skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>After all, that's what early English decisions themselves frequently did.

Not really. What's commonly called English Common Law is itself an Anglo-Saxon bastardization of Norman Law. Even American Law borrows directly from Norman Law in the formers now dwindling but still surviving usage of Latin.

>They were based on logic, by reference to statutory text, and by weighing the pros and cons of various alternatives, not precedent.

While I agree with the premise that is how law should be, that's generally not how it was nor is it so simple to accomplish. A quote to one should remember is that "[A]ny Anglo-American lawyer must cope with a sneaking feeling that there is no such thing as first principles, just one damned case after another."
Bitcoin’s “killer app” and underlying utility is illegal transactions. Money laundering and drug purchasing. As long as the government allows it; crypto will have a base value in that.
The Ukrainian startup workers helping refugees flee the war
Which Neobanks have gone bust or are likely to as a result of Luna?
That is the point of the tax code, to be able to use it for political wielding of power e.g. the Chicken tax because LBJ was pissed at Europe that caused a 25% tariff on light trucks imported to the U.S. based on a retaliation for European tariffs on American chicken..
How are the founders of these apps not in prison? I remember getting hundreds of “replace your savings account” ads that abruptly ended with the Luna collapse.
I think the VC who runs this site wrote an essay about this tactic a while ago:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Engineering considerations will trump enthusiasm.

Taking into account engineering considerations like reliability, operating life, material properties in various environments, product quality, safety, known materials performance, operating life, and especially costs, capital and operating -- taking all those into account, the best uses for any electrolysed* hydrogen, made as a use of otherwise unused electricity, seem to be making fertilizer and hydrocarbons.

The latter are very energy dense, super cheap, and safe to store for long periods and to transport long distances to where the stored energy is needed.

Those two products are best made at isolated large scale dedicated plants operating continuous processes. It's not clear to me that hydrogen as hydrogen has any role as an energy storage or transport medium, nor is it clear that PV alone is a good fit as the energy source for the likely uses.

* I'm guessing by hydrolysis you meant electrolysis to produce hydrogen? "Hydrolysis" means "chemical reaction occurring with the addition of water", e.g sucrose -> glucose and fructose.
It doesn't have any value at all, but the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
This is a great point: even above speculation, a core part of cryptocurrency's "stickiness" is that it's effectively unregulated gambling with extremely large upsides.

I think that points to the best recourse we have, after the next crash: it needs to be regulated into the dirt.
Thanks I missed the rule where game ends by king capture, not checkmate
It already happens today with little complaint.. many utilities are offering discounted rates if you agree to let them reduce your consumption on a handful of days per year. One such example;

https://consumersenergy-faqs.tendrilinc.com/faqs/what-is-the...
As a lawyer, I disagree. The judicial system depends on the faith of ordinary individuals in it. That means opinions must be written for the public to read, not only other lawyers.

My view is that nothing is so complicated that you can’t explain the gist of it to my mother in law (an intellectually curious woman who nonetheless never finished her college degree). In fact if you’re in front of a jury, that’s exactly what you might have to do.
Ah this is also such a good point! It is true what is best for you isn't what is best for me, and vice versa.
That’s not how businesses or people plan. Discounted cash flow over 60 years means that a cost that’s 60 years away does not matter. Also, Japan went from bombed out wreck to one of the richest countries in the world with this attitude to property so if it hurts at all it’s a minor cost.
Crypto cannot create wealth, only move it around. If too many people become crypto-rich and try to spend it on real-world assets, the assets will just inflate in price.

What can happen is that crypto could replace other forms of money. Governments will likely fight this tooth and nail however, because crypto is currently an anti-government technology.
Mathjax displays LaTeX equations within html documents. This processes entire LaTeX code (documents), including, it seems, packages and preamble. It is more similar to TeX4ht or hevea in this sense.

