skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin

What about the people who "invested" their money by sending it to FTX while all the media were presenting SBF as the altruistic white knight of cryptocurrencies?

All the while puking on Coinbase's CEO because he implemented a "no politics" at work policy.

The NY Times has been coming up with hit pieces after hit pieces criticizing Coinbase but, follow the money trail, repeatedly presenting SBF as the savior of cryptocurrencies. SBF was, sure as hell, employing lots of people looking woke enough. Doing you think that has anything to do with the second biggest donor to the democrats being SBF through his mom's fundraising?

And then everybody act suprised that the "vast majority of people" are losing money?

Do you think everybody is that blind? If you read the latest article about SBF it's nearly as if he was presented as a victim. What about some talk about what's seriously going on?

Bitcoin is to SBF/FTX what natural gas is to Madoff/Enron. Let's stop wagging the dog.
The advent of Whisper gave me a similar idea, except instead of uploading the recording once a day, it worked by calling my computer from my phone and recording and processing in batches. Realized pretty quickly that most of my day is silent though, and would rather be able to trigger it on demand, which I haven't gotten around to.
Why should the bureaucrat be doing more work? That increases expenses for taxpayers, or alternately means the regulator can't do other things. In principle, there's nothing wrong with making the business being regulated pay the costs, assuming the work needs doing at all.
I'm not sure why I would need this, especially now that I can codify my personal relationships in iOS and Android.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/430990/how-to-teach-contact-...
On the topic of lawyers, a good friend is a solo practice lawyer. She says the general rule as a solo lawyer is that you generally can’t bill more than 20 hours of a 40hr week. The rest of the work time is marketing and business related. But that also means they need to charge enough to make those billable hours worth it. That said, there’s also currently a big push in her specialty to move to fixed billing to avoid many of the problems of billable hours.
https://archive.ph/pNTP7
Also available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/differe...
That doesn't seem relevant to the question of whether it's worth spending a huge amount of money on saving a single life?

When I talked about spending money as a PR move I meant non-product related, the way companies donate to charities, or do charitable research, or hell they could've even invested in for-profit health startups that would have a higher expectation than saving a single life.
I don’t bill lunch, but short breaks between stints of focused work are absolutely billed (especially if I’m in the client’s office, which I am much if the time, because I’m available at a moment’s notice.

I wouldn’t lower your rate… That doesn’t really affect the ethics of billing, or contractual obligations or anything. If the client is unhappy with what you’re doing it’s not going to matter whether you’re paid more or less, and vice-versa (if they’re happy with how you work either way doesn’t matter).
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The scientific article/paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z
Relevant meme:

https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/the-whole-wo...
And this also doesn’t take into account CO2 emissions from mining, manufacturing mining rigs, building and discarding mining infrastructure.
At 00:00:00 UTC, I assume?

I don't expect there's any reason for them to divide by a datetime...but one can hope that some ad server somewhere has crashed as a result.

My go-to birthday has always been January 1st of the year I was actually born. That way it doesn't raise any eyebrows if I want to convert something to a real account or interact with real people, but it fails verification if they mishandle my credentials.

That's worked great, except that one time when I inadvertently booked a flight on united.com (who should have my actual birthday, with whom I'd flown internationally several times before) with a session token or something set by a random travel search engine to whom I had given my fake January 1st birthday and then (I thought) abandoned before picking a different flight. Customs had pointed questions about the authenticity of my passport and driver's license, because their system showed that my documents should be different and they couldn't tell me why... They eventually let me back into the country, but that was not fun.
Am I the only one that uses Bitcoin strictly to remove the middleman? Get paid in USD -> convert to BTC -> sell to someone in cash, using local currency.

Bitcoin was _never_ about speculation, and it was never intended as a store of value. However, it was designed to be deflationary in nature due to having a maximum of coins ever mined, or, more strictly, cutting down the rewards to half every 210k blocks mined).

And if I had to choose (which I don't, as I save in USD), I'd still prefer saving in BTC than in my local currency.

People living in thirld-world countries understand this.
Doesn't change that it is the problem that they are trying to solve, though? Does it?
I bet you believed that Pfizer studied for transmission of COVID-19 up until a week ago too, or maybe you haven't heard that news yet?

P.S. https://c19ivm.org/ - 83% average prophylaxis.
What about the other 99.999% of their content?
> So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

That's not a fair conclusion from the parent comment at all. Software developers _do_ have the right to prevent their work from being given away for free. Them _choosing_ to develop FOSS is them voluntarily waiving that right.
Use AI to generate the perfect professional excuse
> Making urgent claims that the popular product may suffer without funds, when diverting those funds elsewhere — now it’s not just misleading but gives me a strong stench of being unethical.

