skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to things like the Basic Attention Token? As I see it, there are two separate things going on here.

1. A micropayment system. Nothing here requires a blockchain. Maybe doing it in a privacy-preserving way is easier with a decentralized solution, but I’m not convinced this is necessarily true.

2. Bypassing problematic regulation. The US and US-led financial system make legally moving small amounts of money around on behalf of clients prohibitively expensive and require an unfortunate degree of discrimination. By magic, blockchains bypass this.

The latter is, in my mind, a huge problem in both directions. A non-blockchain company should be able to offer micropayments without getting tangled in a KYC-AML morass. To the contrary, I would argue that financial services on a common carrier basis would be superior to the current system.

On the flip side, I don’t understand why regulators tolerate cryptocurrency exchanges or why they should tolerate them. From outside, Bitcoin (and, even more so, Monero) are systems by which unknown people can instruct exchanges to move fiat currency without knowing on whose behalf they are moving it. This flies entirely in the face of AML-KYC. The exchanges do not know the customer. Money is laundered.
As the saying goes: "weight is lost in the kitchen, muscle is gained in the gym"

Personally, my own experience (and that of a few close friends) is that if you want to lose weight it's going to suck. No easy way to do it, you have to go hungry. There are some low-cal fruits and vegetables, or other things you can try to lessen the hunger. But this popular notion that you can just change a few things you eat and still eat 3+ meals a day on some special "diet" is wrong. I don't understand why it perseveres.
Not sure what OP meant, but Tor is mostly broken right now for anything on clearnet, it's either practically or outright unusable.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple%20ochestrate%20l...
If they are doing it for free, the value of the labor is zero by definition.
That isn't what post-scarcity means. It doesn't mean there is zero scarcity. It means basic needs are easily met: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy

You're making claims about how space things align with post-scarcity that doesn't match up with the accepted meaning.

Even still, we _can_ send stuff into space, now cheaper than ever. What is the threshold for "send much to space"? Any person can order up a rocket payload on Amazon.space and have it placed in orbit? That doesn't sound good even if it were free. Especially if it were free...

> 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

Why?
No it's a sign of the overall culture, not the individual. You could do this in New York but it would be so unusual that people would think you are scamming them or just look at you like you grew a second head.
Got sources to back up your claims? You sound almost proud of your bigotry.
Sure, but some things don’t warrant all that many words. Bless your heart: I hope you have many life experiences that help you enrich your perspective and add nuance to your worldview.
And fashion has supplanted function.

Anecdata from just last week...

My partner wanted some new running trainers. She went to a popular
high-street store here in the UK called JD Sports and said to the
assistant "I'm looking for some new running shoes". In a bizarre fit
of honesty the lady said:

"Sorry we don't really do running gear here, we sell more fashion
items."

I'm sure her manager would have been appalled to overhear it, though
perhaps the assistant is into sports herself and made an honest
distinction between quality sports gear and the logo-heavy branded
items in the store.
I was at Kinkos last month to print a us govt passport renewal application document. The document had one tiny bit of color, entirely non essential to the purpose of the document.
FedEx printer will scan the print job, and if there is any color in it, will unavoidably print in color, at much higher price per page. I asked, there is no way to force it to print in mono chrome.
It is a blockchain. It's different from Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. in that it doesn't use a trustless consensus method. And that's literally the only situations where cryptocurrencies make sense, situations where you need to be able to operate with zero trust of the other party/parties. Turns out those situations are a lot rarer than crypto advocates claim, and even when such situations exist crypto is actually pretty limited in how much it can do/solve.
Saying that using an ad blocker equals a user expressing their preference to not have their visit logged to a third party is a pretty weak connection.

As long as none of your personal data is involved, it's not your data. It belongs to the website operator, and they can do with it what they please.
While I support Star Trek's view, I don't think that applies to purely algorithmic AI - fully deterministic software can't (IMHO) be interpreted as sentient any more than a light coming on because I flipped its switch could be called sentient. I believe humans are safe from this definition because we have no way of ascribing human behavior to, or even reducing it to terms of, logical causality. What sentience is hasn't been nailed down, but I feel at least slightly more confident in what it isn't. In Star Trek we had concepts like Data's positronic matrix, handwaving the possibility that there was true sentience by cloaking parts of it in advanced subatomic physics. Data's AI did not come from pure software.
Same - projects that span repos + GitHub wiki are great for the PM side, and being inside github is great for the developer side.

An important part is that Graphistry's devops is largely run via GitHub actions triggered by PR labels as well (ex: pr label -> you have a new copy of production running), so lifecycle visibility comes as part of working vs extra documentation effort.
Apple does not "get a cut" of any of those free applications.