I am not sure how it does this without reimplementing TeX.I haven't tested it beyond their playground example. I assume there will be some corner cases.
Compare against SPY.
It's not a Turing test if you don't tell them that it's a test.
The latency introduced along with the decreased amount of body language will always take a lot of spontaneity out of conversations, and if you have a policy of muting yourself unless you want to speak, it's much harder to get a conversation going fast enough.
I hope enough people who work at zoom see this post
there aren’t any that have been here a while and bother to chime in any more because every comment section on a crypto related story here is essentially exactly the same and has been for about 6 years, maybe more.

If this is the obit that sticks, the HN crypto commentariat can line up for their certificates of honor from the Being Right After All Foundation. Unfortunately, these will be distributed as NFTs
> If you know anyone into crypto you would know they talk about it non stop.

Not really. There are a lot of people holding, mining, DCA'ing into projects they believe in who have no trouble at all keeping it to themselves.

Your remarks about gambling are similarly projecting a portion of the community onto the rest. Those traders who treat it as a speculative asset are gambling as you say, and tend to be obsessive in the way you describe, but you seem not to be aware of everyone who deals with crypto differently than you did.

There are a lot of crypto projects that people don't expect to moon, that effectively serve their purpose right now, and will just get better at it in the future. None of what you wrote is nearly as generally true as you made it out to be.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through writing my second book right now (Zefs Guide to Deep Learning https://zefsguides.com ). I have am using a somewhat similar workflow. I'm writing in Leanpub's Markua flavor of Markdown, which they use to build ebook, PDF, and HTML formats. They will also produce a reformatted PDF for you for book printing, with appropriate margins.

This is the same thing I did for my first book, except that I want a pocket book size format and there isn't one that both Leanpub and Amazon KDP currently support, so instead I will be doing some LaTeX wrangling to produce a PDF formatted for KDP. I haven't yet decided how I will do that, as there doesn't seem to be a Markua -> Markdown convertor anywhere (pandoc only goes in the other direction).
I thought "parmigiano" is the DOP name and "parmesan" is a free for all. Apparently, I'd misunderstood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmesan
I also thought of job security when I saw the OP question - what will guarantee work and pay for a few years. Once you commit to a job with job security, manage time to get it done efficiently. Then manage distractions to spend time on something else.

What do you mean arbitrage here tho?
If you have different goals competing for your limited time and energy (entrepreneurship, changing the world, building relationships, etc.) and you're not sure which to pursue, consider the values of self-actualization and personal agency and perhaps center yourself on them.

Self-actualization is tricky to define but it's basically the process of identifying whatever comes to you most naturally or has a tendency to emerge organically from your life experiences, and then pursuing it more fully.

The benefit of this approach is that whatever it is you end up doing, you tend to do it better, with more commitment, more creativity, and more satisfaction than if you had done something else.

It might change over time and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Other people may or may not like it. But in the end society's assessment of what you've done with your life is just noise compared to how you feel about it internally.

Listen to your thoughts... your unconscious, internal mental chatter. And if it's telling you to go a certain way, just do it, if it's the right call you'll probably end up doing something great, if it's the wrong one you will confirm that with experience and gain wisdom in the process.
I went to this site and all i saw was a Blank page.
There is some likelihood that geothermal can be made compatible with any locale, using new drilling tech. But geothermal is likely to remain substantially more expensive than solar and wind, whatever happens: steam turbines are expensive to maintain. It might win at latitudes above 50-60 degrees, if it can compete with ammonia imported from the tropics. But shipping is absurdly cheap.
Original blog post: https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/backend/the-...
It will get reversed if you notice it and report it soon enough. But the law only requires they give you 60 days after they transmit you a statement. I believe for businesses, you are only protected for 2 days.
Otus Lisp
Also the counterparty risk of shorting bitcoin
Luckily for the world, regulators tend to step in right after collapses. Crypto is finally large enough to have the eye of regulators, and if a real collapse materializes this time - they may pounce.

