skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is not solving anything really.

People think that PoW just solved the trust issue but it has not.

On one side Bitcoin still depends on miners and big countries like china could have a significant motivation to do a 51% attack in 20 years. People could form a secret org and take over Bitcoin. Bitcoin would require a lot more independent people to mine which people actually don't care for.

And on the other hand a Blockchain itself is only trustworthy inside it's Blockchain. It's easy to send trustworthy money around but the fraud doesn't happen when exchanging the money it happens when real life items are getting exchanged. Bitcoin doesn't help here. The same issue is with smart contracts.

And the best solution is actually PoS. Our current fiat system is not perfect but by far the most stable system we have.

And yes Bitcoin is also not suddenly fixing/solving inflation problems etc.
Yes, the images are just files in a directory called "s" (for static) that sits alongside my wikis. I've describe this system a few times, but this is the first time I've gotten some interested replies. I have a long weekend this weekend; I'll take a stab at cranking through the frontend code and making it available publicly.
Ah, I misread their announcements.

There's still supposedly over 2 billion users of these services. Its not a small project with a niche client set where absolutely nobody pays. Reader was popular, but not 2 billion users popular. How many people do you think really used Allo? Its really not in the same space as the many products they've killed.
>Difference is these days you might actually be able to use an ATM and internet in towns, and you don't have to carry film for all the photos you want to take in your backpack..

Those two things already kill most of the adventure
Do they consider putting someone in prison, for their refusal to surrender their privacy and private property in complying with the Income Tax Act, a violation of Human Rights?

How about confiscating someone's fruit cart because they do not possess a licence for it? This led to Mohamed Bouazizi immolating himself, which triggered the Arab Spring.

How about fining someone for refusing to use someone else's gender pronouns? Or for refusing to perform a Brazilian wax on the male genitalia of a male who asserts they are a woman?

If not, then I question the existence of any underlying principle, beyond ideology, guiding their assessments.

>>There's a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that could quite easily be applied as a baseline.

The UDHR, as interpreted by the UNHR High Commission, explicitly defines "collective bargaining rights" as a human right:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

Laws that grant collective bargaining rights mandate an employer to engage in collective bargaining with any set of his workers that form a union and demand collective bargaining, to the exclusion of negotiating with any other worker or job applicant. Such a government mandate is a blatant violation of the right to free association, and thus property understood as a violation of human rights. In fact, it violates article 20 of the UDHR, which states:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

>>Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Well, you can still smoke hash in Afghanistan, I'd bet...
I really appreciate the interest!

I'll try to find some time for a reply going into some details, but I need to suit down at a computer undisturbed for an hour or so (also to refresh some things), which is hard to fit in the next few days. So don't hold your breath; I'll do my best.
fair enough, but pooling them assumes all orders are created equal - which could be a tight game-design constraint. but i agree what i am saying is in the same spirit as that
fly.io is an great new option with some caveats. They try to be close to users, which seems to have the effect of databases being handled a bit differently.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746280

- https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fly.io
Hi HN, I built this. It's been posted several times before, so I can answer some common questions:

How does this work?
I adapted GPlates [1], an academic project that creates desktop software for geologists to investigate plate tectonic data.

Is the geocoding accurate?
Even though plate tectonic models return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate within ~100km. In my tests I found that model results can vary significantly. I chose this model because it is widely cited and covers the greatest length of time.

How should I interpret the maps/colors?
The graphics that wrap the globe are provided by Dr. Christopher Scotese, a geologist who runs the PALEOMAP project. You can learn more about the project and the creation of the rasters here [2]. You might also notice some old national borders. I just work with what I can get!

Why can't it look up my location?
Your location probably didn't exist at the time, geologically speaking. Try switching to closer to present day (e.g. 66 Mya)

Where are all the dinosaurs?
Despite the title of this post, the visualization isn't really meant to show an exhaustive list of dinosaurs or fossils (the list doesn't even show on mobile). If you want to dig into data on fossils near you, check out the Paleobiology Database Navigator [3].

[1] https://www.gplates.org

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-q0WIa7ofISFHyBe4UxvN8DIPs8...

[3] https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
>How often do young founders actually hang onto leadership this long without either imploding or being replaced? Why are the Collison brothers different?

Stripe is great, so I assume these guys are good leaders. But Stripe was founded in 2011. Are there not plenty of young founders of that era "hanging on" to their leadership? I don't see anything particularly out of the ordinary here.
Asking for sources and explanations of completely obvious things is a great way to exhaust people on the internet. Which I assume was the point given the "both sides"iness of the response.
What? I'm not allowed to own many types of guns here in Chicago regardless of use: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chicago/latest/chicago...
For sure. I'm all about open source and sharing code with community, but always feel like it's not ready yet. =) I'll carve out time this weekend to push something up and share it publicly.
The exchanges don't want (or pretend to ignore) the Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, which your brokerage does not.