Unless you consider the minimal $100 / year that Google has to pay to be "a cut".
One of the reason Switzerland is a rich country per-capita is that it has used its resources very wisely by investing in ubiquitous public transport throughout the whole country.
We don't do that with other state laws like murder and theft. And different states have different ideas on what those laws should look like too.

EDIT: I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you upset about SCOTUS citing common law tradition? Most of our law works that way, you have to build on something. Even "reason" needs axioms and you have to find a way to pick those.

EDIT2: There are a surprising number of people who want to decriminalize theft and even murder in some situations (look up "mutual combat" in Chicago.)
Yes. Dockerized Miniflux instance, >100 feeds. Wouldn't miss it for the world.
I use it as PWA on both desktop and mobile. No complaints.
"In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas says the court should reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage."

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1540338064324698112
This is a nice project but I don't see why they need both a rPi and a teensy - either of them are powerful enough and have enough pins to run the whole thing. The rPi is more convenient for running linux-ready software, but teensy-only would have been nice as it is a lot less powerhungry and can run a good while on battery.
Given how Japanese work culture functions, this is not that different from an American company saying that an employee went to a company happy hour and lost the USB stick in the taxi on the way home.

Staggering to a bench and sleeping it off is just, normal. No one is going to pick your pocket, so why not?
Safari really is the new IE
It depends on the context, its not as black and white as you think it is.
Actually, the cookie layers of Google have become a lot better in recent months. I doubt that is was Googles initiative, so I think that all this legal stuff is making a difference. Yes, it is a very slow process, but what would be an alternative?

Yes it doesn't solve the startup problem, but honestly there also also a ton of other laws and regulations outside of data protection which make it hard for startups to prosper. Web Analytics seems a relatively minor problem.
It's a language bug, really. If you're expected to say what the individual things in your program are allowed to be (like you have to in C++, Java, C# etc.), and you say "foo is a BarBaz object", and the language and compiler allow you to set foo to something that isn't actually a BarBaz object and this is considered OK, then the language is botched.
https://archive.ph/pqtwO
This Supreme Court is coming for contraceptives and same-sex marriage next. We are headed towards a theocracy.
It's were I buy all my black V-neck tee shirts for work.
H&M for my pretty pattern short sleeves when I am in that summer mood.
I suppose that makes sense. I must admit that there are aspects of the world I live in which I refuse to feel content about, even though there is nothing I can do about them.
You can have a court notice that says any transactions from wallet X will be considered contempt of court punishable by jail, which is close to the same thing for most people.
I doubt they’ll be shutting down.
From 1973 until 2022, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was officially deemed by the Supreme Court to be a Constitutional protection of abortion. The idea that "most legal scholars agree" is pretty silly; there's been significant debate for decades.
It’s super cheap. I sent $30 to a friend last night via Lightning, it was <1c. They used it to buy drinks.

There is no record of the tx on a blockchain - it is reasonably private. It is not as private as monero, zcash — sure, but there is no ongoing record of tx.
We do a similar thing. Engineering tracking is done through AZDO, but roadmap management is done in another tool with some sort of integration between the two.
This is subject to third party government veto (with or without due process) as it crosses borders. Crypto is not.

It's also slow and risky.
this seems more of an argument that a post-scarcity society is impossible than an argument that we are already in one!
Another reason sentience matters for AGI is that the presence of sentience supports an AGI's ability to reason correctly about sentient being, e.g. like its creators. I suppose you could call it Artificial Empathy.
I read the article and do not see this point being made. Can you point it out?
I used to take a lot of trips to Apex because Data General had a plant there (and a software development facility in RTP). They may still be Dell facilities by way of EMC. But this was decades ago and they were always in and out trips so I can't say I'm really familiar with the immediate area. These days it's always downtown Raleigh I'm going to and staying in.
If a powerful politician cared enough, they could take everything you own. BTC won't save you from tyranny.
Forlater means the same in Norwegian as well. Not having been back to Norway for years due to COVID I guess I'm getting a bit rusty and missed that one :p
As an Australian, a few things about the SCOTUS absolutely shock me, aside from the obvious issue of politicisation.

I've only skimmed the judgment, but Roberts CJ convincingly points out that there was no need for the court to completely overturn Roe. It would suffice to jettison the viability standard. Going further was completely unnecessary to decide the case.

On the other hand, Thomas J took the occasion, without having heard complete argument on the respective issues, to opine that other substantive due process rights should be reconsidered. Including Griswold (no banning controceptives), Lawrence (no banning sodomy), and Obergefell (no banning gay marriage). This is simply astounding.