I suspect they'll aggressively take out stablecoins. They are the only real source of liquidity in crypto. Price action follows liquidity, so hopefully, any future swings will be much much smaller.
Bertrand Russell – Message to Future Generations (1959)
> For some reason the general public doesn't learn.

The type of person who tries their hand at cryptocurrency speculation isn't much interested in learning or responsible investment. They are trying to get rich, thinking they will get ahead of the rest of the FOMO idiots. Most don't have the financial resources to consider low-return "safe" investments in mutual funds or the stock market, but they can buy a few *coins for a little bit of nothing and hope it goes up. The crypto-libertarians who see it as a solution to perceived problems with fiat currencies and/or government economic power doesn't seem to have much overlap with the "get rich quick" group.
Average aircraft age in the USA is 14+ years. A new passenger jet costs some $100+ million. We cannot even approve unleaded aviation gas, I am unsure a transition to LH2 will be speedy.
Yes, Cloudflare is the default in the US.
As far as JS for IMAP, I seriously think that the developers of Thunderbird would understand the pros and cons of using it more than those of us sitting in the peanut gallery.

Maybe, but from what I've seen of the average JavaScript developer, and what spidermonkey does under heavy load, I doubt it. The one saving grace is probably the fact that as it is today, thunderbird (despite my issues with it) is fully capable of maxing out many of the commercial email/IMAP providers (cough o365 for one, which throttles it). So, those of us which have it in the middle of a development workflow and have tens of GB's of emails sitting in our inboxes are a minority. Also, given that over the past ~30 years, I've been been a primary engineer/etc on a half dozen+ major projects that had high perf networking components, I can safely say that I wouldn't want to go into any of those battles with the javascript threading and IO model because we would have either failed, or ended up using 100x the hardware, which would have been the same thing as failing in most cases.

So, peering at my crystal ball, I would guess what actually happens is that they roll it out, 9 out of 10 of their users don't notice the change, and the remaining couple percent that are the ones complaining about it now, end up leaving because its worse. I've already found another client I think i can "fix" enough to make it work.
Like NTS-1, super-overpriced garbage but plenty will buy because it has KORG written on it.
Also note
https://bjooks.com/products/patch-tweak-with-moog
I'd go with the 2.8% from Aave, I don't think I have seen anything better from the other major/reliable protocols.
Ok, perhaps the article title should be "Many complex fields are challenging for inexperienced engineers, who often don't realize that at the outset"?
Who’s self-diagnosing? It’s a legal opinion. It’s published to be read by anybody.
I know what you mean. I get to eat really good tomatoes every few years, and just for a few days, then they are gone.

The good stuff spoils pretty quickly, too. It's not just the price that makes them uncommon
> How are the founders of these apps not in prison?

These are private losses. We have lots of problems. It’s ludicrous to prioritise public resources for prosecuting those while led others into a bonfire.

Put a tax in place and yes, I would fully support public enforcement.
> But it wasnt a standard, other than that it was by far the highest potential most capable most interesting user-agency extension on the planet by a good measure.

While the Chrome extension API was certainly the most wide-reaching at the time, it wasn't the most capable. I used to have a Firefox extension that made Win32 API calls. Mozilla ended up deciding it wasn't sustainable, I guess?
If you're going to cherry-pick stocks why don't we compare Luna then?
Crypto lets governments track every citizen's purchase ever made, forever. KYC ensures that a wallet is tied to a person. I am surprised governments haven't yet jumped on this fully (without proof of work, just a government run digital currency and a blockchain).
Depends on which firearms. NFA items absolutely do need fingerprints.
Also prices are manipulated like crazy to liquidate big bets like that
Regulate a useful technology into the dirt because you have incorrect assumptions, and are generally ignorant about it?
What is monkeypox, the rare virus now confirmed in the U.S. and Europe?
The irony. Re-read what I wrote please. I said almost.
I’d pay all my money for my mom not to be dead.
If Your State Was a California County, It Would Be
He only has one vote. It's a bit of a troll, because voting is private. Unless Texas makes you declare a party to vote in a primary and he cares. Even then, he could vote so as to troll the party.
There's a difference between having a price and having value. I could order a truck load of glitter and dump it on my lawn. It has no value to anyone but it still cost me money to obtain it.

