skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no reason public education can't be religious

There is the establishment clause of the constitution in the US, which prevents the nation from establishing state sponsored religion. Courts have been pretty clear that compulsory religious elements in public school violates the establishment clause.

> The problem is charity with the privatising of schooling as a condition. Not unlike charity with the purchase of a specific type of seed sold by a specific company as a condition.

I have no idea what you mean by this.
> Companies should not be allowed to own majority stakes in other companies

You don't want companies to be able to buy other companies? You don't want multinationals? Good luck. Maybe you want a limit on the depth of an ownership tree instead - no more than 3 levels of ownership.
Yes, compiled managed languages are much better suitable for distributed computing workloads.

Leave Rust for use cases where no form of automatic memory management is desired.
The language used in announcements like these just convince me that "absolute laughing stock" is the correct term to describe these outfits.

"We are hopeful that as a community, we can brave through these troubling times together."

It sounds to me like a speech given by a middle school candidate for school president when the cafeteria has decided to cancel Taco Tuesdays, not a professional organization responsible for safeguarding billions in assets. I can't imagine a large traditional bank or trading outfit in the US giving a similar sounding press release.
Sadly most of the datasets I'm seeing lump the Holy See in with Italy.

An interesting breakdown would be "carbon emissions controlled" - the US "controls" way more emissions than the US directly makes, as so many emissions from other countries are direct results of US spend.
What happens if say, an employee of Amazon, Google, or Netflix, contributes changes to my OSS app?
Hacker news is one of those places I love to visit because of the insightful and informative perspectives on issues of technology and culture... that is, until the topic has anything to do with Bitcoin.
No, CE markings are normally for finished products, not components. (in many cases the software is a component). Most open sourced projects are not user-facing finished software products.
Why? It is what people are used to with traditional stores of value. Banks, brokers, etc.
not trying to start a distro war, but I would advise against using ubuntu for the time being as their custodian has been somewhat incompetent in recent years, and they have been forcing users to use their "snap" system. It may give you a bad first experience.
Sure seems like Coindesk benefited from someone leaking FTX financial information. Probably an insider, could be a whistleblower but more likely a disgruntled employee with an axe to grind given the depravity of the industry.
Nope. Crypto does work. Day trading is a problem of the old system that requires the old system tech to work.

Assets should be valued for their properties and for their scarcity (amongst other things), and not by trend waves amplified by day trade and/or even bigger waves of chained margin calls. There are some advantages of day trading, yes, but it is mostly noise and IMO it is very good that "real crypto" can't operate "fast enough" for those who practice it.
I assume the hypothesis is that people threw cheap money into both. Now cheap money is over, people are withdrawing from both.
So you're telling me that all these people exchanges currencies non-stop 24/7? Why can't they have coins in their offline wallet and transfer them to the exchange only before the transaction?

On a similar (sort of) principle, I do not keep 100% savings on the bank account to which my ATM card is attached, I have a separate account where I keep most of my savings and move money between them once a month or when i need to buy something very expensive.
Isn’t it sort of an oxymoron when we try to distribute or decentralize a uniform or consistent platform?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of decentralization. I do systems engineering. Decentralizations means redundancy. Redundancy is good.

But if all you’re doing is federating a mono-platform/algorithm, then the single point of failures move to the platform itself. Decentralizing a uniform platform is like replicating the same human being lots to improve the redundancy of the human race. Ask the gene pool how well that works.

Variety is good. It’s what brings beauty to the human experience.
> Email is the example I give people of how federation could work... You can't get banned from email.

Except e-mail has been a total failure when it comes to spam/abuse, and in practice it isn't this federated, decentralized paradise at all -- virtually everyone I know uses Gmail for their personal account. And if you want to run your own server, good luck getting Gmail to accept your e-mails at all.

And if you can't get Gmail to trust your server, that's pretty much a ban for all practical purposes.
I was hoping we could legislate nuclear fusion first. Or at least antigravity
"If you make a foundation, you can pay people to run it, and they can be friends of yours, even family members, but it's not like you can pay them ridiculous amounts of money compared to other foundations. That would be illegal."

They can direct their foundations to give billions of dollars to corporations controlled by their friends, who use that money (after taking a cut, of course) to do whatever it is the foundation was set up to do.

This is one of the things the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was accused of doing: enriching their friends' corporations.

Of course, their friends can do the same in return, or compensate them in other ways, in money or influence.
A private shortlink service for tailnets
Say I'm an EU company. I use a small bit of GPL code in the course of my business, and I see a problem with it, so I change the code, fix the bug/add a feature/etc, push it back, does that count profiting from it?

I could instead not push it back, which is less immediate risk
Yeah, but me going from making $0/month to $20/month changes it to commercial, and suddenly introduces a heavy compliance burden.

