skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In response to the usual comments about how "we need legislation on crypto, and we need it now!", can we just have one thing that isn't legislated to shit? Please? Yes, there are scams. If you fail to even do the bare minimum research, that's your fault. If you suck at detecting sketchy investments (or use crypto as an investment in general, rather than its intended purpose), that's your fault.
> It isn't uncommon to see bondage and other very sexual things just normally about. Which is a good thing!

I remember when the rhetoric was "consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own bedroom", and now it's "people should be able to practice their sexual kinks in public, including in front of children [1], and if you disagree then you are a bigot!"

This is what a society heading towards collapse looks like.

[1] https://archive.ph/d3URl
Holding tulips in the long term was historically a good investment, too, until it wasn't.
It actually is.

Smaller banks are vulnerable to bank runs. So a lot of banks during crisis (before FDIC / Centralized Banking in the USA) would close up to stop bank runs.

Closing up shop during a bank run only made people angrier, and exacerbated the problem. What was invoked as a solution, was for every bank in the nation to be FDIC insured by the central bank.

The smaller and more decentralized banks are, the more frequently the bank-runs are, forcing the small banks to close to protect themselves.
I'm not familiar with LTO, what advantages does it have over LiFePO4?
If you eat meat you are probably financing worse things, like sentencing animals to a life in a house of horrors. Eg: piglets have their teeth and tails removed without anesthesia. Many simply die from shock.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Anima...
Oh sorry I repeated you!
Imagine if this was some Oceans 11 type heist where the BTC owner (Binance, not you plebs holding coins in someone else's wallet) thinks one thing is happening, all while someone unauthorized got a hold of some hot wallet keys and is draining them

30 minutes have come and passed, BTC still not in sight
I think it's because bitcoin trading can't actually use the network - it's too slow and expensive.

So the exchanges and the stable coins are used as a proxy which then means that they are disconnected from the actual currency. This means that there is an amplifier (leverage) on the way up, leading to spectacular bull runs.

Also...
Tons of alt coins offering triple digit APYs over the last few years.
Why? Lots of people enjoy it and it doesn't harm anyone. Except in situations (underage, revenge porn etc) that are illegal already anyway. Most people enjoy viewing and/or making it.

I don't think there's anything inherently bad about porn at all. Most arguments against it are religious in nature and as an atheist I'm not bound by religious rules.
Bitcoiners saying that 'if you don't hold it, you don't own it' also applies.
In other words, life is inherently coercive? Life is... life under duress?
Excellent hypotheses, it should be possible to see these transactions if they are out there. That's why it's a public blockchain.
“Pay no attention to this concentration camp - really it’s a kindness being done to the inmates”
So somebody who reuploads a video that they like should be held to the same standard as the original uploader of revenge porn?

I think this is a lot of convenient dodging and dancing around the idea that Section 230 might possibly need to be revised.
Too bad it doesn't break out remote jobs.
Similar to IPFS or Freebase, these censorship-resistant distributed storage solutions can help oppressed journalists in third-world countries get the stories of their oppression out.
I wonder if BTC will use the communism excuses, given the space is a hyper-capitalist space where everything is made of money.

I'll be looking with great attention to the near future.
https://medium.com/dare-to-be-better/anchor-protocol-insane-...

And that's only the first Google result that hasn't been unpublished in the meanwhile...
It completely depends on company policy
Well if its outdated, lets add some new ones.

OpenBSD would be just can, by default. Beer is your prerogative, and available in the ports tree.
Fiat currencies are created by sovereign entities which control fundamental things like land and people (they can even draft their population and send them into war).

If you own land in the United States, you pay property tax in USD. That's just one of myriad ways that the dollar is backed by the physical assets of the nation.
Can gravity batteries[1] be practical for residential use?

How would they compare to the other options like lithium and lead batteries?

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220511-can-gravity-batt...
> The body said "purpose-based access control" was a term which had been used in the computing industry for 20 years

I can find references to "policy-based access control" (same acronym) going back decades (and plenty of mentions of the widely-used and understood RBAC) but not purpose-based access control. Is it the same thing, or is there some confusion here?
We both know that Stripe are actually fully involved in the crypto scam.

They have a crypto division that will be used for crypto payments and NFTs. They also invested into a crypto token called 'Stellar' back in 2014 and said nothing since on the matter.

Plus the CEO of Stripe advises Stellar. [0] Moneygram is also working on the scam as well with this Stellar token.

I don't know about you but it seems that both Stripe and Moneygram are complicit in the crypto scam the same way that the crypto exchanges are.

Also you said 'ALL' by the way so this means no exceptions.

