skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rights are only a concept that exists within societies, so it seems like societies will either define rights broadly and then discuss tradeoffs, or they would need to define rights very narrowly so a tradeoff isn't conceivable. But then few things would be bona fide rights. If you define a right as inviolable, then privacy isn't a right by that definition unless you have some extreme individualist/anarchist worldview.
>How nice that all energy magically appears out of nowhere to generate the power needed by bitcoin.

How nice that all energy magically appears out of nowhere to generate the power needed by youtube cat videos.

Netflix

Porn

insert anything that uses electricity.
Do you believe that Chinese aggression in Hong Kong and Taiwan, or Russia’s towards Ukraine, are manufactured villains/risks?
I remember CORBA. Oh, god, do I remember CORBA. I wish I could forget CORBA.
I wonder if maternal instincts might factor in here too. There was a hacker news article not too long ago about "Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27240988
What part of remote limits your big picture involvement? How does office working enable it?
>On the contrary, the core thesis of Wealth of Nations is that a free market in an industrial economy is not zero-sum.

Technically yes, but there are always exceptions. Just because a well oiled and well functioning free market economy can be positive sum doesn't mean we have such an economy. Things can get really weird and backwards over the short term. The problem is that the short term can last decades and may waste a quarter of a human's life and cause irreparable damage. Therefore we should make the economy as positive sum as possible.

For example, we have in our mind that every single individual is supposed to take care of themselves. This implies that we have to contribute to society by working but full employment isn't guaranteed, there there may be a large chunk of the population that is without a job over the short term. The pandemic is a pretty good example.

A simple solution would be to just give them a temporary job, even if the job is stupid or pointless (think Keynesian gold digging). These people receive a salary and proceed to spend it on actually useful things, which will create useful jobs. By useful I just mean something someone wants, a government deciding to produce something may produce something nobody wants (see the Trabant). Those products not only need labor but also natural resources so they are twice as wasteful. Of course you can skip this whole work thing and just declare that finding a job is your job and increase unemployment benefits like Biden did.

Of course there will be some inflation but economic activity is a good thing.
Is this is a good reason to reject long passwords?

If that kind of hashing algorithm is a must, why not use first X bytes of the password input?
I'm more interested in the the actual statistics for security vulnerabilities found in C vs. C++ programmes, rather than theoretical benefits one language might have over the other.
Withdrawals using my card. It’s reassuring to see that notification seconds after I use an ATM, knowing that if my card is ever stolen/hacked and used I’ll know about it.

Same for bank transactions over a size I specify.
I propose that philosophy is about contemplation or metacognition. I feel it is not about cause and effect as much as it is about the perception, conceptualizing or ideation of cause and effect. Science is about measurement. I suggest that philosophy is the contemplation of that result and it’s implications.
I honestly believe that carbon and energy are life and to deny or limit is a crime. We are not facing dire climate change. Humans have and will continue to adapt to 1-3mm of sea level rise per year. It's not an existential threat.
...to...compete?
'Noah's Ark' now stuck in England in escalating international dispute
mRNA is a huge technological leap, Kati Kariko deserves a Nobel Prize.
I think the value of a currency comes from the creditworthiness of the country issuing it.

If someone nuked the USA and burn down the entire USA army and economy, the dollar wouldn't have much value.

The USA army protects the states. Switzerland, as per parent's post, has defense agreements with other countries. The likelihood of Switzerland being attacked or destroyed is also very low. What would the international community think of a country attacking Switzerland?

If I started my own country in the middle of the ocean and started issuing my own currency it would be worthless. Maybe if I do some trade deals and a defense agreement with some other country it would start having some value.

The difference with BTC is that there is no-one defending BTC with weapons. It can all be banned tomorrow if global governments think it would be good to do so. Similarly, I can spin my own fork of BTC and achieve similar technology advance as BTC.
If I loosely quote Louis Rossmann, one of the issue of right to repair is that more and more companies (Apple leading the trend) are using slightly modified chips from manufacturers, and them make then sign contracts that prevent any part selling to anyone.

So technically even you can replace those chips, you can't buy them.

And next Apple if putting serial numbers to prevent that even if you get the part, you will have a non-functional device.

This bill does not appear to address that.

Besides, the "information they need to repair" is also where the devil will be. Companies like Apple provide instructions on how to unscrew the laptop cover with a screwdriver (literally), but won't provide any data sheets.
GTK is polyglot.
It's so nice to read something by someone who understands and appreciates the perks of writing in Visual Basic, many of which are still true today, despite Microsoft's absolute abandonment of it.
So this pretty much came out of the blue.

The Netherlands has been a pretty good place for cryptocurrencies. Not actively promoting them like some places but also not actively campaigning against it like others and the taxes on it are light.

