skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is Wasson’s argument. The idea that it is preGreek comes from this etymology website. https://etymology_el_en.en-academic.com/6991/%CE%9C%CF%85%CC...

“The etymology of Mykenai from mykes, although frequently proposed, was rejected by Krahe (Gnomon 17, 1945, 472). There seems, however, no reason why the city's name is not correctly associated with mykes. The declensional stem of mykes alternates between myket- (third declension) and myke- (first declension); the lack of -t-in Mykenai is therefore not significant. For a city related to a plant, cf. Mekone from the opium poppy mekon. Mykenai, furthermore, is a feminine plural, like Thebes (Thebai) and Athens (Athenai); as in the names of those cities, Mykenai derived from the nymph of the place, Mykene (Homer, Odyssey 2. 120; Hesiod, frg. 246, Merkelbach and West; etc.), the primordial bride whose descent into death there established, or continually re-established, the compact with the chthonic realm upon which union. the living city could be founded. There was also a tradition about an eponymous male founder, Mykeneus, whose father was Sparton, the 'sown man,' apparently an autochthonous inhabitant like the Spartoe at Thebes growing from the land (Acusilaus, frg. 16, Jacoby Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 2. 569 p. 289. 47; cf. scholia to Euripides, Orestes 1239). It is formulaic in foundation myths for the narrative to show a pattern of mediation between two versions of origin, autochthony and in migration; the autochthonous inhabitant quite naturally displays botanic characteristics and the mediation between opposite claimants to the place is effected via the sacred marriage. The name of the city Mykenai, therefore, would suggest that the mykes figured in Mycenaean religion. There was a tradition that at the neighboring city of Corinth, the original inhabitants were mushrooms that Sisyphus converted into men (Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.392-3; cf. Apollodorus 1. 9. 3).”
I'd really, really, like to see a statistical comparison of the differences between and within (fossil) species.

"And the more specimens I study, the more I realize that most of the species designations don’t make sense. If hominin fossils were treated the same way as nonhuman primates, specimens currently lumped into the same group would be allocated to different ones."

Is this because the differences between purported groups is much greater than the differences within groups? Or because there's significant incentives to split groups in order to name more species/families/orders/etc?

The "traditional", extremely simplistic, definition of "species" is a group of critters who do not (normally) (fertilely) interbreed with another group (in the wild). Where there is evidence, Neanderthals and Denisovans, H. sapiens seems to have interbred rather frequently.
I can assure you that I am neither an entrepreneur nor remotely friendly with venture capitalists. But that's just me; I have no idea what other HNers motivations are.
Agreed. Nonsense tulip bulbs! I for one appreciate inflation and the fed printing money. Its for our own good. As with most if not all government entities they have the people’s best interest in mind and refuse to serve a small elite group of friends. I’ll be happy when this whole decentralized thingy ends and goes to zero.
FedEx is so bad now that I avoid buying from sellers that use FedEx for shipping. The last few times I had a FedEx delivery, the delivery status went to pending twice, and the deliveries were a week late. Looking at the Google Maps reviews of the distribution centers where the packages sat, I consider myself lucky to have received the packages at all.
In my old workplace, we had a running joke where at the end of a meeting about using a certain tech stack we brought up blockchain as an option. We laughed, and dispersed. Safe then, and safe now. Blockchain is ancient tech by Internet time, and it still has not been applied to anything useful or practical, despite the constant claim of sky-high promises.
But Hungary and Poland aren't a destination goal for the vast majority of migrants, so they only have to make the route through their countries worse or harder than alternative routes. That's not comparable to the EU as a whole.
The EU has to protect its borders, there's no other option. Not doing so is a political suicide. People here don't want to share their wealth with immigrants and they don't want their mostly homogenous societies being changed by an influx of people with different behavior, culture, religion, language, etc.

But I think there will be an interesting twist - aging of the population. This feels like an abstract problem, but it will become very real.
Every day we draw closer to Children of Men

https://youtu.be/IacY-MYuQQ0

https://youtu.be/QYy80trSPSI
I've heard of this game from older gamers, but have never played it. I wonder if it will work on Windows 10 with a 2000Hz keyboard / mouse, 10K DPI, 3080 and G-Sync 240Hz 4K. It is truly amazing how far we've come with titles like Fortnite and Battlefield from this.
I’m sure you must know of Kykeon, the psychoactive beverage that ancient Greeks drank as part of the initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries. Psychedelic mushrooms are one of the theorized ingredients, but as you say there is no hard evidence of that. However, residue of ergot fungus sclerotia has been found in Kykeon vessels. Another strong candidate is datura (Jimsonweed), based on it’s regional availability and description of the effects of Kykeon.
zee-rhythm
There are actually some interesting tools that are being marketed under the name "blockchain" but have very little to do with Bitcoin. For example IBM's "Kafka with digital signatures" technology.

