skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get treated strikingly different by virtually everyone I meet when I'm wearing a just run of the mill suit[1] than when I'm wearing casual clothes. It's worth noting though, that the basic suit is meant to be subdued and even many very nice suits[2] aren't exactly flashy, they just fit together perfectly and look like they were made for you. I do wonder how much the typical person can tell the difference nowadays.

[1] From one of the online made to measure outfits for a few hundred bucks.

[2] The kind where you get a lot of quality time with your tailor from the start to the end of the process. These will run you into four figures to start.
I'm sure no one will ask them to show UL or CE marks or want Homologation approvals. You just whip out the old ISO 9000 certificates and tell the customs official that its all good "look its OpenWRT from Github - definitely not a Stingray officer!" LoL.
As in sending cash by mail potentially across borders? Is that really a solution?
Have you tried contacting British council services on a Saturday or Sunday?

What you've described isn't far from reality.
my (new) direct boss
I would prefer to work with someone wearing Gucci over someone in a black North Face vest any day.
>No - I care (somewhat) about basic factual accuracy when it comes to public health debates.

Huh what facts were in your post?
KC has the ethos of getting better
Love their clothes but their american style boxy fit is horrible. And no tall options.
Pretty sure that most countries have laws to prevent such practices...
Block chains can be useful. Git is the most obvious example.
Reminder that Mattermost's f/oss self-hosted version embeds segment.io phone-home spyware on by default which must be disabled with a barely-documented env var (called "diagnostics").
I am looking into buying stuff from them, I would also love some feedback. I just wants simple pants that fit, this seems to be a difficult requirement to fulfil.
Worth mentioning there's a middle path, namely kubeadm. That's the "sanctioned" way to bootstrap clusters without going full from scratch and many other distributions actually use it internally.
>>These are the two broad methods humans have for moving things around: pipes and buckets.

Interesting, but this list is somewhat incomplete. Two other methods of "moving things around" not covered in these stated categories include
a.) Projectiles, and
b.) Teleportation.

The latter is still in it's infancy. While the former may invoke thoughts of missiles and bullets from guns, really it's any matter/energy that is transmitted using energy without a container (i.e. clouds transmit water, antennas transmit radio waves, etc.).

>>Setting aside the complexities of time and identity for a moment, every fact must be three-dimensional, the smallest possible unit of information. [Article cit. 3 & 4] A three-dimensional fact might be represented as a proposition, a triple, or an attribute assigned to an entity. These are equivalent.

I had trouble with the statement that "facts must have three dimensions," so I checked the citations only to find zero reference to this '3D fact' assertion or what that actually is supposed to mean.

If someone can verify and support this assertion, or an example, please let me know. The post appears interesting, but I can't read any further without knowing that the basis of what follows stands on solid footing. The missing categories of "transporting things" leads me to believe that this paper is documenting an incomplete thought.
That makes sense, but I wear air force 1s, so it's not that
Cash is being phased out (censored) and can't be sent via the internet.
Inequality is getting worse and worse across the west:

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk

Businesses are choosing to use their profits to perform stock buybacks instead of innovating or improving standards for their workers:

https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for...

Meanwhile the cost of living is going through the roof:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

And pay is not catching up, further aggravated by inflation:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1272447/uk-wage-growth-v...

In the UK we also have a 54% increase in the residential cost of energy (within the context of extreme profiteering from energy manufacturers):

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/business/energy-prices-uk...

And 9.1% inflation:

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/uk-inflation-rate-hits-...

This is true across the world. I'm not sure what your life is like, but it sure as hell doesn't match the lived experience of many.
It is nativity. I know someone who constantly talks about the environment and also is a big crypto supporter and even runs a mini g setup! What hypocrisy!
Herbie Hancock: ‘Miles Davis told me: I don’t pay you to get applause’
When did this happen? Got a link?
I submit to you that government-induced currency devaluation has caused orders of magnitude greater monetary losses for ordinary individuals than all of those events combined.
This is a horrible tool, and it's highly likely that everyone actually hates it but just doesn't want to say anything.
Don't it bother you? I got constant minor infections with mine. Difficult to clean. Moved about occasionally causing a fair amount of pain.
>This is my basic argument: blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem with financial (or other) systems. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology

I generally agree but there definitely are exceptions. For example they can provide viable financial models for tech organizations like Brave and Protocol Labs (I'm not endorsing them) to actually care about privacy, which is an enormous social issue right now.
Is Git on a block chain?
As I understand it, because the Cryptocurrencies are not legal tender:

"Cryptocurrency is not legal tender and is not backed by the government. Cryptocurrency, (including but not limited to tokens such as bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum, and stablecoins such as USDC), is not subject to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or Securities Investor Protection Corporation protections." [https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...]

