skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you live in an economically unstable country and have $1000 that you want to preserve. You don't want to put it in your counties currency because of the inclination for the govt to do what venezuela did. US dollars have historically been the best option, but with the trajectory the US dollar is on, that might scare you due to inflation. Perhaps gold is an option, but how do you safely buy it and what are you going to do with gold coins? They can be stolen so easily. So this is the long-term allure of bitcoin. Put your money on the blockchain and all you have to do is remember a pass phrase to retrieve it. It doesn't suffer from inflation or govt debasing because it isn't controlled by a govt. It could be the best place to store money in terms and maintain constant buying power.

At least that is the idea, but in reality, it is a long way from that view. The issue is that people don't really buy into a consistent vision on what Bitcoin is and are still trying to figure out how much they value it and do price discovery. Let alone how it should be legislated. That being said, I believe the storage of value is a real problem and Bitcoin, or something like it, could be a valuable financial tool in a decade or so, once the dust has settled.

It reminds be a bit of the Internet back in the early 90s. All kinds of discussions and speculation, most of which ended up being very wrong, but the core technology ended up being dominant.
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L1-3 are unstable, L4 and L5 are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#Point_stability
From someone living in NY and having watched bills like this... Last time this came up it silently died without a vote. This vote is probably symbolic and it will languish in the Assembly forever. It is nice they voted for this overwhelmingly but it has not been "passed" as a law. It just passed step 1/3
Many Indians today believe in the Aryan invasion theory, which views Indian culture and religion as having originated from people living in modern-day Central/Southern Asia and Iran, and only later being adopted by native people in India. This theory is often connected with a view that fairer-skinned people represent "true" Indian culture, not the natives who were generally relegated to lower social status. The caste system itself is not native to India but is instead found widely among PIE cultures, including the Aryans who are said to have invaded India.
But why change policy now? It just seems like they are begrudgingly following suit rather than genuinely wanting something nice for their employees.
So to be clear, a country where 70% of individuals are unable to get access to a bank account do have consistent access to the internet, a smart phone or specialized hardware for carrying a wallet app, and are fine with storing their wealth in a vehicle that consistently swings in value in the double digits within 24 hours?

The delusion regarding crypto has reached parody levels. This reads like something out of an Onion article.
What's your experience with a combination of remote desktop &/or using something like VS Code Live Share?

Given the choice between a traditional setting or remote, I much more prefer the remote session with those tools.

-- I'll admit to being biased towards remote but with an understanding many things do work better when together (physically).
OnePlus Nord CE goes official with Snapdragon 750G, headphone jack, £299 price
Well, they are all in one payment processor, loan institute and debt collector with terrible record, with some questionable business practices.
Bitcoin uses zero energy.
>The Autoverse is an artificial life simulator based on a cellular automaton complex enough to represent the substratum of an artificial chemistry. It is deterministic, internally consistent and vaguely resembles real chemistry. Tiny environments, simulated in the Autoverse and filled with populations of a simple, designed lifeform, Autobacterium lamberti, are maintained by a community of enthusiasts obsessed with getting A. lamberti to evolve, something the Autoverse chemistry seems to make extremely difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
The specifics of transporting oil are foreign to me, and my guesses about differences and magnitudes of cost are sourced primarily from [0].

Having said that, it seems that the enormous savings to be had by using pipelines should be channeled back into more sensors, robustness, and/or monitoring. The article I linked cites $50B of annual savings on oil transported by Keystone XL. Great! Maybe let's put 10-20% of that back into more sensors, hiring more people for monitoring/inspections, or better.

When I look at the Wikipedia page of oil spills, I want oil pipelines if the US can be like Canada, where spills often release <1000 barrels (still a lot, but representing very fast response), not a place where it's hundreds of thousands of barrels, and not detected by the companies themselves most of the time.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/10/11/which-is-...
"Human readable" presumes a lot -- remember we're talking EA here! ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471488
It will be in a few decades when Bitcoin can no longer rely on the ever dwindling block subsidy to provide enough security. Then it will be predominantly the transaction fees that keep bitcoin secure.
It makes more sense than trusting the opinions of random people on a tech startup forum.
How about you keep pretending to "curb the powerful" and stop arguing in bad faith against cryptocurrencies?
Maybe? That seems like it would just be feeding a victimization complex. Isn't the goal is supposed to be less telling people what to do, not more?
That would explain a lot. I am the opposite. Do well at the math that requires number crunching but terrible at things like geometry where I have to visualize stuff. Probably because of aphantasia.
You are being very generous,you are showing the bright side of the ones on the right side of this ponzi scheme. But there is more, it does solve some problems for some people. Drug purchases on dark web markets, ransomware settlements, money laundering.

