skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people here are saying the problem is open borders, we need to control immigration, and sure, I agree. But this seems to miss the point of the piece: at the moment we're trying to control immigration by outsourcing the job to very poor, very unstable neighbouring countries. This leads to horrible cruelty and human rights violations. (Did anyone else see the graphic of bed space in the prison and think of the layout of an 18th century slave ship?)

We need a way to solve this very difficult problem which doesn't absolutely violate the most basic decencies that Europe has prided itself on since the Enlightenment.
sorry, meant to say 1200 B.C. - 1100 B.C., not 2000 B.C. (or B.C.E. if you like.)
old.twitter.com, I hope.
Holds true as long as "cryptofans buy up new coins". But eventually, they won't. For these types of get-rich-quick gamblers, they usually shift their money around to the next thing, but an equal amount of them lose their money as well.

Those that invest in Bitcoin tend to be more conservative, and are more willing to hold their coins and use it as a long term investment/store of value. They aren't easily convinced a new coin can replace Bitcoin either.
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I mean to be fair, they did have an auditor back in 2018. But the auditor quit before completing their investigation.

Auditors quitting is never a good sign.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/01/27/tether-confirms-...
> This was a time referred to as the "nadir of race relations" in the US,

Its incredible how little people know about the period in American history between the end of Reconstruction and the start of WWII beyond just: "WWI", "Market Crash", "Great Depression".

Following one theme: Nadir of race relations, Red Summer of 1919, and Great Migration (one of the largest movements of people in history).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relatio...

It makes it so much more difficult to have an objective discussion about the past simply because people are unaware of it, or simply understand it at a very high / hand-wavy level. "Some bad stuff happened then eventually it stopped."
The Post Office doesn't actually deliver to every address. There are hundreds of rural areas where residents get a free PO Box in the nearest town, without the option of home delivery.
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This is 100% because of Futurama.

But we'll ignore that?

Sure it's a funny meme, and I'm happy for memes to become real even at the cost of human lives, 200 million dollar movies also cost a lot of lives.

But I'm not going to pretend I'm stupid just so we as a species can meme off a cartoon show without mentioning it. Own it. It ok it's off Futurama and a lot of people love Futurama and it was originally dystopian. We also love dystopian, probably more for other people though.

FYI Nitschke's The Deliverance Machine has been used legally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_device you could see it at art galleries. Wiki says the British Science Museum has the one that was used on people.
Two kinds of people who read this: 1) Ah, good to know, this will prevent me from making mistakes 2) You're telling me there's _never_ a good reason...? Hmmm...
> This is true for readiness-based IO (which, admittedly, most current async IO loops are using)

Right, so if most async I/O frameworks use readiness-based IO (epoll, kqueue), then the context switch overhead is similar. So then most of the performance arguments for async I/O don't stand. That's where I'm confused :)
Here is one of the primary sources of these type petroleum-substitute materials:

https://elmusa.com/products

Largely resulting from milestones reached during projects like this:

https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/0214897-ag...
> to mask our economic interests

If "our" means the US and it's people as a collective, then it really seems clear that it wasn't in our collective economic interests either. If our means military contractors, then yes they made out very well.
You have no way to quantify the suffering without having been there or at least seen the suffering of someone who has. I don't believe the form of the suffering matters, only the untreatability of whatever is causing the suffering. It has to come down to the person--at what point do they feel the suffering is too much, that whatever remaining life they have isn't worth it. Everyone is going to draw the line at a different place and I don't believe there is a right or wrong.

I dislike not having the doctors involved, though--many people won't know if there's something that can be done or not.
Sad. I like their phones, but will not buy another one from them.
Ask HN: Can governments across the world shutdown Bitcoin nodes?
I couldn't the answer to this anywhere on the nets. Can goverments across the world shutdown Bitcoin nodes in a concerted effort at the protocol or traffic level ?

One possibility is they can outlaw the nodes, making it illegal to run a node with severe consequences.

Other possibility is block at protocol ISP level on massive scale.

