skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of us in the BC is digital money camp argued the case that more transactions and a lower transaction fee could be most easily implemented, within the spirit of the founders intent, if we simply increased the size of the transaction buffer, mitigating an obvious bottleneck.

We argued against the complexity of SegWit and Lightning Network.

I think greed and politics won rather than engineering or economics good sense - people didnt want cheaper transactions, it now costs around $15 USD per BTC transaction.

Despite the proliferation of alt-coins using essentially the same code-base, with shorter block-times and larger buffers.. and more programmability - ultimately proof-of-stake might be a better implementation of the block minting process, than proof-of-work.
This is basically what Cap'n Proto does, and it uses offsets instead of pointers so that way the mmapped data can be used as-is.
Face pulls counteract slouched shoulders
Trump warns of doubling tax rates on foreign nationals and firms in the US
Is anyone surprised? It's not like it was a secret, and a majority of voters still voted this government in.
Maybe most thought it'll be better for inflation and chose to ignore or belittle the crazy. It seems we're getting the crazy now - and not, yet anyway, a single action of inflation.
Yeah the rest of us can continue geeking out over layered network protocol design and technologies like Lightning or Liquid. There is so much going on under the hood but it is so much easier to take the piss and learn nothing. That is no surprise, with the current state of the world.
water is wet. truth is truth.
Could someone please cite for me in plain english what has transpired in the last 48 hours?
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Because they're broke.
Pretty hilarious to think that a $1.8bn business is "searching for a problem".

And given the frosty working relationship between federal and state agencies I am sympathetic to the idea that a private company would be able to deliver a better solution.
I don't think this is accurate, looking at it from outside. I mean, yeah, they both want to end up sitting on the billionaires yacht.

But one side wants to do that while looking out over a fascist dictatorship.

The other side has some weird idea that the billionaires will use their wealth to create a good life for everyone else too. Even though the term went out of fashion, it's still trickle down economics.

These two sides are not the same. They're both bad, but one is much worse. The last time fascism took hold it took nuclear bombs in Japan and firebombing Dresden to end it.
Transaction fees are because bitcoin is an inherently inefficient system.

Don't get me wrong, satoshi is a genius, but there are severe tradeoffs required to get the properties bitcoin wants.
Your post is the most pathetic attempt of a lie I've ever seen.

We all lived through it. We experienced it. It happened. Go gaslight somewhere else.
It seems like they're calculating the farthest distances where it would be theoretically possible for aliens with Earth level tech to detect us, for various different ways of detection. I'm curious about a related question: At what distance would we likely have been able to detect 'ourselves' with current technology? Ie. if there was another Earth 100 or 1000 light years away, would we have seen it by now? (Assume they are x years ahead so the signals have had time to propagate).

I think it may be a relatively short distance, which could have implications for resolving the Fermi paradox, but I haven't seen any definitive estimates & I'm curious to learn more.
Transaction fees have nothing to do with crypto exchanges (which would probably love them to be lower).
None of those require any personal investment.

I think GP meant something that takes a lot of your personal time to do, while staying unprofitable no matter the skill level. For example, ROM hacks and emulators: they're difficult and time-consuming to create, and they can't be monetized for legal reasons.
Agreed for native skills, yes.
I may give it a spin after finishing this project :)
https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals
Never been to Japan, but AFAIK they used to have trash cans but got rid of them due to a sarin gas terrorist attack in 1995.
And you weak-minded simpletons have to be protected from those dangerous ideas for your own safety. We have to fill your heads with only good thoughts, the ones we select for you. I know this is the stated issue, people won't shut up about it. It's a bunch of bollocks. How China handles their media isn't a blueprint for how we should do it. I wouldn't trust this power in the hands of my parents who love me unconditionally, I sure as hell don't trust this power in the hands of the worst people alive right now. If you're a Republican substitute Nanci Pelosi / AOC.
RealID is not attempting to provide a national ID.
It's kind of funny to compare the Napster lawsuits, Aaron Swartz, DRM campaigns etc with the Ross Ulbricht type cases. Turns out you can download as many cars as you want, just make sure to pad the right politicans running for president.
They are also good for business.
Interesting considering the attempted assassination of Trump. Perhaps he feels that some sunlight could help prevent future assassinations, or maybe he simply feels kinship to these his fallen political peers.
So far, at least one judge seems to think so [1]: "Defendants' actions appear to suffer from infirmities of a constitutional magnitude."