So your brokerage is fine sending you the funds immediately. They also are fine with the audits, etc that are required to prove that they're not playing sillybuggers with your stocks or funds.
Absolutely, we need to abolish taxes and the government.

I don't see why your solution to your taxes should be "let's make the government control even more of the private sector via more regulations".

Get rid of the public sector and everything will move according to value for the customers, instead of who can bribe politicians better.
How do you reform this?
It makes the most sense when you're managing liquidity between multiple parties. I bet it would still be a logical next step if they couldn't get a PR boost off the hype.
Pre-profit doesn't just refer to your cash-allocation-adjustment scenario. There's also the broader notion of what you focus on. A company may be pre-profit because they're not prioritizing profitability as a strategic objective early on. They may have no (current) way of turning a dial and becoming profitable, yet still be making the correct strategic decision to ignore profitability for the sake of e.g. growth or product development. Countless now-gigantic, now-profitable companies started as startups who were intentionally (and correctly) focusing on strategic objectives other than profitability.
The UNHRC is a wonderful source in that you can more or less use the complement of those they decide to condemn to identify the truly heinous human rights violators and violations.

Has Ki-Moon ever explicitly told any other UN branch to cut it with its rhetoric and unabashed partisan bloc voting?
Meh, I just looked at the WHO chart and it was pretty much self explanatory. you don't even need to read the rest of the article.

I found it helpful because otherwise I would not have seen the WHO data.
Fillabyrinth
I suggest that it's "agile in name only" because it was fashionable. The people at the top have probably bent it all back to waterfall because ... who knows - maybe it suits their style of thinking or makes them feel in control?
> Why are people so concerned with the salary of the ultra rich?

Two reasons. First it's because the left lets Twitter determine their messaging and so the economic problems facing the country have been framed incorrectly with an unnecessary moral slant. The economic problems facing the poor are not a function of "wealth inequality" (the delta between rich and poor), but instead are a function of the poor having insufficient resources and services regardless of how much money the rich have. When you frame the issue as wealth inequality, then bringing Bezos's wealth down without any concomitant increase in funding for the poor is a victory as the delta is being reduced. Certainly the rich will need to be taxed more to pay for additional services necessary to improve the lives of the poor and middle class, but explicitly lowering the wealth of the rich doesn't need to be in scope to solve the problems we are facing.

Second, no one wants to admit it and by saying it this comment will get flagged, but people care because they are jealous and misinformed. They have zero understanding of what an executive's job actually entails / they don't know anyone in such a role, and as such they (incorrectly) think anyone could do it. Therefore they don't understand why executives are receiving very high levels of comp or amassing massive net worths when they don't appear to be "doing" anything complex.
NPOs can always use help. They are the sharp point of social impact.

But they don't pay well (when they pay). Not a popular option for the HN crowd.

That's why they will often take just about anyone. Good place to upskill.

I work for free, for NPOs (I won't go into detail in public, but it's no secret), but I'm pretty much "retired" (Quotes, because I actually get more done, than I ever did, when making a paycheck). I have learned a tremendous amount, working for free (still am learning -every day).
Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time was very cool - Myst style point and click puzzle game. It probably feels very dated now though.
Recently, as a long time customer, I got in on the Backblaze IPO. I had to open up a Fidelity account. In order to do so, I had to drive into a local office and fill out stacks of paperwork while a twenty-something kid watched me. There was no option to even gasp, fax it in.

It sounds like you setup your brokerage account a long time ago and forgot about the paperwork.

You see it as a bad thing, but I'm fine with "defi kids" re-inventing trad fi. Just like Uber did to the taxi industry... despite Uber being a shit company.

The fact that I can already take out a loan against my bitcoin for a fraction of a cent in the span of a single transaction (seconds), without calling anyone, seems like it isn't so poorly done after all. That seems like some real progress.
Sequoia Capital: Adapting to Endure [pdf]
Correct for transaction data. Such data is owned by hello fresh and they need to keep it (for financial reporting, for instance).

However OP talked of master data. That should be removed when user asks to delete their account.
Squirrel maze 1.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg

Squirrel maze 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8

Oh, and be cautious with those squirrels....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZZQ2ov4lc&t=30s
In some countries, crypto-for-crypto transactions are surprisingly really not taxable events!
There were also the "Magic Bus" rides, frequent commercial but cheapo bus rides from Europe to India...

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/644-dont-buy-shirts-in-her...
at the intersection of "sounds like a good idea" and "reality has entered the chat" since I'm guessing the input bottles have to be scrubbed completely clean of glue and any foodstuffs therein before being fed into the heating element

and since the article's hyperlink to "open source" is blatantly misleading in that context, here's the goods: https://github.com/Reiten966/Polyformer
Do you have any sources on that? I'd love to have that info handy if it ever becomes useful (hopefully it doesn't).
> That definitely broke my assumption that kernel updates were well vetted for regressions.

