skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No she isn't, and if you're going to come out with specific accusations: fucking prove it.

8 arrests. Wow. Looks like they burned your whole town down. Except that didn't happen, and the police won. The Democrats did this to you? No. Far left activists in masks.

Seems like Brendan Eich had a raw experience. He also seems like he's doing fine. "Extra-legal"? Nonsense word.

Maybe too many people are losing their jobs due to accidentally saying mean things about gay people; maybe this is politically lopsided; if so, quantify it.

Again, if you think it's anything like the equivalent of the laws listed in those prior links, you're simply refusing to reckon with what I'm saying.

I think I'm finished. Wish HN allowed for account deletion.
The problem with Polish MIGs was deferring the decisions entirely into US hands and exposing all talk and no will, at least when no profits are to be made by US arms manufacturers /1. All of a sudden something "obvious and imminent" became "complicated and untenable".

/1 Of the declared $800mil Anti armor launchers account for ~$400mil, then the other $400mil pays for some small arms, personal armor, ammo and 100 drones? Its pure mil complex walfare program.
I generally would not trust smart contracts to deal with those issues. They run afoul of the classic problem with ensuring that the blockchain and meatspace are in sync with each other.

To wit: it may be very difficult for me to ensure that the smart contract does not contain a malicious payload. Even if we pinky swear to there being no malicious payloads. Perhaps even if I read the code in an effort to personally confirm that there's no funny business going on.

This very problem is a big part of why smart contracts are becoming a popular tool for confidence artists. There seem to be a lot of people who are very (one might even say unreasonably) confident that the fact that smart contracts can't be altered after the fact makes them inherently trustworthy.
I read years ago that there was a minor industry of lawyers looking at satellite photos to find motels with a swimming pool, and then suing them for the pool not being ADA compliant.

The usual result was the pool got filled in, as it was too expensive to upgrade it.

Who came out ahead? Nobody but the lawyers.
“Just Google It”: Algorithms of Oppression
> And now you state that it all doesn't matter

Where do I state that? Im just asking you to back up your claims.
The real issue is that screenreaders suck. It's not my problem that your screen reader can't read your screen.
Yes they do, just like the OSI is clear on what open source is. But those terms don't explicitly mean that, which is why there is disagreement, especially if the groups supporting them fall into disrepute. I am asking what better name we can find for this, one that is self-evident rather than one that is only made unambiguous by the active work of either OSI or FSF.
> That's not how currency works, people have to want your coins for you to spend them.

The year is 2011. Visa and Mastercard have denied everyone the ability to donate money to wikileaks, despite the fact that they were not charged with any crimes.

And yet, back then, I could still send them bitcoin.

So yes, actually, even though only a small subset of people actually used bitcoin (especially back then!), it provided a very real and immediate usecase, for people who wanted to achieve that usecase of sending money to a charity that broke no laws, that the credit card companies were block payments so.

Everything that you are saying, is immediately counteracted and proven wrong by actual real world examples of people using crypto currencies.
Researchers See Twinkle of Promise in Diamond Transistors
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Zero what? Zero purchasing power? No, it is not.
> a matter of days

Simply cooling the magnets back to operating temperature will take longer than that. ITER's coils will take a month to cool down from room temperature.

The problem with leaks isn't so much that tritium is dangerous; the problem is that a leak (of coolant, or air) into the vacuum vessel destroys the ability of the fusion reactor to function at all.

One of the big problems with fusion that Lidsky pointed out is they cram all this complexity into a space that's off limits to people (due to induced radioactivity). Anything breaks there, even something minor? Time consuming pain. Abdou has put up numbers on estimated MTBF and MTTR for fusion reactors that given uptimes of maybe 4%.
>just look at the state of those countries themselves

three out of four of them are doing alright, and the one that didn't failed because it endorsed an economic system that engaged exactly in the kind of cronyism and bizarre political machinations that the OP actually wants on a school curriculum.

>The ones who survive are the calculators who can't think for themselves

Well neither can your average Ivy league humanity's graduate at this point so at least they've got that in common. Thinking for yourself is overrated. if you manage to produce engineers at a rate ten times higher than everyone else and manage to not destroy your economy with central planning you'll surprised how far that can take you.
> (It gets a little complicated, I believe the reasoning was that Neo4j could only add the commons clause as the original copyright holder/licensor, no sub-licensor could add it)

This has been always the point. All GPL licenses have a similar clause.
> Stocks represent ownership

Stock represents specific rights (which may differ across classes) typically including a claim on assets at dissolution.
Right? What a strange anti-endorsement.
I don't care what the OSI thinks, I do care what we call it. I asked what we call it.
> Cryptocurrencies have a valid but very specific use-case: being able to transact in a hostile environment.