[0] https://stellar.org/foundation/team
That depends on the fed. If they raise rates enough to kill inflation, we could have 2008 all over again, possibly worse. But if inflation remains high, the nominal price of the house may go up further.
I worked in worker's comp briefly as a paralegal, and we'd pay doctors handsomely for a written opinion based on their review of medical records, which was most likely filled out by an assistant and polished off by the doctor. Good work if you can get it!
That's why I said more or less. Taxes probably only account for a small portion of this value and it is now possible to pay taxes in crypto (in some countries and cities).
The sad part is that people pretty much need to save $1M+ to retire at 65 these days, yet many vastly underfund their accounts.
If you want to withdraw to protect yourself against binance mtgox'ing, WBTC is probably safe enough.
Almost everything we know about all the ways diving can kill you comes from the US Navy's experimental diving unit. A lot of people died after they intentionally gave people the bends.
Just work for companies that default to open-sourcing everything. Easier said than done, but that's the best guarantee.
BTW for about archeology, this remembers me ancient writings on birch bark.

They was not time-prone, so mostly just disappear. And now people ask, are you sure, existed such civilization?

How it is possible, we know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
but no journals, no blogs of ancient people, who done such smart things?
The two work in tandem, though. I use Firefox on mobile because I use Firefox on desktop. That and it being the only Android browser that runs uBlock Origin, of course.

I currently use Thunderbird on desktop, but use a combination of Gmail and Outlook on Android. If Thunderbird picks up K-9 mail and turns it into a first-class mobile client, I'll probably use Thunderbird instead of the Outlook app. People like consistency.
Truly bad porn is already underground. If legal porn sites didn’t exist, law enforcement could target their resources to stop the truly bad stuff.
I don't know, it seems like there was actually a lot more to it than that. I'm interested to know if you read this full interview, and if so what makes you think it couldn't be demonstrative of sentience.

1. https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
Anybody who thinks 20% crypto APY is risk free is asking for trouble.
https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/pdf/newresconst.pdf

Housing starts are trending up. It will take a few years, but supply is coming.
No, it's a trade-off. Just like free speech. Banning free speech would "work" exactly as well for "fixing" exploitation. I think flatly making both of those trades against freedom is a mistake, just the same as doing nothing to address exploitation and gun violence are mistakes.
This really isn't a left vs right issue (or at least, shouldn't be), but if you trace back the origins of most anti-porn[hub] campaigns, you end up at far-right religious groups.
As a buyer, I just take into account this reality when evaluating reviews. There is still useful information to be found, but the sentiment and comments I never extrapolate to the whole user population. Pretty typical for companies to incentivize positive reviews on these sites too, which is fine with me but also something I take into account.
You need to hold the keys in your own wallet. Holding it in a centralized exchanges like Binance, Coinbase etc is at best just DB entries.
I recall walking through an airport this year and seeing Crypto ads everywhere. That was my shoeshine boy moment (1)

(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-spot-stock-market-bub...
Not thrilled. I use K9 and I don't really want Thunderbird to have anything to do with it :/
> Crypto needed a tangible market/reason d'etre to be valuable.

I have recently paid $40 for a $240 SWIFT transaction that I made on behalf of my father, as his bank (with most Russian banks) have been cut of from the world's financial system. Crypto is fulfilling a real need felt by many people all around the globe; it's just most of those people don't live in first world nations.
How about we start teaching our kids to be decent, independent, contributing members of society? Rather than delegating all of our problems to daddy Government? Wishful thinking, I guess.
Misspelling "its" like "it's" should be banned, no reason to do that in a civilized society.
He could comment anything, including (textual) erotica and it wouldn't be child porn so how does it relate to this topic? Sounds like a slippery slope argument that if we can cp, all speech is next? Is it possible cp is categorically worse than offensive text?
A few decades from now, the underlying technology will still be super interesting and will still have the potential to actually grow into something amazing in a few more decades.
Deng did well because he unclenched a little
If you are disputing the claims made against PornHub, please dispute the claims made against PornHub. The accusations made against PornHub are true or they are not true.

The nature or even the existence of Exodus Cry can neither contribute nor detract from the claims' trush or falsity.
It took about 200 years to get a somewhat stable financial system that doesn't make your savings account disappear in a bankrun.

Unfortunately the crypto tech bros are uninterested in history, sociology and psychology. You don't solve the human condition with computer code.
The particular Sci-Hub trade-off is one that shouldn't worry you. If Pornhub are made responsible for user uploaded content it won't make any difference to Sci-Hub because they're already flagrantly infringing. It's not a grey-zone user-upload operation, its express purpose is to "remov[e] barriers in the way of science" in defiance of copyright law. It's "black" Open Access (in the sense of the pirate flag) and not something within the reach of US regulators (otherwise it would already be toast).
Maybe your narrow-minded group believes in in- and out-groups, but not mine!
> Monero is doing its job dutifully.

