skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that so?

Ever heard of the African Bitcoin community, a transnational initiative running for years now that resulted in Africa growing fastest in addresses of all continents?

Or what about El Salvador, 70% unbanked, where every single citizen will get a first small BTC deposit from the government, thereby becoming banked by the millions?

And what about Libya? You know, that country with a crashing currency that next blocked access to bank accounts for months, it all going up in smoke? Looked into the BTC numbers there?

So tell me, were you completely unaware of this at all, or do you find these people not important enough to count as more than zero?
Shorting Bitcoin
Mir was a small space station. Consider its size compared to the space shuttle: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/st... . Now consider the size of the space shuttle compared to a 747: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/336613main_E... .

Skylab, launched in a single piece was bigger than Mir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations
I've seen a lot of projects like yours with the purest of goals never get past this stage because, simply, nobody makes the first move. It's almost like the attention gets in the way of publication. Either that, or there was never anything there, and it was just good PR from the beginning.

Your project is too damn important to let this happen. Please find or do whatever you have to do in order to publish what needs to be published. If that means taking a leap of faith, please, for the love of goodness, please do it.
People who want to take their morning poop in a clean private bathroom.
Just because she is an antitrust academic doesn't mean she automatically believes there is a winnable lawsuit here. If she doesn't think she's likely to win, perhaps she might choose not to follow through on the lawsuit.
yeah, itd pretty tiring seeing unregulated militias trying to overthrow the governme t
Hard work also means developing in advance the skills you'll need to take advantage when luck blows your way.

For example, if you have no coding skills, nobody is going to invite you to join their software startup.
Quantity is a quality all of its own.

A single photo is a picture. 150 thousand photos is a movie.
Great post. SWIM is one of my favorite kind of distributed systems protocol, the kind where the acronym name makes you think it might be horribly complicated, but it turns out you can explain it in a paragraph or two (the post does a good job).

A popular implementation of SWIM you can use with just about any system (if you can handle another runtime dep) is HashiCorp's Serf. Serf does some interesting stuff on top of SWIM; it does full-node sync with TCP to speed up convergence, for instance, and, most notably, implements a network telemetry system on top of it to estimate all-points RTTs for everyone in the cluster.
It doesn't matter with any currency. You don't price things by how many dollars exist. You price things at what people will pay. If the billions weren't being spent, its about the same as if they're never spent.

Printing money and giving it away causes inflation because people can use it to buy things but having money printed but locked away does nothing. If this money was locked up then its not much of a change.
I have severe IBS and need to use the bathroom many times a day. I have disc bulges in my spine that make driving very difficult. WFH has been a massive boon in helping me manage my difficulties better. I'm dreading going back to work even if it's only 3 days a week.
I wish they had done this client-side with e.g. Tensorflow.js. Would have been much more fun to play with.
So how does this explain why Windows 10, which I have paid like $150 for per license, is now infested with ads, tracking and online presence - and close to impossible to buy without that. They aren't even trying to put a $ figure on what they think it's worth - because they can't be stopped from doing it.

There is no implied agreement, it's exactly as stated.
The commute is an invisible tax.
Certainly. But I think this is missing the point: the argument isn't that employment protections are good because they're widespread; the argument is that employment protections are good and their wide-spreadness is a response to a perceived need (cf. "not sure this is something that needs fixing").

The positive argument is that it's already a fixture and an agreed-upon solution in most of the developed world. The normative argument, i.e. that it's good, is in the next two paragraphs.
> Or I could train and train and get my 10 km jogging time down. Or I could get smart and get a bicycle.

What a nonsense statement.
I had better luck with date-fns than with moment.js, from Chile perspective, better daylight saving time handling.
I miss the excuse to ride my bike on a commute every morning, but I'm definitely not going back to an office anytime soon. Hopefully companies will become more open to remote working. There is supposedly a shortage of software developers in the US right now, but:

1. Most companies only hire within a small physical distance of their office(s);

2. Of those that hire remote workers, most will only hire them if they are physically located in the US, or with luck Canada / Mexico;

3. Of those that hire globally, most will only hire through an agency, so there is some middleman taking a sizable chunk out of salary.

Bonus: When you finally find a company that hires remotely, hires internally, and hires globally... they will only offer what they think is the minimum needed in your country.

