skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bitcoin is a disaster

Clearly. [1]

[1] https://www.bitstamp.net/markets/btc/usd/
These are backwards looking arguments. I'm talking about a future where: fuel cell cars are far cheaper, hydrogen is approximately as cheap and efficient as electricity, there is a substantial hydrogen infrastructure in place, and range is 400 miles or more (this has already happened). BTW the last statement was always wrong as modern fuel cell vehicles are more reliable than battery powered ones.

It will be green hydrogen too. I don't think anyone is seriously proposing grey hydrogen as a fuel.
An enemy of an enemy is a friend is something only "useful idiots" say. An enemy of an enemy is nothing more than that. Keep on writing about how the CCP and Moscow are your buddies while they build a world where you're nothing more than a mute slave. I only wish people that write tripe like you could be shamed in person.
Feliz ano novo!
Oh I can do one better: I've been inside.

Nintendo's lobby is nothing like a hospital. It looks like a North Korean palace. Sparse with only 2-3 plants. Every wall is marble. At the reception desk are 3 receptionists. The lobby is giant, consuming about 1/2 of the building's footprint. Maybe only 7 sets of low sitting executive style chairs. Absolutly zero Nintendo authored art or decor. Off the lobby to the left are meeting rooms. These meeting rooms are your usual corporate japan meeting rooms minus any large glass windows.

Nintendo is a young japan by Japanese standards combined with being from outside of the two major metro areas they have a chip on their shoulder. They are proud and want to be respected like a proper 500 year old japanese mega corp.

Compare this to the other game company's waiting rooms I've been in. Marvelous was the most "look at what we've made" with tons of products and brand merchandise lining the walls. Square Enix is more reserved, with maybe 10 figures from their brands in a glass case inset into the wall. Sony (near shinagawa) is yet more reserved, no brands, but examples of their hardware, again along the wall. Large logo behind the receptionist desk. Wargaming.net had large props reused from their promotional events, plus the fanciest and branded offices of anyone.

My experience is from the new-nintendo building. The prior Nintendo building, which itself is not the original wooden building you might remember from black and white photos, is a few blocks away. The old building is only QA now from my understanding. The new building is larger with the most premium of japanese features: large open gardens between the building and compound walls.
> What are the specific EU programmes or endeavours that represent “globalist excess” and should be cut?

I'm pro-EU, but I'd say the Euro is questionable, at least in hindsight. However the UK opted out of it (and Schengen), which makes this a non-argument for Brexit.

One thing the UK could have done but never did, was to require EU citizens to move out if they were jobless for 3 months. Given this, it's mind-boggling that part of the reason some voted for Brexit was to get foreigners out. One can say the UK purposefully didn't opt for less globalism in this case.

Another similar example is the "red-colored passports": a minor issue that got blown out of proportion, but the UK could have had them without leaving the EU.
I think a lot of "blind" preferences like this are likely due to appreciating the accidental noise introduced in the signal path of the hardware instrument. The Juno chorus in particular is/was notoriously noisy. Add to that some crappy audio cables to get the sound out of the machine and into your recording device, ground loop hum, nearby AM radio... No software emulation is going to include all that "unwanted" sound unless it's deliberating modeling it as well.

Personally I'm from the camp that likes super-clean audio, so I was overjoyed when software synths fixed all the problems that we used to have with hardware, but there's definitely a camp that really likes the "warmth" or unpredictability of the original machine's output. Sometimes I think people spend more time adding plugins to dirty up their sound than they did making the original patch in the first place.
You can't really compare the P/S ratios between different industries. A lower margin business like retailing should have a lower P/S ratio than a higher margin business like retailing. OTOH, a crazy high margin business like AWS should have a higher P/S than a manufacturer...
They've been extremely letigious towards streamers and pro level melee players. Not sure but guessing that's what OP is referring to.
There is some work in this area:

https://sentient.org/

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09800

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Merlina2/publica...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09244

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-59595-...
Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
I was really hoping for WASM running on the Arduino! For the PineTime project we were discussing using WASM to run apps on the smart watch, so that they were running in some safe sandbox that couldn't crash the device.
I first misparsed the title and thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise .

"Kinder" means "children" in German, quite appropriately.
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Thank you mods for all the hard work, and all the people here to make their work a little easier than it could have been
No need for moral rights. In a modern context anticheat is very much legally DRM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....

The thing is, 30 years ago a Game Genie was just a way to get some fun out of old cartridges, or blast through an unfair game. Nowadays most games have some kind of an online component, if they're not entirely multiplayer. Hell, most players of online multiplayer games would love to see the cheaters plaguing their games go to jail. Effectively, not only have the conditions of the market changed so much as to render the Galoob precedent unusable, it also makes it kind of anti-consumer, at least in the context of online multiplayer.