You'd be lucky to have working computers, power sources and internet connections in a hostile environment. Cash and physical assets are king in that domain.

Governments can order exchanges to halt trading and liquidation, or demand haircuts, and 99% of people who hold cryptocurrency won't be able to do anything about it.
I also haven't seen any work of his using ML, that may just be a buzzword thrown in the PR release. But if anyone's interested, I believe this is the paper alluded to in the article:

Clock synchronization: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/geng

I think the TechCrunch article doesn't really explain their application of clock synchronization well. Here are the other relevant papers and my attempt at explaining the general idea below.

Network edge-based measurement (one-way delay?):
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi19-geng.pdf

Congestion Control:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi21-liu.pdf

Each paper I've listed builds on the last. Their method to synchronize clocks made accurate and efficient measurement of one-way delay possible with commodity hardware. This measurement of one-way delay occurs at the edge, allowing them to "hold" incoming packets at the edge for extremely small periods to reduce congestion (latency) while maintaining throughput. From my understanding, traditional congestion control algorithms require rich telemetry from the entire network, which is likely not accessible in a public cloud environment. Balaji and clockwork's algorithms only need to make these measurements from the edge (which customers in public cloud have access to).

I'm curious to see how all this will scale for multi-region deployments. If the latency between VMs from region 1 and region 2 is significant, I wonder if the measurement will actually be useful in deciding to "hold" the packets.
If carbon offsets are fictional, then so are CO2 emissions. The numbers have meaning when summed over the whole planet. If there's no accounting for the whole planet, then they don't mean anything.

It's also ludicrous that carbon intensity should be policed on a scale smaller than the planet. Would it make sense to regulate a semi truck to have the same emissions as a personal car? Or a software company the same as a mining company?

Just because one can point to the current system of accounting and say it's not working doesn't mean there is any alternative to fixing it. It's like pointing out that you won't be able to find your keys in the dark, and advocating looking under the streetlight, when they're not there.
> Hope Webb is safe in its Lagrange point for a long life

JWST has a 5-year science mission requirement, with 10-year propellant life. Unfortunately it has a relatively short upper-bound on its lifetime, compared to say Hubble. Though apparently there's ~20-years of propellant onboard thanks to a precise launch, still a far cry form Hubble's 31 years and still ticking.

Should we consider 20-years a long life for such an expensive instrument?
Except US was the initiator of the whole idea with Blinken doing press rounds for over a week telling everyone how he negotiated this deal with Polish gov.
> Surely $21M doesn’t get dropped with at least someone doing due dill on the tech?

You’d be surprised, I was.
The NASA press release, which includes the same photo but at a decent resolution: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-align...
It's not bypassing due process. The process is: "Are they Russian oligarchs? If yes, confiscate everything."

Reactions to war a blunt like this. It could have been avoided only by Russia.
The supply issues in the UK were nonsense. It was available in the market. Producing more would also not have been a problem.

You also skipped over the the part of your opinion being not reason enough to start societal conflict. I do sympathies with your views, however any such behavior comes with a cost. And looking around we cant really afford more conflict over trivial things. Your feelings might not be important enough to add to the problem with no clear harm at stake.
People could send Bitcoin to Wikileaks in 2011 because there were mechanisms to turn that Bitcoin back into real money.

A point that's been raised multiple times elsewhere on this page is that Bitcoin has no backup strategy for when exchanges start getting targeted. It's not a good anti-authoritarian tool because the ability for it to be converted into a usable form exists at the pleasure of governments, who are increasingly looking at regulating exchanges.

Sure, you can send Bitcoin to people who want Bitcoin. Great. The question is, who is going to want Bitcoin under an authoritarian regime if it can't be easily converted into a spendable currency for real goods and services? Does Bitcoin survive when it has to be spendable on its own? Because at that point it's not just Wikileaks that has to accept it, the people/businesses that Wikileaks is buying from and transacting with have to accept it as well.

There's a difference between a currency and transfer mechanism. Bitcoin right now works (somewhat, kinda) as a transfer mechanism because exchanges exist and because people trust it as a transfer mechanism for other currencies.
> In plain language it is vastly more important that you vibe with the person you spend hours talking with about your problems than that they have training.

100% agree, and thank you
> Is there a reason he should be apologizing?

Good manners? The business he represents is unable to accommodate a customer's needs. He should be nice about that. We have no indication that the bartender got berated.
Theres truth here but it only really applies to people who have trouble doing effective group work over the Internet.

