skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet you wish you hadn't spent those hundreds of bitcoin, don't you?

As I said in the last post I linked, Bitcoin handles a few billion dollars a year in cross-border remittances, largely to family members in Venezuela; this suggests that it's keeping several million people alive. I hear there are still darknet markets around, too. So there are current uses as a genuine medium of exchange that are very significant.

Do they amount to its primary use? I don't know. I suspect Bitcoin's primary use right now is speculation, and I wish that would settle down, because I'd really appreciate it if the money I get paid in would retain roughly the same value for weeks at a time. But perhaps the primary use of US$100 bills is cocaine trafficking; if so, what does it matter to people who are using them for other things? If the primary use of oxygen were feeding pathogenic bacteria, would you stop using oxygen?

I don't think it's a problem that Bitcoin doesn't contain its own fraud or contract dispute resolution mechanisms. Neither do gold, silver, copper, or greenbacks, and they work pretty well as currencies. Last time I had a dispute about a Bitcoin transaction, I resolved it by negotiating with the person I was disputing with to find a mutually agreeable settlement, which took about an hour; failing that, theoretically I could have resorted to talking to their friends, the Mafia, or, yes, the police, but probably I would have just swallowed my losses and not done business with them again. (In theory I could also have resorted to individual violence, too, which is probably the most common dispute resolution mechanism after simple negotiation.)

You may or may not be aware of this, but commerce is enormously older than states are, perhaps by a factor of ten, and a great deal of it has been conducted throughout history outside the aegis of any shared authority to whom disputes could plausibly be referred. It's true that a good dispute resolution mechanism reduces the risks of commerce, but commerce is often still worthwhile without it. Ask anybody who's worked under the table, been an illegal immigrant, rented a room illegally, or bought drugs on the street.

I'm not railing against government systems in this thread. They have their good points and their bad points. Fundamentally, though, I think history has proven out Lord Acton's maxim that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; and, because I have seen the devastation corrupt governments can wreak, I do not think that governments should have absolute power.

I especially do not think the US government should have absolute power over Russians, or that the Chinese government should have absolute power over Americans; the history of such arrangements is replete with avoidable famines and intentional genocides.
In which way does what I want matter? I merely point out Putin's hypocrisy, consisting in attacking a country that gave up voluntarily its nuclear weapons and that would not be getting American weapons at all if it weren't for its aggressive neighbour. If Putin were really frightened by NATO, he would not be destabilising Ukraine, he would be undermining Poland.
Most wartime deaths are not combat deaths. Disease, dehydration, accidents, etc. have always been the greatest source of casualties.
Left wing propaganda is destabilizing the US from the inside.

You can’t be a republican without being called a nut job anymore. We’re more divided than ever.
some in a screenshot but I bet you can find the data if you look elsewhere:

https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/25-february-hacktivist-group-a...
The reality is that swift decisive action in a coordinated fashion is the only way to stop an aggressor that suggest that everyone else needs to also lie down and shut up or they will get a thrashing too.
Game theory says “on three JUMP HIM!”

Multiple entities need to act with force in non economic ways that render collective bullying impossible.

Game theory says “gang up now instead of letting your strongest get picked off first and your collective force diminished “

The old “first they came for the xyz but I wasn’t an xyz so I didn’t say anything “ story.

Or surely Ukraine will not be the last victim.

Putin has apparently and obviously thrown all caution and concern for domestic approval etc to the wind. What is his rush? He’s moving quickly.
Best to act now.

Nuclear war is a multifaceted weapon, hence the ‘M’ in MAD

it’s not automatic or known what the trigger threshold is for this, and engagement has indeed occurred between nuclear powers is recent times…
The same reason people go on any platform — because you want to reach the audience that is specific to that platform.

Sure you could put your video exclusively on Vimeo or host it yourself but then you miss out on the massive YouTube audience that won’t discover your content any other way. Same with Facebook.
<progress>, <fieldset>, <datalist>, <details>, and <mark> tags are obscure?