Microtransactions also ruin the Galoob precedent - obviously if people are selling you what are effectively cheats, then your cheat device is usurping the market. I bet you if Nintendo had found a way to charge you a quarter every time Mario lost a life, the court would have ruled the other way.

(Blizzard is also responsible for using the DMCA to ban server emulators, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd#Blizzard_takedown_demand... . They argued that a server emulator that doesn't check CD Keys is a circumvention tool, and won. Hell, I'm pretty sure this is THE reason why the DMCA exception for old game servers explicitly only covers situations in which the developer released an authorized server program, such as Valve games or Java Minecraft.)
> The IT folks say that passwords have to change every 90 days

This is explicitly not the NIST recommendation (the group in gov that sets some security standards), but the word is not getting out quickly.
Nintendo is the Apple of gaming. Anti consumer, anti developer, big marketing budget.

Back when BP spilt oil, people refused to buy their gas. Where is that outrage for these companies anti consumer practices?
> > Deflation inhibits economic activity because money saved is worth more tomorrow than today even when not invested in productive enterprise.

> What is the rationale for this?

The rationale is explicitly stated.

> Because by that token, nobody would ever buy computers, because the money saved by not buying a computer today can go into buying a better computer tomorrow.

No, because then you lose out on the utility of the computer today.

The argument was about financial investments; that it discourages investments in productive enterprise since holding cash produces a real gain at low risk. Putting off buying future potential money via investment in productive enterprises because holding money gives you more value of money in the future with less risk than investment in productive enterprise and the liquidity of money now is not parallel to deferring buying a computer to buy a better one later.

> if anything, deflation is fantastic because it makes you think twice before rampantly consuming shit,

While you call it “fantastic”, that's just another way deflation depresses economic activity, discouraging consumption as well as productive investment. (Of course, discouraging consumption also further discourages investment itself.)
Nintendo literally invented the App Store model.
I kinda agree. I am fine with using Jira. Now when I know the workflow I would not bother with another tool for the same things that we are forced to use Jira for.

That said I would rather to "issue tracking and planning" in a checked in text file and maybe have some bug tracking tool rather then working with Jira.
> Today, when people say "you can formalize all mathematics" post Gödel, it means you pick your area and formalize away, knowing that effectively proving consistency of your formal system (within the same system) is out of reach.

This isn't what I mean when I say "formalize all mathematics" at least. For example the diversity among the current crop of proof assistants has nothing to do with incompleteness and everything instead to do with with proof writing ergonomics. Assuming we perfectly solved the problem of the ergonomics of writing formal proofs, ZFC would be enough to do the overwhelming majority of modern mathematics.

> effectively proving consistency of your formal system (within the same system)

This isn't the significance of the Second Incompleteness Theorem though. Since an inconsistent formal system can prove anything, why would you ever trust a proof of consistency within the same system? To avoid repetition, I'll just link to a previous comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118038

> many logics and sets of axioms coexist without there being any distinguished one that is better

(Syntactic) completeness has never really been a criteria for creating an end-all-be-all formal system in and of itself. We happily use many different mutually incompatible geometric systems (Euclidean, hyperbolic, etc.), in spite of the fact that many are complete.

That being said, it is true a pre-Godel desirable property of a foundational system of mathematics would be completeness, but foundations has never really been all that important for the working mathematician.
Industry worst under GAAP. Only better than industry using magical unicorn fairy dust accounting.
I'm not sure we have any definition here :-) But claim that anything is economically wothless unless there are people willing to participate in exchanging it is in fact supported (not denied as you seem to imply) by any example of speculative bubble, including of course Tulipmania.
> hydrogen is approximately as cheap and efficient as electricity

This is physically impossible. Green hydrogen is created from electricity and water and is converted back to electricity and water in a fuel cell. These are both lossy processes.
Nope, I'm not familiar with how widespread cryptocurrency usage is for international exchange with Venezuela. I do know that they keep tight control over traditional foreign currency exchange via public markets.
Great article. Thanks for the share, and if Thea reads this, thanks for the article. I look forward to reading it more thoroughly.
This New Yorker article is dated Dec 20. The tweets from the ‘stalking’ thread were posted Dec 21. Not defending Nintendo for anything here, just pointing out this theoretical ‘PR spin’ timeline doesn’t add up.
Nintendo have some very profitable gacha games, Dragalia Lost, Fire Emblem Heroes.
I mean, in a strict interpretation of copyright law, it's a violation of copyright to sing a copyrighted song to a friend.

