skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s insane to think that people are ever going to be competent and experienced enough to run their own bank.

It's also insane to think people are competent enough to vote (this was a real argument in the 1700s), and yet here we are. Also insane to think they're competent enough to use guns, or drive cars, or whatever.

I think that, throughout human history, the pattern here is that we'd rather prefer the tyranny of the masses as opposed to the tyranny of the aristocracy. That's why I think crypto is here to stay. It will be pseudo-regulated, but if DraftKings and Eaze/WeedMaps is any indication (who would've thought, just 15 years ago, that sports betting or marijuana would be legal in most US states?), people will have access to these risky financial instruments.
Yes but there’s also real value in developing better technology and encoding transparency and accountability into our financial and social systems. Evil banker men and corrupt authorities do exist and people rightfully want to rebalance the power distribution to mitigate the damage manipulative people can do.
Paynefamilyfinancial.com i want to add a blog/news section and a more permanent/evergreen tips or advice section. Thank you for the design help!
Logistics and operations is the kind of job where no one cares whether you exist when you’re doing well, but everyone’s beating down your door when something breaks.
ah, the classic blind download this script and run, trust us guiz
I don't know it current position in the market as I haven't worked professionally with Solaris for a couple of years, but the trend is on decline and I have trouble to see its role in new establishments, at least Oracle Solaris. One of the frequent use cases was in the finance sector, I believe due to stability, observability and security model among some of the deciding factors.
I still use the open source variant at home (illumos), I find it terrific as a hypervisor.
100% lives in a corrupt state, mafia, or militia.
paypal.com curious to see what you have got there :)
EditGAN: High-Precision Semantic Image Editing
https://edisonos.com
> Is USD real? If so, why?

Because it has an army, a government, and an economy behind it that can enforce a great many things (both good and bad) on people using it. And extracting oil is not the single (and I'd say not even the single biggest) source that makes USD a reality. Besides, USD is not the only currency.

On the other hand, if you buy a physical item with your magical coin and it doesn't arrive, or someone is in a breach of your magical contract, or <a thousand other use cases>, good luck.
From the same genius who created Turing Drawings: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/
Restartable and Non-Restartable Functions for Efficient Character Conversions
Http://Paynefamilyfinancial.com
Especially the Air Force should know better since the people doing the work for flying things are officers...
There are multiple ways one might commit suicide, it is true. But some are more reliable than others; some leave a terrible mess for someone (perhaps a family member) to clean up; some are more painful than others; some may put other people at risk. The worst outcome is when a person tries to kill themselves and ends up alive but in an even worse condition.

For people who don't have religious prohibitions on suicide, having a reliable, simple, low cost, low-pain, low-mess option sounds great to me.
Don’t get me wrong. I only disagree with everything you are saying, nothing more.
On the list of reasons for why we switched away from the gold standard and gold coinage, this is probably not even in the top 10.
meh, there have been multiple occasions where either rollbacks have happened (maker DAO https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-ethereum-reversed-a-50-...)

or exchanges have frozen stolen coins.
The thing we are talking about is verifying that the person is in a mental shape to take the decision to end his life. The word "permission" is an odd choice here.
Ok cool, thanks for engaging and clarifying. You've undone my first impressions :-)

I may take a closer look!
Although he comes dangerously close to making an actual point a few times in his article, he deftly manages to avoid actually doing it.

It seems to boil down to "scientism is not cool" and maybe de Grasse is not really that cool after all.
“Facilities” may be grander language than the reality. I know of one new facility near where I grew up which was a new mall that could never find tenants. It sat vacant for a decade. Amazon leased the whole thing and uses it as a warehouse. The parking lot is filled with their last-mile delivery vans.
That’s somewhat amusing coming from an Air Force officer, as all the pilots are officers.
> One thousand notification prompts, one for each site I visit, is unacceptable.

That's a slippery slope argument. Apple could very well require the PWA to be installed first before allowing it to send notifications, and make the install button non-intrusive.
https://busylifecookery.com/ it's my covid project
OpenBSD.org
How to Reliably Create Your Own Luck
The liability waiver is printed on the back of the lift ticket, and you accept it by virtue of using the ticket.

(I don’t know about the legalities of that as a contract, but it’s how it’s almost always done at ski resorts.)
Spoiler alert:

Deckard is a replicant.
“ There is no panic, no choking feeling. “

I’m amazed the author of the article was able to determine this. May they rest in peace.
These read just as plausibly as "Transient companies selling low quality imported products on Amazon." If perhaps a bit too easily pronounced in English.
Hey DeathArrow.

Very very strange I'm the author of the article and I created this post and got the first few comments then when I reloaded the page it says you posted it and I can't upvote the post like it was my own.