It's kind of boring, very useful, but by marketing it as "blockchain" they can convince some clueless CEOs that it's worth the extra 0's they're asking for.
Agreed. I thought that was meant as sarcasm at first, but apparently not. I'm shocked that is the top comment.
inflating crypto prices, people end up diversifying into real estate.
I also find it stunningly difficult, however, when I look at Sebastian Lague's channel [0] (no affiliation, just one of the best channels I follow), I feel like this could be a not so stunningly difficult project for him.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ
The article has interesting things to say about Nabakov's "Pale Fire", but perhaps does not stress sufficiently that, like Dick's novels, it is very, very funny (and tragic); if you haven't read it (and others like "Lolita" and "Pnin" and his autobiographical work, "Speak Memory"), you owe it to yourself to do so! At the least, you will have some laughs.
It's a link directly to a PDF. Did your browser save it to a folder? Or maybe there is a popup asking if you want to save or open.
This libertarian argument is somewhat disingenuous. It hides the fact that the whales stand to benefit tremendously. The peons will still be peons.

You're asking for us to vote you into power, and so far all of the evidence says this is a bad thing. Power consumption, no restitution for hacks, pump and dump driving insane swings and pyramid scheme behavior, the emergence of ransomware, NFT artificial scarcity.

KYC and AML are good. Regulations are good. The cowboy wild west without these protections is a nightmare that will lead to increased lawlessness, hacks, and thefts that will harm the poorest among us.

I don't want the thought leaders in crypto being in charge. They've already shown what bad stewards they are by downplaying all of these points and continuing to ignore the problems. They're focusing on what they can gain rather than what others are losing.
The crypto is not lost either, just the value.
The goal is not to have 100% foolproof solution, but one that makes it not worth a try.
The reason you hear people say that this stuff sucks, while not addressing the menace of animal sanctuaries, is big and obvious and reasonable: one of these things has massive externalities on the world and the other has animals in it.
Are you saying it's impossible to keep 3% of the people out?
I find this very depressing.
The case for a four-day work week
I think what I'm saying is that what is called "politically incorrect" is a small slice of the things that will cause society to turn hostile. Moreover, in fact, many things that are "politically incorrect" simply won't result in hostility that effectively suppresses work at all (after all, the two quotes I gave earlier were from the most influential newspaper in the world and the president of what had just become the world's only remaining superpower).

That is, I agree with you that public pressure to conform to political norms is bad for scientific research, but I am arguing that a specific focus on avoiding "political correctness" means that you in fact succumb to a lot of other (present-day) political norms, which is the actual thing that is bad for scientific research.

Taking your tobacco-funding example - you are, of course, correct, that tobacco-funded research is extremely biased. Suppose someone says that this research cannot be taken at face value, and Philip Morris accuses that person of anti-tobacco bias, of succumbing to anti-cigarette political correctness, of conforming to political pressures about how terrible Big Tobacco is. Who do you side with? There are two accusations of bias here; how you do determine which one is correct?

The heuristic "Political correctness is bad" is clearly unhelpful in this scenario; it cannot guide you to the correct decision. If you want a more meaningful principle, you have to look deeper at things. Even your phrasing "conform to the political norms for its time" is a more meaningful phrasing - but then an obvious consequence is that opposition to political correctness was the political norm of the early '90s when the president and the Gray Lady were telling people how bad political correctness was.
I think that changes are happening faster and slower than you imagine.

We are very bad at exponential math. I think changes in birth control, dating online, and social changes are faster than ever before.

The developed world will shrink and people couple up in ways people only 5 decades ago couldn't imagine.

Governments and societies are not ready for this or a system where we need to work less. John Maynard Keynes in Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren opined that, by 2030, the average work week would be around 15 hours (3 hours per work day).
There is a general pattern with Internet commentary where things that are decried as useless or not as good just become the most popular thing. I wonder what it is.

I recall this happening in my time here on HN and Reddit.

- The iPad

- AirPods

- Bitcoin

- Facebook

It’s almost at the point where I think it provides signal that something will be valuable.

My personal hypothesis is that it captures the idea “I think this should not be considered valuable but lots of people around me do think it is” which sort of happens only if that last condition exists.

