skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold is the world's best physical commodity to use as a store of value -- it doesn't degrade or tarnish, is easily molded into coins or other symbols, melts easily, has a highly fixed supply (synthesizing it is prohibitively expensive), and (now) increasingly is not tied to an industrial output so can weather GDP fluctuations. So in a battle Royale of all commodities, gold wins. That said, all commodities are affected by price action by speculators, so the actual traded value of gold can be very unrealistic.

Gold is conceptually very similar to bitcoin, except gold can't be forked or copied. Which is why in the long term, I prefer gold.
The current interpretation of the Commerce Clause is large enough to legislate essentially everything.
20 people can be just as destructive as 40. A bachelor party of 20 is a lot of testosterone…
The wolfram language is kind of irrelevant. I dont think anyone outside of HN and programming language people care about it or how its done.

Mathematica is the star of the show. Its a large collection of specialty libraries and tools, with (mostly) very nice documentation, that all interoperate together well.
And if you move to a 100 acre rural property, and walk it daily, what then?

What if it is a 5 acre rural property with nearby trails and such?

I guess your logic is, walking for needed stuff is more motivation than just plain walking?

I suppose, for some. Others I know just uber and uber eats everything, and amazon for groceries, and so on...

At least where I live, I have to walk around inside the grocery store myself...
Pinkwashing can be very annoying
>[edit] Another that I should probably mention is the treatment of asset depreciation; in the 1960's and 70's the government was incredibly generous with regards to asset depreciation.

That is pretty much how it is today as well. 100% bonus depreciation, Sec. 179, and the safe harbor for writing off pretty much any item under $2,500 as an expense, are all in place currently, and the favorable treatment of subsequent gain from sale is still there too.
Fiat is indeed based on trust. The trust that the government remain functioning. Fiat is a government backed claim on economic production. That’s not trivial, because the government is the sole arbiter and enforcer of property rights. Fiat determines what resources you can legally assign to you, according to the rules of the sole arbiter of property rights.

The notion of property rights is only relevant with a central authority who is able to enforce it. Which could be a nation state, tribal chief or a lord. In the jungle you only own whatever you are able to defend. Even your own life.
Roe v Wade becomes codified, abortion becomes legal in all 50 states, immediately there is a lawsuit, they appeal to the supreme court, supreme court chooses to hear the case, supreme court repeals the codified Roe v. Wade.

IANAL but how does codifying Roe v Wade change this?
Layoffs.org.il – Israel-specific layoff data
> Hypothetically, what if you believe that this closed bedroom behavior is disordered and unhealthy, and that celebrating it, while admittedly well-intentioned, is not helpful, good or the best way to love or respect these people?

You are saying that the Arab countries do this because they want to love or respect these people?

Maybe not stoning them to death might be more helpful. Just saying.

> Diversity of opinion is trivial if we agree only to differ on the easy stuff and not the difficult stuff.

This is the thing... I don't think this is the difficult stuff at all. It's just nobody else's business if people are gay.
I once lived in such an extreme anarcho libertarian society. It was called the 80s.

In that cash-based society, the government had no real idea how much cash I owned. I also had full freedom of transaction. Somehow taxes still got paid and crime wasn't really worse.

Apparently, this is now a far right position.
Gold is used for jewelry more than it used as a store of value. Even as a store of value, Gold has an advantage of cryptocurrency in that you can actually store it. Cryptocurrency presupposes the existence of the internet. If all the world reserve currencies collapse, there is a good chance that the internet would go down with it, and your cryptocurrency would be worthless.
The least democratically responsible branch of the US federal government is the administrative state.
Aren't there a couple other Ycombinator crypto companies that are pretty suspect?

I don't think there's anything about Ycombinator that makes me think they care any more or less about the effect their companies have.
"Tulip Mania" wasn't real. The "bubble" was a very small group of speculators and it did not have any larger affect on the industry. The stories about it were made up and come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists who were worried that consumerism was causing societal decay:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
They were set on concrete.
Yes. A constitutional amendment is constitutional by definition. It’s the very thing SCOTUS is tasked to protect.
You should switch to Walmart they have excellent working conditions for their serfs
I actually (almost) got in trouble once for this because people thought I was posting code publicly on Github when I was merely creating a local repository in my home directory. I had to explain what Git was and how it was not Github.
This is incorrect, at least in the US. A Constitutional Amendment requires the affirmative consent of 3/4s of the states for ratification, it cannot be done unilaterally by the US Congress. The Federal laws are considered the lesser laws and the Constitution the highest law.

There is a big big difference legally in the US between an Amendment and something in the USC
I've been pondering this myself. At a certain point, in places going downhill, like Venezuela or Russia, the smart move is just to get out. Tough to decide when that moment is, though, I guess.
The Constitution doesn’t say any of that.
This article is light on details. Given that they are saying all the info is derived from public sources, what is “historical geo tracking data”?