What gives? Do you work for ycombinator or somehing? Or did you post it shortly before me and the mods combined our posts and attributed it to you?
> and I dont understand where this narrative came from

The paranoid might suggest it is coming from Intel's PR team, who might want AWS customers to believe that the savings might not be sustainable.
Indeed. One corrects a mistake, one does not go back and erase it.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/accounting/accounti...
jquizzy.com
Thanks! I guess I'll check back in 5 years and see who was right.
Philogenetic taxonomies may suffer from this, yes. Ontological classification is a different ball game. Any "rational animal" in the universe qualifies as "human".
It's too bad the ~10.5" e-ink display doesn't come in a higher resolution version. They all seem to be the same 1872×1404 227 PPI panel. In comparison an iPad is around 267 PPI and you can get 8" eink ones at 300ppi. My 6.8" kindle at 300ppi seems not quite big enough for comics yet.
That’s because the replacement is teddit.net instead of teddit.com
So you think several cases of unintended death are more important than suffering of all who really want to die?
Cause I can't imagine that percentage of wrong deaths is more than several percents.
> My favorite DFW essay (out of oh so many) is "Tense Present"[3]. I bought the Garner because of it.

Thanks for the recommendation. I laughed out loud at this line:

> He's both a lawyer and a lexicographer (which seems a bit like being both a narcotics dealer and a DEA agent).
Fluidframework.com
There was an article in the NYT literally a few days ago about how Kyiv, Ukraine has become an absolute unregulated wild west of crypto.
Don't knock the Yihua. I've had mine for a few years, replaced the tip a couple times when it gets too scrungy, but it's been adequate for a modest volume of through-hole work (a few keyboards, recapping a couple stereo recievers, etc.)

Temperature control-- even in a rudimentary analogue way-- is a huge win over the $10 pencil irons. It's nice to know when you're up to temperature, and that it's not at a pad-lifting level.

You might also be able to find a local vendor. I tend to be fond of Circuit Specialists (circuitspecialists.com) because, pre-COVID, they were within driving distance so you didn't have to spend postage when you wanted $1.50 worth of LEDs. They're mail-order only right now, but you might have a similar vendor in your town. They have a lot of soldering products, some of which look suspiciously like rebadged Yihua gear.
"Would-be tyrants keep trying until they succeed."

The Bulwark writers are all never-Trump conservatives, I guess what we used to categorize as "movement conservatives", pretty doctrinaire. This article strikes me as an attempt to deal with the consequences of movement conservatism.

But beyond that, what is the Jan 6 insurrectionists' end state? Clearly and unequivocally, the modern USA is economically interdependent, and internationally dependent. Squashing some geographic areas of the US via police or military force would cause extreme economic disruption fairly rapidly. Suppressing zones based on perceived racial prevalence would cause really odd disruptions. For example, ruling eastern city centers militarily would disrupt telecom and internet services - that's where all the cables, fiber optic and electrical, come together and interchanges exist. Sure, a US government could move long-haul terminations and the interchanges to all-white suburbs over the course of 2 or 3 years, but there would be a lot of interruptions of service. I'm sure there's other infrastructures that reside in city centers or areas that aren't "Real America" that would cost time and effort to relocate to safe, "Real America" areas.

But that's just short term, 2-5 year economic effects. The Jan 6 insurrectionists appear to want a very limited set of people in charge, and a small subset of political ideas expressed and implemented. Disallowing dissent or participation by large segments of the population means wasting a lot of human potential, simultaneously generating astronomical amounts of ill will. How would a US dictatorship (or very limited oligarchy) deal with that? We know for a fact that the US needs new tech and innovation to keep going, to get us out of looming crises of consumption and resource limitations. How does a US dictatorship deal with that? Merely commanding innovation to come forth doesn't work.
https://memegenerator.net/instance/67435723/clippy-hi-i-am-c...
> I would prefer no program at all, and just have a waiting period of 14 days to nullify those who insist that all suicidal thoughts are just spur of the moment things

I've not posted about this before, for a variety of reasons:

A close family friend of mine - in his mid 20s - took his own life a week or so before Christmas a couple of years ago.

I was with him and his father in a pub the evening before, he was telling jokes and buying drinks, he was dead a few hours later.

Unfortunately taking your own life doesn't have a cooling-off period :(
Not surprising given the quote "Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics." by General Robert H. Barrow (then Commandant of the Marine Corps)
I find it painful, since I do most of my HN and Reddit from my phone. I write code this way directly from mobile with enough frequency…the main feature I long for is to be able to type code fences with backtick.

