skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's try to define power here.

* There is the power for some central entity to control the levers on the money supply: determine how much money gets printed, what the interest rate is, what sort of inflation rate is acceptable etc.

* There is the oligoplic power of banks which determine who gets to have a bank account, how much and at what rate credit is available to which people, what sort of money transfers are acceptable.

* There is the political power that people with lots of money command. They determine who gets elected, which laws are passed, whether they can be prosecuted or not, whose life they can destroy on whim etc.

I think Satoshi's original conception might have been to democratize the first two kinds of power. Early cryptocurrency idealist probably dreamed of getting rid of all three types of power.

I think right now, only the first one is indeed getting democratized in the sense that people can choose to "support" the cryptocurrency which they like. This is true for both PoS and PoW.

With the rise of regulated cryptoexchanges owned by rich people, the second type of power continues to be centralized in both PoS and PoW. And of course, there was very little threat of the third type of power ever being challenged by cryptocurrency - that's a property of our political systems, not of the type of money we use.
Electric Car Batteries Lasting Longer Than Predicted Delays Recycling Programs
>As a result, BTC and ETH are not so common for daily use in Argentina. Stablecoins such as USD-T, USD-C, and TRON are a more popular solution because they are pegged to a more stable currency (usually, USD).

Interesting. So in this case, cryptocurrency is sort of used as a loophole to give people access to the US Dollar? The article seems to suggest that users prefer low-fee stable-coins over the conventional currencies. But it seems like it's only a matter of time before the government cracks down on these sort of transactions, especially given their public and centralized nature, no?
I'm comparing the number of preventable deaths in the US vs countries with similar GDP/capita

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/3b4fdbf2-en/index.html?i...

The US has a mortality rate due to preventable causes comparable to Poland/Slovakia despite having nearly a 4x higher GDP per capita. Even poorer countries with better systems do far better w.r.t preventable mortality. This amounts to an extra 100,000 deaths per year approx vs countries like Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, etc.
Fusion. The current pace of research is extremely slow. The Wendelstein 7-X, one of the most advanced fusion experiments, was designed on super computers almost 30 years ago, since which huge advances have been made in materials and simulations. Also fusion has always had an uphill battle against entrenched petrochemical interests, that may change in the coming decades.
Yes, I'm getting sick of paying for people who drive cars, go to restaurants and concerts, and have children.

> socialize your health related losses while privatizing the gains you reap.

Those famous health care gains.
Cigarette smoking has been declining for decades and will be continue to dive as boomers die out. All of the anti cigarette campaigning has been effective.
A hard drive can give you the next block almost instantly.

But a random block may take many many times that as it repositions the head and waits for the block to come spinning by.

And an SSD returns any block almost at the same speed, so defragmenting only increases the amount of wear on the drive (and it internally remaps anyway so you don’t even get what you’re after - block 5 is a logical block that may be currently mapped to 466 not next to block 6).
A soft, fatigue-free and self-healing artificial ionic skin
Im still daily driving my 2013 macbook air with 128gb ssd and well 8gb ram. 100’s of browser tabs, photoshop, kicad and illustrator often at the same time. Never reboot, always sleep. Runs Catalina. Best machine ever. [edit] while going through many eeepcs, several thinkpads and two desktop pcs in that period [edit2: these were prolly older than 10 years tho ;)]
Hope you like it!

P.S. The link should be https://apisix.apache.org
My understanding is that the largest portion of the discrepancy with other nations is the price of facilities. And that those facilities cost much more at non-profit hospitals (which is most of them). The hypothesis is that administration compensation is proportional to procedures performed, but money taken in can't be kept, so it is pumped back into facilities perpetuating the cycle.
If you are a visitor/commuter from the burbs, you most likely aren't riding MUNI much except for rare occasions or for short trips. Otherwise you are asking for a ridiculously long commute. They still pay the fare. People tend to drive if the trip is ridiculously long by transit.

Go tell people how much SF residents pay for museums and how much they pay if they are low income. Compare that to people who don't live in SF but are low income.
Creator here, thanks for all the support for this objectively terrible programming font! Still working on some issues with windows not playing nicely with bold weights so be sure to watch the repository (https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft) or follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/IdreesInc) for updates.
Darn, I was hoping that someone was going for an amalgamation of JC Denton and Shakespeare.

I was looking forward to reading the stories...
Why not Matrix?

I agree the way Brendan Eich was treated is a disgrace, and Mozilla's governance and misplaced priorities are at the root of its increasing irrelevance.
Personal assistants like Siri or Hello Google.

They’re not be leveraged well now, but having an assistant to remind you about a complex pill regimen or physical therapy exercises will be huge for medical care (for better and worse).