So... no thanks! I'll keep contracting independently for now. I'm not opposed to working for a company, but until US companies start recruiting reasonably, they are leaving out the majority of people- even the majority of English speakers if that is a requirement.
What's really interesting is the cult following of highly educated women he had!
Working out is another example, depending on what your workout goals are. I had a relative who went into body building. Lifted for years and put on some muscle mass, more than me but not much for all the time he spent. Started steroids and tada, muscles just grew and didn't have to go to the gym nearly as much. I on the other hand didn't care, just wanted to improve health and strength a bit, but was interesting to watch such shortcuts to some forms of success.

This whole protestant rooted idea in our culture that working hard is what yields results, even happiness, is misguided. Working hard is something you can control and dedication can set you apart/add advantage, but as you point out, strategy, and I'll add luck, add significantly to your success for a lot of ventures you may take on life. If you enjoy working hard then by all means do it but don't think it is any sort of assured pathway to success or even happiness.
My costs in NY:

When I was a single contractor: $900 /month

After I married a healthy partner: $2100 /month for the both of us.

After transitioning to full time employment: $2300 /month

These numbers align with my friends. In no way was paying $300 /month an option.

Health insurance is not health care. I don’t want it. I want public healthcare, barring that I want affordable healthcare. Pre-ACA was much more affordable.

I really wish neo-liberals could just admit when their policies fail. This one is not on the GOP. It’s 100% the result of DNC policy and actions.

I assume you want people to vote Democrat. To be effective there, step one would be to listen to people who have legitimate grievances and when your party is at fault, own it. Do not go on a tirade about how paying for insurance is actually a good thing. It’s not, it’s a failure of our social safety net.

I have no misconceptions about Biden. He was part of the admin that screwed me with the ACA, I watched every debate and heard him repeatedly state that he was going to continue to enrich the insurance industry on my back. Which is exactly what he’s done since taking office.
I've never quite understood why there's no clandestine insulin market. You're working up GMO yeast metabolites, that's not exactly a new idea.
The video player bit seems fairly straightforward if you imagine a monetization strategy involving video ads (which tend to have higher CPMs).

Likewise, the "1 comment displayed" thing seems like a "please consume the media and move on" effort potentially. Remember, they don't make money from you reading comments. They make money from you going back to other surfaces where ads are displayed. Namely your feed or another post.
Ask HN: Resources for Angular Templates/Libraries?
Is there a central place that details what are the best imports to use? I've seen some stuff about ng-bootstrap vs ngx-bootstrap. But there are sooo many others. I'd like to learn the imports that are most commonly used and are the most feature rich. I feel like otherwise I will end up using a hodge podge of imports because they came up first in the search.
This is a great article and if people are interested there is, in my opinion, an awesome Russian movie adoption. It came out in 2017 so isn’t mentioned in the article.

I saw it on amazon prime video a couple years ago and it looks like it is still there.

https://www.amazon.com/Salyut-True-Story-Soviet-Apollo/dp/B0...
Still seems kind of risky in a lot of ways. Like, you get in a car accident, and are out for some period of time. I don't want to publish my obituary too early.
Congratulations on launching!

I signed up to take a look around. I’m excited that your free tier includes deep links to remove yourself.

What I would like more than this is a way to feed fake data into the system. Inadvertently I have done so in a variety of ways, such that I regularly receive AARP advertising materials and my landline is on a myriad of robocall lists for senior citizen scams. I would love to see a way to blast totally useless information associated with my name to make the data entirely useless.
I've thought about this but I just don't trust myself enough to not mess it up and send an alarming and embarrassing email to my loved ones. I'm reminded of the accidental HBO email that got sent out a couple weeks ago.
If you read the link I've posted in another comment, along with anything else he's posted on his blog, you'll soon realize he quite literally thought he was a demigod reincarnated and that such mad riptides surely couldn't affect him due to all of the pure manliness he exuded.
> Architecture has nothing to do with seminar-peddlers' "paradigms".

No, these paradigms all have ideas about how software should be organized. OO thinks you should organize everything into interacting objects. Functional thinks you should organize everything into pure functions.
Would be interesting to know why there is no EU option. One possibility is they do not have enough data to offer it; that's good news for EU residents. Another is they want to avoid the costs of GCPR compliance and the possibility of regulatory action in the EU that is de minimis in the US. Either way, the fact they have no EU option does not inspire confidence they are on the users' side. The US is incredibly friendly to these shady "businesses". As such, US residents are "sitting ducks". Very sad. The way to stop this nonsense is with laws not more people accessing the data; trying to label "good guys" and "bad guys" does not work.

