skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only people hit by this are legitimate business or causes who offer crypto payments

It wouldn't affect as many businesses as you think. My bank (a large bank which is partly state-owned since the financial crisis) would refuse me banking service immediately if I accepted payments in cryptocurrency, and it is not the only bank to do so. (Not that it remotely bothers me that this is the case.)
I second this, it's 5G, just plug in and go. The cheapest wired Internet I could get here in downtown Chicago on my block was $70,000+ installation, then $800 / month. I was spending $400 / month on my cell phone bill just for data before I switched to T-Mobile Home Internet.
Is go really used a lot?

I know some larger corporations use it but I don't hear much about it otherwise. The most obvious plus side I hear about is the small memory footprint and fast boot time which makes it good for functions-as-a-service.

It is also getting generics know which makes it sound like the simplicity was a lie or will be a lie.
> I can imagine some reasons (I’m making them up): ...

All your listed reasons apply equally (or even more strongly) to C++.
https://archive.is/DRKjs
Ask HN: Who first came up with 1 year of experience repeated X times?
And do you have a link to the first usage?
I feel for most people out there Chromebooks are a better solution now. Just wish there was better hardware.
It's just a question. You clearly didn't read TFA before jumping in with a completely irrelevant comment. I guess I can't blame you for shying away from it now.
„At all“ is a bold statement and probably wrong one. Even if you use Monero to pay for a large drugs delivery, you will need to convert that money to buy something from the legal sector of economy. Money laundering becomes much more complicated thing, because the exchange becomes both a bottleneck for criminals and a breadcrumb for law enforcement.
Ah yes - clearly I have "risk aversion" & "settled for less" because I don't want to live in a city that _literally_ has a problem with human shit on the streets in 2022 vs. other states that are willing to actively recruit workers like me with 0% income taxes, plenty of land to buy, among other benefits.

Take the L and the downvote.
> Workers in a lower-cost area simply get more for their salary, independent of their life choices.

I would argue that where you live is about as much of a life choice as whether you have a child.

Is "I live in oakland vs downtown SF" a life choice, or is that independent of life choices? That seems like it has the same tradeoff more or less as living in SF vs NC, but doesn't have a change in pay because it's "close enough" to SF still.

> different areas simply have different purchasing power outside of that.

I agree that avocado toast is $15 in SF and $8 in NC, so you do have different purchasing power. This applies less and less to stuff though. The latest PS5 or a month of a c5.xlarge AWS instance for your side project or month of netflix all cost the same no matter where you live.

Why do we care about the cost of living wrt location though, and not wrt any other factors? I choose to live in NC, so things cost less. Why pay me less?

I didn't choose to have some illness that maxes out my deductible each year, but I get paid the same total amount as my coworker without this illness, and thus my effective salary is lower. My cost of living is higher because of this immutable characteristic (a health problem), which is far less a lifestyle choice than where I live.

There are many factors that change the effective value of a dollar to a worker, and it seems quite weird to care about location only, and nothing else, from the perspective of "fairness".

To be clear about my opinion as to why this happens: I don't think this is actually about CoL or financial fairness, as you seem to espouse. IMO, it's entirely about competing with other companies for the same talent pool, and those other companies currently being either local, or also doing CoL adjustment. That's the only thing that makes sense (that it's done because everyone does it). This also neatly explains the Oakland/SF split being different than the SF/NC split.
Are you saying you should never use TRIM on an SSD that is encrypted?
with LUKS you can just use a detached header stored on a USB thumb drive. Then just toss the thumb drive.

But this isn't plausible deniability. You still have a hard drive in your possession and it's still covered by random data. Better deniability: always use an external drive and then distance yourself from the drive. You want plausible deniability of the entire drive to the extent that no one even suspects you of being the owner. Or, have such little sensitive data that you can use steganography to hide it in an image or video file. Just don't put the steganography tools on the same computer as the hidden data.

Anything else is pretty much a joke.
The theory a decade ago was that cryptocurrency would develop an native economy of sorts: you could buy and sell things directly in crypto, and there would be markets for that. Maybe not markets for everything! But at least enough that it would start to erode the need for fiat ramps. That hasn't really happened yet, despite the fact that we now have various permissionless stablecoins to tackle the volatility problems. Maybe it never will.
This sounds like a cool idea for a Twitch stream. I would watch this.

Bonus points if you hook up the robot's control to Twitch chat, #TwitchPlaysPokemon style.
> how do we ensure original ideas are not lost to humanity either because they are kept secret...

I understand what you mean but patents are not a good means for this goal.

I know a bit the patent world (I was granted 12 patents), patents are for small innovations. I am not even sure it's possible to patent some complex intellectual work, because a patent is basically the description of a process, not the description of knowledge.