I agree, there is literally not a single wide spread us beyond the aforementioned.
I agree.

I've run some eCommerce sites before, we were PCI Tier 1, roughly 1% of web traffic: but nowhere _near_ the level of security Klarna should have; we had the CDN's activated only on subdomains... always.

Usually static.<site>.com or whatever..

This has the added benefit of not sending cookies to the CDN, because that can affect latency and is also a bit less secure because a static image/css/js does not need the cookie. (and bandwidth, before we were charged per byte (and that's egress now anyway in most cases, god I'm old.)).

If I had to venture a guess, they're probably scared of getting slammed with a DDoS so they "guard" everything behind the CDN, it's not about caching.

We got slammed with DDoS's too so we had to have systems in place to push BGP routes via verisign to "scrub" the traffic... we didn't even have that many "credits" and it cost millions...
Astonishingly corrupt. First two press organizations, now members of the opposing party’s legislative branch?
That’s a good theory, now see what happens if your democratically elected government tries to loosen copyright restrictions.

The US regularly flexes it’s might over friend and neutral country alike in order to protect its perceived economic interests. This means that you’re only free in so much as you’re already aligned with what the US wants.

Better than China, sure. But not great.
Nio tried it and has now done it two million times:

https://www.nio.com/blog/nio-completes-2000000-battery-swaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsrDpsYHrw
They are an elaborate pay day loans company.
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You don’t necessarily ban it as such, but with how accurate the European tax-agencies have been with collecting on the crypto-currency people trade, it doesn’t seem hard for them to track the trade.

Then it’s simply a question of confiscating whatever you turn your Bitcoin into. It’s usually how they deal with criminal gangs as well. “Can’t prove how you managed to buy a million dollar mansion while being unemployed?”, it is now the governments property… The primary reason it doesn’t really work on crime in general is because most of the money doesn’t stay where the drugs are sold, but most Bitcoin speculators/investors aren’t setup to live outside “the law”.

In Holland it could be as easy as simply having the banks confiscate any money that arrive from exchanges and blocking any transfers in the other direction. It wouldn’t exactly end Bitcoin as you point out, but it would make them rather worthless to most people.
That’s where the “hop around” comes in.
Ummm... how many people care about tulip <<bulbs>>?

Tulip bulbs are a niche topic, for sure.

A lot of people care about tulips, but for all they care tulips could be birthed live by other tulip plants, that's how much they care about tulip bulbs :-)
Agree. Non removable batteries is an aesthetic approach to consumer devices. It has no place in industrial applications. An analogy would be a decorated plastic bag selling seeds at hardware store, Or a brown ugly burlap selling seeds to landscape contractors. One is for consumers. The other is for the expert.
Hanlon's razor is specifically used by malicious people to conceal their malice, and if you rely on it too heavily you will never detect fraud
A 90 minute commute? No wonder you prefer remote work...
> Transit uses an implied hub and spoke network system where the base level of spoke is walking, then some combination of buses/trains/subways integrating those walk-sheds.

Not necessarily. Minibuses, bikes, e-scooters, even cars (park and ride, a big parking next to a train station; you get off the train and on your car for the last/first part of your trip) are perfectly viable "last mile" options.
Let’s just engage this for a moment.

The first thing to ask if we think that the non removable batteries is related to surveillance is how a non removable battery would help surveillance. And it’s hard to see how it would. The vast majority of people would leave their removable batteries in the phone with it on anyways, since they don’t expect the surveillance. The next level of paranoid people would switch off the phone, in which case it wouldn’t matter if the battery was removable or not. The only crowd it would affect is the people who are paranoid enough that they would additionally also remove the battery. But if they are so careful, if they do have a phone with a non removable battery, then they have a simple alternate solution of simply locking up the phone in a lockbox and not taking it into the room you’re having the discussion (or taking it around with you if you’re worried about tracking).

Insisting on non removable batteries will give you an extremely minor benefit (people who are careful enough to want to remove their batteries for privacy, but not dedicated enough that given a non removable battery, they will still keep their phone around and won’t find an alternate solution).

So really, it doesn’t make sense at all.

Further, there’s a completely explainable, and frankly predictable, trajectory and goal that led to non removable batteries. The same goal that led to other changes such as the removing of the headphone jack, etc.
http://thecodelesscode.com/
Pedantry about definitions aside, the Tesla agreement you are clicking is not a software license. Go read it.
This is a pretty fun starting point: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
It's more important for some people than for others.

I will say when I used to just sometimes work from home, it was more important for me to do the usual morning routine, dress up in my usual business casual, and sit down in my office.