What is its job? How often do you think goods and services are paid for with Monero? How often do you think the coin is used purely as a speculative asset?
> the videos were often uploaded in tiny clips that she found impossible to track

1) I just want to point out the obvious comment that if she found the number of clips impossible to track, maybe video hosting sites would also find it impossible to track. Short of creating a ContentID type of system (with its own host of big problems) that would check each edited clip for this content, it's almost impossible for a platform to police an entire Internet's worth of clips. (and a content checking system for homemade porn would probably be a lot harder than a system for a relatively limited catalog of corporate media)

2) IMO, the flaw here is passing the buck from legislators/prosecutors and outsourcing their job to web apps. If criminal acts are being performed, it's not Pornhub that's the police. It's legislators and prosecutors that need to create laws (and enforce them) against harassment, blackmail, malicious acts, etc. Pornhub's job should be to comply with any court orders with all available information for investigation and prosecution.

3) As a general comment, at the risk of being pilloried for victim-blaming, some big problems would be avoided by teaching more smart thinking to young people. If you're in a community that cares about this kind of thing, don't let your significant other setup the camera in the bedroom and don't send nudes that include your face. Even if everybody followed this advice perfectly, it wouldn't solve every problem, but many bad outcomes may be avoided.
Eh, look at the full timeline. When MobileCoin stuff was happening, when Moxie left Signal, and when he posted the Web3 criticisms.

I've been using Bitcoin since 2009, and RedPhone/TxtSecure (Now called Signal) since 2010, and I still have zero clue how I'm even supposed to obtain MobileCoin. It's really a toy project at this point with no real adoption.

Being able to send money via a secure chat network is a super important utility that is currently under-served in a big way, but MobileCoin itself is basically a whitepaper and a bunch of toy code that has a novel re-implementation (in rust) of Monero as a stableishcoin, which, last I checked makes it completely incompatible with the rest of the blockchain ecosystem.

They are making zero effort to shill, or push MobileCoin in any way, and neither Moxie nor anyone on the team stands to profit greatly from massive MobileCoin adoption.
> Sure, you could argue for further abuse scanning like Google foolishly tries with content ID but the real solution is to go after the uploaders. If Pornhub is required to ask for special validation so is every single service with user postable content.

Content ID actually isn't so foolish. It works reasonably well to target copyrighted material, the problem rather is that it by nature cannot determine "fair use" exceptions and getting an actual human to review false strikes is an unreasonably excessive effort.

When someone notifies Pornhub that a video they host is distributed without the consent of the persons involved, it should be very very easy for Pornhub to scan for other videos containing the same content, even as snippets, and subsequently take these down. The technology exists, both as SaaS (e.g. Amazon Rekognition) or as open-source solution to self-host.

Side note, I always did wonder how PornHub and friends were able to evade the record-keeping requirements of 18 USC § 2257.
> Lots of people enjoy it and it doesn't harm anyone.

- Researchers have found that repeated porn use "wears out" the dopamine reward system in the brain.

- A German study shows that some porn users become dependent on new, surprising, or more extreme porn to get aroused.

- Some men report that their level of concentration and emotional well-being have been negatively affected by porn use.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hero/201603/is-porn-...
It's not a "lucrative investment". It's a bigger fool scam. The only way to make money in BTC is for someone else to buy in for more than you did originally. It makes it appear as if BTC's price is always going up, but in reality the number of fools is limited - especially with the buy-in getting higher and higher.

Sure, the price will always go up in the long run. But it will become less and less liquid, and at some point those who are left will have hundreds of thousands or millions of theoretical money that's completely unspendable, because no-one else will buy in for more than they did.
I think Astro is more likely the successor to Next.js and probably not remix. I think Next will steal the best parts of Remix but Astro was built with simpler foundations and has integrations for deno with Netlify edge functions among others and unlike Remix is not tied to React but you can choose your framework.
Flimsy evidence? It’s quite clear to me China is abusing their Uighur population, there’s plenty of videos with direct evidence floating on youtube.

What is hard for me to digest is why for some people, things need to be black and white, one is the bad guy and the other needs to be the good guy.
> Holding crypto on an exchange is like giving money to a guy on the corner

I’m sorry, what?

A CEX /should/ be comparable to a brokerage like Charles Schwab or even Robinhood. This comes with legal protections - they can’t gamble with my unused money or invested stocks.

Also, and this is the most disingenuous part - how do you buy crypto with fiat? Literally everyone I know uses a CEX to on/off-ramp, and sadly this is widely seen as an acceptable evil.
Yea, AL Gore only claimed to have created the internet:

"I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore, 3/9/1999
Google and Facebook blocking wind farm because it will raise their electric bill
In describing what Mickelwait did for her:

> “Laila was so helpful,” Rachel told me. “She did more for me than any police or anyone in the U.K. ever did.”

You might not like Exodus Cry. You might not believe in everything they believe in. But for the girl in the article, they did something that she couldn't get anyone else to help her with.