Monofaced fonts would be nice, too, so that you could be sure that you’re on the right indentation level as you tap something in.
Rare earth elements aren’t the secret weapon China thinks they are (2019)
I mean I just use Google login everywhere, for better or worse, so that’s not even really an issue.
As well as the associations with [1], this also made me think of one of my favourite essays, "Horsehistory study and the automated discovery of new areas of thought"[2]

[1] https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
[2] https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/16/horsehistory
Funnily enough that was the route I was initially going to go but I got scared because I read that the project is a violation of the ToS and your number _might_ get blocked if you use these third party clients.

That's why I wrote the article on how to do it via SMS with a Pi. I tried to send myself notifications from NodeRed
Curious as to why you see parent as lucky to hold a binary view, if you care to say. I would say holding such a view is unlucky. Perhaps I’m missing something important.
That is just a silly quote/generalization.

As an example: Old age is a permanent, and worsening, problem. Why should one be forced to live to an old age where they are dependent on others, IF they don’t want to?
Whenever someone mentions the age of Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids, it's fun to point out that we have tax records from Sumeria from before either of those.
We know that ayahuasca is brewed in countless variations: each shaman has their own traditional recipe tweaks/amounts, so we know that experimentation happened and is likely ongoing.

The effects of taking an MAOI include “ depression symptoms, such as lethargy, fatigue, unexplained sadness, guilt, and other physical symptoms,” and if those effects can happen after a single dose it’s not too far-fetched to think that B. caapi could have been used as part of a pre-existing ordeal ritual. Then one day someone brewed it up with the DMT-containing plant (or ramped up the dosage high enough after feeling some strange effects at lower doses) and got the surprise of a lifetime.

Finding and consuming toxins was done intentionally in many societies as a rite of passage. The bullet ant ordeal is a well-known version of this. So it’s possible that the psychedelic brew was in fact the accident!
> It’s insane to think that people are ever going to be competent and experienced enough to run their own bank.

Not what happened here. A centralized exchange is the exact opposite of "running your own bank".

> Society needs banks and regulations.

Agreed about the principle, but I can bet we disagree about the scale. A lot of the problems in the past financial crisis are due to banks being "too big to fail" and regulatory capture that makes it basically impossible for small-scale banks to be sustainable. Open Banking and the fintechs that are cropping up are all based on the same idea of "winner-takes-all" dynamics that has been the bane of Big Tech.

> Crypto anarchy is a farce; don’t fall for it.

You are absolutely right. Just like goldbugs, there is this special type of crypto enthusiast that believes that their "money" will be of any use in an apocalyptic world, and simply forget that a world with failed institutions they will probably not even have internet, and even if they did they will lose pretty quickly to rubber-hose "hackers" than anything.

But crypto can be used as a hedge for the many dysfunctional institutions that we have today, and it can be a response to this hyper-globalized world that we live in. It's barely a paragraph on my description of Hub20 [0], but one of the reasons that I am working on it is that I hope that it can be used as a community-oriented bank, where each group of people can define how to operate it and how to manage the funds. I hope to make it something that can be a middle ground between the "welcome to the jungle" and the "resistance is futile" mindsets that seem to polarize the crypto-debate.

[0] https://hub20.io/about
> This guy is free to get a new job and write a new library from scratch, or just tell his new company to do X + Y.

But that’s not what’s the issue at stake here. If I understand the tweet correctly, the code in question was written during the time of employment, though in their spare time. Depending on the exact situation, this could be problematic - for example if internal knowledge of the employer was used or if a profit motive enters the picture (sponsorship for the open source library, as in this case) Both would no longer be an issue if the code was written after employment ends, unless there’s an explicit noncompete in place.
> I don’t think you’ll be well-served carrying this mental bias around.

I didn't mean to pick sides, or suggest anyone picks graviton by default. I meant to comment on how the communication around these new architectures by AWS has shifted, and what - I think - it signals about Intel's current and future market position with AWS.

For reference, my stuff runs on Heroku, I'm clearly not that concerned about price/performance ;)
Focus more on the core classes. Would try to understand the concepts more thoroughly not just to get good grade, but treating courses are things I will use daily at work and if I don't learn it now then I would have to spend more time in the future to learn them. For example, databases and networking.
Vast quantities of gold hold value still in the same way as before, only that it's done by very large organisations. This too is a western phenomenon. Indian Households currently own 25,000 tons of gold( one of the largest reserves anywhere) - China isn't too far behind AFAIR.
Shepherd.com (book discovery)
I know a number of anti-vaxxers who are more on the 'lentil' side of the spectrum. For them it's a fear of 'unnatural' things in their bodies, they're antivax in general.
A ring species is an example of a species complex, and subpopulations with different but not mutually exclusive breeding compatibility are known as microspecies. If populations with distinct morphological features are isolated in space or time but could still interbreed with eachother if they were to be brought into contact, they are subspecies.

