skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh?

- It's easy enough to store bitcoin on a hardware wallet and not use an exchange.

- As the world pivots to solar and EV's electricity becomes much less of an issue over time.

- There are significant technological breakthroughs (e.g. Eth 2.0) coming every day in the way of scaling blockchains.
the problem I see, some entitity will dev an algo that will extrapolate between frames using corrolated data from even yet other users' info

so you subject-A at frame 0 then you have suject-A at frame 100

but no data from subject-A between - but you have data from subjects-b-------------j and can track subject-A in such....

extrap, and you have the "zoom and enhance" of surv....
what forced ads? I only know the start menu candy crush stuff, but I remove those first thing after installation.
my (laymans) model/hipothesis how this could work.

There are two groups of people. Latent antibody bombs (on slitghest signal antibodies go from zero to hero) and antibody deserts (where even at late stages of desease only low antibody counts are produced).
Those which easily make antibodies, kill off the virus quick enough to get significantly less side effects compared to the other group.

IF such model would hold, then it would be natural that antibody deserts dont produce much antibodies when reacting to vaccine, so there would be corellation between succeptible to covid mortality and vaccine innefectiveness.
That's not even the real danger. The real danger is that by controlling 51% of the network, authoritarian regimes can block transactions by people they don't like or cause people to accept money that turns out not to exist.
You talking about safety?
Really? You actually repeat yourself again after I just pointed out your repeating yourself?

You: "Capitalism is failing people!"

Me: "Actually, it's enabled much prosperity around the world, so that only a small minority of the world population lives in poverty compared to a few decades ago. For example, here's a YouTube video showing how public perception differs from reality."

You: "Capitalism is failing people!"

Me: "You're not even making an argument. You're just repeating your assertion."

You: "Capitalism is failing these people! You're lashing out at me!"

It sounds like you're trying to convince yourself by sheer repetition.
A huge energy cost most of all https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48853230, so environmental damages (maintenance of those machines, and all hidden pollution behind just the pure electricity consumption)
> Don't keep it on exchange. The real thing that is stopping adoption...

The capital gains tax issue isn't stopping your average person from wanting to use Bitcoin. If we're being honest, how many people would be voluntarily reporting taxes on their Bitcoin purchases anyway? I suspect it would be similar to how many people self-reported the sales tax they owed on out of state online purchases before it was automated: Near zero.

The bottom line is that rational consumers like the features and services offered by traditional banks and credit cards.

If someone steals your credit card and spends a ton of money, you just call up the credit card company and get your money back.

If someone gets access to your Bitcoin wallet and takes all of your Bitcoin, that's it. Game over. Should have had better OPSEC, grandma.

Likewise, people don't want to manage wallet passphrases and key files themselves. They want an exchange to handle the details for them, including as much risk as they can move to the exchange.

The reality is that Bitcoin is still far and away an inferior experience to traditional payment methods. If I pay with Bitcoin, I have to deal with transaction fees and variable network delays and I have zero recourse if the vendor simply steals my money. With a credit card, the bank literally pays me 1-3% to use their credit card, payment is instant, and I can simply call the bank up and reverse charges if something goes wrong.

I don't understand all of these mental gymnastics to explain away Bitcoin's shortcomings for payments.
IMO BTC's relation to inflation in the real economy is the same as any alternative investment like gold - it's usage as a "safe haven".
You’re right, as I’m not aware of any of those telcos have any problem knowing the right person to bill. Odd that the knowledge for that part is perfect ...
Buon anno a tutti i lettori di Hacker News!!
I can understand that this wasn't meant in malice, but still comes off quite distasteful.
2020 is a terrible year, RIP Dumile.
I grew up in Ukraine where my parents were earning and spending hryvna (local currency, high inflation) while saving in USD (much more stable).
And a big value prop in favor of US dollar was its immunity to local country’s politics.

