skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always is, until it is proven a fact. In my country, people were being alarmist about the Corona travel restrictions, the vaccine, and the negative externalities of closing the healthcare system to pretty much everything. The alarmists were given a derogatory name, their concerns were labeled "speculation" and generally after 6 months, turned out to be true.

Gov: "There will be no app to restrict your movements if you aren't vaccinated."

Six months later: there's an app.

Gov: "The vaccine is fully tested and is completely safe"

Six months later: vaccine turns out to not have been completely tested, and the corporations behind it can't be sued.

Consider me heavily, heavily sceptical about CBDC's and the government's/central bank's desires to build a social credit system. I've seen too many quotes by August Karsten not to be.
> Modern forensics techniques make Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature more or less irrelevant.

How so? If I buy some bitcoin face to face, and receive it on a brand new address (not reusing addresses was something that satoshi himself emphasized ever since bitcoin came out) it's highly anonymous.

And before you say "yeah but nobody does that", I do that and a lot of people in my country do that.

> Worse, anti-censorship only extends within Bitcoin itself. The moment Bitcoin has to touch traditional financial networks it becomes more easily censorable.

I don't see the point here? If it's no longer bitcoin then of course it's properties don't apply anymore.

By the way I don't consider Bitcoin specifically a good replacement because it's not scalable, but my point applies to other potentially similar but scalable cryptocurrencies (maybe ETH in the future if they figure out scalability)
> The theory is that this will stifle black market activity

Black market activity is already illegal. As usual, this kind of government overreach will only punish law abiding citizens for being law abiding citizens.
Do note that the more the gate is kept, the stronger the incentive for cheating. Moreover, peer review is overrated.

An experiment by the NIPS conference in 2014 found that ~60% of submissions are in the "gray middle" - not obviously great or obviously crap.

In more detail: they split the PC in two, and had 10% of papers (166) reviewed by both halves. Each half had to accept ~37 papers. The halves disagreed on 21 accepted papers [1].

So yeah, if your submission is sciencey, it's the flip of a coin whether peer review will accept it.

[1] https://hunch.net/?p=467864
I'm extremely curious who Julia's target market is. The zines seem very well done and I'm wondering if they would be better appreciated as a purchase for myself or as a gift for a younger or a more nascent programmer.
Crypto now means Coinbase the same way that email now means Gmail.
But it doesn't have to be that way.

Protocols > Platforms.
This law applies to the Israeli trading with the PA Arab, not to the PA Arab.
There is a fair bit missing here. It might take too much time to detail out, so just a few thoughts that are easy to write and you could research.

First, what you are describing is closer to Ethereum, which is a payment vehicle that disperses ..not bitcoin. think bitcoin as closer to gold.

You can't "create it" out of thin air. That's what blockchain is all about. Think tiny little receipts that are shared instantly with a million computers. To "create it out of thin air' you would have to hack a million computers at one time and give them all the unique blockchain proof of mining...which is impossible right now.

simply = blockchain technology is what is keeping banks from creating it out of thin air.

Hope that helps
When politicians argue in favor of this kind of CO2 reduction measures, targeted at individual citizens, know that they are (perhaps unconsciously, perhaps because of dependence) following the framing put forward by fossil fuel companies:

https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

BP spent a lot of advertising budget so that we worry about our individual CO2 footprint instead of focussing on appropriate and social policy change which would enable us and make it easy to live climate-positively.
But _all_ of Google's servers will be off by the same offset, which means that they can continue to use their distributed time-based locking mechanism.
Generally, if you require that high resolution of time, you don't leave your infra.
How about:

font-family: monospace;

and that's it.
I don’t see how that is relevant in a conversation about marginal human-caused emissions. Natural NOx is the baseline. The question is the specific delta-NOx between conventional and synthetic kerosene.
Your language is referencing communism, but this is mostly happening under capitalism not communism.