But they are helping some people like "Rachel" in ways that, hopefully, you can support as being a good thing.
Bitcoins reason d'etre is to permit an exchange of value without involving the banks/classic financial infrastructure. It could go down to fractions of a penny and still be able to do that.
You can use something like https://bisq.network/
Except for some very technical topics, I find myself skipping the comments more and more, despite the fact that was one of my favorite parts of the site.

More and more I use HN just for the links.

And even that seems problematic at times.
I'll be certain to use whatever fork of K-9 is available rather than anything Mozilla. WHERE'S THE SAVE TO PDF OPTION on mobile Firefox?
And be born more than 25 years ago and had access to these computers.

Even though I'm old enough to have used DOS as a kid, my grade school didn't have any computers for student use. I jumped immediately to Windows 95 from DOS, but never used it for more than playing games and Microsoft Office.

I encountered macOS 8 in High School but only used them for Logo (turtles!).

So I really don't get the article.
I'm paraphrasing what was said on WWDC22.
If it has to get to the Hague, there were drastic failures earlier. The US has a right to a speedy and public trial, and needs to put its money where its mouth is (or was).
If stocks and bonds were allowed to be traded as digital NFT-like contracts than true settlement could be completed in ~minutes rather than ~days.
Ah the mods. Feared by most, hated by some, necessary to make Reddit the place is is.

If you make a post that mentions your company, in most subreddits there's a chance you could get it taken down. There are ways to mitigate that, but my recommendation is to start out by commenting as opposed to posting. There are a lot of conversations where people are talking about pain points you can help with, or asking for solutions which are exactly the business you run. By answering with a thoughtful reply and linking to your site (blog post with more info or product free trial is received best), you open up a win-win-win situation. OP gets their question answered (unless you're doing it wrong), you win because you get a potential customer, and the community wins because they learn of a related resource to a post they are reading. In my experience, comments are a lot less moderated, and because you're actually helping someone with your reply, less likely to be called out for self-promotion.

I've found that a lot of startup founders have similar experiences, so much that part of my job has been helping people get comfortable with Reddit. If you want to know more, here's my intro to Reddit for founders blog post: https://gummysearch.com/insights/reddit-startups/
Getting too hung up on the precise philosophical definition of intrinsic misses the point, imo.

Things that make Lira less mythological and more intrinsicly valuable include:

- It is a more stable store of value

- It holds a more stable relationship to the value of everything else in the Turkish economy

- It is more widely accepted for buying and selling good and services

These three things are real world practical differences.
At long last a decent OS for Galaxy S3. I wish I had kept mine. It doesn't say whether it's the European or American version though.
Why be so condescending?

Also, they could use Firefox on mobile to keep their history and bookmarks in sync across devices in addition to some extensions they find useful, like uBlock Origin as they mentioned. Just because the number of extensions is less than desktop doesn't mean the extensions that do exist aren't game changers for them.
I'd be careful about admitting to evading financial sanctions in public, myself.
I was an expert witness this year. In that case, I wasn't paid by either side. But I can understand better why people ask for big paydays. The opposing side does their best to make you and your statements look bad. Even when you know that's what they are doing, it's quite unpleasant. The lawyer on the side I was supporting said that this unpleasantness was why they often had to pay handsomely for testimony.
Is there really a way around this? overflow should be an error in most languages - but isn't for a variety of reasons such as simplifying the construct

c = a + b

In a language without native memory management, it's rare that this type of bug could lead to disclosure of sensitive information. In the cases it would, it's easy enough to guard the overflow with a test such as if (MAX_VAL - b) < a then error.

Chasing safety features which result in difficult to reason about semantics will inevitably lead to low language adoption. I'd be very interested in approaches which guard difficult cases while maintaining ease of use. I'd love a statically typed language which automatically increases the size of numeric type on over/underflow.
Ya, the "just for blockers" doesn't make sense. As far as I'm concerned, it's just time at the beginning of the today to come together to figure out what needs to be done for the day. The issue I take with "status report" is that I don't care, at all, about all the little things people did yesterday. I usually just tune out and I'm most others do as well.
The Coyote’s Anguish
The advantages of chopping up chopping your pipeline stages in half so that each is 10 FO4s long rather than the 16 FO4s most people use. You've generally got 2 FO4s of latching and 2 of clock skew so IBM was seeing 6 FO4s of useful work per stage compared to 12 with Intel. Or at least the overhead was 4 per stage in the mid 2000s, I've got no idea what they are in the early 2020s.
Why are you being so disingenuous? I have not argued that porn is immoral or should be banned or whatever anywhere. I don't like that pornhub operated for so long without requiring any sort of verification, and I think they should be held accountable.
Even those users still need price stability in order for your use case to work. And fiat on/off-ramps (as which Binance functioned for many).