skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that the central banks are going to save us this time. One of the problem of 1929 was that the central banks got in on the token hoarding and exacerbated the dangerous dynamics. I still find this move by Tesla somewhat ominous, this being the new roaring 20s and all.
I'll try, even though I'm also still wrapping my head around it.

> It's a bad currency because it is slow to exchange and costs lots of money to exchange - I can't use it to buy my coffee in the morning.

I'd say that there are 2 ways to address this:

1. Bitcoin is less analogous to cash or credit cards, and more analogous to the US dollar. Today, when you buy a cup of coffee with a credit card, your issuing processor updates a database entry reflecting that you owe the coffeeshop $X. At the end of the day, the issuing processor submits a batch file to a network of automated clearing houses to reflect this movement of money. This process is extremely asynchronous, and can take up to weeks to complete. Processing a Bitcoin transaction on the blockchain is analogous to that very slow, very asynchronous process.

2. Bitcoin is about as "bad" a currency as gold is. It's fairly impractical to pay for a cup of coffee with gold, unless you are able to carry a pile of it that's cut into small enough pieces that you can reasonably transact for cheap items like coffee. A crypto bull would tell you that if your use case is to buy a cup of coffee, you're better off using a credit card through a trusted network, where the currency that's being transacted is BTC or ETH instead of USD, JPY, EUR, GBP, etc. The reason why you would have a trusted bank account storing BTC or ETH instead of USD etc is because it lets you opt-out of being at the behest of a central bank that might co-opt a monetary policy you don't agree with — or worse, can render your currency useless if they do the wrong thing. It also lets you digitally transact with people in a trust-less way if you really need to. That is to say: you don't use Bitcoin to buy a cup of coffee, you use it to pay for porn on PornHub or OnlyFans because those companies have blocked by the major payment networks. Right now the only way to pay for stuff like that is by withdrawing cash and mailing briefcases of it.

> It's a bad non-speculative asset, because it can't produce anything to deliver returns.

It produces one, and only one thing, and that's trustless transactions. As long as there is a market need for this, it has some use, even if it's a niche use-case.

> And if the answer to the question 'what can i do with a bitcoin?' is 'Wait until it is valuable, and then you can turn it into a currency you can actually spend' then it's not actually fulfilling what it set out to achieve.

I think this is a good criticism, but is one that a bull might argue will hold less true over time. In the bull's perfect world, there exists enough tooling and frameworks to allow someone to live their entire life off of Bitcoin while still interoperating with the tradition financial systems seamlessly.
I agree it's unrealistic, but I think Stallman and many others like him would rather forego the benefits of a bluetooth remote than embrace the status quo.

OpenBSD for instance, was recently discussed on here for dropping a Bluetooth stack over concerns about the correctness of the implementation, and no one has bothered to write a better one.
Bitcoin is a digital hard asset, that is a hedge against inflation. We've seen insane money printing over the past year thanks to COVID, and while we can debate on the merits of it, what is indisputable is that fiat money can be arbitrarily debased at will.

Bitcoin is a hedge against this.,
Do you really want to do anything that looks like abuse with your Google account though?

When people don't know why Google banned their 15 year accounts I wonder if it's not from innocent stuff like this.
Yessir. I remembered the number from the past, and before writing this post I found this
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...
Still, a raging 80 kg human can be a handful to deal with. A raging 200 kg gorilla is much worse. There is a lot that can be done to assimilate a gorilla into a human society, but they aren't human and the differences, while possible to understand at a certain effort, may end up surprising you.

My cat still tries to hunt my foot when bored. If she were a tiger, I would have a very serious problem to deal with (it's hard to buy shoes individually)
Reddit also has AI that can shadowban you.
We are all right :D
How the race for renewable energy is reshaping global politics
I graduated HS in the late 90's, have no children, and it was a very explicit choice.

When I was in college I read a story about a boy who was raped and then the courts required him to pay child support (IIRC the woman was a caregiver in a state facility).

I then read a story about a man who had his child support payments based upon his _SAVINGS_ rather than his income and after he went broken and could no longer make the full payments, went to jail.

I then read about a man who had 3 children with a woman and at some point his wife left him for his best friend. He had all 3 children tested and he was not the father of any of them. The courts still required him to pay child support.

After the 3rd story I decided the risk for me as a male was too great and I would never marry, nor have children.

I've been with my current SO for over 7 years and definitely consider her my life partner, but she understands that:

1. We will never marry,
2. We will never present as married (to protect against common law)
3. We will never have children (she cannot, so this works out for both of us)

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It's easy to pass men like me off as MRA or disenfranchised or any other number of labels, but the truth is I don't think I've ever been on an MRA site, by all accounts I'm considered successful, and the opportunity has definitely been there.

