skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures—make up a massive network with enormous computational power. -- Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/trees-brain-roots-mind

Our thoughts literally flow through and exist as tree structures. In the sense that we are the thing that is aware, we are each great forests of neurons. It does not necessarily follow that mapping the world in the form of tree-like hierarchies is conducive to thought but it is suggestive.

As social animals we are bred to be exquisitely sensitive to dominance hierarchies in families and tribes. The less sensitive stumble in the mating dance. The survivors of eons of such selection are good at remembering hierarchies.

The typical Memory Palace works by associating objects with our spacial memory. We seem to have a separate set of registers for recording dominance hierarchies, available for use as a separate memory palace channel.
(Computer that's always on + $2 Wi-Fi dongle (or a slightly more expensive one with an actual antenna, if required) + network namespace-specific alternate route = scriptable scheduled reboot.

Hm, or you could just use a Raspberry Pi.
My favourite example of this is "ok", which comes from a nearly 200 year-old meme:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-word-ok-was-in...
> But in an internet community, measured inequality can come from two sources: (i) inequality in total resources available to different participants, and (ii) inequality in level of interest in participating in the community.

Oh man, that is some seriously shaky foundations to rest your argument on. It also only holds for very early day cryptocurrencies; nowadays the main thing that limits your ability to hold a lot of crypto is not interest, but how much disposable income you've got.

Maybe if you intended your cryptocurrency to remain niche this argument might be fine, but if your currency is supposed to replace fiat (as Bitcoin claims) then that argument is pure unadulterated bullshit. All it's saying is that inequality is fine because it's about who cared earlier, please ignore all the people that bought in with USD.

I suspect that Vitalk knows he's playing a rhetorical trick here, he's too smart to not be aware of that.

> The average person with $15 in fiat currency is poor and is missing out on the ability to have a good life. The average person with $15 in cryptocurrency is a dabbler who opened up a wallet once for fun. Inequality in level of interest is a healthy thing; every community has its dabblers and its full-time hardcore fans with no life. So if a cryptocurrency has a very high Gini coefficient, but it turns out that much of this inequality comes from inequality in level of interest, then the number points to a much less scary reality than the headlines imply.

Yeah, except if your currency "wins" and replaces fiat, then that dabbler becomes a new feudal lord, and everyone who didn't have "interest" starves. Not really a comforting argument in that context, is it?

Worse still if that "dabbler" "dabbled" because they had spare cash to spare; e.g. if they were already rich.

> Cryptocurrencies, even those that turn out to be highly plutocratic, will not turn any part of the world into anything close to dystopia A.

I do not trust this argument coming from someone who is in fact a plutocrat of a crypto currency.
Congratulations! You have just wasted another minute of your life by reading the post! (and you still haven't Uitwaaien'ed!)
The past 200 or so years have included the invention of the lightbulb and the first trips to our moon and other planets. Given how long we’ve been on the planet, I think this is indeed a special time and future historians will always look upon this era that way. They’ll probably refer to it as when humanity started walking, or spoke its first word.
We all personally know outliers. It changes nothing to the statistics. As people of science on HN, we must not rely on narratives, this is the sort of thing the grand parent is pushing, associating homelessness with laziness in a cunning fashion. This is a mostly a lie.
The other reason for the manager to be cautious is that the applicant may quickly become a manager, and the old manager will be out of a job. Or maybe the manager's manager will be out of a job.
This is noteworthy in that China releasing the Canadians simultaneously with Canada's release of the Huawei exec effectively demonstrates that they were arrested in retaliation.

I don't know how doing direct business with China can be defended at this point. Acting in bad faith, throwing innocent people in jail for fictional espionage while their citizen hangs out in her mansion in Vancouver is pretty unreal.
The author claims that unhappy, unsuccessful people fill social media with misplaced anger because they have too much time on their hands. These are the ‘other people’, while we, the knowledge workers are Happy and naturally repulsed by social media.

This is a really condescending take, and I don’t think that unhappiness and mental illness magically avoid knowledge workers - perhaps even the opposite. I do think that earning a software engineer’s salary makes you view the world in a different way than most people, and it’s true that I don’t see too many software engineers (angry or otherwise) on Facebook, but perhaps that’s because we’re all hiding here. :-)
Time in the market beats timing in the market. It sounds like a meaningless mantra or cop-out, but really, there's no reason to regret missing $2 when there's no time or reason in the foreseeable future where a silicon portfolio won't perform bonkers.

Disclaimer: I own no stock.
Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng Admits to Misleading Global Financial Institution
More like deflector.com.