This is really just an instance of Sorites paradox. But the inability to draw a precise line between two (or more) states does not mean there aren't two (or more) states.
Google's Ngram Viewer is a wonderful tool for tracking the evolution of concepts such as this.

It does support an early 20th-century origin of the PB&J sandwich, and a rise in prevalence during WWII, though the real climb appears to start in the 1960s, presumably with mass-advertised grocery products.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=peanut+butter+...
I've got plenty of split wood in the shed, but Beat Saber in VR has been great for this same purpose lately. The problem, I find, is stopping when I need to - it's engrossing enough that I have to set a phone alarm, and not only when I need to be back at my desk by a given time.
> hard to mess up

I was under the impression it was in fact not that hard at all to mess up.

Though in fact, seems like other methods are indeed likely “worse” in terms of achieving the intended outcome:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/83...
What's wrong with large doses of optiate painkillers, if you're terminally ill? Addicition isn't a worry, certainly.
I will add more to this. What is really fascinating is the idea 'ai' has been so successfully sold as a solution to just about any problem out there. I am genuinely trying not to just not add 'using novel blockchain protocol for full transparency' ( while naturally keeping all transparency out from the ai blackbox ).

We live in a weird time leg.
This is really good. I've wanted to write something like this forever, because I have hand-coded a lot of little MIDI/sound experiments in the browser. This will definitely be of use to me, both as a learning tool and as a saving-myself-time tool. Great, great project.
I wonder if a completely Wild West really makes for better security… doesn’t seem like it so far.

Probably a good lesson in there about incentives and consequences maybe not always going where you might think.
More downsides I'd say, the point of the FPGA is that you can always replace and update the cores according to what you need any given moment, just "download your game console" essentially. Physically swapping hard ASICs isn't as convenient. :)
I wish this was more of a joke, but this is exactly how the US “justice” system works. You must buy your freedom, or you will suffer a disproportionate and unjust sentence. Remember, they are not courts of “truth” and “justice”; they are Courts of Law.
Oh I see. You're saying that crypto inverts the problem libertarians want to address with the financial system. Which is nifty!

I think you might find libertarians would be split about this... In my case I'm against anything that would throw out the existing system to start over from scratch, I'd rather work from the existing system and tactically remove things when they can't be justified.
>Only tight regulations can save investors because these "hacks" are way too common. and don't even get me started on Tether.

Perhaps regulators have been tardy because they find it difficult to determine what of value was stolen. It may not be clear to them that crypto has value worth protecting by regulation.

That's not to say there is no value in crypto, or that crypto transactions do not deserve being regulated to protect the public. It's simply that regulators may not understand, or believe, that there is value worth regulating. I confess to the same lack of understanding.
yes, that's the point, making the distinction between those two? How is that a loaded statement?
It is also not possible with human doctors, yet it it is widely used for important decisions
Is it so surprising in light of the absolute pummeling brick and mortar got during covid?
Even one vm with your dev env will isolate your personal and production credentials from the dev environment.
I think you jumped the gun trying to predict how this conversation would go

I am asking exclusively about the legal circumstance

And also stop acting confused at every response, this is a normal conversation where someone asks about the context and the other person replies with the answer, I skimmed the tweet thread but the background isn't familiar to me and thats what the point of the conversation is

You are too tuned to expecting an adversarial comment to defend, when thats not the case at all
This is the approach of IncludeOS. You include some headers and a library, compile and you can launch your application as a VM.

There are advantages to an approach like Nanos or OSv in that development is easier and you have better compatibility.
That would be really cool. I might mess around with it around Christmas. If I run into any rough edges around labels (Traefik uses labels like `traefik.enable=true` https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/reference/dynamic-configurati...) I'll submit an issue or PR.
Probably not as many decades of progress as racism and sexism have cost us, eh?
Just wanted to say that I personally really appreciate the setup, workflow and the way you are organized! It looks like you are really caring about building upon open tech both in development and communication. Actually made me very curious.

Same for the choice of dependencies and the documentation in place, was surprised with how easy it was to compile myself. Hadn't had the time to give the program itself a full try yet, but I'm actually looking forward to do try some recordings with it next week.
No I wouldn’t because they aren’t topical to a website devoted to talking about dev and tech. It’s a joke, sensitivity isn’t always a priority, you don’t have to like it.
Can you agree that there's some threshold where the time required to endure the temporary state is untenable?

How can anyone except myself decide what that threshold is?