There is little in common between a patent and a scientific article which conveys much more information. Yes, you can provide a lot information in the description section but they are not protected, only the claims are protected by law. Claims are either descriptive or describing a method to process something. After all patents were invented to protect things during the industrial revolution, essentially bolts, nuts and new steam machines.

Another thing is that most inventors do not recognize their work once the patent engineers have translated it in legal language.

Sometimes in my case, the patent engineers did not understood at all what my colleagues and me meant, or they tried to make "improvements" indeed without the slightest knowledge about the application domain. What value have those patents to describe what was meant?

Most companies which have to reproduce a patent, have a hard time. Generic drugs companies tell it is impossible to reproduce drugs from the patent and they have to be helped by the inventors.
You can give Chromium a try. It has unofficially supported hw video decode capability. Though in my experience, out of the available browsers, Epiphany had the most robust hw video playback support due to gstreamer integration.
You can download a lot of "Linux ISOs" on 500 TB.

And by Linux ISOs I mean porn.
They are already kinda banned.

Once payments are above a certain amount contact information must be collected as far as I know.

No bank transactions are anonymous.

Smaller money payments are anonymous, but mainly due to physical limitations creating enough hassle so that it can't be abused too much (without also braking the law). As well as historic reasons.

But did you ever consider that every bank note has a unique id which is tracked by banks when you pay in money (and I think) retrieve it?

Furthermore the EU as since basically it's creation slowly working on de-anonymizing payments wit the purpose of fighting crime and money laundering.

It's pretty much a straight forward continuation of pre-bitcoin invention policies.
Yes, 25Gb/s is just enough to begin hosting your own high quality video content to a small community of people and handle mild spikes in traffic. This is probably the first point that there is enough bandwidth to satisfy that need for the majority of people.
Because if you are a politician who bans the crypto you won’t be ever elected again. Thus, you do it sneaky way.
The wastewater may be more dilute due to mixing it with condensate from steam heat.
Radio Amateurs find jammers for fun. They consider it a sport. Literally, in some cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_direction_findin...

So the FCC doesn't even need to spend any money on finding them because the hams will do it for free.
I found the best way to retain info, although it’s a lot of work, is to write down questions for myself as I read. Usually a bunch of fill-in-the-blank style questions.
I don’t write down the answers as I’m reading though I sometimes put page numbers where the answers can be found. I wait for a least a couple hours after I’ve finished reading, and up to a day, then go back and answer the questions I’ve put in my notes.

I’ve found this is by far the best way to force myself to engage and retain info. I’ll also occasionally copy over critical notes to something permanent like Notion or Roam, just to be sure I have a quick reference several years down the line. It’s time consuming, but probably still a time win compared to using multiple sources to learn a single topic.
Sure, by the "it hasn't been demonstrated to not work" standard the whole field should generate cheap electricity tomorrow. Just that it's so unimaginably, fiendishly hard to make it work, perhaps the most challenging technical problem in history. It might never work, for interesting values of never.

My point was that fueling is in itself a very difficult and complex problem that has yet to be solved, far from the "it runs on seawater" popular tropes.
I would be interested to hear the arguments that posters here would make if they were in charge of a firm that did analysis and found that they were paying labor costs in gross excess of the market rates needed to retain employees. How would you justify that to shareholders?

Put it another way. You are a firm that needs steel as an input. You can buy identical steel for $1000/ton from supplier A, or $800/ton from supplier B, who saves on costs by locating their steel mill in a cheaper geographic area. Would you say, actually, that's not fair to supplier B, "same steel same price"? No, of course not.

An even better (more direct) example is that of offshore IT labor costs. I would expect anyone here arguing for "same job same pay" would support equal (100% of SV pay) for any offshore labor their company employs, all else being equal with respect to individual labor output.

I get that people aren't used to thinking of themselves as participants in a market for their labor. But unless we want to do a revolution or something I don't see this going away. In fact, it's only going to get worse, because as remote work becomes more and more normalized the competitive advantage of "locality" will erode entirely and you'll be competing in a global labor marketplace, with potentially much slimmer margins.

Disclaimer: I'm someone who recently joined a large tech firm and saw my salary location-adjusted pretty significantly. It still blew away my previous compensation with local firms.
US gives you 60 days to leave which is also an upheaval. People on visas are here for 15+ years and can have their entire lives uprooted in 60 days.
You are aware impulse control is something that takes a decade or two (or more) to acquire? Most kids simply can't use them just in those similar ways.
I’m more afraid of my radical peers than the government.

However, the government is made up of my peers. I come to terms with this by reminding myself how insignificant I am, and I’m not worth harassing.

I’m not going to give an example but I hold a few unpopular beliefs. There are people who would like to see me die because of them.

This is no way to live.
My city does email for alerts and RSS for news releases.

