skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conceding a significant (perhaps most) of cryptocurrency use is for speculation, and little is used for "economic" activity of any type, it would follow that most can't be "illicit".

This may change now that most speculation is "off book" at exchanges anyway now.
It takes a while to get to the point, but this is what the page is about:

As we explained in a recent review paper, researchers have repeatedly found evidence that Autistic individuals are, on average, more consistent, less biased, and more rational than non-autistic individuals in a variety of contexts.

Specifically, many Autistic people seem to be less susceptible to cognitive biases, and therefore better able to make judgments and reach decisions in a more traditionally ‘rational’ manner.

Interesting if true; it could indicate that at least mild Autism is a beneficial adaptation. Though those biases probably came about for good reasons, it could be they've become obsolete and are no longer worth it.
> Imagine you have bought two non-refundable tickets to different trips, one much more costly. You are then told that you must cancel one of them. In this case, many people will cancel the cheaper trip regardless of which one they would prefer to go on – and even though they will have spent the same amount of money either way.

I think a better example to sunken cost bias could be found than this one as people usually pay more for trips that they prefer more in the first place.
Not reporting capital gains on a cryptocurrency sale would also be illicit, and I doubt they checked everyone's tax returns.
The demo is using the Ropsten test network. No idea if that's an accurate price quote against mainnet or not. Would need to know how much gas the transaction cost.
Can you please open up an issue on Jet.jl? Even if you can't provide a MWE, it would be helpful to share these experiences
We know that people aren't perfectly rational. The point of the article is that autistic people tend to be more rational on average than neurotypicals. The emotional weight that affects neurotypicals and causes them to fall into biases more often (on average) doesn't apply as often (on average); an autistic person will be less likely to behave differently when confronted with "80% fat free" vs "20% fat", to borrow an example for the article.
I work on my business about two hours a day, before I start my day with my employer.

I've been doing it for about four years straight now, so it's just a habit at this point.

If I'm feeling tired or whatever I just sleep in, no need to get stressed over something you do on the side.
It's not unfortunate, it's built in. "Communal ownership" requires that you can't freely buy and sell things. A government powerful enough to enforce that is necessarily totalitarian.
If something is to replace humans at doing a job X then it has to be better than the humans at job X.

Also humans instinctively expect the machines to not make mistakes. I haven't made them such; it's just a fact of life. And we have to work with the expectations of the bigger populace.
Being on the HN front page is going to blow out your budget for the month probably. Hope it doesn't cost you too much! I had issues with my own site using Street View which is even more expensive than maps (https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/) until I found out you can apply for large amounts of free Google Maps API credits for educational and non-profit use. It's a little stressful because if you exceed your credits and don't deactivate the API in time you can still end up with a large bill, and the credits have to be re-approved every year in a slow and uncertain manual process. But hey, it's free and pretty generous, and nobody else has Street View so my site can't work without it.
Here is some anecdotal evidence for you. My daughter's riding instructor was scheduled for long needed back surgery on November 29th. Her pain has gotten so bad that she can no longer work and is basically bed ridden. Her surgery was cancelled for the 29th and has been repeatedly rescheduled then cancelled since because the hospital is overwhelmed by COVID patients. She is now scheduled for Monday and hopefully will actually be able to have the surgery this time.
This is intriguing, but unfortunately a presentation pdf is always missing the spoken parts…

Most informative part in the conclusions:

"Compiler that can automatically

– find parallelism

– manage small scratchpad memories

– generate communications"
I once got kicked by a horse (shoed) and collapsed just as soon as I located help. Until then I was able to keep moving despite 5 bones being broken, and piercing through my skin, including a major nerve dangling on the outside. Most eye opening experience of my life.
All things are not equal. I know someone who was the CEO of a small hospital network.

When he retired, his compensation was greater than the sum of salary for the entire company. The company paid for his Tesla lease, but orderlies making $12/hr had a uniform deposit deducted from their first few checks.
On the point of Nat Friedman, I've reached out to [name redacted]is Ohanian who public holds himself out to be a vocal advocate of women's rights.

Nat and [name redacted]is are collaborators as VCs on such companies as Polywork, Deel, Reteam, and more.

Nat's wife Stephanie, who ignored my pleas for help with the abuse I suffered, and blocked me after reaching out and showing her several graphic texts messages in which [name redacted] told me I was worthless and should kill myself and is on the board of many of these companies.

[name redacted]is but refuses to discuss these allegations [name redacted] or my experiences in spite of several public comments asking for help which he has deleted.
Why June? Isn't that just the difficulty bomb date? I haven't heard anything about the merge happening in June.
> Why are you so fixated on owning property? P

Because the prices will only go up, judging by what happens further West (I live in Eastern Europe). Five, six years ago I used to believe that wouldn't have hold true going forward, reality contradicted me.