The truth is I was physically and mentally abused until I left home for college and the result of this experience is that I'm very anti-authoritarian and in general much more guarded against the world than most. Once I realized just how stacked our legal system is against men I chose to protect myself. I just cannot imagine being told I can only see my children on a schedule and having to pay for the right to do so with the threat of jail.

Society pays a very real cost for its decision to treat men so badly. And this is not nearly as uncommon as you think, the ones who have made these sorts of decisions just tend not to talk about it.

Perhaps, rather than dismissing this as a toxic attitude you should endeavor to understand and perhaps help right the very real injustices that happen to men.
Yes, just not everywhere. We use them to filter our candidates.
> there are gaps between skull plates.

Between Baby skull plates, not adult ones ;-)

They grow together at some point.
Google and Proton both offer free and business plans.
Sure, but again, this is only part of the problem. I also need to have confidence that I can do something with the BTC before its value wildly fluctuates. And either way, again, it still requires trust (in this case, trust in uniswap and its network).

My point is not to say that the problem can't be solved on a technical level. It's that it still requires trust. That problem doesn't get eliminated, it simply moves.
Oh no need to, it's not that related and I think both stand out well on their own. As for the animated demo, it was with asciinema [1] (I think, it's usually what I have used in the past for this). Thanks for your good work!

[1]: https://asciinema.org
Wow great phone what is the model
FWIW, there's plenty of volatile fiat currencies that things are priced in today. Stability has never been required for pricing.
Share buybacks end up reinvested. This is not the same.
> This isn’t a serious critique.

Thar counting new buyers isn't the same as counting net change in gun owners is a serious critique. That people, including gun owners, do in fact die is a major part of that.

I'm quite up front that I wasn't proposing that the calculation was more than a very simplistic estimate of the number that assumes gun owners don't have substantially different mortality risk than other people of the same age, but the number wasn’t the important part of the critique, the fact that the argument about increase in gun owners completely ignores all sources of reduction—deaths, people voluntarily stopping being gun owners, people involuntarily stopping being gun owners was the critique.

Also the fact that even if the 5 million was net new gun owners, it wouldn't actually mean much in the overall trend.
Non-paywall https://archive.vn/4tAuk
Watch this video before you jump to any conclusions - https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1357757736394444800
The intention of cash management is hedging to facilitate commerce and protect the balance sheet, not speculation.
Bitcoin is too volatile to be useful as a currency, it is too volatile because its market cap is so small.
Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies solve some real problems that most people don't actually have - they allow for verifiable electronic transactions without having to trust any single entity in the chain.

The problem Bitcoin and other cryptos actually solves for most people is different. That problem is summarized as "I have (or can borrow, at a low rate) fiat currency, and want to get a much higher return on my investment than the low rates traditional savings provide."

Money is cheap right now, and essentially, the returns on these things beat inflation and stock markets. For now. But one of these days the market will collapse - you just have to make sure you get out before that happens.
I'd like to know the pun relating to Tusk (the person) with regard to the naming of this project, as it is not at all obvious to me.
Yeah who cares about financial systems, we should all just optimize wheat strains and build fusion reactors. So embarrassing.
Disagree. There’s a reason terrorists such-as hamas, al queda, isis choose to use btc.

https://www.coindesk.com/us-prosecutors-attempt-to-seize-bit...
> Often I have wanted to simply select a bunch of files and edit them at once

DirEd (Directory Editor IIRC) is one thing I've seen sort of do this. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...

I'm really surprised that idea hasn't been doubled down on in IDEs. I still use a handy little Mac App called Rename It to edit a bunch of file names at once, because DirEd I find a bit clunky. I've taken some stabs at building this kind of editor, but it's definitely hard to nail. At least for the Tree Notation web ides we can get it added eventually, perhaps it will be easier now that CodeMirror 6 is out (which I use for the fancy syntax highlighting and all that in the current Language builder IDE).

But I 100% agree with your ideas here. If something like this (either as one scrollable buffer, or perhaps a bunch of buffers in a 2-D spreadsheet like interface), ends up being the primary IDE view in 10 years, I would not be surprised.
The story is literally about Tesla buying 1.5B usd worth of it. Sure Elon has some interests in the direction but I doubt Tesla is going to use the bought Bitcoin for drugs.
This should really be interpreted by the market as tesla saying, "We don't really know what to do with your money, so we just bought a bunch of bitcoin.", Unfortunately I don't think that's going to be the case.
Wow, that's a lot of bash boilerplate.
BTC consumes more electricity than many individual countries in the world. It is something like 0.1% of the electrical energy consumption of the entire world. That is not insignificant, it is a huge chunk that could be stopped with virtually 0 impact on the world economy (unlike all your other examples).
The current large tech company I work for had a recruiter posting messages on LinkedIn like “we’re hiring like crazy in <my town> for people with <my background>!” I had already applied on their careers site and got no response. Messaged this recruiter and got no response. Applied again to a similar position maybe 2 months later, got a response, got an interview, and now I’m working there. Guess my point is there’s clearly a lot of randomness in the screening process.
Except they straight up ask you for your racial etnicity, disabilities and gender.
not a big deal then, there's plenty of display managers, and you don't even need one to use gnome
Because in Germany/Europe discrimination is officially illegal so it is assumed nobody does it, even though people know better, and because you cannot fully outlaw and police tribalism, human bias and cronyism that is evolutionary ingrained in us as a species since the dawn of man.