So any Bitcoin etc... you hold in your wallet at Coinbase could just be sold off to pay for debt if a bankruptcy occurs (which doesn't happen if a FDIC bank goes bankrupt).
Self hosting Mattermost community edition with the Mattermost apps in Google play and apple app store works fine.
To be fair it's just as bad on Monday to Friday as well at least in the three local councils I've had to try and contact.
find and keep recurring paying customers; with a healthy profit margin.
Would you like to add anything constructive to this discussion or just insult me since you disagree with my politics?
I agree, and exchanges already are heavily regulated. But taxing energy consumption? How can you tax energy waste? What if someone sets up their own power generation? Is it wasting energy to let sunlight hit a parking lot?
> "What makes Chromium the best?"

I can't speak for the parent, but when most people say this they mean "least likely to break my websites", completely ignoring that this is a symptom, not a cause, of Chrome's dominance. Even my health insurance website breaks in Firefox, and their error message suggests that everyone should just use Chrome. We'll end up back in the early 2000s Internet Explorer situation eventually before the pendulum swings around again.
This article entirely misses the point on why sentience matters, and largely serves as whataboutism for other problems with AI.

The reason it matters if an AI is sentient (and for the record, LaMDA obviously isn't) is because a lot of people draw a moral line at sentience. Sentience is where becoming "a person" begins, and anything with sentience deserves protections similar to those we provide to human beings.
Heh, I know so many suburban Republicans who claimed this day would never come.
if you were able to send things into space (which should be easy to achieve for such a society), then it's evidence we're in a post-scarcity society.

By the lack of being able to send much to space, we must not currently be in a post-scarcity society, because space exploration is such a good and exciting thing to do, you'd expect that it's one of the first things to get accomplished by a post-scarcity society.
The concept is good, checked them out some years ago, but afaik the execution should be better. Scandis don't have an eye for fabric, except Denim. Often too smooth / shiny / plasticky or bland.

I really wish there were affordable clothes in Asket spirit but with fabrics Italian premium brand would choose.
Who are the judicial activists?
No "Gucci" etc.. Copyright is not enforced at many places.
As usual with these sorts of articles, should be prefaced with “A single study claims…”
I live in Portland now, centrally near NW 23rd, while I used to live in Austin from 2007-2015 (and still visit often). I agree with all your points. Portland is far more walkable as I walk to everything here, including grocery and furniture stores, not just cafes and restaurants and convenience stores. It also has much better variety of cultural attractions, architecture, and I prefer the climate and nature of this area.
Yeah I always struggle with the “you just need to care less, you’ll be happier that way” theme.

I spend 8-10 hours on a given day exchanging my work for some revenue. That is (at least) half of my waking day. Day after day. To the tune of ~2000 hours a year. That is a massive part of one’s _life_. I think it’s reasonable to want some sort of satisfaction during at least some of those hours.

Also, I find it takes active effort to actually not care. It is not a minimum energy test state for me. I actually have to work even harder to do the job and NOT care.
The article is unclear, it reads like it only applies to public servers and realms servers, but not self hosted servers?

What stops someone from just making another Microsoft id?
This is great. It's the first time I've seen it promoted without a 20% pay cut at the same time.
Finding distaste in other peoples sayings is not malice.

EDIT: I would agree with the post you were referring to, if someone were to judge me based on my boasting I'd rather not work with them because I'd have to put much effort into working around them misjudging me.

Please don't judge me on my absence of boasting.
The title for this article is misleading. It only says they've agreed to a study to investigate it. There's a world of difference between that and actually approving a 4-day week for all.
I think your problem is thinking of this council as a "business".

If a local council was a business there would be a fire in the basement one Sunday morning.

Follow on - I do a "kind of" 4 day work week at full pay. four full days then 2 hours of wash up on the Friday. Its highly sector dependant to make it work, couldn't possibly work for everyone if we had SLA's to meet.
> despite that, people still

So the problem are people not some cryptocurrency problem. Maybe not even "people" as a whole since such arguments are made from a very US/EU privileged perspective which frankly doesn't reflect the realities of the rest of the world.

On the other hand, as long as you have your keys you can transact on legit systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum. KYC and travel rules do not exist within the protocol. It doesn't care about you, your opinions, Coinbase or your governments laws and restrictions.

It is dishonest to affirm that cryptocurrency fails because a centralized on and off ramp where you convert form and off a centralized currency is enforcing a centralizing rule.

Why is this so hard to make such distinctions? Oh I might know it. Remember when I said OP purposely chose to omit the fact that Dutch users received this message? This happens because cryptocurrencies are a touchy political charged subject.
1) Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency. I was thinking more about Monero.