Even stuff like adding things to a grocery list, then mapping across to a shopping app is mostly possible now with issues; in twenty years, that barrier will be gone.

—-

Also, the Yanko sink/toilet to save water. We gotta stop wasting drinkable water.

https://www.yankodesign.com/2010/01/20/all-in-one-loo-with-a...
Treasury Two-Year Yield Tops 3.5% for First Time Since 2007
> Simple example is the kind of targeting that has happened on Gab and Truth Social and Hatreon, etc. Payment services shut down, hosting denied, domains unregistered, etc.

They were all crying, and throwing a tantrum here when OnlyFans, got de-platformed from Instagram, VISA, Mastercard and many just replied: 'they can choose to do business with whoever they want to' which is true. Same with the YouTube demonitization events, or Ukraine's 'Come back Alive' Patreon account de-platformed; pointing to the ToS violations. In all cases, it means that it can happen to anyone and their is zero viable alternative, unless they wait for cryptocurrencies / stablecoins to be fully regulated.

So for now, the respondents on both sides of the argument just didn't like the 'private company can choose to do business with whoever they want' answer. It doesn't matter.
> the voter actually watched the content (or owns the product etc)

How much of a bad show does a viewer have to subject themselves to before their review is allowed to count? If watching 30 minutes then tapping out doesn't count, then you're artificially skewing the reviews towards those who like it.

Also, Amazon is promoting the popularity of the show by saying 25 million people "sampled" it. Using the word "sampled" leads me to believe they're counting people who only watched a portion of it, perhaps only a few minutes. To count those people as having viewed it, but to invalidate reviews from such people, seems like Amazon is trying to have their cake and eat it too.
> it follows from general conservatism

Does it matter? What is your argument? That people can only be friends if they share a very similar outlook in life?

> "You've just made 5 people uncomfortable"

Aren't you reading a bit too much into this? "Making someone uncomfortable" is not something that needs to lead people distancing themselves from a friendly relationship.

> or exclude their friend from the activity?

So, in a group of friends who are looking for something to do together, you think that the the more natural course of action is to remove your friend from the circle, instead of finding another activity that can be inclusive. Is this your idea of friendship?
Nothing spells 'success' like having to buy ammo from North Korea.
This works in Oracle -

alter table ${table name} disable constraint ${constraint name};
> Do you consider the amount that the US spends per capita on healthcare relative to other countries for the same standard of care a "failure" of the healthcare industry?

That we spend more per capita for approximately the same level of care as most other first world countries is certainly annoying. But sometimes I think we are too focused on that and not putting enough effort into trying to stop the cost from increasing.

I think increasing costs are a more serious problem because the problem of spending so much more than the others is a US problem. That suggests it is just something we are doing wrong, and by making our system more like some of those others we can fix it.

The problem of rising costs also plagues those other countries, and to about the same extent as it does the US. That suggests it is a much harder problem to solve.

Here are some examples of rising costs per capita.

How much costs per capita went up from 2000 to 2018: US 2.3x, Germany 2.1x, France 1.8x, Canada 2.0x, Italy 1.7x, Japan 2.6x, and UK 2.6x.

Costs per capita in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 divided by 1970 costs:

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
US 3.2 8.2 13.9 24.1 36.3
UK 3.1 6.3 15.3 27.8 40.5
FR 3.4 7.6 14.9 21.1 28.5

Here's the ratio of each given year to the cost 10 years earlier:

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
US 3.2 2.6 1.7 1.7 1.5
UK 3.1 2.0 2.4 1.8 1.5
FR 3.4 2.2 2.0 1.4 1.4

Data source: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

If "latest data available" is checked, uncheck it to unlock the slider that lets you look at historical data back to 1970.
There comes a time when one expects that experienced Internet and Web users know the usual workarounds, such as Archive.Is:

https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/...
https://www.businessinsider.com/weird-ai-yancovic-algorithm-...

Searching Google for “weird ai” just returns “weird Al” results heh
I guess it's better to control the fraud directly rather than relying on your competitor's best interests.
After reading this article I looked into the actual process[0] to run a validator node and in my opinion it's quite an involved process. You need dedicated hardware with a large hard drive (with good durability!) and an unmetered high speed internet connection. You need to run two services at what seems to be near-production quality and you need to use monitoring tools like Grafana to manage them. Oh and if you make a mistake like restoring a backup of the server incorrectly your stake will get slashed and your Eth gets destroyed.

Seems like an epic pain in the ass for a 4.1% yield (not to mention the capital required to stake).