There is a meme in leftist spheres of pro-capitalist people posting photos of slums saying "this is the world under communism", except it's literally a photo of a part of the world under capitalism. Anyway, thought you should know you did the meme.
Yes, one is a real thing with power and influence, the other is just a kind of young man you dislike.
ROP wasn't a concept back then. From the manual of the latest version of A86:

A86 assembler package V4.05 January 14, 2000

The entire package is Copyright 2000 Eric Isaacson. All
rights reserved.
Currently, it integrates with the Apple Music/iTunes catalog in order to serve the song previews.
Certbot as an init container for AWS ECS
This is why we need free (as in freedom) software. VRChat barely even seems like a game, so I'm surprised there's not a more popular libre version by now. I recall there are one or two options out there (can't recall the names), but I have yet to get into VR myself, largely because so much stuff for it is proprietary.
Well I think of reuse as.. use it again after you've used it once. As opposed to, keep using it the first time and make its initial use last longer.
Searches during twilight toward the Sun have found asteroids near Venus’ orbit
Hibernating bear serum increases protein content in cultured human myotubes
This took me a while to understand, this is targeting physical cash transactions - online transfers/payments were the norm for me growing up in NZ. The absurd difficulty of transferring money online in the US was incredibly frustrating when I first moved here, though not as absurd as when I discovered that in the US having someone's bank account# meant you can take money from their account.
It is much worse than he thinks. If I was to write out the worse case scenario the MS employee would have no choice but to consider it.

Therefore win 13 will be a theme for ubuntu packaged with a FOSS version of office. MS will award large weekly prizes for the most useful FOSS app extending the eco system. It will be sold on multi TB external drives that work like live USB only daisy chained. Weekly new releases cramped with so much free stuff every neck beard around the world must own all of them. A few movies, some music, a game or 2. Each comes with a poster, a t shirt and a book. Prices go up and down using RNG making some releases rare and hard to get.
Just wait. It will happen sooner in some countries, later in others, but unfortunately it's almost inevitable.
I think its less an ad bubble and more like something similar to government use it or lose it spending. There is a sort of global hot potato/musical chairs thing going on. No one wants to be the first or last one to cut their ad spending so its a stand off.

I've looked at some ad spending stuff at companies in the past and while their official numbers always "added up" there always seemed to me to be huge logic gaps that missed lots of obvious overspending. Those things are always hand-waved away as some sort of force multiplier or other nonsense. AKA don't cut our budget or sales will go away we dare you!

I've posted a longer comment on here about an adventure in cutting ad spending at a company I was at because of a minor feud I had with the marketing manager. There were huge areas where the cost/profit from ads was destroying profit margin. I made some tremendous efforts to prove we could make major spending cuts on advertising without losing sales to the owner and ceo and was successful. I probably would not have been able to do it if the marketing guy was not constantly blaming their failures on IT so I stood up for us by spending my personal time making accurate reports and dashboards about the spending and proved him wrong. (he and a couple others lost their job) (no they didn't stand up and clap its a real story)
Great suggestion, thanks. Will do.
The beginning of knowing
Is not knowing
No, this is a complete misunderstanding.

It does not matter, how Bitcoin works.

The bank can tell their customer "Your balance of XYZ is 1000". No matter if XYZ is Dollar, Euro, Rings of Jupiter or Bitcoin. Banks "create" whatever they like out of thin air by just telling their customers that their "balance" is so and so.

That's why Henry Ford said that if people understood the monetary system, there would be a revolution tomorrow.

If this concept is new to you, then google "money is debt" and you are up for a ride.
Isn't the entire point to not be using any gas? You want to use a gas powered ICE truck to tow the EV to load contents into the EV's bed, then tow the EV back to where ever just to avoid transferring content from ICE->EV->application?
I'm not in tech, nor on twitter so the only place I see it is here, on HN. I would definitely like a mute/block option.
Ask HN: Any advice that you applied in real world after reading from a book
Trying to use this question to create a list of real world wisdom / insights that you've found useful in your life.

