skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusing, the more I think and learned about how modern money works the less I am worried about the idea of bank oligarchy. In fact, things are very obvious, certain events in the past were inevitable. Even more events in the future are inevitable.

For example, we are in what amounts to be a "silent" depression. If we were on a gold standard we would have had a great depression again, instead, our modern money system lets us sustain a mortal wound and let us get away with limping at a snails pace.

What kind of reforms would be necessary to get out of this mess? Ah, yes, the abolishment of the nominal 0% interest rate on cash.

What does the cryptocurrency community do? They double down on massive speculation. They are stuck in the past.

>It’s almost as though these global regulators and banks are hoping for massive systemic risk and failure in crypto,

Nah, the regulators create ineffective rules, the banks game them as systemic risk is highly profitable if there is an even greater entity that bails them out.
I'll probably steal both this:

> It's an unholy fusion of a grey goo coal-powered linked list an anarchocapitalist libertarianism

and your third link :-D
The NFT is supposed to work like a bearer bond. You have to trust the issuing entity to honor it, but beyond that, possession is 10 tenths of the law.

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

IIRC with wine futures you have to either collect your wine or pay for its storage, if you abandon it then at some point (per the contract) it belongs to the winery. At least with wine I think there is a lot of precedent here, there are norms you’d want to fit your crypto doings around.
Excellent works Sanskar, One of the biggest coder in Indian History. Awesome idea
I still use their UI but I just call the hotels directly.

When I can't find anything, I use AirBnB.
> a likelihood approaching zero

People get made redundant all the time, in economies all around the world, with all kinds of worker protections.
For example Nano has 0 fee, sub-second transactions, so no, I'll keep mentioning it.
> There's at least two of these articles a week written by people without a finance background. It's laughable now how completely foolish they sound.

Everyone with a finance background hates crypto. Just like every doctor believes in vaccination. And every scientist believes in climate change. Just because you made money doesn't invalidate their premises.

> Cryptocurrencies, especially NFTs, have a very important use case in these areas.

Name literally one concrete example of a concrete and specific problem better solved by crypto than a classical solution. Just one. I know you can't because if you could you'd be richer than Bezos and Musk combined.
Good for them. The thing is I want a search engine, not a catalogue of web-sites approved by the ministry of truth.
Doesn't this law only apply to businesses? I don't see any reason why companies should have the same level of free speech as individuals.
That logic would forbid, say, US sanctions on Iran, Russia, etc.
How so? Care to elaborate further? Why are you ignoring this valid use-case?

Is it because you know it is relevant?
And a glass of wine everyday is good for your health, and cigarettes make you relaxed and thin, and pot smoking is not addictive, and, and, and...
Isn't Stack Overflow one big FAQ? So arguing FAQs shouldn't exist is like arguing SO shouldn't exist? Nice in theory, but in practice...
> Cryptocurrencies, especially NFTs, have a very important use case in these areas.

Do you have any links for this?
I share your thoughts on Typer[0]. It's a super cool project, but lacking proper hooking points to interact with the `click`[1] lib underneath [2], I am not sure if it would be the best decision to use Typer when we're rewriting our CLI.

[0]: https://github.com/tiangolo/typer/

[1]: https://click.palletsprojects.com/

[2]: https://github.com/tiangolo/typer/issues/77
> So, honest question: why care about the base layer being decentralized if in the end, you choose to trust those companies? What did the decentralization do for you in that interaction?

My trust extended only as far as a single interaction/asset. The rest of my wallet and the assets within are completely unaffected. A company might rip me off, and I might have legal recourse, or I might not. Such is life. We won't ever be able to decentralise away all trust. A single entity isn't able to manipulate all my assets, or print more tokens, or confiscate my money. The network is solid even if all the 'performers' are not.

To build a centralised 'universal API' on which applications can communicate and exchange value is a terrible idea. Who would own it? But such an API is surely a useful technology.

We do need reliable oracles for external data feeds- prices, weather, news... can all feed into contracts for extra utility. This is a hard problem being tackled by ChainLink and others.
Let's write a microblog!

The case against crypto.

Crypto is credit money with zero obligations allowing all participants to walk away without notice.

Modern fiat currency is credit money created in accordance to promised obligations that bind participants over a time period.

Limited supply crypto is trying to be exclusive akin to feudalism, past economic power is strongly entrenched, families can pass their amassed wealth to their heirs while late comers are doomed to have very little economic power.

