skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the ASIC perspective, what I see personally is a massive waste of engineering talent. Why build ASICs for boring but important tasks (especially bioinformatics) when you can cash in on Bitcoin mining while the going is good.

With regards to tax evasion, my opinion is that it will simply force taxation to occur in other ways like VAT. People are quite capable of evading taxes in the present system, so wide adoption of online value transfer would simply democratize access to tax evasion (and force governments to rethink how they collect taxes).

Money laundering makes me think of the dangerous flip side, where anyone can covertly accumulate and use resources without scrutiny - e.g. Ali Alexander using Bitcoin to finance the transport and lodging of groups that took part in the January 6th riot.
The Nazi and Stalinist regimes also stood to change the world too, you know. That didn't make them like the Apollo project. To be clear, I'm not trying to liken Bitcoin to either of those, just to point out that there's a spectrum from good to bad. I'm glad Apollo succeeded, but I'm also glad fascism didn't succeed. French Revolution changed the world too, in the short term, for the worse, but probably had a net positive in the long run.

Bitcoin? I'm not so sure. Bitcoin definitely stands to change the world, but I'm not sure for the better. Bitcoin would:

* By design, have exploding deflation

* Allow insane inter-generational wealth accumulation and disparity

* Block most of the controls used by central banks to stabilize the economy

* Allow a disk failure or hacker to wipe out someone's life savings

... and so on.

I'd actually liken it to the /early/ fascist, communist, and democratic regimes, which had a lot of good ideas for how to replace monarchies, a lot of bad ideas, and perhaps a 25% hit rate. The US worked out fairly well, at least once it got past the Articles of Confederation bit. France didn't work for a long time, but eventually worked out okay. Fascism and Soviet Communism /appeared/ to work better than what came before for a few years, and then imploded into horrors. The jury is still out on where the Chinese form of government lands.

At this point, we don't quite know which track we're on with Bitcoin. I was optimistic at the beginning, and now I'm more pessimistic, but it's too early to tell. In either case, we've learned a lot, and we could probably design a better system without many of Bitcoin's flaws.
> I don't think this back and forth is what happens between architects and contractors. Contractors are not paid to produce knowledge, and they have no incentive to better conform to regulations. So I expect the convergence between architects and contractors is very slow.

> I don't think the solution is to regulate architects more, but rather to create a system where contracts actively provide feedback, so that processes can be iterated upon.

I really recommend Christopher Alexander's work to you because of these views. He explores how past buildings have managed to be built and how the architect <-> contractor feedback loop can be effective.
1. Bitcoin mining is a race to cheap power, it's of course going to lead to more efficient power delivery technologies.
Excess energy being created by hydrodams is being sold to fund infrastructure and to subsidize energy costs during dry seasons. Oil companies are capturing energy once wasted:
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-helps-oil-companies-reduce-...

Bitcoin is an energy currency.
Remittances by traditional methods fell by 97% in Nigeria. Central bank had to ban Bitcoin.

Look it up. It's real.
It should be noted that the main reason for itch's success as a home for tabletop RPG books is that the main competitor in the field, DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, is a pile of hot garbage with a UI that was bad ten years ago and hasn't changed.
i have been mentoring wanna-be programmers for a while. 15y old and 40y old. Men and Women. In big companies and in tiny companies. For few weeks, and for many months. And... most do make it. Some don't. Not very proportional on abilities/capabilities, AFAI see them. It seems to depend on internal flame.. and some humility. Internal eagerness to do exactly that thing, And be useful. That desire keeps one growing, trying, failing, rising again, finding ways, learning about self by looking from "aside" (controlled shizophrenia IS the state of programmers mind), asking others, helping others, and repeating..
Common advices are difficult, everyone's struggle is different. Hence these taste like usual mumbo-jumbo.. here are some: do not fight your daemons, harness them. Find out weaknesses, and walk around them. Far away if need be. Or straight across them under different angle. Observe and study everything about yourself. Not all weaknesses are equal, are most are not weaknesses per-se, it's the perception that gives them the name. Ah, and same thing about the strenghts - Sometimes it might be better to avoid to ride a strength as it may take you too far, too fast..

There are many many meanings of the word "better", in "better programmer".. i'd prefer the ones closer to "better person" than to "ultimate machine". And.. the ambition.. may not be the best tutor. Persistence.. might be better.

It is important to find yourself a project/s of your own. Nothing too great, can be tiny or insignificant to others. Then don't give up until you do it.

And.. Have Fun. If there's never fun, then this isn't your thing. Abstractly said, programming is the ultimate boredom, and i only manage to do it for 35+ years by searching new ways of finding fun. Nowadays it's mentoring people. What's next.. will see :)
>Writers have only a 3.8 percent chance—“totally safe”—while machinists face an alarming 65 percent.