I’m not getting an auditor over to audit my $20 program.
> SBF was the 2nd largest donor, not FTX the company.

It doesn't really seem like much of a distinction, since Bankman Fried viewed FTX as his personal piggy bank. Regardless, the DNC will be fine. They're still popular with voters, regardless of what donors are doing. Donor money doesn't actually win elections, voters do.
"only about 5% over inflation" is three times inflation. That's massive. You can see it in the numbers - inflation would land that house at $230k, but it's nearly three times that.

Any investment portfolio that "only" made 8% YoY for 20 years would be incredible.
Looks like PG finally took an Introduction to Philosophy class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNb1WG_Ido

really helped me conceptualize some portions of simpler math i struggled with. if someone had shown me this at a younger age i'm confident i would have had a very different relationship with math.
Ask HN: ELI5 What Is a Monad?
Curious: how did they do it? I mean, they emitted a law? Because in theory if you keep them safe and anonymous noone should be able to do it.

Maybe it is not impossible but more difficult than alternatives?
I’d argue that your comment is a failure to understand human desire for convenience and trusted services however.

Decentralization is at odds with that. It’s not convenient. It’s not easy. It’s not simple. Not for a lay person anyway.

When an ecosystem comes along and can solve those for the masses, it’ll be revolutionary.
When you break it down most of the emission you are directly responsible for are

1) Energy production from Coal/Gas (household/office Heating, AC, electricity)

2) Road transport.

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IMO all this discussion about meat consumption and trinkets from China distracts from the big picture. Which is:

- We need to find a way to get rid of Coal/Gas energy production (i.e. solve the whole issue of Renewables intermitency).

- We need to solve the problem of road transport without ICEs.

The main barrier for those two is policy and funding. It has bugger all to do with consumer behaviour. Which is not to say that we shouldn't all curb individual GHG emissions.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...
It depends on the observation window, really. Bitcoin is deflationary in the sense that there is a maximum amount of BTC that will ever be mined. So, all else equal, the price of bitcoin should go up relative to other assets as the economy grows (and the stock of bitcoin does not). Of course, it might implode along the way, and there are plenty of wild swings on the way up (which what we've seen so far).
Yes, huge props to Marc Cohodes: he was totally correct.

But twitter user @Bitfinex'ed (someone who's on a crusade against Tether/Bitfinex since years) described the very scam Alameda and FTX were running before FTX even launched, years ago.

@Bitfinex'ed noticed that SBF had ties with tether from day one. He warned about hundreds of millions of frozen funds (by authorities) on FTX right before FTX raised a billion dollar.

He was warning people not months but years ago.

Anybody who believe this whole Alameda/FTX scam wasn't planned from day one is an useful idiot. The very type of idiot the media is needing right now to sell the "leverage gone wrong for SBF" angle.

There are records of SBF describing the very mechanism he was running with Alameda and FTX before he launched FTX.
Perhaps I should have been clearer.

Having an automated process to check out the most recent revision of the codebase and compiling it is just as easy as with other development.

Doing anything with that in an automated process is usually far more difficult. Suppose I'm developing a WiFi thermostat. The flashing process for that may require manual intervention, but let's leave that aside.

So the new code runs, now what? I need a webcam to look at the display, a robot to press the buttons or turn the wheel, and further fixtures to see if it is turning on the furnace appropriately.

Or we could simulate all the hardware in software... do I need to explain how much of a project that in itself is? Sure, it can be done, but it is the old question of time and cost.
They gained mass media attention.
Fox News is not investigating complex issues because investigating complex issues is not within their remit. Their remit is to repeat simple memes that form easy sound bites for viewers receptive to that kind of thing.

The WSJ on the other hand has excellent investigative journalism which is usually well separated from conservative partisan commentary - see Carreyrou as a good example.
Ask HN: High Quality Investigative Journalism Sources?
What sources of high quality journalism do you rely on?
> It's already deployed to some extent medically.

Can you say more about this?

I wonder what's feasible in the near future. I recall excitedly watching a Gabe Newell interview on BCI. Having struggled with major depression and anxiety, his speculation on using BCI to control sleep/mood/etc seemed like a mental panacea. Of course, with that level of control over one's brain, my delight about potential emotional stabilization feels akin to lionizing computers as a newfangled bookkeeping tool -- while true, it's comically myopic.

Here's a hard turn into wild speculation for ya: The Great Filter is either 1) endosymbiosis or 2) inventing BCI.
Ask HN: Is there a cloud music library that doesn't keep deleting my music?
Long store:
I purchased a bunch of audio CDs and Apple Music (the Mac app) offered to rip it and save it into my iCloud library. I was very happy and saw to it that all the audio files were uploaded. I even saved it into a new playlist. I also have the paid Apple Music subscription which I pay for monthly.