Bitcoin has a potential to serve as that kind of saving “currency” a lot of people actually need.
whats so aweful about the default photos app? how can it be better?
I'm four beers in and it's only 3pm here. It's been that kinda year. Had to stock up before they stop selling liquor at 8pm.

Cheers!!!!

Happy Near Year HN. Hopefully next year sucks less!!!
Re: 1, I don't see conventional currencies working that way.

Has any government promised how and why they will maintain their currency. They supposedly claim they help people why screwing up the very same people. Case in point, the 2008 crisis and the various modern monetary based crises.
That's such an interesting question! I wonder if each FAANG has all of the other FAANG's content indexed behind closed doors.
It doesn't matter how safe an investment is. Uncorrelated alternative assets (metals, crypto, art, etc), when added to your portfolio, lower the total volatility (risk) and boost the risk adjusted returns. You can take a really crappy asset with low returns and high volatility (like gold) and add it to your portfolio to boost your risk adjusted return.

In short, from a quantitative perspective, it never makes sense to look at a security or asset in isolation. Instead one must consider the total portfolio as a whole.

Source: work as a quant trader

tldr: If the question is "does crypto have a place in everyone's portfolio?" The answer is emphatic an "yes". And indeed, we are quickly moving towards a world in which crypto is held by most institutional investors. Even at this early stage, the institutional flows into btc is staggering. And it will only increase with time. From my vantage point as an insider, btc is here to stay. full stop
Sure, but it's a beautiful disaster that's helped explore the space, & both train & incentivize people for various offshoots & successors that will resolve all of Dillinger's concerns, and more.
It's funny because Spanish is my native language and I rarely use the _eñe_ (for us is a whole different letter, not just n+tilde, although is basically the palatalized n. From the always trusty Wikipedia: "Unlike many other letters that use diacritic marks (such as Ü in Catalan, Spanish and German and Ç in Catalan, French and Portuguese), Ñ in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is considered a letter in its own right, has its own name (in Spanish: eñe), and its own place in the alphabet (after N). Historically it came from a doubled N. Its alphabetical independence is similar to the Germanic W, which came from a doubled V. "), my keyboard is in English and I haven't bothered to use the international option for Windows (I know it exists but the first time I tried I didnt succeed and didnt want to waste more time). I just use 'nh' _a la_ Portuguese but from time to time some native Spanish speaker gives me grief because of that, so now I resort to copy/paste when writing an online text that is going to be read by several people.Lame, I know.
Traffic is good, yes. But you don't want them to go to Google first to find their content. They want them to engage more on their platform. Otherwise this will give Google an edge as it allows them to know what kind of content people are interested in by tracking what people view on TikTok or IG.
I didn't say all criminal activity is done via bitcoin. But there are segments of crime like cryptotrojans and CP trading that seem to be almost exclusively bitcoin-based. Others, like internet drug ordering, are at least partially in bitcoin.

Edit: replaced "any" with "all" in the first sentence
I think your assessment is flat out wrong... good people are everywhere and most companies don’t fire folks for cause. There are different problems in civil service government entities, but the number of “below average” employees is usually based in size of org, not type of org. A big bank isn’t much smarter internally than a big government agency. A small company lacks the controls and depth of skill just like a town or small city.

I worked for a non-Federal US government, and my team was an amazing group of talented and passionate people.

Despite all of the nonsense of living in a bureaucracy where 500 people can say “no”, the mission and the impact on our neighbors was worth it. Compensation meh, total compensation was good.

