skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same could be said about paying in cash. Order a beer, hand over a 20 expecting change, bartender gives you 5 beers and no change. In that case you can convince the bartender (who allready said no can do) or call the police (though it might be a civil issue rather than criminal, so calling the cops won't produce any results and you will have to take it up with them via the civil court system).

BUt I get your point, I used some automated "pay by crypto" checkout system a few months ago, their automated system never picked up the transaction even though the coins where in their wallet, they first blamed me and said they would refund if I paid the fee's which were not in a coin I had on hand so had to do some giggling about to get this small amount (was like < $1 of coins so it was easier to just pay this fee than it was to complain), then after they recieved this fee they said they would return the funds minus 8% as that 8% was their "handling fee".

NOW they did return all the funds I transfered so maybe that 2nd email was just a canned message but it was still a jab to the gut them saying "yeah, our system messed up and we want you to pay to fix it".
It's an interesting take but I think it makes a common error of confusing the propaganda used to justify going to war with the actual reasons.

This is critical because the propaganda reasons are slaved to the real reasons and wont figure much if at all in peace talks.

Caspian report has a good video on the geographical and political imperatives behind the war: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkrLUFAcjH0
Modernizing the PlayCanvas Back End Infrastructure
Fastest growing open-source startups in Q1 2022
Internet was around for a very long time before we got the www... And even when the www came around it could not do much. people have short memories.
How about:
You can bump the major version with no incompatible changes and still be semver compliant
The author is well known for being an outspoken critic of crypto. She is speaking to the toxicity of cyber bullying, not criticism itself.
I am. What's wrong with people who want to tear down power structures and live free of oppression? Disclaimer: i was not in CHAZ and am not aware of anything that may have gone wrong along the way.
Left anarchists are mostly pretty down on the concept of money full stop. Magic cypherpunk money is no different to state-backed fiat money in that respect.
Where are you located that visa and MasterCard are charging 3%?

In the EU the fees are limited to 0.3%, and in other areas (e.g. the UK) it's 1%. As a card holder I'm pretty happy to pay a ~0.3% service fee to know that I have recourse with a merchant, for example.

> I just want an efficient low-cost barrierless payment network.

Whats low cost to you then?
Officially, the cartridges stopped production around the same date the digital version was "taken down". It just sold exactly as poorly as every other retrogaming/nostalgia cash grab remake, and I say that as someone that bought it and has preordered the Advance Wars remakes. The only reason you can still find cartridges of the 3D remakes is that third party sellers (amazon, gamestop etc) still have tons of stock of it.
Yes but all these things are features to me. I like cash for small purchases, and I like, say, Monero for the same reasons.

If I lose 50 € to some unscrupulous merchant, that's worth it to not have to ask the bank for permission for and tell them about every transaction.
A lot of open source projects rely on GitHub for their community, funding and discoverability. Dismissing that would be dishonest.
iMessage is next to useless for me due to SMS spam from political fundraising groups that send texts from so many different numbers that manually blocking each phone number is practically impossible.

I want an app that will prowl my pool of SMS texts on my phone every couple of minutes and delete every SMS text that matches a regexp I give it, without sending all of my texts off-device.
Your satire is worthy of Gulliver's Travels !
Assange extradition order issued by UK court, moving him closer to US transfer
> The bank cannot freeze the funds

That's a feature, not a bug.
No: EVs has less carbon footprint than ICE, usually several times less. Digital economy has a carbon footprint, but orders of magnitude less than the alternatives: paper for administration, casettes for music or plastic film for movies.

You need to compare solutions at scale, not just say that a process that serves billions of people is wasteful because it uses as much energy that a process that is serving dozens of people.

Finally, most of the internet is powered from warehouses that are purposely built in areas with carbon-neutral electricity. The operators are actively optimising their consumption and investing in carbon-neutral energy generation that match their needs.

Crypto avocates likes to say they _could_ do it with imaginary wealth, but that are very far from being able to afford it; if they could, it would break their business model. In the mean time, they are settled in the countries with the worst carbon footprint possible. They tried to hide it but you can’t really hide that amount of waste. They have distrupted the energy market of China, Kazakstan so much that thousands of people died in energy shortages. For now, all we have from those people is mountains of unrecycled electronic waste.

So, no, those two are not the same thing.
In my view it is quite difficult to find insightful and civilized long-form discussion on the topic of crypto, compared to most other "controversial" topics I'm personally intersted in (e.g. geopolitics or economics). I might be mistaken – but it is my impression that the blockchain-space is fast growing and attracts a ton of intelligent people. Surely there must be a lot to talk about?

