skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the free version is currently wide spread, and forcing payment means lots of districts will have to justify additional costs in their budget. With Europeans increasingly disgruntled at US companies at least some of these districts will find or make due with alternatives. This has macrolevel effects.
The is the point I am making that you refuse to understand: You don't have to trick the clients, you have to trick the people; one way you might trick the people is with bogus software.[0]

Consider that Tether is obviously a scam but continues unabated to this day. Better tooling is not going to fix the problems you think it will, because the incentives are all stacked toward dishonesty and fraud.

[0] - https://insidebitcoins.com/news/scammers-are-using-fake-wall...
Did we have 5 Enrons within 6 months of each other though? These things are an exception in traditional finance, but they seem to be the norm with crypto.
you could replace one 2000m^2 mansion with a Singapore-style skyscraper and create 2000+ new 1-bedroom apartments ...
apparently most french schools
I wish they would define "correct" at the start.
All of your unquestioned cultural norms and biases.

Everything your parents, your family; your community and your society taught you.

The heuristics that keep you navigating life without having to scrutinize every single choice from first principles.
>enables the microphone

The microphone is always listening, waiting for the wake word. If it can discern a wake word, it can speech-to-text everything (or will be able very soon), good luck noticing your daily <10kb of compressed text in what it sends up.

And this camera is a security camera, it's designed to send up video and audio 24/7.
How many accidents like this has Tesla been involved in?

I have a feeling a traditional manufacturer like Toyota would have been sued to bankruptcy after 3-4 accidents like this.

Edit: had to look this up. According to nypost "Of the 18 fatal crashes reported since July 2021 that had to do with driver assistance systems, nearly all involved Tesla vehicles." https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/data-likely-shows-teslas-on-au...
Then the banks have solved the double-spending problem, so in effect there isn't one.

I was asking the question because if double-spending has been solved, then why do we need crypto/blockchain?
>30 year open mouth beard consumers and wanted to 'blow their minds' with

No one said anything about blowing minds.

>But because it is planned to drag on

Unfortunately all shows are infected with this garbage. You end up grading this stuff relatively on a spectrum (“don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” etc) . This the “ads” of the streaming era. It is so ubiquitous people either build a tolerance, tune-out during the interval, or stop watching tv all together in protest.

>to make baby men feel more sophisticated while hooking them into consistently watching

A more sophisticated show with better writing and actors would indeed make people feel more sophisticated…yes. If, to take another example, somebody pitched me “Better Call Saul, but in space,” I’d probably watch that as well. Frankly, Dune is more a children’s movie than Andor, so you might as well say that 25-40 year olds have no business amusing themselves with science fantasy or sci-fi at all.

The litmus test for this seems to be: Make the exact same scifi show (space etc) but without the Star Wars branding. Will it be considered a children’s move? My answer in this case, no. Will it still be decent? Yes it would.

Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan are all magnitudes more juvenile than this attempt.

A quasi-spoiler perhaps, but I personally find it hilarious that a subplot involves a workers revolt in what could be a Tesla gigafactory 20 years from now…in a tv show produced by Disney.
>>My original point was to address the idea that we shouldn't be allowed to criticise a regime that commits abuses against people because our own nation did something in the past.

Not past, those nations that are lecturing on morals are themselves accused of far worse as we speak. Either way if you are a net beneficiary(which you obviously are, as you are a UK citizen) of your ancestors having did all this, you have NO moral rights to lecture others. Or pay reparations and then speak.

>>I'm from the UK

Honestly, I think you really should lecture your own countrymen on countless things you guys continue to do till date. Iraq/Afghanistan is a strong example, but what happened after Arab Spring is another one. Whole countries flattened to the ground, because your prime minister apparently doesn't have good english reading/comprehension skills to read a simple report about the presence/absence of weapons in Iraq.

And for heaven's sake you are a democracy, which means you(the people) and only you(the people) are responsible for all the mess your government does(in your name).

