skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of all news stories in major outlets written about BTC lead with "this is the price of BTC". Nothing about its use. BTC functions precisely as well if it is $10 per coin or $100,000 per coin. Popular interest in BTC is almost entirely based on "I can get rich". That is certainly a thing. People have gotten rich and likely people will continue to get rich. But that's no paradigm shift.
I have in mind things like this [1]. I no longer have my undergraduate text or notes but I recall going through a similar exercise.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0610121.pdf
In cases 1-3, the outputs are all the same (getting hit wit a pan) but the inputs are different. So it still could be that my spouse's behavior is a function of the surrounding circumstances.

Another analogy is two primitive societies that are both experiencing repeated episodes where gum is found on the floor of buses. In one society, a person is found to be likely to have done it, and is forced to make a speech at the public square about bus etiquette. In another society, a person is chosen at random. Over the generations, the first society is found to have cleaner buses, and without remembering the way that their custom was invented, call it "personal responsibility."
Then you're in the overwhelming minority of bitcoin users.
thanks for building this. maybe you can point me in the right direction with the naming.

Names like /club/ (house) or /jam/ sounds like they might appeal to an audiophile. apart from using a name that suggests it lends itself to collaborative online music sessions is there anything in this technology that improves on the sound quality/delivery over what the existing platforms do?

tl;dr: Music production evolves over time and digital content distribution is very different in the mixing business. Older formats are not built with streaming in mind and so you lose a lot of quality during upload to streaming services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxMsawJsTc

Instead of just another SaaS that claims they've invented the group-call (which we could already do over circuit-switched networks minus the data monetization & user tracking) is there any benefit for those of us who really take the "listening" part seriously?
It's a bit worrisome that we are inching towards the scenario where companies may be tempted at an economy wide scale to reduce investment in production in order to hoard cryptocoins instead. It caused the great depression when businesses switched to hoarding gold tied currency instead of producing in the 1930s.

Now I'm not sure that crypto coins without being jacked up by central banks (like gold was during the great depression) are a powerful enough force to cause the type of havoc that gold did.

Then again, the potentially stronger network/memetic effects of cryptocoins, along with the amplification factor from markets being synchronized through instant all-encompassing global communications nowadays might make them dangerous to the economy even without central bank involvement. We saw how much people can get hypnotized by these things during the Gamestop episode. I don't think unsophisticated investors' hoarding is enough to cause big problems but it is a bit unsettling that Tesla and other companies are jumping on the cryptocoin train. If enough businesses follow suit, you get into scary territory (It would also be worrisome if companies widely moved to add billions in gold to their balance sheet but I thought the lesson had been learned in the 1930s with gold).

In theory, if central banks stay stimulative enough through all this, you can have growth in both crypto and businesses. As long as these central banks don't blink at the sight of what may look like crypto bubbles.
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I'd prefer something like

printf(condition? "YES": "NO");

than something like

if (condition) {
printf("YES")
} else {
printf("NO")
}
Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist, pointed out the hazards of "Peer to peer electronic media" in the 1960s with uncanny accuracy. Calling someone a luddite when your own views are as anachronistic as they are is ridiculous.

And stop flattering yourself by calling social media 'tech'. Every industry uses technology, calling it 'tech' doesn't distinguish it in any way. Social media is a medium for a exchange like a book, or a campfire. Different media have different effects on how information is conveyed and how the world is understood by the users of said medium.

Social media has been overwhelmingly influential to the way people communicate and understand one another and denying any questioning of it's effects outright is telling. Your tribalism is showing. Marshall McLuhan warned you about this, you should have listened.
If a product is used in very complex environments and has a rich set of options then a conversation is needed to be able to offer a quote. If no price is quoted on the website it's probably safe to assume minimum pricing is above $10,000. I don't think this is a dark pattern.
>If one can build a single chip which read sensitive data from hard disk, steal private key from main memory, and send data via the ethernet port, that chip must have a lot of pins connecting to pcie bus, qpi etc., and super complex.

Nope, if you read the original article the chip is much simpler than what you described.

>the primary role of implants such as these is to open doors that other attackers can go through. [...] In simplified terms, the implants on Supermicro hardware manipulated the core operating instructions that tell the server what to do as data move across a motherboard, two people familiar with the chips’ operation say. This happened at a crucial moment, as small bits of the operating system were being stored in the board’s temporary memory en route to the server’s central processor, the CPU. The implant was placed on the board in a way that allowed it to effectively edit this information queue, injecting its own code or altering the order of the instructions the CPU was meant to follow. Deviously small changes could create disastrous effects.
WiFi hotspot can track your position.
It's just not helpful to call broad swathes of people "Marxist" to mean something other than specifically Communist in a fashion favored by Marx.

