skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«they buy it and what you holding increases in value, then tell them to do the same.»

Literally the same happens to any investment: tell people to buy stock X, time share Y, precious metal Z, that it's awesome, so it gains value, etc

The fact is Bitcoin/crypto is revolutionary. For example it allows merchants to cut down on fraud, since a payment received in BTC is irreversible, so chargeback fraud is impossible. It enables instantaneous B2B international payments. It allows escaping your country inflationary currency. It's censorship-resistant. It empowers the unbanked & underbanked.
How do they plan to load/unload cargo containers from this ship? At most of the worlds ports cargo containers are loaded and unloaded from the above the ship using dock craines, but the wind sails and the (roof?) on this seem prevent that.
My Android phone has the barcode scanner app built in.

Also FM Radio, screen recorder and IR remote control.
They're referring to diversity programs as discrimination.
You will never be able to price anything in Bitcoin, ever. It's volatile because deflationary currencies are inherently volatile.

The future of finance is in some future crypto that provides for economic-growth-based inflation/deflation of the money supply. The Fed does this manually, and that's what keeps USD more-or-less stable.
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.” -Satoshi Nakamoto Feb. 2009

If this isn’t resonating with you after the past year, I don’t know. I was forced to watch my government bungle a pandemic in the worst possible way and then asked to pay for it for decades. No I don’t think I will. Bitcoin is a way for me to step outside that debt I did not want or deserve.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
> Polkadot is a heterogeneous multi-chain interchange and translation architecture which enables customised side-chains to connect with public blockchains.

> Polkadot provides unprecedented economic scalability by enabling a common set of validators to secure multiple blockchains.

keyword bingo !

What problems does it solve ? Who's problems does it solve ?
A super-interesting book this is Jonny Steinberg "A Man of Good Hope". The man in question is a Somali who, when he's being interviewed, does various jobs in the poorer parts of South Africa. And has interesting perspectives on things, and how they look "from below" as it were, as opposed to the more common outsider's impressions from people visiting from richer countries.
seems like you just didnt dyor
Something can only be racist and talked about if it happens to select people. /s

If people spoke more in terms of wealth than color, a lot more people would be on board.
Every Child Should Know That a Hole to China Theoretically Starts in Argentina
I don't understand such kind of comments. Let's talk again after you experienced a bank cancelling your business account for no reason with seemingly having landed on a shared hidden blacklist that makes it impossible to get a new bank account.
It really is pathetic. Looks more mafia-like every day - they grab control of a choke point, ensuring they get their vig, but otherwise show no interest in providing real security.

It is just 'protection'.
he is conflating things with value and a good unit to measure said value -- which is itself very valuable.
Initially it was meant to be used as currency, but it's become more of an asset class now, mainly used as a store of value, similar to gold.

Do you know how difficult it is to get millions of people to agree that something is a store of value, not only agree, but to put their money where their mouth is? THIS is why bitcoin is where it's at.
Yeah, argument is they might be prone to errors.
Since we don't have enough doses or dosing capacity yet to make anywhere reach herd immunity, not even tiny Israel (although hopefully they are getting close), it's not like shipping everything to South Africa would change anything. Also, given the refrigeration requirements of the early vaccines, shipping it to lower income countries would probably just increase the chance of some of the doses spoiling.

Really, it's in virtually every country, so there's not a place on Earth where it's not mutating.
A developer has to hold a cogent mental model of the problem they’re working on. Someone copying text might be able to do it while thinking of other things. If a developer is interrupted, their mental model “pops” like a bubble, and they might have to mentally start from scratch once they’ve dealt with the interruption.
https://youtu.be/4dwjS_eI-lQ

In that video they show how far they still are from domesticated foxes compared to modern dogs. Well, domesticated pretty much means, "desirable traits for human benefit" when you think about it, the same applies to humans, but we call that civilized or sociable. Theres a joke in the comments, something like the fox goes "I'm okay with you being a meter away from me... but let's keep it that way." The dog, "you cant ignore my love!"

But I fully disagree on the assessment that larger dogs are more wild. Smaller dogs tend to be complete violent assholes for little to no reason. Larger dogs tend to need more reason to become aggressive, unless they came from an abusive environment. I volunteered at an animal shelter for about a year (admittedly to pick up women originally). But I gladly hung out with pits and shepherds from abused pasts so they can be rehabilitated for new homes. I could never do the same with anything smaller than a border collie. Just never worked out. Large working breed dogs are crazy easy for me to calm down, and I am generally not a brave man. Dogs have been bred the last 40k some odd years to genetically want to be with humans. Then some assholes the past few thousand years decided to breed for looks and tiny sizes instead of companionship. That's what makes the larger working dogs great. Listen to and love humans, and have a job to do is their breeding line. Not just looks, which can breed out the friendly part.