Unlimited supply fiat is trying to be non exclusive akin to democracy, past economic power means very little and is eroded through inflation, new comers can go to a bank and get newly created money if there isn't enough in the economy.

Fiat currencies are a tool of trade that serve their institutions/governments to increase the efficiency of their real world economy. Militaries protect themselves, the land and its people but not the currency.

Cryptocurrencies do not interact with the real world beyond expending energy, they are bounded by their underlying blockchain. The miners(supposedly equivalent to militaries) only protect the blockchain/currency, they don't even protect themselves let alone the land and its people.

If you want to gamble buy cryptocurrencies, they are better than the casino.
Judging by the thread it was a picture they themselves took and uploaded to Wikipedia. So the whole thing looks to be false.
"If the wildest fantasies of cryptocurrency enthusiasts were to come true, if all the environmental and technical objections were to fall away, the result would be financial capitalism with all the brakes taken off."

This is sensationalism at best, and out right misinformation at it's worst. Come on, the crypto crowd isn't calling for abolishing regulation and creating pure financial anarchy. The general sentiment is we want more transparency so that innovation can continue and "Web3" ideas can take shape.

I agree that we continue to over speculate into bubbles, and many people lose each time. I hope that most people are told and understand the serious risks involved. I'm not naive enough to think this is the case; some people are destined to lose their money and crypto makes it much easier. But the true innovation of blockchain still stands, and that is we've found a way to trust each other through bits instead of people, and that's a damn big deal.

These articles are good to reflect inherit risks to investing, but bad in that they paint an image of the evil crypto doers out to kill off all financial rule. That's not the case.
Apparently this is the statute: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2271.htm
I don't think you have to quantify evil on both sides. It seems pretty reasonable to me that Israel is constantly encroaching on land it legally does not own and is evicting people who have proof of ownership of their houses. It continues to build settlements by force in areas it has not legally been granted, and all of this is leading to a larger and larger Palestinian refugee / diaspora community while Israel continues to push for Jews from other countries to move there and displace legal inhabitants.

This is considered genocide in many other places (think of the Chinese practice of forcibly moving Han Chinese into an area they wish to control, the difference being the unwanted ethnicity isnt turned into stateless refugees).
HN users only see an inferior tech stack, but fail to understand that an inferior tech stack might have Greater Utility for the common people.

HN users earn their living by being the best at what they do and choosing the best tech stack is a part of it, which is why they don’t understand blockchain. It’s an inferior tech stack, but it beats every other stack on game theory, which is not the usual purview of the average developer. Hence they reject it as “inefficient” because they keep looking at it through the prism of tech instead of society.

For society trustless distributed systems are better, but if you keep looking at it from a tech/throughout perspective, you’ll never get it.
He's just saying n=1.

Medical advice on the internet can be n=1, but read enough to get to n=100+, while still limited, can be quite valuable. I can't ask 100 doctors what’s wrong with me, but I can ask my question to hundreds in an online forum. They might lead me astray, but so can a single doctor’s misdiagnosis. A doctor can prescribe treatment that helps or harms, but I can ask a forum of people, with the same problem I have, if I should take his advice. I can't, however, ask 100 of his colleagues or peers if I should trust his advice, and that's why we end up with so many charlatans in medicine. But he's a doctor. Of course you can trust him! I don't know about the rest of you, but I've found a fair number of doctors to be mostly useless.
They support the right to engage in the boycott.

If you prefer, the "Jews for Peace" organization probably employ at least one Jew.
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There is also no central winery exchange system.
Awesome one @sansyrox
To your point it sounds like the law prohibits for the state of Texas to work with companies that choose to boycott Israel. The person's rights are not prohibited but if they choose to take part in those activities then the state of Texas will not work with them.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/09/Texas-anti-boycott-i...

This is not unprecedented among states in the U.S. Many states have banned government work and travel to other states and countries due to policy issues.

https://apnews.com/article/california-florida-lifestyle-trav...
No? Most people who get cancelled have it happened for basically forever no matter what they did or what happened.