Only one of those is paid poorly. Hint, it's not the machinist, whose productivity has massively improved thanks to automation.

Software developers are well compensated despite the extremely high degree of automation in their jobs.

The reality is that humans consume a fixed amount of resources and have a variety of jobs that produce value. As long as the value you produce is bigger than the resources you consume you can employ an infinite amount of people in a job. Automation increases your productivity and thus increases the amount of value you can produce.

Those burger flippers are compensated poorly because you need a lot of them to run a restaurant that serves cheap food. If you had a way of increasing their productivity 2 fold you can afford to pay them twice as much. I said afford.

You still need proper government policies that drive unemployment down to reap these benefits. However, without automation you are doomed to a low salary, no matter how well the economy is doing.
windows glass isn't easily recyclable either. it can be repurposed...

> However, while window glass may not be recycled easily, there are many options for keeping it out of the landfill. For example, it can be melted and re-manufactured into fiberglass, incorporated into asphalt, and even combined into reflective yellow and white road paints. Broken glass can be combined with concrete to create terrazzo flooring and countertops. Some companies even use old glass for landscaping materials and other decorative applications.

...but that's nowhere near a recycled window.
Total nonsense, but I'll let Antonopoulos respond:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFqEofdAZ0
Database of police outcomes may be first step to reduce racial bias
Funny. I thought it must be a Sanskrit word, it doesn't sound too Finnish to my untrained (albeit Hungarian) ears.
"'Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.'

'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!'"
Controversial opinions below: Feeling might be hurt.

- Bitcoin is popular in the west and the US specifically because it lacks the cutting edge financial networks rest of the world has. Citizens in China, India, Kenya etc can do transactions in a jiffy using their existing bank accounts, whereas ACH clearance takes longer time.

- The digital Gold-rush aspect, HODLing, and no regulation makes it more lucrative to players who would love to cash out big on it. Greed trumps it all.

- Most of the BTC mining has been cornered by big mining, and it's way out of reach of regular Joe. This doesn't look democratic to me.

- The hugmongous energy wastage of the network should be the biggest cause of concern, but most proponents shoo it away by buzzwords like lightning network etc.
The trade of tin from Cornwall dates from prehistory and is documented since Ancient times. It used to transit down the Rhône River to the Mediterranean.

See early travels to Britain from Greek explorers [1]. Incidentally Pytheas was from Marseille, near the Rhône delta and thus probably a hub for Cornish tin.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas
The value lies not in the energy but in its utility to facilitate transfers without the expressed permission of some authority.

The energy isnt wasted though, the safety of the trustless transaction is proportional to the expended energy. While not the source of value, it is a necessity, not a waste.
Move along, nothing to see here.

This is intentional design feature of implantable devices.

Most implantable devices have special feature that they can be deactivated with a magnet. This allows them to be easily deactivated without any special equipment, in case they malfunction or when in care of medical staff that don't want the device to interfere.

Any person wearing one will know not to put any electronic device close to the implant, anyway.

This has been discussed on HN multiple times. There are many household devices producing stronger magnetic fields, for some reason "Henry Ford cardiologists" did not find them objectionable.
You mean "withdraw resources by dictatorships", not "from" dictatorships.

As a dictator, my goal is to fill my bank accounts for when I get deposed. In most cases, countries who have their resources fleeced have lawful means to go after former dictators. Bitcoin removes that.
So Zora is just a renegotiation of the contracted paradigm it rails against whilst not really changing anything?

Sloan does make the point though that changing anything in the object changes its nature and that new object can then be resold on. The Zora model doesn't really solve anything when you can change one bit of a digital object and have essentially the same object? Does it?
Doesn't sound like it's worth torching the only inhabitable planet for.
You've convinced me to chuck Matklad's RSS feed into my reader :)
Proof of work exists maintain unforgeable costliness.

It's a basic pre-requisite without which you cannot have digital scarcity, because it would be far too easy and too cheap to forge/create new coins. It's amazing how early we still are in Bitcoin after 12 years. Almost nobody on this forum understands why proof of work exists, and yet most people here are intelligent enough and have enough technical skill to figure out why.

It is much greener than: napalm, nuclear weapons, etc. Trillions are spent every year on war to maintain the reserve currency status.

Would you really rather prefer to spend trillions on standing armies, rather than incentivize cheap fusion reactors?
IOTA arguably is not decentralized at the moment and has questionable history: https://www.coindesk.com/iota-being-shut-off-is-the-latest-c...
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true?