I do not want to "chase better" jobs into my 50s or, God-forbid, into my 60s, I'm content with what I have on that front. No, we do not have (more than emergency) savings, no, we do not have a strong family-support network, no, I don't believe we're the only ones in our age cohort that are in that situation.
Thanks for sharing. I hope they feel better soon.
Everyone is desperate for an EV truck. Dealers are marking these first batches up way too much for a public beta test.
Yep, this would be all fine and good if there were symmetrical information. But there isn't.
Be that as it may, the median home in Oakland is $749,000.

That's far in excess of what an average person can be able to afford, let alone someone who is struggling with mental illness.

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That's why I'm saying the first step here is to make $50,000-ish housing units as a first step. It doesn't matter if they're low-end high-density condos or trailer parks, you need something cheap to solve the problem of homelessness.

The lack of money + the expensive houses cause homelessness directly. The issue of mental health is a diversion. Mental health complicates things but its certainly not the end-all / be-all of this situation. Its not even the most important issue.

Oakland's problem is fundamentally the the number of housing units available. If you don't have enough homes at low enough prices, homelessness will come around. You don't need to be mentally sick to become unable to live in a $749,000 home.

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This is a city completely devoid of low-income housing units (ie: trailer parks). Is it really that big of a surprise that people can't afford a home to degrees far greater than other cities?

I've seen autistic people, schizophrinic people, and bipolar individuals hold their own homes and be productive members of society. Mental health is no "excuse" for becoming homeless. I've also seen perfectly rational, 100% healthy people lose their homes and become homeless.
There is a medium though, that will ultimately save you money/time. If every company had to spend time answering every small question with a full time employee, your services would be a lot more expensive, hold times might be longer too. Not all customers are like you. My grandpa calls in to his ISP when his internet doesn’t work when it can be solved by simply unplugging his equipment (and I’d wager this is true for the majority of the population). I don’t think there is anything wrong with adding a simple interface layer to ensure the problem the needs to be addressed requires a real person. Not defending all practices out there right now (because I too have been annoyed, NY Times *cough) but some well placed shitty robots might be in your best interest as a customer.
First SpaceX Launch of the New Year (4:49 P.m. EST)
This sounds like the writing prompt for a Onion.com article that begins with "local man".
Have you not heard of addons? Specifically ublock origin?
In South Korea, the most pro-north political parties are on the left. With the most extremely-pro-north being the extreme left.
So why hasn't there been any new POS coins? If the complexity is in maintaining the history, new coins wouldn't have that problem.

Even outside of any hypothetical technical complexity, a system that explicitly pushes all the power to those with the most money seems antithetical to the point.
In my state, Victoria Australia, elective surgery has been suspended (again!) due to the rising number of Covid infections.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/hospitals-are-being-crippled...

We have also had the ambulance system issue statements that they are having delays in reaching people (code reds).

The unvaccinated make up the bulk of people that need hospital treatment here. Their choice to remain unvaccinated is having a direct impact on the community as a whole.
Spoilsport ;-P
I would have said "Try the support chatbot on some big service provider web site that uses your target language", but that would presume that chatbot programmers (or programmers in general) can write grammatically correct prose, so... Maybe not.
This feels like one extended Turboencabulator commercial that was cross-bred with a long-running game of Mornington Crescent.
Nice one! Very 'friendly' looking site with clear explanations.
The transition has been successfully tested on the testnet, afaik.

It should be said though, that while crypto mining surely contributes to the GPU shortage, it is only one of many factors.
> You yourself provide this info voluntarily to a bank when apply for a loan. The same bank verifies it by asking your paystubs before giving you a loan.

This is really harmful phrasing - blaming the individual.

> when apply for a loan

This seems like general population data, nothing specific to people who’ve taken loans.
Soaring prices of fuel and gas, not electricity.

And Kazahk authorities are far from democratic, they block internet in whole country to stop the protests, they did strange things with internet access last year also.

And they invited Russian troops to stop the unrest.
And their (or the invited) military shoots to kill its own citizens.
The news generally covers criminal arrests trials, which this trial has not been dropped and is actively in progress.
Is the bottleneck the keyboard or my mind? Not sure if having faster keyboard is all that helpful day to day.
The worst part is people clean off the lawn clippings, which would just decompose into nitrogen that the grass needs in the first place.
As I recall, it did keep such records, if for no other reason than there was some degree of personalization that went on. The people higher up the food chain tended to be the ones that taught it more clever words and phrases.

