skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment a few messages down thread that I wholeheartedly agree with:

"It never fails to amuse me how so many cryptocurrency enthusiasts imagine they have deep new economic insights when they are just reinventing the past, badly."
>The idea that bitcoin would somehow escape fractional-reserve banking

You are correct, but unlike with banks, at least there is an escape hatch: "not your keys, not your coins", which is a lot simpler to implement than walking to your bank and withdrawing all your savings in cash.

Sadly, the vast majority of Bicoin buyers just leave their coin on the exchange (or worse: in the case of Paypal, they can't do anything else), thereby opening the door to all kind of shady practices, including FRB.
Very ironic given Elon's endless tirades about short sellers. The problem solves itself...
RIP, Doom. You will be missed.
My last job basically forbade my working on anything on my own time, and claimed to own all ip I produced during my employment at any time during that employment. If I wrote a love letter to my wife, they would have owned it. It was a great job with some amazing people, but that part felt really lousy
This is so nicely formulated, thank you so much! I'm just thinking, isn't what you describe the general problem of agile methods/processes, and not Jira's, as it's just one of tools built to assist in agile implementation?
I visit UK often because of family ties. The most frequent answer I get when I ask people why they voted to leave is that foreigners come over and take their jobs and put a strain on NHS, vaguely referencing the influx of Polish immigrants they got when Poland entered the EU.

So maybe not racists, but xenophobes for sure.
> Funny thing is bitcoin is only a small technology that will hurt the fiat system, there are more such disruptive technologies on the way but governments are far too stupid to see the writing on the wall.

Examples?
Wouldn't it be better to replace the EU with an expansive multilateral free trade treaty that encompasses the same states? Why do we need an additional layer of government?
Dancing with Systems
My understanding is that narrower lane widths do cause drivers to slow down. The signage stating a 20 mph limit may be ignored, but if all the other lane lines get repainted narrower when a bike lane is put in, then cars will drive less aggressively.
The AI part is working (I am actually training a model to identify different birds). The spin around could be a next update. :)
> If you ignore the tooling of Flash, very little about it is appealing.

The tooling seems to be what most people miss. That's not trivial. Adobe Animate is supposed to fill that void, but from what I've seen, it's a long way from a drop-in solution.
Interesting. Can you give an example of a statement that is independent of ZFC yet useful/often-used?

I struggle to make any sense of this claim though... What is a proof if not an explanation of how a statement can be deduced from other statements (which in turn... all the way back to axioms)? And are you saying formal proof assistants like coq and isabelle are fools errands, in the sense that mathematics is in principal beyond formalization? If not, then why not?
In theory the USD price of bitcoin is tracking the inflation of the USD but with excessive volatility. However, it is possible for it to grow slightly faster than inflation if a significant portion of the central bank money is arriving in cryptocurrencies. In practice it's getting dwarfed by the factors you mentioned. Lots of irrational investors are pumping BTC until it crashes.

Over the long term (several decades) you can expect it to perform like gold once it has turned into a mature market.
Happy New Year from Scotland everyone! :)
The equivalency in math and some hard sciences between "understanding" and "describing symbolically" has never sat very well with me.
Since the introduction of the Euro, joining the eurozone is a requirement of being in the EU. My impression is that the UK and Denmark were given opt-out because we were already part of the EU at the time.
Everyone wants trade with everyone to their benefit. We also want to be friends and play cricket.

But there is no discussion of the other things related to CANZUK in Australia and NZ. We don't want open borders with the UK or to roll back the clock to the empire. Almost everything to do with CANZUK is a fantasy used to deflect from the very real problems associated with leaving the EU.
If a large population is going to "shred" a track to get around its going to end up a muddy rut in no time, or only works for able 15-55 year olds.
Why does Brexit keep bringing the memory of the Ukrainian Maidan to my mind?
I don't think there's any genre of music that gets even close to the potential expressivity and depth of hip-hop. It's words on sick beats. And there are some amazing wordsmiths out there.