The last 10 years or so, when I've been increasingly working remote--and have been effectively full-time even within fairly easy commute of an office--I don't bother and will work anywhere in the house I want.
Ask HN: What's the most ridiculous thing a marketer has asked you to implement?
How much are they spending on defense and will they with their current defenses be able to resist China or Russia if the US military is not around?
The study in question is from Oxford University and claims equal rates. Indeed, it may be wrong. However that's kind of the point - this thread is full of people making claims about vaccine efficacy or safety, but for basically any claim you want you can just plug it into Bing or DuckDuckGo and immediately find scientific studies that appear to contradict it. Science can tell you almost anything and everything, it seems, so no big surprise that people find it hard to trust.
That is a good question that I’ve thought about but haven’t dug enough to have a great answer.

Blockstream is working to make internet more accessible there. It’ll be interesting to see how much penetration they get and how much it’ll cost folks there.

Doesn’t need to be a brand new iPhone, but I do agree that phones are an initial cost and I’d be interested in seeing what are low-cost smart phone options there.

That said! The Bitcoin Beach experiment there was enough of a success
https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-bitcoin-lif...
The proposed rules require the banks to account for the credit risk of the party guaranteeing the stablecoin. So similar rules will apply to assessing a loan guaranteed by that party.

I'm guessing Tether Ltd. won't fare that well on the credit risk assessment, but other institutions could.
How did remote work 15 years ago differ from remote work now? I imagine a lot of the tooling and infrastructure modern remote workers depend on now didn't exist back then!
I see why China, but Russia spends amounts similar to many nations. Why do you focus on Russia and not Saudi, India or a potential France/Germany union?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_militar...
I think technically the government probably does still want you to openly confess your crimes, financial or otherwise.

That doesn't mean anyone expects it to actually happen, of course.
I suspect the background is the app is showing html-views rendered on the server, and they are sharing as much infrastructure as possible. To make it easier on the app team.

If they separated app/cdn/web with different SSL certificates, something like this wouldn't be possible even when developers eff up.
>nobody care about solving problems

It solves the problem of corporate censorship. Visa for example is notorious for refusing to do business with people they don't like (porn companies, 4chan, etc). If the US government wants more people to use the dollar and less to use Bitcoin, they can come out with a public, first-amendment-protected payment system.
It is possible that the "population count" instruction has been included in the instruction sets of most American supercomputers at the request of NSA, which was an important customer for them.

Nevertheless, the first computer having this instruction was a British computer, the Ferranti Mark I (February 1951).

The name used by Ferranti Mark I for this instruction was "sideways add".

Also notable was that Ferranti Mark I had the equivalent of LZCNT (count leading zeroes) too.

Both instructions are very useful and they are standard now for modern instruction sets, but they were omitted in most computers after Ferranti Mark I, except in expensive supercomputers.
> And you didn't, so your vested interest is in it failing.

Why does he have a "vested interest" in Bitcoin failing? Are you sure you know what "vested" means? :-)

Do you mean to say that he wants Bitcoin to fail because he's bitter?

We will see if Bitcoin is relevant in 5-10 years from now. My guess: it will be a niche thing with a very narrow set of uses.

If anything, you sound a bit like a Bitcoin supporter (maybe an investor?), so you sound more like someone who has a <<vested>> interest in it succeeding.
That I don't understand. As has been proposed as a solution before, I see a lot more utility in a daily or weekly roundup of all newsletters delivered to my inbox. I do like to read a few specific programming-related newsletters, but don't actually clickthrough that frequently.
> Light rail transit or streetcars can be a lot cheaper than that, while still avoiding quite a bit of car traffic

Yeah, but their downsides (noise, vibrations, visibility) make them impractical for new projects in most old cities.
I do notice that only the mucus membrane, blood, hair, sweat gland, and hair follicle slides specifically say they're from a human, the others could be from a pig or any other large mammal and it would be very hard to tell the difference. Were I buying an assortment of electronics and a few items were labeled with a brand name and others were unlabeled, I'd assume the unlabeled ones were generic.

Also, one cadaver can generate an awful lot of slides. Each slide requires on the order of a microliter (1/1000 of a milliliter) of material, and a good microtome can cut samples with a thickness of a few micrometers (1/1000 millimeters). Essentially all medical students go through an anatomy class involving the dissection of a cadaver, and Google says there are 3.8 million doctors in China, so even with a generous assumption of 20 students per cadaver and a static field (it's not) with 50-year careers, that's still several thousand cadavers per year.
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What device is taking the last of the four photos?
I don't know whether Lybians consider themselves white or not. The Lybians that I've seen in person (maybe a dozen) didn't appear much darker than my European compatriots. Yes, I can spot the difference, but it was more in facial features than in darkness of their skin color, which was fairly "whitish".