Other people seem to be wired differently.
I doubt that is the case. But rather what the media has been pushing. When half of the cast of every show created today is minority members it is easy for the public to assume that is representative of the nation.
Oh, I like freedomware. Though it is not immediately obvious what kinds of freedom; I can imagine Commons Clause software being called freedomware as well.
Cryptocurrencies have a valid but very specific use-case: being able to transact in a hostile environment.

Yes. In the early days, people were thinking retail sales of illegal drugs. That turned out to be a petty cash application. What really powered Bitcoin usage was getting money out of China despite exchange controls. There have been disclosures in recent years which established that the money laundering sector was much larger than previously thought.[1][2][3] Just a fraction of that moving through the cryptocurrency system may account for most of the growth in Bitcoin.

[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/

[2] https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/

[3] https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers
Nobody is dancing around anything. We need to stop pretending its ignorance driving the housing bubble. The problem is real estate is treated as an investment and in many cases the most important investment for ordinary people. More housing works against their interests.
All you are doing is transferring bits from a sender to recvier. to turn those bits into usable cash requires an offramp, and that is where regulation comes into play.
I mean, if you don’t want to denormalize your data, you’re going to need to think about indexes in some capacity regardless (this is true for non-relational DBs like Dynamo and Mongo too).

"get the 10 latest comments on this market, plus the associated avatars" couldn’t be better suited to a relational DB. That’s a textbook use case that Postgres would be amazingly well suited to.

Also: remember with Firestone that you’re paying for redundancy and availability that’s entirely Google managed. Most DB offerings you work with on your own are significantly more hands on as far as recovery / backups / replication go.

Engineering time is usually more expensive than server costs when you’re a startup, so think about how much time it’d take to do it yourself before you decide to optimize your server costs over R&D costs.
The irony in this is that the Citizens United ruling, at least in the US, affirmed that spending money is speech. It's actually one of the reasons why I'm an ardent supporter of postal banking. Since the USPS is an arm of the federal government, it must work within the confines of the First Amendment[0].

As it stands, I remain pretty unconvinced that cryptocurrencies writ large solve this kind of (at least, what I call) "borderless" free speech problem today. They simply don't do enough to frustrate the state or the incumbent banking institutions, mostly because they aren't actually peer to peer enough where it counts. Notably, I can't transact with other people on the network with only my smartphone or a small computer communicating 1000's of kilometers over the radio using digital modes without also relying on, e.g., an exchange to act as an intermediary.

How do these systems handle large-scale network partitions where an entire geographic region stops announcing its prefixes to the wider Internet but continues to process transactions and append to the blockchain within its borders? Does the blockchain fork? How is that fork resolved? (Is it ever resolved? The existence of Ethereum Classic implies to me that it isn't, or at least isn't required to be, and I find that prospect frankly frightening.)

The tank analogy is quite apropos, I find. Without a convoy of trucks bringing in fuel, the tanks stop. An adversary powerful enough to sever your connection to the outside world (whether in terms of electricity to keep things going or network connectivity) for the purposes of transacting seems like quite the Achilles' heel.

[0]: Modulo other rulings. Modulo the impartiality of SCOTUS.
I agree with everything you said except a couple of things.

>Unless crypto becomes actually useful for real world transactions, it has to be converted to fiat currency for use, and all the exchanges or technologies that do that conversion are subject to the will of governments.

This is true, except that in some places governments are too inefficient to even control those things. The IT people works for them for pennies, and got there because they are the cousin of some politician. They are also not very capable, otherwise they would work for someone who paid them better and on time. I'm using my country as an example, where people trade them for money in fintech wallets and not banks, since they are more difficult to control despite also having a KYC process.

>Governments are powerful and to think that crypto or anything in the internet space is resistant to that power in the most extreme situations is not wise.

Other decentralized technologies simpler than cryptocurrencies prove this to be wrong. And I'm talking about torrents and some other kinds of P2P networks.

Those things are used mostly for piratery, they make companies lose money, so there's an incentive for governments to take them down, yet they fail to do so.
On the other hand, crypto is seen as an investment by people who actually own a lot of money. Investors from big banks sometimes have at least a very, very small portion of their portfolios on it because it would be dumb to not take that risk for just a small amount of money they can afford to lose. So a government might not be that much focused into taking it down since a lot of "important" folks of the business industry are on it too

The only thing I think the US government might be truly worried about are the so-called stablecoins. Having an alternative to the USD is risky for their monetary control, since the supply can be artificially expanded with cryptos like UST which is a decentralized stablecoin, instead of centralized and backed by real dollars
Excited about this. I like the Mac HW but hate MacOs. I can't delete iTunes, books, etc. Switched development to a Chromebook for a decent Linux experience.
My first encounter with doxbin, apparently a pastebin clone but for doxing.
I don't care about corporate rights I care about consumer rights. If it says Made in the USA, especially food stuffs, it should never have left the country for any purpose, I might make an exception for Canada, but only because they have as good or better standards as the USA. I don't trust Mexico or the Chinese FDA equivalents, given the sheer amount of corruption in those countries. I hope this lousy decision is appealed as high as it needs to go.
Yes, use the front brake, it gives you a lot more stopping power than the rear brake. This is even more important on a motorcycle, where the front brake has something like 90% of the total braking force.