RIP MF DOOM
This hasn’t proven true in countries with functioning govts: they very much have applied tax and securities law to bitcoin.
> Well bitcoin is as much money as FIAT money

No, it's not. It’s too volatile to be an efficient store of value or a useful unit of account for general purposes; it's got some use as a competitive medium of exchange for certain circumstances (but again not really with the generality of any major fiat currency.)

It's commodity that seems to (retrospectively, at least, and there is some reason to expect this to continue for the near future) have good investment performance if you are in a position to wait out down periods, which makes it nice as a component of an investment portfolio.

It's good at things that aren't the purpose of money, but mostly not good for things that are the purposes of money, except for a narrow subset of one of three major purposes of money.
Of course! Every exchange and currency are as valuable and accepted as the group decides them to be. Same way you can pay anywhere with US dollars and not with South-African Rands.
> The most common thing I see are riders with the cranked up in a high gear on flat land

Wait, is this not what you are supposed to do? How do you go fast then?
I see BTC as an immensely successful first try at making this kind of thing - and like any emerging tech it's slow, inefficient, sharp edges, mostly used by experts. It's a tech channeled towards an Ayn Randian utopian fantasy, and has run right into the limits of that fantasy as a working philosophy.

And yet, it still has practically useful properties.

The coins that win as a currency will have to loosen their grasp on the rentier-merchant aspects, become more energy efficient, more usable, more integrated into society(within and without its institutions).
We're relatively lucky in the UK that our problems with racism are generally subtle enough to be missed by Americans - the EU referendum was fought on seriously dodgy grounds (even ignoring the lying)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag... for example.

With the EU the racism on display is usually against eastern European migrants rather than black people.

That is not to say that even the most hardline Brexiteers are necessarily racists - they're naive and stupid but not racist.
How successful were they? Was all of the data intact? If not, how did they deal with incomplete records for the stock market opening?
After decades of experience, I figured out my steady-state output is maximized with 6 hour days.

I need at least 2-4 work hours a day without someone yapping at me so I can figure out what to type into the computer next. My best work is done while biking or jogging.

I’ve also found that most people working >> 8 hours produce substandard work during deadlines. Their crunch time usually delays product launches.
That a German seller doesn’t charge VAT does not imply that you do not have to pay VAT.

You may have to inform your tax office about the purchase, after which it will send you an invoice for VAT (happens for ‘normal’ bank transactions, too.)

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-rules...:

“For EU-based companies, VAT is chargeable on most sales and purchases of goods within the EU. In such cases, VAT is charged and due in the EU country where the goods are consumed by the final consumer. Likewise, VAT is charged on services at the time they are carried out in each EU country.

VAT isn't charged on exports of goods to countries outside the EU. In these cases, VAT is charged and due in the country of import”
>call the family members of still-missing employees and ask for personal information

When my cousin passed very unexpectedly, this is exactly what I got called in to do... was easy enough for me to take some educated guesses and figure it out, I can't imagine that being suitable for a large firm to handle their password issues.
If your point was that bitcoin is worse than zero-sum because it generates net losses, then you're right.
Your post disgusts me
I think you've got it wrong. Being a racist was a motivation for one part of the Brexit movement — to keep out the Poles and Romanians and all those smelly people. That wasn't an attitude they got from voting, rather, they voted (along with the other brexiters) because they already had the attitude.
तुम्हे भी दोस्त!
> take the influx of economic refugees.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xkveiyy6w5
> I believe the behaviour of our law enforcement agencies to destabalize progressive movements has been WILDLY destructive to our culture and politics.

It's important to realize that this isn't partisan behavior. They use the same tactics against anarchists and anti-authoritarians, or really any threat to institutional power.