Similarly, folks these days call anything they don't like involving wealthy people "capitalism". It just confuses and escalates.

I think there's a good point about teleological approaches to politics and history that are increasingly popular. Marxism is a well known category of that. They tend to create unforgiving worldviews and attitudes. Admittedly words like teleological don't have the same rhetorical punch.
It's not just showing ads. It's endorsement, and in many ways similar to fake reviews. And often the fact that ads are shown is concealed in semi-clever ways.
It has been climbing pretty nicely: assetdash.com.
In most cases it is better to let application fail as early as possible when something unexpected occured. By making it more stable that way (SELECT *), you create hidden bugs which hard to detect and recovery is more expensive. It is even more important for data processing pipelines. I add assert/except to my code when it is possible: fail job, analyze, fix/report bug, notify downstream, rerun.
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> I think bitcoin is useful and important enough to be worth several large tech companies.

My thought experiment to verify this is simple: Tomorrow bitcoin disappears. What happens? Tomorrow FAANG disappears, what happens?
I don't think it is controversial to say that Bitcoin is NOT as impactful as you are stating. Of course lots of money will be lost, but practically no industry is dependent on Bitcoin so the rest of the world will not notice.
So then I am not sure how you can say Bitcoin is so valuable.
FWIW, those photos (4,5) of the Andromeda galaxy aren't from the HST. The Andromeda galaxy is about 6 times larger in the sky than the moon, so those are most likely from an amateur with a telescope (looking at the diffraction spikes, a reflector). Decent work, nothing special.
You probably missed it, since the hype around it has been going on for a while now.

If the cycle continues like it has a few times now, there will be a big crash / correction, things will be very quiet around BTC / Crypto again for a few years, and then the next surge will happen.

Not financial advice, but if you have BTC, sell now - or sell half, whatever. At least make sure you have your investment back. If you don't have BTC, don't expect to earn 10x your investment. I'd wait for things to settle again, buy, and hold for a few years. Then if things go crazy again, sell off a part.

And of course, don't be hard on yourself if the price keeps going up; you cannot know if it will. Take what you can. Greed is what makes people lose all their money.
Cost is probably not the right word.

Opportunity cost is likely better.
It's human nature. People want to do what the "pros" are doing disregarding skill level, needs, experience. You can see it in the gym where people emulate their favorite's bodybuilders routine even though they weigh 110lbs soaking wet and have less testosterone than a mouse.

SRE is the same. DevOps, microservices fall in the same bucket.

The irony of course is big companies, the ones that really need DevOps, microservices architecture etc sometimes have the hardest time to adopt new ideas to leverage them. Case in point, I work in a large FinTech company, we are talking multi-billions. 2015 small group wanted DevOps, I became that, only now, 5 years later the greater part of the company is starting to adopt it. I'm still giving presentations on VM vs Docker differences. While at the same time the team that wanted DevOps deploys to production Openshift clusters multiple times a day.
FreeBSD and I2C
> while laughing all the way to the bank

Cool. You got rich. Good for you.

Why does that in any way make criticisms of environmental impact less legitimate? Loads of people have gotten rich off of systems that have unpriced negative externalities. You aren't the first.

I hope that you use some of your newfound wealth to give to effective charities and help the world.
You'd be laughed out of every dev shop I've ever worked at for suggesting that switch.
Of course, but if you’re a landlord and raise prices until you think that perhaps you don’t need to raise them more even though you could, you don’t get any articles written about you.

Unless you’d go bragging about it yourself but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
Sorry, the NYT is no longer an authoritative source on any topic. Please provide peer-reviewed research, published in at least 2 academic journals, with reproducible results. Thanks.
I don't disagree with your point, but influencer nowadays is active whereas a simple ad is passive. Due to this, the modern day influencer (aka person) is absolutely a psychological manipulator.
Superb! wish you had keyboard shortcut to delete items..
Are you saying it would be totally cool if the newspapers would get an AI to write totally random claims from a pool of somewhat likely scenarios and sell it as fact, because the fact that they don't provide sources and do provide fake pictures is completely irrelevant?

I don't think anyone says this cannot happen. What every claim against Bloomberg I have seen says are that these articles are not claiming it could and likely is happening but that they have proof and "look here it is" <shows fabricated pictures and writes text that shows the author doesn't even know how Ethernet cables work>.

Realistic scenario? Yes. Fake news? Most definitely.
Yes, I have heard of Moldbug. In fact, from one of the ginormous blog posts on SSC where Scott tore his beliefs to shreds.

