skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrency crash will hopefully bring expectations back in line with reality. Legit blockchain projects will only have to deal with the stigma from being associated with a giant pump and dump when they approach VCs.
how is it possible that the staff of TGx allows info about their operation to be published and not worry about feds?
Bitcoin still has a $77B market cap. This is bigger than many well-known and long-living companies. Let's be real - Bitcoin still has a long way to drop.
> What's the purpose of that article?

I stopped watching cryptocurrency prices about a year ago. The novelty wore off. These articles say “hey, that thing you forgot about is doing something interesting—give it a minute.”
Still down 78% since December 2017.

What's your point?
Oh yes, others had the visions earlier, but my point was that it wasn't a mainstream viewpoint until much later.
Because I have never found the topic at all disturbing, a lot of zoos have come out to me (two on hacker news, even!). As a result, really terrible arguments about this topic, pro and con, are something I’ve seen far too much of.

The topic of consent also ties in with one of my AI philosophy interests: what counts as a mind capable of being wronged.

I don’t know the answer. Suffering? What is that, though? We can all make something that looks like it’s suffering but is really just a video recorder of ourselves acting. Worse, on the other hand, we probably literally cannot percieve all forms of suffering: the squeaking of a dog toy is mimicking the sound of a rodent suffering, why would we be better, why would we have evolved to recognise the pain in our prey?

I don’t know where the capacity to suffer begins or ends, if it’s binary or shades of grey.

That’s why I’m vegetarian (nothing weirder to me than someone chomping down on a beef burger while they say cows can’t consent), and I would be vegan if I had more self control. Doesn’t mean it’s wrong to eat meat —again, I don’t know if they can suffer, I’d just rather needlessly restrict my diet than make the other error. Pascal’s Wager for animal welfare, if you will.

And on the topic of bad arguments, noticing that hypocrisy doesn’t make the sexual act okay: if they’re able to suffer, meat is bad and consent becomes necessary.

If someone comes out to me, the moral code I apply is “can that particular animal win a fight with you if they wanted to?” (it would be “are they enthusiastic?” but I don’t know how to judge that, especially second hand). This generally changes the anti-argument from consent to informed consent, which brings up the spectacular everyone’s-a-failure counterpoint that interspecies STDs just don’t seem to have any research, (gee, I wonder why :P) so even the humans can’t give informed consent.
How does open source changes anything in that situation? You think that open source people would care less about code style and framework tooling?
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>the trigger for the latest sell-off is unclear

What I think has happened, a stop loss order of a big actor was hit by a random small move and that started a chain reaction. Totally possible.
I think I was pretty clear in the article - I absolutely support FOSS. The point of the article was to debunk some of the perceived "evils" of proprietary software. It's not a zero sum game - FOSS vs Proprietary. Rather they can support each other.
Firefox runs cool on my bottom of the range, pre-2018 Air, with a few exceptions: Slack, the new Gmail (not classic). The new Gmail interface pushed me back to the old days of native IMAP clients, and Slack runs hot on Chrome so I'm between a rock and a hard place there.

Furthermore, we're discussing a major con of using Chrome in this thread, so I'd be happy to take a minor trade-off or two to avoid that (especially if that trade-off is partly down to Google crippling their own service perf-wise in non-Google browsers).

What kind of sites are taxing Firefox other than the well-known offenders? Given you're on Pro and I've no issues with an Air, it's likely a GPU issue that could be remedied with some config tweaks.
You're right, a "store of value" product being down almost 80% in the past 11 months is completely normal and not at all newsworthy.
Frames per second.
> If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering it for free. We die. And I do worry about my bank balance.

The author is fearful of not making money if his code is open source. The rest of the article seems like a justification-wrapper around this. I am not saying that this an unjustified fear but that it doesn't seem to be tackled-on directly. Is there any alternate reality where Hiri could be making money while having their product open source?

It seems to work for Travis CI and Sentry where their product has an infrastructure component attached to it.
Bojack Horseman does a similar thing for Hollywood. It focuses on the shallowness of Hollywood culture and its effects on the people living in it though, so it swings from hilarious to extremely dark all the time.
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They really need to just let it go.
Just because a bubble pops doesn't mean it's useless or dead. Many bubbles pop in the real world, they always recover.
> Chris Lattner tried to open source for the sake of OSS, with LLVM and Swift, but he left.

Maybe there's some history here that I'm missing: but it looks like LLVM and Swift are open source. Did Chris have any trouble open-sourcing them? Was the reason for his departure related to that?
Exactly one year ago btc price was heading to the moon.
Using cryptocurrency for property transactions
Ive read and attended some briefings for an upcoming crypto-platform for property transactions. Anyone has any familiarity with this?
Reddit heard plenty before 1000$

I was there the week it was released. Lost 100 bitcoins to a hard drive crash and never looked back. They use to literally hand them out like candy. Mt gox happened and I never took it seriously ever again.
And still, even on HN, the discussion of cryptocurrency is oscillating between totally different axioms?

