skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. It is speculated that the Devil can solve any mathematical problem and thus human crypto is useless to him, as he can just reverse all hashes, compute the discrete logarithms and factor arbitrarily large numbers.

So an NFT (or any other cryptographic artifact) is rather something that Satan can offer you for your soul.
I am not sure if it's correct, but I have heard that Apple does not PMs in their main product because of that?
Yes, it seems far more likely that it is emergent rather than planned.

That's not to say you shouldn't try and understand and criticise it and opt out where necessary but there is no big conspiracy going on.
I wonder if this will simply end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy of violence.

1. Expect violence
2. Think buying a gun will somehow help
3. Because you now have a gun it seems safer to turn to violence
4. Violence commences
A vaccine mandate should not be mandated by corporations, instead it should happen on a country level if necessary.

To me it's a slippery slope to allow corporations to mandate what happens to our own body.
> Things seem to be hardest for younger single employees who don’t always have great work from home environments and are also sometimes lonely. Also, some of my coworkers with kids are having a hard time being productive with pressures from kids or spouses that don’t respect the working from home boundaries.

I agree this is a reality and has to be considered.

But we need to acknowledge that this is people's personal problems coming into the workplace. If there is going to be a compromise, at some point I'm going to at least want it acknowledged that Bob's personal problems are the reason I can no longer interact with my new born baby a few time throughout the day, and will thus spend significantly less time with them during this brief phase of their life. I also want it acknowledged that Bob's personal problems are the reason my risk of early death in a car accident are greatly increased. Otherwise, I'm going to feel that any "compromise" is forced.

It's a hard problem.
> All these experiences bias people, making true understanding harder

Do all experiences bias people in a way that makes true understanding harder? Meaning that true understanding can only exist in the absence of first-hand knowledge? Or is there a way to experience something in a way that furthers understanding?

> which is why the analogy to the way censorship works in other countries is so useful.

Is it useful? What is it that Americans understand about censorship in China that they can't understand about censorship in America?

> Your own link is an example of censorship by private companies in China - a social media platform and an app store.

Do you think those private companies made that decision without influence from the government? Admittedly, it's hard to get a direct statement from the government why something was taken down. E.g. when Zhao Lijian of the Foreign Ministry was asked about it, he just said that it wasn't a diplomatic issue, so he had no handle on the situation, and anyways the internet is managed according to law. http://by.china-embassy.org/chn/wjbzs/t1823326.htm
I agree with you, but in evolution there are also power differentials due to organism size/features or population leading to some organisms/species having an advantage at a certain point in time. I think this could be considered analagous (not exact mapping) to corporation power at a given time.
There three additional groups who are part of the unvax'ed set.

- Those who - for health or other legit reasons - can not get the jab.

- Those who are not old enough, per the FDA, CDC, etc.

- Those who are old enough but their parents don't want them to get the jab.

It would help if there was transparency when there's a refernce such as "X% of Delta cases are the unvaxinated." Why the ambiguity? Why leave it to assuming?

It should also be noted there are four groups of the vaccinated

- J&J one jab

- Pfizer and Moderna one jab

- P and M both jabs

- P and M two jabs, one of each. Fringe, but they exist.
If you’re a high performing employee a union will just hurt you.
>As a total outsider I'd have guessed that the (in retrospect justified) anticipation of large-scale civil unrest would be driving this...

There's some of that for sure but every presidential election year there's a spike due to people worrying about the possibility of more restrictive gun control laws.

The combination of the anticipation of unrest (as you mentioned), the pandemic (which generated a fear of long-term shortages of essential items, which in turn made people worry about looting and the collapse of the government), and politicians talking about new gun control laws has created a more lasting spike.
The point TFA is making is that the US government can force holders of bitcoin to sell their bitcoins to the government. And, importantly, they can do it via the Fed (which is nominally a private institution), thereby avoiding any politically messy legislation.

The Fed can do this by launching their own bitcoin exchange and then dominating the mining of blocks on the blockchain (AKA a 51% attack). They can then prevent any other miners from being able to mine blocks, and they can configure their own miners to only accept transactions which are depositing bitcoin into the own exchange's wallet.

