skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey now, it's not just anal sex. There is also pissing, rimming, and general jackoffery at play here
Enforcing it is trivial for a sovereign nation that issues it's own currency and collects taxes in that currency.

Just as we've seen; they can regulate the on/off ramps between local currency and crypto.

If you've got a method to turn meaningful amounts of BTC into USD without being subject to KYC regulations; then the US government is probably already building a federal money laundering case against it.
You can have principled and ethical standards for judging historical events and characters without regressing to the juvenile act of moralizing.

Western establishment media constantly moralizes the Ukraine conflict because the reality is much more nuanced and not aligned with Washington's foreign policy goals in the region.

It's much easier to say "Putin bad" than deal with the decades of ugliness involving the Budapest Memorandum, Orange Revolution, Pinchuk's YES campaign, Kolomoyskyi's propaganda drive, Maidan coup, Sevestapol, etc. and Washington's often direct involvement in all of the above.
However, when broken down by race, economic status is heavily weighted by race in America and Canada (differently in each country, but but still present).

One can’t simply assume spherical cows here, because there is a deeply historic, systemic, and persistent imbalance which gets compounded through chronic underfunding of economically depressed (and mostly minority) education systems. Some of the systemic racism is ongoing and being actively encouraged by bad actors who misuse the words of Dr King to oppose real measures that would begin to address these imbalances.
Get out of your bubble. Countries with hyper inflation do not allow you to exchange for another currency obviously.
> It answers the question in the title mostly by asking what, from today’s perspective, are the rational uses of punishment?

Not rational, legible (and tenable). Our inability to recognize (and accept as valid) consequences doesn't not make them unsound.
Does your friend also have a Battery pack for the raspberry pi?
Let me be clear: eating something that tastes like meat is not "outside" of my moral code. Causing animals to suffer is.

Also, I have no idea what are "moral consequences".
Fzf
Incarceration works because those in prison can’t commit crimes against society

It’s an adult timeout

It’s not so much punishment or revenge as taking the convicted out of society
That's a good point but again, you will just need more of those pressure vessels as a trade off.
But it also probably isn't a great to compare Bitcoin to "the web." I'm not really aware of some prototype Bitcoin that had large scale and 30 years of development.

I'm also not sure why "the technology is in its infancy and doesn't give us great indications at if it is usable in the real world, but right now is full of scammers and fraud" isn't an acceptable position. Why does it have to either be the next great new thing or a grift? People grifting with new technology and taking advantage of the tech illiterate is pretty common.
It's incredibly common to see misconceptions between modems, gateways, routers, etc. I think this confusion is exacerbated by the fact that Comcast and most other coaxial cable (even if they're fiber, if the output is coax to your unit, it's going to be coaxial for this purpose) systems.

Comcast/Xfinity offers combination devices, which include a wireless router and a modem, in the same box. The only thing you need to connect to a coaxial broadband network is the modem. This is freely available. The only catch is that unless you buy a combo device like what Comcast gives you, you still need a wireless router if you decide to buy your own modem. You should probably do this though, because combo devices that include wireless routers tend to age poorly (thermally).

A modem will speak DOCSIS 3.1, which is a protocol that gives a lot of trust/control/authority to Comcast. They effectively can push updates to it, configure it, remotely administer it, etc. However, these are NOT functions they have if you buy your own router and connect it to the modem. If you go this route, you have full authority over your LAN and you can do whatever you please. The only thing Comcast can update is the stuff that speaks DOCSIS -- the modem.

The catch is that with the combo devices that they ship out, those devices include remote administration and firmware control for the entire stack. They can remotely push everything.

I don't like to be pedantic, but this is critical. DOCSIS 3.1 modems that aren't combination devices cost just as much as good wireless routers, if not more. So $100 isn't a good estimate of what most people would have to pay, unless they already have a router they'll use. It's going to be the cost of the modem and the cost of the router. The upshot, obviously, is that you can really spend a lot of money and go all out (e.g., buy a pfSense router, UniFi switches, access points, and a good DOCSIS 3.1 modem, and have a really nice LAN), or you can opt for a budget router instead. You get to pick one of the most important pieces of the equipment -- the router -- instead of being stuck with what Comcast gives you (probably a used/preowned combination device).
The C++ code I am referring to was hand optimised and maintained for 10+ years before the compiler I am maintaining was fast enough to take over. I never looked at the C++ code myself. I simply use it as the milestone to beat. When I took over the maintenance of the compiler it was 25x slower than the C++ code. It took a lot of work to finally make it faster. I also used the C++ code to compare the output of the compiler and the C++ code. I found quite a few bugs in the C++ code doing that by the way.
Things like IMEI are PII too, the number is printed on a label on the mobile phone box and recorded by the seller (in UK, I gather) when you make a purchase.
Peggy Noonan has failed to be relevant for decades and is now a total waste of space. She was recently on Meet the Press where she said Republicans could use their “victory” as an opportunity to go after women voters by changing their tune. She should retire already.