Is this possible ?
They get one thousand USD (but I think they need to wait until a 3rd party wants to do the trade). That works right up until the inevitable collapse. Anyone who holds Tether is a fool. That's even dumber than buying an NFT.
I actually do want to hear a playlist in the same order most of the time. I often make playlists so that songs come in an order where I feel they build well on each other. Also it means I build the same expectation for what the upcoming track is as I have when listening to an album.
At the same time if you do nothing then you turn a sprinkle into a roaring river which is equally as hard and expensive to deal with.
That would be a nice PR project! I think you are onto the right idea here. Let's seem what happens after the Christmas.
> the interpersonal problems are overplayed

Agreed. People just love to exaggerate the drama. It's clear that it was there but I think not at the level that people keep claiming it was.
No, they haven't--because it can't be quantified, nor would it do any good if it could be. The patient decides what's too much.
https://github.com/ong/awesome-decentralized-finance

But I'd actually be interested in hearing about ones I don't already know about. That's the thing I'm complaining about. Why is every story about some schmucks who are obviously on their way to jail or bankruptcy court and not any of this kind of stuff?
Actually it turned into the U.S./established capital powers against any inkling of communism and any poor nation that USSR decided to aid.
gotcha. i'm imagining a pretty gnarly regex to return the data after the first colon after the match but only up until the next comma or square bracket or curly bracket. yeah, that's unpleasant.

thankfully, there are tools like jq to help maintain one's sanity
The pitfall is that JSON has zero guarantees for how often line breaks do and don't occur, and is often used to represent hierarchical data. Grepping for 'key: foo', and some liberal use of -A and -B may find you what you're looking for, but grep is simply the wrong tool for that job. (And how do you handle a key with newlines in it?) jq [0] is the right tool, but jq's syntax is it's own, and is harder to use (unless you use it regularly).

[0] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
Immediate cremation would reduce cost. It would also save loved ones from seeing or dealing with the corpse. The blue tinted windows prevent attendees from seeing the body's color change.

My mother died after months of agony from cancer. The mortuary staff came and put the corpse in a black plastic bag and wheeled it out of the house on a stretcher. They used an extremely pungent chemical to disinfect the bed. The chemical smell filled the house. At the funeral, I carefully avoided looking at the corpse. I'm thankful that, in my last memories of her, she was alive and showing me tenderness.

I think she and all of us involved would have been better off if she could have used a machine like this several weeks earlier. We could have said goodbye, she would push the button, and then it would be over.

EDIT: The machine could refrigerate/freeze/preserve the corpse for ceremonies, until burial/cremation.

For burial, the pod could be in two parts, the top part is a casket for burial and the bottom part holds the gas delivery system and refrigerator. They could disconnect and bury the casket without ever opening it. This would eliminate the expensive embalming process. It would also reduce the risk of disease transmission from handling the corpse.

This could be useful for regular anticipated deaths, too. The patient could spend their last week or so in the pod bed. What would be the psychological impact of that on the patient and the loved ones? I think it could be a positive impact for most people.
> AirPods are a niche Apple product

Have you walked around a city at any point in the last 2 years? AirPods are not niche.

And iPads are a huge success, about the only actual decent tablet out there. You see them _all over_, the jury is not out unless we move the goalposts so that it’s not successful until it replaces laptops.
Internet is already decentralized

TCP/IP doesn't care who you are and where you come from

blockchains solve problems like "how can we order all our transactions and write them on this global immutable, append only log, so that anybody can see them?"

a problem I never had, honestly.
Well, then any LP funds in the contract are in jeopardy, as are any transfers to the contract. That's a lot less painful than all users of the exchange getting robbed.

So the theoretical "bug bounty" is way lower on a decentralized exchange. Decentralized exchanges have a smaller attack surface than centralized exchanges, and be publicly & professionally audited. That's why they don't usually get hacked.
> They are used to more infrastructure than a startup can or wants to provide.

I've seen this with ex-Googlers on the software side, and ex-Apple folks from the hardware side who go independent tend to hit it too ("what do you mean our Chinese suppliers are refusing to retool their whole process for us?")
Well, of course, they got out of the smartphone business. The last new model was the W41 released in February, in the Indian market only.
Praise the team for a job well done
Taleb would like to have a word with you.

(Or probably not, he would just call you a Bitidiot for parroting this argument and block you on Twitter)
> It’s just that smoothly is table stakes. Amazon raised the bar so now you have to do it smoothly blazing fast.

Amazon raised the bar. And then they completely failed to meet their own new higher bar.

Amazon will no longer allow you to select the speed of your shipping. Amazon will offer you shipping at whatever speed they feel is appropriate, and if you want faster shipping than that, you can suck it. This is a huge downgrade from the system Prime started out with.

And when Amazon fails to meet the shipping deadline they quoted you, again, you can suck it. This is not infrequent. This despite the fact that the deadline is something they made up.

Between this and Amazon's giving up on offering lower prices than other stores, I tend to prefer ordering from other stores.
I seriously don’t get what companies think they gain by making moves like this.