At this point nobody can sell bitcoin to anyone other than the Fed's exchange, at any price, because the transaction will not be recorded in the blockchain. The Fed can now set the exchange rate to whatever they want, and they can pay for the bitcoin they exchange with whatever instrument they want. They can run the money printer to buy your bitcoin with USD, they can make you accept US treasuries at a certain price, whatever makes the most sense for their balance sheet. Your alternative is to HODL and never be able to sell your coins.
We're obsessed with plastic waste because the main input is petrochemicals, the producers of which have a lot of political power. If they didn't, then we'd just implement what the scientists recommended all along (i.e don't use it when you don't need to, use as little as possible, recycle what you use, burn what can't be recycled for energy, charge the producers based on these externalities to incentivize changes at the top of the chain to make all the other steps easier and/or encourage consumers to choose something else).

Similar to how we'd have have dealt with climate change back when crazy environmental radicals like Margaret Thatcher and Newt Gingrich accepted a) that it existed and b) there was a clear path to co-operate on fixing the problem by putting a price on carbon and enforcing global standards.

But then politics happened. And now you could say, "Why are we so obsessed with climate change?" It's almost like a Trillion dollar industry has waged a highly successful misinformation campaign and made what was previously common sense a big debate.

And as far as they're concerned, you thinking "well maybe these hippies are going too far and haven't thought of this drawback" is just as much of a win for them as the guy "coal rolling" a Prius because his political tribe is now pro-pollution, like some kind of absurd parody of a Captain Planet cartoon villian.

For the record, recycling and burning plastic for energy are both better for the planet and economy than landfill. Well, that's the "scientific consensus" but what do those eggheads know, eh? Neither sounds good for the bottom line of fossil fuel companies and so...
That's exactly what I have been using Patreon for, it's not a donation but a subscription for an enterprise tier. Still very few people signed up for it, the OSS code is working well enough and there's very little friction in just using it.

Going forward I'm going to offer the enterprise stuff through the AWS marketplace, further reducing the friction, hopefully that will get more traction. It's just a lot of boring billing engineering work that I could have spent on improving the software.
> 8. git branch [branchname] -D : delete branch if not tracked

Dangerous advice there. Use the lower-case '-d' option. It'll tell you that you maybe don't want to delete the branch when it has unmerged commits.

If you really want to delete the branch then, the output of `git branch -d` tells you this option.
Vouched, despite this generally being against the guidelines, because this isn't actually a question. GP wouldn't be so dismissive if they'd read the article.

Many women in tech, myself and the author included, are angry, because of how we're treated. The fact that this plays into a stereotype that's used as a dismissal is a problem we need to talk about. Related issue: abuse victims are less productive at work, because of the abuse. Trump said the quiet part loud: "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." That's subtext behind every claim of a "pipeline problem."
It's never that you can't, it's that you won't. The distinction means a lot. It takes some luck to realise that all the I-can'ts are actually you trying to escape an internal conflict by putting yourself down. The internal conflict is about you wanting it and not wanting it at the same time. E.g. you want to be a success, but trying is scary. I don't really know how not to be afraid. It's something I'm working on. But, knowing that you're choosing not to do something because you're afraid is so much better than thinking that you're not capable. It's literally the difference between apathy or depression and discomfort.
I am one of dozens of moderators of the Hardcore Berkshire Hathaway subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/

I put in a little effort each day, but thousands of people benefit. Small work, big impact. Contributing on Reddit is an easy way to have a meaningful effect on the world.
Yes, but it only works with the trickling of the validation of good movies. Big studios will buy up indie productions and/or take a chance on making something not-a-super-hero film only if they have the extra cash from the super-hero film.

In which, this argument disregards the Internet and it’s effect on media distribution disruption in it’s entirety.
Sounds like the pig-farming industry is trying to get some of that sweet subsidy money by waiting until the last minute to do anything. Don’t blame them from business side but totally avoidable of course
Is the restriction on making bullets for sale the same as making guns? Seems like a very lucrative business. Don't bullets also "expire" after a certain period of time?
This is a terrific idea that's been around since about 1995 when the idea of an "internet appliance" first started to get tossed around for enterprise desktops. Clearly, neither the bandwidth nor server power was there back then to make it real.

As someone who plays MS Flight Simulator (which requires hardware nobody has; the graphics are streamed to you) and also streams games like Forza from my own Xbox, I can tell you that the hardware is there now. It is quite possible to run even a high frame rate, graphically intensive game fully remote and not notice any difference at all than playing on hardware in front of you. It's real, now.

Mighty's claims for improving the browser experience sound totally plausible. After all, it's a lot harder to do near real time overlays of photogrammetry (like MSFS) than it is to render a typical web page. MS is already showing that this "harder rendering" can be done in the cloud and streamed to you faster than it can be done on your own machine.