Using a random example what is say Quinton Flynn supposed to do get uncancelled?
I believe the author is saying the reverse is true. The larger currency directly correlates and effects the smaller one. In my experience watching the markets, it does seem to hold true. And the smaller currencies are too small to really effect the larger ones.
I always try the hotel’s own website but often the prices are higher. I have previously got cheaper prices by talking directly to the owner or hotel management when deciding to extend my stay.
Oops; I can't edit my post anymore. It went south starting from

> This reduces the equation to

We instead just ignore buttons f and g, and invert the equation

A 1 0 1 1 0 a
B 0 1 0 1 1 b
C = 1 0 1 0 1 c
D 1 1 0 1 1 d
E 0 1 1 1 1 e

to

a 0 1 0 1 0 A
b 1 1 1 0 0 B
c = 0 1 0 0 1 C
d 1 0 0 1 1 D
e 0 0 1 1 1 E

Showing which buttons to press in terms of exclusive-or of wrong lights, e.g. press button a if exactly one of lights B and D is wrong.
For VSCode users:

ctrl+backspace: `printf("World\n");`

ctrl+delete: `printf("Hello \n");`

alt+shift+right, alt+shift+right, delete: `printf();`
And yet, abortions continue to be legal everywhere. It's almost as if, the supreme court is there to just rubber stamp what the elite class of our country already dictates.
> How come I'm not responding faster, merging PRs, fixing issues? For this critical popular project??!

> Meanwhile, sponsorships are at 13% of the (not terribly ambitious) goal of $6k/month

The answer would then be: "because I have to keep another job to pay the bills" then? Hope you can get to your goal ASAP. Going by stupidly quick math, you have 12k stars for gesim alone, and that boils down that if every star on github payed 50 cents you'd already be there. I know that starring doesn't mean anything other than "hey, this looks interesting!", but then again 50 cents is probably cheap enough for a majority of those "stars" that they wouldn't even notice.

Also: thanks for creating and maintaining gensim!
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> The C/C++ ABI is quite uniform across architectures.

How can it be? What about an architecture without conventional registers? And for example I work on an implementation of C/C++ that logically uses the heap for its ABI.
Need to try this framework asap
“ And BDS is modeled after the successful Apartheid boycotts” except that there is no Apartheid is the state of Israel. There is an ongoing conflict and occupation in the Palestinian territories but there is no Apartheid in Israel itself where about a quarter of population is Arab. BDS intentionally squashes two problems into one to draw analogies
Moving up the stack, from hardware to IoT
I worry that this is the endgame; you say "distributed organisation", I say "autonomous cyberweapon".

We're not that far from having a DAO that can bid on zero-days and use them against a list of targets of its choice. If a DAO can make POST requests it can launch exploits. A script kiddie without the kiddie.
And yet everyone knows that those views are absolutely worthless. Who is paying for that? Who thinks this is a good use of their ad budget?
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In the UK they looked at employment first, and some sort of secondary income separately.

> Like most people I've got multiple little incomes and you need to consider them all.

I was also a little skeptical about your usage of most here, but wasn't sure if that was because I am in a bubble. For the UK it looks like about 4% of people are in second jobs. Do you think this differs where you are?

- Workers with second jobs UK: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
- Number of workers UK: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
Amazing! Great job.
I'd probably bet that most criminals just use standard money rather than crypto
Also the fact that shell IF condition is backwards from other programming languages always bugs me

In C we always write `if (func()) handle_error` for the standard 0=success convention, and reading shell IFs is mentally straining
The S8 is a high quality NDIR CO2 sensor often used in professional air quality monitors.
> I mean no. If there is an error you should figure out what the problem is first.

Figuring out what the problem is may take time. If a problem is impacting a customer’s experience, I’d rather recover faster and then pull metadata later to try and understand the issue.
AWS DynamoDB Streams Filtering in Serverless Framework
[disclaimer: I'm the author]

DynamoDB Streams Filtering in Serverless Framework - shows how to use the recently released functionality of events filtering in DynamoDB Streams & Lambda functions.

Depending on your read/write volume in DynamoDB, you can save a little or a lot, by not starting Lambda functions when events are not relevant for your business logic.
It definitely feels like we're talking past each other. I keep telling you why people think it's a bad idea, and you keep showing that you're allowed to do it anyway. We know. That's the difference between impossible and a bad idea.
Try cleaning the speaker with distilled water and the speaker cleaning feature that pumps the water out of the watch.
There are also (desktoptop) microCT machines, which can work with much smaller samples and produce images with much higher resolution.
I have the pleasure to work with three such machines, and we routinely scan samples with a size smaller than a centimeter and with a voxel size well below 10 µm.

Here's a small (500 kb) movie of a staircase snail which I recently scanned: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/73241/download/suppl/31/
This specimen is only 2.6 mm small.
Why not use Ansible?
Do let me know what you think of it :D
Dmitry Bogatov, a Debian developer, famously spent time in jail for running a Tor exit node a few years back.
Same can be said for any startup, market or business.