Some of us speak as prophetic market analysts and bring up "nails in coffins" and other crystal ball bull shit, and some of us wonder about the technology itself and understand that the price against the dollar only matters to gamblers.
> where do morals come into play here?

I want to be able to check whether the software does anything harmful for me, and to be able to fix it and adapt it to my needs. Proprietary software effectively curtails the possibility of doing that.

Say I am allergic to nuts. Fortunately, when I buy some processed food I can check easily whether it has nuts or not. Now imagine living in a world where food makers sneakily put nuts in their products, in order to "enhance the user experience". And not only that, but they took great efforts to hide this information from the consumers. After all, most people are not allergic, so no big deal here. I would say that this is immoral.
> We're in the business of Fiat > Crypto > Fiat instant money transfers

Moving in and out of crypto is not instantaneous. You might move cash before confirmations are in, in which case you’re taking on credit risk, but you’ll still be losing money on your collateral’s value falling.
What would be normal behavior?
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Trading volume has dropped significantly over the last 6 months. Large holders have been patient waiting for new money to enter the market. Eventually, when the only activity is a few automated traders and the exchange liquidity provider, large holders are faced with opportunity costs of investing in something else and the limited liquidity the market can absorb as they exit. It's a domino effect as they see each other wiping the liquidity off the books as they market sell. No one wants to be the last one holding the bag.
the recent fork/shit show within the bitcoincash camp (im not getting into this debate just an observation) resulting in 2 forks and split in hash power. the camps being btcsv and btcacb. yes those are their real names, and I think they're all stupid
I knew someone who's father developed one in their 50's. It is bizarre.
As a developer who does not need to seek work, due to well known previous work, I am dismayed as my friends are unable to acquire staff positions and are all "disposable workers" - long term freelance with no benefits.

That last quote on Truth is quite damning.
It's interesting that transactions have been steadily increasing since the crash at the end of 2017, even as the price keeps falling: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactions.ht...

That to me is definitely a good sign. Less hoarding, more spending. I do wonder what happens if the network starts to get transaction-bottlenecked again. It's not like all the problems with block size suddenly went away.
I wonder how this mainframe compares with a similarly priced x86-based server rack running Linux.
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The problem is that all that computing power still exists. If the hashrate drops, then a 51% attack becomes possible.

Remember that those mining farms still exist, even if they've temporarily turned off their mining equipment. Someone can turn all that equipment on suddenly to attack the network and start double-spending their coins.

In effect: the hashrate MUST remain high if the BTC network is to remain secure. That's just how Bitcoin was designed. A big drop like this where "good" miners start to turn off and sell off their equipment puts BTC in a highly vulnerable spot.

The electricity usage will remain high, OR a 51% attack will happen. The electricity usage can never drop without severe risk to the entire system.
Ever heard of BitConnect?
I didn't check this out but what made me respect IBM was their cell (PS3) processor. Very well thought design and ahead of time. Shame it was hard to program.
At $4 I was trying to explain to my professor that my capstone project wasn't based on drug money.
Next step is software allowing one user to assign tasks (emails) to another and which keeps one thread per customer. https://frontapp.com/, https://missiveapp.com/, https://www.intercom.com/inbox and such.
If you use Postgres, CTEs are optimization boundaries that make temp tables - you may end up inlining the CTEs or making them into regular temp tables so you can put indexes on them.
If FOSS is important to you, it should absolutely be a factor in your decision. And of course, people can choose whatever they want. I'm OK with that (although I don't agree with it) as long as it only affects you. If your decision affects others and inhibits their ability to work efficiently, then I think you can justifiably be criticised.
Being an order of magnitude cheaper would be compelling to these same companies though.
> Again, Mr Incredible is a superhero, I'm sure he can manage.

Being physically strong enough to lift a car doesn't really help that much in the parenting front.

As a parent, seeing him struggle with stuff like Common Core math was extremely relatable, and that's what Pixar excels at - fantastical stories about things real people are going through. Up dealt with loss and infertility. Toy Story dealt with growing up. Incredibles deals with trust and family.
Silk Road had been talked about plenty in the mainstream media before it even hit $50.
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As a software developer ones job is to edit code. The way to get paid for that are to fix things that are broken or add features. While support can be viable, good software should "just work" and not need support. Any other business model is simply trying to collect rent. An effort to "monetize" the software is an effort to collect money from its existence rather than doing work on it.

I couldn't really find the point to this guys blog other than he doesn't like people with extreme views because they conflict with his own. He like the world created by those people though.