This reminds me of the emails the various US political parties send out around trending issues, ex. "You need to send us $5 TODAY to keep [opposing party] from [doing something that's in the news]." Obviously this money goes to the party fund and not to fighting the specific issue they're campaigning on and the wording of these is overly alarmist.
My dollars keep losing value too. Since bitcoin came out in 2009 my dollars have lost 28% of their value to inflation[0].

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2022?endYear=2009...
> Let's say their necessary engineering / admin cost was $20 million (a massive overestimate)

On this site, you will find many who will breathlessly insist that the only way to run a website at scale is through top tier engineering solutions developed by teams of highly paid engineers. I am not sure why the calculus changes so much for a non profit. Elsewhere in this thread, someone noted that they have $8 million in processing fees just for their donations.

I have no idea what is the right number they should be spending, but I know their costs are much higher than servers and bandwidth.
Thanks :) I wish I had kept more of them. I had to move a few times and got married and just didn’t have the space for 2000lbs of furniture sized systems lol.

The IRIS3130 went to a museum, at least!

As for the SSL… I’ll dig through my stuff and see what I have. On it. I have a screenshot of gmail loaded up… lemme find that.
Here is a relevant discussion on twitter I was involved in about is_computer_on_fire(), a rack mounted BeBox in a performance show with a failed fan and an overheated CPU which melted off leaving the other one working! And then someone found and resurrected one of the rack mounted BeBoxes that we had used: https://twitter.com/jonahedwards/status/1499498729237147651
It is by no means a constant occurrence. I've edited my original comment to disclaim this as you seem unable to assume good faith about any of this. It has happened only twice, both times with a fairly wide margin where human intervention could have occurred should it have been needed (it wasn't).

Changing lanes is a type of turn because you _turn_ the wheel to change lanes. You also might turn 45 degrees in a roundabout, or 90 degrees at a stoplight. They are all turns.

I'd agree that it's an assumption. Though your assumption that the distance is closed _rapidly_ is also just that - an assumption, and one made in bad faith despite my efforts to correct it.

The mere act of being in a car on the road involves dozens of assumptions made every single minute about the traffic conditions. Very little is known for certain, ALL maneuvers are to some extent based on assumptions.

This conversation is no longer productive, thanks for your participation anyway though.
There is a tremendous amount of pharmaceutical advertising.

I understand it's appealing, oh let's hate on the influencers. We DO see influencers advertise pharmaceuticals / health adjacent products, like with public health campaigns, that is a regulatory distinction and not a substantive one. When asked what was the one thing he wanted, Dr. Fauci said, 'Leonardo DiCaprio to encourage people to advocate for COVID measures.' They use ad inventory, they use ad techniques to reach their audience, they ARE ADS. Seemingly regulators have figured out a process for them.

Video games are really interesting too. For some people, they are medicine! For some people, they substitute alcohol!
This follows from Bitcoin being a negative sum game. If some people are cashing out millions, and miners are cashing out their fees, naturally the remaining people have lost money.
This is a topical distinction if your email address gets banned from sending to gmail. Unless you want to keep changing IP addresses and email addresses to get around it. Gmail/Microsoft host a significant portion of the internets email.
This comment says a lot about your worldview, but not much about anything else.
I mean, if you dig a bit deeper you'll find all life is just elaborate Rube Goldberg machines comprised of chemical interactions.
I had a good baseline fitness from other activities, so was able to pretty much launch into 20 km daily.

Blisters happened at the beginning. Investing in Darn Tough socks helps.
Sounds like I need to work on the UI for switching stations!

The search results let you add new stations to a queue, but they're not playable until you press "Reload Stations" on the modal—which isn't obvious or intuitive. At the very least I can add some instructions for loading new stations.

I've also explored adding a drag and drop interface, but that's a little trickier than search (technically and design-wise). Will need to think more about it. Thanks for the feedback!
There are air traffic control simulators which are somewhat like this
> woke causes

I wonder what, in your estimation, makes a specific cause a "woke" one?
From what I've heard about Jane Street interviews from people who interviewed there for intern and new grad positions, they involve solving mathematical puzzles about probability, statistics, and betting. I know multiple people who were invited to onsite interviews, including in one case for a trading position, who were in progress on math and computer science degrees, and had no specific finance knowledge. I also know people who have done trading internships at other firms with no finance experience.

It seems entirely reasonable to me that Jane Street would consider a Bachelor's degree from MIT in math or computer science, being clever, and a prior internship at Jane Street as qualification to work at Jane Street.
I always try to avoid hourly billing. At a minimum I try to bill per day or week, but my preferred is billing by job. I estimate how many hours something will take and then price it accordingly.

Usually clients are happier to have that because they know the cost up front, and I am happier because I don't have to track hours.