You’ll catch a bad rep among power-users, and what do you gain which is good enough to counter-act that?

Anyone got any explanation for this kind of behaviour and what kind of (commercial) motivations which are driving it?
Silly wager. Crypto is a wild punt, your wallet is not.

Calm down son, your emotions are getting the better of you.
yes, true, but you can expand the code in (c) until it is big enough to matter. that's just a quantitative issue. (a) and (b) are qualitatively different. the report could be contain a few hundred lines of text and it still would be the same case.
If you're in good enough shape to go parachuting it's unlikely you're in bad enough shape that suicide is a sane answer.
source re usdc?
People would want to get rid of Tether and fast. One way is to buy real money, like Bitcoin.
You can always use owncast in place of YT or Vimeo Live, with a S3-like service it's highly scalable.
> strict deadlines and OKRs

Simply said, that deadlines and OKRs don't account for bus factor.
Not a single legitimate theoretical or experimental economics research paper supports these extreme claims for the effect of a UBI.
I also have some doubts for some specific scenarios:

- Imagine you have a monolith that mostly talks to the database. You have a primary with multiple read replicas. How are you going to take advantage of millions of async tasks if your IO concurrency ends up being caped at a couple of thousand database connections?

- The second question is: even if you can have a million requests on flight do you really want to have such a large blast radius on a single server?
For people who didn't click through - this is because LG no longer make phones and are closing their dev portal.

It's not that new phones will be locked - there will be no new phones.
The major government money systems are tied to the short term expected behavior of major governments.
Aimlessly flying though Dasher can create some pretty plausible new words. It’s worth playing around with if you haven’t seen it. It’s in most Linux package managers.

https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
The title immediately made me go "but Adriano Celentano did this". A staple of my childhood even if I only watched German dubs.
And now, increasingly, the tribe is the message, and each tribe aligns with their own medium.
Same thought... Our trend looks great if we ignore 30% of the data that are massive and significant outliers :/.
Fair enough. I think this is a common misconception -- cryptocurrencies aren't for the "lazy consumer". They're financial plumbing and, especially at the moment, useful for very low level primitives.

To continue with your bar analogy and relate to Stellar, the bar would be unlikely to have any involvement with cryptocurrency. Someone else would build on top of Stellar so that you could pay USD at a Japanese bar and the bar would receive yen.

All of the features exist on Stellar to do that today for far less than a cent in transaction fees, settlement time in minutes, and less carbon impact than a single Facebook data center. The major barriers are all around regulation in the "real world", something that no cryptocurrency is equipped to solve. :)
I've always wanted to write fiction but have always been stumped because my plot ideas all sound lame to me.

Reading this was inspirational.
Fiber itself is cheaper than CAT6 and SFPs are indeed affordable (mainly thanks to the likes of FS.com where I can get for $30 an SMF transceiver that HP sells for over $250 and uses DRM to enforce in even their switches that cost less than the cost of a single transceiver), but switches with more than two (and extremely recently, four) 10G SFP+ ports are still too expensive for my liking (and haven't really yet hit the second-hand market).
Mostly: the concept of a nation.

Afghanistan isn't a nation. And you can't externally force people to believe they're part of a nation.

Either they do, in which case they're willing to accept sacrifices for the greater good of their fellow citizens, or they aren't.
I'll probably buy a few bitcoins at $100 price point then. Just in case it ever grows back.
Nobody will since they're closing up shop - that is why they're doing away with this program. That said it royally sucks that vendors have such control past the first sale and it is one of the reasons I either try to steer away from hardware which is encumbered with this type of restriction or, it that is not feasible, get rid of the restrictions before I ever use the device.
Yeah, what's the motivation for so many people going to these unregulated exchanges when there's so many regulated ones (or at least larger ones, I've never even heard of BitMart)?

Is it to trade coins/tokens that aren't normally listed?
There are many articles describing how crypto can help in this category, from people who lack the proper documentation to open bank accounts to people who live in areas that are too high risk for traditional banks to include them.

Lack of stable internet is going to be an issue for many, but that's a problem that is being worked on by many organizations and I presume will be solved in time.
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A UBI doesn’t necessarily result in inflation. The later is a combination of monetary policy and expectations. UBIs can be paid by means other than printing money.
Many manga are made for the smaller tankobon format, but reading it on a printed page is nicer than an e-ink I've found.

Also there are many options for LCD readers, it's more about how there is only one option for the eink type.
As usual, the trouble with cryptocurrency exchanges is that they mix multiple functions.

* They're an exchange, matching orders.