I'm not going to claim that cryptocurrency is going to change the world for the better, but this is an article almost entirely composed of straw men. Whether you like cryptocurrency or not, if you understand it at all and have actually heard the evangelists' arguments and understood them almost every single point made in this article doesn't really apply.
If you're talking about China, you are correct. If you are talking about the United States, you are correct as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
The useful part of what you describe is called timestamping and predated (and inspired) Bitcoin.
The argument I've heard against FDIC insurance encourages a race to the bottom. Banks take more risk to make more profit (combined with the back drop of the feds willingness to bail then out? The more conservative banks either have to loosen up, or lose out to the looser banks.

There was not much money lost relatively speaking to banks not having FDIC insurance in the past. And there can be tremendous upside in researching to make sure your bank is only loaning to reputable investments, homes, etc
Lisa Su is awesome, not because she's female, but because literally she's amazing. AMD's transformation is nothing short of spectacular
Sorry but I am not impressed by women in tech. Even when they do get to prominent roles it is not after creating a company from scratch or working in the technical trenches, it is usually just being corporate types who climb to the top. I don't think it is some glass ceiling, it is just that women don't want to risk anything, don't want to dirty their hands with the actual development of the products and don't have any originality or drive to change things. Women just want to do caring jobs or moving money around, that's why they are doing so well as doctors, lawyers or in marketing. It is a waste of time trying to push them to do things they don't like and don't want to do. Those jobs were open now for years for women and women have made their choice.
>the transaction is entirely irreversible by an enterprising (invasive? dictatorial?) third party.

Are you aware of the history of Ethereum?
Every year or two, people decide to fly from North America to Europe in a short range Cessna. They get the extra fuel tankage package, then hop from PEI to Greenland, Greenland to Iceland, then Iceland to.... Svalbard, or maybe somewhere in the Scotish Isles. From there it's pretty standard flight operations over local bodies of water. If a Cessna can do it, that's well within a bird's migratory travel distance.
Consider you're riding it daily. You've likely spent more on less useful things.
Was this exactly at midnight, as in 12:00?

It's possible auto wakeup was enabled in the BIOS, with the wake time set to the default of 00:00.

Alternatively, if it was a different time, perhaps *that* was the default, or maybe the value accidentally got changed.

Alternatively-alternatively, maybe the BIOS had a bug in it that somehow enabled auto wake without presenting an option. To tackle this, I would've reset the BIOS settings. (I once had an ADSL2+ modem that randomly started flaking out and not connecting correctly. Changed every accessible setting I could, no dice. Factory reset = instantly back to normal.)
> For the record, I am not Satoshi Nakamoto. I suppose I could have invented the bitcoin protocols...

That's not a given. Nick Szabo provides a good explanation [1] of the state of things when Bitcoin was invented, and why very few people were capable of it then:

"The overlap between cryptographic experts and libertarians who might sympathize with such a "gold bug" idea is already rather small, since most cryptographic experts earn their living in academia and share its political biases. Even among this uncommon intersection as stated very few people thought it was a good idea. Even gold bugs didn't care for it because we already have real gold rather than mere bits and we can pay online simply by issuing digital certificates based on real gold stored in real vaults, a la the formerly popular e-gold."

Schneier has the cryptographic knowledge, but I've never gotten the sense he as any deep interest in the nature of money, at least not enough to drive him to put together something like Bitcoin. That drive, that obsession with something, is a prerequisite for making something as unprecented and dissimilar to anything previously existing as Bitcoin.

[1]:https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-...
This isn't true in Australia at least. Banks wear the cost their side for the new business and enjoy when people go direct to them for the lack of fee paid.

The broker issue is stems from they wont look at loans that dont offer commission, these are often cheaper. And potentially an unethical one will push you to a worse loan that pays them more.

IMO brokers have a much more limited benefit these days with easy to use comparison sites but still serve a purpose for more complex transitions and people that are low in financial literacy.
Perhaps Auckland has already reached the point where people have stopped caring and downgraded their expectations. Actually, Wellington too seems to recently have prices for attached townhouses approaching those of SFHs. A couple of years ago, the ratio of the two types of prices was greater.
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> Even if you knew would anything change?

Yes. Closure. I know it's a vague human need, but it is a need at least I have. It will definitely be good for my mental health. And why do you want people to cease just because something is hard? All criminal cases are hard. Some are solved. Let's try to solve this one.
Couple of Canadian spies for the Princess of Huawei? Sure thing!
It's easy. Copy-paste the blockchain and start over with a fork. When the system delegitimizes itself, a debt jubilee lies around the corner. This stuff is just glue now - a cheap way of making a financial system.
I would bank on Starlink and Amazon long before I would bet on TMobile who can not even get reliable service for 4G let alone think they are going to take over Home Wireless

I still have my doubts that any wireless can ever replace the reliability and low latency of FTH.

I have no desire to have mobile internet experience from my gaming system or desktop computer. I will keep my Fiber thanks.