Don't tell that to the billion-dollar healthcare company I'm currently building a web site for.
> If philosophy is outlawed, only outlaws will do philosophy.
OK, makes sense. I looked at the schematic and saw a lot tied to the regulator enable pin, and that compromise sounds great for the badge use case.
Curious, what you think these are? I am "European" and probably have such disagreements, it doesn't necessarily make me incompatible... diversity is great...I mean look at the advantages it's already brought (even if the f.. politicians enjoy "playing" with it) I'm personally for integration not assimilation ...
We're you alive before 9/11? Things are far worse in the US than 20 years ago. Literally everything.
The most important idea is that you have to undo the gamma correction, work with linear light (probably 16 bits), and then apply the gamma correction again. In linear light it is meaningful to average colors, add colors (like you have two projectors pointed at the wall), simulate subtractive colors (filters), etc.
Lot's of reasons. Read the court cases and see why the judges explain it's actually legal to do and see you have no chance of winning. Or read the Prosecution reply briefs where the Prosecutors point out that the convicted felon as part of his plea agreement agreed to not challenge his conviction in any way. If you take a plea (which cuts 20 years off your sentence because of the trial tax (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/com... )) any challenge to your conviction invalidates your plea and puts you at risk of a longer sentence (which for example takes a 4 year bit to 20). I mean, yeah, you have a right to challenge, but it doesn't come without an implied threat and risk of high cost. And of course, going to court involves transport back to your sentencing court, which is basically you volunteering for the previously mentioned diesel therapy. Also, you can't sue the Feds unless you have 'actual damages'. This is a very high bar to overcome legally. Look at the cases of gross medical incompetence in prison. You also have to show actual malice and not just gross complacency or incompetence, again an very high legal bar to meet. Dude, you can only challenge an illegal sentence or one that is in error for 14 days (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_35). Go read that link and realize American justice is not what you think. And remember, during these 14 days you are being transferred from a detention center to your place of incarceration, so good luck putting together that Rule 35 motion with no access to legal resources, stability, writing materials.
I think trolling, misinformation, etc. are big problems, but forcing everyone to use their real identities online is a mistake. I see several problems with it.

First, you take away people's ability to learn how to be a good participant by using a low value identity. I did this a lot when I was younger and I think it's extremely important for kids and young adults to have the option of throwing away their identity to start over. Think of it like bankruptcy for your reputation.

I used a pseudonym when I first started participating on open source bug trackers and mailing lists. I think it turns out that I was doing a good job of participating even though I was a bit unsure of myself, but I still think it was a good idea to leave myself the option of abandoning that identity. When I started using my real name I was concerned about tarnishing my permanent reputation, so I was always careful with things I said. I think that's helped me become a much better participant. I never talk politics, I wait a day to post if I'm frustrated, I say please and thank you, and I don't contradict project members unless I can back it up with a provable test case (or qualify it with "in my opinion", etc. if it's subjective).

Second, you're not going to eliminate misinformation if it's propaganda from a nation-state. At that point there's nothing stopping them from creating new identities as needed and those identities will be more valuable because everyone will be operating under the false assumption they're dealing with a natural person with a verified identity. You could force everyone to use their real legal name in an attempt to help people distinguish nationalities, but the appropriateness of that approach is a debate on its own and there's nothing that says a person from the US or UK can't have a Russian or Chinese name. What's next? Are we going to make people participate with their full legal name and address?

Third, you'll create an opportunity for someone else to capture the social media markets by building a better system that doesn't require identity verification. People will take the path of least resistance. That's why YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. got popular. They were easy to use. I'm from Canada. Why would I subject myself to identity verification to use a (foreign) US platform if there's a competing (foreign) Chinese platform that doesn't ask for my photo ID and a face scan?

Opening the door for China or Russia to build competing systems is a bad idea if you're from a western country and a welcome opportunity if you're not. I think there's value in oversight and regulation and, since I'm from Canada, I always favor services that have Canadian regulators (FINTRAC, CRTC, CIRA etc.). However, that's only for things involving money and that I consider valuable (financial accounts, phone numbers, domains). I'm not sure if I'd choose a Canadian regulated social media platform that requires my government ID over a foreign competitor that doesn't if I don't attribute any value to the account / profile.
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Sorry, you keep repeating that linking strikes in 1980, but the freedom came 10 years later (after Soviet union collapse). Those protests gave us (I mean as a consequence, not to say they were not justified) martial law and so called "lost decade". Miserable time. I also hope for a big change in Russia after some revolution, but it is not that simple under a strict dictatorship.
Eternity is fiction. It isn't evidence, it's a story.

Compare Lord of the Flies with https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-... .

There will be a range of outcomes.