It needs to be mentioned that the CPB head is saying this as a personal opinion, so it has people wondering what his agenda is.
I think there are a ton of opportunities to use unused or infrequently used existing rail infrastructure. Passenger rail travel was more common when the population density of the country was lower [0], so there's no reason we couldn't restore it.

For example, a local city wants to expand a road leading to the downtown area, to improve traffic flow from the highway to the downtown core area.

I'd much rather they build a parking garage where we have a park and ride lot, and run the modern equivalent of a Budd Car on existing track a couple miles into the city and back. The tracks parallel the road they want to build, and anybody who wants to drive into the city is going to park and walk around anyway, so why not reduce traffic and make it less frustrating to go downtown?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Rail_Diesel_Car
Maybe if you consider the heartrate in isolation, but imagine that they corrrelate it with other things. For instance using it to figure out which ads you are responsive to.
This actually reminds me of an idea I once had. Rather than service providers holding onto your data, there could be something equivalent to custodians but instead of having lockboxes for your valuables, it'd be for your data. Service providers would then "borrow" your data from these custodians to provide their services.

This looks sort of like that but marketed from the tech angle using docker as an analogy rather than a custodian. I'll have to take a deeper dive into this!
I think programmers need to unionize and reject this nonsense.
For all the conspiracy about Hilary, I believe her commodity trading stands out as confirmed. She traded for 10 months, making 100x and then stopped for some reason -- I guess they didn't like making money.
Are you referring to J&J? Did you know that there has only been 1 vaccine using the adenovirus platform approved, for Ebola? It's just as experimental.
There is a plenty of solutions like this already.

The earliest I am aware of was a specialized mini "cart" studded with video cameras that one would roll around the place and will get a textured 3D model that can then be walked around, Doom-style. It was made by a Vancouver startup was back in mid '00s.

There is also a specialized handheld "scanner" gadget that was marketed towards police use for capturing crime scene details. You'd just wave it around and see the resulting 3D phtogrammetry capture in real-time. Missed a bit - go back a wave a bit more. This was in the early '10s.

I'd imagine that this has been ported to smartphones already, because they now have sufficient sensor, storage and processing capacity for that.
It's interesting how the experience of global companies varies across countries. In Germany, it's quite the opposite. Klarna has an abysmal reputation for buyers, while PayPal is seamless, trusted and popular.

On the flip side, they may have been doing something super awesome for the vendors, since it's so widespread that it's used on almost any web site.
This also accounts for why you see such a noisy contingent of people clamoring for difficult things (ex: software architecture) to be reduced to a discrete process: it suits the way they are currently learning, avoids sunk costs in said learning, sidesteps the hard question of, "do I really know this?" and maintains the current social status quo.

At stage 3, things aren't necessarily easy, but you have the skills to navigate much larger amounts of uncertainty than stage 1 or 2.
Wait till you hear how we treat those with substance dependence.
Great, so there’s guaranteed to be enough demand for USD to pay tax obligations, which probably represents like 3% of its other sources of demand.
Besides the ledger of all transactions are totally in the public. Which means that anyone could trace any transaction.
Joanna Rutkowska (QubesOS) is part of the team for this
So I found this about a year ago because I hated that I had 4 different programs running constantly managing led lights.

I read through some of the docs and saw how the devs bricked their devices multiple times sending incorrect lighting commands, while reverse engineering the communication protocols. I decided that it was not worth the risk to consolidate down to one program if it meant I might brick my system.
What's a panacopia?
I remember how frustrating it was to do this.

For me it helped to just be really explicit with it:

X + 2 = 3
X + 2 - 2 = 3 - 2
X + 0 = 1
X = 1

That basically unlocked it for me. I was older than 9 though :). For division I'd probably just say that you actually have (1/5)5A = (5/5)A = 1A, but that probably necessitates symbolic juggling to be something you already have as a skill.

Anyway, symbolic manipulation is interesting, even without letters.
If productivity was the only measure of work success, I’d agree with you as being a good case study.

There are some cool studies about what a “valued employee” is, in a sincere sense, depending on remote v in person.

Remote - linkers, info sharers, result generators.

In-person - basically all the people<>people skills you’d expect get valued.

I’d love to find this study again, but it provided a nice framework for me to think through how to succeed based on the workplace type.
How would you enforce the ban in practical terms?
I've found myself doing similar, being able to "focus" on something that also doesn't require paying attention too helped immensely in dealing with an active inner dialog. For me it was the old seasons of AVGN combined into single videos.
I doubt that making Bitcoin illegal will achieve anything. I think "crippling" Bitcoin and making it very inconvenient to use is a better approach.
Or you could confirm that the published rates match what is in the source, assuming that it is not loaded in from the server at runtime. Loading them from the server, in my opinion, is very likely.
So you think this is just to pump Bitcoin?