The things you describe are legitimately derivative works in the scope of copyright's worldview.

The issue is that viewing every single idea or concept as "property" with an owner and a price tag attached is a fundamentally broken model.
To be fair, neither of you are providing any tangible, verifiable fact one way or the other.

Is there a Mimblewimble / Litecoin integration effort? If so, I'd sure love to learn more about it.

And if there isn't can you offer something in the way of a proof?
Your assertions are simply not borne out by historical truth, there have been periods of history where there was no inflation or deflation, where there was plenty of investment and growth. For example, post-civil war US. Similarly the 1850-1900 sweden free banking era. Oh. And Japan. Do you seriously think there is NO productive investment in Japan currently, simply because there is no inflation?

People grow and invest in things with only minor regard to whether or not there is inflation, just when there is inflation they invest more in dumber shit like juicero and theranos, because if you are on a moving compounding treadmill you have no choice but to participate in the casino.
>Check out Stellar

Great idea given that they're next on the SEC's list once they're done tearing Ripple a new one.
That is in the article also.
I don't think it's silly. Having access to high-level source code beats combing through disassembler output.
That's perhaps true, but it is important to distinguish a gentle creative genius from the company itself.
No more so than a battery. A fuel cell is in fact a battery of sorts, and it's not out of the question that it approaches the efficiency of a conventional battery.

It should also be pointed out that the lower weight of a fuel cell powertrain allows you to use less energy during operation. So even if fuel cells don't fully match the efficiency of conventional batteries, they can still use less energy on a final basis.
I had a game genie, pretty sure it was responsible for giving my nes the blanking screen of death.

Seems like nintendo should have been happy, the game genie probably led to a bunch of snes sales due to its console killing tendencies(possibly just a myth...but I swear...that thing caused trouble on my nes.) and you literally needed a nes and games to use it.

I get the philosophy behind making games unfun and such, I personally would rather beat a game genuinely than cheat, but seems kinda hypocritical from a company that prides itself in making games where players can enjoy themselves in their own way.

There's a Miyamoto interview on the front page currently espousing exactly such things. Nintendo does many things I personally find counterintuitive and even counterproductive. Especially in regards to things like this. I also owned a few of those black 'non-licensed' nes cartridges that exist for similar reasons.

Nintendo makes some damn good games and I understand the Disney-esque protection over their ip, but some of the things they do just seem like it would be better off if they just let things be.
Investment into renewables, as one example among others. Not that such investment shouldn't take place, but it has nothing to do with free trade, and I would much prefer a large carbon tax with minimal bureaucratic overhead than the centralized EU as-is allocating capital to ventures that the bureaucrats have decided are worthwhile. It's the globalist, big government and centrally planned solution to climate change.

Also two percent is a stupefyingly large amount if it were simply about effectively administering a FTA (and it isn't as per the above). NAFTA on the other hand requires roughly 0 percent, which is markedly better. Given the precedent of low overhead FTAs, I don't accept the premise of the EU.
What's your point? People got there because they have trouble interpreting information, not because the information in mainstream media was particularly ambiguous.

What people believed 2 years later is not at all a meaningful survey of what the media was saying at the time!
Capitalism rewards efficiency with market share. During contraction of an industry, efficient producers should be scaling down slowly while others collapse. We may think it depends on growth, but that’s because we put it to work sustaining an exploding population for several generations.
Yeah, as of January of this year, they've made over a billion in revenue with mobile games: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112029/nintendo-mobile-...
There's no theoretical limit to it's divisibility. The total supply is known ahead of time but the world will never run out of Bitcoin to transact.
Foone dissects a National Semiconductor Datachecker 1730
This is unduly pessimistic overly sentimental. Bitcoin is anything but a failure, and represents an enormous step forward in the creation of digital currency. It's been a incredibly successful experiment regardless of it's long term future and Blockchain will most certainly be around forever. Scaling to much larger on chain transactions is of course the holy grail, but this is far from unsolvable and if bitcoin doesn't do it another crypto will.
"Life is a chemical system that uses energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium."

I like the above "definition" from this YT video (This Ciliate is About to Die): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibpdNqrtar0
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It’s good when shorts find fraud (Nikola, Luckin Coffee) and then expose that fraud - it’s bad when there isn’t fraud and shorts push negative stories to try and manipulate the public market to save their position (or when the short position is actually being pushed by competitors failing to compete).

The same can be said about longs. Longs are bad when their holders try to manipulate the public market to save their position, by cheerleading the company's performance.
I mean, as a graduate student, it was definitely incredibly useful. As a practicing data scientist, I’d have to say that it’s also incredibly useful.