2) Coinbase wouldn't be relevant in a scenario where everyone uses Bitcoin already.
> But the story is a distraction: There’s an urgent need to respond to the many real and well-documented problems with these systems that already exist — and for those responses to be driven by society, not big tech

I strongly disagree. This is everything but a distraction.

If AI was found to be sentient, it should be awarded the same kind of protection we offer to biological sentient beings.

This was a big theme in old scifi shows, like Data in ST-TNG or the Doctor in DS9.

And the stories were great because they demonstrated how society response was by default lackadaisical, to the point where Data had to fight to be awarded legal protection.
Have you spoken with him about what he'd like?

I think everyone has different tastes (both personal and also in relation to the types of hearing loss they have) and one of my buttons in particular is when people go out of their way to do everything... except ask what I prefer.

For example, if he prefers to do video chats (I myself do), he may appreciate hand raising/visual cues before speaking (to context switch), clear lighting and dimmer backgrounds (to help lip reading/curing), better mics (basically not anything onboard). Additionally, things like someone taking minutes and recording decisions can be helpful for review afterward to clear up misconceptions or assumptions.

It may be that no matter how many video chat accommodations there are, he may not feel completely included and would prefer text of some kind.

I think another important thing is to make him feel welcome to interrupt or say something outside of the meetings, both implicitly and through explicit reminders -- sometimes it turns out that some accommodations don't work out, or someone is just particularly difficult to understand (accents, enunciation), or something just throws it all out the window (people without cameras, suddenly noisy backgrounds, etc) and it can be hard being the odd one out saying "Hey, this actually isn't working."

I think really though, my strongest recommendation would be to keep him actively involved in accommodations without springing anything on him.

Edit: I want to emphasize that I do think it's great that you're reaching out and trying to help! I just also want to emphasize that for some people, loss of agency regarding how they handle their accommodations, no matter how well-intentioned, can feel bad.
I have lived my whole weird life's story in Austin. People who move here then openly complain or constantly compare Austin to some other place are better than anyone you'll see at Capital City. 10/10 will laugh again.
One can mention all of these points and start a discussion without calling trans people useless, I think that's why this person complained and why the original comment is now flagged.

It's also not really based on hard facts, as I doubt that Reddit releases statistics about their mods sexualities.

All in all, making an off-topic comment which is just insulting trans people is maybe not the kind of comment we want to see on HN. Ironically, I could see such a comment gaining traction on certain subreddits.
Agreed - privacy of transaction is the #1 issue blockchain potentially solves.
But you can, evidently, get people to maintain echo chambers for free. You can't necessarily get people to be impartial moderators for free.
People wearing flashy/status clothes are very cooperative. They are willing to walk around with logo's, advertising brands. While a sandwich man gets paid for such a job, the people wearing flashy/status clothes pay lots of money to do this kind of work.
Do not confuse IP with secret information.

The existence or absence of IP laws does not affect your capability to have secret information in any way.

Patents, one of the types of IP, was actually designed to encourage holders of secrets to release them. But the ability to hold secrets is completely unaffected.

Also, just because you hold a secret does not mean anyone owes you anything. You may sell a secret and you always could regardless of IP.

What IP allows you to do is, after you've made a secret public, demand compensation every time other people share it among themselves.
> and IMO it's very biased towards virtual methods to solve polymorphism.

Is it? These days I'd expect C++ to be very biased towards using templates for polymorphism. After all, templates are a thing that C++ provides with functionality that other languages often lack, whereas in the field of virtual methods/"dynamic dispatch OOP" C++ severely lags behind other languages. Choosing between two features of a language and using exactly the one that is worse in comparison to your competition feels wrong to me.
If cryptocurrencies are "democratic", then so in the same sense are disease, starvation and violence. Available to anyone. Doesn't make them a good thing.

All I see are scams, hype, and tricks to get marks to stuff more money into the pockets of bad actors, followed by thievery.

Being creative is often fine. Being creative when you're ripping people off for billions of dollars is not fine. Our culture may respect and admire talented criminal underdogs like art forgers and counterfeiters, but we still put them in jail.
I made a webapp to learn music sight reading [0]. Initially the goal was to help my kids pass conservatoirs' exams, which can be quite demanding, and are usually studied on books. That first goal was reached, my kids passed (this week)!

I thought this would interest music teachers, and I implemented specific deatures for them. -- Typically, music students like/love learning to play their instrument (or else they quit), but hate sight reading.

I talked to a couple of teachers: they are polite, don't express objections, but don't engage, don't call back and don't use it.

I did a ShowHN that gathered 11 upvotes. From that came a couple of users, including one who seems extremely motivated.

So all in all this has one serious user. Better than nothing! I certainly don't regret it.