An obvious recent example on the other side being their campaign against Trump, e.g. Steele Dossier, and the apparently true Hunter Biden story being derided as "Russian disinformation" by "intelligence sources" in the run up to the election. Because Trump, for all his faults, was one of the most prominent threats to institutional power in recent history. And Trump sucks, let's be clear about that, but it's the same dynamic and it's important to see it for what it is even when it's being deployed against someone you don't like.
Does wanting one’s own country to focus on its citizens first make one a xenophobe?
Serious answer: In the US, capital gains and losses are defined relative to the US dollar.
There is no meaningful threat of hyperinflation in first world economies until China's GDP per capita has reached $20k - $30k and even then there are investment opportunities in India (if they get their corruption under control) or other Asian countries.
Not everyone has a fast connection though and you'll try the patience of new players by making them wait just a few seconds. I also like optimising so if I can make the transfer size x10 smaller I will. :)
this sounds amazing. I love to bicycle and want to bike everywhere in my city, but it's too nerve wracking, noisy and unpleasant sharing the road with cars, even when the bike lane is separated.
You implicitly give a license to crawlers if you don’t take action to block them via robots.txt or otherwise block them via your server. If you do either of these, google will respect the site’s decision and you probably could take them to court if they tried to evade blockers that block google bot (but since google always respects robots.txt and never craws from a different ASN or different user agent, even for safe browsing crawls, they’re fine).

So if Instagram wants to block google from downloading their videos, they can

Disallow: /video/

(Or however their url scheme works)
> and like any emerging tech

The problem that everyone else sees is that Bitcoin has been "emerging tech" with all its rough edges for so many years.
Bonne et heureuse année!
I can't help but have zero sympathy for short sellers, and others to try to game the market. It doesn't seem like anything positive comes from shorting a stock other than someone getting rich.
Screen? Tmux?

Have you looked into these tools and decided what it is you want that they don’t provide?
I commented something similar to this below - the true value of Bitcoin is that it was put on autopilot and took off - in the meantime, there is no record of who the creator of it is - except a persona called Satoshi Nakamoto. It has been adopted widely enough that it cannot be shut down. It is decentralized, extra-governmental, and you can't sue or indict the founder or a centralized organization. Yes, bitcoin is code. Yes it is being used for the same purposes as fiat and banking. Yes it could certainly still use lots of adaptation. The simple matter that most people don't understand (yet) however is that Bitcoin is Anarchy.
There's an exemption for foreign currencies that does not apply to cryptocurrency.
elon will reincarnate into XÆA-12
The original 2012 book was awesome!

Would love to get my hands on the draft for "Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics".

https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html
Typical public performance licenses require you to play from a legitimate source like a cd or a purchased download and don’t cover illegal copies.
> (...) and only quarantining the vulnerable, (...)

Because the epidemic spreads by infecting everyone, and the more widespread it becomes the more saturated health services will be and the more likely is that the more vulnerable elements of society will be affected.

And the odds that you are infected drop radically from almost certain to highly unlikely if everyone around you just acts responsibly and just follows basic precautions such as wearing a mask, washing their hands, practice social distancing, and whenever possible practice social isolation.

Think about it for a second. What do you think is the attack vector of, say, nursing homes? Do you believe it's the senior citizens who are already confind there, or everyone else who they are in contact with?
> The ipv6 module is used for more than ipv6.

Would you tell me why the ipv6 module used for more than ipv6?
If you don't want something running, disabling it at the kernel level makes sense to me, so I am curious as to why that is not the case. If things don't work with it disabled in the kernel, but DO work with it disabled via sysctl, what is actually being disabled?
> Do you feel the same towards writers being used by the CIA to spread their stories?

As per the previous question, it appears you don't understand what journalism is. Journalists report stories as objectively as possible, they don't play an active and knowing role in foreign intelligence operations. Surely the NYT and WaPo have played roles in furthering propaganda before (Iraq War), but they weren't co-conspirators. And it wasn't a foreign spy agency feeding them stolen materials to leak for destructive purposes. Big difference(s).