I also for Verizon have my doubts that the "no data caps" they are selling today will last as they get more customers moved off their wire services on to the more profitable wireless. This bait and switch is old hat for the telecom's it will be just a few years, if not a few months before they backdoor in some data caps due to the ever famous "network congestion" that will always plague high density wireless deployments

While the Big 3 have all the spectrum, they incompetently use is, and simply have it because they can afford to pay the FCC billions in the corrupt "auction" system the FCC uses to allocate said spectrum.

The Big 3 carriers have proven to be terrible network operators and people only use them because they have no other choice. Wireless carriers in the US have a lower approval rating than the US Congress
Until you realize ETH has been around only 8 years and the transaction is entirely irreversible

It’s funny you make this comment specifically about ETH since it literally exists today as a result of a hard fork that reversed transactions in 2016.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ethereum-classic.asp
A common theme I've noticed with the most ardent mac fans is they haven't used a windows machine since windows 95 and seem to think osx has all these magic features windows users are missing out on.

I use mac and windows daily, and they both have similar amounts of annoying niggling features.
> The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. [*]

(* according to the brain)
Hal Finney is Satoshi, IMO. Not only is he the first person to respond to Satoshi and receive bitcoin, he lived minutes away from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, an unrelated person who Newsweek falsely claimed was Satoshi. Satoshi also stopped posting at the same time Hal's ALS disease became unbearable, and after Hal's death Satoshi never posted again. I believe Hal either interacted with Dorian or drove by his house and saw the name, and decided he liked it as a pseudonym.

RIP Hal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...
Good point on ETH Classic.

I guess I didn’t think of that bc I don’t consider myself important enough to be overruled by so many people.

Possibly the good thing about the ecosystem is anyone can make a protocol or form the existing open source ones and then users and miners can vote with their feet.
Maybe, but it seems in practice that either option is fine hygiene-wise - there surely would be definitive proof one way or the other by now, given widespread use, of there were issues?
I care enough about the poor to donate my time and money voluntarily. But I absolutely despise government welfare which amounts to theft and forced donation for something the government is not chartered to do.

Most people's protest of federal welfare has nothing to do with insensitivity to the plight of our fellow man.
(In case anyone’s wondering, Xin Jinshan i.e. New Gold Mountain is Melbourne, but unlike the case of SF, that name did not stick.)
My memory is fuzzy and I'm having a hard time finding details, but didn't Eth actually go through a hard fork to reverse a theft or bug in a smart contract or something?
> The counterargument is "Well, they could have altered the proposal when they pursued funding elsewhere." The takeaway is that it is not likely this specific proposal was funded elsewhere, leading to SARS-CoV-2.

That sounds like a very tenuous line of reasoning to me. Almost like saying "We know that Mr. A proposed shooting Mr. B, so let's reconsider that Mr C. may have stabbed Mr. D."
I just noticed today things were a bit off. Some people had only TP in their carts. The customer in front of me was denied purchasing multiple cases of water because he was over limit. Costco had a 3/20 vibe to it again.... SW USA.
At least for the FG, consider it a matter of duty - Every dollar "wasted" on a supraoptimal salary is unavailable to further advance the mission of Being Evil :)
Yeah, water alone does not a clean surface make. Mythbusters showed this in their "air dryer vs. paper towls" myth.

Water plus soap = clean hands no matter the drying method. Water alone, and the paper towels did better than an air dry.
I think these limits tend to induce rather than deter demand. TP (essentially) never goes bad, is cheap, and if it’s being rationed, I’m more likely to pick up the limit unless I’m out of room in the cart or the basement. The cost of holding a half-dozen extra packages of TP is about as expensive as typing this comment was.
I used to get alert emails, from google, for what appeared to be someone with my email address in another tld. I probably could have reset their password and accessed everything. Maybe they can access my email.

I sought support but never got anything official and commenters brushed it off. But I'm pretty sure it was similar to your issue.
> allowed things like cryptocurrencies and their transparent policy to be alluring

Genuinely: lol, what? How many exchange exit scams have we seen over the past few years? The idea that crypto institutions are "transparent" and trustworthy makes absolutely no sense. If there's any institution that should have no public trust, it should be crypto exchanges.

No, most people are buying crypto because number goes up. It's pure gambling, nothing else.
You took my comment wrong, I was just talking about the hose.

The head part that I'm talking about is like what you posted, but you can get it much cheaper elsewhere.
If you want a moderately more risky play, consider buying XLNX. AMD bought XLNX for an all stock deal at a fixed conversion rate (as in it stays the same regardless of the price of the two sticks) of 1.7.

Currently the ratio is only 1.5 due to uncertainty if the deal will get through regulatory approval, which is a nice arbitrage opportunity if you think it will.
Would love 2.69. 3.06 in the SW.
There's a paper about parachutes and problems with proving they prevent death that seems applicable here.
That's what I did. Added a GFCI outlet below the light switch with an old work box. Hardest part was cramming all the wiring back in. Have a short extension cord to snake to the bidet.