The transaction history is obviously from the blockchain (by design) but did IPs tied to transactions maybe leak at some point?
> As things stand now, CHERI doesn't replace virtual memory.

Yeah, he's proposing...something else. It's not clear to me exactly what, except sort of like this obscure historic machine he vaguely described. See e.g. this paragraph:

> The linear address space as a concept is unsafe at any speed, and it badly needs mandatory CHERI seat belts. But even better would be to get rid of linear address spaces entirely and go back to the future, as successfully implemented in the Rational R1000 computer 30-plus years ago.
China does not have a monopoly on persecuting minorities, especially in comparison to the United States.

The US's genocidal oppression has been ongoing far, far longer than the oppression of the Uyghur people.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108717407/supreme-court-narr...
For example scotus coming out in the next few months and going against the ruling that allowed gay marriage would be empowering for democracy?

The scotus is still operating in this environment. I don’t see how “fuck it throwing you to the wolves” has any immediate or future benefits?
> A flash adaptation layer solves the following problem: I have M filesystems, that I'd like to use on any one of N different flash technologies. I don't want to complicate each M filesystem with support for N flashes.

I think you could argue that certain file system designs are better suited to different storage hardware. Maybe it's appropriate that the kernel runs different code depending on the underlying storage type?

We already have JEDEC standards for flash devices to report block layout, because it's important in microcontrollers where there is no adapation layer. We could have an SSD/M2 standard that reported that information, and then architecturally kernel FS stuff would probably split into a couple of layers. The 'top' that provides the filesystem features that you're used to in something like ZFS, and the bottom storage layer that has a couple of different implementations for 'linear' and 'blocks'.
I concur, as an expat.

Barring extreme circumstances‡, one should not moving from the country of one’s birth, but to the country of one’s choice. I emigrated from the U.S. two decades ago to Canada, because of the person who later became my wife—but I had to decide that I could live with Canada, too. Family aside, nothing in the U.S. either held me to America or was pushing me from America.

The process took almost two years, and it was almost five years before I got Canadian citizenship. As I understand it, it would take longer now.

My wife and I are considering moving to Europe or the U.K., but it would take time for this move to materialize, and we need to figure out what it is that we want (especially given our ages). Such a move is not likely to happen for two to five years at this point.

‡ There are exigent circumstances where it becomes safer to leave one country with little care for where one goes, as long as it isn’t worse. I fear with the extremists taking power legitimately and illegitimately and pushing toward their increasingly apartheid goals, there will be larger classes of people who could legitimately become refugees from America, especially if "liberal" states turn extremist—as they seem likely to do, since the divide here is (mostly old, mostly white) rural vs (mostly younger, mostly diverse) urban.

Sitting where I sit, I truly think that America is fucked, and am doing what little that I can to make sure that Canada does not follow in its footsteps, but we have our homegrown extremists whose crypto-christo-fascist messages are being treated with bemusement to respect, and even being promoted by fools like Poilievre.
That’s not exactly true. Congress can and has passed laws that apply to and override state law. Take minimum wage for example (fair labor standards act of 1938). In your particular example, there are no federal laws so it defaults to the states.
New York Times that predicted a 93% chance of a Clinton landslide in 2016.

And the same 538 concurred with 87% chance of a Clinton win.

And the very same 538 that claimed a “Comey Effect” that purportedly botched their deep analytical effort, posthumously.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-clinton-landslid...
Nothing earthbound that I know of, but it sounds like you are describing something similar to the electric propulsion thrusters that PhaseFour makes: https://phasefour.io/rf-thruster/
I’ll set a reminder to come back to this in 3, 10, and 20 years. We’ll see.
> Isn't everyone always talking about unelected burecrauts going against the will of the people?

populists are not 'everyone'
Personally I do not like Teams. It's ok for calls, but it kills CPU/Ram on my mac. Also, its chat function it far inferior to Slack. Now I use Mattermost as my main tool but use the other 2 sometimes when needed.
Better, in my experience. They can get around 25-30db reduction across the spectrum, and they don't let voices (i.e. non-repetitive noises) through like ANC can.
How would you apply this to the Roe v Wade decision overturn? I'm not saying it is infeasible to apply it to that but I am curious to see the argument that that was explicitly focused on laws and not outcomes (especially given some of the language used by some of the justices to refer to abortion)
What chess and drug dealers can teach you about manipulation
Congress created the EPA, but the court ruled that some regulations were outside of their charter. Congress can fix it by updating the EPA charter.
But also, it is a terrible currency for accessing true black markets. It is 100% traceable. Lots of people have gotten caught buying bad stuff because they used Bitcoin. Just use cash. Or use Monero/Zcash.
Do the Right Thing
Potentially interesting to note that the home mortgage interest and state tax deductions were long controversial as perverse incentives and got dropped during the Trump administration.
What to do when your open source project becomes a community?
Thank You, too!
Yep. Wedge issues. I'm glad the SC is trying to force congress to do its job. If only someone would do something about executive orders, we may make some real progress.
The headline is meant to be a joke or /s and of course "the internet" reads everything as literal, this happens more broadly than HN
It is not at all obvious that this is true. I think it's highly unlikely given that the federal government has almost unrestricted ability to pass laws about personal rights (either strictly or in practice, see the federal drinking age of 21, smoking, etc).