>But it still locks the information up inside my email inbox, and subjects it to the fragility of email delivery these days; will the town’s email servers be allowed to deliver the message?

I think in practice that fragility is mostly Gmail and some of the other big free email providers. Email providers that actually care will normally make it so you can at least get your email reliably.
Darktable is as much a Lightroom replacement as LibreOffice is an Excel replacement or Gimp is a Photoshop replacement, i.e. it absolutely is not.

Source: portrait photographer for 20+ years that would ditch Adobe in a heartbeat if it were possible.
A Scientist Explains the Mystery of Recent Sea-Level Drop(2013)
Does Windows LTSC (aka the non-ad version of Windows) require a Microsoft Account?
A bit of googling says that Israel and In-Q-tel have had joint ventures maybe you just assumed that In-Q-Tel was based in Israel.
> food is about the same in western world as well

That's just categorically untrue. In a smallish city in Portugal the food is drastically cheaper than in Paris. For some concrete data, look at the Bic Mac index ( the eurozone kind of screws the comparison up, but it's still valid for Canada vs US vs UK vs EU )

Same goes for rent ( a studio in Paris is as much as a 2-3 room apartment in Montpelier, let alone a small city in Sicily), or associated services.
>If "just go to the police" were an option for all domestic abuse victims, I'd expect that there'd already be plenty of other blinking neon signs they could point to.

Not really. Proving domestic abuse is not easy. It's mostly "he said, she said" until somebody ends up in the ER. That's why restraining orders are so common, because the evidence available won't lead to a conviction, but the legal system still wants to provide some kind of protection to victims, even though the protection afforded by a restraining order isn't that reliable. A big limitation for victims in going to the police is that if there isn't evidence to convict, the system does not effectively protect them from retaliation.

Now, on the other hand, if you can produce a device with some software illegally installed on it, you've got physical evidence that can be presented in front of a jury leading to a felony conviction. It's easily more reliable than most evidence used to prove abuse, which tends to be testimonial.

A remarkably high proportion of abusers walk away even when the police have been involved, cf Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito. So no, there are not plenty of blinking neon signs. There are almost never blinking neon signs.

>The difference is that the phone doesn't sprout legs and run away from the victim, or otherwise assist the abuser in taking it away.

This is trivial and irrelevant.
I do the same. No phones after 8 pm. They are pretty free range before that. Better not catch them doing anything on their laptops other than homework after that. Everything goes on the kitchen table/counters after homework is over. I might relent a bit as they get older but tweens and younger seem to have zero self control with electronics. I let them free range with whatever on Saturday (i think everyone needs a safety valve day), but Sunday it's back to business as usual. Firewalls are great at limiting this stuff.
Yeah I've found I care a lot more about the layout than the keys.
I've learned I just want ANSI 60. It's minimal enough, the cognitive load is low/all keys that are not first class are one layout/fn press away.
I pay more for my current provider (not Swiss), but they support customer-provided modems and allows hosting within reason. Really depends on the type of user you are and what you value - I run my own servers etc. and prefer this service but someone else may prefer a plug-and-play approach with everything managed by the ISP.
For example that New York City couple that bungled the off ramp.
I for one am extremely glad that you in particular, and others of a similar mindset, had nothing at all to do with my pre-high-school education. It is truly unfortunate that not everyone else can say the same.

The right time to start "independent research" is approximately from birth. We should be overjoyed that any child is curious and eager to learn. Standing in their way by limiting access to educational resources based on arbitrary ideas of "age-appropriate materials" is absolutely a crime.
Well, to my surprise I have indeed met some western women who enjoyed hitchhiking through morocco alone (or together with a female friend). But they knew what to expect and were very strong women, who did not flinch by sexism and aggressive avances and could put them down.

They might have been lucky, though. A moroccan women who also hitchhiked a lot just stated, the closer to mauretania, the more rape attempts.
This just rehashing the "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" fallacy
C# JIT can remove it, specially if PGO is enabled.
I've been lucky enough to have sold two companies (edit: in the very low $XXX M range to provide context on the rest of my comment), and 1 is the most important point by far in this list.

The other thing that I almost think should be point 0 is that medium sized acquisitions (high $XX M - low $XXX M) are incredibly hard to "incept". If you're looking for a low $XX M exit, that can be justified with good tech + a good team. If you're looking for larger exits, that's all about revenue, and company traction.

For the high $XX M to low $XXX M acquisitions, you can't just start talking to companies 6 months to a year before you run out of cash to make it happen. Typical tech companies do product planning cycles 1 to 2 years in advance, and a key part of that planning cycle is whether they're going to build or buy parts of the solution. The result here is that unless your product/company is part of the acquirer's plan (e.g., either to buy you or to build equivalent that was too hard), it's really hard to get the corporate sponsor and the budget and the timeline etc to work. Hence, it's damn hard to "incept" a deal.

