skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is overwhelming one-sided...

Why CBDC is good:

- Efficiency: much of the legacy financial institutions are no longer needed in current form (going as far as the Fed and IRS). Opportunity to reform finance as a whole and remove legacy waste.

- Fraud detection: money laundering and financial crime becomes very difficult to hide

- Observability: much better data & insight into economic trends

- Security: Infra being controlled by a public org that can be held more accountable than a decentralized mess of private corporations (see endless Equifax leaks, etc)

- Responsiveness: can rapidly implement policy changes in response to crises
> They're overt white supremacists.

Do you have proof of that?
Sure, would you rather get a spanking from your mother, or a beating from a drug lord or a CIA interrogator at a black site? It's not the same.
My guess is that the "right to remain anonymous online" is probably an overstatement of what most people believe, and the author was using a convenient, poorly-chosen phrase. I don't think he'd expect that you have the right to (for example) purchase goods online without providing personal information, or file your taxes online without giving your name, or register to vote in elections without verifying your identity: those are unlikely, if not absurd expectations. What most people mean when they say "remain anonymous" is something more like: if your identity is not strictly needed to provide some service, you should have the choice of whether to voluntarily provide it or not.

By this definition, "online anonymity" is something more like privacy: the right to act without unsanctioned intrusion. I know that anonymity and privacy are two different things, but I think they're often used to mean the same thing, and are in this example.

Anyway, to answer your explicit question, article 12 of the United Nations' list of basic human rights[1] lists privacy as a right, and they say that protecting people against unlawful and unnecessary surveillance is part of providing those human rights on the internet[2].

It is a fundamentally difficult question to answer, because who "we" are is hard to define on the internet. We are all part of different jurisdictions, with different laws. The U.N. is the best authority I can think of, though it's not got a lot of teeth.

[1]https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

[2]https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/file...
That's basically a requirement for a CBDC. They're certainly not going to promote a coin they don't control the consensus rules for.
The schools with the most future prisoners are already highly funded. Psychologists cant do anything for people stupid enough to end up in prison.
"Inability to punish students, lack of respect"

When I was growing up in Texas, most teachers had a wooden paddle, often prominently displayed. To be spanked by a paddle was called "getting licks". Female teachers would sometimes delegate the paddling to a coach or other male teacher. Most all this that I recall occurred in Junior High (what they now call middle school. Grades 7-9). By high school, "licks" were quite rare, as most students had learned how to behave better by then.

To people today this all sounds barbaric. However, there were far fewer "broken people" coming out of that system than is produced today. That generation was not filled with sociopaths and 'challenged" people -- quite the opposite. It's the system today that produces those. Lack of ability to administer punishment is part of why teachers get so little respect.

The past 2 years was very revealing as to how our modern public schools are failing today. It's embarrassing, and I understand and support the moves many parents are making to private or home schooling.
Because it is not about sport anymore.
When did I not accept the feedback? I fixed it. I said it was interesting. I didn't accept that it was "unplayable" which is hyperbole
Adding signatures or a cipher to nodes is basically the difference.
I love etymology:

>>currency (n.)

>>1650s, "condition of flowing," a sense now rare or obsolete, from Latin currens, present participle of currere "to run" (from PIE root kers- "to run"). The notion of "state or fact of flowing from person to person" led to the senses "continuity in public knowledge" (1722) and "that which is current as a medium of exchange, money" (1729).*

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If you havent in the past, I recommend looking into etymology on any word you can think of...

I like the etymology of currency as KERS <-- FLOW -- as it represents the flow of trans-action (the transfer of action/responsibility from A to B)...

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And this is why I promote that digital currency needed a tracking system of source-origination-to-authorative-OWNER.

>>own (v.)

>>c. 1200, ounen, ahnen, "to possess, have; rule, be in command of, have authority over;" from Old English geagnian, from root agan "to have, to own" (see owe), and in part from the adjective own (q.v.). It became obsolete after c. 1300, but was revived early 17c., in part as a back-formation of owner (mid-14c.), which continued. From c. 1300 as "to acknowledge, concede, admit as a fact," said especially of things to one's disadvantage. To own up "make full confession" is from 1853. Related: Owned; owning.

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The information age is about UNDERSTANDING. (you stand under the weight of the meaning of the subject) -- etymology is crazy awesome.

Understanding Etymology allows for INFERRENCE

>>infer (v.)

>>in logic, "to 'bring in' as a conclusion of a process of reasoning," 1520s, from Latin inferre "bring into, carry in; deduce, infer, conclude, draw an inference; bring against," from in- "in" (from PIE root en "in") + ferre "to carry, to bear," from PIE root bher- (1) "to carry; to bear children." General sense of "draw a conclusion" is first attested 1520s; intransitive sense is from 1570s.