WRT the Lybian Roman emperor: no one claims that ALL Roman citizen were white, or Italic, or European. Any such large Empire was heterogenous. But it is safe to say that a typical Roman citizen, espicially a Senator, would have been white for any reasonable definition of "whiteness", especially in a TV series. There was one black US president (his mother was white and father black if I remember correctly), but a typical US president so far was white.

I don't have anything against hiring a bunch of Chinese or Zimbabwean actors to play Senators, but that would certainly look odd. In the same way as hiring a bunch of Ukrainians to play Zulu warriors would look odd.
Right, I was talking about mathematically defined objectives and inputs (algorithms & data, in practice). With self-driving, arguably the main stumbling block is that the objective is not well-defined and the inputs are potentially wrong (faulty sensor data).
Eh, to claim the military is spending efficiently at this point is to claim that there is no money wasted anywhere within the DoD, which frankly is not only an unpopular position but I don't think you yourself even believe it to be the case.

50% is perhaps too high, at least to start, but I think everyone can agree that the budget should be getting smaller rather than bigger as we continue to live in peace time. I personally believe we could cut 25% of the budget with no real hit to our readiness (consider 1/7th of the budget goes to R&D[1], which while obviously important, would not stop us from being effective at peacekeeping tomorrow). I think if it came down to it, bean counters would magically find areas of waste to expel in order to preserve their expected budgets.

[1] https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/20...
Re the carbon footprint argument with Bitcoin:

I’m curious how the energy use of just a top 5 retail bank compares to Bitcoin.

Chase [0], for instance, has over 5,000 retail locations and 16,000 ATMs. And the servers, and call centers/corporate offices to support 200,000 employees. And the cars they drive back and forth to those offices, and the construction of new ones, and flights (some private), etc etc.

How much energy does that use—let alone the physical resources and their attendant carbon and energy use?

Then you have another 4,500 branches from Bank of America, 7200 for Wells, etc. And that’s just the US.

Not equivocating, nor arguing that Bitcoin could replace all their functions, but I think there might be more nuance to the energy argument, especially when at least other crypto currencies have an off ramp with their energy use via proof of stake.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Bank
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I did the math on this a while ago, and I think it came out to the US Army alone consuming 1% of the world’s oil production in just oil. This was just straight oil into vehicle gas tanks, and didn’t even include whatever fossil fuels might be used to produce all the electricity that they also use.
I had the opposite experience. I suspect people spending time abroad temporarily, but long enough to go grocery shopping, tend to arrive at the most expensive grocery stores during their temporary stay.
I know you are arguing in bad faith, but immutability of monetary policy, ability to transact online outside of influence of MasterCard and Visa is something completely other than being resistant to its users being persecuted.
Consistent nation-wide laws around voting are also pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Electoral_Commissio...
It can, actually, which is the problem. It's the multi-trillion-dollar question.

Some of it will go to real goods and services, but little of that is consumer goods. The rich don't eat more canned peas than other people. They buy more expensive cars, but that doesn't compete with consumer-grade cars.

They do sometimes try to invest it in housing, and there are indications that that's going on right now. That does potentially raise actual consumer-level inflation, at least temporarily. It's one of those play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes, market-remain-irrational-longer-than-you-can-remain-solvent type situations. That's something they're going to need to watch out for.

Some of that money will vanish when they try to cash out. In asset markets, the prices are all fictional, and the money can simply disappear.

And some will go back into government coffers, which was the plan in the first place. The government works counter-cyclically, spending money when others won't and collecting taxes when people are spending freely. It's supposed to keep the market on an even keel.

For most of a decade they've been putting out more and more punch bowl even though the party is going strong. That will be bad in the end. There's a crash coming -- but nobody knows when, and nobody wants to leave the party too early.

The Fed will, probably this year, start taking away the punch, and that will be the signal to start selling assets. And the market will crash, by perhaps 50% -- all the while the government is collecting cap gains.

And the rest of the money goes... gold? Real estate? Bonds?

It's gonna be a mess. And it's likely to cause deflation, since whenever markets crash companies close -- because they were being propped up by fake cash. At which point the whole stupid business cycle starts over again.
The same happened to the Italian government: https://moondo.info/en/Luciano-Vangone-suddenly-the-most-fam...
Could someone please expand on the current outrage?

Article did say "The 11-member committee voted nearly unanimously in November that Biogen's drug should not be approved, citing inconclusive evidence that the drug was effective.", but was wondering why the some would think otherwise for the approval.