skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm talking about a bank account not holding physical bills

Trusting the regulated bank isn't that far from trusting the monetary authority that gives paper bills value. Or, for that matter, for the 99% of people who have not verified Bitcoin's math and have not inspected the code running on the servers they buy Bitcoin through, trusting the techies who pitch the product.
> I think you missed my point. I'm saying that holding Tim Cook accountable for this case is like sending the CEO of the Clorox Company to jail because someone put bleach in their girlfriend's drink.

No, not at all. If Apple/Google/Facebook/Clorox "agree to pay a fine to settle a case" then the officers and directors of the company go to prison, not because they are sharedholders of the company - but because they are officers or directors of the company.

So if for whatever reason, Apple agrees to pay a fine and change practices or whatever else regarding AirTags, then Cook should go to jail, not because Cook is a shareholder of Apple but because he is the CEO of Apple.

If Uber agrees to settle, pay a fine/change practices, then Dara should go to jail, not because he is a shareholder of Uber but because he is a CEO of Uber.

If Clorox company agrees to pay a fine/change practices, then the CEO of Cholorox should go to jail, not because he is a shareholder of Clorox but because he is the CEO.
Apparently people are willing to risk that and not child abuse. They probably mistakenly see it as less of a risk as well.
It's about increasing the available labor market
It's an interesting idea but the pessimist in me just sees this as incentivizing under-diagnosing, running fewer tests, etc.
Oh look, another weekly crypto hating thread on HN
Are you making an honest attempt to be civil if you're also stating the "guy is full of shit"? I asked for evidence too, but civility and calling someone full of shit in the same thread?
> How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really?

Probably depends upon how many servers you need. We colocate around 2 dozen servers and between things like updates, maintenance, and hardware, we average maybe 1 work day per month managing them.

By far our most common failure is just hard drives. We have a box of spares. Our second most common is motherboard failures - popped capacitors - from servers that are 10+ years old.

Last time anything failed was about 9 months ago. Before then we went a few years without a single hardware failure. But back in the 00's we got a bad batch of power supplies that hand a tendency to catch fire - those were interesting times.

The colo center is just a 5 minute drive from our office. And there's remote hands for simple things.
> no one-person gets to define "the" problem

Well of course, this is not a dictatorship and I'm not a dictator. I'm stating my opinion on a forum.

In the same way flat-Earthers have no place teaching astronomy, someone who believes the pay gap is women getting paid less for the same work has no place teaching sociology. That is intolerant, but so it should be.

Gatekeeping is inevitable and necessary, the problem is that the wrong people currently hold the keys. You can find yourself locked out for stating that the wage gap is one side of a compromise, or that men get harsher criminal punishments (for the same crimes), or that female-perpetrated sexual abuse has been grossly undercounted (my personal grievance). If we want to confront these issues, then the existing gatekeepers need to be replaced, not tolerated.
It's hard to tell wash trading from legitimate trading.

Because I'm involved with a committee on financial semantics I wound up learning a bit about swap trading. For stocks if you don't like your long or short position you can buy or sell and it is done.

In the case of swaps if you don't like your position you write another swap contract that is the opposite of the one you don't like. Both are on the books. In the 2008 crisis the size of outstanding swap liabilities dwarfed the real economy, but when you added them all up they mostly canceled out, both in the aggregate and for almost all of the market participants.

Looking at a situation like that which is hard to unravel people are going to make assumptions about the motives and ethics of the participants which are not substantiated.
> The chair came up with an absolutely idiotic idea (just using "it's time for a billionaire's tax"

> If you want one-percenters to pay more taxes, be mad at tax law, not those individuals
Someone downloaded all the NFTs and reuploaded on torrent
If I already have, lets say a 100MB pack file containing (say) 200 builds of clang and then I import the 201st build into that pack file - is it possible to send across a small delta of this new, updated pack file to someone else who already had the older pack file (with 200 builds) such that they can apply the delta to the old pack and get the new pack containing 201 builds?
The CFTC does have some jurisdiction.

Coinbase: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

Kraken: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8433-21
Bringing up that jack in the box joke is pretty rediculous, and I'm no fan of Elon. There's plenty to criticize without reaching that hard.
Because there are other countries around the world? The largest exchange in cryptocurrency trading volume is Binance, which is headquartered in Cayman Islands. Not sure why this question is even asked, cryptocurrencies are largely created in response to regulations and restrictions.
> Helping move away from petro-powered transportation is a huge incentive for a lot of people.

If somebody was serious about this as their primary motivator, they'd buy a much more reliable / affordable vehicle like the Bolt or Leaf.
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It's not a "scam" if people buy it and it works. There is the cost to design such a thing. It's not free. The unit price was high. The rest are knock-offs who didn't have to pay for R&D.