I agree with the OP and PG that some version of this is the future of computing. Already, people are hesitant to upgrade hardware because there isn't any real increase in performance. I myself have owned every Xbox since they were invented but I didn't buy a Series X yet. Why? There is no improvement on the games I actually play. (When Forza 5 comes out, this will change and I'll be a customer again.)

Same with the desktop, I have a three year old laptop that will run Windows 11 and I wouldn't get any improvements out of changing it. The better computer of the future lives on a box that you don't own -- just like the mainframes of the past that I worked on and enjoyed so much.
"Private offices with doors that close" - that's the standard at Fog Creek Software, the company behind Stack Overflow, Trello, and other great products. Microsoft also provides offices (or at least used to). These companies might be on to something.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/29/the-new-fog-creek-...

An opposing perspective: note that the cost for private offices is very high vs. cubes. Assuming Class A space in a premium location is around $85/sq.ft. per month [1]:

6' x 6' cube: 36 sq.ft. * $85 = $3,060/mo

8' x 10' office: 80 sq.ft. * $85 = $6,800/mo

10' x 12' office: 120 sq.ft. * $85 = $10,200/mo

What would most people choose: upgrade from cube to desk, or add $3,500/mo to their paycheck?

[1]: rental rate chart at https://www.squarefoot.com/office-space/ca/san-francisco
I've been doing it so long, there's no going back for me. It's always been this, or ka9dgx, my Amateur Radio Call Sign, which is easily tracked back to me.

There is another Mike Warot, he lives in England, and works as a guard at the British Museum.
Thanks for the list! Will check them out.

A few less "dark" folks I try to follow:

Jason Miller (http://www.strategicsorcery.net/blog/)

Aidan Wachter (http://www.aidanwachter.com/)

Damien Echols (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnRyoC6Oww6FrYVc-BxKyDg/vid...)

Bluefluke (https://bluefluke.tumblr.com/)

Frater U.'. D.'.

Further suggestions of contemporary practitioners are much appreciated.
Doesnt' matter. Most people won't. I have worked professionally for 17 years now and last 6 running my own business. I can tell you with a guarantee that there are lot of people who just want a job, get a paycheck and get the f out (not that anything is wrong with that). They don't care about entrepreneurship or whatever. So there always will be "employees" for every "employer".
That's the party line, but it's just some sub-cultures, teens and troubled personalities that "express themselves" through fashion (the most shallow thing you can do, a juvenile thing in any case), the "early adopters", and then a huge industry copying them at various levels and with various delays. On top of that, there are also top-level mandates "this year let's push yellow strayjackets" or whatever.

This results in a huge industry, selling junk people don't need, which are enviromentally harmful, with the ludicrous insistence that the clothes you bought last season are not good anymore because "fashion".
I feel that every market at this time is a bomb that will be about to explode with markets that grow as fast as those that disappear because of the pandemic, bitcoin being like all money a promise of a material good is when the brokers enter flip this over like the https://www.ironfx.com/en/trading/spreads page to give things a bit of value.
I feel this material was intentionally stranded in this customs purdah for the purpose of providing explosives to terrorists and over the years ~~four-fifths of it was removed from a supposedly secure customs enclave.
The explosion was so intense that it was all detonated - it is possible a small amount was scattered, but no significant residual unexploded Ammonium Nitrate was found.
Quick, make sure to post how awful california is and how much hate you have for the bear state and how much you love your double wide in texas!

hacker news pileon
Amen brother. Not to be messed with.
So all of these methods converge when the position is fully closed out. They are actually designed mostly for regular businesses that are buying and selling items, but it works for anything.

You always end up making the same amount of money, but when you need to figure out profit, it is hard to do before you have sold all of your stock! These systems provide different ways of answering the question: "What is my profit _so far_?). Summing up all of the costs will give you the cost so far, but if you are half way through selling all of your items, it is not that useful, as you have no way of telling if you are making a profit or not on your sales!

FIFO vs LIFO can matter depending on what you are trying to "show". I am not an accountant, but imagine if you bought a bunch of stock really cheap in the first half of the year, and in the second half bought a bunch more stock at a higher price. If you use FIFO, you will realise a big profit initially, followed by a smaller profit or loss in the second half when you start to use up your more expensive stock. With FIFO, you do the opposite (big loss up front), and with Average Cost it's more spread out.