That said, my plan is to become Mormon.
There is almost no "left" (in the European sense) in the US. So yes, not much to subvert.
There've been a couple of cases I've seen on HN where people have done this on personal sites or small projects, so far.
I disagree, this is much less clear. It also don't work well with pytest's error output.
Crimea is an essential port for Russia's long term interests.
Others have already mentioned the location between Kyiv and the Belarusian border. Another reason could be that there are huge wetlands on the Ukraine–Belarus border, with only a few major roads across. If Russia wants to move troops and supplies in that general region, they have to pass by Chernobyl.
With most locking logic, it’s a series of escalations from the most optimistic/polite to least polite solution, and the worst case behavior is when a sequence always goes to the worst case scenario. In these situations, assuming the worst up front, and jumping straight to it or something very similar saves a lot of bargaining that leads to cache pressure and branch prediction.

ETA: It's also quite common in engineering blogs for languages, libraries or frameworks, an entry detailing how in the new version they have made a performance improvement by making the fast case faster, or the predictor more accurate, and then removed option 2 from the decision tree, so that we get a bigger benefit from the happy path and the average case, and as a benefit the system is now simpler as well.
If you stare too long into the abyss, you're under arrest.
All currency is fiat. No medium of exchange that isn't strictly bartering is of arbitrary value.
Linked handy statistical lexicon glossary is neat: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_stat...
I think there need to be more info here. I'm a one man shop. I don't have other people to review my code (although it is available on GitHub).

I would imagine that very mall projects have don't have well defined standards or have limited time (volunteers).

Maybe these are weak reason, but I don't know.
SWIFT is more like an AOL intranet. It only kinda works because America's global military dominance forces everyone to use it. But it's not actually as great as it could be if it was an actual internet that was open and permissionless for all to plug into.

If only we had a monetary network that was open and permissionless...
And it would be much more complex to implement, particularly with recursively nested types.
No, everyone just wanted to have their cake and eat it too. NATO wanted forward airbases and missile sites in Ukraine and the EU also wanted cheap gas. Turns out nobody is surprised that you can't have both
Protesting against the government in Russia is a jailable offense. People have families, kids, lives. To most citizens of Russia, this war is pointless and they do not want it. But actually protesting it lands them in jail, possibly their families too. Are you suggesting that they abandon all of that just cause a website tells them that? Or is it your point that collective punishment works (it doesn't)?

Or maybe you think that if enough websites block them, people will think "well, maybe jail ain't so bad, so that i could access www.belltacospersonalsite.com"

EDIT: throttled, so reply to below comment by nope96 about calling in sick:

Call in sick -> no money -> your kids starve. Once again. It is easy to be sitting here and theorizing. Life is a lot more harsh in the former USSR.
It's somewhere in the middle. Russian propaganda exaggerates it. But some episodes truly happen.
How did you create the image (in 'How does this work')? Looks super clean.
Well, seems like it was successful in 2016 subverting our election. And, convincing a sitting US President to be a lacky of Putin.
This (no phones, no notifications) has singlehandedly been the most effective step I have taken for better concentration.
I am not a developer, never was, but I know most of the stuff in these lines. If I know about it, I expect a front-end developer to know a lot more - the developer is not a monkey pushing buttons in a framework to get a banana and web development frameworks should not be black boxes that nobody using it understands how it works and why. That is a level of superficiality that is terrifying.
Having read three comments here by people who spent time in solitary for drug crimes, I hope we can all realize the only way to fix our over-policed, over-imprisoned society is to legalize drugs.

We all watched and waited a long, long time for everyone to come around to the fact that the rights of LGBTQ people must be protected. A legion of cowards held us back for generations, and in the meantime immeasurable suffering was endured. Now, we're waiting for the cowards once again to acknowledge the painfully obvious (drugs can't be eliminated in a free society despite how many billions we spend or how many rights we abridge) and in the meantime we have to watch lives get ruined every single day for consensual acts with no victims.

Hurry up, cowards.
You could still review your code line by line even if technically that would not be considered a code review.
> You're treating an aggressive war in Europe like a minor calamity

I have absolutely no idea why you say this, and I can assure you that I am not doing this.

Fuel poverty in Europe and the UK are among many reasons why those nations should take what's happening in the Ukraine very seriously. My concern is that the ruling parties don't take these things seriously enough.

To reassure you: I completely agree that states should look after their citizens who cannot eat or keep themselves warm. Unfortunately, this demonstrably does not happen.

The situation in Ukraine is dreadful, and I certainly do not think it is minor. Quite the opposite.
It's necessary to shorten and simplify dialogs. Not everything that is said would fit on the screen.

Often I can understand how they shortened it, sometimes I understand only one variant. And of course sometimes everything is just too fast.

Still, the French subtitles are essential for me to understand French movies.

(studied French in school decades ago and semi-actively trying to stop forgetting)
We can only speculate but I notice Grammarly has a feature for plagiarism detection[0].