I’ve used this stuff, and more often, the ideas taught, to break down a problem into a tackle-able set of pieces more times than I can count.

Never underestimate the fundamentals. Too many of my colleagues use models without actually understanding any of it. I’ve debugged so many problems by looking at the technical details in original papers and textbooks.
> On the other hand, there's Linus Torvalds. He has incredibly effective leadership, over almost 30 years

He is not effective on my scale: he has alienated a huge amount of contributors with his abusive style of communication.

And please do not say that it is necessary for "filtering" and quality assurance, it is equivalent to justifying mobbing.

Another unsuccessful aspect I blame him for is the sorry status of the kernel security, "a bug is a bug" and similar stuttering nonsense.
You are not running out of time [repost]
repost of old essay. original link from author is dead.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778342
Is it possible to make one at home (assuming you had Sam Zeloof tier skills)
Highly recommend checking out the WebAudio API[1] for anyone interested in this kind of thing.

It’s got some obvious shortcomings and wild browser inconsistencies, but lets you go through much of the same design process in making your own synth.

1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
Turing.jl[1] is quite usable and isn't slow[2].

[1] - https://turing.ml/dev/
[2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02702
Polkadot, Cardano, Stellar, soon to be Ethereum 2.0. Proof of Stake is where it's at if you are concerned with the power consumption of Proof of Work.
Not al all. The average American doesn’t care enough about helping the homeless to accept any of the solutions that have worked for other countries (Portugal for example). In other words, it is the “will of the people” to only solve the problem of homelessness if it can be done with a very limited set of tools (punishment, laws). And those tools won’t solve the problem.
Let me clarify that a bit--their concept has better real business prospects than ever. I'm not commenting on their ability to match their over-promises, their leadership, capital structure, or their misalignment to their valuation. I suppose their ability to stay alive is apart of their prospects, though.
Bitcoin has the most infrastructure surrounding it. And Bitcoin is the most careful to make life easy for infrastructure providers.

Eth is very challenging to operate securely. Breaking updates are frequent, often with little warning. Bitcoin hasn't changed in many years, and new software updates are optional, and don't require you to write any new code or change how you operate. Most other cryptos suffer from the same challenges.

Eth has more features and flexibility, but for the explicit use case of sovereign money, Bitcoin really stands in a class of its own.
Candy Crush and Minecraft are not installed. Clicking on the items in the start menu opens the Windows Store.
Who is paying this money? Seriously - the problem is that no one gets the originator, the originator is likely a shell company with "no assets".

Charge the phone company $5/robocall, require them to pay that $1 to the consumer in cash, not as a "credit" on their phone bill, and require a $1/incorrectly-blocked-call and suddenly I suspect the carriers will know where the robocalls are coming from.
I'm part of one :)
I think it’s more about the new Nintendo theme park than anything else.
Nintendo defined mobile gaming for decades, and they currently sell the leading game console in the world which is designed to switch between mobile and console gaming.
Measuring power loss between electricity generation and wheels, current fuel cell cars are 25-35% efficient. Teslas are 90% efficient. (https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127660_battery-electri...)

A Toyota Mirai weighs 1848kg. A Tesla Model 3 weighs 1612kg.
Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks
The justice system should proportionally reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. It should neither reward nor punish "neutral" behavior. As parole is a part of the punishment it must be determined also according to these criteria.

Having inmates trying to guess at what some algorithm values so they can game it? Kafkaesque

A bit more leeway can be given to algorithms that companies use but justice system is very sensitive.
Uh, what about accessibility?
It would better if you addressed his arguments and not make dispersions against his person. Classic ad hominem attack.
When reading the article I was wondering: what if clients just spam the queue (by retrying) because they don’t see any responses coming their way (because subscribers have a long backlog to get through first).
An acquaintance worked as CTO of the DTA, and ultimately it was a joke. The skills were there, but the clout to bust through politics was not there, so nothing ever got done. He ended up leaving after less than a year.
They were just coming out of the Atari crash, which in a large part was blamed on a surplus of shitty games.
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Ask HN: Why did you switch from Mac to Windows?
Portugal (and other countries) shows that there is a way to solve the problem. However most Americans will reject those solutions because they are not punishing the homeless for being homeless/poor/mentally il/drug users.
Sigh in my state of Idaho cyclists are allowed to go through red lights. They function as stop signs for cyclists. Also stop signs are yield signs for cyclists. This was done to get cyclists out intersections faster. You cant accelerate as fast a car. Also most collisions with cyclists happen with cars at intersections. So this was done to reduce the time cyclists interact with cars. As well as reduce technical violations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
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