It's questionable that Bitcoin has any value but there is enough money sunk into that ecosystem and propping it up that it's unlikely to ever fall away completely. There are billionaires' egos at stake here!
B2B SaaS founder here, several years in: this article is right on point. Additionally, using Stripe Billing is not all it's cracked up to be, as it actually doesn't solve all my problems, while taking a chunk of revenue.

I've been building parts of a billing system myself over the years and I'm considering removing the remaining external parts, because I'm not happy with their limitations (Braintree's subscriptions are really limited, and absolutely nobody does correct invoicing for my situation (EU/Poland)).

Also, in a B2B SaaS you will end up with customers on totally different payment methods. Not every business has or wants to use a credit card. So you get annual billing with proforma invoices and the complexities involved with switching from invoiced billing to credit card billing and vice versa.
No, because they offer actual legitimate services that are used frequently by legitimate customers. They've also all happened to do large scale money laundering, but that isn't their primary focus and isn't how they're generally viewed.

Bitcoin is accepted as payment essentially nowhere, in the grand scheme of things. Yes, you've found some niche places that allow it, but it's rare. When I think ransomware, the first thing that comes to mind is cryptocurrency (specifically Bitcoin and ETH). When I think of money laundering, I think of NFTs, through ETH. If you talk to most normal people and ask them what they think of when you talk about bitcoin, it's probably buying illegal drugs.
I noticed the my google results are way worse when using fastdns, as compared to google dns. Not sure why.
Because it happened last week...
LNG goes point-to-point from liquefaction plant to regasification plant. There's no reticulation to city neighbourhoods.

Gaseous hydrogen is much more dangerous than natural gas (flame speed, range of air fraction for combustion, ability to escape seals, etc., etc.) and you need three times the volume to deliver the same energy.[1] I doubt there will be much reticulated use.

1. https://www.powereng.com/library/6-things-to-remember-about-...
I do prefer #000 over #FFF (or vice-versa) and generally agree with your sentiment, but it is worth noting that portions of overly-bright screen do not generally trigger the "seared eyeballs" sensation. There are scenarios where allowing a scant 1% of a photo (for example) to be over-bright means much more range in the rest of the image. Personally, I prefer a display that simply matches the static contrast ratio of the human eye. I use ambient lighting to keep my pupils from dilating when viewing a dark screen. (Which has the side-benefit of avoiding the dark-to-light transition that people hate so much.)

Unrelated fun idea for hardware engineers: develop a GPU that outputs average image brightness before each scanout. This allows the monitor (or GPU itself, though you'd suffer quantization issues) to slowly ramp during dark-to-bright transitions. Consumers would love the feature: people like to stare at devices in dark rooms (bed etc) but melt their eyeballs every time they navigate from a dark page to a light one. This would prevent that pain.
Oh we're here.

Just watching all this collegial self-agreement among people who don't fully understand the subject, because what they know, they learned from writers who don't understand the subject, like the author of the laughable media piece posted here.
Why run when you can drive away in your brand new Tesla.

https://thecryptobasic.com/2022/02/03/youtube-streamer-ice-p...
Seems like fun, and surprisingly not listed in the list of chess variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants

Maybe the duck is putting off the purists.
In Northern Europe the way new houses are built today is a masonry structure and then that's wrapped with rigid foam insulation on the outside (also under the floor and roof, but wrapping the walls is the bulk of it). My city is in the process of retrofitting 50yo Soviet apartment blocks with the same technique, and it works well.