1: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhckndvvb...
That’s all well and good until innocent people get caught in the net. How many thousands of young people are worth incarcerating indefinitely and without legal recourse for the benefit of society at large? Would you throw your own child into the pit if it meant that the happiness and safety of your town was ensured? In the extreme, why not just make every crime carry a death penalty? Would that society be perfect by your measure?

(And that’s before we start dissecting the bribery and corruption of those who wield this power.)
I see. You're right, I assumed the implication because of my original comment. It seems I lost the context of the discussion then.

I'm arguing to defend science because I believe claims of zero emissions when in fact they are not hurts progress both economically and through wear on trust in science.

I appreciate the invitation. Maybe next time I'm in the bay.

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This is genius! Nice work
The bill is political theater and this article is playing into it.

A downloaded model that can be run on US servers is covered by the first amendment as free speech. This is not the same circumstance as the law that required TikTok divest of its platform, which was over spying concerns[0]. You can’t spy on Americans when data is kept on US servers.

0. Per the TikTok Supreme Court ruling:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community. But Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary. For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the challenged provisions do not violate petitioners’ First Amendment rights.
Yes, and I think that was implied already?
Well there's no need to suspect, homicide rates were dropping like a rock before 2021. Perhaps faster than has been achieved by any other social reform on record.
So novel... remind me again what happened to spain in the 16th century?
Also in the justice system, a judge can be racist, and the sentence they give has been show to be related with how hungry they are, etc.

Would I rather be at the whims of how hungry somone is, or a model that can be tested and evaluated.
Just becauase you choose not to understand how government works does not mean it isn't transparent.
This might make sense if the MLK and RFK assassinations weren't also being disclosed, and that without any act of congress.
Yeah ik. But the discontent and conditions leading to this sort of moment would still be there at the end of the term was my point
I too am a fan of mario brothers!
A very convincing confession was published for the first time last month, of someone who alleges to have shot JFK.

https://youtu.be/-8DGv6KSBZI
Stablecoins/CBDCs aren't speculative.
What? Many people just don't think the First Amendment applies to foreign nations. (Why would it??) And that restrictions on corporate control/structure for the US-based parts are not speech issues (e.g. imagine if free speech was a defense against an anti-trust prosecution).

The simplest case for banning TikTok is simple reciprocity. China is no longer a market that needs the level of protectionism they currently have to develop. The second best is data privacy. Just a shame they won't apply the same to US companies yet. And then an additional reason is the one that's being used currently - risk of foreign influence. You'd hate to not ban it "because it hasn't happened yet" just for it to happen in the future. China keeping out US apps seems to have worked out great for their local industry, I'm hardly convinced it wouldn't also be a good thing for US citizens. And with the foreign-country thing tossing Constitutional issues out the window, go nuts.
> NY would need a lot of trash trucks which are only being manufactured outside the US.

Put them on a boat? Or are the legal hurdles to importing so high?
Nordic !== Northern. Educate yourself on the terms you use.
Indeed. There's undoubtably fat to cut all across the board but anybody who decries government spending and waste and doesn't include the DOD as part of that is a hypocrite at best.
> I didn't want to buy a checkbook, stamps, and envelopes just for this one bill.

How much is a checkbook? My bank (FRB, RIP :( ) gave me, for free, like 8 years ago, an enormous box of checks that I have hardly made a dent in.

Domestic postage is like $0.69, envelopes are, what, couple bucks for a box of 50? Amortized over a couple years, you aren’t looking at more than a dollar or two/month.

Either send a bunch of post dated checks at once or set a calendar reminder to send a new one each month. Either way, I don’t really see a market here
He was asked about this by Joe Rogan, his response at there is some concern that some of the people involved was still alive, but now he feels that doesn’t override the need of the families and American people to know.