On reddit, the crypto-themed subreddits (that I know of) are almost entirely comprised of doom-and-gloom-sentiment and astroturfing, while subreddits outside of this bubble are reminiscent of HN, where specific crypto projects almost never reach the frontpage and if they do, the discussion is seldomly about specifics.
Australia’s early plans for ‘dangerous’ encryption law revealed
For sure, Job listings are a proxy and should be taken with salt. 3501 python jobs, 2490 R jobs still indicates strong demand for R though, even if it's not going as bananas as python right now.

I suspect a lot of python jobs would hire a good 'R person' knowing they'll be up to speed in a month or two, and vice versa. Similar to other CS domains, where strong fundamentals are much more important than whatever language you learned them in.
Buy Bitcoin. Everything else is a scam. And if you want to launder money use Dollars just like everyone else.
Money by itself is completely useless.

Imagine two countries. One country puts itself into massive debt building old folks homes and training people to work in them. The other closes their old folks homes to pay down the debt.

Then a few years later, there is a massive need for old folks homes. Which country can afford to pay for them and which can't? The country with massive debt can keep printing money to pay for the old folks homes, but since supply and demand match, they don't have inflation and things are fine. The country with the balanced budget but no old folks homes sees massive inflation because you can't magic old folks homes out of thin air -- it takes time to build them and to train workers. In the mean time because supply and demand are imbalanced the price goes up.

To paraphrase a famous Keynes quote about WW2 -- if you can do something and are willing to prioritize it over everything else you can do, you can afford it no matter how expensive it is. If you don't have the capacity to do something then you can't afford it no matter how much money you have.

> The prevailing notion is to reduce the ratio of debt to GDP

This is all that is necessary to create a deflationary environment. It means that there are fewer dollars floating around per point of GDP.

Remember that a large portion of government debt in Western countries, particularly Japan, is owed to itself. That's right, the vast majority of the "massive debt" that Japan has, is held by the Bank of Japan. And a lot of their debt is at a rate of 0%. So most of it is essentially "fake debt", they could wipe it out at the stroke of a pen. The only consequence would be on inflation, and Japan is perhaps the only country in the world that doesn't have an inflation problem.
> Maybe, in some sense, some of the protesters really were trying to secede or dissolve the government of something. But, realistically, there was no chance that the autonomous zone was going to last or separate from America or anything like that.

I agree that was not what was happening, but how is people living free from a government that exploits/murders them a wrong thing? I get that secession in the name of keeping institutional slavery isn't ideal, but now that we've had 150y of wage slavery that's not much better for people or the environment, doesn't secession of autonomous communes sound like a reasonable thing to you?
> +1 for own Linux distro.

It's a bad idea to force users to use one distro. There are many users who run NixOS, and others prefer Ubuntu, or even Gentoo.

> Apple always had the advantage of controlling both the hardware and the software.

Controlling my own hardware is exactly what I look for when buying a laptop.
Hmmm... excellent point. I think there is a clear cultural difference where "female empowerment" in the West includes things like women being equal to men and filling roles traditionally filled by men, where in Japan the ideal (among women to a greater degree) tends to be for women to be better at women's traditional roles, which goes beyond just looking pretty. So in this context the whole discussion around "female empowerment" may have been misguided, it's not clear this Japanese HR person had the same thing in mind as a Western HR person would.

(To the extent that "female empowerment" can imply "smashing the patriarchy"/tearing down the existing order, this usually not fully achievable in a corporate context.)
I agree. I've tried the X1 Carbon and the T series. The T14s in particular is much cheaper than the X1, more powerful, more reliable, has more USB ports and deeper keybed, at the cost of being slightly thicker and heavier. In addition my X1 Carbon broke after two years of use (trackpad failed, left arrow key stopped working, trackpoint started moving by itself, etc.) which I think is due to how thin and flimsy the whole setup is. But I'm very happy with the Ryzen T14s.
Unfortunately the way the DMCA is written means that GitHub is acting prudently here. If GitHub does not take down content they receive a valid DMCA request for, they lose their safe harbor and can be made a defendant for a future frivolous copyright suit. Nobody should be taking flak for refusing to become a party to someone else's litigation.
> Not optimistic about the possibility of life in Europe.

Is that a typo or a comment on the current political situation?

Anyway, a couple of meters of water would block all radiation, and the energy source would be tidal forces from Jupyter, not the Sun (which is what would also keep the core warm enough for liquid water. Also why Io has intense volcanic activity).
I'm 100% onboard with the enabling underbanked people argument for crypto. There's countless people all over the world who can't get a bank account, or if they could, can't get one that is reliable or useful enough for their needs. Eg, maybe the currency is too unstable, or maybe there's too many restrictions on international transfers and commerce etc etc. These people are left with cash and predatory "businesses" like Western Union as their only options. It's not fair and can and should change, but sadly, crypto has spectacularly failed to deliver on its potential here.
Just over 2x standard price it seems given the materials and labor.
Similar article from 2019 (published with peer review): Antretter, T., Blohm, I., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2019). Predicting new venture survival: A Twitter-based machine learning approach to measuring online legitimacy. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11, e00109.