You keep claiming that alt-right/monarchist movements have connections to rationalists, without any kind of proof or references to those connections. Which is exactly what the shitty NYT article did. Can you actually show how they are related, instead of just claiming they are?
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Really? Historically the consensus position on HN was that BTC and crypto is a short-term bubble for an asset class with no fundamental value. Seems to me that people becoming rich because the value of BTC has been going up forever is good enough proof that OP is right in swimming against the HN-current.
Even if true, that's zero justification for expanding one niche group a window into the collective psyche.
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This is interesting - I'm evaluating what to use for the backend of a side project right now after having focussed more on front-end/apps for the last few years, so I'm catching up on the latest progress in this area. Interesting to see that Rails is still often considered the best option, seems like they must be doing something right.

Ideally in my mind, I'd like to use JS (well, TS), because it's the language I work in most of the time these days... but I can pick up different languages as needed, that's not a major issue and I've done some Ruby way back when - more important to me is making the development of the backend as simple and as quick as possible (the less code the better!), and that it will run reliably. A good selection of well-tested off-the-shelf modules to integrate other services is always a good thing. It seems like Rails is well ahead of any JS-based solution in these regards, from what I can see.

I had been evaluating PostGraphile, which appeals because of the "low-code" approach, but I guess I'm a little concerned about doing most of the logic in database functions, because I've worked on a system like that years ago and found things like testing and debugging pretty painful. If anyone has evaulated PostGraphile (or Hasura etc) vs. Rails, I'd love to hear your thoughts (or equally, any other solutions to check out!).
I agree, webpacker makes learning Rails harder. It's a shame. But learning on a non current version is a short term solution. A good tutorial, like Michael Hartl's, will get you over that hump.
> I don't think it's the reddit admins

It's actually the mods. A select small number of people are mods on the top 50 or so subreddits by size. They can control what gets posted, what gets upvoted and what gets silently censored. It's also an (unpaid) full time job, it's naive to think they're not monetising their power in any way.
I don’t know about Kotlin. Scheme was already a thing before Chez Scheme, and Scheme in general has quite a lot of implementations, so Chez Scheme is probably mostly safe, merely because of that. Erlang I don’t know much about. Rust was created by the semi-large Mozilla Foundation, but Mozilla had mostly benevolent goals and designs for the language, so that one is probably OK. Java was initially made popular since people trusted Sun Microsystems, but then Sun was 1. destroyed by market forces, and 2. bought by Oracle. And Oracle keeps an even tighter iron-fisted grip around Java than ever, according to what I hear. So I wouldn’t touch Java with a 10 foot pole either.
"This date range was subsequently affirmed through the testing of charcoal and caribou bones found at the three sites."

Looks like they compared to the site as well, confirming the beads were there in pre-columbian times.
>It could be the case that the beads were put on some old twine.

The inverse is far more likely. Twine is basically a consumable whereas being non-reactive to most of the things people come in contact with is all but a requirement of jwelry.
Glad it was saved. Other early contenders for the 'first' title include the ones from Manchester:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1
I mean, the play on words in the gp is cute, and gives one the big Hmmm, but the accepted term is 'user' and some hills aren't worth dying on
Yep, that is true. I regret I haven't hopped on the hype train but oh well, I am not an oracle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> It's a bit worrisome that we are inching towards the scenario where companies may be tempted at an economy wide scale to reduce investment in production

Yes, fully agree. But then ask yourself: aside from COVID, who created the economic conditions that lead corporations to decide that stashing treasury as Bitcoin is better than investing in the "productive" part of the economy.

QE, interests rates at near zero, corporate bonds near worthless, stock market at stratospheric 2000-like levels, real estate easily taxed to death ... how do you protect your treasury other than stashing it in hard assets (crypto, gold, commodities)?
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All you people are in denial. The first bloomberg story was credible but was protecting sources. They go further and get people on the record and double down....literally stretching their necks out, and you people keep propping up strawmen from the original article. Admit it. You were skeptical, determined that it couldn't be true, ran around shooting your mouth off about how it was fake news and now you can't help but continue smearing the egg all over your face.
Being an SRE at Google was great for a generalist at a technical level.

Fairly interesting problems from multiple areas, possibility to delve deep into understanding/fixing any internal project, fantastic technological stack, overwhelmingly smart and kind coworkers, well balanced pager/oncall load.

The only downside was working for Google. Megacorp, small-cog-in-large-machine, americentrism, contract clauses limiting side projects, etc.
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I did an internship with a very profitable Swedish mobile game before the pandemic, and it was really interesting to see the doublethink: everyone knew we were making a drug, but people avoided speaking of it in that way. It was always "our most engaged players readily spend on in-game items", and never "the most addicted users spend money so they can continue playing"

It was a great workplace, but I don't think it was adding much value to the world.
It's possible to be unfair without ever actually lying.