Well that’s where I disagree with you.

What happened with those apps in Africa? And why is Nigeria increasingly looking to BTC? Could also be corrupt central banks, which I admit is less an issue in El Salvador.

Bitcoin is also censorship resistant, Nigeria tried to ban BTC but P2P usage went up after the “ban”.

And to be clear: I don’t think BTC is necessarily THE BEST conceivable solution out there - a USD backed coin probably is better for ES in the next few years.

But I also do think BTC is better than status quo for ES
Understand your reaction, but I think engaging like that is more effective in dispelling a conspiracy theory than shooting it down.
Irrational premise: smart meters have privacy concerns over normal meters.

Me: how so, there is way too much noise (generation and storage) to get signal (usage correlation). In real life smart meters allow for all sorts of benefits/innovation (time of use charges, time off user feed in)

You: you haven’t said anything, just wild accusations of irrationality. Privacy is a concern, data harvesting!!! Pretending this isn’t going to happen is crazy.

Wtf? Smart meters exist, and this hasn’t happened. Show me one instance. Time of use charges are a thing, look them up. Using electrical usage data to gather private information is not a thing. Look that up too.
Try Khan Academy, I found it to be a great refresher for things like that.
Sorry, but how does the fact that the government pays for your mother's healthcare make your position more defensible?

> I can walk 5 minutes down the block and buy an eight ball of fentanyl from a guy named TJ but I can't get Alzheimer's treatment made by a team of scientists in a cutting-edge lab because it doesn't meet some government worker's idea of "good enough"?

You're implying that "some government worker" is too incompetent to have the power to regulate experimental drugs. And now you're arguing that it'd be cool for those same government workers to rubber stamp approve and also pay for drugs that don't have the backing of scientific evidence, which is the textbook archetype of "incompetent government worker".

Not that your hypothetical question makes any sense. "TJ" selling fentanyl down the block is illegal. Biogen selling this unapproved drug is illegal. You have the same ability and legal issues to try to buy from them.
That chart also says that half dose of AstraZeneca is more effective than a full does of AstraZeneca.

Doesn't change the conclusion that Partial Moderna is better, or the comments here pointing out potentially different use cases.

Just funny.
It's in Cyrillic. The official title is "Четиризначни математически таблици и формули".
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Get with some massive org that is not faang

In healthcare insurance etc

Then just chill

You still have to show up to stupid meetings

Your title will be sql analyst or something
Both also use a lot of energy themselves.
The issue is in the combination of data. Could you imagine the value of knowing if your heart rate went up after reading a certain message, or seeing a certain ad?
Lost one node in a small ElasicSearch cluster. The incident did not affect the cluster availability. The node was reintegrated into the cluster once it came back online.
This project would benefit from someone with some marketing skills being clearer about not what it does, but who would use it and why.
Dude, maybe someone living on Hartz IV/ALG II in Marzahn, or something similar would enjoy it? Berlin isn't just Kreuzberg/Neukölln/Friedrichshain, you know?
Regardless it absorbs well. I've tried many and this one works best for me.
“The Ethereum community has accidentally solved a major problem of the Internet
> Fiat currency of course never being used in those.

The difference is being able to do it instantly across global distances, thereby circumventing regulators/border checks/banks/etc...

> Cryptocurrencies are an object of value due to scarcity alone.

This is sort of a silly assertion. Many things are scarce, yet have no value. If I create a new crypto coin, it would have zero value.

> it is no different from various rare materials.

Raw materials have uses outside their tradability.

> if I were to open a store and accept bitcoins

You would likely go bankrupt by the volatility. Most shops make <10% margin on all goods. You cannot accept payment in a coin that might be worth less than the value of the goods you need to restock for tomorrow.
Frameworks are not domain knowledge. They look good on a resume, but you're being hired to deliver software, not play with React all day.
Well technically the branch office is about being near their customers rather than near their staff.

So soon we should go from these near staff offices to also having them accept customers and considering that in locations, and then we'll be full circle.
There is a big difference between things that are directly harming to other people and things that the gov bans because they think they know better :)

It is basically saying: You are forced to participate in our inflationary financial system or we will arrest you.
I see this on the fringes of those within my circle of friends. I know one man in this age cohort who doesn't seem to have a job, just plays video games all the time, and I don't get it. But one thing I think about is what he has been exposed to: this is what he knows. I don't think this individual I'm speaking of was raised with anything differently.

In this same light, as I believe the two concepts are directly related: another friend of mine basically refuses to date anymore because he thinks the sort of culture of Tinder dating is a waste of time that favors women disproportionately.