So any time I read something like this, it means there’s some sort of invisible popularity for some product I don’t know about. Interesting idea.
Actually, seeking an asylum is perfectly legal. What those border countries are doing is illegal.
Some say love makes the world go round. I tend to be skeptical when someone says they are "sure" but offers no evidence to support their claim..
you don't need a blockchain to have decentralized networks
Yup. There are a lot of ways to die that are worse than dying. Why bother with the pod, though? A big plastic bag and a tank of nitrogen can do the same thing.
Yes, but the vast majority of people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide.
Everybody conceives cool things in their minds but the cooler the idea the more it’s a winner take all market

Web1.0 teaches this just by looking at the big tech giants which dominate. There’s space for only one in each of the big tech sub fields. Search - social media -cloud - Desktop OS - phone OS

The ideal is to bet on a trend instead of a company and do so when the rising tide lifts all boats such as Nasdaq 1995-2000 and Bitcoin 2010-2020.

I get what you are saying but in today society there is not only no glory but outright ridicule and financial trouble for people who have a cool project which gets copied by a giant . It ends up in tears .

I wish it was different . I contacted on LinkedIn the guy who put together the first Facebook like social network in 2000. He works for Sony and nobody knows his name
I think I've seen someone make this point before, so to recycle it poorly: a lot of the "cool" technology in the blockchain space looks almost like CS information hazards: things like Merkle trees and SNARKS are just so cool that we engineers get all hot in the pants to try and use them, practicality or performance be damned. I think we're finally starting to see some reasonable spillover from that, thankfully.
Relative scarcity is a necessity for any currency.
Calling it degenerate gambling is uncouth and reeks of classism.
I think the adequately paid tech workers who frequent HN miss something very important that crypto attempts to solve that appeals very much to common people. I say adequately paid because a FAANG salary is more analogous to a skilled factory salary a half century ago, allowing you to buy a house and car and put your children through college, something out of reach for people making the median income.

These are people who aren't stupid and understand that inflation is happening and purchasing power is going down and who realize that their fearless leaders don't actually have an answer to it besides gestures and platitudes. Putting some hope in crypto gives the common man a non-zero chance of his purchasing power going up. Holding regular savings accounts does not. Crypto may or may not be the answer but I see it as a rational bet.
China Seeks First Military Base on Africa's Atlantic Coast – U.S. Intelligence
I keep reading how the web must mean something politically but so far all I see is weakening of spirits and noisy if not dangerous distraction (and mob mentality).

To me less web, and less means imply deeper human investment.
It’s possible, just not worth the effort.
> Or because there's significant incentives to split groups in order to name more species/families/orders/etc?

You can ask yourself why such an incentive wouldn't exist for finding new human species etc. The interesting part here is that humans are treated differently, not whether one is better than the other.
There you go. Post like this are still thinking that Bitcoin / Ethereum represents all cryptocurrencies. These two have proven that it is unsuitable to use for paying for your groceries at the local supermarket. Hence the author of this post mentioning:

> I’m not one of them. But it’s hard enough to get my nonagenarian grandfather to let me pay for dinner with my own payment card; I am not going to try to get him to accept Ethereum.

There are better cryptocurrencies that solves all of this and Stellar is one of them which is also being used for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) [0]

[0] https://resources.stellar.org/stellar-for-cbdcs
> This libertarian argument is somewhat disingenuous.

I'm not really making any argument; in fact, I'm probably leaning towards the "philosopher king" ideal rather than the masses running the show (I mean, just look at how much of a societal disaster social media has been), but it seems to be where we're headed.
"People complain about the weather but nobody does anything about it" ~ anon

"It rained in Seattle today and in other news a crypto exchange was compromised for hundreds of millions of dollars"

It's weird how this keeps happening and a lot of people shrug their shoulders and move on. I don't buy that we're still in the wild west phase of crypto. We've had enough time to figure this out. If I was conspiratorial minded I'd think it was an intentional weakness built into the system.
I don't understand why EU does not fund widespread anti-migration propaganda in those countries. Showing them that it's way more likely that they will lose all of their savings trying to get to EU and ending up in a prison like in this article would certainly turn some of them back.
> Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me

Choose Boring Technology

This article is the problem with IT

Overseas remittance is a huge ongoing fucking issue. Many NGOs want solutions.

A stack of money has been wasted on trying to fix overseas remittance (And many things in the sector) because of people like OP who want easy solutions today.

It's a hard problem that takes time. Helping others isn't handing out soup kitchen food with Cher on Xmas then pissing off.

Bitcoin/blockchain might take years to fix this. Sorry it's not interesting to everyone, but some people genuinely want to help others and do things in the world, and that's boring.
I've been wondering what it would be like to have a team event in Factorio. It's not a popular game in this regard, but I have a feeling if everyone in the team likes games, it could be a great team-building experience since it would be building a factory together.
> P.S. Let the post office do banking too so we can take some wall street's pie as well.

They did that for a while. Wall Street ate the Post Office's pie, rather than the other way around. Which is why the US postal system's banking service shut down.

Which is not to say postal banking is a bad idea, but that perhaps we should be careful with our expectations.
All sorts of quacks still get tenure. There’s always a university willing to accept most heterodox views.