This post is not political whether you believe or do not believe Trump is up to you.
Obviously not constitutional. The question is what will the two other branches of government do about it?
Wikipedia says he’s a citizen.
The earth was actually cooling starting about 5000 years ago until whenever carbon emissions started having their effect ~100 years ago. Between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago the Sahara was green. I wonder if this is a little taste of what's to come.
does the FBI have anything memorializing Ernest Hemmingway as well? That'd certainly be ironic.
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Since Trumpers only seem to care about theirs and what they can get. In simple terms if Trump is successful it means we are not a nation of laws but a nation of dictates from on high. That is not a stable nation. No one will invest in that nation's stock markets. No one will buy their bonds. No one will use their currency as a reserve currency.
US is a racist country though, at least at the government level. See how BLM and January 6th demonstrations got treated.
It's the same amount of trash either way.

By your calculation, they would get 12 parking spots worth of random small pockets of space back per block. In reality, it would be more than that in usable space, because who want to do anything directly next to a distributed pile of garbage?
I think part of the concern is that Elon Musk is still the CEO of or has strong financial interest in a lot of companies, some of which get government contracts (e.g. SpaceX).

Finding out corruption and inefficiency is fine, but I think a lot of people are skeptical that that's the actual goal of this "advisory board". How likely is it that Elon is going to find anything inefficient about SpaceX? Tesla? What's to stop him from using this data to haggle better deals from the government paying for his projects?

It's entirely possible that SpaceX is efficient enough, but it's still a conflict of interest. I don't think a guy who owns and runs a company that competes on government contracts should be in charge of determining which parts of the government is efficient.
Login.gov is the default idp for the Social Security Administration, supports 200+ federal agencies for identity, and IRS was in the works to onboard Login.gov before this new admin fuckery occurred. They handle over 10 million monthly active users and 40 million monthly sign-ins across nearly 50 agencies and states. Will it still happen? Who knows. id.me will likely IPO based off the ~$130-$150M ARR they have, some folks will get wealthy, and it'll still end up the equivalent of confirming your discount eligibility at Home Depot for veterans.
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For maximum transparency, this could be converted to an OSS repo with source code and vetted citations.
They want transparency but they give small peanuts, are they thinking they can just take llama and then distill other models into it can call it transparent? I’m not sure if they understand how that works
Yes, but he was really bad in some respects, that clashes with his public image/caricature in a way that kind of matters
He voted against the March bill that narrowly focuses on the TikTok issue, but voted for the April bill which also includes foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel. They are not the same bill.

> The decision by House Republicans to include TikTok as part of a larger foreign aid package, a priority for President Joe Biden with broad congressional support for Ukraine and Israel, fast-tracked the ban after an earlier version had stalled in the Senate. A standalone bill with a shorter, six-month selling deadline passed the House in March by an overwhelming bipartisan vote as both Democrats and Republicans voiced national security concerns about the app’s owner, the Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd. (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/possible-u-s-tiktok-ba...)
They may be brilliant engineers, but they’re adults who’ve decided to become enemies of the state.
Duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925782

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in...
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This is true, but it’s much harder to compete against a free government service and that’s not the only option. For example, how much does Intuit’s advertising budget on X have to go up for it to be worth the effort of a few hours? (Repeat for xAI contracts or fleet Tesla purchases)

I don’t know if there is any quid pro quo but that’s why we have ethics laws because otherwise you have to constantly ask whether something is good for the country or just the guy making the decision.
I marched in NYC against the war in Iraq; they didnt care then either.
> The models will be developed within Europe's robust regulatory framework, ensuring alignment with European values while maintaining technological excellence.

translation: weakest competitor in the contest enters the fight with both hands tied behind its back and a budget akin to what OpenAI spends in a week on compute.

But hey, more power to you Europe: the more models around, the better.

Eventually, we'll be able to bind all those censored models worldwide into one giant mixture of expert to get rid of the built-in censorship of each individual component.
People seem to think that:

1. Auto-coups don't exist
2. Coups require tanks on the street
3. Once a coup is started it will succeed.

This is a an auto-coup, where the president is trying to seize power that is not granted by elections, and trying to make the legal system irrelevant. All in the name of urgency and saving the country (we call them "salva patrias" in Spain for a reason). No one can vote for this. Voting a president does not make the president all powerful.

Also, this coup does not need to succeed. We saw this recently in South Korea. This will only succeed if people don't oppose it. Don't believe them when they make you feel like you already lost.

Finally, the game has changed for the supporters of democracy. This is no longer about writing stern worded letters, if you catch my drift.