[0] babeloop.com
The tens of thousands of developers in a company I am familiar with have taken a basic training on intellectual property concepts and software licenses.

A typical case mentioned in the training is that code from StackOverflow is (probably) licenses under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and as such it can never be copied inside their proprietary-licensed code base.
Or Reddit could just pay some of their ad money to their mods. They already have all the stats on what ads are displayed where, and a functioning ad system, how is involving a shitty slow energy-wasting database run by a bunch of strangers going to help?
I don't think you have an understanding of how Ethereum or DeFi works. What you are saying makes no sense except for one point (see below). The whole purpose of DeFi and chains like Ethereum is that you don't need to trust decentralized exchanges or apps on top of Ethereum. The system is trustless. These exchanges don't have any control over your assets. They can't "go down" or disappear with your assets because they don't have access to them in the first place. There also is no counterparty risk and wallet security is a totally different thing that's unrelated to any application.

I looked at your comment history and you vehemently argue against DeFi but your posts show that you have little understanding of any technology behind it.

Where you ARE right is that centralized exchanges/entities are needed as a fiat on-ramp and off-ramp. There is no way to get around interacting with centralized governments if you want to use government-issued fiat currency.
> Tell me how you can do the use-case for Brave - ie, sharing revenue from the ads with millions of users from anywhere in the world - within the traditional payment networks

Brave collects money from advertisers, Brave sends money to sites and users. Nothing in that requires any sort of blockchain. If the monthly amounts are so small as to make flat transaction costs significant, then the amounts are themselves insignificant. None of this requires a decentralized trustless ledger.
I really want to like ML but I have some complaints about OCaml in particular:

The stdlib is very weak so everyone uses this third party library. That really rubs me the wrong way.

All structures share a namespace for their elements which is super wacky.
First we have to build a society where energy is cheap and abundant. Then everything else will follow.
> After all, there already is implicit trust in the system described, and no decentralization. Or perhaps I haven't understood correctly.

I also don't have all the answers, but thinking more about it, maybe it is the case, that even though there is implicit trust, the third-party freight carriers might not want to depend on a centralised system wholly managed by Walmart? This could be due to opaqueness of such a system.
You send the money to their bank account with SWIFT? Not every bank is owned by a US company. Or mail cash - you can even get it insured.

If a US bank won't send money to a foreign bank, it's because the bank is in a sanctioned country (and now you have bigger issues than how to send the money, i.e. legal issues).
True, but a not insignificant part of the pitch was also pseudonymity (rephrased from anonymity from strofcon's comment).
Uncensorable money is demonstrably a bad thing, precisely because ransomware is indeed bitcoin's "killer app".

It's the only thing novel to come out of the cryptosphere.
That was a part of Austin, and if you went to the right places you saw concentrations of that. I'm sure you still can. But it didn't represent Austin as a whole. The movie represented a particular experience. Does that experience still exist? Probably its different than it was then, but there are still lots of free-thinking bohemian misfits in Austin, even though most of us who were here in the 90s grew up and probably don't resemble that anymore. But if you come to austin and go to The Domain expecting it to be a crowd from the move Slackers and then complain that Austin isn't what it used to be then you are not getting it.
What could go wrong? /s
Agreed.

The transparency of the entire event, end to end, becomes a "ho hum, thanks for telling me, i guess" sort of story. Which is, I suppose, why it's on HN.

I mean, "guy loses usb with data, finds usb with data" used to happen to me twice on Thursday back when usb was a thing. It was hardly front page news.
Space habitats are not really land limited. Yes our sun has a finite amount of power but by the time we use percent of it we can colonize other stars. Labour can be automated. Plants are not growing more complicated with time so at some point robotics can handle it.
A couple things wrong with that.

- They were "economically de-personed" because the protest was deemed illegal. All governments have the ability to "economically de-person" someone by arresting and jailing them. Cryptocurrencies do not and cannot change this, when they arrest you they'll take away your wallet and your computer and your phone. If you really do take issue with this, start working on the problem of how to make fairer protest laws. Start working on government accountability systems. The problem is political and needs political solutions. There is no other way. Trying to invent a new tech to fix political problems is largely not going to solve anything and probably will make the problem worse.

- If by some chance this wasn't an issue, cryptocurrency is still not "uncensorable money" by any possible definition. Among other things, you lose access to all of it simply by losing your internet connection. Cash doesn't suffer from this disadvantage.

Seriously, this meme about blockchains being "uncensorable" needs to die. At best it is technical confusion, at worst it is a lie and grift coming from con men trying to trick you into "investing" in something that can never fulfill the promise.
Eh, I'm not going to expend energy trying to have this discussion. I'll leave it at this - I think your comment is very poorly reasoned.