Incidentally the same "confirm your data" issue exists every time there is a data breach and people set up "Have I been pwned" websites allowing people to search for their name/e-mail address in the data. (Instead of allowing them download the data and providing instructions how to search it in private.) Not every one of those sites is legit. It is an easy way to at least confirm there is a live advertising target who is actively concerned about this data, and we have an originating IP address for that person. That seems to be what many tech companies want to know, "Is it really you?", so they can more convincingly market "you" as a real target for online advertising.
Tread plus subscription will likely require you to give your card details. How many people will remember to switch to free after 3 months ?
Thank you for sharing this. But holy moly, what has happened in April in the crypto space?!
Yes, Fuck Facebook, and fuck every other company that doesn't provide a net-positive for humanity. They may offer something convenient or useful, but if the mid/long-term cost is higher, then it's not a good thing for us or even for them.

People with short term vision (less than 50 years) are making poorly informed decisions. Granted, I would like to be fabulously wealthy. But if gaining my wealth meant the world would be worse in 2+ years (I give myself a year just to be selfish), then it's just not worth it. That 2 year cost will eventually kick my ass in 20-40 years.

So speaking very selfishly, if it has a net negative cost of greater than 1 year, then it likely will hurt me personally. So I (and everyone else) should pass on that option.

Backing up a bit, let's break down what insta and fb offer.

Very briefly, they offer some connection to close and unrelated humans. They offer some communication, some awareness, some entertainment. But their cost is SO high. Honestly, if we just budgeted $50/mo for services which didn't harvest our data, we'd probably be ahead. And our services would be less twisted in favor of "fuck you" patterns.
I'm currently using OneRep. Can someone please tell me if Optery is better and if OneRep will release all my information if I unsubscribe from them?
Post-mortem from the promoters: [1]

Not very helpful.

[1] https://safedollar.medium.com/safedollar-post-mortem-analysi...
Hey so can I write a device driver in JavaScript and is it a good language for that? How about my dma controller and python? What am I reading here. Not a comp sci major eh? Pass me something by reference in JavaScript, please
We savotaging property rights, and noone is realising this.

Soon, the situation will be that you can be "cancelled" from using your car and toaster because the co pany didn't like somethong you said on twitter.

Meanwhole these companies take no responsebility when their shit goes wrong.

Capitalism is destroying liberty.
This means Dashlane themselves (or anyone who hacks them) can read all of your data, too.

Also, you're almost certainly going to outlive Dashlane.
> Relying on people doing the right thing is an unstable equilibrium. IMO the only way to really ensure this is with regulations and compliance controls.

Isn’t this ironic? The government is people. I guess this just moves the onus of people doing the right thing, up to government. If you’re right, that destabilizes government. Which I guess is what happens when it stops corps; corps then need to take it over.
There's nothing stopping you from continuing to route everything through one computer, since it's your address space you could even do NAT.
> And lots of stocks rose when Biden was nominated (and elected).

Yes, because he’s a corrupt corporate puppet.
I see this like a hacker who grows up and realizes that what they did before was wrong. People change. And the best people to address these issues head on- unfortunately- almost always started on the “wrong” side of the issue.

Speaking from personal experience, you can reform yourself.
This is my guess — phone-screen real estate and the potential for push notifications.
This may sound harsh, but after you're dead, it's unlikely that anyone else will care about any of those things.
> There is also no replacement for the overwhelming satisfaction and pride that hard work and determination inevitably leads to.

Maybe the satisfaction and pride of clever work that saves us from the hard work? Animals do hard work too; grazing pastures all day, hunting for caloric surplus, living hand to mouth. It was the satisfaction of inventing tools that made humans humans. Maybe the real hard work is in thinking things through? Maybe what OP calls shortcuts are the optimal paths, and maybe finding the optimal paths are more important than wandering around?

> This is an innate, selfish need we all have but one that belongs entirely to us and us alone.

Or it is protestant work ethic overgeneralized. And it has failure modes, namely not all hard work is blessed, or it was not the case that "arbeit macht frei".

> To be really good at anything means doing it a lot.

If that was the case, for complex skillsets like being a software engineer, tenure would automatically mean promotion. Sure, it does somewhat correlate, but not everyone who does a thing a lot gets equally good at those, and those who get good at a thing did not do that thing in the same quantity. So there ought to be really good substitutes to hard work after all.
These threads always get the same comments about ponzi schemes, tulip mania, energy usage, etc.

Something can be overvalued without being a ponzi scheme or a scam. Bitcoin is definitely overvalued relative to its usefulness at the moment.