My memory's fuzzy on the finer details, but I do recall a "bad words" list of things it would ignore in human input hardcoded somewhere. But of course, that just meant people would find out the hard way they weren't safe to type whatever they wanted.
This is pretty nice, thanks for sharing. My only quibble is on firefox android the "keyboard" is quite annoying. It floats on top of the 6th row if you get down that far, obscuring it and if you scroll the page up then down the bottom row of "keys" lose their labels. Happy to make screenshots if that doesn't make sense.
I Saw Firsthand What It Took to Keep Covid Out of HK. Felt Like a Another Planet
Yeah I agree. It's just an annoyance to have to sell it every time (and pay attention to trading windows and stuff). I'd rather have the cash.
> Or maybe your circles are like that in real life (that would be very unfortunate)

I can say fairly confidently that it's not uncommon for the college / young adult age, self-identified left. The term Republican is basically used as a soft slur or synonym for racist by many. I'm not claiming that everyone is like this, but the number is greater than I would like to see, especially considering how many of them I see as fairly smart people.

I do speak up at times, but it doesn't usually matter because people generally don't actually care about the details. They just want to drop their quip to show support and move on.
It's a small phenomenon with weak statistical significance. So, yeah, if a few teams looked to something like it, one of them would find the result that gets attention just by chance, and then publish it, while the others would probably not publish.
> "COVID killed many more because it was particularly severe."

no. covid is novel, not appreciably more severe, and that's where mortality rates are coming from. it's following the dynamics of the many cold and flu viruses that came before it. we just happen to be at the beginning of the dynamics rather than at relative steady-state (e.g., 'endemic'), which is where most other viruses are at.

this inability to reason cogently about steady-state vs. dynamic aspects of systems is absolutely rampant across media, politics, and casual conversation, and must be a named fallacy at this point, though i don't know that name offhand.
DevCycle (YC W14) is looking for devs who want to build tools you'd use yourself
A lay persons guess is probably a combination of the velocity of said meteor, it’s composition and the composition/density of the air in front of it.
They won't stay off until it's not profitable anymore. Unfortunately bitcoin community has ossified & it seems unlikely that they will solve the problem (i.e. reduce block subsidy, move to PoS). The price needs to go down or some regulation needs to be applied to either increase cost of electrity from dirty sources (i.e. carbon tax) or make cryptocurrency less attractive (e.g. China has been moving in this direction)
Somehow Facebook and Twitter never get a pass on HN using similar reasoning:

"Sure social media can be harmful, but on the other hand there's Mastodon and Jane's Wholesome Baking Forum showing you can do better, so there's nothing to worry about."

Scale matters. Probably 99% of crypto trading takes place on destructive PoW platforms.
Hmm. I wonder if I saved myself some embarrassment on Instant Messenger by not typing too fast to think.

I don't really understand why properly trained typing is more ergonomic, anyway. If I keep my hands perfectly on the homerow, each letter is nearly the same exact motion. The way I type normally, my hands move around a bit, so there's a couple character history built into my motions. This seems to me like it ought to reduce the repetitive motions, which are what lead to repetitive strain injuries, right?
Not paradise, but not a prison state like the US describes. Just a really poor country like other poor countries. My cousin (Korean-Canadian) went on one of those hokey tours in the DPRK before they were banned and actually talked to the locals. She said they had normal lives of jobs, friends, relationships, hobbies, like we all do, just with less material wealth.
If I wanted time in market with that particular stock, I could use the cash you give me to buy that stock and leave it in the market. I don't need to be forced to do so.
I've already written most of the code, and I have it wired with jumper cables.

As far as PCBs and stuff, I literally have no idea how that works. I would definitely need to pay someone to design it for me.
If I wanted to be sarcastic, I'd just post every job at minimum wage to 200k.
The approach we took at my aforementioned $BIG_CO_EMPLOYER was to have multiple interview teams, each focused on particular aspects. e.g.,

- generic HR chit-chat. Our HR rep was really good at uncovering personality problems (and she was used to dealing with devs :-). Every single person she raised a red flag about also had issues somewhere else in the process and we learned to trust her instincts.

- What did you do at your last job and what did you like/hate about it? What code were you most proud of? If I asked you to design a system to do X, what would you need to know, what would you be concerned about?

- Basic SE theory: what do you know about SOLID?, what are some concerns when dealing with shared data in a multithreaded design, etc.?

- Programming/design exercise with the interviewer as a co-worker/resource. Done on whiteboard, or sheets of paper or whatever candidate is comfortable with. Code does not have to compile, no online access allowed.