The most important part of billing by project is that requirements are rock solid before you start (and the hours you spend on that should be rolled up into the total project cost after you make the requirements). And make sure your contract specifies what happens when there is scope creep (new contract? daily rate for changes?).

And lastly make sure your contract has milestone payments if it's a long contract. You don't want to work for four months and then have to wait to get paid or argue about completion. Have a milestone that might hit every month or so and get 20% of the payment, so there is a larger bulk payment at the end for completion but also some payments on the way.
I have minor adhd, which winds up meaning I rarely make it through a full hour of work without some small diversion, and each days work looks a little different, but I still get done what needs doing in aggregate.

I moved to billimg by the day to avoid this, it has felt like a good compromise between people wanting granular controls and me not wanting to go insane tracking every second.
> However I have used bitcoin codebase based coins for transactions where the time-span was short enough that it was a reliable store of value.

> Several crypto coins are a bad store of value over 1 week but a decent one over a couple hours.

What kind of (real world) transaction would need to rely on a cryptocurrency for value stability over a couple of hours time-span that wouldn't be served by fiat currency, which provides the same stability guarantees over that same time-span?
This was a real trend, but it's not going to survive the current collapse in VC valuations. It's all well and good selling a puffed up valuation on capital in a bull market but now investors care about profits and fundementals again and most of these businesses aren't designed for that world. RIP.
Isn't that just what you say though when a senior executive fucks up? I just assumed. No company is ever going to say they dumped some executive. They are going to happily depart ways every time.
We have customers at work who would happily pay a large sum of money to move support from ticket system/email/whatever to a shared Slack channel :)
But it's a logical fallacy to assume that just because he was wrong about writing, that others are wrong about more modern media.
> slapped with

> Settlement

Choose one.
"Over-sensitive" or not, what's the actual harm in driving in a way that avoids triggering it?

When your driving safety system gives you feedback while driving, you have two choices:

- Learn from the system and modify your driving to be safer for yourself and those around you, or

- Ignore the system, describe it as "too sensitive," and disable it.

Before the driving safety system feedback, you might have been an unsafe driver out of ignorance. After the driving safety system feedback, you're choosing to be an unsafe driver willfully.
> Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish

Hopefully new advances in AI will let you try new things with your old recordings

> How's the audio quality on those devices you link to in other comments?

Decent, quality is directly proportional to the distance between the microphone and the mouth, but can't expect too much from 30$ devices.

>and always struggled to come up with a viable algorithm and model to differentiate "background chatter" from the main conversation

Yes, that's a big problem to solve, you can try Pyannote's Diarization
https://lablab.ai/t/whisper-transcription-and-speaker-identi...

that will be a next step for the experience
Here’s a sample of real life I’ve found through SeRCH Foundation (the entity that WMF is reportedly channeling my money to) website: https://conversations.vanguardstem.com/a-practical-guide-to-...

This [intersectional] approach requires both student and mentor to acknowledge that true professional development, incorporating belonging, requires affirmation, not assimilation.

(The other striking example of affirmation, not assimilation I’ve seen in a textbook for future school teachers enrolled in SFSU credential program. There was a chapter in the textbook on how to recognize signs of a student belonging to a youth band culture - and how to respect and affirm it. No, I am not kidding.)
This prompted me to look at Rubberhose again. I hadn't realized Assange was involved with that project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)
Once again: No! Not for rear ends.

For other accidents, yes - I've found they want to listen. Rear ending: Not really: They just want to know who was driving the car that rear ended the other car.

I got rear ended once. I spoke to the other party's insurance. Trust me - they didn't want to know why I had gotten hit. It's to their benefit to know, but for them it was an open and shut case. All they wanted to confirm was that it was their insured who had rear ended me.
Not quite an older version of itself, but the original Animal Crossing on Gamecube had a whole NES emulator built in, with several games available.

https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/NES_Games
Someone who bought bitcoin even as far back as 5 years ago and held, still lost money. 19k vs 16k today. Index funds have crushed Bitcoin in that same timeframe. Even if you bought 2 years ago the performance is not good. I think this shows the dangers of overhyped investments. Sure, Bitcoin has done well for certain timeframes, but index funds tend to have smoother, more consistent returns.
You do realize the virus was like super deadly and stuff, right?
It was removed from MySQL in 8.0 because it wasn't very useful. MySQL query caching does exact matching on the query string and any row update to a table used for a given cached query nukes the entire cache. So it's only useful for a small set of niche use cases where tables are essentially static.
One world news site I check each day, to have context for the rest of the day (if we're in a nuclear war or a new pandemic I need to know that). Then a local new site for my area.
Who controls parallelism? A disagreement that leads to slower code
Is it not nefarious to direct donations meant for one thing (keeping Wikipedia running) and secretly direct it to be used for other things that the donors may or may not even agree with, much less want to give money for?
You're describing a very legitimate sampling error problem. I'm describing forced ideological conformity. Both exist in academia today.