Even if it was, there's no reason not to test it.
That is definitelly NOT the truth. The "advice" is so non actionable that one doesn't know where to start - what is "good" food? you never take pills? Move around more in general? How much more? All day or every minute counts?...

The comments like this are just noise from the folks that probably never had an issue with those stuff.
This strikes me as obviously untrue.

Gold is drastically more difficult to transact in than bitcoin or any cryptocurrency. Not only is it extremely difficult to create exact change to pay in gold (shaving of milligrams per dollar?) but there is zero infrastructure or education on how to verify that the gold is real. Even modern nation state banks have been fooled by tungsten cored bars of gold.

There are plenty of well established crypto apps that make receipt, verification, and conversion into your preferred cryptocurrencies or fiat currencies instant and effortless.
I interpret your comment to mean you agree with this decision.

...yeah no, obviously not. The law has meaning and that meaning is stable. Words mean things. If you are stuck in "Anyone can interpret anything as anything else" land you have fallen prey to being too clever.
That's too complicated for most people. Although it does pain me to see people using their energy so ineffectively.

Protester: "6 unelected officials can't decide what I can do!"

Supreme Court: "That's literally what we just said!"

If Congress punts issues around indefinitely for its own political wheeling and dealing, it still cannot outsource a decision on those issues to other branches of the federal government. Whether thats to the executive branch or the judicial branch. Not hard! Except more of your elected representatives!

If consensus is impossible then that's the reality we live in, the means won't be able to justify the ends, you have to work within the consensus mechanism prescribed on every topic.
You have to have virtually unlimited money to play, but money doesn't solve the engineering problems themselves... you still have to design and build a superior vehicle than the other teams that also have virtually unlimited funds.

Having had the lucky opportunity to work as an engineer on projects with nearly unlimited budgets, it was shocking to me how little having unlimited funds really helped... I often felt a nagging feeling that I could have done nearly as well with a small budget. Perhaps money can buy creative solutions for the person with the money, but when you're the engineer they hired, that's not the experience you have. Money can also hire the "best" race car driver, but when you're that driver, you then have to figure out how to drive even faster... the money doesn't drive the car.

edit: you might appreciate 24 hours of lemons - a car race with a $500 budget limit https://24hoursoflemons.com/
I disagree. I think internet advertising is what killed micropayments. If anything, cryptocurrencies would be really useful for micropayments if they weren't used as poker chips.
How are civil servants less responsible than supreme court justices that are appointed for life? At least with civil servants they can be fired.
Investigating man-db internals
Ha, nice. Problem: art receives value wrt the artwork, not the canvas, so the screenshot-meme wins. (Unless the cultural prestige lies in the underlaying technology itself, in which case the piece of art is the blockchain-implementation, not embedded content)
I have to agree. If small fish want risk-free options, society offers banks that are heavily regulated and insured. Indeed, the insurance like the FDIC only protects the relatively small actors in the financial system.

Society also offers us the freedom to choose how we invest. That means taking a risk and I think Coinbase always made it clear that the area was very risky.
The Democrats have rarely had a filibuster-proof majority in congress that would allow them to codify Roe. And they have been working under the assumption that it was a settled issue. As I recall, even some of the recently appointed Supreme Court justices were under that impression as well. At least until they were sworn in.
you are correct that the dobb's ruling does not restrict federal abortion regulation, but it is an open question of whether this court would overturn federal abortion legislation as not being related strongly enough to interstate commerce.

Of course that ruling should cut both ways and eliminate the possibility of a federal ban as well, but as we've seen the majority is willing to overturn precedent both as old as 50 years and as young as 2 years (see Gorsuch dissent on Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta) so its possible they would find the rational to uphold a ban even if they strike down a law mandating access.
> Supreme Court can just ignore its own precedents

I’m not a fan of the current Court, but stare decisis has never been binding. Landmark rulings are landmarks because the create or break precedent. Courts have been doing that since there were courts.
Why not? What's to prevent two parties from creating a digital smart contract denominated in dollars? Don't we already do this with things like credit card pre-auth? And the best part is that the transaction is backed by a predictable rule of law as long as the transaction takes place within a country.
> [...] but I honestly think it's going to be healthier for democracy overall if congress stop leaning on the courts and bureaucracy to make critical regulations.

