skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you’re correct from what I know. Most extortion/blackmail laws are referencing a legal concept of consideration. An example from contract law, agreeing to “not do something illegal” doesn’t count as consideration because you were already obligated to not do something illegal. This would also apply for promising “to do something you are already legally required to do”.

Reasonable people might be able to disagree on whether this GitHub repository is per se illegal. If it’s the IPFS files that are illegal instead of the GitHub repo, then demanding he take down the GitHub repo would be seeking consideration from him to do something he’s not inherently bound by law to do anyways.

Certainly a place where reasonable minds might say “Huh. Sounds like there’s room for a court to make a decision on that.” rather than holding a dogmatic opinion before/without really diving deep into all the details.
> the moment a gun is reported it causes a massive response. As a criminal, bringing a gun massively increases your risk, as without one you're unlikely to run into anyone with a lethal weapon. It also causes a risk of a far longer sentence.

That's exactly the same in the US, btw. Bringing a gun causes the tactical team to come in rather than the normal cops, and it aggravates the criminal's sentence.
> it provides an intuitive model

Uh. No. It definitely -- definitely -- doesn't do that. Many worlds, for all its many virtues, gives us "There's another dimension where you -- you -- are Batman!" Because that's what the phrase "many worlds" means to most people.

> > Arguing about Copenhagen vs many worlds is literally no different than arguing about Jesus vs Mohamed.

> Strongly disagree— See further discussion[1] under my original post for support.

So in that discussion, you made the argument:

> Both models agree with observation— any measurement we make will not contradict either "empty garage" or "undetectable dragon".

...which is literally the argument people make when they're arguing Jesus vs Mohamed. It's just that nobody agrees on which holy being is the empty garage and which one is the undetectable dragon.

> Not wrong >_>

Woooo! I won an argument on the internet!!
> stagnating wages for everyone except owners of capital

I don’t think this tells the full story. I know I have somewhat esoteric views about finance, but I believe that wages in terms of what they can buy have in fact been increasing faster than you’d expect just based off of the dollar amount of wages. Even though minimum and average wages have increased more slowly, the buying power hasn’t decreased (and maybe even increased).

This is based on the rate of technological progress causing massive deflation in prices of things that can be made more efficiently by said technology. Our lives have also become more convenient in the last 20-ish years, with a significant chunk of inflation being caused by people actually buying more expensive versions of things.

Think of a 2005 cell phone. Motorola Razr era. Those things cost a few hundred dollars. You could buy something with comparable (or likely even better) capability today for pennies, or even find one for free. Which means massive deflation of comparable goods. You can get full-blown smartphones now for $50 total (budget android phones). Same thing applies to lots of products.

But our lifestyles have also gotten much more expensive — it’s fairly normal to spend 2-3x what we would’ve spent on the fancy Razr phone, or even more, because we want the latest and best. If we lag behind the cutting-edge with our purchases, we’ll find that we are spending less each year on comparable products.

Look through some of these[0] inflation charts — I tried apparel and bananas for example, but it looks like inflation has been extremely low on some standard household items (trying to ignore things that people are buying more luxury versions of these days).

All this to say — yes, income inequality is worth keeping an eye on. And yes, our tax system needs to be massively simplified to prevent loopholes. But some level of wealth inequality isn’t necessarily bad, it seems to be a pretty natural behavior that some small number of people hyper-optimize for some successful path & win — in all sorts of activities, not just wealth-building.

And, even though wages haven’t gone up a ton recently, neither have prices. People spend so much more of their money on luxuries now that it seems that cost of living has gone up, though. (Housing is an exception here that definitely has gone up)

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/inflation-cpi-categories
High-level languages can provide abstractions though that can manage object life cycles to a degree for you, for example dependency injection frameworks, like Spring.

Not disagreeing, just mentioning.
There’s just so many more cons than pros to have globally visible payments. It’s not it’s necessary to go to a store and then yell at the top of your lungs “I’m paying $100 to Jasmine to split this coffee table”.
I don't think that stops C's implicit conversions either, does it?
And then, when they finally perfect their technique, they can just sell or give away the plan to other people in an instant, who can then put it into practice almost for free, against any compatible bridge they like.
> Supporting it as an option requires some kind of server-side content rendering layer which can be inherently restrictive to your other client offerings.

It should be no more restrictive than the concept of supporting text rendering at all--which maybe want to be able to avoid?--as, worst case, you could literally just run a text client on a server on behalf of the user.
As a heavy Mac use I love this Windows feature so much I have installed a Finder extension that does just that.

It is so much better than opening an app, writing something and then deciding awkwardly where to put the file. Like, when you write something you don't usually scribble on a piece of paper and then glue it to your notebook.