There was this gem:

>> The main challenge remains getting the word out. Unfortunately, the fundamentalist FOSS mentality we encountered on Reddit is still alive and well. Some Linux blogs and Podcasts simply won’t give us the time of day. This is not a problem with the mainstream tech blogs and is a problem unique to Linux.

I'm not even sure why it's a problem. Not every tech blog or podcast wants to promote his product - OK. But why is that problem? He's just unhappy that people exist that don't want what he's selling. Welcome to planet earth dude.

The original piece also has this:

>> The more obvious fragmentation problem is still a barrier to success. Snaps don’t cover some well known distros — Redhat, CentOS and Gentoo to name a few.

Said the guy writing an email client for Microsoft Exchange. He's actually making a living filling a gap caused by fragmentation and claims fragmentation is a problem.

He's just whining. As am I.
It's called I Hate Music. [0] I really enjoy it, and I think some folks around here would, too, but I'm really a poor barometer of what others might enjoy. My assessment is also maybe a bit clouded by my affection for the guy.

[0] https://hatepod.podbean.com
Hi HN! I made Blogsend.io.

It's a way for blog owners to handle emailing their readers automatically whenever they make a post. I built this because I actually needed it first, but decided to try it out as a product as well.

Technically it's not terribly complicated – it has a widget which collects emails of your subscribers and it listens to your RSS feed and emails those people when you post. The goal is to make it as hands-off and hassle-free as possible to email out your content to your readers.

Built it in Node.js and Postgres, with Bulma providing the CSS defaults. I vowed to move fast in this project and to that end I decided to stay away from frontend frameworks and build the old fashioned way, with <form> tags! It was actually super fun. I've had my hands on React, Vue, Angular and Ember before, and in all of them I actually never really felt as if it felt as natural as this approach.

Anyways, I'd love to hear any feedback you might have :)
If I asked my mother what Reddit is right now, she'd have no idea what I was saying.
I remember looking at the price of Bitcoin when it was $23, $250 and $400. I didn't have any money, so I couldn't buy, but still fun to think about 10x-ing my current bank account.

To be completely honest, even if I did have money, I wouldn't have bought. The price used to go up and down by 10% like daily. At that point it feels like gambling.
I learned of it from this very website when it was 2.3$
I agree this is the market correction I've been waiting on.
Consulting is not an "area". You are supposed to specialize in some area and accumulate specialized expertize in it first before you can become a consultant anybody would be interested to consult to. Isn't this so?
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Has anyone come up with a use case for blockchains yet, that isn't buying illegal drugs or money laundering?

I keep seeing pie in the sky hypotheticals like "supply chain trust" from people who think farmers are etching their cucumbers with serial numbers, but I've yet to see any use case presented for a blockchain that has real utility and isn't better solved by existing processes or systems.
This is very very very old (not the link, but SSSS). I wonder why did it pop in HN today.
You really can't. The 85kWh Model S battery pack is more than 500kg.
I can't swear that it's the cause, but it looks like expectations have changed around whether ICOs would be required to classify themselves as securities: https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1064714421061255168

This has been obvious to everyone paying attention for a long time, but most people in this market are there because they don't pay attention.
They don’t always recover. It’s hard to recover when you are a commodity that doesn’t have any inherent utility other than being a method for completing transactions.

Also - Tulips.
Yes? Nothing I said links MPEG-LA to MPEG, and my other comments specifically make the point that they're unrelated.
This is such an out there article, I'm not surprised at the lack of comments. I suspect very few want to comment and possibly be associated with zoophila. It did remind me of a site I stumbled upon in the 90's possibly later describing in a fairly clinical manner how to have sex with a dolphin. It is not graphic at all, but definately NSFW. Not Safe For Work! https://web.archive.org/web/20040131140419/http://www.dolphi...
I'm not attracted to dolphins, but my purient interests found the site interesting and amusing.
Era of Non-international Internet (or Non-worldwide World Wide Web) coming...
If you liked this, you may also like "Am I autistic? An intellectual autobiography"[0] by Karl Friston. It doesn't go into his free energy idea at all, but is more about the person behind the idea. My favourite line "I remember being asked [by an educational psychologist] whether I thought the puppets in Thunderbirds ever got hungry".

[0] https://www.aliusresearch.org/uploads/9/1/6/0/91600416/frist...
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yeah just volatility in a relatively new market, I expect 10,000 by February
That will be the test for Bitcoin, can it survive a "popped bubble"?

Stocks normally don't survive, unless there's something of value in the company behind it. Bitcoin doesn't have anything of value behind it, and it's easily replaceable by other currencies. If the value drops to something like 5 cents per Bitcoin, or even just a few dollars, you have to wonder if people won't abandon their wallets over time.
My guess is the mainframe would lose the CPU benchmarks and win the IO benchmarks.
> These people are not aliens, they're fellow Americans, or French or Japanese or wherever you're from.