Any advice / hack / trick that you learned from any book and have applied in your life and benefitted from it.
> If the actual leap seconds do not benefit astronomers, and do not benefit anyone else, they are purely a tax on us all.

May as well dispense with the calendar entirely and just measure time in powers of ten.

An day is about 80 kiloseconds, and a year about 30 megaseconds.

Maybe many gigaseconds into the future our descendants will learn about old Earth time keeping in school, along with Roman numerals and the imperial system.
Efficiency is crucial though. Running cutting edge published alignment tools running on the best AWS server will take hours to process a 30x human genome. An amateur approach for NGS on anything but a model organism would take years or decades to finish alignment on current hardware.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32206301
> If you mean "flying and shipping are at zero" then yes

Yes. Current electric plane prototypes have limited range (e.g. 150 miles) and weight capacity.
I have that concern too. Many things in history are easy to say: "simply apply good critical thinking skills and you will be fine"

But social media in particular clearly subverts the discipline behind good critical thinking. The dopamine hits, the need to feel connected yet people don't want to verbally talk if they can message instead. And the doomscroll is literally never ending.

It all makes it harder to communicate with meaning and apply good critical thinking. One can't but wonder if Social Media is different.

But I have hope that the "social media natives" will have their own strategies (shamelessness being discussed here).

They will be different, but not dead.
Python often seems to be the status quo that "technical merit" has to beat. Python only slowly beats itself but then becomes the status quo again.
> That doesn't make the study of human behavior "not science" in my opinion.

It might be valuable and it might be worthwhile to do. But what you describe in itself is not science.
I wonder it too. There is so many people who want to stop others from eating meat. Or burning coal to produce electricity for their needs... Horrible isn't it.
> Perhaps Tesla should have a proper driver monitoring system

The car will constantly alert you if you do not move the wheel and then stop the vehicle if you don't respond. Your comments are more concerned trolling then anything meaning that'll help people
"Hmm this person is receiving high value products but we have no record of money being exchanged. Maybe we should send the police to 'interrogate'"
Label a dog a conspiracy theory and hang him.
> If I buy some bitcoin face to face, and receive it on a brand new address (not reusing addresses was something that satoshi himself emphasized ever since bitcoin came out) it's highly anonymous.

It's only "anonymous until use". If you transfer some amount to me, I can then retroactively find its source, and likely find a good deal of information about you and the other wallets you've used.

This is fairly rudimentary forensics work, and an unmaskable, centralized store of all transactions makes it trivial.

> I don't see the point here?

"Anti-censorship" properties that are worthless in real-world usage seem to be a fairly important flaw if we're talking about a technologies anti-censorship properties.
Conspiracies are like fads, they come and go.
Carbon capture doesn’t create energy, it uses a lot of energy to generate fuel. This makes it excellent where you have lots of renewable energy that may be irregular (like wind), since hydrocarbons are an incredibly dense energy storage mechanism. You can then create fuel from that renewable energy and use it to power everything (like planes). Not the best to create on a plane tho

I actually think carbon capture is a great solution to global warming and general oil depletion, since hydrocarbons are such a great energy source for everything except their pollution characteristics. If we can build out carbon capture / hydrocarbon production facilities that use renewable energy, and we can do it cheaper than current oil extraction, I think we’re set to just use hydrocarbons forever!

We really just need a breakthrough that makes the whole process more economical, which (fingers crossed) is actually possible within our lifetimes
Sincerely, I hope your product fails and your company goes under. Screw adtech and screw your investors.
The Social Life of Forests (2020)
there's a similar concept a couple years ago that proposes excavating new york's central park and building skyscraper walls on all sides. seems like egotists around the world are interested in this type of concept because it is simple to understand.
Coming from the Netherlands I know that this is a solvable problem if there are limits to the delays caused by the bars being shut. It’s just that if the company that sets this up doesn’t need to care, they don’t care.
A properly used macro assembler is a halfway house towards a high level language.
It’s time for FB to adopt TAI or UT1 and stop moaning.

