skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a grand experiment.

Perhaps the primary output of bitcoin will be that it lights a fire under the lazy ass of government to actually have a service mindset towards people, because they now have an alternative that they can use however they want.

We'll see.
I've used it. It's great. A descentralized way to buy my crypto, connecting my fiat bank account.
> Elon Musk isn't applying for Medicaid just for shits and giggles

I mean, who cares if he is if it means people like this are able to get the care that they need? That would be such a small drop in the bucket compared to all the people who genuinely have been screwed by the system.
One of the primary official motivations in terms of the entire conquest (taking a step back from individual desires of wealth and prosperity) was the Catholicization of the settled lands.

The Conquistadors as a whole were people. People can be good, people can be shitty. And the same can certainly be said for any potential aliens.

But I am not aware of any official campaign which included slaughtering children, or anyone else for that matter. In fact, one of the earliest laws drafted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Burgos) includes an explicit article forbidding it and other forms of maltreatment:

> 24: The Indians are not to be physically or verbally abused for any reason.

And the laws were even expanded to further protect women and children.
Is it that the not-on-the-Bitcoin-blokchain account gets updated on a separate "layer 2" Blockchain that's cheaper? If so, why would that second chain stay cheaper?
> So despite the fact that my family has never "killed and genocided the original land dwellers, kidnapped, raped and enslaved people" somehow my family and I still contribute to the issue.

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Many people participate in this system of oppression without intentionally doing so. It is very difficult to avoid, but even many products that you use and purchase contribute to a system of oppression that in return helps increase profits for companies that were formed by the oppression that I mentioned and who actively lobby and persuade public opinion to continue the oppression.

> Sure. Exploitation and market forces are a part of human society. Baselessly calling everybody evil without offering any sort of solution does nothing except help convince yourself that you're some kind of martyr.

150 or so years ago people would have said, child labor is part of society. Marrying 12/13/14 year olds is just part of society. Blacks not being vote is just part of society.

Do you want to be in the group that excused the behavior, or the group that was opposed to and helped change it?

We're not talking about entitlement here. If you want to talk about entitlement, then look at people who feel entitled to oppress and make life difficult for the minority or those placed into a situation where economically they had a far less chance at being successful, and maybe that had to do with morals... yes, you have the opportunity to get rich in America, but often that comes with sacrificing your morals in order to do so. Are you suggesting somehow that people willing to commit immoral actions to gain wealth are more entitled?
That's not an error then, or, that's not what I'd consider a result, or both.

Compare Rust's https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/str/fn.from_utf8.html

If you've got a buffer full of bytes, which you hope are UTF8 text but maybe aren't, call std::str::from_utf8 and you either get back a string slice with your text in it, or you get a std::str::Utf8Error structure which explains what the problem was in an actionable format. You can write code to process this Utf8Error and your bytes - maybe you're reading blocks of data and it's all valid UTF8 but the last character is continued in the next block for example, you can discern that from Utf8Error and just turn the valid part into UTF8 and keep the rest until the next block is available.
Microsoft has since significantly upped their political spend.

Corporations see laws and bad publicity the same: they spend more money on it to work around them.
Bitcoins biggest innovation is moving transactions off of bitcoin. That tells you all about it's capabilities really.
Why bother with this outdated tech when there are vastly more capable coins out there?
> launder money

means different things in different places

> made illegal

it's already illegal here and there
GarageBand doesn’t come pre installed with a Mac, hasn’t for years; and only came pre installed for a very brief couple years.
Tell computer that you have an education. Get to talk to the human. Prepare a good explanation why the education part is not so straightforward as a computer may think. Some humans will understand.
I can think of a couple of ways. If you use Edge then it could report back using any number of built in telemetry settings (assuming they exist, which I do not know). If you have the setting enabled on your windows machines to share update data then it would be feasible to send additional data with that, although I can admit that both methods would be opening multiple opportunities for M$ to be sued for all sorts of things.
It's also so easy and lazy to just blame "the algorithm" than fixing your broken system.
They are pretty smart, I guess they could reuse the same technology they use to not to take down videos with "correct" views that they agree with?
I have not read Goldstein's book, but multiple reviews by mathematicians said that while she did a careful and sensitive job on the biographical parts of the book, she completely messed up the mathematical parts. It's not that a biography needs to focus on technical details (that's what textbooks are for), but the author should at least understand them before writing about their significance. See Torkel Franzén's book for more about that.
It's not a hard fork, is it?
If you're interested in this kind of thing, also check out the Glamorous Toolkit. It basically is a coding environment where you edit itself as it runs.

https://gtoolkit.com
I'd like to add that I'm highly skeptical you would learn as much while studying and holding a full time job. I knew I would learn a lot but didn't expect to learn so much.