In just an hour, iTunes Match (a feature of the paid Apple Music subscription) tried to match the songs and deleted almost all of them and just left 3 songs in my playlist. I tried it a couple of times and this was still the result.

Apparently some songs aren't licensed for my location/country and/or aren't available in the catalog of Apple music for my country and therefore they were all deleted except the ones that Apple already has in their catalog.

That got me thinking - Is there a reliable paid service where I could just upload MY music I legally purchased and they wouldn't be deleted just because of some stupid location based licensing or some other reason?

Spotify is no better as my songs in their library have disappeared a couple of times as well.

Thank you in advance.
Discord borrowed the term from online gaming, as its initial target audience was gamers.

Models like 'subreddit,' 'Discord server,' and 'Facebook group' are simple to grasp because they are stand-ins for physical spaces. Posts are made or read in these specific communal contexts.

To my understanding, Mastodon instances don't fit this model. The most common analogy I see is an email provider, but the mental model most email users operate with is sending a letter to another person. It's not clear what the comparison means beyond 'you can sign up on any instance and people on other instances can see your posts,' which is only part of the story, only partially true, and way too technical.

For Mastodon to catch on there needs to be an intuitive metaphor. It cannot be 'Twitter but X' or 'email but Y'. Twitter itself has the 'town square' metaphor. What is Mastodon?
It's their products.

Fixing wealth inequality doesn't necessitate throwing out the entire legal and economic system we have. Workers can form unions if they they are not being recognized. There is no need to topple capitalism so that amazon can become a nationalized business with an inverted pay hierarchy.
3blue1brown linear algrebra is on my list.
>The most reliable way to keep your savings safe seems to be to store it as gold.

This is nonsense. FDIC insurance is adequate for most people and you can open multiple bank accounts without any issues to expand your coverage limit. Stop giving people bad advice.

And everything you said about banks is an issue with gold. Most people don't have a vault at home they are storing gold in... they are simply buying a certificate that says they own gold in someone else's vault--which has all the same issues as banks and exchanges.
How is this easier than actually using deno? It's a single executable. Download, write code in your editor of choice and run deno. No account sign up, no install, no friction.
We don’t even know if Satoshi is an intelligence agency or not.

In any case. Satoshi was about using Bitcoin as a currency not a store of value, right? So either way this view is butchering what Satoshi wanted
> If spam and illegal content are considered, it may not be "working" in the sense a public service needs to be.

By that standard, centralized social networks have utterly failed us as well.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (Michael E. Gerber)

What it taught me is that effective organizations invest heavily in training newcomers how to do their jobs / processes. I see this everywhere; when I walk into a business and something's "just off," it's almost always because management is dropping the ball on training newcomers how to do their jobs.

In my specific case, I was having trouble getting good bug reports, and my teammates were struggling with poorly written tickets. I had to take the time to explain what the process was for handing off work from QA to developers. Things moved much more smoothly after that. (IE, I had to explain that all tickets needed steps to reproduce, except in very specific circumstances.)

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About...
As a photographer what started throwing me off was back focus issues in the synthetic images. I assume if anything the GAN would generate an image that was uniformly sharp, but I kept seeing images where the focus was just past the subject's eyes, more around the ears and hairline. Just like a real autofocus system might lock onto shirt fabric or something.
i) that's not how banks work [0]

ii) that's not how these exchanges work. if they are non-fraudulent, they'd have to hold cryptocurrency and cash on behalf of their clients. they'd never have a problem meeting withdrawal requests (the critical element of bank runs)

iii) crypto exchanges, if they are non-fraudulent, would be an equivalent to stock brokers, not banks

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/12/20/Mon...
Or states can adopt the minor and simple policies of California, where incrementally higher registration fees by weight, commercial registration for all pickups, and fuel taxes only slightly higher than other states and nowhere near as high as other developed nations have led to a private vehicle fleet with no trucks among the top-selling vehicles.
Each generation has to discover for itself that "Free Love" is always disadvantageous to women. The Free Love movement in the 1960's petered out because women found out that having sex with multiple partners leaves them holding the bag when they get pregnant.

Women have their own interests and their highest interest is that the man stays with her, to help her care for their offspring.

For men, it's obviously advantageous to go around knocking up as many women as possible without having the burden to raise and support those children.
This is amazing content. Short yet detailed. I've read his book multiple times, and implemented some of its advice, but I'm still finding new nuggets in the curriculum.
For what it's worth, wxWidgets does have hidpi support (at least on Windows).
There is the ideal, and then there is the reality. Only the very largest enterprises have the scale necessary to develop comprehensive engineering training programs. Doing it right is tremendously expensive, so it can generally only be justified in organizations that onboard hundreds of new engineers every year. And even then, some level of program specific training will always be needed after completing the initial standard training.