I suspect all of this is primarily cultural first, and not related specifically to work, the economy, pricing of good or services like buying a home and starting a family, which would come second.

That being said, if we were just talking about young single men, well, of course they're staying at home. It makes no economic sense to move out and get an apartment. The cost of living in major metros makes renting nearly equivalent to paying a mortgage. Except no one is building affordable homes.
I really wanted my name for an email address. Finally got it with gmail. That’s been a total hassle in recent years since I get many mails for other people, or mistakes, etc. Or gmail ignores the “.” and that amplifies mistakes people make.

Now I want a GUID for people I can copy and paste to. The public one can have anti-spam dialled up to 11.
> Roosters

I know that joking is not appreciated on HN, but the mental image here is absolutely fantastic. I'm giving my rooster a gigantic beak and three legs.
.. hyperbole much?
I don't get this. We have an arrangement with my wife that I take the kid for a few hours right after work (we usually go to the park) so she gets her uninterrupted free time, then I also get mine at night when she goes to sleep (I usually go 1-2 hours later). Why would I choose a commute instead of this?
> It’s about improving end-user performance through things like having edge termination of TLS.

Err, wouldn't the CDN itself still need to do the same TLS handsake with the end server?
Yes, that's what trading floors are like.
Lol, literally from the GTK home page: "GTK is written in C".
> the opposite of "big government" is not "corrupt government".

It always has been. The point is not that it's impossible to imagine a libertarian utopia where lean and minimal regulation works for the benefit of all. It's just that everyone who's tried has ended up producing do-nothing systems like this.

It's absolutely true that the FDA "has" the authority. But it's run by appointees from a culture where "doing stuff" is perceived as "big government", and therefore bad. So they don't.
Depends on the context.

Data and what one can do with personal data is unknown unknown.

My observation is that "black mirror" type exploitation of private information is already happening.
Very similar to Solid! Worth checking out. It’s a Tim Berners-Lee project
Would you, though? Knowing what Facebook has already gone back on, who's to say they wouldn't add some other objectionable required integration?
All of which were heavy enough at the time to slow programs down enough that people chose to not use them in favor of faster, more portable C.
Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech
> This is actually one of the desirable properties of a currency that cryptos (or Bitcoin at least) just doesn't have.

You've got to be careful making these kinds of assertions. Maybe they'd be accurate if you put Bitcoin in a vacuum, but if you consider the entire crypto ecosystem that revolves around bitcoin, it's completely false. Not only is DeFi a burgeoning asset class, it's gotten so popular (via yield farming) that many an institutional hedge fund has gotten in on the action. The decentralized lending ecosystem in crypto is surprisingly mature.

With that said, it's not inaccurate to say that by virtue of volatility and commensurate reserve requirements, bitcoin is more challenging to keep on a balance sheet, nevermind use as currency. There's also something about stablecoins that I can't quite put my finger on but which makes me nervous.
If you’re focusing on a person having access to your pulse data as the threat model, your thinking is out of date. The real play will be combining heart rate data with other signals like which Facebook page you’re viewing in order to inject ads. Basically, know when you’re most vulnerable to influence and catching you with a post that sends whatever message the highest bidder wants for you at that moment.
These two aspects are some of my least favorite of the crypto community. Hyping up this future techno utopia without banks, while the real end goal is to increase the amount of real currency in their possession.

This doesn't describe the whole community, but a large portion of those on different crypto forums.

I have respect for those truly interested in the tech side of things and those looking to make money on a speculative asset, but people who mix those two drive me crazy because it seems so inauthentic
>Could you imagine the value of knowing if your heart rate went up after reading a certain message, or seeing a certain ad?

No, I'm guessing it's worth a couple of cents ?
For TCL? But why?
Why are you ignoring all the information I've posted after brow-beating me for it?
Beyond health conditions, heart rate is correlated with the activities you do.

Sleeping, walking, running and other fun stuff has a different heart rate profile, especially more so when time is taken into account (do you run for 3 minutes in the morning? maybe you’re late for a bus?).

This becomes even more concerning when it’s crossed with other data such as location, purchases, ad engagement... Very scary to be honest.
How do you know what 95% of people think on this subject? What is your source?
GTK provides interfaces to many other languages but it's written in C.
wow, it's amazing how you got that completely backwards. saying "guns kill people" is exactly the same as saying "bitcoin uses energy" - it's a way to shift blame from the real perpetrator to the instrument.

perpetrator in this case being people who want to secure their assets via energy expenditure. if bitcoin disappears - exactly the same amount of energy will be used because the cat is out of the bag - satoshi showed the world how asset security can be expressed as energy expenditure and for as long as there is a demand on the market for that kind of security, energy will be spent.