If, in the spirit of the proposed "bias declaiming section", a social scientist made a point of saying that they're systematically biased against conservative and white/rural viewpoints, how do you think that would go over? Pat on the back for introspection?
don't developing fetuses (feti ? fetus with long u?) of mammals go through a fish shaped stage?

if so, does that mean what applies to fish likely applies at some stage in or some way?
Definitely Apple makes up a massive part of TSMC’s profit, and whoever replaced them would likely not be willing to pay as much for the privilege. The crazy thing though is that TSMC has a net profit margin of about 41% (and this isn’t a fluke, it hasn’t been below 30% in the last 10 years). Even if they lost Apple and left the foundries empty during their slots, they would still be profitable.
Given that those things frequently follow a power law, one man is hardly indicative of the impact the 2nd biggest donor has. Even more so when I am not sure if anyone in crypto comes even close. Coinbase only maybe?
I’m not sure this wasn’t how Twitter was run before. I’ve been in a few companies in the valley where this was the case just not so brazenly and out in the open.
Priced the economical Lucid Air with a few upgrades. Came out to be $99,900. I think they're gorgeous, but I can't do it when, surprisingly, e-bikes gets me where I want to go locally without fuss.

Short / medium trips: e-bike

Long trips: rent a very high-end car. This whole industry can be improved so much. I think a lot more people will fall into this category as micro-mobility takes off. I want to splurge on a fancy car for a week, not own one.

Medium trips / hauling cargo: ??

If I were to buy a car again I think it'd be a pick-up to haul things.
Wife and I use the same account. What do I do?
Getting through the age quiz as a kid was almost as fun as playing the game.
You could use actual distances with speed, or seconds behind. Either one can be an appropriate measurement and are used in things like Driver Ed courses.

Car length may be variable, but is colloquially understood to be 15' give or take, but not more than 20'.
Everybody who ever wrecks a car has "never wrecked a car yet" right up to that point.
https://c19ivm.org/ - 83% average prophylaxis.

Which of the 93 studies do you have trouble with, what specifically in each of those studies, and how much does that change the numbers/conclusions such as 83% average prophylasxis rate?
Donkey Kong 64 had the original arcade Donkey Kong.
Aliens movies are similar!
My family figured out that you could consistently stump those by guessing "poop". Apparently they can't guess that.
Manufacturing these rigs and building infrastructure also results in CO2 emissions.

Why not simply prohibit proof-of-work coins and be done with it? There are so many disadvantages and no benefits, it seems.
Except, no one wants to get doxxed.
This is awesome! I love all the logos. A few more if you want to add -

WUSB https://www.wusb.fm/

WSOU https://www.wsou.net/

WNYU https://wnyu.org/

WKCR https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/
> Since WMF really cranked their fundraising popups into high gear ~6 weeks ago

WMF cranks their popups every year around this time. I haven't found them to be any more obtrusive this year than every other year.

> The critique is about how the WMF does very little of the actual work in running Wikipedia

That's fair, I just disagree with the critique's I've heard. Most commentators are taking what I consider to be a very narrow view of what it means to "run Wikipedia."
IMO, the product is useless then. The cost of developing the feature is developing the actual feature, not testing it. A/B-testing is a no-cost these days; you create two branches, and then deploy it with a 5/95 (or whatever) balancing.
Yeah, like everyone that dives with GUE, I plan my dives and dive tables and a bottom timer.
Yeah I was planning to buy no more Apple products but they do something really right with the Watch and the iPhone. If you've ever been in a situation where you need help it turns out it's on the practical side not so easy
And after that they kept investigating right? Prosecuted his clients and backers, right? Right?
I think that’s right, it’s a double edged sword. You would have to ask if you’re more likely to be wrongly accused or to be caught doing something wrong by your own recordings.

This guy has been recording himself publicly since 2002 after ending up on a no fly list.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_M._Elahi

I think that’s taking it too far and would rather encrypt than publish it publicly, but doing it publicly does strengthen the alibi
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm has always been my go to for this aspect of the Pacific theater.

> "The United States built more merchant shipping in the first four and a half months of 1943 than Japan put in the water in seven years."
Indeed. I'm genuinely baffled that anyone would care enough to mention it given how common an idiom it is. When did this so-called 'cat abuse' rise to the level of 'I must chastise this person for their sin'?
Why does the browser need a window manager then? You can run each "app" in its own window.
I'm not sure why you would think avoiding assholes creates a huge false negative risk. Our process filters for jerks and I'd estimate that accounts for maybe 5% of total post-screen rejections.