I don't think my landlord would even notice, since it blends so well, and now it powers a toothbrush charger as well.

Plumbing is a non-issue, since you just split the toilet feed with a T-joint included in the kit.
LOL my wife has this past year started keeping bees “keeping” they aren’t kept you are just lucky they like to live in boxes you provide… anyway this resonates with me because if you do things that alarm a few of them (thousand) they gradually alert the rest … that can really make you reconsider any action you take after that point
You seem to have written an internet top comment that is not only positive and hopeful, but also devoid of cynicism. Please remove yourself from the building and leave your badge at the reception. As a security measure, you will be followed to your car. Don't come back ever again. Thanks!
Neat reference to Sartre.

"The line “Hell is other people” in French reads “L'enfer, c'est les autres” or “Hell is [the] others.”

(The best known English translation of the play, by Paul Bowles, actually renders the line “Hell is just – other people.”)

We get a little more of the flavor of the line in English if we read it as “Hell is the Other"

https://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2010/07/most-famous-thing....
That is exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto would say.
The outcome of the case really doesn't depend on whether you saw (by compulsion) a couple of segments he did for the (I guess) highly partisan and propagandistic ABC News two decades ago. His continued employment there for years after whenever those videos you watched were published would seem to indicate that his reputation suffered no serious harm as a result of them, as would his subsequent employment at Fox Business. (It's theoretically possible that Facebook could say he has no good reputation capable of being defamed, but, again, the facts, including those pleaded in the filing if true, would seem to cut against it.)

As I said in GGGP, I agree that I'd be surprised if he won, but I think this has some likelihood of going to discovery. With high-profile defendants, documents and depositions are sometimes the goal.
I need to say the obligatory THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE CONSULT A TAX ACCOUNTANT.

Ok so my understanding is you need to exercise your options and wait 5 years for QSBS to kick in. After that you can start selling at $0 in capital gains.

Just a heads up though, this tax treatment may get closed soon with upcoming federal legislation. May not apply to shares exercised prior to the legislation being enacted though.

Note: here are some people who talk about QSBS as well https://www.mossadams.com/articles/2021/04/qualified-small-b...
Probably grep.
I'm sure there are many complicated reasons for such statutes. But not all crimes are subject to a statute of limitations.

Very serious crimes, like murder, typically have no statute of limitations. So I think to some degree it is reasonable to infer that an underlying impetus is to say "It's not worth pursuing this past a certain point."

I see that as twofold. One part letting people know they don't need to live their entire life in terror of an old parking ticket and one part husbanding limited societal resources.

The practice of declaring a person an outlaw who was no longer protected by the law was a means to say "You are so terrible, you don't deserve legal protection. Yet our system simply doesn't have the means to deal with you. We don't have the resources to track you down and put you to trial."

Outlaws could be killed out of hand by anyone and the killer was not going to be charged with murder.

We seem to have forgotten about how tenuous human survival was for so long. We seem to think the threat of extinction due to climate change is some radical new thing that we should be terrified by.

The reality is humans mostly lived on the brink. Starvation was a routine thing. Entire peoples being exterminated was commonplace.

There just wasn't the resources to track every little thing you did and try to take you to court over it decades later. We still only do that for extremely serious crimes.

We let the small stuff go at some point.

But that's only a "pass" if you did it a long time ago and stopped at some point. If you are still doing those things, your recent crimes can still be prosecuted and they sometimes will make an effort to show you are a repeat offender with a long history and put you away for a long time for that.

So sometimes they kind of do an end run around statutes of limitations if they think you don't really deserve a pass.

Like any human endeavor, it involves a judgement call and context matters.
Reminder that the NIH and NIAID (which Fauci leads) systematically undermined oversight processes meant to flag dangerous research for additional review. See https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/04/nih-gain-of-function-anth...
I had them at my last job and sure they're very nice. But honestly the water only ones are totally fine.
>One thing that seems to be being ignored on this section 230 (by everyone) is the clause that reasonable action to remove illegal content. If in this case the content is libel, and Facebook did not attempt to remove it after being contacted, that would make them liable.

Except it's not libel until a court says it is.

If I defamed/libeled you right here, right now and HN didn't immediately delete my post, would that make HN liable and hence able to be sued?

If you think the answer to that question is "yes," let me know I will make statements that could be considered to be libelous by a court. Then you can sue HN (and me too, if you like. But blood from a stone and all that, eh?) and see what happens.

What do you think?
I find the “amazing, look what a woman did!” narrative to be incredibly insulting.

But congrats to Lisa Su as the person who turned AMD around. They have, IMO, utterly eclipsed Intel. I wouldn’t buy anything else.