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Effectively allowing you to understand? Good. Play!
Question: what can I do as an individual who might believe our current system needs an overhaul but feels powerless? If only a small percent of the people in my society care, how can things change? Voting clearly does not help to make change, as the field has been captured by two ideologies that mostly fight just to ensure no third party can edge in. I see articles constantly that say things like this, but with zero effective solutions.
Do you mean content-wise, or from UX point of view? I try to understand the arguments against discourse, but to me it's simply not much of a difference when I watch "active topics" on a phpBB or a discourse-one, both feels like "forum" to me. Highly subjective ofc, not trying to preach, just want to understand, as I said :)
Only one? Love your optimism.
The sheer vastness of rural America does not lend itself to using overhead wires. In Europe, a bout of bad weather will tear down the wires in multiple places and make the line unusable even though the tracks themselves are fine. It is always "fun" to commute after a night of heavy wind, but at least the countries here are mostly compact and the locations that took damage are close to one another, so a few crews can fix them in a day or so.

That would be much harder in the flyover country. I am not sure how the Russians keep up their Transsib line; it is long, electrified and goes straight through thousands of miles of wilderness.
US: Russian Invasion of Ukraine ‘Could Happen at Any Time’
> The Olympics is about setting that aside for a moment

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071

Ah.. just set it aside for just a moment..
I can live without both. I unfollowed everyone and everything on FB and log in maybe once a week on my PC to check for event invites. (Covid has diminished those too)

On Instagram I only followed some old acquitances. Not really anything I could not live without. Stopped using it altogether.

Now, I don't know if most people can live without them but I certainly can. Deleted both apps and never looked back.

Weird seeing Meta threaten like this when their time on the limelight has come and gone. Tiktok is eating up Meta's users it seems and it shows.
I tried a BenQ ScreenBar and a clone, and found the clone brighter, while being a lot cheaper. It's a great device that lights the desk area nicely - I'm going to use the se forever now!

I'd prefer to buy the BenQ, since AFAIK this whole concept was their idea - but the price is just so excessive that I couldn't justify it.
Yeah the coverage is not fun hard to follow.
Funny, I have been looking at Tern too (as well as Riese & Müller). Do you use it in the city as well? Which one do you have? How often do you really fold it up?
The article discusses this HN post from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955294
I wasn’t aware they would make this open. It’s a great way to play around with toy digital currency implementation. There goes my plans for rest of weekend.
I lived in California for 10 years (I moved to Chicago last July). The entrenched power is just ridiculous- old politicians never retire, it's all political machines everywhere, and while there are a lot of amazing activists they're fighting huge uphill battles. At the same time costs in lots of areas have risen a huge amount, and Prop 13 incentivizes people being landlords and forces higher prices on newly purchased property to make up for subsidized taxes on those landlords.

It's all very frustrating.
Teachers have a lot of vacation, sure. But all the teachers I had were at school from 7-4 minimum every day and worked much, much harder than I ever have as a developer. And I make 3 times as much as any of them.
Presumably the "calling" is the aspect that has been abused in order to underpay teachers. In my experience they are underpaid across the board but particularly in public sector roles (at least in the UK).

What's interesting, and isn't something the article covers, is that demand side at the high end is nearly insatiable. Private schools in London consistently increase fees well above inflation year after year and never fail to fill places. The teachers there do okay but it's hardly stellar pay and although many of the schools discourage teachers tutoring it's commonly the way that income is boosted.
Some anecdotes where error messages truly delighted me:

When I accidentally misresolved a conflict after a git pull, the C# compiler, upon encountering the >>>>> markers in the source code, noted that there’s an unresolved merge conflict in that line instead of complaining about bitshifts.

When I tried to bitwise invert a value in Rust with “~x”, which is wrong, instead of complaining about an unknown character, the compiler helpfully explained that the operator to use in Rust is “!x”.

When I was in the Python interpreter and entered “exit”, which doesn’t work because exit is not a keyword, I got a message that told me how to actually exit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6-eGDpimU&t=1584s He doesn't like them in the follow-up video. Powders can have both enzymes and bleach unlike gels.
I have learned the hard way it is only appropriate to describe yourself as old in the company of exclusively younger people.
Cash isn't traced at every step into an immutable ledger. Why should cryptocurrency?

Relevant ZK podcast episode: https://zeroknowledge.fm/111-2/
The main point of higher-quality news being behind a paywall, and disinformation being more rampant in free sources implies that by having this split, it shapes the quality of people’s media diets. Pushing for more people paying for media seems to just ignore this split, don’t think that genie’s going back in the bag. It feels like without an incentive structure to encourage paid institutions release some of their content as free that the problem isn’t going to go away.
It doesn’t matter, helping others: it’s part of your job.
No offense, but I sense from your writing that English may not be your first language. I am American but have done business all over the world. In the USA a more collaborative business/work environment is the norm vs Eastern countries where win/win is not really a concept and business/work tends to be much lower trust and more adversarial.