Of all the ills that plague the world, not having the independence to drink beer for three hours isn't even in the vicinity of destroying whole countries. So please.
it was half way an outright scam, but we built a database of parts and their suppliers for an otherwise unprovided for market in the US. That database alone was worth the cost (the new place got rid of the company and just used the database + domain names.)
>How do I go about finding a good analyst then? Are those some of the Twitter names you listed

Mine was through referral of a friend. Dumb luck. I’ve heard you can also find them by contacting a local psychoanalytic institute. Seems like the American psychoanalytic institute has a website for finding them as well. [1] On twitter,Jonathan Shedler is in the Bay Area and obviously nyctherapist is in nyc, they are both analysts, it’s possible they could refer as well (no clue). If you’re in NYC you’re in luck because analysts (at least used to) occupy many of the offices near Central Park. I used to find therapists through psychology today, but I think analysts are harder to find there. Asking for a referral from someone you find there might be good too.

In my opinion credentials (MD, PsyD, PhD) and age (within reason) seem like good signs. Proxies for experience.

Oh also, it could be worth explicitly asking the person if they are practicing psychoanalysis specifically. There are a lot of varieties of therapy. Sometimes therapists seem to list themselves as psychoanalytic (or psychodynamic) when they aren’t analysts.

>How long did take you before you felt you were making some progress.

Hm. It’s a little tricky to tease apart. When I started I was so desperate to get better that I would think anything was progress. Which is to say I felt like things were improving immediately, but I think the deeper kinds of progress actually came later. Psychoanalysis is after real psychological change. I think the changes I have experienced have come from slowly but deliberately picking apart these masses of feeling inside me, and have come over the course of months and years rather than days and weeks. I got into a (different) relationship after perhaps 5ish months. Getting into a relationship was not an explicit goal to me when I started, but I was so isolating that I think that’s indication of some genuine change. I know that by now I have changed quite a lot. It’s been about 5 years.

In any case, if you do pursue it, good luck! I’ve found it deeply enriching. It’s great for my curiosity, and I think there’s even a sense of adventure to it (going to depths of the mind that are no where else allowed)

[1] https://apsa.org/find-an-analyst
"Not your keys, not your coins" is being repeated AD NAUSEAM because you should NOT trust crypto exchanges for anything but purchasing the coins and IMMEDIATELY taking the coins out.

And the whole point of Proof of Reserve is exactly to avoid another stable coin fiasco. Every single person in crypto knows Tether is bound to explode as it's not backed by anything. With PoR you don't have to trust anyone, as it's cryptographically ensured the money is there.

And PoW, PoS are several orders of magnitude harder to exploit than a single centralized exchange. There is still a baseline of trust, but that baseline is beyond what any exchange could possibly reach by virtue of it being public and decentralized. Any malicious activity is much harder to execute and much easier to detect than any malicious activity operated by an opaque black box company. (see: FTX -> Alameda)
It's an irrelevant whataboutism attempting to use emotions to convince people that abandoning an ally to conquest and cultural genocide is the "moral thing to do." Coupled with ignorant populism to boot.

It's evil.
Note that “many” doesn’t mean “all”.

And expand your horizons outside of one country as the US doesn’t represent all of the human race. The epidemic of obesity and diabetes is mostly an American phenomenon.
Just tried this, as a longtime ambient electronic fan I totally understand what brought me there. Instant calm for my noisy mind using:

play -c 2 --null synth brownnoise reverb bass 10 treble -6

Diagnosed around 40, concerta helps with focus but does not provide a calming effect.

Thanks for this eye opener!

`Brew install sox` for those wondering how to get this working on macos.
> in 1994 when the Apartheid government handed over power to the ANC, basically everything the government had in the pipeline was scrapped

It's worth noting that under the Apartheid government energy in SA was completely dependant on the state [1]. Then towards the end of Apartheid, due to sanctions - among other things, the government basically had to default on its debt causing the national currency, the Rand, to go into a bit of a tail-spin. To cover their expenses the old government took out a loan from the IMF just before handing over power [2]. These loans often come with commitments to reduce government expenditure, amounting to basically an austerity programme.