That goes if I am using a GUI. touch, echo, cat, vim and >> redirection are my friends in the terminal.
No, most people are just stupid enough to elect the one promising the most.
It feels a little weird that what is essentially a query from a dozen items takes longer than 10ms. The SSD shouldn't be needed.
Well, innocent people die in both paths so we’re in an optimization problem unless you’ve decided you have concrete answers to the trolley problem that are number invariant.
Long may our governments be hopelessly incompetent.
Probably depends on how competitive the market is for workers. When I was trying to get a minimum wage job, it took a while to get. Now it's probably relatively easily. In today's market, they wouldn't try that because those people would go to a place that wouldn't do that and implicitly pays more as a result.
"Getting out" is very fuzzy goal. For my understanding people usually cite two central goals:

1. Stop central bank imposed inflation.

2. Serve the people who are excluded from banking.

If either of those goals can't be reached, it is due to misdesign/inherent flaws of the approach and not governments.
I've had to do all of those things, and still agree that towns and cities being designed with cars as the default mode of transport is insane
Lack of empirical results is a recognized problem. I do however know of one effort to dig out and bring together data sets - http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

Even in experiments where it's very easy to make a study replicable by simply sharing the code, many people do not. I take this as evidence that the goal of research is rarely good science.
The issue with any 'cap' is that the batches just get sharded to be under that cap and you get the 'working from home' style mix of scam and money laundering.

As the sibling links, the answer is anonymity for spenders, but not for recipients of money. This also, ideally, blocks moral panics and instead forces law enforcement to go after cash flow into 'bad activities' and actors.
I've poked around casually at the WebXR docs, but the main killer feature for me with Croquet et al was portals which would display the goings-on in a linked remote server in real time (you could even embed the full remote environment inside the local environment, sort of like the 3D equivalent of an iFrame).

I guess WebXR's responsibility is the interface between XR and the web, and someone else would need to take on the synchronization task to achieve that.
Oh I see what you mean, I suppose 'Publicly available ISO standards' is more reasonable, but personally I assumed that when I saw 'iso.org'.
150k+ starting salaries when the rest of the world never reaches that even for senior engineers.... right.

The US is the most privileged country on the planet, just look at the per capita CO2 emissions with their private AC and swimming pools, SUVs, etc.
I recall a time at the grocery store, years ago. I wanted some sliced meat, but when I approached the counter a young woman was sweeping the floor.

Naturally, she was wearing gloves.

Seeing me, she grabbed the dustpan, threw away her sweepings, put the broom away, and was prepared to now serve me...

Still wearing the same gloves. Apparently magic gloves, for she was confused when I asked her to change them. She'd touched the broom, the dustpan, the floor, stuff in the dustpan, and the garbage. All within 20 seconds of me seeing her.

Proper procedure, understanding processes, are far more effective than a misused tool.

Is rust mildly better than some languages? Maybe.

But it is not a balm for all issues, and as you say, replacing very well maintained codebases might result in suboptimal outcomes.
In practice cash is traced relatively easily.
IMO, I should be able to spend a zillion dollars on whatever I want, as long as I'm not buying people it's none of anyone's business.

The way to make sure everyone pays taxes is to tax property, or sales, or do a value added tax. Want a progressive tax? Higher taxes on second properties, or luxury items. Now you don't have any reason to need to know what everyone in the world has or does with their money.
The problem with Homebrew is this:

Let's say there's a small piece of software you want to install. A command-line PDF-processing utility, or something. You use brew to install it.

brew decides to update everything. Let's say (not an arbitrary example) this includes OpenSSL. It removes the old OpenSSL.

Everything you built which somehow depends on OpenSSL (and that's a lot of stuff) is now broken. If it was just Homebrew installs, that would be fine, because they'd be upgraded too[1]. But it isn't. It's everything you've built from source which linked against the former, Homebrew-installed OpenSSL.

You now have to spend the rest of the afternoon rebuilding and reinstalling stuff because Homebrew decided to trash a library that it had previously installed... all because you wanted to install one tiny command-line tool.

This has bitten me, and many others, countless times. Here's two examples from a minute's Googling about the OpenSSL issue: https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI/issues/635, https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI/issues/86. But it's far from an isolated case - I've had stuff break on me because brew has decided to upgrade proj, for example, and the newer proj headers aren't backwards-compatible. (Pretty much all open-source geo stuff depends on proj somehow.)

In theory you can brew pin stuff. But either I brew pin everything, or I need a crystal ball to decide what brew will break next. OpenSSL? proj? Postgres? I honestly wouldn't have worked those out for myself.

I am not installing Homebrew on any Mac I own in the future.

[1] In theory. I've had Homebrew make an entire Postgres database unreadable due to an arbitrary, and unwanted, upgrade. Fortunately I was saved by recovering the old data files into Postgres.app, which can run different versions of Postgres.
> It is done by the likes of HSBC, Standard Chartered and other big banks.