Unless they're a threat that needs its "ass kicked", of course. Which is an euphemism for killing them dead. But that's somehow not worse than simply critizing people, wanting them to be more alive, by connecting their deeds and the consequences of those deeds?

Any teenager can realize this: Militaries only positive use is to defend against other militaries, it's like a debugger that can only debug bugs in itself, but it can also be used to slaughter civilians, and does that quite a bit too much already.

> They don't get to start wars, the politicans you vote for do.

Then how come George Bush wasn't booed of that aircraft carrier when he declared mission accomplished? If you want respect, if you don't want to be ashamed, don't get caught in situations like that. If you want respect, instead of shame, by the time something like Abu Ghraib reaches the public it should include details about the ruckus that caused in the military, and how people got beaten up by their comrades for partaking in the torture of people, long before the police could get to them. And so on. Instead, we get these uncanny valley stories about honor and duty and whatnot, by people who don't quite remember what being human is, but also can't quite leave humans alone so they can find a solution for this mess.

When I opted against military service I didn't just say no, I wrote them a kinda fiery letter. If 19 year old me can do that, others can do it, too. But now I don't even get to criticize the military because I'm not in it, because they "volunteered to defend me"? Nah. I see the ads for the Bundeswehr, they volunteered because they're not right in the head if they responded to any of that. They want power, importance, comraderie. Anything BUT personal deep responsibility, which is why all the promotional material is about how joining the army is "stepping up", just like you repeat the old chestnut of the military protecting us, rather than leeching off and killing us. By "us" I mean humans, not $country, since as I said out that country stuff cancels itself out.

If people want respect, let them be respectable. If they do shameful shit, they get shamed. If you are for the swift elimination of threats you should welcome that.

And yes, I do feel for soldiers, I just hide it very well. The thought of kids getting sent off to be made murderers for the protection of the wealth of people who couldn't give a shit about them, that doesn't make me think "serves them right", it breaks my heart. But that doesn't mean I buy into all those rationalizions that always get trotted out. They don't hold up, and at at this level of technology we simply cannot allow that level of foolishness anymore.
"You're not going to see that happen again."

I've heard that during the last 4 bear markets. Give it some years it always comes back stronger to absorb fresh money
> No, it is almost certainly related to the network split,

Please explain how turbulence in BCH affects Bitcoin and Ethereum.

BCH is a totally different coin, on a different blockchain, with a far smaller market cap than the "big boys" BTC or ETH. Its a poor explanation at best. Its the only thing that correlates to the drop, but it doesn't make sense as an explanation.
At $10k, car service mechanics were buying into random cryptocoins. Nobody understood them, everyone just wanted to get rich. A speculative asset, not a currency.
You mean the fact that it can be split ad infinitum and new bit coin like currencies with much better properties can be had at the drop of a hat by any dude or dudette in his-her den?
I’m not the one who posted it, but based on the number of folks who I’ve talked to unaware of SSSS, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone recently learned and decided to share the knowledge.
That's really silly and a sign of how overblown this story has become (in some contexts). You would have been fine. When a system like the NYC Subway gets 20% worse for everyday commuters, that's a really big deal and something those commuters are going to talk about a lot. But a NYC Subway that's 20% worse than it was 10 years ago is still a massive, complex, incredible, useful machine, no matter how much New Yorkers complain about it.

And, so, should they complain? Yeah! There's nothing wrong with expecting more from the MTA. But these stories are generating comments like yours here and that's absurd.
He succeeded at open sourcing those two projects. Not sure why he left, but other than WebKit, which was probably a defense against Microsoft and IE, don’t think anything else can come out of Apple.
> Turning things around will require a huge infusion of cash

I keep hearing this with zero justification. Why? I’m sceptical of New York’s public agencies asking for lots of cash. I assume there are legitimate projects, but the MTA has been horrible at showing the public this demanded money will be well spent.
What I wonder is why BTC is still the main "entry point" for acquiring crypto with fiat. Having so few ways to trade crypto for fiat, and so few ways to spend crypto, means that the various cryptocurrency markets are highly correlated. It's a bad situation for cryptocurrency as a whole.
Thanks for the suggestion! Got a copy of his V. - not bad at all, and does not seem more difficult than, say, F.S.Fitzgerald or J.C.Wright...
Ongoing concerns about Tether can't have helped.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/bitcoin-r...

> As Bitcoin plunges, the U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether last year’s epic rally was fueled in part by manipulation, with traders driving it up with Tether -- a popular but controversial digital token.

> While federal prosecutors opened a broad criminal probe into cryptocurrencies months ago, they’ve recently homed in on suspicions that a tangled web involving Bitcoin, Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex might have been used to illegally move prices, said three people familiar with the matter.
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>> This was two years ago and I think I'd be over it by now.

The more I think about it, this was written for marketing purposes. He doesn't really make a point. It just draws more attention to the product.