The second is the sheer hypocrisy of the members of the court who decry judicial activism while, in the next breath, engaging in the same.

I wish you luck for the future, Americans.
> Even a small shortage of fertilizers will reduce food production such that some people are looking at starvation

This is only because we pretend that the free market can solve these kinds of problems. If it weren't for supply chains that optimize in cost efficiency and nothing else, these sort of problems don't necessarily have to exist.
How does getting it insured guarantee that the money will make it to its destination? That's only to get it back in the instance of theft. Anyone who's ever had family or friends in third-world countries can tell you firsthand that mailing even consumer goods is a bad idea. Mailing cash is plain foolish.
> "if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over"

Are you saying that iOS users, given the choice, would not use Safari?
Then this is not the kind of person i would enjoy hanging around. In my social circles, when you show of any kind of virtue without delivering, you are mocked, and in my opinion, rightfully so.
Another way to make resources more abundant that sounds less like the start of a 1960s dystopian novel is simply using resources more efficiently.

So much of society in western nations and especially the US is seemingly optimized to be as wasteful as possible. We live in mansions surrounded by unused land so we have to drive our personal gas-burning suit of armor everywhere, and then we store it in fields of asphalt at our destination. We put resources subsidizing foods that no one will eat, and then ship them to people in ways that maximize the labor to goods transported ratio.

In the US at least, there really just isn't much motivation to be more efficient because the past couple of generations have been raised on perpetual abundance.
I don't know enough about Dred Scott. What is the parallel between that case and abortion?
What's next on the agenda? gay marriage being overturned? interracial marriage?
You are correct.

Copilot is a tool, much like the "copy" command.

If you choose to use what it's suggesting, then the fault is completely yours.
Animals that are also plants
While competition is always welcome, i wonder how many more collaboration services we're gonna get before someone finally makes "the service" to use.
> it's so easy to dismiss AI as "insentient" without any proof whatsoever

as it should be because it's asking to prove a negative. burden of proof for "sentience" is on those who claim it. as a bonus, "I know a human when I see one" does not count!
I'm pro-choice but I still believe that this is the right move.

> “My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change,” Ginsburg said. She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights.

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
Totally agree with things like cards and such. Fun part is that Jira has had this as an add on for much longer than some people realize. Probably because they were in companies that did not let them use that or did not let them use it in an effective way. It started as a plugin called GreenHopper and Atlassian bought them, which is now just "Jira Software".

What I'm talking about is a simple Kanban board, where the cards are the Jira issues. If you use a simple workflow (such as the default "Open, In Progress, Done", which you can transition in any way you want) you are set very quickly. Simply create a Kanban board and you're basically at Trello.

Now I get it, because of Jira's legacy and what it can do, it can be overwhelming how to configure it. I am biased there because I've been using it for such a long time, including as someone w/ admin privileges) that I know what to do to achieve what our team wants/needs almost instantly and if I have admin privileges I can either do it myself really quickly or I can tell someone w/ privileges what to do so that we get what we want - if the hierarchy is flat enough :), so I have no huge friction to achieve these things with the tool.

I have the opposite problem usually with other tools. Things I take for granted I can do with the Atlassian toolchain are impossible or have been requested from other tools for years and not been implemented. An easy example is Github. They had no "File Explorer" view in PRs. All just a big page you scroll through. It's impossible to do a proper PR that way if you ask me. We've had this since Crucible days in the Atlassian toolchain. And yes, finally Github does have it too now and I can easily navigate back and forth between files while cross referencing things. Github Actions vs. Bamboo. Just so rudimentary in comparison. It has some really nice features out of the box that Atlassian only added later on but is lacking in many other areas. Awesome to have the ability to specify actions directly in your repo (in `.github/`) but I can't easily see old failed builds through my PR (this is important, yes builds fail and I need to cross reference them and I don't want to go to a filter UI somewhere outside my PR). This seems to basic. While I can define workflows through code, I can't properly introduce one on a branch. I have to cheat to get it onto `master` first.
Same for me. It took me some time to find a brand that doesn't dazzle everybody with their logo, uses the fabric and design that suits me, is durable enough and so on. I place a substantial order and forget about clothing for a few years.
> Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity.

Strictly speaking, this is false.
Every subreddit is also now beginning to just get political, making their job worse.