Putting more legislative hoops in place means HR will just need to find more creative ways to formulate job requirements in order to exclude certain classes of people or more creative ways of justifying not taking you application further, but ultimately won't solve the core issue.
4M for just a scanner??

I appreciate the app but...don't you think that's too much?
Interested but the Demo gif says "This Content is Not Available".
yes.

every woman I've ever dated has understood from the beginning that if she ends up pregnant there will paternity tests done.

I've had a few get angry with me, but all of them understood it was going to happen regardless of their feelings.
When I read about quantum computing the impression I get is that quantum computers are more similar to analog computers than to classical computers. That is, there are a problems where they are better/faster than classical computer and problems where classical are better/faster than quantum computers.

Having a "100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder" means we can finally have hope for classical computations at hundreds of GigaHertz?
What niche is this "Canva" succesful in?

I haven't heard of any of the names in the article, with the exception of Adobe. So the author may be talking about some niche where that Canva is actually better than <whatever Adobe sells this week>.

Possibly some web "content" and marketing niche, considering his vocabulary?
So is "normal" money
I bet people still earn $50,000 a year and pay $1,500 a year in property taxes; not 1.2 btc or whatever.
https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1357757736394444800
There needs to be a raft of community managers @ Google handling these sort of failures, including some senior ones to deal with escalations of this kind. They need this to counter the phalanx of people who enjoy spending their time trashing google. Just check reddit's ProjectFi or Stadia subgroups to see people who've made it their life's work to downvote every thread and response in those forums and spew vitriol at every opportunity.

Edit: I'm not defending Google's actions in the case of the Terraria developer's account or any other. I'm saying there are some people who have an axe to grind and right now they are the loudest voices. IMHO Google needs to counteract that by taking real action at a broad scale.

At some point the trolls will win for no other reason than inaction on Google's part.
No, Ethereum does not specifically depend on Bitcoin.

However, the use cases are very different. Bitcoin is about money (as a distinct concept from currency). Think of it as a new type of central bank --that's Bitcoin's target market, and always has been (look up "Chancellor on the brink" in the 1st Bitcoin block). Bitcoin also intends to be peer-to-peer cash. This is what the lightning network aims to be, or the BCH fork depending on your point of view.

Ethereum is about smart contracts. Think: decentralized organizations, tokenized probabilistic outcomes, insurance, yield generating investments, etc.

As it turns out, the two can be very complementary. For example, Bitcoin can be wrapped (WBTC or similar) and represented on the Ethereum chain. This allows Bitcoin to be a store of value which can be collateralized and borrowed against using an Ethereum contract (e.g. Compound, AAVE, etc.). This is one narrow, but important use case: Ethereum can enable BTC holders to access liquidity.
Very true. The importance of dollars has if anything been highlighted in 2020 exactly because its supply can be expanded by the fed when the world demands it. Adam Tooze has a wonderful piece on this topic https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/15/rise-fall-united-states....
Maybe he's realized that robotaxis as a justification for the company's valuation [1] is not going to work out as planned. Now he's decided to buy Bitcoin (from proceeds of newly issued shares) and pump that instead.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/elon-musk-explains-how-self-...
It would appear the corpo mercs have outnumbered the hackers for some time.
The next logical step would be to train an adversarial AI against the hiring AI. You'd have the system generate your resume and application to maximize your chances. Then the hiring AI would need to be re-trained to account for this. And so on.

In the far future, this feedback loop creates an economy where every job application is total gibberish. No human can possibly explain why their resume is a recipe for carne asada, an excerpt from Moby Dick, and a bunch of windings. But supposedly it's predicted to increase final offer salary by 13.54%, so nobody questions it. Anybody who still writes out their resume by hand is considered a luddite weirdo, and definitely not someone you'd want to have join your company.
Grossly oversimplifying it, but it is what my lawyer uncles say, and is consistent with what I saw as a juror on a civil trial involving many topics I'm personally an expert in, expert witnesses are paid to lie on the stand. At the very least they are paid very very well (the amount they were paid was emphasized at the trial I was at) to state only the information consistent with what the person paying them wanted to them to say, regardless of whether they know information that would be more helpful to the other side.
To be clear, despite the appearance of 'quantum' in the title, this is a development toward faster classical computers by using superconducting circuit elements (Josephson junctions). A computer using this type of logic would need to be cryo-cooled down to ~single-digit Kelvin temperatures, but as discussed in a thread a few weeks ago[0], a superconducting computer can still beat a conventional computer in terms of ops/Watt, even when the power consumption of the cooling equipment is included.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25765128
You make a very good point. Having your investment money separate from operating funds is a key to having continually growing investments.