Then you can make and sell your very own one using their effort.
How to Fit a Bigger Model and Train It Faster
> There was a period of time about 5 or so years ago where you could pay with Bitcoin almost anywhere.

I do not recall this time at all.
Why couldn't you just have a SQL DB where you store the ownership of these assets though? There's no reason to use an NFT - it's overkill.
Retroactive sales have long been the way most art (and most stuff in general) is funded. Art is made and then sold, then the artist can keep making things. Someone makes them then sells them then they can keep making more. There is also the smaller market of commissioned work, which is popular in illustration and graphic design, but not so much in fine arts as it strips agency from the artist (you are asking them to make a particular thing). Alongside that there is funding applications via arts councils and crowdfunding, the closest for that would be projects on https://mirror.xyz/

Here is a crowdfund for a musician who is releasing records on catalog: https://haleek.mirror.xyz/crowdfunds/0x8B38a9cbabC067ddEA968...

Also as he was mentioned before, here is the crowdfund for the documentary about Stuart Brand too that played with these ideas of free/expensive/public/private https://weareasgods.mirror.xyz/crowdfunds/0x69DdE2e4d81720AE...
You don't even need to detect it. Name a single instance in human history where an unregulated and unaccountable industry didn't instantly degenerate into fraud. "2.5T" "dollars" (majority held by early insiders) is an incredible moral hazard
Then doctors filter what patients they take to guarantee these good outcomes. This is already done by some surgeons. Surgery is already a subset of medicine heavily judged on outcomes.
> when you track it back to a random Russian cybercrime group what can you do with that information?

Having solid evidence of state-sponsored (or egregiously tolerated) criminal attacks on Americans is the first step to building will to launch (cyber) counterattacks, or at least credibly threatening them.
Apart from the humanitarian catastrophe, does anyone else feel vexed, at the enormous resources and man-hours lost because of the bombing campaigns in conflicts? One could argue, that efforts towards achieving inter-national harmony is also vital in reducing humanity's carbon footprint.
The plan was to form an LLC. Some states have created rulings specifically for LLCs to be driven by DAOs (I forget which states - Oregon maybe?).

I'm completely unsure how you structure legal ownership of an LLC vs crypto ownership of a DAO, but I do know that an LLC's bylaws can bind the officers to the decisions of a voting body, and that's what the DAO would do.
I walk at least two miles a day outside, every day, and have for years. I'm in the middle of a bout of depression, and I was having a very hard time focusing on work while at work. I've been microdosing for two weeks now, and I've noticed a huge increase in my productivity at work, as well as my general mood. I guess what I'm trying to say is that regular exercise/nature can only get me so far, and even a ridiculously small improvement from psilocybin has been a game changer to me. So, why not both?
Elon has gotten less mature as he’s gotten richer.

Becoming the richest person in the world seems to have affected him almost like dementia.
> The draft is very low on most people's protest agenda because it's a coercive thing. Very few people will argue for more coercion, and especially not towards violence.

But this is pretty much the same reason that we don’t see outcry about the lack of women working on garbage trucks: it’s not a desirable thing.
> but in the words of satoshi “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

This quote is funny, because the technology and cryptography is pretty understandable and doesn't require faith. What I have a qualm with is the economics. And the problem with the economics is that it's not value neutral. Sure, we could have a system where signed hyperlinks to jpegs have value, but do we want that? Who does such a system benefit? Are the incentives of such a system aligned with continued human prosperity?

Edit:
> there is no scarcity of information in NFTs.

This is contradicted by the hype around NFT gaming and "pay to earn". Every NFT gaming proposal I've seen seems geared around using NFTs to enforce artificial scarcity of digital items.
That's kinda the point. The "collector" can feel like they own it -- using an idiosyncratic new definition of ownership that you don't really have to agree with but other collectors/speculators/crypto peoplke also feel is real. The artist gets paid (kinda rare for art, much less digital art), everyone else can enjoy their artistic output. System working as designed.
But Nvidia and Netflix too, right?

TA MMAANN?
It's also a large amount of psychological projection and intra elite jockeying.