What a ghoul.

https://www.rawstory.com/peggy-noonan-abortion/
You don't need the 802.1x certificate, it's never actually been needed: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33442912-AT-T-Fiber-Bye-by...
The proliferation concerns probably got worse. I wouldn't invest in this in the US unless there was like a constitutional amendment saying we can reprocess.
Cash transactions are still required to be recorded, so why then ban cash and not go after those that aren't recording their transactions?
Is bitcoin an investment or a currency? I don't think it can be both.

If the value of bitcoin as speculative asset is going to rise, then it is best to not spend it, but to hoard it. If everyone is hoarding bitcoin how can you use it to buy things?

If it is a currency then it needs to have a stable value. If the value stabilizes, then no one will want to invest in it. Since it does not have any "real" commodity value it would then death spiral. I don't know how you square this circle.
You've seriously never had a fun time out to lunch or drinks with a coworker? I suppose it is possible!
You do realise you were eating a glorified protein powder and not a balanced diet? I think this is the problem you were experiencing, and has nothing to do with it being vegan or otherwise.
Bitcoin is flying all over the place. Why wouldn’t they just use US dollars like every unstable economy has used for the past hundred years?

I just don’t buy this at all.
In other words, he spoke to children as if they are inexperienced humans.

No, he spoke to them in the way he spoke to all humans. For example here he is talking to Congress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
This has got a lot of wise observations on the advantages & disadvantages which are applicable not only to software or web standards, but more physical things like electronics and chemicals.

A number of the paragraphs could apply verbatim to standardized laboratory work that has nothing to do with software.
Beautiful. Never heard that one. Thank you.

Update: have not been able to get through it when I tell someone else so far. I collapse in laughter at the punchlines.
That gives you a box of dead spiders, but surely the hard part is everything after that like evaluating corpse viability and fitting tiny spider corpses to input sources.
Tailscale + rpi is a great idea
We don't find it hard to hire in the sense that our offers are always accepted. I was moreso trying to indicate the difficulty of finding competent developers in a sea of candidates who are disinterested and lack the technical aptitude.
Not Canada. Only one party to the conversation needs to be aware. IANAL.
Why? A bitcoin node is a network service so unless you have your own communication infrastructure it can definitely be controlled.
They’re normally externally visible at the lower corner of your windshield. Authorities often do use these numbers when verifying the identity of parked cars or if they suspect an issue with the plate.
I’m not kidding! I hacked together a bunch of env vars, carefully ordered tar unpacking, and some chrooting for dev envs at Airbnb years ago. It’s effective.
The guy had a dark side too, https://c.tenor.com/wW881hjc4swAAAAd/gif.gif.
They can absolutely prevent you from using it to buy milk at your local grocery store. In practice having bitcoin is no help if you can't convert it into something else. The regulation won't happen at on the blockchain. It will happen at the grocery store, car lot, or any other place you do business. That is plenty enough regulation to make it a nightmare to use in practice.
So what happens when the government just blocks all Bitcoin nodes so there is no way to connect to the network and broadcast transactions?

What if they just turn off the external internet?

They can prevent it. It doesn’t matter if you can get around it. When no stores take it it’s worthless to you.
> Lamport says that either pronunciation is acceptable […].

This fits what Knuth said about the issue in 2006: “[…] lah-tek, lay-tek, the author never has decided how to pronounce it […].” [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuwiBPLV3A&t=41s
Perhaps what is missing is the book "Nix - The good parts". Not saying Nix is not good overall, but getting a condensed description what is worth knowing, leaving out what can be ignored or is obsolete, would be quite valuable.
did you even read the moneygram PR?

"Consumers can now go into a MoneyGram location to either load their digital wallets to access the digital economy, or cash-out their digital currencies to increase the utility of their holdings."

So the real world use-case for Moneygram is to exchange cryptocurrency for cash and vice versa. How exactly does this refute his point?

And having blockchain domains that can only be accessed using a particular dns, a VPN service, certain browsers or having to install an extension is hilarious.

Not to mention ENS is running their "web3" on Cloudflare. The decentralization is truly mind boggling.

Oh and loved this part about handshake renewal fees:

"Renewal fees and ownership
It’s important to understand that when you buy a traditional domain, you are hooked to pay the domains registrar a renewal fee each year. This is a fee to maintain ownership of your domain name. The renewal fees are subject to change and often times driven by ICANN and then the registrars. So with traditional domains, you don’t truly own them – you are simply leasing it"

And handshake domains solve this by:

"Handshake domain names provide true ownership. Which means there are yearly renewal fees*"

Gotcha, makes sense.
I am not against that in general, but your never gone do that seriously with PWRs. There are designs where this does make some sense.