I have no way of knowing but perhaps there are some cultural tendencies at play here? If you think that might be the case, and you do want to be more helpful and collaborative I would suggest a therapist to help you work through these feelings. It may sound like overkill but if you posted about this it is clearly important to you and worth exploring a bit.
>basically no failing allowed

Both my parents were teachers. My mother was a teacher in public schools. When we would talk about this very thing, she said whenever they would fail students, it would glut up the system and it would start to cease to function. It's a tough problem. When I was young, they had alternate schools for bad kids. At least two levels. The bad kid school, then if you got kicked out of that, the really bad kid school. If you got kicked out of that, you didn't go to school anymore. I don't know why we stopped doing that. The public school system was bad then and it's bad now, so it might not matter.
It doesn't matter if we call it "intelligent" or "general", the real test is if it is useful. A rose by any other name...
I am not a fan of voting for judges. Judges should be determined by technical merits and skills more like hiring a developer. This I think would be better handled by having a diverse group of judges routinely review all decisions by a judge and issuing corrective actions against the judge. This review should be done periodically and not require an appeal.
> The only reason I haven't gone 4k is because using one at 100% scaling at 27" or less isn't really feasible due to how small the text is

People keep saying this but I don't.. see.. it. Everything scales great on my setup. I could make one letter cover the entire screen if I wanted to - the DPI is not really relevant in that sense. You still have to set size up to your liking. And I do not have great eyesight (contacts/glasses).

Admittedly, DPI does play a part when you have multiple monitors with different resolutions. I have solved that by wrapping my launcher with a script that detects the screen, reads the DPI and scales accordingly. Which, to be fair, is not something you should expect people to do :p

My desktop uses an LG-27GL850 and an LG-27GN950. One is 1440p, the other is 4k. Both are 144hz. I first bought the 1440p, which is great, then I bought the 4k one. I wanted to keep the 1440p one for gaming, but as it turns out, I don't game, so I regret not getting two 4ks.

I did extensive research before getting these, and after a year with them side by side, I can for sure see the difference when I read text. The fonts (and everything) just pop more.

I would be completely fine with 1440p, that looks great as well, but since I am at my computer for the better part of my life, a few extra dollars was (and still is) worth it for me.

PS: 144hz was almost weird at first - the cursor and scrolling is so instant. Highly recommended.
This is beyond bad faith. Would you rather get a beating from your mother or a spanking from a drug lord?
Unless you're Francis Bacon, or some other world changing figure, this does not apply to you.
The government gives out unlimited money for university loans. not a free market. Its okay if you arent familiar with american higher education.
Analog computing - the general sort, that includes physical solutions to hard problems - is underrated.
That's exactly what a blockchain is. Blockchain being the "secret sauce" has always been a misconception; as noted git is exactly a blockchain. What we call refs in git are blocks in Bitcoin.

Nakamoto consensus was the innovation, the major energy consumer, and not necessary for cryptographic data integrity like a CBDC or git repo needs.
Use your shell!

echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | tr -d 'adieu'

I do this anyway, because instead of the normal order I put the alphabet in frequency order, so I get the list of letters in the order I should be considering them.

It's possible to "cheat" quite a bit using the shell. Exactly what does and doesn't count as "cheating" is up to your personal comfort level. For example, the frequency analysis of the official wordle word list is rather different than English at large...
> Every lawyer worth their salt in America knows that you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something. That’s a prior restraint and is about as close as you can get to something absolutely forbidden under American law.

Isn't there certain Project Veritas info that the NYT is currently forbidden from publishing? did I misunderstand? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/business/media/nyt-projec...
I think the combination of many smaller and unique factors - to name but a few - the “never read 1000 page EULA” incentivising users to just click through blindly, lax restrictions regarding privacy policies and terms of service being comprehensible to the lay person, data storage being cheap incentivising collection, advertisers taking advantage of new technology and making themselves impossibly wealthy.

Individually they’re not so noticeable, but together they hammer at the wedge, driving us towards an opaque hellscape
Gumroad is one of those servuces that customers might not even be aware they’re using, like stripe or shopify.
Totally thought that was cl for command line...
I work less than half as much over the course of a year as a senior tech consultant than I ever did as a public school teacher. No question. And my salary doubled within 2 years, is set to hit triple now in year 6, and my stress is so much lower as to be negligible.
Hey Mark, can you please buy Pinterest, too before leaving EU?
If disinformation is able to sway public opinion, and people are unable to distinguish it from the truth, which you clearly believe, then how do you know that your opinions are not also based on disinformation?
The baby powder story is a great opportunity to remember that there are actual journalists doing valuable work, and society needs them.