Caveat though, there are some pit lines that are a bit whack. Sadly, originally they were bred for fighting other dogs, but super strong friendliness for humans, to avoid the owner getting bit. Which is why they're cuddle bugs with people and are dicks to other dogs. This breed attracted a bunch of dipshits that bred them for just pure aggression, then add on the abuse. So yea... those are the sad cases.
The grids are large, but the transport is very inefficient. That's why Bitcoin mining is becoming an alternative to previous ways to avoid wasting energy surplus, like melting aluminum ore.
Yes, that's one of the factors influencing planning. It will be very hard to get financing for a hydroelectric plant without existing infrastructure or some guarantee that transmission will be built. You can't just pick a river and hope the customers come to you.
> It really only ever makes sense to sell if doing so will positively change your lifestyle, or you have no alternative.

Hmm, but what about opportunity cost? I think the challenge is that it's impossible to know a priori what the "alternatives" even are.
You're subscribing to trend-following strategy, which is your prerogative, but if your 50% return "similar asset" is really similar to something you already hold, then why didn't you hold it already as part of a diversified portfolio? If you had you would have shared some of the gain, whereas jumping ship you may find you missed the boat.
I wish I could go back to this. But, I'm part of an international team now; so my productive mornings are a thing of the past. Now, I'm constantly in meetings with the European teams. Then, the American side wants some of my afternoons as well. I'm losing my mind with this.
I love the idea of Bitcoin. But, as someone who's been working in banking for more than a decade - what problem does Bitcoin solve? Serious question; 'cause I'm failing to come up with a good answer.

Edit: The closest I've come to answering this: To me Bitcoin is more a decentralized international payment protocol (such as SWIFT); not a store of value / currency. But I rarely see it being pitched in that way.
100-GHz Single-Flux-Quantum Bit-Serial Adder Based on 10-KA/Cm2 Niobium Process
There are no gods (not on HN anyway).
Oh noes, if this starts a trend, becomes widespread, and businesses start hoarding crypto tokens instead of investing in building stuff, it could cause a great depression pretty much the same way gold hoarding caused the economy to collapse in 1929.

When people, businesses and banks start hording tokens instead of investing in building and maintaining the production capacity of consumables, the ratio of value of tokens meant to buy consumables vs the actual production of consumables gets out of wack.

When the music stops, people realize that others are sitting on tons of seemingly valuable tokens but stuff to buy with them is getting scarce because capacity is not being maintained, they reverse their trade, prices of stuff go up, volatility ensues in an incredibly destructive cycle.

Too much savings being tied to tokens instead of assets that create real value is an economy wide coordination failure, a terrible Nash equilibrium. It can be hard to solve because it's a prisoner's dilemma where the first people to invest in real production are disadvantaged so everyone hoards tokens instead.

This is what central banks are designed to prevent. We don't want cryptocoins to cause another great depression like gold tied currencies did almost a hundred years ago.
There are practical reasons that getting rid of currency - or money I assume you mean - is a bad idea. It would be much more difficult to exchange goods and services if we had to barter for instance. But perhaps you have some alternative in mind that I haven't thought of.
http://archive.is/l4As3
Just have to be careful that you aren't thrashing around and exchanging investments to quickly. For one thing, the tax drag, and secondly, I've put money into a variety of things and then taken it out, only to see the stock triple in value (various EV, certain companies after IPO)
I've noticed the same, and I find it kind of amusing because it is basically the opposite of the common advice of periodically "rebalancing" your portfolio
Do people price things in gold? So, is gold not a serious thing?
I've read through this but I'm not sure I'm seeing any advantages to Buildpack.

First point - I see an example of a Dockerfile in TFA, but when it comes to the example of a Buildpack there isn't one; I just see a conceptual description of an abstraction. It appears that a lot of the inference is hidden away by use of 'detection' but is there magic hidden underneath? Does it allow arbitrary hacky steps if needed, like adding a random certificate?

Second point - A Dockerfile explicitly codifies what's happening. I can look at it and know how the build will go or what I need to change. The Buildpack equivalent would be spread across many different files, does that sound about right?
I read another post about talent. If you use AI in your process and try to industrialize your hiring to make it as cheap as possible, I think you will be either very, very good at finding and fostering talent... or very, very bad.
It's different for Huawei's app store ?
The prosecution might call in a different expert in the next trial if the current one is not 'good'.
I’ll also take william
barber at his word.