But as time went on, the terms of the deal changed for new employees — generous pensions and benefits were tweaked in a way that marginally reduced cost, but dramatically reduced value to the employee. End result was average turnover of new hires was ~70% vs ~20%, and after I’m dead, the state pension fund will be sitting pretty as the new folks pay more to collect dramatically less benefits.
Here's the hard question: is it not a moral imperative, now, to stop Bitcoin (and other related proof-of-work systems) before they destroy the planet further? How do we do it?
Some of my favorite systems research reads from 2020
GP is just relaying his lived experience and not making a general judgment. Your response comes off as extremely fragile.
Every Bitcoin transaction is crawling with industrial and governmental middlemen, often with the latter trying to arrest the former for stealing all your money.
>...what they do internally bears no resemblance to that sage advice

You've gotten me really curious now. Got a link or a blog or something I can read about that?
Seems like it could be a carryover from a feudal system that ramped up as nationalization happened during wars (WW1 mobilization for example). Modeling of “duty” was for a specific cause.

Duty is for soldiers, servants, employees, and in a smaller way citizens (to pay taxes) in a free society. Now, if you ask people hey would you like to support the less economically well off in society, in theory people can vote on that as being a “duty” of government or a civil service, like a conservation corps.
That would have an impact but you would still be constrained by the growing difficulty of the algorithm.
A colleague of mine worked for EMC in the 90s and early 2000s, and has some insane stories around 9/11. They drove him down to New York later that week, where he joined a team of federal reserve, SEC, DTCC, and army combat engineers whose job was to locate at ground zero the remains of a few EMC storage arrays and pull the drives. These frames had transaction records on them that had to be recovered in order to open the markets on the 17th. The issue was that the primary and secondary replicas were in data centers in building 1 and 2. No one had ever considered that both buildings could be destroyed simultaneously. Shortly thereafter, three-site mirroring with an asynchronous leg out-of-metro became a mandatory standard for all mission critical banking data.
That's essentially it.

We've heard from teams having issues dealing with large uncontrollable spikes from their webhook providers and we can smooth out that out. There's additional benefits that can be introduce before it gets to your own infra such as verifying signatures, filtering events, etc.

API Gateway + SQS + Lamda is definitely a common and good approach. My understanding is that you often start running into into other problems. Hitting DB connection limits from serverless invocation is a recurring one! I'm hoping we can make the troubleshooting / replayability easier as well.

Thanks for sharing your approach and opinion! Hoping to hear more!
Feliz ano novo a todos! I've taken much from our hive mind and given little, maybe this year I will find more in me to contribute. Till then, have a good one!
Great work! And fun timing - this similar project https://github.com/jandelgado/fastled-wasm popped up on Reddit today. It simulates the FastLED library running on an arduino.

There’s also some similar work here: https://github.com/wokwi/avr8js although this does not use wasm, rather it emulates the AVR instructions from the built hex object.
A lot of ways. And the banks reconcile the cash movement behind the scenes. As I understand it, in a simple example, if you send $1k to someone. And someone at their bank sends $1k to someone at your bank, there's nothing that the banks need to do other than record it.
NT 4 code was already leaked almost full back in 2004. You can still find it with relative ease if you know where to look, or search for certain keywords in the code.
> and then there are people who take advantage of being in minority

I honestly don’t see this as a problem. So what if a person gets a little privilege just because they belong in a minority? What bothers me is the more common case of privileged person taking advantage of their privilege.

> Why do we scare to say 'all lives matter'?

Because I always hear “all lives matter” said in response to “black lives matter”. To me that sounds like you are discounting my previous statement, as if it’s not entirely sufficient, that black lives matter.

“All lives matter” is something that people also say. e.g. I hear animal rights activists say that all the time. Even the very same people that say “black lives matter” in an anti-racist rally are likely to say “all lives matter” in an pro-immigration rally, pointing to the fact that many immigrants suffer preventable deaths on the migratory routes.

> In this well connected world, the price of being politcally incorrect could be huge

Good. If I say something that insults a lot of people I would like to know about it, so that I can know better in the future. I hate to be the one that speaks like an idiot and never gets corrected.
The government finance system is run by finance executives who are investing in Bitcoin not so they can shut it down but to speculate and diversify.
> the price of things like groceries, beer and travel double or triple what they were in 2019.