Wtf is this attitude of modifying the definition of time to fit your engineering needs where there’s a perfectly available alternative quoted in the article.

I really don’t get it. If you don’t like leap seconds use a definition of time that does not have them. Why modify the only standard with leap seconds and annoy everybody else?
That's the difference between living in the nations food basket, and a remote town 1500 km into the inaccessible and barren tundra.

What's odd is anyone's expectation that they would pay similar prices.
Great whataboutism.
Languages alone are worthless what matters is the whole development experience.

When F# came out in 2010, it appeared it would be made to share the podium with C#, VB and C++/CLI (even that black swan has better tooling on VS).

Instead what we have witness is that management doesn't really know where to F#, and naturally they cannot take it from the box.

More recently they are positioning to go against Python in data science, when .NET lacks the library ecosystem (ML.NET is still half way there and favours C# anyway), and the Microsoft was able to convince Guido come out of his early requirement with the purpose to improve CPython's performance on the top of the already existing ecosystem.

Meanwhile Intel and NVidia are also on the race to improve Python for GPU compute.

So in the end that leaves F# as a nicer ML derived language that happens to have access to the .NET libraries, with a community that kind of re-invents what .NET already offers, and a master that to this way is wondering what to do with it, other than a laboratory for C# features.
There's way to more to software than whatever it is you've been working on
Who are ”you guys”? I’m not even a guy. Have you perhaps been programmed to get triggered into a stereotypizing mindset?
Where's the dog and who's hanging him?

"You will eat bugs" is bog-standard reactionary lingo at this point. You can't credibly expect people to not notice it.
The tooling alone will cost a small fortune though.
No, for clothing they are in the same label that tells you how to wash it and for other items they are in some easy to miss sticker.
From [this]:

This creates a fundamental problem. It is now universally agreed that atomic clocks provide a much better measure of time than does the Earth's rotation, yet for human comfort, we would still like time to stay in sync with the Earth's rotation. How to accomplish this?

Can't we just bifurcate? Machine time and human time.

[that]: https://mperdikeas.github.io/utc-vs-ut1-time.html
Maybe housing will be on the edges, with commercial and industrial zoning in the middle.
> the area of ancient Israel was predominantly Jewish until the Jewish–Roman wars of 66–136 CE. During the wars, the Roman Empire expelled most of the Jews from the area and formed the Roman province of Syria Palaestina

> 1948, when the Jewish State of Israel was proclaimed in part of the ancient land of Israel. This was made possible by the Zionist movement and its promotion of mass Jewish immigration.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judais...)

> Colonization, constitutes large-scale population movements wherein migrants maintain strong links with their, or their ancestors', former country – by such links, gaining substantial privileges over other inhabitants of the territory.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization)

The history of Isreal is poorly summarized by these three quotes - but your "a native to the land" is a worse summary. A wrongful expulsion, or thousands of years away, doesn't give you a right to displace and oppress on your return.
I'd prefer it to a city of the dark ages built by a government of the future.
I went and found my code, with a side trip into being able to "unzoo" the archive!

Yes, I agree. I also used SI as the PC so I could use "lodsb" (cute HN name BTW) and "lodsw" for 2 byte args.

My register use was

286 Z80
--- ---
BX HL
CX BC
DX DE
DI A
SI PC

When emulating the DD, FD and CB prefixes I pre-loaded BP with either IX+d, IY+d (IX, IY were stored in memory) or BX and jumping to common code.

Basic structure was like

OP_00:
XOR AH,AH
LODSB
SHL AX,1
MOV BP,AX
JMP CS:OP_table[BP]

For OP_02 - "LD (BC),A" I used,

OP_02:
XCHG CX,DI
MOV [DI], CL
XCHG CX,DI
JMP OP_00

I did see some opportunities for additional code-golf. Also noticed that EX AF,AF' did not properly exchange the flags (so that will need to get fixed!).