Meanwhile, the oft-repeated sentiment is that we should get rid of journalists and news agencies because every single one of them is supposedly a sell-out. That’d surely resolve a number of issues for companies like J&J.
Let's check out the main author:

"Brazil’s main champion of ivermectin, Lucy Kerr, an ultrasound expert who talks about the supposed danger of mammograms to women, claims to have cured at least 20 patients in two days after reading the Australian study’s findings. The mayor of Itajaí has called her a “pioneer in the fight for ivermectin.” She often points to personal observations and testimonies shared by colleagues on WhatsApp groups as proof of the drug’s benefits. Her videos endorsing the drug, one of which was recently taken down by YouTube for spreading misinformation, reach hundreds of thousands of people."

oh.

https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/brazil-covid19-iverme...
Correct. Block cipher, block list, block chain, block vector, array of blocks -- I'm sure you can find them all decades ago.
FWIW, I had a whole skydiving career before I started biking seriously. Drop & roll is not really a viable head injury prevention plan. You’re prepped for a few kinds of accidents with a backpack and trying to roll if/when there’s time, if you’re really lucky, but you’re leaving a mile wide blind spot to many possible accidents that you don’t have control over. Good luck, I hope you don’t have any of those kind of collisions.
I’m sorry but this statement is so ridiculous on so many levels.

Any source on a sigh being a “breath signal for helplessness”?

Did you just made this sentence up, then use that sentence as a stepping stone to a scene with an imaginary alcoholic whose predicament was caused by a sigh?!

For starters, how is processing or integrating emotion a weakness?
Is there a link to the technical side or how the creators get paid?

edit to add:

https://lbry.com/what

https://lbry.com/faq/what-is-lbry
I'm not sure what this proves or implies. It has been a hot topic of legal dispute for a long time.
This is actually genius.
How often do you use it?
Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study
I know at the federal level, pretty much all the reps/senators see compiled reports of all constituent comms, broken down by (issue / stance / method / volume).

Either way your message is "just" making it up to the member as a spreadsheet column, but text vs email vs letter might not actually make the difference you think. Some members might see letters as more serious, others might take texts as "oh my younger and more savvy constituents think X."

At the state level, this probably varies widely.
Code line.

Almost always a trace when it's a modular codebase.

The content that triggers the error i.e. arguments and type structure if resolvable.

I.e
Everything to remove needing the bed to attach a debugger.

Maybe a human readable message if it's something being used by non developers but with all of that attached in say a .zip
The national security take on these convoys is General Flynn and the fifth column are trying to reduce NATOs capacity to respond to whatever is going to happen in Ukraine and/or Taiwan. The misinformation networks are trying to amplify these convoy groups in every major NATO country with the dual goal of creating an artificial supply chain crisis, crashing the economy and requiring national security resources to clear the convoys.

Food for thought.

If for instance, that is the plan, how would you as a free nation defend against this? Their ham handed answer is censorship. But this is backfiring. So what do you do? Serious answers only.
That's not very CIVIC. I'll pay you a VISIT. After calling my MUMMY. SORRY, just trying to be FUNNY.
Everyone has demons, even perfect people have perfect little demons. But as a person who has lived a broken life, I guarantee you my demons are far larger and more monstrous than theirs. My demons would eat their demons for protein.
> - A headset with ANC and multipoint Bluetooth: a real life changer for work, gaming and phone calls; the most expensive item in this list, but definitely worth the price for me.

Ooh, have a recommendation for this?
That confirms the impression I had, I guess they are just so complex that building a new open source one from scratch would be Herculean effort. Guess OCCT is the only option for now.

The itch I would love to scratch is an online real-time collaborative parametric cad app using CRDTs. Current thinking is combining OpenCascade compiled to WASM [0] with Yjs[1], but frankly don’t have the time.

A kind of Figma but for 3D cad. (There is obviously onShape but I’m thinking something a little simpler)

0: https://github.com/donalffons/opencascade.js/

1: https://github.com/yjs/yjs
> All that money chasing after limited supplies of goods such as cars, computers and furniture is inevitably bidding up prices, they say.

They forgot to mention stocks and other financial instruments. I believer growing them money supply by 40% over the last two years has primarily fueled asset prices. Only now its impacting consumer prices. The difference between now and 1970s inflation is that there was a lot less financialization back then. People didn't have access to equity markets to dump money into.

I think the question shouldn't be "is the money supply fueling inflation", but rather "where did the trillions of dollars created in the last 2 years go?" When you ask that, the obvious answer is asset prices and some consumer goods. Where else could it have gone? There's no plausible explanation about why the stock market is up 35% from pre-pandemic levels or why real estate is up a lot in cities that are still largely shutdown and work from home is ubiquitous