It's already the case. Not 2x or 3x but double digits inflation on groceries notably meat products won't be surprising when we do the math next year.
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The author of the post, Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, was involved in the bitcoin project alongside Satoshi at the very beginning: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137799

He's among a very small group of original authors. He quite literally bought into Bitcoin when it was just an idea.
Good fun doing puzzle in your head
Where did you hear that magnetism does no work?

I remember learning in school that the magnetic field does work on objects and the magnetic potential energy is converted into kinetic energy in the process.
Isn’t this what Bitcoin Cash is? I’m really asking, but I thought so.
Interesting that we have to install a massive privacy leak to deal with privacy protection.
So if my skills do not justify whatever the value of a living wage is, I should be condemned to permanent unemployment?

In this respect, minimum wages are literally systemic racism. They were started as a way to keep lower skilled blacks out of the workforce. In the 1930s, blacks had a lower unemployment rate than whites, but since the minimum wage priced them out of the labor market, they haven't been able to keep up.
Isn’t it impossible for the market value to change without both a buyer and a seller?
Before I got my current job I reached the final round (of 4 or 5!!) at a startup where I was failed because I failed to say 'message queue' or mention RabbitMQ (the interview used to work for them I think) for a question of 'how would you implement whatsapp?' I was told I was a good enough lowly developer but not the right stuff for senior.

So perhaps I'm bitter but, while they seem useful for specific purposes, it does feel a little religious and one of these presumed 'must have if we're serious' class of program when other solutions which architecturally resemble them might suit the problem far better.

In my current job we interact with kafka and have definitely encountered many less than ideal aspects of its behaviour. But I guess that must be the junior developer talking again ;)
I use Bitcoin where ever possible, so your opening claim is wrong.

I've been banned from Paypal. I've run into many verification issues over the last decade with banks because I have no proof of residency once my driver's license expired.

Like physical cash, it doesn't need to be superior in all ways to be useful at all.
State - SW England & Catholic - NE Scotland. I'm not sure? But I first started (outside of school) on a typewriter, and terminals were all fixed width (Acorn, Amiga, BBC) - which the argument goes is where it came from (although the typesetting comment by @OliverJones suggests otherwise).

I wonder if perhaps it was just a function of the teacher you had? The world was less connected (even now parts of education are individual preferences rather than rules). Oxford comma, punctuation inside or outside brackets, etc vs et cetra vs &ct
Not the reality of cash as cash doesn’t change value like Bitcoin (in either direction), it’s also usually not scarce, and always much easier to use.
As is Australia's. They've diverged a bit more now but when launched it was pretty much a colour change and switching some lions and unicorns for kangaroos and emus.

https://designsystem.gov.au/
Lightful?
Sounds like you want to do more then make a nice living in IT. Govt. IT for the most part isn't that, rather it's going with the easy/chill flow.

My kinda of place... no stress, drama (for chill .. go with the flow types), nice co-workers and you can pay the bills & then some!
But they won’t be the only vendor. There is no license required that gives them a monopoly on bitcoin. If they serve a market segment, great! Others will use something else. Bitcoin is entirely open - it’s a protocol.
There weren't “FISA courts” before the revelations in the 1970s because there was no judicial oversight or legal limits with penalties applied to surveillance by the national security apparatus at all. FISA, the courts it created, and the criminalization of domestic surveillance outside of specified limitations were part of the backlash against the abuses that were revealed in the mid-1970s.
What is needed is an AI digital currency where training deep networks for representation learning has a side effect that mints coins without costing a lot of extra resources. Then mining coins is useful and we get more better AI to enslave humanity.
Apple should pay some of their vast horde of cash.
because the goal would be to have bitcoin be an international money, not a national one. i'm not saying people shouldn't pay taxes, i would just suggest that there are better ways to collect it such that it doesn't inhibit progress. as it exists right now it is infeasible to use bitcoin as money day to day and accurately report your taxes.
Jaja, a mi me gustó. Y era una broma, no te preocupes :)
You don’t need most to agree. Just the basic majority (50%+).