Another perspective is to consider training junior engineers to be a core job responsibility of senior engineers. There are always going to be tasks that need to get done even if we don't "derive energy" from them. That's just part of being a professional. Most engineers who complain about teaching and mentoring shouldn't be promoted to senior level in the first place; in the long run they would probably be happier and more successful as independent consultants.
1 character, in 2 places ;) I did not know profiling support for go was so seamless, thank you!

May I ask, is that theme custom or available somewhere? I really enjoyed it
This repo is from a research group from a university in Belgium [1]. In general though all the sybling comments are right. It is a matter of prioritizing projects over other things in live.

[1] https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/
Joined a gym and they me to install an app and did a walkthrough. They way they asked was as if they were just asking me to pose for a photo, as if it was barely a request. I wonder what theyd say if I refused or said I had no phone.

Also during covid scares the inconvenience of not having SMS and QR would have been insane.
Bitcoin is designed to combat inflation? Please show me how it does this. I am very skeptical of this claim.
The only way for crypto to ever be a thing will be to integrate with traditional financial systems, to a degree. Continually beating the drum of “this isn’t crypto” has not worked and will never work aside from making crypto fundamentalists feel like they’re the only ones on the one true path.
The largest polluter in the world is the U.S. Government. Tracking ships and whatever is all fine but there is a reason why the U.S. Gov ops itself out of every piece of climate legislation. The insane pollution I saw in the military would send a whole lot of people to jail if a company did them.
When I took Trigonometry in high school, it was all about memorizing a bunch of stuff and I did horribly. When I took it in college, the professor taught us how to derive everything based on the Unit Circle. It just clicked. I ended up doing so well in that class that the professor got me to change my major to mathematics and got me a scholarship too.
The `deno cache` command (ex. `deno cache main.ts` or `deno cache --node-modules-dir main.ts` if you want a node_modules folder) will ensure all npm packages used in the provided module are cached ahead of time. It acts similarly to a `npm install` if you need it.

Also, at the moment, npm specifiers aren't supported with `deno compile` (https://deno.land/manual@v1.28.0/tools/compiler), but in the future that will be one way to have a self contained executable with everything ready to go.
We're sorry for your loss
> The value of crypto comes from them being decentralized and independent of a financial bank.

The value of that is exactly zero when you live in a stable and developed country, and you are not engaged in criminal activity.
You do have control. You can start your own blockchain and keep the transactions flowing. Of course, transactions imply other people will use your chain. It's like you can create value not by gold, or tobacco, or even math, but by the very trust people have in your asset. And this brings us to a concept that some may be familiar with but is relatively new to the crypto community. A new kind of coin is here.

This is a concept that probably never existed before crypto, called "fiat." "fiat" is the latest and greatest in crypto technology. True decentralization. Multiple countries. Multiple municipalities. Multiple systems, multiple institutions, multiple protocols and multiple contracts, the picture of decentralization that crypto could only dream of. And of course, if you make a mistake, you can revert your transaction, a form of technology crypto has not yet mastered. Oh, NFTs? Please. "fiat" utilizes advanced art international HS92 commodities exchange codes to kick start the burgeoning modern art scene of completely legitimate businesses.
> if you have no clients in the EU and don‘t market or sell to the EU, you can mostly just ignore this

If you're not located in the EU, what can they really do even if you do have paying clients in the EU?
The problems we are seeing are with for profit Crypto Exchanges... not crypto itself.
Riding Out Emotional Waves
What is the prerequisite to read this book?
And if you like The Young Ones, you will probably also like Bottom. The surrealism is toned down somewhat, but the crude slapstick is the same, and Rik and Ade play very similar characters.
Journalists who do puff profiles on business and political figures don't do any investigating. Investigative journalists who investigate on their own initiative are rare. Most just ride on the coat-tails of plaintiff lawyers, prosecutors, and public scandals as in this case. It's not really clear if newspapers suffer reputational harm from puff pieces that are later repudiated.
You say you can't understand, but the chart you yourself posted (to illustrate price volatilility) also shows a 12,000% increase in price in less than 8 years, up to today.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but maybe that, the improbable 12000%, is the thinking that you're trying to understand?
I've used the lighting on the hair. Most of that time the specular highlight doesn't match the rest of the face.
You != your email address.

Yes, a specific server or address can be "banned". But there is nothing stopping you from just opening another gmail / yahoo / whatevermail account.
Decoupling running and type checking is quite popular nowadays, Vite does it as well. It can give a huge speed boost and allows you to ignore type errors while you're just messing around. Of course then you also need the discipline to eventually fix them, but there's probably a reason you went with TS instead of JS.