I assume that is one of the main reasons that many of the promises of both the old government and the incoming ANC had to be scraped and replaced with essentially what amounted to series of austerity measures [3]. In 2020 the government once again took on a loan from the IMF, again with austerity conditions attached... and here we are, with a vaguely stable currency but a gradually failing economy.

[1] I assume as basically a subsidy for the mining sector.

[2] https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extrans1.aspx?member...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_welfare_programmes_in_S...
But what's the point? Having Coinbase or some exchange like that handle your money or having a bank handle your money. Wherein lies the difference?

You prefer to have an encrypted number in your pocket which only Coinbase can access over an encrypted number at a regular bank's server?
Read carefully and compare the related sentences. For example:

> They make you depend solely on others within the community for your every need...

Is followed by:

> We have partnerships with organizations that can connect you to schooling, work, housing, and medical care...
>The ultimate long-term goal is to remove the need for such entities

But replace with what? With people like Vitalik? He seems to be an influential figure and calling the shots. How is this in any way different than a "normal" company with a CEO and a board?
Does a sermon instantly make it bad? Is Captain America: Winter Soldier a sermon? To me its a pretty clear stance against drone strikes and general over-securitizing(?) Of society, and I thought that was fantastic movie and message.

Let's go further back to any of the old Disney films, came from fables, moral tales of old. In fact what piece of media outside of the most boring and bland ever
are not a tale to learn, think or expand your thoughts? Is that not a sermon?
> IPFS has `nocopy` option for quite some time now, which avoids copying.

Oh, didn't find about that one. Thanks!

> Of course you are expecting other people to mirror this stuff, and naturally that will generate some traffic. How is this not a problem with web mirrors or torrents?

I mean, if I put a book archive on the web, I'd expect the vast majority of people to just grab whichever book they were interested in. Mirroring is a possibility, but a non-trivial thing to accomplish, and can be discouraged.

Meanwhile, on IPFS I'd expect a much higher likelihood of somebody trying to replicate the whole archive, so one would do well to keep that in mind and to be prepared for it.
> you gradually lose money over time

As opposed to crypto where you lose it rather quickly[1]

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/
In my experience JS autocomplete in IntelliJ isn't better, it just shows more stuff. Most of it unrelated and won't work / will be `undefined` if chosen.

It does, however, teach junior developers that the autocomplete is unreliable, which is a good thing I guess — I've seen juniors in statically typed languages like Java fail coding interviews because they couldn't remember any of the syntax, the knowledge was contained in the autocomplete and didn't transfer to a whiteboard.
This isn’t a Mersenne prime.

https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/2002-71-238/S0025-5718-01-... says “The Repunit R49081 = (10⁴⁹⁰⁸¹ − 1)/9 is a probable prime.”, so we’re talking numbers that get written as all ones in decimal, not binary.
zk'ing machine learning. hide the inputs for privacy.

https://0xparc.org/blog have a bunch of cool things like https://www.heyanon.xyz/

also the S part being succinct is useful without the zk parts too!
To be fair, Amazon didn't hit their stride as a retailer until the 2000s, roughly 20 years after the internet's "big bang" date.

And while we're 14 years into distributed ledger technology, we're only 7 years into turing-complete distributed ledger technology, which I would argue is the actual innovation.
Dur dir duh, der der der. duh duh duh, dih dih dih dih dih! - Indiana Jones

Duh.. Duh.. Dih dih dir! Dir Di dih dih dir dir du du duh! - Star Trek - Next Gen
So back in 2015/16 when I worked at Facebook somebody asked Mark Z if Twitter was overstaffed. First someone told him how many employees they had, he was shocked and replied that they were definitely over staffed. Obviously anecdotal but given their sales/userbase I think that they have been historically over staffed.
You’re looking at it from a number of implementations perspective.