However that is not the backbone of your infrastructure. I makes much more sense to start with one large scale design 500MW+ and deploy that as many times as you can and then you can see the places where that is overkill and you develop smaller reactors for those regions.

But in most countries with ~500MW design you can reach 80-90%+ of the population and since the design would be so well known and so mass produced it might make sense to just build more of those rather then some 50MW reactor that might be only be 25% the cost but 10% the production.
Bitcoin and crypto has an immediate, obvious value that was previously held back by technology. Similar to the rest of the examples you've listed.

We live in an age where we are forced to own nothing and be happy. Bitcoin, Blockchain and crypto solves this.
> There is no entity that can prevent you from using it.

As long as you still need fiat currency to buy regular goods -- or pay taxes -- entities can make it difficult for you to use cryptocurrencies. If you have to convert cryptocurrencies into something real-world in order to live, governments can make that difficult for you.

I am just not convinced that we will get to a place where you can live solely (or nearly solely) in a cryptocurrency world, without needing fiat.
This modem is the last released DSL modem that Ziply seems to be supporting :c

I wish Ziply would officially support more modern DSL modems like the hardware that is in the C4000BG, that modem is able to make marginal DSL circuits perform so much better.
Yep you are quite right. The optimiser basically does what an experienced C++ optimisation experts would (tediously) do by hand: it carefully reduces the number of reference counter modifications to an absolute minimum by symbolically evaluating the full executing flow of the code. It is something that is doable in a pure functional language like this one. I am not sure if it is possible to do the same in C++ (because of the aliasing rules).
Yes - for clarification I'm talking about using a stove-top whirly-pop style pop-corn-popper. I can do about 250g at a time.
Both. I do quite a bit of offshoring in Central and South America (and elsewhere). If I make payment to contractors in Colombia for example, the recipients have severe restrictions on spending that money outside their country if it is in USD or pesos. Hence crypto.

This does not even address the huge number of "unbanked" people in the US who have to pay a fortune in fees for their payments to family back "home" - crypto offers them a much cheaper alternative. They don't care what the crypto is worth as it gets spent again back "home" as a currency, not as an investment.
Cool, but the grandparent was specifically talking about inflation hedging, not about payments.

Regardless, the article you link does not actually claim what the title says it claims:

> PYMNTS research reveals that many consumers (24%) see the option to send funds in cryptocurrency as a key motivator in choosing a payment services provider (PSP), in fact.

That does not mean 24% of cross-border payments are made in cryptocurrencies. It means that 24% of people think that it's important that their payments provider supports cryptocurrency as an option (and says nothing about whether or not they exercise that option, or even have an account with such a provider).

Also, even if this were true, that does not mean you are correct in stating that cryptocurrencies are about payments. It's pretty clear that far, far more people use them for investing speculation.
You clearly don't realize how fluid "law and order" is. Numbers was an illegal activity, until state governments realized it was enormously profitable, decided to run it themselves, and voila! Now it's legal. Selling cannabis could land you in prison for a long time, just a few years ago, now it is sold legally by companies listed on NASDAQ. Further, tons of actions and activities have "selective prosecution" and now, openly, we have "sanctuary cities" where governments actually welcome people who have engaged in illegal activities (not making a moral judgment, but there would be no need for "sanctuary" if they hadn't broken any laws) and shield them from prosecution.
If there is any damage due to debris, they will be liabale under the Space Liability Convention 1972 to which they are signatory to. That will be the consequence.

Both USSR and US had in the past pay out due to this convention in the past. USSR for debris from a Kosmos impacting Canada, and US for Skylab fragments impacting Australia.
Pico-Sat to Ground Control: Optimizing Download Link via Laser Communication
Photography and flying always had obvious practical applications. The problem was that the technology was not quite there yet. As far as I can tell, there isn't any obvious technological problem that's limiting the success of blockchain.
I’m not sure how safe that would be. I’m a radiologist and we practice with a principle called “as low as reasonably achievable” to minimize harm.

While ultrasound is not ionizing radiation it does cause tissue heating. 24/7 ultrasound is a huge increase from our current practice and seems medically unnecessary beyond being “cool”.
Umm ... that was an exact quote from the article.
Nice. The one simple, but incredibly useful feature I personally can't live without in hex editors is wildcard search like the one in 010 Editor. For instance, being able to search CB ?? FF and showing all matches
> First of all plea bargains as currently practiced have been ruled unconstitutional. For example Bram v. United States, 168 U.S. 532, 542-43 (1897)

That...is not an example. The Court in Bram did not have before it a question about “plea bargains as current practiced”. Or plea bargains at all, arising, as it did, out of a case in which the defendant had plead not guilty, been tried, and been convicted after trial.
Sorry, sarcasm is hard on the web.