I think the original post is a stalking horse because it makes a claim i find to be true and unobjectionable, but i suspect the group making the claim is doing so duplicitously to avoid proper responsibility.
I understand the theory, but that just isn't what happens in reality, at least right now. Please at least glance at the links I listed.
That's because postmodernist journalists like those in the NYT reject economic class as a valid or primary category and instead privilege racial categories (referred to as marginalized groups). This is often referred to as intersectionality and that perspective both dislikes the Marxist and also classical liberal economic understandings.
At least you can build useful things out of gold
Fun timing on this post, I just started learning to use LMMS a couple days ago. It seems to be a pretty good piece of software even if there are some kinks to work out with the plugins.

Ran into issues with loading VST plugins, apparently their GUIs won't work when using multiple monitors on Linux. I have to go into the display settings and disable my second monitor before using any plugins, which is a pain.
Bitcoin is a _terrible_ way to launder money. Not only are the onramps/offramps not anonymous - but it has so much attention that entire federal task forces are setup for $30k buy-and-busts

You'd use bitcoin for money laundering if you want to stand out and get caught. There's still nothing better than the tried-and-tested old cash, casino junket, money exchange and/or import/export businesses to launder money.

There's a reason why the most recent crop of darkweb drug markets have switched almost entirely to Monero
This kind of software should be required by law to be open source.
Michael Saylor pulled the same move six months ago and explains it really well. Highly recommend watching any of his interviews. The one with Preston Pysh is particularly enlightening.

Essentially bitcoin is a really good store of value with superior monetary properties to all other assets. If you want to store wealth for a hundred years there's nothing better. Even gold has 2% devaluation per year and has custodial risk, whereas bitcoin has no devaluation (21M supply cap), is easy to self-custody, and is very secure (high energy use/decentralized).
> Then they buy into all of the cryptocurrency platitudes wholesale without stopping for a moment to critically evaluate it.

Go ahead then, I would genuinely like to hear your critical evaluation since you just shit all over the Bitcoin whitepaper without any actual critique in your post.

I don't understand the extreme polarization of Bitcoin on HN. It's a very interesting tech and it's still early in the adoption phase and the space is still evolving.
Which overlaps with the CI on other COVID variants. This is a small sample study, and the media and governments are probably too quick to take the centre of the estimate. Sampling variation could explain the outcome as much as the South African variant.
“Allow this app to personalize advertising for you?”
Deepl seems to have a bit of an issue with uncommon street suffixes in Chinese. For example:
江苏省苏州市姑苏区东中市374号槔桥头

Google: Bridge Head, No. 374, Dongzhong City, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Deepl: Pulley Bridge, No. 374, Dongzhong City, Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province
Libre: Cambridge No. 374 in the eastern part of the city of Jiangsu, province of Jiangsu
Watson: No. 374 Bridge Head in East China, Suzhou, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

You can kind of see which service goes for the literal more than the interpretive. It might be a bit unfair to use an address that is more than just the literal street address, although in actual speech, this address is at an intersection with two bridges and it's enough of a local landmark that the addition would make sense. Except for the uncertainty over the proper name of the bridge that actually doesn't throw Google or Deepl off. It's the 市suffix for a street, not unique in this city but certainly rare, that gets all of the services. Libre at least gives it a try, Watson just pretends like it doesn't exist and for whatever reason translates the old name of the city to the new name of the city, which obviously now encompasses a much greater area and exists in a different context. Deepl seems to have figured out that you aren't really supposed to have two cities in one address and tries to rectify that in spite of the literal. I would imagine that a human translator would use the entirety of the street name and add "street" in English to the end. Definitely interesting to see how these services handle somewhat nonstandard and much older address patterns that don't originate necessarily in Mandarin and frequently relates to local landmarks that no longer exist, all of which requires some contextual work beyond your standaard post-1949 naming of streets that tends to be fairly standardized both thematically and in form.
Right? Back in 2016/2017 it seemed more open. There was discussion about technology. I remember quite a bit about Bitcoin and blockchain, Ethereum, smart contract platforms etc. There's been a lot of technical innovation in these areas. Ethereum has a real product in DeFi nowadays and there's been some really amazing technical achievements. With Ethereum's move to PoS it will put the argument of energy consumption behind us and then the merits of having a distributed worldwide computation system might get talked about again. I don't get the hate now. Maybe people are just holding backs and are bitter about it
I have no idea. What does it even mean and why would I want to do it?
> it would cost a lot of energy, something I doubt an advanced race would spend.