They’re looking at it as a time to viable product perspective and a ROI.

These are often at odds within engineering , and it makes sense for them to pick their way because they already have a lot of the GL stuff done and it’s a faster route to a viable product.

Again, going for vulkan would mean they’d have to spend significantly more time up front.

You seem to be maximizing for not trying to do work (e.g implementing both Vulkan and OpenGL), but in many cases it’s better to get something stable and workable out.

Basically, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
I consider Bitcoin decentralized; what makes you consider it a facade?
Wait you think junkies don't have an impact on society?
The Marvel movies are awful, but from my understanding, they are made for mass audiences++. That is, they want to make movies that are easy to sell in China and India. That means less dialog because most people don’t want to read lots of subtitles, broad humor because it has to make sense in all cultures and languages, and themes that won’t offend the sensibilities of the various cultures.

The Disney shorts are a good suggestion. I will track them down. Thanks.
Vitalik isn’t running any DEXes, he is not in a position where he can steal or move user funds locked into a DeFi contract. He could suggest a change that might do something malicious at protocol level, but the rest of the developer community would reject it.
This seems disingenuous. If this system wasn't making money for the people developing it, they wouldn't care at all about 'unbanked' people. Because it does, they can use that as a 'but think of the poor oppressed people' as a lever to shut up critics. It reminds me too much of 'think of the children' that gets used whenever someone criticizes a 'we want to own all the decryption keys' system or similar.
Maybe I understand it wrong, but I can't agree with this analogy as is...

An organized home means to do things right away. If the laundry is done and dried, then I'll put them away (organize them) immediately. I don't wait for other things (eg. the dishwasher) that need to be tidied up. If I service my bicycle in one room and leave a mess, then I'll clean it up right away and don't necessarily include other rooms in that cleaning cycle. But on the other hand, if I spot some dust in one room, I'll just grab the hover and go through the whole flat.

Actions can be separate, and so can scope and effort.

I feel a house is best managed when effort and scope are low, so it is in my best interest to keep it that way. If my task becomes the action to tidy my home, then I know something went wrong.
You mean like Terra (Classic) which went from being $1 to being $0?
I find the question interesting and thought-provoking, so very much in the spirit of HN. But I find it distressing that some were quickly to downvote it (without even a discussion?). AFAIK, downvoting on HN is not like Unlike on other social networks. You should downvote only if the comment is irrelevant, nonsensical or violates the community guidelines. The parent comment is in my opinion none of these.
First, the greater community that would "accept" such an audit that is simply proof of on-chain funds is not dumb enough to download some random "Bitcoin wallet" that shows fake numbers for one single company.

Second, the fraud you're alleging Tether is doing is off chain! It's in the fiat world! It's not happening on-chain. Stop blaming a system that literally mathematically precludes fraud (within the system itself, of course).
Verifiable computation. See Pinnochio and RISC Zero.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/279.pdf

https://www.risczero.com/
I (re)wrote a < 1kloc program in it from C++ and I found that it had its good and bad parts, like everything.

But there’s too much overlap with C++ and not enough projects. IMO Rust has proven that it can survive, but by far hasn’t reached enough popularity to justify a switch and keeping two complex yet similar languages in ones head is unwise. So I’d rather focus on Go and Python which actually bring something complementary to the table.
Most people don't even understand asymmetric cryptography 101, how is piling on more math is going to help?
Looks like the website was hugged to death

https://web.archive.org/web/20221120130056/https://hightempi...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/25/auditors-ro...

lol

Crypto is a tool to build a public financial system that minimizes the amount of trust needed. If you invest in DogeSpaceMarsElonCumMakeMeRichInu and lose money, it's not crypto's fault. You STILL have to do your due diligence and invest responsibly.
Why not something like Casio G-SQUAD GBD-100/200 (starts from ~110USD)? Or there are also pricier Garmin Instinct Solar with solar transflective display which should last loong time (since he doesn't mind bulky watch unlike me).