I think you were/are into something. I though about it but never managed to build it.
you better leave it there because any other word would show how bad of a point it is.
Imo there is no political ideology that has a properly self-consistent philosophy for justice. I’ve always considered a part of the issue to be that revenge is clearly a very important element of the existing system (whether it should be or not), and nobody wants to talk about the importance of revenge, so it just gets thrown on the pile of issues with the justice system that never get talked about.
IMO as an inflation-hedge and as a payments network (once PoS or layer-2 gets going) is going to be the crypto killer-app. Possibly even a reserve currency. It shouldn't be all of your portfolio but I think it's a reasonable hedge given the current direction (or even current state) of most major economies.
Almost like a wiki, even.
My understanding, and I haven't been there in a while, but apparently Argentinians were using Bitcoin and other crypto's to store currency because the government had made it difficult to trade US dollars for Argentinian pesos. Even when I was there, a grey market existed for trading dollars. The gov't tried to keep very tight controls on exchange of currency.

However, recently Argentina has banned banks from converting crypto to pesos.

So, I think we can say that it was happening enough that the gov't took action. If it wasn't happening at all, they wouldn't have done anything.
If exam scores / GPAs are correlated systemic (or, if you prefer, environmental) injustices and imbalances, then discriminating on those scores without considering the imbalances is unfair and unjust.

Race and economic status are heavily linked in the United States (https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-unit...). Children of lower economic means often have food security issues (they can‘t guarantee having had breakfast and/or even having a lunch every day). It is known that hungry children do worse educationally than those who are not hungry. It’s also known that when there’s a healthy school lunch program, there’s a substantial lift in educational results:

> We find that in years when a school contracts with a healthy lunch company, students at the school score better on end-of-year academic tests. On average, student test scores are 0.03 to 0.04 standard deviations higher (about 4 percentile points). Not only that, the test score increases are about 40 percent larger for students who qualify for reduced-price or free school lunches. These students are also the ones who are most likely to eat the school lunches.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...

So, the people arguing aren’t arguing about "unchangeable, inherited" characteristics, but are instead arguing about very changeable ongoing systemic injustices.
What censored resoures you (or other people) access throgh vpn that provide information unavailable otherwise in Russia? (political info, not drugs etc)
If you are stating that AWS is required to provide all data flowing in and out of datacenters to the USA Government, but not the Chinese government, then you are 100% wrong.

This is why Chinese regions have to replicate nearly all services in their own regions. No intermingling with other regions.
Growing good, X-ray quality crystals is more art and luck than science.

It's particularly difficult with most proteins and other biomolecules. [0] But even for small molecular compounds, it isn't always easy. I'm not sure about growing high quality crystals of metal-organic frameworks, but they could easily be limited by defects. Some compounds might be too waxy if there are long aliphatic chains involved.

Even if you do get decent-looking crystals, they might be twinned. If you are working with air or water sensitive compounds, they need to be handled with extreme care and might degrade before the data collection is complete. Some might also have temperature sensitivity, such that they need to be kept at -20 C to prevent melting or another phase transition.

Overall it can be a real make-or-break issue for someone engaged in chemical research.

[0] Check out this PDF of a PowerPoint on the topic: https://hamptonresearch.com/uploads/documents/ramc/RAMC2011_...
Hail Mary Reactors are being tried because they're nuclear's last chance.
35 cents goes to minor prizes, so that's $1.65 x 303 million, which is borderline achievable.
The language has zero data cycles by design. It turns out that we didn’t need it. Thinking about it, I can’t remember even a single situation in my 30+ years career where I needed a data structure with data cycles. There are usually better ways to do it in my experience.
I would not call the "survey of 2,079 respondents" by Stellar Development Foundation [0] "woefully-lacking-of-legit-citations".

[0] https://www.stellar.org/
If you're ok with videos, Two Minute Papers[1] is a great one for AI papers

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
Title is misleading, article does not actually claim that 25% of senders use crypto, just that they believe that their payment provider giving the option to use crypto is important. They may not even make use of that option, or may not even have an account with such a provider.
Absolutely.

The Fukushima disaster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_di...

The earthquake: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_...

Zero known fatal injuries out of 20,000 were caused by the reactor.

If I've done the math right, a nominally operative coal plant over Fukishima's 40 year lifetime would have caused 5ish deaths.

Fukishima did cause a few cases of cancer, but so does nominally operative coal.

People can gripe about tail risks from environmental pollution when it's not displacing a worse modal risk. Right now it's unreasonable to. Proliferation risk is concerning; most of the rest is just scale insensitivity.
Claimed evidence for the ability to see colors not in the color space
Ransoms have been paid via Bank Wires, PayPal and other technologies for decades.

99% of internet based ransoms are still being paid via Bank Wires.
You’re right. 324 GB is far more manageable. Their point is totally invalid.