I was mostly only running m80, l80 and mload.
> I mean, the end goal is also to decide what you spend it on…

Governments in the US already exercise this power, making certain drugs illegal, restricting purchases of certain products, regulating quality and other requirements for food, vehicles, construction, etc.

> Digital dollars, on the other hand, would be traceable and programmable. The Federal Reserve (or some other designated entity) would have the ability to create more digital dollars whenever it sees fit, and, depending on how the legislation is written setting up the currency, the dollars could be formulated to have various rules and restrictions built into their design.

The federal government already exercises both of these powers. The federal reserve changes the money supply. And WIC/“food stamps” (originally specially printed currency, now a cash card) can only be spent on certain purchases.
That would be literally engines operating on thin air, so no, I don't see that happening...
Damn, now I'm nostalgic for the older days of hacker news where RMS was quoted every other post. The community is forgetting it's roots.
How would a car a small fraction of another car have non-obvious dangers in one-on-one collisions? If you think that a smaller mass object vs a much larger mass object is not going to do lots of damage to the smaller mass object, then a basic understanding of physics seems to be lacking. Then, tack on how much faster the larger mass object can be moving in comparison to the lower mass object, and tell me what's so non-obvious about that.
In many applications glass or treated paper was used prior to plastic and it usually worked well enough to give a reasonable service life. Lots - and I mean really lots - of applications where plastic is used today it could still be replaced by either paper, glass or sometimes wood. Using plastic for the remaining use cases would be fine by me. But plastics for 'economics' reasons is just a temporal form of externalization.
Uh oh, sounds like a “conspiracy theory”, must not have any validity at all.

Is there a “sounds like a conspiracy theory” fallacy someone can point me to?
Use Reddit. You don't need an existing audience for that. Make sure to follow the rules of the subreddit. Write a few tips/tutorial posts, help other learners, etc. Then you can try self promoting within the rules. And parallelly, you can build an audience on sites on Twitter. Read about marketing. Follow other creators. And so on. (Edit: You can self promote without existing audience with Show HN too, provided it fits the rules. Luck plays a huge role, but you won't get lucky if you don't try at all).

Regarding RoI, that depends on your needs. I left my job in 2014 due to various reasons. I tried and failed at many things for about 5 years. Then I tried selling ebooks and the second book clicked for me. Now I earn more than I need (with the caveat that I live alone in outskirts of a second tier city with an average monthly expense of just about $150).
My dislike for Thiel and others like him aside, I think you should take a second to check out some of the historical context around that 'quote'.

https://thetempest.co/2020/05/23/entertainment/translations-...
Isn't this what off-chain exchanges like Coinbase are already doing?
> The law applies to the Israeli not the PA Arab.

“Rectified” is the exact wording I quoted, they plan to apply the law to Palestinians under the PA authority.

> How can a native to the land also be a colonizer?

By doing the actions colonizers do to other people native to the land. Imposing their national law on those explicitly not subject to it is pretty clear cut, without even considering the other Palestinians they exempt from clear cut designation under their law.
What will this solve? What if a fire breaks out? Can protestors block a single street? Where are people going to dry clothes? Won't those who live at the base feel claustrophobic?
>Are private jets and yachts subject to Net Zero carbon restrictions?

This isn't an answer, but the European Commission have proposed an aviation fuel tax that exempts cargo aircraft and private jets.
Really healthy mindset imo, am happy for you :)
This is a pretty run-of-the-mill globe-spanning conspiracy theory. They are all more or less scapegoating mechanisms for a given demographic.
The Gravity of Rockfalls
Look at the winter map - over half of the coast is Saudi by week 3.
I don't want people monitoring or controlling what I spend stuff on. I love cash. I hate the idea of a restriction on that.

At the same time, if governments fail to efficiently tax their populations they end up having to go to war to plunder the resources they need to maintain their countries instead.

Probably another solution tho.