Casio claim to last one year on battery with notifications, Garmin 50+ days as smartwatch.

I wish Casio made something like this (transflective graphic display which can display texts/simple graphic) in F91 form factor with rechargable battery, I wouldn't mind if it last only few months between charges. Currently using Amazfit Bip which I charge once a month.
> Only if your problem exhibits the above property (and it's a distributed system) does using a blockchain make sense.

I think we also need to specify that it's also an extremely distinct and rare type of "distributed": When you must support unrestricted and unlimited creation of new participant nodes.

That's the fundamental requirement that drives an entire cascade of other blockchain design choices, such as proof-of-work to prevent a takeover by sockpuppet-nodes, and mining to incentivize regular consistent participation by a presumed-benign majority. Without that requirement and workarounds, we're left with a kind of regular distributed database, pre-hype technology that already featured hashes and linked-lists.

This requirement ("anybody can become part of the network anonymously") also makes for a great litmus-test for whether you need blockchain.

For example, in national elections we probably don't want/need literally any number of computers anywhere in the world to jump in and deciding what happens based on their CPU power. It would be dramatically faster/easier/safer to simply define a fixed list of nodes, where each state runs a couple plus the federal government, and then rely on the fact that evildoers would have to compromise too many different systems and agencies.
Sometimes I find ambient music to be too dull, but I find music with lyrics too distracting.

But if I listen to music with lyrics in language which I don't speak, then I don't get distracted.

Spanish mambo works well for me. Also I've recently listened to some operas.

Classical music is good and bad. A lot of classical has instruments that I don't like, and some of the music is too erratic for focus.
> can mine bitcoin and store that energy across space and time

I feel that if somebody manages to break the second law of thermodynamics they will get endless Nobel prizes
The curtains are slowly getting pulled aside for the "crypto" ecosystem. Tokens on tokens on centralized or non-scaling systems that generate "yield" without really specifying where the yield comes from. Vitalik is indeed a CEO or CTO for the Ethereum Foundation, which in itself is a cetralized entity calling the shots for the development path, including changes to the emission of ETH.

I fully expect that system to come crashing down in 5-10 year.
If your only business is being an exchange you might not run into any issues if you consider all the decentralized exchanges that are still operating.
The problem arises if you add market maker, trading house, hedge fund, market research, and learn2earn to the mix.
#greedisgood.
"By the time the trigger condition occurs no one’s checking that comment that’s buried god knows where. "

You can make the trigger condition actual code and have it send you an email for example, or log to somewhere where you do check (depending on the project).
I liked the earlier movies, but to me the biggest problem is that they are now all connected and thus all required to watch.
I skipped a bunch of them and had no idea what was happening in the latest Avengers.
There were so many characters popping up that i had no knowledge of and weird sideplots that i hadn't seen. It just ended up confusing and frustrating.
Happen to know a couple of people who have worked with Cummings and Boris.

Cummings seems like a reasonably intelligent guy, if ethically dubious and difficult to work with (putting it mildly). What is shocking is that he looks like a genius when compared to those around him. He has basically read around a bit, thinks for himself, and is open to contrarian ideas. He’s just a reminder of how poor our governance is.

I think the reality is most of our govts are not just incompetent but actively harmful in terms of national interest. Obviously a hard Brexit, which Cameron and Johnson created as a byproduct of their own political schemes, is the greatest symbol of this.
> It seems to me that people should spend their first few hours of driving lessons in a simulator, instead of on the road

Nobody should be driving on a public road in traffic in the first few hours of learning to drive. They should start in a parking lot or some private road or closed circuit.

Driving simulators are probably not popular because cars are inexpensive and readily available, making simulation unnecessary.

You're not backing your argument with data showing that drivers who are learning are actually a safety problem or a frequent impediment to traffic.

The "Less scary" argument falls flat. All drivers should probably be more scared than they are. One of the main requirements in a simulator ought to be that it reproduces the same fear as the real thing.