> Ensure your work is fresh and original by checking it against 16 billion web pages.

How do they know what text is on 16B web pages? Presumably they have a web crawler of some sort.

[0] https://www.grammarly.com/plans
How can someone protest an authoritarian regime without putting themselves at risk?
>People will now have more control over who can contact them and be able to stop the tidal wave of hate served up to them by rogue algorithms.

No, it'll strip UK people of the safety of online anonymity and do nothing about said hate, trolls and fake accounts still flooding in from the other 194 countries/corners of the internet.

UK has been on a rather ominous surveillance state trip lately.
Yes and yes (to a point), but the bigger thing is that the entire update doesn't trickle down through every layer of vendor involved in your "device". If you're a typical PC gaming enthusiast, you probably get Windows updates directly from Microsoft and GPU driver updates directly from Nvidia.

The Android model would be more like Nvidia giving a GPU driver update to EVGA, who has to adapt it for your specific card, and then give that to Asus, who has to integrate it into their Windows updates for your specific motherboard model.
I get your point about bloated NPM libraries but I think it's also ironic that NPM is the only registry with some of the _smallest_ packages which are equally as annoying. left-pad, ansi-yellow, ansi-red (yes, packages for a single console color with over 200k monthly downloads), is-odd, is-even (which of course, depends on is-odd and inverts it), etc.
> Thus, the war happened because Vladimir Putin wanted it to happen and he wanted it to happen to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine; it is as yet unclear if he then intends to annex the country or place a puppet government in charge of it (which given the diminished independence of Belarus, might amount to the same thing in the end).

This is a little bit of a let down. "It happened because Putin wanted it to happen".

Looking at the way Putin talks and behaves, his actions are like actions of a child who has a tantrum. He's very emotional, probably someone pissed him off very much on an inner child level. Maybe someone threatened taking his toys away. The man seems to be very irrational, he says words that to him are reasonable, but they're so shallow that someone with half a brain can read through it in a split-second.

I think this is all personal. There could be things happening within a very small circle of people causing his childish reaction. We have to remember that those at the top of world politics know each other for decades. Putin ain't a superhuman, he's simply like a 12 year old bully but unfortunately he has 850k active military personnel, a fuck-ton of tanks, artillery and air force.

Without justifying anything Putin has done, let's consider an alternative narrative. Let's accept that what American intelligence is saying, that he was preparing this for 15 or 20 years. Putin once before the invasion said something along the lines that "Americans (rest of the world?) have done similar things". Maybe his actions are as simple as "look, they've done it so many times and THEY won't let ME do X, they profited here and there and they forbid me from doing the same, I will show them" where that X maybe even wasn't about Ukraine in the first place? Although, it probably was. He watched USSR collapse under drunk Yeltsin.

But from Putin's perspective: Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush and co. Unjustified war backed by totally falsified evidence, no idea how a regular person in the USA benefits from those but I'm sure military industry made a killing on it. Iraq alone was, depending on the source, from 460k to over 1m "excessive casualties".

Libya? What was the point? Proxy war in Syria? What's the point? Are the alternatives we have now better?

I'm not saying "but look what the other side did", whataboutism isn't what I'm doing here. I'm saying: this is how Putin maybe sees it.

As Putin was getting more and more isolated, he felt ignored, frustrated, angry. That he cannot finish his plan because the guard has changed and those who did similar things alongside him are no longer in power. And like an ignored and frustrated bully, he waited around the bush and smacked the victim right in the nose. Unfortunately, this victim is the people of Ukraine and the smack is tanks and bombs.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay how severe this situation is. Innocent people suffer and die. Putin is a criminal and he will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. He will stand in the same line as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the rest from this list: https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html.
Who are such historic examples?
Anti-nuclear sentiment long preceded social media and has far more to do with visceral images coming from traditional media sources around events like Cherynobyl, 3 Mile Island, Fukushima, etc.

It makes no sense to blame anti-nuclear sentiment on Russia. The evidence just isn't there, they happen to heavily benefit from it but the anti-nuclear sentiment but are not the primary cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement
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"ask" is quite overstating the case. There were some informal conversations between individuals.
That has been true up until very recently, but lately there has emerged an uncanny valley that has confused the distinction between "underpaid freelance (ESL) writer farm" and "shoddy but roughly convincing neural language model" so that you may be convinced the blogspam you may happen upon across the internet may just as easily be computer-generated as anything else.
Oh oh, next do the Depository Trust Company and how people don't actually own their stock shares of most public stocks either :)
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