What seems possible is to check what miners mined a block, and externally verify their footprint. But I don't think there is a decentralized way to do it. An entity certifying "green miners" would be a centralized authority.
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Probably not enough developers motivated enough to work on aarch64. Maybe if Nvidia and/or another Arm64 hardware vendor was a sponsor OTOH things would be different.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2019-Decemb...
It has reed switch which is specially designed sensor that closes in presence of even small magnetic field.

This is intentional feature.
If we go “ways back” then we don’t have much hard data on how people spent their time. It doesn’t seem at all obvious to me that people consume more fiction now than they used to, though they certainly do it in different ways.
Climate change doesn't care if I use my 1kWh for gaming on a console, using dryer, A/C or computing digits of pi which have already been computed because I wanted to do it on my super inefficient old computer.

There are many ways to mitigate climate change but I don't think that telling people what should they do with electricity is the way to go. Perhaps focus more on how the energy gets produced, not how it is consumed.
It happened like this: Clicked on the google search result, file opened in browser, blindly copied the link from address bar. Thanks and sorry.
It is true that cooking is not a focus when raising boys. However, the best cooks in my family were men. Anecdotal of course, but Most chefs are men too, which seems like a contradiction of sorts.

Maybe like the above poster (and myself) men learn to appreciate the benefits of cooking like lower cost, fun family activity, and usually healthier.
When we built, we had both, an architect and a construction engineer. The architect was a necessity to send plans for approval (you need a permission to hand in these plans, and an official stamp, both of which our engineer didn't have anymore since he was retired). Besides that, the architect was a complete waste of money. Unable to properly use his CAD software, made a ton planning mistakes. These mistakes had to be fixed by the contractors, e.g. plumbing requires a pump to get waste water to sewer level. For the ground floor that is, first floor is already above sewer level. Our architect passed both floors through the pump. And it continued on.

Basically, the architects plans were used as a basis to work from during construction. Luckily we had people able to do so. As our engineer put it: architects "paint" houses, the actual drawings and design to turn into something you can build is done by engineers.

Both, architects and engineers are liable for their designs so over here. Reason why the stamp is so important and expensive, you need quite a pricey insurance for that.
>"It found that “daughter-divorce” risk emerges only in a first-born girl’s teenage years (see chart). Before they reach the age of 12, daughters are no more linked to couples splitting up than sons are. “If fathers were really more likely to take off because they preferred sons, surely they wouldn’t wait 13 years to do so,” reasons Dr Kabatek."

Maybe parts of the article I could not access goes more into detail, but this is an odd perspective when it is known that women initiate 70% of divorces (see fig. 1 in [0]).

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_Who_wants_the_B...
"What the author suggests would be similar to saying,"

No, because driving has a legitimate purpose.
Works as designed. When a pacemaker detects a strong magnetic field it switched itself off.

Pacemaker carriers have to beware of magnetic name bagdes, magnetic toys and of course mobile devices with strong magnets.

Here they tested two small spherical magnets (diameters, 8 and 12 mm), a necklace with magnets, and a magnetic name tag; no single magnet weighed more than 8.3 grams.

https://www.jwatch.org/jc200701240000001/2007/01/24/beware-w...
Great, I can refer people (and myself) to this page !

A lot of tunneling tutorial, medium articles and blog post mixes local and remote port forwarding and use the words interchangeably which cause a lot of confusion.
So you propose shutting down the internet to end Bitcoin?
Reincarnation is true, although not necessarily how it's usually portraited.

Reincarnation means becoming flesh again. I am the flesh of my mother and father and all the living beings I've eaten. And my grandmother and grandfather, and all the species before homo sapiens, up until the first living being.

I don't have memory like "that day when I was chased by hyenas in Africa", but I have a type of memory encoded in my DNA. My fear of snakes, my disgust for bitter foods, the color of my skin, and much more. These come from my past lives.

If I have kids, I'll also reincarnate myself. But even if I don't, my body will feed other living beings, and the molecules that now constitute "me" will constitute someone else. Given billion of years, someday parts of me and you will roam the earth as some future being.

I always had a hard time accepting some religious ideas because they required so much magic thinking that my reaction was to discard them. My epiphany was realizing that many have a core of truth. It's all a matter of perspective.

For insights like this and more, check out the "Religion for the non-religious" post by waitbutwhy:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...
Do destroy Bitcoin, to incent people to move to more efficient alternatives.

Bitcoin should have died a decade ago.
Your argument is not even an argument, it's just: "In my opinion Bitcoin has value and porn does not".

For the same reason Bitcoin has value, you could argue porn has value.

At the very basic level, if someone is paying for it, who are you to decide it has no value to that person?
I think Corey Shafer's tutorial[1] is a great place to get started. His voice is clear even on 2x and he doesn't bore me

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTsWmV9i9c58mdDC...
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Er, no it wouldn't?