I would argue that it's also a failure by the distro; unless there was something special about your exact setup that would have made the bug not show up in testing, I would argue that proxmox should have been testing updates to catch that kind of problem before users noticed.
>They were absolutely overvalued at those market caps, but it's wrong to say that "HN/VCs said those companies were worth X but they didn't reach X in public markets"

Why is it wrong? You think private markets are better indicators of value than public?
Isn't this what Tether purports to do?
>It's really starting down a bad path when we start asking megacorps to do the government's job.

IMO it's even worse than that. Not only do we expect corporations to do the government's job, we're also giving corporations more power than we give governments.

Just look at the "it's a private company they can censor whoever they want!" crowd. They actually believe companies who control over half the content we're exposed to online should be able to censor and deplatform whoever they want for whatever reason they want.

I visit Canadian subreddits and they cheer when our telecom oligopoly censors RT news and unironically ask to "do fox news now!"
Have you ever talk to Eric Schmidt face to face?
I couldn't disagree more. I've played tons of melee oriented action games with M+KB and the only time it gets annoying is when it is a bad console first port.
Employment is just a necessary evil. I can't wait until I can just spawn an ai instead of hiring someone
The other 58 are either extremely poor or in an actual war/insurgency. I don't deny that poverty and war cause violence but the US does not have those variables
Kodachrome 25
Ouch, the prior post (https://kernal.eu/posts/linuxfx/) is even worse. Just... how did anyone think that exposing a mysql database to the wide Internet is a good idea?!
We're hiring at Gravity, a carbon accounting firm. Shoot me an email if you're interested in helping us fight climate change and grow revenue fast: ted@gravityclimate.com.
I guess you could try to argue it is a 1031 exchange (but that's now real estate only, basically). I suspect it's much more that less-than-fully-compliant exchanges will only show "inputs and outputs" and not any trades in-between.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Any of the posts in: https://programmingisterrible.com/
> We are not high school kids working in fast food joint. We are professionals & business owners.

Unfortunately my last 5-10 freelancer experiences have been bad. I lost $10k recently by trusting a dev that he was doing the work I paid him to do.

I have no other way to verify that someone is dedicated to my work.

If anyone refuses the spyware, that's absolutely their right. I don't blame them.
> I've got an optiplex box running OpenBSD thats gonna get a PCI wireless card thrown in it when I get around to it.

Have you actually looked in to this path? 802.11ac support is basically brand new in OpenBSD and the drivers that support it don't support HostAP mode.

In general the state of WiFi support across the BSD multiverse is pretty poor. I've wanted to be able to use pfSense/OpnSense boxes as all-in-one devices for years but it's always been so bad that it's better to just use a dedicated Linux device as the WAP.
RIP but, I'm sorry, I have to say it, "hacker" news?
I like the idea of moving away from the hard/soft delineation and towards a more qualitative description of each skill. The focus on bucketing into just two things distracts from the differences between all of the things.

I also think, as you describe, that it's very valuable when technical folks have at least some baseline of communication skills (not specifying whether that is hard/soft, especially considering that they may need to communicate about very complex topics). I'm not optimistic about anyone being the best at both, but it's not impossible.
PyScript with WebAssembly and Python – Talk Python #367 Live Stream
Presumably they become product managers or something like that and try to get a series of changes through various teams in a co-ordinated way that add up to some achievement or "project".

Their estimates have to be based on what teams predict and velocity and so on and on.
Do what your heart feels is right.
Sure, I get that winter affects things — I wasn't referring to the worst-case scenario for charging. People who road-trip in cold weather (and don't have a second vehicle) will continue to care about max range for longer than other folks. In warmer parts of the country/world, I think range anxiety/concern will tail off pretty soon.

There are other valid concerns of course; where I live, issues with the electric grid make it dicey to have only EVs.
The True Meaning of Christmas
> opting in to an experimental feature could be a one-liner

This exists since 2013. https://metacpan.org/pod/experimental

> Probably not much of a problem currently, but might be if releases get more frequent.

Very unlikely. Perl switched to a yearly release in 2010, it has been in use since and there is no indication for this to change. https://lwn.net/Articles/485569/#:~:text=a%20%22timeboxed%22...

> focus on tooling around installation […] install more and more of their binaries into the user’s home directory

Exists. Wouldn't be Perl if one hadn't the choice between multiple solutions.

https://metacpan.org/pod/local::lib
https://perlbrew.pl
https://github.com/tokuhirom/plenv
https://metacpan.org/pod/perlall
https://metacpan.org/pod/App::plx
https://github.com/stevieb9/berrybrew

> I’m not following Perl that closely anymore

It is evident.
One of the biggest changes is that even in the 1990s in many places, you'd have minimal or no contact with anyone back home and probably even reasonably cut off from news. When I went on a few ~month long trips to Nepal around that time, you were just starting to see some terminals for email here and there towards the end of the decade. But you were pretty much cut off from most communications.
I remember that and Locksmith, a different disc copier.