"Using the handle xirbeosbwo1234, <your name> posted on Hacker News, a forum where rich San Franciscan tech CEOs and thought leaders could talk about everything from the infamous Damore memo, to Trump advisor Peter Thiel, to race relations and the BLM movement. On an article from Reason magazine, a fiercely libertarian media outlet, he gleefully ventured opinions on monarchy and race realism. For him, the site was a space where the worst consequences he faced were downvotes and the disbelief of his equally pseudonymous peers."
You dont know the difference between an opinion piece and scientifically gathered data, do you? And I'm stupid white trash by the way. You definitely have a shinier degree than me (you might want a refund by the way). Though I've always been on the NASA, JPL and general engineering side of tech. I like their irrational behavior to the rational Silicon Valley. Let that marinate.
> This whole article reads like a conspiracy theorist rant like some luddite against tech.

Your whole comment is a rant. At least the article you're complaining about had some points to make.

Much of what the author mentions has its roots in behavioural addiction research. In particular, there are many parallels with the gambling industry, and how it profits from maximising user engagement and potential for addiction.
Rich author here. It does look great, I like the API design.

Would you consider adding an integration for Rich?

In theory it should be possible to have your charts object also work within a Rich layout, using the Console Protocol.

https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/protocol.html
The debate about the contents of the blog and ideologies etc. is complex. But here's a simple question -

Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to? It's just not a nice thing to do, simple as that. It may be easy to find if you go looking, but most people don't have any reason to go looking, so the pen name serves its purpose of providing anonymity. The NYT author makes it seem as if publishing the guys real name in a widely read paper is the same as it being googleable to someone who looks. Its a COMPLETELY different level of exposure.

The other key point is that doxxing someone who has been writing anonymously for decades is very different than believing that people should not have the right to write anonymously. Scott began writing under a pseudonym, under the expectation that it would stay anonymous - and so the space of things he said was much more controversial than what it would have been if he expected to be doxxed one day. NYT shows up to the world of blogs 10 years later, knowing nothing and starts pulling the rug out from under people who began writing in a different world, under completely different norms. Its just a shitty, shitty thing to do.

> I woke up the next morning to a torrent of online abuse, as did my editor, who was named in the farewell note. My address and phone number were shared by the blog’s readers on Twitter. Protecting the identity of the man behind Slate Star Codex had turned into a cause among the Rationalists.

One paragraph after detailing why Scott requested his name to be kept out, the reporter complains about the online abuse he received, which could have easily been prevented by not using real names.
Easily cash out yes, but would have you kept track of that BTC for years is another question. There were plenty of gotchas along the way with BTC before it went completely mainstream. Buggy hardware wallets, scams, exchanges going bankrupt/stealing btc, people's hard drives dying, etc... mean for anyone to have held from $1 to $50k they were prescient and a bit lucky.
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There are plenty of property dualists around: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/#ProDua
Head in sand. A outfit like bloomberg isn't going going to screw up this bad and then double down by citing more sources. Get a clue.
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My god, how obtuse...

X: "This textbook says the earth is flat. It's wrong"

You: "But the earth is flat!"

X: "Citation please?"

You: "Look in the textbook you're holding!"
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simple things are special
It's important to say that these footguns are not exclusive to Rails. I don't know a single web framework which avoids them - if it exists I'd like to know so I can learn how they do it.
Please name one thing I wrote which is wrong. I mean, I agreed with you about Javascript, and gave a lengthy explanation why, even though you gave no motivation. I have not heard of the other two, so obviously I can’t comment about them.
Why not just buy a small amount of bitcoins now, something you won't mind losing? If they increase 100 fold you won't feel like you're missing out. And if they don't just think of it as insurance.

I personally hate the idea of bitcoin and avoided it for a long time, but I feel better having a little just to avoid the thought I let my personal feelings get in the way of an opportunity with a good risk/reward ratio.
Kind of cool it's Python and OpenCV. I've mucked about with that and it's quite beginner friendly.
Same here, also with Reddit refusing to show posts to me and trying to force me to install its App instead when browsing on mobile. I simply don't use it on mobile anymore.
Well, maybe not untrue, but are they meaningful? The rationalist movement ' has curious connections with "race realists" and monarchists.' What counts as a curious connection? You've cited one person, Moldbug. It 'rarely survives contact with mainstream scholarship'? Theses survive, or don't survive, contact with scholarship. I don't know what it means to say that a movement doesn't.
You mean the Bloomberg that published the Super Micro chip story?