[0] https://ethereum.org/en/run-a-node/
All commutes are terrible. If you have the type of job where you can work from home, then any commute is a theft of your time.
We're still in the "Internet is a way for university professors to send BBS messages" phase of crypto adoption. Ethereum didn't go live until 2015, 7 years ago. ARPANET went live in 1975. The WWW spec wasn't submitted until 1989, 14 years later!

That's my theory, please no bully!
Using Bitcoin for illegal transactions is simply prosecution futures. Governments and LEOs have and continue to develop automatic de-anonymization tooling and let's face it 2-3tps, it doesn't have to be fast lol. You're basically just scribbling down all your crimes under a pseudonym and mailing it to the FBI, CIA and PRC with a note saying 'bet you can't guess who I am.' I bet you they can, guy.

> Cryptocurrencies have also become useful asset stores for the wealthy living in authoritarian countries.

Again certainly not BTC. Any one of those stories over the last few months of people using Bitcoin as a currency of last resort are so sad because they all got rekt. Had they bought USDC or a hypothetical future CBDC or e-cash, they would be so much better off.

There's that story about the Ukrainian refugee who put his last $2000 worth into BTC when he fled the Russians. That's worth like $900 now.
I know you're probably trying to be helpful (and still might be helpful for others) but If it wasn't obvious from my original thread I've already read every single comment mentioning this device several times.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/reboot-loop-problem-at-startup-o...

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9273

(neither of these describe the issue i was talking about fwiw)
I took a couple of classes about that long that were terrific.

One was a vim thing by Damian Conway at OSCon 2006(?) and the other was a very fast-paced Linux kernel programming class by Greg Kroah-Hartman at Oregon State. The knowledge from both have stuck with me decade(s) later.

I feel like if you have a good instructor and have a few hours of isolation, you can have some seriously productive learning. Or at least, I can.
The price keeps falling. It's like the bubble is already over. The biggest problem with crypto is it does not live of to its promises and does not solve any real world problems. It's a cool application of cryptography, but not something that will compete with the financial system or subvert tyrannical governments. It's sorta like a very expensive hobby that has enthralled the world. Whatever problem it does solve, does this mean it's worth $1 trillion still? Likely not.
I might be joining a large EHR company in the near future as a VP and am wondering if I can send you a question from time to time as they come up via email? Would love to connect but don't see anything on your profile here.

I'm akemendo at the google mail service
> They don't look at all overdoses, only the overdoses that happen at these sites.

Overdoses that happen at the sites are overdoses that don't happen on the street.

More studies:

- https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/2734/...

- https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2022/0500/p454.html

- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2015435

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34218964/

More articles:

- https://psmag.com/economics/how-supervised-injection-sites-c...

- [Highly Recommended] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/6456092...

In fact, I can't find a single study showcasing safe injection sites as a tax payer burden, nor can I find a study showcasing increased overdoses in surrounding areas, nor can I find studies of increased crime.

The only articles against, that I've found are 1. religious/moral arguments; 2. "We need more data", "studies aren't robust enough" 3. NIMBY arguments like this(https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/safe-injec...).

I will even go so far as to say, I understand the NIMBY argument. I don't line the tent cities in Seattle and would rather they were not there. I would even agree with, "don't put these facilities in city centers, put these facilities in isolated remote locations with free transport to and from". Ideally, also colocate shelters, housing first (a debate for another day), and rehab in those remote areas.

That said, the location of these facilities is a reasonable thing to debate, there are pros and cons to putting them in city centers, but please let's end the fallacy that "safe injection sites are a tax payer burden", when all of the data showcases otherwise.
> Estimates vary anywhere between $700 million to over $1 billion each year

That’s a rounding error to the half a trillion dollar global drug trade [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade
Not so “stable” then /jk

But please change the music!
You don't need central central, but the more you distribute the more you lose on performance.

It could be interesting idea on smaller scale, say you start a "virtual hosting provider", where each of 10, 100, 1000 people connects into a mesh and store eachother's data so in event of failure it just keeps working.
I consider myself pretty tech savvy and call hard drives memory. HDDs exist in the middle of a memory hierarchy stretching from registers to cloud storage.
Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
It's 'Qui bono' or more accurately and less pretentious: 'who benefits'
Maybe it's Radagast the Brown. He always had a way with animals.
hmm but you still have to cash out and convert btc to monero or monero to btc . It's not as simple as use monero.
who knows? i watched one mike tyson video and it thinks i need to see something about mike tyson every day.
Do people really use either? My impression is that most people use credit cards.
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Ask HN: What Happened to Nike AR Fit?
Why aren't there good tools to measure your feet size when you buy shoes online? It should be a relatively simple Computer Vision problem.