If you want a sense of everything you'd learn from a Math bachelor's you can install Anki and download my database: https://github.com/davidgrenier/AnkiCards

Unfortunately 90% of the cards are in french.
Always resorting to blaming a foreign boogeyman is dangerous thinking. Sometimes you need to accept that there are bad actors within your own country.

For a lot of news programs, the credits are publicly visible and verifiably citizens. The people talking are citizens of your own country. They could care about their country instead of money. They just don’t.
Yes, I've raised kids. Mine were only up maybe 30 minutes every 2-3 hours when born. And there are 16 hours when a mom isn't working to have all those benefits you discussed. And if you can find a study that says there's a discernible difference in childhood outcomes based on those additional 8 hours of contact between a child and mother, I'd love to see it because I can't imagine in all the factors that involve childhood, those 8 hours difference (for a few months) are detectible.
Can't help but shake my head over this incredibly impressive waste of time.
This letter tugs at my heartstrings enough that ideally I would to rant for several paragraphs about the broken US healthcare system and the terrible political parties that make it so, but since that's not what HN is for [1]...

...are there companies or organizations that are trying to solve this sort of situation from the point of view of “We learn all the obscure healthcare laws in each state so each individual patient doesn't have to?” I have heard of Better, and had previously heard of Remedy [2], which seems to have folded [3].

I wonder if the insurance behemoths are just so big that the capitalist response of a competing organization to serve from the patient's side simply doesn't scale up quickly enough. And yet, I hear horrifying stories like this often enough that it seems like it should.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233883

[2] https://getbetter.co/

[3] https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2020/10/29/health-te...
Hopefully this is a big enough misstep that something comes off it. Can't say I'm holding my breath though.
You learn not to give a shit and realize work isn't all there is to life. IOW you develop a more balanced, informed world view. You also learn to not do stupid shit, which saves a lot of effort.
Population of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of?
None.

Anything approaching a "true" doomsday would be absolute hell on Earth and I'd be ready to die. I live with a chronic illness and honestly doubt my medications would be available.

If society did crumble in the way that many fantasize about, I'd be seeing myself out pretty quickly.
You don't need to believe in a foreign boogeyman to believe that American society is fundamentally broken and is thus tearing itself apart. I don't see anything that's happened in the last 10 years that required the involvement of a foreign actor. This stuff was pioneered by guys like Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell, not Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
I'm basing my opinions on those statements made in open court that were subjected to cross-examination, not random social media nonsense, which is pretty much all there was a year ago when you formed this opinion.

The police said the unspent round did not match Kyle's weapon. It does match the ammo in the Glock.

If you have video evidence of another Glock (EDIT: or any other gun using the same ammo) being racked at the scene, please show it. There were claims previously that it came from Kyle's rifle, but it was not a match and this is attested to by the prosecution's own police witness.

I was not able to locate any other claims for where the unspent round came from after several searches. This makes me wonder if you can actually produce the claimed video evidence of another source of the same ammo.
There is no future tense here.

Bitcoin is designed to be fungible - it's digital cash.
I'm not a parent, yet have never made even 90% of what my male peers were paid.
Yes it does, the byte size of transaction processing is smaller, and additionally many more transactions can be batched together when processing happens due to the more efficient algorithm.
Well he did the Kenosha Hat trick Shot a wifebeater, a pedo, and a burglar.

To not make it inflammatory I will use this reference [1]

"For example, yes, at age 19, Rosenbaum was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing five children — all boys between the ages of 9 and 11 — in Arizona’s Pima County in early 2002, according to his case file obtained via a public records request by Snopes."

"Huber, who was 18 years old at the time, threatened his brother and grandmother at their home with a knife, choked the brother, and demanded that they follow his orders."

"Grosskreutz had not committed a felony crime, our analysis of court records showed.

He was, however, found guilty in 2016 of breaking Wisconsin’s law governing the use of dangerous weapons — a misdemeanor offense — per Milwaukee County court records. He had apparently gone somewhere “armed while intoxicated,” though the court records did not elaborate on what exactly had happened. "

The reference was not updated then the court papers have more information.

[1] - https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/11/rittenhouse-victims-r...
Looking at the data from gapminder[1], the USA spends more (typically, several times more) per capita than any other country on healthcare, and receives worse outcomes (in terms of life expectancy) than all other rich countries.

Example: USA $8360/person/year, 78.9 years; Singapore $1730/person/year, 82.8 years.

People who don't have health insurance are often shafted, but even people who do have health insurance are too: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/24/employer-provided-heal...

Healthcare is probably the single most broken part of US society/economy.