(references: I was born in a dictatorship and I lived through a failed military coup)
That seems entirely relevant - getting to the bottom of a cryptic and poorly documented puzzle without any help from the contemporaries (in the case of the scrolls, because the are dead, in the case of government employees, because it’s not in their interests).

I write that only half in jest. Maybe less than half.
If you suppose that BTC would be a widely adopted currency, you wouldn't "sell" it, you would simply exchange it for the good or service. But in this case if BTC is deflationary you would still hesitate to spend it. USD is inflationary, so there is hypothetically a small pressure to use it.
Algorithms are the new journalists [video]
> a computer must never make a management decision.

This a little too weak for my taste.

In reality it should read "a computer can't make a management decision". As in the sun can't be prevented from rising, or the law of thermo dynamics can't be broken.

Must implies that you really shoudln't but technically it's feasible. Like "you must not murder".

A computer, like dogs, can't be held accountable; only their owners can.

Edit

If anyone tries to do this they are simply laundering their own accountability.
> They are not physically in control of Taiwan, so no, they haven't "won the war" in that respect.

They won the civil war, just like the vietnamese won their war of independence against france. It's just that china, like vietnam, needs to win another war. The war against the US to fully liberate their nation like vietnam did.

> Not that it matters, because legitimacy of holding territory is not based on winning wars.

Sure it is. It's the wars we won against britain, spain, mexico, japan, etc that gained all our territory. You think spain gave up florida, mexico gave up texas and japan gave up the pacific islands because they were feeling generous? Winning wars is what ultimately decides who owns what. The past 500 years has been europeans winning wars and stealing land all over the world. Actually, all of human history is people taking territory by force. Actually, this also applies to lions, wolves and ants.

The reason china doesn't control taiwan is because they chickened out and decided not to fight the US for taiwan. The chinese should look to india for some inspiration. Know why goa is part of india again? India forcibly took it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa
A "cult" is a rather specific kind of organization. The typical hallmarks are non-mainstream spiritual beliefs, highly controlling and exploitative leadership, and rules against interacting with outsiders. Non-conformity generally results in outsized (sometimes violent) punishment and shame.

Under this definition, for example, Catholic nuns are decidedly not a cult. They know what they are in for when the join, and may leave the convent any time they wish. Most Amish communities are _probably_ not cults. I am undecided about Mormons but leaning towards maybe.

I don't know what kind of cult you grew up in (and you have my empathy if it was painful) but "society" by definition cannot be a cult.
> This is his MO, to claim as victory something that would have happened without him opening his mouth in the first place

We used to call this confirmation bias....
It depends on how bad it is. For example, if it turned out that a Secret Service officer fired a stray round that hit the President then I don't think we're going to see that made public ever.
Also shutting down of federal agencies without Congress approval and getting access to their data:

"Musk on the call also appeared to claim credit for the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development ... though the executive branch’s legal authority to do so without congressional action is highly in doubt, as the agency’s existence is established in law. Trump on Monday said he didn’t need an act of Congress to shut down USAID.

USAID’s homepage has been shut down for days, as is its X account. Dozens of career staff at the agency have been put on leave, and hundreds have been shut out of agency computer systems. Musk aides have gained access to classified USAID information over the objection of agency security personnel, who were subsequently placed on leave, The Associated Press reported."
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The first one is not a big deal, but the second is a kinda weird... I noped-out despite a clean record. I'm done with casual privacy invasion.
> Not in my lifetime

Were you alive in the mid to late 90s? A string of balanced budgets and surpluses. There are new problems and no dot com bubble right now but most Americans were alive the last time we had balanced budgets. It is quite possible.
You can't claim to have "saved" money by destroying programs funded by congress that you have no authority to destroy.

Especially when the long term costs of destroying those programs are going to be enormous.
Tangentially related:

My coworking space is a century old hardware distribution building in Birmingham, AL. It's about a 1-2 miles away from the predominantly African American neighborhood that was constantly bombed in the 50s.

I was told the FBI searched the building a few decades ago in the hopes of finding the rifle used in MLK's assassination.

Birmingham was a wild town for many years!
Yeah this is my read too. This is what people asked for. Elon has shown an affinity for creative destruction of entrenched bureaucracies.

Curious what the red line is for congressional republicans.