Naval hit the nail on the head here: `The whole Social Justice Warrior-ing trend seems like a case of white-on-white violence.`

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1132170896817266688
This doesn’t help me identify the bright red orb that I saw weave in and out of buildings at breakneck speed through the Chicago skyline at 3am. It was also seen by my friend as we were out on the balcony looking at the city. And no, it was not an emergency vehicle, it went from one side of the city to the other in a few seconds and also changed altitude drastically multiple times as it made its way around building. The light was also solid, like it was emoting it’s one light, not a reflection and it was very bright. It looked like a futuristic rollercoaster ride. This was over a decade ago, around the time of the famous O’hare ufo sighting.
Then you don't understand digital logic or how processors are designed, single cycle or pipelined.
Sure, although not part of the period covered by this paper:

> Our data cover the period from 00:00 July 09th, 2019 (when TokenInsight started to collect transaction information from these exchanges) to 23:59 November 03rd, 2019 (the time we wrote the first draft).
Isn't that the point of companies like Toptal?
"Debian is a platform for analyzing, processing, and visualizing bits..."
If someone wants to know more about why such a situation would eventually result in a collision, look for the term "Constant bearing, decreasing range", e.g. in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bearing,_decreasing_r...
The pace of which Elon & the SpaceX team continues to prototype and develop the Starship is beyond mind boggling to me — especially in contrast to the complete waste of taxpayer money that is the SLS.

Yet again another example that the government is unbelievably inefficient and an incompetent manager of our taxes/public funds.
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You can't do it without putting significant capital at risk since you also have to supply the other side of the pair. If there is no organic demand for your memecoin, people will be happy to dump it and take your ETH.
A woman is interested in computers and gains skills in that area, then tries to get a job in the field. People making hiring decisions like their boys-club culture (maybe even subconsciously) so the woman doesn't get hired even though equivalently qualified, and somehow thinks or figures out that this is somewhat due to herself being a woman.

Then the woman makes actions to fix this for herself and future women.
Benford's Law requires that the numbers being analyzed typically occur over a wide distribution spanning orders of magnitude, which typically doesn't happen in trading (except over very long time periods).
What is your HN content consumption strategy?
Maybe this sentence sounds familiar for you as well: "I have loads of bookmarked HN links."

Whenever I find time - this is my default productive procrastination action - I organize them even better or I start reading the content then reading all the comments. This process has few subsequent steps:
- if new links, book references, etc. appear in the comments, I quickly skim them and, of course, add them to the bookmarks queue
- I extract the main ideas from the article as well as all the info I want to retain from the comments and add them to a dedicated page in my personal Wiki (say it is an article about Productivity, I add all the new info in my Productivity wiki page if I have one, or create one if not
- sometimes I create ANKI cards using the content, but not so often as creating good cards takes a lot of time (and this is actually the step I think has the most value out of the entire process)

Now the problem with all this is that is life consuming. I can't do it properly and scale, I have many interests, therefore many bookmarks that keep piling up. I run a mid-size software development studio, have a newborn and have been diagnosed with ADHD, so all these being very impactful in my schedule, leading only to more bookmarks and frustration. I can't convince myself to just delete all the bookmarks and unchain myself, although I thought about it few dozen times.

I am looking for your practical / mental / emotional approach on consuming HN as a source of inspiration for tampering with my own behavior.

Thank you!
This is exactly right, in fact if you think about tax breaks on losses it can actually make a lot of sense to sell yourself the same asset at a loss. In the case of crypto you probably wouldn't sell an NFT at a loss, but a coin would definitely make sense to sell to yourself at a loss.
Ask HN: What technology is on your 'to watch' list in 2021?
Huh. What if 2 people decide to do it?
A proven fact that will be denied in most social justice conversations.
The simplistic version of the premise is more like: women are under-represented in occupations which have more money and/or power, and also within the more senior positions of all occupations (which also tend to correlate with more money and/or power), which must be because they are either discriminated against when seeking those positions, or because they are discouraged from seeking those positions by an expectation of discrimination.
The creator of Bitcoin is most likely Hal Finney, who died in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...
I’m just curious, why are you going through that effort just to make it look like a different IDE? What are you gaining exactly from that?
We already had pateron, github sponsors, etc. for that with significantly less complication and barely any scams.
The obsession with trading and how much fraud there is in the crypto space (enormous amounts) is distracting from the people building useful things - for both the common folk and us technical.

Look for the builders. You’ll see something special.
I can get a super zoomed in high-res version of the Mona Lisa, print it out with the highest quality, and mount it on my wall, but I don't own the Mona Lisa.
You're just parroting an old wive's tale designed to warn children away from drugs, despite being complete fiction.
| But I don't have any mental or childhood issues