As a pre-teen I was really into this and with copies of _Beneath Apple DOS_ and Zak's _Programming the 6502_ I wrote my own nibble copiers and boot sectors.
If you have a group that has a trusted party (even if said party is one of the group, or a new group made from the group itself), that party can just run a bog-standard database and there's no need for a blockchain.
And where would the issuer of such a hypothetical stablecoin store actual dollars, if not in bank accounts or government bonds?
You don't. It's human nature.

Instead you enact one of the many reforms that successfully prevent frequent school shootings in every other country.
Honestly I haven't farmed in the game ever. I'm not sure why I would need to. I do agree that some things are not as intuitive though, like armor. Or that poise is what's important, because it is about knockback.
It looks like in the results section eqs (8)-(13), they give the main thrust of their idea. To demonstrate that not all machines are reversible they have to take the limit of the number of qubits of their machine as n goes to infinity, so their result is still in the limit, same as the typical laws of thermodynamics.

So this is primarily an interesting mathematical restatement at the quantum level. I don't know how useful this is, not having much knowledge about existing quantum information theory/thermodynamics.
Just a side note, but it's funny how the Patriot Act is commonly decried by everyone as an overreach of government power & invasion of privacy.

But, when you mention these KYC laws (which were put into place in the US by the Patriot Act), no one bats an eye and just assumes KYC rules are reasonable.
Not a stable one, anyway. A normal feeder, hung from a drone flying 50' over a field, is squirrel-proof until the battery runs out.
> sensitive dependence on initial conditions

isn't that the wolfram thing? Simple patterns create complex unpredictable patterns? And our universe are just made up a few very simple rules and in combination it created this complex universe. Yeah most ideas has being around for a long time, it is just now we have the technology to verify some of these claims.
> You can't lead developers if you have no clue about developing. Sorry.

Laissez-Faire Leadership.

I've been on several massive teams where the project managers had no idea about the tech stack, but worked so well with the dev teams that they relied on the devs to give them input on tasks and proper expectations and allowed them the ability to have a stake in the game, not just sitting there taking directions from people who know nothing about their tech stack.

I think its disingenuous to say you can't lead developers without having an intimate knowledge of the tech stack they're using. I've worked on small teams and massive teams and in only a few cases ran into non-technical managers who thought they could strong arm developers into hasty releases and poorly coded prototypes. Most of the managers I've worked with who were not technical, went out of their way to build a more affable relationship with developers since they knew we were the key to the project's success.
Where in the write up did he state that as a requirement? He clearly says he uses rai as an example for simplicity in explaining the mechanisms. Explaining the systems with DAI would've been much more difficult.

Collateralized loans can't result in bank runs, I don't know how you envision this working. In a downturn, people get their collateral liquidated, or exchange their stable tokens for their collateral.
I think it's to some extent the good old Irish charm, and I say that as someone married to a much better Irish other half.
Hi. I’m on iphone XS. Could you help me understand what the buttons on the right do?

https://imgur.com/a/r8SbYfp

Also not sure - is the URL so that this can be used in browser for the other party, or - i am assuming - it’s just for accessing in the app on the other end too?

Thanks. Inspiring!
Behavior out of alignment with the Public Good deserves to be exposed, full stop.

American society and the world at large already have enough problems without this kind of back room power jockeying diverting and leeching even more public resources for narcissist agendas.
just tested on macOS in Firefox, Chrome and Safari: got horizontal scrolling. On iOS in Chrome and Safari there is no scroll but a white line on the right. Of course it doesn’t reveal because macOS like to hide scrollbars but if I try to scroll right, there is a little scrollable space. You can try this

document.getElementsByClassName("gutter-condensed gutter-lg flex-column flex-md-row d-flex")[0].clientWidth
document.getElementsByClassName("gutter-condensed gutter-lg flex-column flex-md-row d-flex")[0].style.width = '100%'
document.getElementsByClassName("gutter-condensed gutter-lg flex-column flex-md-row d-flex")[0].clientWidth

edit: add code to spot the bug
I'm not sure what exactly would happen, but forgiven debt is usually taxable.
> the country really is too big and diverse to be governed as a single nation

I think many gun owners would agree.
Shouldn't they have left it for 6.0?
Anyone know if there's an easy way to find the answers to either of these questions?

1) Has the Amazon board ever recommended voting yes on any shareholder proposals?

2) Have any Amazon shareholder proposals ever been approved by investors?