[1]: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$bubble$encod...
> ransomwares

this is not even worth looking at compared to other money-related crimes (just new and in media so people are scared)
> In parallel to that, we plan to use Taproot’s new “tapleaf” script versioning scheme to implement Simplicity, our upcoming blockchain programming language.

https://medium.com/blockstream/taproot-activation-enhanced-t...
Independent researches (Microsoft/Mozilla) showed that around 70% of security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety bugs. That's one heck of a "memory safety and stuff" :)

Here's one reference: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s...
Right. Perhaps I should explain this in the readme.

To be clear:

Libbtc is a small bitcoin library meant for everyday things: signing transactions, maintaining an SPV wallet, etc. It's good at what it does, but you wouldn't be able to actually sync and validate an entire blockchain with it.

I suppose picocoin is the most similar to mako, but I think it falls short of being a "full node" in that it doesn't provide a mempool, miner, or RPC (from what I can tell). I'm also not clear on how it is storing UTXOs. It looks incomplete right now, but maybe jgarzik could give more insight on that.

Mako is a _full_ reimplementation of bitcoin. It's an alternative to bitcoin core.
Increasing peak flow from dams is actually great for the environment as flooding is part of the natural ecosystem, this actually doesn’t go far enough to simulate natural variability.

Also, dams don’t operate anywhere close to 100% 24/7, what I am describing is generally closer to a 2x increase in maximum generating capacity than 10x which isn’t free but the value of electricity produced would be vastly high more than making up for these costs.

I don’t get objections like this: There isn't the space for all that. That’s not an inherent limitation, people built these dams in the first place, we can remove them and build a new structure if that’s what it takes. Don’t flood properties downstream is a perfectly reasonable limitation, don’t build any new infrastructure isn’t. 2019 we produced 100x as much solar power as in 2009, change happens.
Would the paperwork disappear? No. But I'd bet it would be a lot less.

My spouse visited a doctor in January 2020, and we recently got yet another Explination of Benefits about that visit, which is probably the 15th time they've sent one. I wish I was exagerating.
That does not mean we ask Joe Blogs what his common sense tells him about highly technical subjects, whether that's effects of sniffing glue, bank interest accrual or image upscaling algorythms
Reporting in with a Samsung E900 with 1GB Micro SD card.
In my very layman view, one loses the "private" status when they become a monopoly. And anyone that knows enough law to be dangerous can point out plenty of technical reasons why Google isn't a monopoly. But everyone knows a monopoly when they see one. And everyone knows when a company has the vertical and horizontal scale to crush competitors before they get out of the gate.
Huh? People are using Twitter to create these events? Who else would you want to process it? It's not a bottleneck to put things through Twitter if people are literally using Twitter
(X-Posted) I dont get still how much optimization was done for the Databricks version Snowflake TPC-DS power run. This is what I am seeing so far (and i am foggy on) -
DB1.Databricks generated the TPC-DS datasets from TPC-DS kit before time started. Databricks starts time then generated all queries. Then Databricks loaded from CSV to Delta format (also some delta tables were partitioned delta tables by date) and also computed statistics. Then all of the queries are executed 1-99 for TPCDS 100TB

SF1. Databricks generated the TPC-DS datasets from TPC-DS kit before time started. Databricks starts time then generated all queries. Then load from S3 to Snowflake tables by - (i'm not sure about these next parts) - creating external stages and then "copy into" statements I guess? Or maybe just using copy into from an s3 bucket, that part doesnt matter much. But its not clear did they also allow target tables to be partitioned/clustering keys at all? Then all of the queries are executed 1-99 for TPCDS 100TB

Its just hard to say exactly what "They were not allowed to apply any optimizations that would require deep understanding of the dataset or queries (as done in the Snowflake pre-baked dataset, with additional clustering columns)" means exactly. Like what does that exactly mean. At a glance though, this looks very impressive for Databricks, but just want to be sure before I submit to an opinion.
SF1. Databricks generated the TPC-DS datasets from TPC-DS kit before time started. Databricks starts time then generated all queries. Then load from S3 to Snowflake tables by - (i'm not sure about these next parts) - creating external stages and then "copy into" statements I guess? Or maybe just using copy into from an s3 bucket, that part doesnt matter much. But its not clear did they also allow target tables to be partitioned/clustering keys at all? Then all of the queries are executed 1-99 for TPCDS 100TB

Its just hard to say exactly what "They were not allowed to apply any optimizations that would require deep understanding of the dataset or queries (as done in the Snowflake pre-baked dataset, with additional clustering columns)" means exactly. Like what does that exactly mean. At a glance though, this looks very impressive for Databricks, but just want to be sure before I submit to an opinion.
That puts a point on why implementors can't stand that sort of business think.

A boss says "I want you to make me more money!"

When you ask "How?"