One could even argue that it doesn't even make much sense to use rear brake at all on a motorcycle: while in some cases using rear brake only might be enough (e.g. when you want to just slow down a little), you still should be using front brake every time, to develop muscle memory so that you will use the front one whenever you need to break hard. Never using the rear one forces you to develop proper habit of always using the front one. The loss of braking force from not using rear brake is rather small, especially as you can't push on it hard when you're brake using front one, because you're risking skidding rear wheel, as almost all weight is on the front tire. Recovering from rear skid is not what you want to be thinking about when emergency braking.

That said, using both front and rear brake on a motorcycle does make a difference, so if you've been practicing emergency braking (or have ABS on your bike) and are comfortable with a little bit of skidding, you can use both to squeeze some extra stopping power. Crucially, though, remember to always use the front one.
Wow, the subscribe to our mailing list pop up is really aggressive. Won't let me read the article until i give a fake email and check the box saying i consent to get spammed.

Some weird things in this article:

> Whether tissue damage is caused by disease or even space travel, faulty mitochondria are frequently involved.

What a weird phrasing. Is space travel a frequent cause of this sort of thing?

> “We would never publish that [luxery perfusion diminished after treatment]; it would never hold up to scrutiny,”

Feel like this is irresponsible reporting if they don't put why it wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. Naively, if the effect was consistent, it certainly seems like something that would be publishable.
The good news is that it varies tremendously across the University. Most of the Mathematics faculty are quite numerate, for example.

If you're considering hiring someone who did a degree in Political Science, on the other hand...
Your lucky, my disk breaks have certainly saved my life in SF more than once. The one that really sticks with me is watching the cyclist in front of me fly into the air from getting hit by a speeding car ignoring the no right turn sign. If I had not braked hard I would have hit the side of that car.

I spoke with the police after offering to testify and they did not want to take a report even saying it was an insurance matter. I twisted their arm but later after getting in touch with the hit cyclist who was nearly killed again offering to testify found out they threw my report away. The injured cyclist was so traumatized he just wanted to put it behind him.

I got lots of stories and have been hit multiple times, had a friend killed on her cycle. I hate that the narative is all about defensive cycling and not that cars kill and no one cares especially SF cops.
Do you mean regular army? Because Russian Airspace Force definitely has killed a few dozen foreign mercs (and presumably "military advisors") in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavoriv_military_base_attack
The situation is closer to 1914 than 1939. And I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that the escalation that led to the first world was a colossal mistake
Ah yes, that paper. I cite it often.

The reactor described there has a thermal power density 1/40th that of a PWR reactor vessel. And it uses so much beryllium that using the entire world's estimated resource of that element would let you build enough reactors to supply maybe 1% of world primary energy demand.
Yes every morning someone posts a comment for each sprint goal, and people post updates in the comment threads.

It would be nice if we had bot to automate posting the original comments, but we haven’t got around to that yet.
Have you seen any articles on what was learned in the design and manufacturing and if NASA believes that similar cost and time overruns can be avoided on follow ups?

Really curious if $10 Billion is just what it actually costs to build this incredible machine, or if the pioneering work will mean that we can do a better job making things like it now.
Archive.org is blocked by UK mobile providers. We need to go one layer deeper with a mirror of the archive of the paywall.
Fantastic idea and looks great.

I can see this going to another level if it had...

1) list of suggested travel hotspots to drag and drop
2) provided travel time information between activities
3) show the activites on a map so traveller can visualise and re organise based on location.
In both of these equations you’re expecting a payment rails at the time of transaction to understand both the product and the regulatory environment for that product at a given location. This is unreasonably complex.

What you’re asking for is a way to make these disproportionately illegal transactions on demand at scale. This isn’t a position on technology, it’s a position on government.
It died in 2008 - it's now just the search engine on Amazon.com Feel free to promote Amazon :) Prime is pretty good
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It's only reasonable for corporations. None of this is in the interest of the consumer.
The glass half full haruspicy is that it might mean we'll be forced to start thinking about designing an even better one 5-10 years from now :)