Technology is not what makes Uber, Airbnb, Booking.
Yes but potentially without a bunch of people and software to prevent you from going to jail.
> One does not forfeit freedom of (dis)association through mere inertia; one retains the right to make exceptions or to change one's mind.

We are not talking about a person, we are talking about a corporation. While there is certainly a value to freedom of disassociation for large corporations, I see no reason that freedom is not bounded by the right to have access to services that are available to the general public. We don't allow service to be terminated to people of a protected class, we don't allow service to be terminated explicitly to interference with your ability to compete.

> nationalizing a private service by imposing its own terms.

Regulating a business is not the same thing as nationalizing it. Trying to conflate such terms is not debating in good faith. Please try to think outside of your black and white partisan rhetoric and participate in a real discussion.

There is value, to Google, in those expectations being possible. Those expectations encourage people to do business with Google and trust Google with their data. Similar to the value of a stable currency or an incorrupt judicial system, these are expectations that enable the flow of commerce to the benefit of all. Creating a government run AppStore or YouTube fails to accomplish those goals and does nothing to enable commerce.

There is value in free enterprise and not restricting people's ability to find new ways to solve problems. That does not mean that large corporations have the right to treat people disposably. If we don't let ourselves get trapped in ideologically rigid thought we can find a way to balance these needs and rights in a fair way.

I would also note that these large companies don't actually want to terminate service to the users who would win on appeal. It is just that these companies don't want to pay to process appeals for spammers and fraudsters. Creating a system of fair and properly incentivized account adjudication could improve things for everyone.
I've gone through a couple and finally settled. I can't imagine the same setup would work for everybody.

I really like the big space between the keys older keyboard used to have. I don't like a lot of flatter Logitech keyboards because if you don't push straight down, the key doesn't press. I think this is most of the "productivity increase", to be honest. I miss less because the keys are farther apart more than they go click click.

I am not a super fan of RGB, but if you're always in the dark it helps you find your keyboard. A mouse is different because you can just swipe your arm around.

Das Pro 4 w MX Cherry Blues - clicky (read: loud), feels good, survived baby puke with no problems after cleanup. Even with a headset on I found I needed to type quietly or it would attract attention in meetings.

Corsair STRAFE RGB w Cherry Reds - silent and linear, and linear means no pressure is needed to activate the switch. I don't know if I would have liked this as the first one, but only needing the gentlest touch to type really helps.

Right now I use a Dreevo Calibur V2 w/ Outemu Red switches. Feels much the same as the same as the Corsair at less than half the price. It's basically a mechanical laptop keyboard layout wise, and I've learned to appreciate the keys not being so far away from my mouse. Frees up a ton of space on the desk too.
Perhaps you have not been keeping up with recent events such as the Texas Heartbeat Act 2021 [1], which makes most cases of abortion illegal in Texas.

There are further policies planned in a similar vein.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act
Leeds Hackspace built a 3 meter sized cube a few years ago for Leeds Light Night (which then made it to a few events around the country); though we stuck with 8x8x8 resolution. We had it playing some pre-made patterns as well as some interactive games (draw on the cube by drawing on a phone, play snake etc...)

It was a lot of fun, but even with the 8x resolution there were thousands of solder joints to deal with. We also had it wired in a daisy chain (power and data) which was easier to do, but makes it a bit christmas-lights when it comes to finding a problem.

As far as I know all the software and hardware was open sourced, and there's a pygame and an html based emulator too, for testing patterns.

https://github.com/pbrook/lightcube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-1SvWIQTo (yup, that's disposable plastic cups acting as diffusers).

https://wiki.leedshackspace.org.uk/wiki/LED_Cubes

I have to say, after seeing the 3456 cube in the main article, I feel ours pales in comparison.
Banks don't have to back the dollar by anything anymore.
I agree. It would be very disappointing for this article to be flagged as off-topic. I think it is extremely relevant and I am glad we are discussing it openly.
It gets worse. The vaccine mandates really put a spotlight on this. The politicians know a law mandating a vaccine is a non-starter so they delegate to private industry and encourage corporate policy like either get a shot or be fired, your “choice”. Very clever in an evil sort of way.
When is erectile disfunction the result of too much low level body wide disease aka aging, and the histamines are being used by the white blood cells to move through tissue OR not enough histidine in your diet, one of the quickest amino acids into your muscles (it goes straight through the portal shunt) that happens to be a precursor for histamine, and 60mg of histamine will give you a spontaneous erection! Ergo take copious amounts of histidine and get spontaneous erections that you cant control, as if you were going through puberty.