And, as it happens, because of the records, it has been discovered and everyone involved is traceable. The system works.
"Part of his point seems to be that you can manipulate data with code, but you can't manipulate your app's typings with code."

You can do both you know.
Yes, and there is a long standing bug. Once you have done that, if you go back to the folder window in explorer, and try to select/copy the folder path, all you will get is the path to cmd.exe instead.
Funny, right after 1100 crypto money launderers in China were arrested, nobody wanted any more Tethers. [1] Now my statements are entirely circumstantial, but I strongly suggest you watch this space.

> The public security ministry said that by Wednesday afternoon police had busted more than 170 criminal groups involved in using cryptocurrencies to launder money.

> China’s Payment & Clearing Association said on Wednesday that the number of crimes involving the use of virtual currencies is on the rise.

> Because cryptocurrencies are anonymous, convenient and global in nature, “they have increasingly become an important channel for cross-border money laundering,” the association said in a statement.

Sounds right to me.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/china-arrests-over-1100-susp...
You could try to improve the system. A big issue is that a lot of teachers are not able to transfer the knowledge to childen or they don't have enough patience. In the faculty i had around 5 professors from around 100 who had enough patience and the skill to transfer the knowledge to other people. The other were either geniuses (they know everything, you are stoopid) or just doing their job.
I think after all this falls under the super-category Velomobile [1] - there are plenty of other examples for two-seater, electric assisted Velomobiles.

Also, Velomobiles are way more popular. My unkle (used to?) drives one every day to work, in every weather, 40+ km one way (without electric assist, at least a few years ago). And no, he was never cold, he rather had problems with ventilation ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
My thought was to make it more of a pedagogical example than a canonical default. You can have both!
Torrent Paradise – Decentralization with IPFS
With IPFS, a copy of the site and the whole index can be distributed just like a torrent. When you open it via IPFS, your IPFS node fetches the parts of the index and website it needs from the network.

Address in IPFS is /ipns/torrent-paradise.ml. You can also use /ipns/12D3KooWB3GY1u6zMLqnf3MJ8zhX3SS1oBj7VXk3xp6sJJiFGZXp in case the domain doesn't work.

There are public IPFS gateways available.
They have some awesome tools built in to the tax form. The asset calculator lets you put in stuff like “I paid this much for an office table” and it tells you that the expected lifetime is 10 years and it will automatically insert the deduction for the next 10 years without you having to think about anything.
macOS Finder defaults are pretty weird if you think about it. We've gotten used to its quirks but… why is the world isn't the desktop aligned to the grid by default? And why doesn't the grid automatically stretch to fit the screen like Windows does?

Another one is that there's no toolbar button to delete files since they expect you to drag them to the trash. Please I'm not dragging files for 1000px with a trackpad as an entry-level user.
Where I live, there is a high density of restaurants -- no corporate chains either -- and they are all packed full of people most days. I'd say it is a simple matter of supply and demand. There are so many restaurants because there are so many customers.

But you are correct that the restaurant business is terrible from an investment perspective. For some people, the restaurant business is their calling and what they know well, can't fault them for that even if the margins are poor.

It is like being a startup founder. Mostly a bad idea on a purely economic basis but many people feel compelled to do it.
Bear in mind Sweden was forced (i.e. no referendum, etc.) to accept over 5% of its population as asylum seekers, etc.

It's a huge shock to society and will change the nation forever.
> one thing I always wonder about recumbent bicycles is how visible they are to lorries / trucks

I'd be worried about any vehicle that isn't a Twike. These would not fair well in accident.
"Society" has not clearly chosen such thing. Governments LOVE this power, but don't confuse governments with society.

I would also LOVE to see each and every transaction my state does but all I see is high-level budgets with no individual level transactions.

States and state institutions have much much greater "privacy" while the people are heading towards 0 privacy.

I would have expected the reverse to happen first but here we are.

The government most definitely cares about the shit you buy. If they had an infrastructure they would tax you and "nudge" you based on a lot of societal / individual metrics.

I would say the whole purpose of BitCoin was to counter government stupidity so this new regulation continues the trend.
This response comes across as really churlish. I would absolutely drive to work in one of these if I could, particularly if other people were in vehicles of similar size that didn't pollute the air. These are clearly personal vehicles, so the school bus is a completely different use case, driving a person to a hospital, if urgent, can be done with an ambulance or a taxi if non-urgent etc etc etc
I'm just curious if you grew up in a very large city and haven't been to other countries? Because public transport as a primary form of transportation simply isn't feasible in many places. And I was responding to the statement about cars being the worst invention of the 21st century...
> And I don't think 50-70 miles is going to be the norm.