I don't think that scales. When some group of people is large enough and has enough different things going on it has to delegate regulation making. There is just too much for the top level of management to be directly regulating everything.

The larger the entity grows and the more it has going on the more regulation making needs to be delegated. At some point you reach the point where even critical regulation has to be delegated.

We passed that point, I think, a long time ago in all the large first world economies.
"Open source zealot gets angry that there is something that works better than the pure open source version and shoots off foot to spite arm."
Very cool finding with the flow. It explains why when you take some round container and freeze water in it, the ice will be crystal clear at the edges, but it will not be crystalized so cleanly in the middle (turbulence once edges are frozen)

Who knows, perhaps there's even some laminar flow happening at the edges :)
Stop being obtuse. The majority of federal law exists only because broad interpretations of the few subjects the feds were granted the ability to regulate. If abortion was intertwined with interstate commerce or national defense it would be regulated. Of course there's BS that's just as detached as abortion that gets regulated federally but if those subjects were big ideological issues and got the same scrutiny they likely would not be.

It's unfortunate that there isn't a stronger right to bodily autonomy enshrined in the constitution but that's tangential here.
The issue is one of "arms racing".

Consider, for example, how the FDA operates. They have a broad mandate to keep food clean and drugs safe. They don't have an explicit mandate of "you must only regulate tylenol and aspirin, we need to pass a law for new drugs each time they come up."

This ruling finds the EPA, who has the mandate to keep pollutants out of the air, can't determine that CO2 is a pollutant. Why is that? The 2016 clean air act specifically gave them the power to regulate air pollutants.

The only answer is political activism. There is no difference between the FDA's broad mandate and the EPA's broad mandate.

I recommend reading the dissent on this case. It makes it absolutely clear that this is an EPA power. The conservatives couldn't get new laws passed repealing the EPA, so instead they packed the court with political activists so they could make law from the bench.
tabs vs spaces boils down to concern for others

using tabs means everyone else can view the file with as many spaces as they want

using spaces forces everyone else to view the file exactly as you see it
How much?

Mailchimp charges $12K/year for 150K contacts and 180 emails/contact/year.

(Above that is "call us" pricing.)

At that rate, it is about 10c per contact per year. Substack has 500K paying reader-subscribers, 10-20x that in "total readership", whatever that means, and "millions" of readers (but I believe those are web viewers).

https://backlinko.com/substack-users#how-many-paying-subscri...
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> "Contrary to popular belief the crypto market did not collapse"

Umm, shades of the Iraqi Information Minister in that statement. Take a look at the USD/Bitcoin chart for the last 12 months.
China is one extreme. The other extreme is the United States, which isn't able to accomplish anything, good or bad. All the US does anymore is renaming post offices, mailing social security checks, funding the army, and tax stuff. Tax cuts, tax credits, tax rebates, tax incentives.

China may well supersede the United States in the future, despite its treatment of minorities.
Toe not tow.
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...said the unelected supreme court, as it enacted sweeping policy changes over the course of two weeks.
“Intrinsic Value” is absolutely a thing in economics, and describes that the value of an asset is intrinsic or contained within the asset itself.

It’s not necessarily the same as economic value, but to say that it isn’t a concept sounds like the type of FUD that the article spreads.

Besides, it’s not as if it’s difficult to understand that, say, the economic value of food (or stocks in some business if you prefer) is something different from a currency. By focusing on whether “intrinsic value” is real or not is focusing on syntactics, without even considering the underlying argument. That makes it an incredibly poor rebuttal.
Ah, thats a big opportunity for some Agile consultants there.

I see if few of those end up mines that would be epic for consultants but just another story for miners.
By codified I think most people refer to it being enshrined into the Constitution.
So you want for women to have their basic rights for us to go through a constitutional amendment path? Interesting. This feels like fascism through paperwork.
My Raspberry Pi 3 came with Mathematica. If I write Mathematica code on it, put the device in a box and sell it, I just violated the license agreement.

Contrast with gcc.
Or they could legislate. What's the purpose of electing lawmakers if they just hire random bureaucrats. If they want advice they have the money to get that advice
https://twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/status/15397316329318031...
IMO the fact that the employees anticipated that layoffs were coming and leadership still didn’t preemptively quell that sentiment means someone already made a mistake. I’m sympathetic to how difficult it can be to relay unpleasant news, but it’s sort of like getting the lifeboats ready before your ship hits the iceberg.

Are MBAs still taught the duties of leadership? Or are they just told to get out with enough cash for their next venture?