If you have mid year report coming up, and you want to look good, you might be tempted to use FIFO, in order to show that you made a higher profit initially. I'm guessing real accountants see right through this though!
My question is why would anyone want to deal with this stuff. If you're relying on this silly material, you clearly don't have the faintest idea what you're doing - in all likelihood, you'll just end up "summoning" lots of random mischievous spirits who'll be trying to have fun at your expense in weird and surprising ways until you finally learn how to banish them properly. There are plenty of other ways to get started with occult and magick that don't have this particular pitfall!
"The Screwtape Letters" by CS Lewis is another book written from the similar point of view. Here the tricks are presented by an older demon to a younger one.
Inflation fears are also a big driver. Bullets have a long shelf life.

You also forgot the crime wave ripping across the country and inadequate policing.
They are ready to rumble.
Hardly ‘unthinkable’. More like a minor inconvenience. Yes, Google can produce search results that other engines do not, but DDG, Neeva, and even bing are fine for most things.
I would suggest that ownership and “gun culture” are closely related. A gun culture like Norway’s, where there are greater restrictions on registration and purchase of firearms, would probably lead to a reduction in firearms if applied to the US.
> Since then it seems like editors/ides have advanced and eaten emacs’s lunch

Citation needed, my Emacs talks to the same LSP daemon that my coworkers' VSCode instances talk to, and Emacs has a lot of text editing features VSCode doesn't

Plus VSCode is just uglier, and is Microsoft and is it even GPLv3?

Maybe I'm becoming irrelevant and I'm going to find myself without a job soon
Or don't have them =)
It is valuable to have someone for the customer to talk to that is on their wavelength (often less technical and sometimes more domain knowledge), and who has more soft skills than you might seek in developers. Calming down an angry customer is a useful ability and that's not what you hired me to do.

However, sometimes the problem is just technical, and every game of telephone makes it worse. I have had two week back-and-forths which were eventually resolved by the agreement that OK, this nerd who does our implementation (me) can be on a teleconference with your nerd who does your implementation so long as us grown-ups are also in the call - and then it takes maybe five minutes to get to "No the digit five. Not the word five, the digit five." "Oh! Oh Wow. I never considered that. Sorry. Yes, it works now." and we're done.

I really valued time spent shadowing people using my software, one of our tools was for call takers, and I could see that the thing they're all kinda used to but have to keep working around is a thing I can fix with a CSS tweak, whereas the change their manager tells us should be prioritised is going to take months. I can land the tiny improvement next week, and make their lives better while their manager argues with my manager about whether the big piece of work is P2 or P3 and so on. The role I'm in theory taking next (if they get their act together and issue me a contract to sign) is more user contact again, and I look forward to being able to make people's lives better directly.
Thanks a lot, I am glad it is useful. If you have any ideas for topics that were hard to understand before, please do let me know!
Worth noting that we have different incentives in the US even accounting for different philosophies.

US big tech is globally influential, clipping their wings would reduce that influence. Chinese big tech is generally more about the large Chinese market and diaspora.
Good luck America

Edit after several downvotes: ok screw you then :)
Since we are on a metaphorical plane today. Let me put my comment along similar lines on a youtube video [1]

You see in Zombie movies, the zombie is always trying to turn an individual capable of moral decisions, empathy, insight into just another zombie out of his own self interest. Our society is actually far closer to the truth shown in those movies. Just because people are not biting each other does not mean those movies are far from reality.

Symbolically those movies are depicting the fact that there are people, groups, organizations, companies who are trying to rob a man from himself by trying to turn that individual into just another member of the herd who looks out for nothing more than self interest which are not even his own but of that group. Tell me this is any different than what is shown in those zombie movies.

[1] Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPcF-oLABE

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[2] In Shadow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I
The BLM movement and allied politicians and district attorneys have hamstrung the police, resulting in more violent crime. If you don't trust the police to protect you and your home, you may buy a gun to protect yourself.

The cited Associated Press article says, "As the pandemic raced across the country in early 2020, the resulting lockdown orders and cutbacks on police response sowed safety fears, creating an “overwhelming demand” for both guns and ammo, Oliva said."
Wouldn't the detection algorithm just check for "am I being asked to print currency at the correct 100% scale?"?
fwiw, the supply chain seems to be recovering at least for ammo. ammo prices are down about 50% since the peak around Feb. anecdotally, you'd have to pay 90c/round for decent brass case 9mm, now you can get it for <40c/round.
A number of US states do not require background checks when it's resident-to-resident (I live in one). It's common to trade a bill of sale between parties but the paperwork stops there, and this paperwork is technically optional.
One might wish to be careful with this. While strict materialism is probably the dominant paradigm amongst HN readers, there is significant evidence and reliable testimony of inexplicable events[1] that defy a natural explanation.

On the other hand, it may well be the fastest way to start speaking fluent Aramaic. Duolingo eat your heart out!

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/01/...