are crazy for food. And so are humans, because we, too, are animals and there's no use trying to shame people with facile moralising, humans have bodies that go absolutely nuts for tasty food and that food includes the meat of other animals.

Edit: vegans are no different. Here's three interviews with three ex-vegan
"influencers" and writers, who quit because they just couldn't stand it:

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/a32211871/vegan-influen...

I have a few friends who were very vocal vegans, who later started eating animal products again. It's always made me wonder just how many vegans switch back to at least vegetarian diets, after a few years. I looked around, but there's not much in the way of good scholarship on the subject. Anyway, every vegan has the option of going back to eating meat whenever they decide it (one can even "take breaks" and enjoy some meat once in a rare while, then go right back to their fierce advocacy of veganism) which to me makes a lot of the claims about moral superiority a little empty. It's very easy to preach, but who knows exactly what vegans actually eat?
So share the research that supports your view…

As the person making claims without evidence, the onus is on you at this point. You’re not going to change minds if you’re not willing to share where you’re coming from.
Not really sure how Israeli politics is relevant to hacker news, TBH. It seems very niche and unrelated to what most people come to this site for. Guillermo Lasso just won in Ecuador, but I wouldn't think of posting that article here, either.
> except video which I don't watch. Content is vertical. A 3:2 screen makes for an amazing laptop shape that is very well suited to the way humans view content, especially on the web.

You say humans, but you mean you and the other 3 people that “don’t watch video”.
I’ve done a lot of open source and don’t get where you’re going.

What was repurposed exactly? Blocks? A deprecated service that nobody volunteered to take over, despite messages asking for that?

Something else?

Was it free before? Is it still free?
See also: wire-guided torpedos.
Why did you regret the purchase?
I tried to read the whitepaper too. It's either total nonsense or I'm just not getting it. "Proof of History" appears to mean that trusted verifiers maintain the network.
Don't pass the torch, pass the flame
And yet a ton of illegal activity is performed with cash.

On one hand, some cryptos (not Solana) are useful for illegal activities. On another, they’re also useful for privacy, censorship resistance, and financial freedom.

It’s no different than the argument against E2EE, but I’d rather live in a society with E2EE than without.
Oh, would you look at that… there’s a perfectly viable YouTube alternative being used.

Whodathunkit?
Well it's understandable. Moving nodes in a graph (a tree, really) has a lot of side effects. Couple that with multiple people trying to keep things in sync(ish) and it gets super complex.
There are two things there... the lab leak thing has always been consistent and regardless of that we didn't really need to know the origin of it at the time; it changed nothing material of how to handle a large pandemic which was killing thousands of people daily. Yeah there has always been the possibility that the lab accidentally leaked it but there wasn't much evidence of that other than coincidence.

masks have been similar in general outside of a few fringe idiots speaking out of turn. they know and knew that well fitted n95 masks were effective in slowing the spread and should be used in the hospital settings. the advice was not to buy masks. they didn't know the efficacy of general cloth masks at the time and weather or not having them on would be a net detriment because it might cause people to touch their face more often while adjusting the masks and cause contaminated hands to come in contact with the face more often. the data showed that those fears were not fruitful and thus the recommendation changed.

there is also the disastrous TB paper that took the conclusion from a miner's lung paper as gospel and misinterpreted the results of that and then every subsequent paper used that erroneous data in their papers. (mining paper said that the nose was very good at blocking out everything down to 5 microns and aerosolized particles could be 100 microns or smaller but since the nose was effective at blocking particles larger than 5 microns you needed to worry about masks that block the small stuff. well the TB paper used the 5 micron aerosol particles as TB only infects you if you get the particles deep in your lungs. The problem is that aerosol particles greater than 5 microns can infect you with other diseases if the receptors for those are not deep in the lungs. in the end 5 micron was chosen as a magical aerosol particle threshold when the actual threshold is 100 microns and one scientist finally got the WHO et al to understand this after doing much research and advocacy)

in the end science is messy even when done with rigor.
They say they ingest 226gb per month. The cross-az transfer cost is $0.01 per gb. So that should come out to only $2.26/month for them.