The main value though, which seems to be consistently missed on HN, is Bitcoin cannot be devalued through poor monetary policy decisions from a central bank like the Federal Reserve. That is value. You may personally not care about that but a lot of people do. If you were a country, would you like it when your foreign reserves get devalued by some foreign bank's decisions to help its own citizens?
I would say you are probably talking to the wrong audience here. Apparently those flex drivers were OK with it, for unknown reasons.
I know this xkcd strip, and love it by my heart.

Though, I hope that now people learn JS without its worst parts.

In any real codebase, expressions such as `true + ''` should not be understood. They should be eradicated.
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As someone who has thought that I've had aphantasia for the past six or seven years (thank you hn for teaching me about aphantasia), I'm going to give this a shot.
Yeah, I'm going to get downvoted to shit for this and maybe even banned.

This dude was pure human scum. Straight up shit of the Earth.

McAfee was actually a pretty fun eccentric to watch & wasn't an utterly terrible person by any real measure of the meaning.
Should we entrust Google, Facebook or Twitter with deciding what compromises have to be made in the name of good science and good medicine?
It’s a pretty… lame argument. The insulin maker is saying they want to lower the price for you, but hose the insurance company.

Frankly, we should nationalize insulin production and stop people and insurance plans from going broke buying it. Imagine if Medicaid wasn’t paying usurious margins for a commodity that has been around for a century.
Do you have any examples of these takes? The concept of "true trustlessness" is obviously lacking in nuance and probably impossible. Nothing in the world can exist without some form of trust. However, we can certainly use smart contracts to decentralize trust and limit risk exposure.
My recent Amazon experience when I bought a stereo audio mixer: "Here, look at 50 other stereo audio mixers even though we know you already bought one! And also have data showing you viewed all of these and didn't buy them!"

On some level the way company's advertise is basically an argument against them having my data being a threat, because they can't manage to come up with anything better then that, in a product space where there's a whole massive ecosystem of technology which might be useful to me.

And thats...really just me complaining about the ads not targeting well. Like, I am quite interested in knowing if my nascent desktop audio management could be better! I don't know what's out there, and I've given you a price range estimate through how long I searched before spending!
> OK then: the OP was belittling the ethics of John Locke because he failed to measure up to the posters 21st century western values.

Slavery was recognized as odious by many earlier than, or contemporary with, Locke; its not a 21st century moral novelty.
This is extremely cool. Within about 10 seconds in a lit room without white noise playing I began getting fairly vivid visuals. I'll be sure to come back to this to get the full experience later, and complete the questionnaire.

For reference I tend to get interesting/vivid visuals whenever I close my eyes for a few seconds, often when I look at a finely patterned/textured surface, and sometimes when I look at basically anything when I've gone >36 hours without sleep. The visuals from this are more intense than those I get from simply closing my eyes though, and more interesting/changing than those from looking at tiled floors or popcorn ceiling.
Are there separate "cyclebridges" ?
This!

edit: Sometime they add "pointer-events: none;" to the <body>, should check that too.
> you approve Optery, Inc. to submit your PII to data brokers and information aggregators for the purposes submitting opt out, suppression and removal requests

I've successfully removed my address from almost every data broker without giving out this information. One who had my old address initially wanted more of my info to remove my info, so instead of doing that, I sent them a cease and desist, and that worked.

Can you please do that instead of sending more PII to people than what they already have?
Good point! At least they didn't say it was it would "disrupt" rail crossings.
Automation doesn't stop you from getting fired because the boss is having a bad day. Strong labour laws and unions stop you from being fired because the boss is having a bad day.
Lets choose the conspiracy theory videos then. Conspiracy theory is just a term used to dismiss unpopular thoughts. We should be able to talk about the lab leak hypothesis. We should be able to talk about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Discussing ivermectin as a covid treatment will get you banned from Facebook, but Oxford is studying it [0] and nations such as India [1] and Egypt approved it as part of their official protocol. Now, that's not to say that ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine are effective treatments--but the fact that you can be deplatformed for even discussing a treatment that has been administered to millions of people is really absurd. We can't expect Facebook or Youtube to understand medicine and decide which medicines are ok for us to talk about; more generally, we can't trust corporations to be the arbiters of reality.

[0] https://www.contagionlive.com/view/ivermectin-to-be-analyzed...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/05/11/indian-...
They get a lot more data more reliably from the app and have a lot more control of the ad surfaces and how they are served.

This is more or less "social network publisher side monetization" SOP.
I’d love to quantify and or measure hard work.
Here is the easiest way to view his blog as the site seems to currently be hugged to death or otherwise down

https://web.archive.org/web/20210424030258/http://trilema.co...

If you're an incel, I wouldn't recommend going into it if you didn't already follow the guy. You may only become more radicalized, lol.