And of course that’s exactly what the major mining consortiums will do: Collude to increase the limit when it’s reached. After all, the rewards are in the mining, not the transaction fee.
Except that cash in USD is also used as a medium of exchange.
When 7.6B people around the world crave 21M of a super-scarce resource that no government can deflate we'll get to $1M+/BTC. Those that continue to dis BTC are invariably those that do not own "enough".

$600 checks on top of $1200 checks and maybe $2000 checks soon. This is devaluation.

Add to this corrupt FDA/Fauci and approvals for BS (Remdeathisvir and Conv-plasma) drugs that do not work, while holding back live-saving MABs (like Leronlimab) that have an outstanding chance of saving 10Ks of lives. The virus is the trigger for BTC to keep your savings in. Anything else is sheer foolishness. Think Caracalla.
As a side note, I'm wondering if this will provide lower radiation steel... The big problem why pre-World war II steel is so valuable is because it has been refined in our atmosphere pre nuclear age.

Finding a niche market buyer is usually there toehold a new technology needs to gain traction, research, and investment.
We're fortunate that Microsoft shareholders think catering to developers is good for business. Not every megacorp thinks so. I mean, take a look at Swift's documentation and tell me with a straight face that Apple cares about developers.
Technically speaking, it's also a terrible investment vehicle for those same reasons. It's a fantastic parlor game of speculation though, where the point is the volatility.
Coinbase does have Zcash. So they don't seem entirely opposed to privacy coins
You are confused. There is nothing in Bitcoin that prevents VAT. It's just Germany's policy. Elsewhere they charge VAT on it like any other currency. I have paid VAT on all my bitcoin transactions like any other currency. I am not in Germany.
That's fine. Bitcoin adoption by these institutions makes it easier for people to receive it who don't actually want to hold it.

Still, note that you don't need Paypal to move Bitcoin.
The battle between the open and closed web continues. Interesting to see the pendulum swing from google pushing amp stories to aggregating the dark web. Wrote more about whether social killed the open web here: https://blog.aesthetic.com/blog/is-web-dead/
Overpricing one class of assets is functionally equivalent to underpricing the other classes. Facing inflation, money will aggregate first in the assets most likely to maintain + outpace an increase in monetary supply. Once they start appearing too overpriced, the overflow will affect other industries.

I'd invoke Occam's Razor to state that inflation due to increase in monetary supply is more likely to manifest as "overpricing" of one or two asset classes first. As opposed to a crash, where one asset class bottoms out and takes the other with it, stimulus and inflation, in theory, would cause the opposite -- would they not?

I haven't studied hyperinflation. So consider me inquisitive on the subject. But it's certainly happened before, and the dynamics seem like they have the potential to create a positive feedback loop similar to a crash.
Nah, even a single one proves my case.
> But it may be that these are second-order effects of propaganda systems. If you convince enough people and get them feeling angry and hurt enough, they'll end up doing your job for you, and much better, simply by being intensely sincere. You can't say that these commenters are manipulators, because they're not. "You're a shill!!" is simply going to meet with justified indignation, and "you've been brainwashed!!" is no good either.

This is a really important point and something I try to very consciously and actively resist, not always successfully. The thought "these are all bots" may be a more comforting one to most people than "lots and lots of my fellow human beings have been manipulated into behaving like bots." I would bet an SSM might even have sockpuppets demo and engage in this tactic to encourage divisions.
Thanks for your response. I sort of like the idea of restricting the content that can be sent by unapproved senders, and wonder if this could be adopted by email systems.

Suppose that the major email service providers and client developers agreed that from a certain date, all emails received from addresses that a user had not seen before would be truncated to 256 plaintext Unicode characters. The client UI would offer the option to whitelist that sender for future messages, which would also cause the existing message to be displayed in full.