IF Wikileaks actually were journalists, they'd have a hell of a story to write about how their bipolar manic founder had been coopted by an autocratic intelligence agency to do their bidding, throwing away years of good work to actually expose the bad behavior of criminal governments.

I'd read that story.

> As things stand, Snowden would not receive a fair trial, as Assange is not.

Yeah that's not what he said. He said Snowden would face the full wrath of the US Gov (true) but that he's been able to protect others (in the last year even) that had the same pressures. The idea that Snowden "had no choice" is a ridiculous myth believed only by those who see him as a hero first (as part of their general world view), then figure out the facts of the matter later on.
You can peg the contract in USD (or better put, the original price was in USD) and just accept the bitcoins within a very small window, say 30 min/1h.
Not as good as we had before. It’s the only trade deal negotiated with the explicitly stated intention of having fewer benefits than before.
What has good text rendering?
This is a similar argument to the semantics of black lives matter and refund the police. Sure, maybe there's a better name to make a better first impression, maybe not. Move past it.

Ironically you already have by simply referring to it as "crypto" as most do. Things evolve, like "e-mail" becoming "email" and countless other evolutions as things find their niche and become mainstream.
Many, or even most people, believe that money must be controlled by the government for the economy to function. "Sound money" is money whose supply cannot be controlled by the government. Some further reading:

* https://fee.org/articles/what-do-we-mean-by-sound-money/

* https://mises.org/library/principle-sound-money

* https://www.aier.org/pertinent_category/sound-money-project/
Nah, the EU won't last another 5 years.

Brexit was a howto manual for the other member states. :)
M1 beats both DX7 and D-50 in units sold. We are living through the death and simultaneous revival of synthesizers, there probably won't be any characteristic bestsellers anymore. Last I checked MicroKorg was bestselling (in nr of units) current synth still in production but it can't leave the same mark on the current era of music like DX7 presets did.
Market cap is a stock. GDP is a flow. Comparing the two is nonsense.
Affordable, reliable, bleeding edge. Pick two.
We have plenty of our own bureaucracy. We basically invented it.
Yes. /s

(The point is correct, but SSDs are probably a bad example: it is very standardised whether it is in consumer or enterprise space. Maybe nVidia and AMD with regards to graphics card would be a better example?)
Well, things have a tendency to come full-circle again. Maybe with the cloud offerings, we'll realize that open-source isn't so great and go back to more proprietary offerings.
> the only real lesson from this is that referenda are truly disastrous for complex policy decisions.

Yeah, I think that's definitely the big lesson.

I feel it's exacerbated by decades of tabloid propaganda.
A lot less per transaction than Bitcoin?

But I'm no expert.
I want to list the lies you omit, not because of my own partisan position, but because of yours.

Hillary Clinton wasn't sick (in 2016). (Noone wants to enjoy this but it clearly wasn't the truth.)

There's no conflict of interest in Bill getting $75 million/year from speaking engagements, at least some of it from foreigners, while his wife is Secretary of State.[1]

Using a private email server for Secretary of State official business is fine.

Deleting 33,000 emails deemed private only by Clinton's staff, after subpoena, is fine.[2]

James Comey is non-partisan; editing "Grossly negligent" for "Extremely careless." The behavor of FBI agents after the 2016 election results further demonstrates their independence (FBI Agents against Trump SMS messages, "Crossfire Hurricane"?).

Bhengazi was not her responsibility. It was really about a YouTube video and not terrorism.[3]

[1] https://bernardgoldberg.com/bill-clintons-million-dollar-spe...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/t...
[3] https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-role-benghazi-know-19...