The hard part is not technical or financial, it is convincing someone to change the look of their 250yo stone house.
this has been true since photoshop existed? you don't need an algorithm to make a fake picture or to fake a military attack, etc. humans generally have better grasp of appropriate details
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518230424/https://addyosman...
While part of me agrees, part of me also thinks we have all these security laws for a reason, and allowing people to claim they don't have to follow them because of what is effective just a fancy ledger doesn't sit right. I am not a securities law expert by any means but some of the tactics used in the crypto world seemed directly contrary to the intent, if not the letter, to me. I would not be surprised if we see a couple lawsuits filed sometime later this year by the state.
Yeah. The difference is you don't have people claiming the SPY or Netflix will triple each year for the next ten years. People have literally commented that about BTC and other crypto. The thought process people have regarding crypto is entirely different. It's a completely different beast. Closer to something like GME, but at least with GME GameStop was able to sell stock and pay off their debts...
The article buries the lead. What’s the other structure?
We Trick Rocks to Think
I can assure you that, to my vague displeasure, I am somewhat of the opposite of "generally ignorant" of cryptocurrencies. And I haven't stated any assumptions, other than the relatively bland claim that "people gamble with it."
Isn't the blockchain the central authority?
At the same time, I assume that most of the liquidity in the markets come from professionals and the people described in GP, whereas the casual retail/investors you describe tend to not keep their assets on orderbooks or in liquidity pools.
> That's not renewable and could offset the benefits somewhat

I don't think you realise the VAST amount of energy density in one 1kg of coal vs 1 kg nuclear fuel. "Somewhat" is not nearly the correct comparison !

"8 kWh of heat (energy) from 1kg of coal vs 24,000,000 kWh from 1 kg of uranium-235" [0]

[0] https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/
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https://i.imgur.com/WWOuGGW.jpg

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https://s3.amazonaws.com/spoonuniversi-wpengine/spoonunivers...

https://www.mcall.com/resizer/TMbbZ3l7Ik9C7bvyY7rc6Kce43c=/1...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-RZ602_NYCHEE_P_...
And Romney's 47%? Most Trumpisms? Boebert, Gaetz, Cawthorne? Maybe this is like counting different infinities, but there was no unifying during 45.

It's also important to distinguish between a figurehead and the party. Republicans are not yet all Trump, though suprisingly far, while very little of the Democratic party is Biden. They're just not that organized.
Pass, vanilla is just fine
I'm sure any private individual can sue these founders and take them to court. But the SEC isn't going to do it.
Is there an easy way to deal with this e.g. compliance as a service?

Sounds like a nightmare to deal with, of course this is only assuming it is enforced. If it is not well who cares, companies like Lyft/Uber view laws as a starting point in negotiations when expanding into new areas not as a brick wall of dogma.
>mandate was about to expire

This isn’t relevant since they’d extended it many times. The whole “it’s about to expire!” thing was by design.
He's said build quality. Which is true. Ask anyone who works at a Tesla service shop.

Panels are often misaligned. Leaks appear in the trunk spaces during rain. Software is often buggy leading to be unable to use A/C or other basic features. The list goes on. These aren't small quantities of cars almost all of them have to be serviced within a year unless the owner doesn't care.
Yep, exactly. I've been working in crypto for 4 years and counting, still haven't purchased a single token as an investment. I don't like downside risk, I like to build product. We've weathered one bear market, we'll weather another.

Thankfully there's cool stuff in the ecosystem that isn't a scam, but it's not newsworthy, so it doesn't go viral.
Musk's face is everywhere. Let's do the science to be sure.
I think he's a little biased because he's heavily involved with Solana
Stopped reading at “blockchain crypto-anchor”

The whole idea of fraudulent cheese is a little sketchy anyway. Location based restrictions on names feels unethical to me.
I mostly don’t bother commenting on crypto news. The same ignorant hot takes get trotted out and no one (on either side) is really interested in a discussion of the merits of the other side’s position. It’s one of those topics that is a bit perplexing to see how the HN community responds to it.
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli gets early prison release