Money from the sale of an asset should only be used to buy other assets until you reach your personal wealth target.
When a journalist uses an anonymous source, then they are putting their own reputation on the line, rather than that of the source.

Unfortunately, as we've seen, there are no consequences for journalists that manufacture outrage and misleading or outright false facts.

...and so consequently, we've seen many many examples in the last decade of journalists citing "unnamed sources" to deliver "facts" that turn out to be utterly false.

...and so the ultimate issue remains that journalists are rewarded for traffic, not accuracy or truth.
Is it spam or a "mail ddos"?
I think it's a bit broader than that, hence the mention of pronoun; but the problem is the same. Forgiving the unrepentant may be Christian but it puts you in the "cooperate" side of a repeated game of Prisoner's Dilemma where they can just "defect" against you again.

There has to be repentance first. A good apology clearly acknowledges the error, agrees that they were in the wrong, and includes a (implied or explicit) commitment to not do it again, as well as (where applicable) making good any real damage done.

Whereas up until now the strategy seems to have been to retaliate to being called out on being wrong by going even further, louder, and deeper into wrongness.
Says the "Product Manager at a mid size fortune 500 tech company", how much of your day consists on focusing 100% on societal problems really?

Besides shitting on other peoples choices, why don't you try to reach out to the graduates and ask them why they work in the cryptocurrency space?

Most of the people I know, including myself, have "improving the world" as the reason for working on cryptocurrencies. Even though you might not agree with that, you have to understand people see things differently in the world, and what you see as "the most important issues" is not often the same as what other people see as important.

What's even more important is to not shit on what others chose to spend their time on. Instead, be quiet and work on your stuff that is sooooo important and will solve everything with humanity.
I quit Facebook 5 years ago when it started getting really toxic for me, but I also have a very addictive personality.

I deleted my Facebook account, then edited my computer's hosts file with 127.0.0.1 facebook.com so that the website would redirect to a "this page could not be found" screen. This prevented me from accidentally reactivating my account and eventually the muscle memory faded
Yes, a decentralized international payment protocol is a good answer, but it also has a currency itself embedded in it. A type of currency to make this protocol work.

The whole thing saves a lot of manpower and energy in the world, so in that regard it potentially holds a lot of value.

However, if you told me to open up Excel and calculate the approximate true value of 1 BTC, I am unable to do so.

I can imagine scenarios where for someone with very specific needs of anonymity it solves problems, but I cannot imagine any direct problems it solves for me.
If you have been an investor (or startup employee) for less than 13 years, you may not have witnessed large paper losses that make a good argument against never selling.

More directly: We are in the longest bull market in history. It is not always like this.

I've learned that it makes sense to miss out on some upside to protect against the downside. This was a reversal of my previous beliefs, which matched the GGP's.

I make no predictions about the future here -- short term, or long term. Somehow we (the investor class) survived a year of enormous social disruption which should have decimated the market, at least. The popular wisdom says that the next year will bring (social) recovery and economic expansion. This might be true.

But I would argue against a blanket policy of never selling. I have ridden that train all the way to $0 (literally) more than once, and while I was not harmed by these decisions, they were objectively poor ones.
This needs to be stated yet again apparently - systemd is not one monolothic binary, it's a collection of tools in one repository.

Centrally developing many disparate pieces of software from one repository is what every BSD does so you can hardly argue that it's not "UNIX".

This is setting aside that systemd actually does all of those things better than the tools that came before. journalctl and systemd timers are fantastic. And good luck using the alternatives to manage cgroups.
What are the positive sides of "Evading capital controls"?

Also, does POS here mean "piece of shit"?
I see your point but there is nothing to stop organisations maintaining their own set of "trusted builders".

`FROM node` etc is still relying on external communities, the buck has to stop somewhere
It could be an opportunity to invest in new mechanisms of power distribution, and be on the forefront of research in this area. It could also find more productive uses of this electricity, such as supercomputing clusters or lasers used for research.
At some point you just have to trust people to not intentionally lie in a trial. We have very stiff penalties for anyone caught lying in court, but there isn't much more we can realistically do.
This is known as common law marriage and has the requirement that you _PRESENT_ as married to the world. If you don't present as married you are not common law married.
Great job. This is a wonderful project!