Look, the 2016 election was a lot of fun from the gallery. Neither Trump nor Clinton is a saint. You've got to get over this partisan view of the world. Neither major party will ever deliver to the people on their top issues: health care (D) and fixing immigration (R). Both will constantly agitate their base with baseless outrage: socialism! (R) and racism! (D). If you're deeply engaged on either side you're stuck.
GDP is income. What you are doing is the equivalent of comparing your mortgage payment with the price of the house when you bought it.
> stocks have had price to book multiples less than one

It's not even that unusual, or newsworthy. It's pretty common for banks, basically the rule for European banks. I'm still not convinced the numbers are "real" though. As I understand it, there are a few main arguments as to why "buy and strip" price arbitrage doesnt happen, and I'm not sure which is/are true:

- Regulatory barriers. JPM or Apple can't just buy Deutsche Bank because lawmakers won't allow it.

- They're too big to be bought out out by (European?) private equity, or controlling stakes aren't available.

- That's not real book value. Try to wind it down and it'll evaporate.

Maybe there are more. I understand that dividends and buybacks are currently limited by regulators in Europe, and that closes one valve for the price arbitrage, but still...
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The rideshare industry had a clear impact on local laws in every first world country for one example.
I take pleasure in their pain, as an anti-cynic
Very interesting that you would be willing to make yourself into yet an even weaker entity. What a tragic and utterly preventable denouement for a once proud empire.
I’m all in favour of Scottish independence as long as they let us southerners immigrate.
I disagree. Shorters are just taking the other side of the bet, ie they think the asset is priced too highly.
Isn't the fundamental difference here that we can't print more bitcoin to bail out bad investments?

Yeah, you can lend out bitcoin and even do fractional reserves, but ultimately, the bill must come due and over leveraged bad bets will get wiped out and good bets get rewarded.

Contrast this to the current environment where we are constantly bailing out and even financially rewarding business and investment failures, which comes at the expense of the working class who both foot the tax bill and aren't well insulated from the ensuing inflation.
Nothing like diversionary foreign policy :/

The EU has really been quite a convenient scapegoat, not just in the UK. I wonder if politicians on all sides will/can continue to blame the EU now that the UK has "full control". I have a feeling that, yes, they will.

As much as I consider myself a pan-European, the European institutions, governance and government unfortunately make for a (mostly deservedly) great political target.
The EU vote in Norway almost 30 years ago was very, very different from the British Brexit affair. Luckily for us Norwegians, we didn't suffer from anyone like Mark Francois, for example.

Of course you could say that Brexit has nothing to do with British culture.
You can make the same argument about AirBNB or Uber. The bottom line is that when a technology becomes available that makes life much easier for its users, it's really hard for the government to then crack down on it.

There's not much reason for any government to want to crack down on BTC simply for the sake of cracking down on it. People talk about governments cracking down on BTC because it will undermine the local currency or banking system but I think that's mostly paranoia, there's not much of any evidence to substantiate the hypothesis that any government is fearful of cryptocurrencies.

There were some governments and regulatory agencies that were concerned that BTC is a scam, or needs to be subject to security regulations, and had legitimate concerns about it but for the most part governments don't care that much about BTC in terms of a danger or a threat to their legitimacy.
It's less about steady-state global availability than burst capacity. What if the People's Liberation Army decides that temporary control of the Bitcoin network is a valuable capability?
Much less? Bitcoin currently powers almost none of the world’s transactions, yet consumes all that energy.

The entire us consumes 75 twh in a year, the same as bitcoin’s global energy use.

Of that, the entire commercial sector is about 12 twh. That’s not just banks. That’s every company. Banks alone are surely far less. Maybe 2-3 twh? And the us is 15% of global gdp. So, global finance might consume about 14-32 twh.

Again, that is while doing all of global finance. Bitcoin powers a rounding error of transactions yet consumes 75 twh.

There’s just no comparison energy wise. My math could be off by several orders of magnitude and bitcoin would still consume more if it were actually powering the world’s transactions.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
I think this analysis has been shown to be false. This does not apply to significant majority of leavers.

It explains a minor boost on the left, not main leaver sentiment.