It is going to be for the foreseeable future, and I'll tell you two reasons why:

1. FAA and USAF considers everyone that's been above 50 miles (~62 kilometres) as an astronaut.

2. Von Karman line (at 100 kilometres, or 62 miles) is the closest we have to the consensus over what constitutes "space".

We could've drawn it pretty much everywhere because Earth's atmosphere disappears gradually, but these are nice round numbers previously agreed upon.

Therefore, if you're after commercial space flights (like Bezos and Branson are), that's the minimum you need to do to be able to charge millions for a "space flight". There is no incentive to go above that for commercial purposes.
That's very true, but 'dark money for everyone' doesn't necessarily seem like an improvement.

I am in favor of privacy and not having to explain what you choose to do with your own money, but imho the aggregate yield curve of total privacy inverts as you ascend a logarithmic scale.
Agree. You could listen to the 911 call that triggered the previous death and see how he tried to make the police more nervous.

https://youtu.be/mFfwpOLXBqk
What are you even trying to argue against?

That was the whole point of the previous post. It is already cheap and easy and there is no gatekeeping, ridiculous rates or tribal knowledge. Just hire anyone mildly knowledgeable and do more than nothing. In 2021 there is no excuse anymore.

All your vitriol is just based on your projections of your misunderstanding of the phrase "hardcore nerd".
You don't need to track all cash flow in society to collect taxes. You do need it specifically for personal income tax. If we, say, taxed property and other monopoly rights more extensively instead (in the vein of georgism), such an arrangement wouldn't be so privacy-invasive. It would also mean that those at the top would have to pay more, though - so...
For real, I'm all for alternative modes of transportation, but some people seem to really do think that their groceries and the stuff they buy on a pedestrianized high-street appear there by magic.
> discussions are happening on YT and I think it is only going to increase over time.

Which is a very fitting observation in this thread on the continuing stupidification of societal debate.

Only perhaps not in the way you intended.
Generally reasonable, but I can't imagine who really need to create BMP file rather than PNG.
My teacher describes this issue as such: meditation is like going to the gym. You don't send someone with broken arm to the gym to make them better. Even though gyms are generally good, they should be avoided when you're injured.

Psychotic or neurotic mind needs healing, not intense training. This knowledge is present in genuine Buddhist schools that are not for profit organizations. The mindfulness industry have, sadly, the wrong incentives.

As a Buddhist myself I hope this article helps a lot of people.
The author is looking for reasons to get upset here.
In some countries there is a limit by law and/or insurance. In Germany working more than 10 hours per day is difficult.
I would argue that the car has provided incredible utility to humanity, and that calling it the worst invention of the century would be doing it a massive disservice.
Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there’s no smoke?
touch is good also because it stays in the history and can be recalled as a whole. Lately I've just started calling my editor on files I want to create and edit: code my/file.js (the editor will also create the required folders)
Do you have evidence on KYC/AML/CFT being in a state of regulatory capture? I would say they are anything but. Huge expenses for all involved, no standards that would be good enough to just fulfill.

What we have observed is financial institutions failing with respect to KYC/AML/CFT/sanctions etc. (and getting fined for it), but that is not regulatory capture.

Also, I'd argue that since 2008 regulatory capture isn't working so well anymore, with a lot of extra regulation being thrown at the system (some of which being eased now again).

Regulators are incentivized to see dangers everywhere and acting accordingly. The last time they did not see dangers everywhere, it didn't work out so well, either. The counteracting force would come for electorates and policy makers seeing opportunity and progress lost from being overly cautious.
I’m glad that most SWAT incidents end without the team firing any rounds. To me, that’s a success case and a better outcome than if the metric showed “50% of the time, officers discharged their weapons”. It’s not a waste when their body armor goes untested on a call either.

If a warrant serving situation seems dangerous enough to use SWAT, I hope they use them and no rounds are fired. That’s a good warrant service, not a failure, in my book.
So where are the consequences?
That particular statement is in fact neither known to be true nor false for some definitions of the Muslim God, since there is no secular evidence for the existence nor non-existence of God for those definitions of the Muslim God.

But I agree with the point you are trying to make, that many people have false beliefs crucial to a societal institutions that cannot realistically be suppressed by heavy-handed censorship without also destroying meaning and satisfaction for many people, and also the society itself. And of course, holy texts often contradict themselves, yet some consider all of it true.

However, you are arguing against a strawman, since OP never claimed to have a solution, nor even that censorship was the appropriate response, not do I claim that either.
Seems like there was a $100,000 bounty on hacking them:

> On Friday, Fisher claimed to have hacked the bank in 2016 and proposed a "Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program" that would offer bounties of up to $100,000 to those who hacked and dumped documents "in the public interest" from companies such as "South America, Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, and oil company Halliburton."

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/19/2tb-and-counting.html