Also see their work on Business Angel investing.
Inherently deflationary asset guarantees it's going to be used as a speculation vehicle rather than money.
serious question: what is the practical difference between MacOS and Linux?

Do you have a habit of modifying your wifi drivers and recompiling the source? I am big on open source but have never felt my life was improved chasing dependencies vs just brew install ... I have never had a satisfactory battery + sleep/standby experience on a linux machine, vs a Mac I can leave unplugged for weeks and it wakes back up where I left off, battery still holding charge, so I'm just curious what is worth the tradeoff, especially when your priorities are battery life, computational performance, and hardware longevity (I get a new MacBook every ~5 years)
I don't know about what satoshi thought. I do however know that most of the folks talking about it in the spaces I was in were libertarian (in an american sense).

They were all about gold standards and hard money and auditing the fed as well.

Basically they were the Ron Paul folks.
I have very mixed feelings about DELL. They have great hardware. But after buying an Ubuntu laptop I discovered it had custom DELL drivers that work fine under Ubuntu 18, but have no support for later versions of Ubuntu.

I got everything working again except for the webcam, which kind of sucks.
From TFA:

> These included pledges that Assange would not be made the subject of "special administrative measures," nor would he be held at a maximum security prison before or after trial.

A quick reading of this line would imply that the UK court assumes the US has the verdict already decided to guilty. Sigh...
There is definitely life there.

I visited once, and the residents were friendly. Europe is quite nice.
These threads always surprise me with the number of people who buy new thinkpads. Nothing wrong with them I'm sure (well, maybe a few things wrong with them), I just never even considered it as an option.

I recently picked up an old 2005-ish (edit: 2011 actually) x220 for a few hundred quid off ebay which seems to be running nicely. Specs aren't anything to shout about but it works fine for what it is. Durability wise, its clearly been running for at least 15 (edit: 10?) years so its got something to it.
Most of these problems stems from moving too much to frontend, making the frontend tilt over. If you keep more logic in the backend much of these problems goes away.

Problem is that for every core concept moved to the frontend it still needs to exist in the backend, a representation of an article needs to exist both in the frontend and the backend, same for error handling, logging, authentication etc, but they are rarely identical, even if you would code them in the same language, because the frontend will always be a remote representation of what the backends implements. Thus the more you move the more you need to duplicate.

Some views or components needs to be more interactive, true, but not every view, thus you solve the interactive part of those specific views or components in pragmatic way to minimize friction.

One pragmatic solution is to use BFF, backend for frontends, where you have a specific API, both for reading and writing, for that component or view only. Now you can adapt those together to a better fit, including error handling.

General and reusable (REST) APIs for driving a frontend is a bad idea, you should have specific APIs for each case, otherwise you end up doing asynchronous JOINS over HTTP.

The next step to realize after that is that if you already have specific APIs for a components you can skip passing JSON all together and just return HTML, thus saving an entire JSON encode/decode roundtrip.

JSON schema is trash btw, schemas does not fit JSON data well, structured data is better handled by something like XML. And what this shows is that using JSON for large data representation is a bad idea, but it is usually where you end up when doing heavy frontend.
I assume by "Monetary crank-ism" you mean scepticism of the dominant economic playbooks. That is very different from investment bubbles which the parent is talking about.

You can call it crank-ism if you want, but the movement behind Bitcoin's properties were born out of very real concerns about current economic models and what their effects are.
I don't feel like i have the right to decide as an individual dude whether it is or not.
Can you elaborate plz. For instance, does building up connections within 1 org helps with promotions in another, or is it even scalable?
The problem is not that people are idiots, the problem is nobody knows or cares anout what is happening in a rented apartment.

This apartment is owned by a company registered in a tax heaven, he can never be reached and never replies.

The management company does not know anything about the house, how the heating work, how the ventilation works - you only find out on the builsing whats app group from the one guy in the whole building who is a homeowner.

Half the people in this building had a broken ventillation system (the circuitboard died every year, 'luxury' apartments, yey!) and they did not know. This apartment had a broken ventillation system when i moved in.

The previous apartment had a ventillation system too, also was broken, landlord lives in country but has no clue what it is and took 6 months to fix it.