You don't need Bitcoin around to do that.
Is there evidence for that mating could only occurr "to an extent," like with horses and donkeys? Is there a physiological difference making it difficult for, say, difficulties in mating between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, or between Homo sapiens and Denisovans?

There can be a number of reasons for the two not mating often outside mere physiological differences, for instance differences in preferred culture, looks and personality. While some of that can certainly be the result of biological differences, it's not necessarily so. I'm just guessing and theorizing here, though, so any leads, links or breadcrumbs would be nice. :)
It seems like ADRs are the deltas of architecture.md: they describe how it has changed over time. It's useful to have one document which just describes things as they are, but it's also great to preserve the history of how things came to be that way.
It's a conceptual spreadsheet or table. Why wouldn't a read-write (element values) row iterator always be available? SQL tables can do it and numpy.ndarrays can do it.
Should probably destroy all technology that uses energy for the same reason, using the same methodology. Ie, ignore every conceivable benefit and focus only on energy usage as the singular and all-pervasive critical factor.

I guess humans even without technology might use energy too, simply by existing, so we should probably attack and end us as well.

This is surely humanity's only sensible path to a sustainable future, and one that everyone can and must get on board with. Right?
> I'm most curious as to who uses the last argument in the JS map function!

array.map((val, index, {length}) => if (index + 1 == length) { alert("last element") } else { alert("element #"+index) })
> I'm not of the opinion they're eyesores - the nyc Skyline was stagnant for decades until these needles came in. One way or another progress in that regard is good?

What “good” does a skyline do for society? The enormous costs to build super talls would go much further in myriad other ways, even just by making a few tall or many regular size buildings. Very far from progress if you as me.

Actually, I would take the construction of a novel building just to give views and prestige to less than one hundred families to be evidence of societal regression, since it can be used as a proxy for extreme wealth inequality.
You make a very compelling argument, especially #1 that there can't be an expectation of any new technology or science to come out of money spent on speculation or mining. Equivalently, any progress in blockchain technology doesn't require the existence of the Bitcoin network to be implemented.

I now see some holes in my Apollo analogy (also government vs individual spending). I am lucky there is always someone on HN who will make a better point :)
"Bitcoin is popular in the west and the US specifically because it lacks the cutting edge financial networks rest of the world has."

This only applies to the US, Europe has a instant bank transfer system.
A/C is useful, and can save lives. Bitcoin is speculative masturbation. And you could do that with a less obscenely wasteful crypto asset.
No, Volkswagen was the biggest EV manufacturer in Europe in 2020. Volkswagen owns 12 brands:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/brands-and-models.html

Volkswagen also sold more BEVs than Renault-Nissan globally:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/02/2020-sales-by-oem.html
Readwise also has an excellent integration with Roam Research that has utterly transformed my whole way of working with books. I can’t emphasize it enough without sounding manic.

Everything I highlight in Kindle now gets automatically imported into my Roam graph. The quotes go into the page for each book (autocreated) under timestamped sections that also show up in my daily notes page. All my highlights from the past were imported in bulk.

It is now trivial and pleasant for me, at any time while I’m thinking and journaling in Roam, to pull in a quote reference from any of my Kindle books, just with a nice inline search box.

I’m getting into writing and researching in a much more serious way and this workflow is a big part of why. I love it so much.
Extracting gold is very wasteful, I'm not sure it is better than Bitcoin in terms of environmental impact.

And Bitcoin is much more useful than gold. You can easily send Bitcoin to your family at the other end of the world. With gold, not so easy. Even buying and selling gold is much more difficult. Storing gold is also much more complicated, you can not encrypt gold, so you need physical protection.
The article makes a good argument throughout, that automated work is often sold as complete replacement, but frequently introduces more work around the automation. Also that their is a real psychological cost to marrying (social) life and technology too closely. These are fair points.

However, the article also berates self-checkout systems, which everybody I know perceives as a net benefit to their daily lives. It goes on to pretend that filling in a form on a webapp to send your leave hours to HR is somehow "doing HR’s job", omitting the obvious time savings, persistence, and error reduction for everybody involved. Finally, the article of course freely shows us the AI effect [0] as if it is a novel insight, by quoting a "technology critic", whatever that means, to tell us that actually nearly all achievements surrounding AI are just VC hype and mechanical-turk type shams.

I don't get why everything always needs to be so polarized. When we invented plastic all of a sudden everybody started doing everything with plastic, even if it did not make sense [1]. After a couple decades, some uses of plastic stick, others don't. Its natural selection on a cultural/industrial level. Why can't we allow automation/AI to go through the same process, without pretending it's somehow making our lives worse, or treating it like it's magic.

Dressing the misbehavior of industrial capitalism as a failure of technology is intellectually dishonest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
[1] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/393713192402286646/