* They're a retail broker, taking orders from customers and holding funds.

* They're a custody institution, holding both fiat and cryptocurrencies.

* They're banks, lending to others and receiving interest, and borrowing from customers and receiving interest.

* They're traders themselves, for their own account.

Now, in the real world, all of those functions used to be done by separate companies. With "deregulation", there are banks which have brokerage, custody, and trading units, and they do get into trouble. Which is why those are all highly regulated industries with a lot of inspection, required disclosure, and insurance backup.

You'd think the "decentralized finance" people would have figured out a way to separate those functions by now. But no.
As a mathematical object, a proof is a series of derivations from axioms to a conclusion. That is well defined in various systems, can be studied as a branch of mathematics.

In fact, most mathematics isn't done this way (though there's interesting work in the Lean community). Mathematical proof as it is actually done is far messier. Here's the paper that first came to mind (Probabilistic Proofs and Transferability, by Kenny Easwaran), though I'm sure there is a more canonical source: https://ucfc6eb8f695030deb8332de441a.dl.dropboxusercontent.c...

P.S. You're free to adopt a way of speaking in which you say the majority of graduate mathematics textbooks do not involve any proofs, but I think that's a revision of the term.
> However you don't win arguments by arbitrarily definition words or phrases to be what you would like them to be

> the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.

Aren't you taking an arbitrary definition (un-sourced from google/Oxford Language) to win your argument?

Here is Merriam-Webster's

> conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated

Seems like both are acceptable modern-day usages... like other terms a difference between capital vs lowercase might help here like... "republican" vs "Republican", "democrat" vs "Democrat"
Not nowhere, but uncommon: calmly, filmlike, ...
I'll use it if you allow zed-rhythm as well
If a person is on the market for an easy to unlock/root Android phone which you would suggest?
Except Japan, and China, and the USSR, and also Ethiopia and Libya and Algeria and Egypt and India and the Phillipines ......
> (1) a practical cryptocurrency thingy that actually does that without charging me more than the drinks, and

I don't understand why some people are so cash-averse, but the problem you mention seems best suited to cash at the moment, or perhaps one person having a tab and the rest throwing him some cash at the end of the night.

Once Crypto becomes more efficient for this kind of thing (different tech like Algorand, or second layers like Matic) maybe there's a better use case for this kind of smaller problem.

> (2) a reason why it shouldn't just be a service that connects to ACH or another settlement layer.

Privacy seems like an important enough reason.

I don't want the government to know if I choose to go to a gay bar.

I don't want my bank who controls whether or not I get a mortgage to know how much I chose to drink one evening.
They don’t want to pay to upkeep a dev portal for phones they no longer make? They’re probably laying off all the people who would maintain such a thing.
And yet the value keeps going up. I appreciate you people, the constant reminder that so many of you hold these incorrect views really magnifies the sense of "getting in early".
Jq makes life easier. I'd say for complex output, using filters is more readable than using awk to extract random positions of substrings
I'd like humans to get the upgrade that enables empathy and long term thinking.
I feel like when companies withdraw support like this, they should provide a generic unlocked firmware that can be installed so that devices don't become ewaste.
> To be a monopoly, your industry has to matter a lot.

This is not a part of anyone's definition of 'monopoly', ever. Monopoly means dominance in a particular market - nothing more, nothing less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
> Open source means the code is available it doesn’t mean you have the license to use it

No, that's not what the term means. This has cropped up several times before on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25834424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079067
What are the principles of crypto finance?

Who thinks Tether is sustainable?

Tether is just someone with digital Monopoly (game) money basically.
This is a random small exchange that I've never heard of. I don't think a popular exchange hasn't been hacked for years now.
They got out of the smartphone business. That's enough of a motivation I guess.
They do also seem to be willing to or have a culture of taking bets like this that I suspect a lot of the other companies of their size don't - it sounds like they started working on this back in 2015, and I imagine it's been a pretty big investment so far. I'm not an Amazon fan, but not a lot of other companies out there seem to be willing to take bets like that.
This is kind of the article's point though, because there are other federated/decentralized efforts going on outside of blockchains that do solve problems now. Having the potential to solve problems possibly in the future isn't that special, lots of things have the potential to solve problems eventually.

The questions are:

- how long will it take to solve those problems?

- how much effort will it be?

- how likely is it to succeed?

- are there other efforts that are more promising?

- what are the costs/downsides associated?

- etc...

And when you start asking those practical questions about the real world, and not just thinking about "maybe this will be great someday", then cryptocurrencies start to look a lot less attractive.