On a relate note, Nike launched this and called it AR Fit in 2019. They shut it down. Any idea what happened to it?
Hi, we indeed have a performance comparison by GiGaOM. You can contact me by mailing to juzhiyuan@api7.ai
I can't tell if this is a joke or not but i'll bite. Delegated proof of stake is exactly as you describe and there are 10+ $1B chains that have this mechanism.
Network science applications to medicine.
SQL + recursive queries (an extension supported by everyone since the late 90s) is Turing complete. Thus every arrangement and selection of data is reachable by a query. Therefore there is nothing Malloy can do that SQL can't (I'm absolutely sure of it).
For top management, its 'more people less computer' that they work with, but for IC's, its 'more computer less people'.

It doesn't matter where the 'computer' is (Home or Office), but for top management 'people' in-person is what they all got to work with and people in general are difficult to manage remotely. Also this will help them keep anyone from moonlighting, so they prefer them in office.
Regarding Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare claims that they took immediate action due to "imminent threats to human life that were posted to the site" [1]. They never disclosed what these threats were and nobody seems to have any screenshots or anything of what these were either. Further, the owner of the website said that they had never been contacted by law enforcement about it [2]. It's strange to me that something supposedly so heinous has not been disclosed, yet Cloudflare has been just fine protecting sites like 4chan for years [3] (and I doubt that KF is anywhere near as bad as 4chan which has had loads of media attention around countless numbers of posts and scandals over the years, including violent threats, doxing, leaks, etc. I've only heard about Kiwi Farms recently myself).

What's also curious is that this alleged incident happened shortly after CF posted an Abuse Policies and Approach entry onto their blog [4] (which was made in response to recent pressure to drop KF without saying as much in the post itself, from what I understand). It seems like Cloudflare was backed into a corner and made some rather irresponsible PR moves to get out of it.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

[2] https://t.me/kiwifarms/19

[3] https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#106

[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-a...
This is different, no martingale here and no leverage used at all in obtaining the returns, the models are always either hedged (effectively in cash or 0% long) or unhedged (100% long). This is also not a high frequency trading system. Most models have an average holding period of about 2-4 weeks, though with high variation depending on market volatility levels (has been much shorter than that this year). Each detail page gives a brief, high-level overview of some of the indicators the model uses to detect trend strength, trend reversals and mean reversion opportunities that ultimately produce a signal change.

People often think beating the market is impossible, and for an unaided human, it may be. But just like Magnus Carlsen cannot come close to defeating Stockfish at chess, sophisticated algorithms that analyze far more data than possible for a human are on an entirely different playing field. The ironic thing is the growth in the belief in the EMH and passive investing has actually made beating the market easier in recent years as there's simply much less competition and more money buying no matter what the economic conditions or monetary policy are to exploit. I've written a blog post on my take in depth on the subject here: https://grizzlybulls.com/blog/time-in-the-market-vs-timing-t...
There's two aspects to this 1) Holding backups for too long that eventually contain user data you no longer need and 2) backing up user data that you no longer needed in the first place.

Working in security I have been advising clients to make sure that they consider their obligations for retention periods. Not just so that you release user information you no longer need at the point you no longer need it, but also to reduce litigation if there were to be a data breach.
Something about that capture gave me a good chuckle.

> I'm a [Male] seeking [Everyone] between [18] and [45].
I don't know if it's "mocked" exactly, but if nuclear energy is not much more common in 20 years, something has gone very wrong in the world akin to a major economic collapse, famine, a real plague, or a world war.

Nuclear energy is something that should unite both sides of the political aisle: whether or not you're scared of climate change, everybody wants access to cheap energy to power industry and human needs.
> One spam every three days is insanely high IMO (compared to what you will get on gmail)

That's funny since on gmail I get tons more spam than on any of my self-hosted domain addresses. What's worse, I see emails in gmail misfiled as spam when they are not, which is far worse. I don't ever see that happen in my self-hosted system.
Why regrettably? Also, crypto doesn't mandate anonymity if you go by the original Satoshi whitepaper. You'll have to specifically recommend an anonymous ecosystem like Monero. And at that point, it's like regrettably mentioning American dollars because the Ruble has bad connotations.
How come you do not mention garlic?
They're suggesting using the heat from the air as the power source.
There's no reason to come on here and be nasty to someone you've never met because you or some relative of yours had a bad experience.

If it's that big of a deal for you, work to fix it and you can come on here with your credentials and blah blah instead of whining about people who have experience in what they're talking about :)
To participate in consensus in Bitcoin you'd have to mine a block, otherwise that doesn't count and I think most people would agree with that.
Rule of thumb: if your idea creates energy from nothing, it won't work.