His answer is "Your job is at stake."
Much like football plays for the hearing, they're probably using numbers, metaphors, and "random" words to describe the plays. No need to come up with their own sign language.
Was it a surprise, or did they know when they went into space that it would happen?
I don't think that Graham hit the mark here. Taste is not the name of the continuum along the bad-to-good axis. Taste is the undefinable nuance that plays out in the good end of that axis.

When some artwork is good, I know that and will defend its value, even if it is not to my taste.
It's funny because I was discussing this just the other day wishing there was a better way to address that fact pattern--a history of biased decisions--without dragging irrelevant and inflammatory stuff into the mix.

Sadly, nobody in that discussion could quite find a good way to reference it without the inflammatory bits at the time.
To be honest, this is exactly what I was looking for :) Thanks!
Other than a flashlight and a Casio watch that runs for a decade electronics would be off my list if I were to worry about doomsday scenarios, which I don’t. That’s just another fantasy land to obsess over. I can survive without a computer or cell phone or the internet. I would be much more concerned about water, food, medicine/first aid. We aren’t really dependent on modern technology. I can imagine continuing to live just fine without any of it.
I took it as an allusion to increases in net worth/total portfolio.
This is an interesting blog post, but one thing I really wish more blog posts would do is compare the actual user experience from the simpler architecture.

For example this new architecture, from the end-users perspective, compared to 2010 Twitter would be interesting. I'm sure much of the technology is needed for monetization, but it would be a fascinating look anyway.
Are you saying we should suppress the truth because we’re worried the woke mob won’t like it?

One solution: Open, transparent justice and cities enforce laws for rioters instead of letting them throw city burning temper tantrums.
I think it is universally accepted that Gödel was a great mathematician who suffered from mental illness. Budiansky's book seems to espouse a romantic but bogus notion that Gödel was a great mathematician because he suffered from mental illness. It doesn't work that way.
Or, "the overseas factory shipped this to me for 3 dollars and the designer couldn't do anything about it".
You need a good initial distribution.

With Bitcoin mining pools it looks like there's just as much centralization (if not more) as with proof of stake.
You're right. Dead or dying features that were bloating up the rest of the codebase, I should say.
Ubuntu 08.04 was already allowing this using empathy...
Maybe if all else is equal, but let's not forget you'd be doing the dithering in javascript, and the JPEG decompression is implemented in a low level language, in practice probably hand written assembly (as performance-critical compression code often is).
> Overcoming censorship is not possible in a PoS system, as the censor has acquired majority stake and cannot be unseated. As such PoS systems are not censorship-resistant and the theory is therefore invalid.

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Proof-o...
It all depends on the scientific evidence in the highest quality large clinical trials. Ivermectin has failed to show benefit, the Pfizer drug has.

>I don’t care if it is effective or not so much as I don’t think news and corporate interest should drive the national opinion.

Even more frightening is that a lot of people who think that don't have the same opinion on things like these that are way worse than anything NBC News does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o

They always focus and nitpick on media that's mostly following the science, and ignore the other side pushing drugs with unsound studies as some kind of magic drugs.

>From what I have heard it seems like looking into it with an unbiased lens may be worth it

And do you really think every country where covid isn't as politicized, like India, Brazil (both of who have extensive experience using ivermectin and HCQ for other users), China, UK, European countries, Canada etc. haven't looked at it with an unbiased lens?

Maybe listen to actual scientists with decades of drug development research experience instead of 'both siding' the conversation?

E.g https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ivermectin-covid-1...
Its placeholder name was originally "libsatoshi", but I was worried that would cause confusion between this project and bitcoin core.

I spent the past few days thinking of names. Mako came to mind because I had recently been playing through the original FF7 (maybe the first time in ~10 years). It's short, memorable, looks cool. It checked all the boxes. On top of that, pretty much every name involving the words "btc", "coin", etc. is already taken when it comes to bitcoin projects.

That said, apparently there is a wayland notifier also named "mako", so I may have to think up a different name here. =/
Not really. C++ is not C, nor faster than C.
e.g. TCO in C++ is awful due to ctor/dtor (could be mitigated by some compiler hints if available).
> people move further from home from work (losing direct family access),

Sounds like personal choices to me
Well for better or worse, our freedom of speech only limits government interference. You and I and every other private citizen is free to say, and to not say, anything they like within an extremely broad range. While private companies may have an ethical requirement to avoid censorship, they don't have a legal one. No matter how big their datacenters, no matter how large their audience, you don't have the fundamental right to force them to rebroadcast your message if they do not wish to. You may dislike or even be disgusted by their decisions, but remember that anyone who has the power to limit Google's freedom has the power to limit yours.
+100 for Glamorous Toolkit. I actually played with it before starting Teliva, and hope to continue using it.

https://github.com/akkartik/gtConwayLife
It absolutely still exists. Here is a chart that shows how regularly it happens.

https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...
> absurd power consumption

lol.