This is important for founders to understand IMO because so many of the recent Series A and Series B fund-raises have taken low $M ARR companies and given them valuations >$100M. That means these companies have no option but to go for a revenue and traction outcome after >$30-50M ARR. Tech acquirers aren't going to pay a premium of your Series B valuation if you don't have consistent off the charts growth. IMO, there's going to be disappointed employees mainly in a bunch of companies in the next 2-3 years.
AFAIK the question is whether the CDN’s server is inside or outside the EU. The argument being, if it’s outside, we can’t enforce anything anyway.
The interesting thing is that that was all planned from the start.

I think it's a TED talk but I'm not entirely sure. Buzzfeed was an MIT grad product to figure out how far they could go with virality and virality alone. If the project proved succesful, they'd invest in serious journalism.

It's all there in the video I don't have a link to!
I can give examples of each.

If you try to build Calculus on top of the complex numbers, you get complex analysis where every differentiable function winds up locally a power series, and things just work out over and over again unreasonably nicely.

Build Calculus on top of the real numbers, and as you dive in you wind up with menagerie of counterexamples. For example Weierstrass produced a function which is everywhere differentiable and nowhere twice differentiable. These are not mere curiosities, for example wavelets (heavily used in data analysis) always are only differentiable a finite number of times. We can ask whether infinitely differentiable functions can be represented by a power series. e^(-1/x^2) is the classic example of one which can't be at 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-analytic_smooth_function#A... offers one which is nowhere. And so on.

But now let's go from the real numbers to the natural numbers. The real numbers have an axiom system which is known to be consistent and complete. See https://math.stackexchange.com/a/362840/6708 for some of the details. However the natural numbers famously do not. (That's Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.) What goes wrong? Philosophically it turns out that the natural numbers can encode computation, computation can encode reasoning, and reasoning about reasoning allows us to encode the liar's paradox. Everything blows up, hopelessly, after that.

At a conceptual level what is happening is this. The complex numbers have a tremendous amount of structure. As you go towards having less and less structure, we can use that freedom to write down more logically complex things. Logically complex things give ways for stuff to go wrong. And the more depth you study these things in, the more that turns out to matter.
Yes, hiring is hard when you reject every candidate who can't breeze through leetcode hards in 20 mins.

I wonder how much tech companies paid nytimes to write this bs article. Most of my friends have a masters in CS from a top 50 uni, and plenty had work ex, and STILL had a ridiculously hard time getting hired.

Being international might have played a role, but fuck this perception that hiring is hard. If you are only targeting the tippy top candidates, yes it's hard, and that's by design.
You could make a site that provides the nice UI and charges a fee.
I think this hacker news post may yet again be a lesson for a lot of crypto fans that there are a ton of laws and regulations in place about money for very good reason.

There really is no conspiracy here.

The real problem is that crypto is a solution in search of a legal problem, and it hasn't found one yet. Unfortunately, it did find a lot of 'illegal problems'...

Yes, I'm making that argument again, but there's nothing more to it than this, as I see it.
Hasn't this happened every major release of windows?

- Windows requires some user authentication on release to prevent piracy

- ... but always caves or puts OEM backdoors for major corps/customers

- and those get pirated.
I worked at Google and ran the Exacycle project, see https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/02/stanford-and-...

At the time, google was very open to its software engineers doing interesting 20% projects that led to scientific papers, but I wasn't ever able to join the research org fulltime and be a researcher.
We've changed the title to one that uses representative language from the first paragraph.

Submitted title was "EU wants to completely ban anonymous payments with cryptocurrency assets".
I am not a crypto fan, but it's becoming more and more clear to me that crypto is the battleground for governments versus people. To survive and function, governments need the ability to levy taxes. This means that income needs to be tied to identity, and it needs to be accessible by the government. But cryptocurrency generally does not support those things, and in fact consider the resistance to them a feature, not a bug.

If a hypothetical world existed where an ungovernable cryptocurrency took over all forms of transactions, what is the plan to pay taxes? I'm not a huge fan of taxes either, but I think most of us can agree that we need some taxes.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledges to end tenure for new hires at Texas public univs
With enough tracking it's a lot easier to enforce rules making being oppressive a lot easier.
IMO the issue is that people are attracted to these platforms for the ad-money and attention of an audience, but the extent to which you open yourself up to harassment and stalking is only understood after-the-fact.

If only social media hadn't enforced real name policies, it might be a little easier to stay anonymous while still being a content creator, maybe its different in other countries.

Edit: Facebook and Google+/Youtube had or have real name policies, before then it was the norm to never reveal your real identity online, I admit I am ignorant to TikTok policies, but apparently sharing your venmo address is not uncommon.