There were scripted questions at each level (except HR) and the interviewer keeps notes on the candidate response. OK to dive deeper or go off on tangents as needed. At the end of the day, or worst case first thing the next day (so the interview is still fresh in everyone's mind) we'd meet to compare notes & vote thumbs up/down.
When you let your manager know you're unhappy then they can also quickly move to hire a replacement and fire you. You don't own a company anything beyond the last paycheck you received. Two weeks notice is the norm and, hey, it's just business. Don't take it personally if an employee leaves.
Obviously it's way too early to have hard data on this matter.

But the WHO has been warning about this for months.

> We cannot say this clearly enough: even if you are vaccinated, continue to take precautions to prevent becoming infected yourself, and to infecting someone else who could die.

> In many countries and communities, we are concerned about a false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic, and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions.

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-dir...
Quit Your Job
so is petroleum, if you can wait a few hundred million years
Do keep in mind that you might want a set of trusted TLS certificates and the timezone database. Both will be annoying runtime errors when you don't trust https://api.example.com or try to return a time to a user in their preferred time zone. Distroless includes these.
Fossil fuels probably are as well if you’re willing to wait long enough. No amount of waiting will renew one of the extinct species listed.
Brag document. Keep it up to date throughout the year: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
> But why you are using a throwaway account then?

I'm not.

My account is over a year old with >4500 karma. My username happens to have the word throwaway in it. So what?

Your name is green. (Which I'm fine with and don't really care about... but it makes your comment a bit bewildering.)
That first sentence is a doozy. Had to fight my biases to keep reading...
This is amazingly accurate. It contains several predictions that would have been very difficult when extrapolating based on life experience at the time.

Consider how difficult it would be to predict how the world will look in 2122. I don’t think I’d be this close to the mark.
well that and the fact that this is transparently an advertisement masquerading as journalism.
But the etage above the Rez-de-chaussée is 1, correct? The Rez-de-chaussée then is 0. That is 0-based indexing.

US D F
3 2 2
2 1 1
__1__0__RdC
B1 -1 je ne sais pas
Instead of Read-Modify-Write, I like to think of it as Read/Determine/Write cycle.

A note worthy point is that, Paxos actually expects proposers to drop their value and carry-forward someone-else's value to complete the consensus. This is typically not an intended behavior from client's point of view, but proposers role is to form the consensus, not push their value.

Read phase is basically understanding if there is any value that could've been chosen when F nodes are unavailable.

Determine phase is to choose to carry-forward any value (if-any) from the Read phase or use the new value from the client.

Write phase is to actually ask majority of the acceptors to save the value selected in the Determine phase.
It really just depends on what the final law is. Probably will just be something pretty simple that requires them to publish the salary and then everything else will be worked out in court. In lots of cases like this, there's just no incentive for people to go through a lengthy legal battle to try and sort it out unless it seems like blatant and provable discrimination was at work.

But, in my experience in the nonprofit industry in the U.S. where there's been a concerted effort over the last few years to force employers to publish salaries up front (many places where jobs are shared, like email lists, job sites, etc. now require it), there's nothing stopping the employer from offering HIGHER than the range, and why would a job candidate balk at that? Nice surprise!

The intention here is to stop employers from forcing people to go through a long hiring process only to end up offering them an absurdly low amount. In a market where employers hold the power and there's always another candidate waiting in line to take a job, this kind of behavior harms job seekers by wasting their time and demoralizing them, which hurts everyone.
Will take me 2 years to learn this that’s more than the time saved in my life time to type a bit slower
You wouldn't get taxed more. You have to pay the taxes either way.

You can play all those games with stock just by using cash given to you to buy stock.
Short answer is they didn't measure that.
This is excellent advice for those working in a rational environment. For those working in an ego-driven environment, not so much. Plan your exit strategy as you would from an abusive spouse. Don't assume good faith on anyone else's part.
That it won't work even for fiat? Of course there are some blacklists against certain prominent persons but the vast majority of dirty money goes around unfettered.
At the very least, the US should be taking responsibility for the political and economic fates of those countries they "Monroe Doctrine"-ed out of self-determination, including economic and stability-oriented military support (at a similar level provided to NATO countries, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia) and accepting their refugees with open arms.
> A list of socialist or communist governments now:

> [...] Argentina [...]

No.

Source: I live in Argentina and it's neither socialist nor communist. It's currently center-left capitalist. Our immediately preceding government was center-right capitalist. In the 70s we had far-right capitalist military dictatorship (Chicago boys influenced economy wise, School of the Americas trained).
Don't practice typing faster with your current method, because you already have for 30 years. Rather invest some time to learn a better method.

I learned touch typing within a week on holiday vacation with a software similar to this website: https://www.typingstudy.com/ (Young me felt very proud of being able to type like dad.) Once you have invested the time to learn the basic movements, you will become accustomed to them naturally.