found the replicant
And the human mind's ability to then use said "insight" to demean others, is also unfortunately ubiquitous.
Yea when you have tons of python packages to install, VS code containers become real nice. I was new to VS code containers and had a issue trying to debug python inside of it. I wrote an article for anyone who might be having the same issue. https://python.plainenglish.io/python-debugging-within-visua...
Yes, it is a completely contrived marketplace based on bragging rights. It seems to work, but it is incredibly stupid and eventually people will move on.
I think what Stephen misses in his campaign against crypto is that the old ideals have already been coopted and smothered with the corporatization of the web and splintering of what was a decentralized ecosystem into a megacorp walled gardens. I know there's a tiny community of non-crypto decentralized web advocates and I hope they win. But, the main force for a return to decentralization is in crypto and the only realistic alternative to a web3 future is one where everything is a property of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, &c
1. Digital ownership of a token. Digital assets can still be copied and distributed. Notions of ownership and title in digital are still inherently problematic.
2. This is probably not a feature society needs.
3. Possibly good? I'd say instead of "low trust" being the feature, "no natural owner of the database" describes the supply chain situation better.
4. maybe. USD, Gold, Etc have historically been good at this.
Noone will buy a mobile phone with a battery life of a M1 lineup laptop. Pixel 4 got trashed on reviews for having the double battery life of those.
You can on any tablet that supports webassembly:

https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/ind...
It all starts with the dubious (to say the least) premise that men and women are exactly the same. Both sexes on average want the same things, like the same things, are interested in the same things, and have the same priorities and proclivities.

Therefore, in a just world, we'd see an exact 50/50 ratio of men and women in every possible occupation, because there are no differences between men and women, therefore the only possible explanation for non-parity anywhere is because some kind of "systemic" factor is unfairly preventing one of the sexes from achieving the career results that they obviously want.

And if men and women don't want the same things on average, then that itself is a symptom of some kind of systemic problem. Because biology plays no role in human psychology; we're the only species in the animal kingdom to come into this world with no pre-programming and absolutely everything that we do is the result of cultural conditioning. So men and women could be exactly the same if only more parents would let their sons play with Barbie and their daughters play with GI Joe.
That's interesting, how do the contractors and the agency find each other?

I'm loosely based in Berlin but there it seems like an even more "BYO Connections" arrangement than in the US, at least if you want to make real money.
I’ve never seen an ass-show that wasn’t weird.
The first one I get. People distrust the combination of men and children. For whatever reason. The second one I don't get?
You're setting up a lot of strawmen: I don't think we should blow up securities laws or buy all the politicians. And this project was far from a scam or a pyramid scheme: the core members were known, had good reputations and stated their intentions around community governance.

Each person putting $ in should decide whether that's good enough for them. Totally fair. But I wouldn't wish for failure of the whole approach. We had a group of young ambitious people getting folks excited and organized, raising lots of money for collective action to achieve something. They raised > 2x as much as the biggest kickstarter ever.

The shift in the balance of power towards individuals is empowering. That empowerment can be used for good or bad, but on balance I'd rather live in a world where people are more empowered.
It's been a little while since I used it, but I remember Canvas having a relatively nice UI compared to Blackboard, back when I did. Has it fallen behind? What strikes you as archaic in its design? What's nice about Blackboard these days?
If users care about battery life, give them tools to analyse what's eating it, but handcuff it so they don't hurt themselves. That way users who care about freedom will have it, and users who care about battery life above all will just block the permission to run in the background.

But that doesn't align with Google's interests, so it will never happen, unless they are forced to.
I look forward to seeing more methods sections which have a step that involves launching things into orbit. I bet that at some point the exact type of rocket that is used will cause variable results due to differences in the vibrational modes modifying payloads so that their behavior changes.
It’s pretty common to have two different IDEs open on the same project. For example QT developers will often have the QT creator as well as VS code open. Developers on Apple‘s platforms almost always keep Xcode open, while they may also have another IDE open alongside it that allows them to work in the project with greater productivity, but still build and profile and do other things that are only available in Xcode.
Bitcoin was indeed founded by libertarians who believed the loss of the gold standard was the beginning of the end of western civilisation.

It’s a weird belief but - what if they’re right ? What if it did cause a lot of the problems ? Maybe not directly, but by freeing the state from a boundary-setting limiter it somehow corrupted it?

I don’t know the answer but Bitcoin is a bet that it did cause problems. And so far it’s a winning bet.
tl;dr it's fentanyl

Isn't it old news that drug suppliers have been substituting cheap and available fentanyl for other drugs?
The best rebuttal would be if someone would actually just carry a sword(not to mention about getting in proper medieval outfit of a fighter) on those circular stairs and then when resting and catching breath thought about advantages of sword fights on STEEP staircases, regardless of their direction...
Thank you, missed that when skimming.
I worked for a while at web design/software dev shops that had a business model of "we charge $200 an hour to the client and pay somebody $70 an hour to do the work." It's not as bad a grift as it sounds because the firm adds project management, tends to give some rework for free, and have to pay for sales and marketing out of it. (Some of the the project management is a real addition, but some is garbling of communications like the "telephone" game. If you could eliminate that and some principal-agent problems they wouldn't have to do so much rework!)

I've done that both as a regular employee and as a consultant. Is that what you're talking about?

I've done other consulting jobs that were much better paid and specialized, things that very people could or would do. I'd like to have an agent for that!