Majority of frontpage reddits are political subreddits:

/r/whitepeopletwitter

/r/blackpeopletwitter

/r/antiwork

/r/economy (yeah even this now)

/r/workreform

Thankfully the more I browse reddit the more I develop a de-sensitized self to extreme left/right wing. Now I just auto-filter it on my brain. That's a good thing.
kali is great for that!
The article merely dismisses it out of hand, though, and the comment you’re responding to offers an alternative viewpoint.
> an international group that doesn't trust US based corporations with their personal data

I don't think it is actually possible to exist in the western (and sometimes nonwestern) world without US based corporations having your personal data.

For starters, this fictive "international group" would have to essentially have no internet footprint. Its members would also have to never engage with international groups who themselves have US based corporations as third parties. It's just not realistically doable. Bitcoin has nothing to do with it.
Yes because we all work in perfect world under optimal conditions.
They can use it for that reason, it doesn't mean that blockchains are actually solving that problem. It only means regulators haven't caught up to them yet. A lot of drug transactions still appear to be made in cash.

>Access to money is also quite important in fighting unjust laws

Apparently not, as I have seen approximately none of that happening in cryptocurrency. It's almost all scams, i.e. people trying to fight against just laws that say you can't scam.
(edited) It's not like you had any more urgent issues than this?

That move greatly reinforces Galkovsky's position that USA is now a Latin American country not unlike Brazil; and indeed, Latin American countries also deeply care about this (non)issue and have abortion laws inappropriate to their general level of economical and human development.

The problem being, at least Brazil recognizes that it is Brazil and knows how to run Brazil.
Matrix-Webhooks: Bringing Rich Discord Webhooks to Matrix
This only applies to "private communications data" and not other controversial aspects of the Snoopers' Charter like the intelligence services' access to unspecified "bulk personal datasets", but apparently challenges to those provisions are continuing this year:

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libertys-landmar...
Here's the article linked in case you don't have a NYTimes sub:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-abortion...
How about the headline about colleagues getting mugged? Inability to get hires to relocate to Chicago?
No one was surprised.
I deny you the ability to read this comment using a Nike trainer.

It really makes no sense, lol.
The parallel is that they were both Supreme Court cases that had their rulings overturned years later, and in both, a lot of people liked the original decision and were upset that it no longer stood.
I spent a LOT of time in the late 80s and the 90s wrestling with class hierarchies, coming up with one tower of abstraction after another. So much wasted time; perhaps it didn't help that my vehicles were C++ and Java, but I think that I would have fared just as well in any other OOPy language.

What I got as a side-effect was a bunch of re-written code. And I wondered:

Maybe OOP is a terrible paradigm. Maybe the designs that come out of it are so awful that it causes people to rewrite code, over and over. Re-examined systems are often better than first attempts. Once you reimplement something five or six times, you've probably explored most of the problem space and are pretty good at it. It's even likely that you are thoroughly sick of the project and just want to get the stupid thing done and shipped. (Yeah, your PMs and entire management chain just smiled behind your back).

In other words, it's Brook's "plan to throw one away, you will anyway" in action, while telling your boss that you had to rewrite your framework again because it didn't handle the flightless, swimming bird scenarios.
Not being practical is much different than what the OP seems to be claiming; that onion routing itself is broken in terms of security/privacy.
It made me feel like I was walking around on the set of The Truman Show every time I went up there.
International Council of Associations for Science Education
Thanks so much for sharing the feedback!! This is super helpful, and we will work to address this.
Opinion: the soul is a construct created by the church to excert pressure. So no, it can not (and neither do you).
The underlying data structure for a blockchain and git is a merkle tree. So by some looser definitions, yes.
I'd argue the entire field of "AI Safety" is a hilarious distraction from every problem it calls out already being a problem with large companies under capitalism. There isn't a point in trying to prevent the systems already suffering under every AI safety malfunction from reproducing into running on metal instead of meat.
It went even further than that: as he had difficulty in lip reading at a shallow angle in the original (too big) team circle it was the catalyst we needed to split the team into three smaller sub-teams, which also benefited the overall team’s performance.
It effectively bans safe abortion for poor people in red states.
That’s like saying that if you donate to a charity, the value of the goods you gave must be zero because it was a donation
“Judicial activism” refers to striking down state laws. In this case they upheld a law.
What’s stopping you from downloading Chrome on your iPhone and making it the default browser? They are allowing competition in every sense. They have just managed to keep Safari good enough for typical users not to feel any desire to add another browser to their phone. From a non-developer standpoint, safari is great. From a developer standpoint, I have just as many issues with Firefox having strange quirks.
I found Toby very helpful for organizing the bookmarks I'm actively working from: https://www.gettoby.com/
Schneier has a pretty solid reputation and his articles appear regularly on HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier

Information from the first paragraph of the linked article:

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