Why boilers have been standard for some time, and everyone knows how to use them, the ventillation systems are all different and most peolle have never seen one before.
"Braindrain" is often significant enough to cause damage to a country, but rarely enough to shape public opinion by "selection".
Do they? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59689581

Also have you thought about the novel idea of old school policing to catch criminals instead of collaterally damaging the lives every single human in the world other than the 13% privileged who happen to be citizens of stable democracies?
> 3501 python jobs, 2490 R jobs still indicates strong demand for R though

My point is that out of those 2490 job listings that mention R, the number of jobs that require you to actually write R more than any other language will be closer to 0 than it is to 2490. Some of them will still actually use R but it's a much much smaller number than the visualisation leads you to believe.
If that's the case, I wish they'd adopt a year.month style version then! I guess i never thought about their versioning though.
Since you already know R/STATA/Linux/SQL, you're already way ahead of most people. You'll find that a lot of the specific technical stuff is project/industry dependent and since you're just starting in the field, think of any hard requirements for a specific technology as a warning sign. Good employers will give you room to learn their niche technicals.

The thing about data sciencey stuff is that the data you're working with will often be extraordinarily messy. It's not uncommon to realize two weeks into a project that you made a terrible cleanup assumption on day one... then have to run hours and hours of mostly-hand-executed ETL work again. And then again when you realize you forgot that you ran a unix one-liner on a random input file, but didn't write it down anywhere.

So, one of the most important things to learn off the bat is learning how to clean data programmatically, specifically with the goal of making sure that your cleanup is repeatable at any step of the way. You want to be able to get to a point where you feel confident that you can mostly trivially recover after deleting all cache/temp files, tables, etc. Makefiles are great for this.

You'll save a lot of time in the long run if you can get good at this.
...which is good because it helps us move away from the throw-away society mentality. Bitcoin is very effective environmental activism.
I'm also on a G14! The wait time for a ThinkPad was 6 weeks when I needed a new laptop, so I just ended up buying a G14 because I couldn't wait.

WiFi seems okay for me, I've not had any problems. Restarting X is indeed annoying. Also only one of the USB-c ports has display port support, that took me a while to figure. I thought my usb-c monitor was broken until I took a closer look at the ports. No webcam is pretty annoying as well.

The Linux community for the laptop is actually pretty large. People have reverse-engineered a lot of the "nice to haves" [0].

[0] https://asus-linux.org/
Nintendo being generally profitable seems like short-termism to me - Microsoft sells the Xbox at a loss to generate later sales, Amazon avoided profit for years and years. Nintendo doesn't sell anything at a loss.

Anyway, they're not family-owned like they used to be, so I don't think comparing them to when they were a private company is all that useful.
because it takes hours to validate a payment?

because it consumes too much power?

because it created wealth out of farts

because it promotes money laundering

because it promotes toxicity (pump and dump)

because it is backed by the USD

because USA owns the majority of it

because it is centralized (exchanges)

because it is CIA's testbed for the digital USD
Here's a great discussion in the community forum about AMD alternatives, and why the company, especially at such an early stage, might refrain from discussion, etc. I don't speak for the company, just a fan.

https://community.frame.work/t/amd-cpus-an-open-letter-to-th...
I love my pixel 5a. It is an amazing phone for the money, and probably the best cheap phone you can get with a 3.5mm jack.

But intermittently I am having weird issues. Some dropped calls (I think), but also some input problems with the screen locking for 2s whenever I accidentally activate the assistant.

Worst of all is that it is incompatible with all 3.5mm headphones, seemingly by design. The volume up button opens the Google assistant or does nothing depending on whether the assistant is active. The problem is, according to the support, that they don't recommend 3.5mm headphones, which is probably the dumbest shit I have ever heard considering the phone has a 3.5mm jack.

Someone made the decision to break every headphone with small control unit on the market and it got a green light. That stuff scares me. What will break next?
The thing I miss most from Linux is strace. This is far outweighed by

1. The much frequency with which stuff just works on OSX.

2. The opportunities to spend $30 on an app instead of $300-$800 worth of time on software that is Free as in Puppy.
XPS 13 usually has good Linux compatibility. But XPS with 15" screen can be a bit of trouble to get all the hardware working under Linux.
My physics professor had some good examples of how numeric precision vastly outstrips reality: if modelling a 1m iron bar using 32-bit numbers, the error in length is substantially less than a dust mote landing on the end of it. It's about the same as a virus (not a bacterium) on the end... or not. The oil from a fingerprint is thicker. The mere presence of a human in the room will warm up the iron rod enough to cause it to expand more than this.

You only get physically significant errors when using iterated algorithms where the errors accumulate, or when doing what amounts to equality comparisons, which is almost always an error.

Note that 64-bit numbers aren't "twice" as precise.[1] They're four billion times more precise. Going to 128 bits is absurd beyond belief. Numbers like these would allow the entire visible universe to be modelled, down to the width of a proton. You do not need 128 bit numbers for anything made on Earth, by humans, ever. If you think you do, you've made a mistake. It's as simple as that.

[1] floating point numbers and integers are obviously different, but the concepts are the same. A 64-bit double is "just" 536 million times more precise that a 32-bit float, but that is still an awful lot of precision for anything made of matter...