I see regularly comments along those lines on the Internet. I’d like some examples of “unpublishable scientific theories” that are not obviously bunk, as opposed to just controversial. Otherwise it is mostly a convenient bogeyman for bunk mongers.

Also, replicability seems a strange concern for this field. We’re never going to have an Earth Mk2 to test hypotheses.
Walter Bright would be delighted.
So, your claim is that the modern substance called soma is the same thing as the ancient substance called soma. Do you have any evidence that supports this claim?
Not to veer too far off topic but had to take the chance to share Hunter Thompson’s piece he wrote the week after 9/11, which similarly, I’m surprised was published: https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751
vechain had a pragmatic case
Sure, but after reading that PoW is bad for the environment for the 1000th time, what am I supposed to do? It feels like the conversation has stalled.
This article provides some ideas but few for the Macbook. Searching the site may help? https://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/protecting-your-privac...
> A number of recent studies have shown the increasingly detrimental ways that porn affects young people, including that children as young as seven are unintentionally stumbling across it online. A PSHE (personal, social, health and economic) study found that when children viewed porn, 70% frequently saw men portrayed as dominant (compared with 17% frequently seeing women as dominant) and 35% frequently saw “consensual” violence towards women (compared with 9% frequently seeing this towards men).

The text claims to describe how porn affects people, but instead only describes what people saw. I'd expect the Guardian to be above such a rhetorical bait & switch.
They printed another billion just 6 hours ago: https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1467504581571751940

They have become so brazen, that they will just keep printing billions without any audit or insight into their holdings.

Their last attestation published a few days ago (by them, not by any independent firm) raises more questions than answers: https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1466826912781590529

They barely have any backing in actual USD and are very suspect in the commercial paper holdings

They have a CTO who regularly engages in snarky comments when asked about their holdings: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino

They have a CFO who has a very very checkered past: https://www.ft.com/content/4da3060c-8e1a-439f-a1d7-a6a4688ad...

Tether has regularly been sued and settled, never won.

CFTC: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

NYAG: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle...

DOJ: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/tether-ex...

Moreover, they roped in a nation state (El Salvador) to issue bonds that fund El Salvador’s Bitcoin City to be issued on Blockstream’s Liquid Network and processed by iFinex, the controversial company behind Tether.

https://blockworks.co/el-salvador-plans-bitcoin-city-funded-...

To add to that, the SEC denied creation of VanEck’s bitcoin-backed ETF because of risks associated with Tether

https://www.ft.com/content/77bc7296-9bd4-4ea4-bab9-91cee789e...

From the article: "Among the concerns the SEC raised in the disapproval order included possible “wash trading”, when the same institution is on both sides of the trade, generating extra fees for minimal risk; potential price manipulation by whales who dominate bitcoin; and possible “manipulative activity involving the purported ‘stablecoin’ Tether”.

The list keeps going on and on and on...
Its hard to tell. The design of Reddit is heavily favored towards mods. If something happens the mod will simply remove the post(s), squash the reports, and it will all look like nothing ever happened. A single mod can do whatever they want on a subreddit and effectively hide it from other mods. The "hide the mod list" feature prevents users from appealing to other less active mods.

What is considered "politically incorrect" is not universal. Software has plenty of its strong opinions and people whom want to squash opinions. Over time some subreddits get taken over and used for personal benefit. Lots of crypto schemes and people looking to sell things. The bans generally don't happen over technical disagreements, they happen when a mod themselves gets inflammatory with users and users push back.

Simply what I'm saying is reddit is designed against communities, don't get invested. There's useful stuff but underneath it's not any different from boards of old.
> Nonsense tulip bulbs!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
It's apparent to me that cryptocurrencies have plenty of value tied up in them at this point. But the object of the post was to solicit a better understanding of whether they've solved the problems I'm interested in.
Same. I wish I had been more involved in team stuff. Also wish I had at least checked out greek life in college.
It makes people feel good to hear other people confirm their beliefs. We’re all guilty of it, we just have to not let it fully blind us.

I think blockchain right now is in the dot-com bubble phase. Eventually the scammers will fade into the background as the real players emerge.
They already know.
Societies had to deal with this like forever:

Science (including humanities) in China/Russia was subordinated to communist ideology. Galileo had to tussle with the Church.

So far, science has won out (mostly because it produces results and provides the equivalent of an evolutionary advantage). I'm hopeful we'll survive the current ideological tides, like in the past :)
You can take the words and use their individual meaning to come up with any definition you like to make any argument you like. However you don't win arguments by arbitrarily definition words or phrases to be what you would like them to be. You definition factually is not the definition of political correctness. As such historical racism and sexism were not political correctness.

> Political Correctness- 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.