While I agree with your overall conclusion, I don't see that we have any evidence that as a race progresses technologically, they spend less energy. The opposite seems to be true.
I wish there was more literature about this, both academic and fictional. I've always found it amusing how far people go to believe that we're detached from the wild animal in us. From conception to some young age I'd say we barely differ from animals (hence why some animals are compared to humans at various, usually single-digit, ages). Then even once we're grown, there are many situations where I think, surely this is what a regular animal experiences too: looking for something and absentmindedly searching, having fun running around with friends, identifying a dangerous situation and either taking action to defend loved ones or flee, etc.
I’m not certain you can quantify the qualitative - it’s too much. How would you properly set up what you are looking for concerning the specifics in your company’s culture? It would be great to have follow ups - like did this person who passed all these tests and get hired really turn out to be amazing..? How do they factor Ig they get another job offer and leave shortly after the hire? When humans can’t even read humans how are they going to program something that will?
No one can hack bitcoin, it's created through robust mathematical models.

What can be hacked are exchanges and wallets. You can keep your coins out if these as long as you want and carry them as gold or cash and do in place transactions whenever the network is available. You can even use physical coins, which are simply piece of paper with the key written on it. The receiver would need to have a connection to verify that the funds are still there though.

No jurisdiction has any power over who owns what coins. The best they can do is to physically extract the fund from person like extracting any secret(torture, punishment if they don't comply etc.). If the person of interest dies with his secret, the coins are gone forever because the premise of BTC is that it is kept in a distributed database that can only be changed(and the only possible change is addin new records) with cryptographic validation and governments don't have a power over mathematics.
Sure, just a bunch of energy for such a large object. "To see if they can" may very well be a reason, but that doesn't seem likely for a species that advances far enough to be able to accomplish such an achievement.
Related:

"Automatic Single-Flux-Quantum (SFQ) Logic
Synthesis Method for Top-Down Circuit Design"

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/28...

>"Abstract. Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) logic circuits provide faster operations with lower power consumption, using Josephson junctions as the switching devices. In the top-down flow of SFQ circuit design, we have already developed a place-and-route tool that covers backend circuit design. In this paper, we present an automatic SFQ logic synthesis method that covers front-end circuit design. The logic synthesis is a process that generates a gate-level logic circuit from a functional specification written in hardware description languages. In our SFQ
synthesis method, after we generate an intermediate circuit with the help of a synthesis tool for semiconductor circuits, we convert it into a gate-level pipelined SFQ circuit. To do this, an automatic synthesis tool was implemented."

PDS: Phrased another way, the idea here can basically be boiled down to:

For the most time-critical parts of a conventional CPU, i.e., the Adder/ALU -- instead of using conventional circuitry for that, let's use circuits specifically designed for Quantum Computers because of their fast switching speed...

The end result is that you still get a conventional digital CPU -- albeit, in theory, a much, much faster one...

The "magic phrase" (for research) for all of this -- is Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) logic circuits...
I deleted my account for the same reasons. Also canned my LinkedIn. Gsuite is next!
You've shown that it's possible for human moderation to be awful, you haven't shown that it's impossible for human moderation to work well. It is possible. HackerNews is a fine example.

Paid moderators can have their work supervised (a 'meta-moderation system') akin to Slashdot.
Hahaha.

Buy $1.5B, Tweet about it, sell it to losers for $2B.

"Accept BTC" doesn't hurt or help, they just send the received BTC to an exchange to get fiat for it.
> You know what would be revolutionary? Getting rid of currency altogether.

I would like to see your plans for this ;)

Jokes aside, I think that Bitcoin attracting greedy people was inevitable. Bitcoin _was_ revolutionary in that it was a new financial instrument. Couple that with its explosion in value, and the 'hustle bros' will definitely come flocking trying to take advantage. However, if you were a part of it before it became popular, you would definitely know that it started as an oddity, a hobby for cryptographic enthusiasts. The hustle bros didn't write the protocol or sit around scheming about how to design this thing so they can scam people. It doesn't necessarily mean that Bitcoin is inherently bad, but its nature (decentralized, anonymous payments, complex, end users mostly don't understand the details) makes it ripe for the scams you mentioned.
Society has had multiple stores of value, as none is perfectly secure. Gold, oil, dollars, real estate, (some) bonds & equities. Crypto is the first that’s decentralized and digital and on a open network not governed by any centralized entity which is powerful bc the world needs a international reserve currency
If I'm a juror, and the evidence presented happens to have a false positive rate of 1%, that certainly meets my understanding of "a reasonable doubt."
Michael Saylor raised $900m in debt to buy bitcoin. It's like a free option call on bitcoin and is rather ingenious. If bitcoin spikes, you convert you debt into stock. If bitcoin falls, you still got your debt.
Yeah, those footers are just for the "more equal" crowd. Anyone I know who actually wants to discriminate, still gets away with it. Those who don't don't. But at least now the average diversity idealist is appeased.
I get this kind of request in my email once in a while... There's too many of You.