skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are surprised by this:

Bitcoin has shifted in the mind of investors from a currency to an “asset class”. What this means is that to investors it is more like gold than dollars.

Gold’s value is not linked with its usage in the industry or jewelry. Holding gold doesn’t yield interest. its value comes mostly from people scared of devaluation.

While the interest rates are still low and the economy is not doing great, it makes sense to diversify one’s cash in various “refuge” values.

That Bitcoin is becoming a refuge value while its volatility is still insanely high is somewhat weird. It mostly indicates that there are many cash-rich people/companies out there who dont really know what to do with it.
What? That’s way below freezing and totally unsafe. Why don’t you sleep in your car? (WARNING: Make sure your exhaust is uncovered and you’re not in your shed)
Disagree, stack overflow is still the best place to get answers to common programming questions. If you need to sort a list in Python it’s much better to find the answer on a short stackoverflow post than to sift through dozens of blogs, each with their own style, or to try to parse pages of documentation that goes into way more detail than you need. No other site has as much content as easy to find as stackoverflow, even if it’s not perfect.
Sleeping in below freezing weather without proper equipment is stupidity.
Keep in mind: the details of how generators shed load is not ERCOT's decree. If there is unfairness in how liad shedding is taking place, you need to look at the entities generating/transmitting it. Not ERCOT.

Bluebonnet has done a great, if annoying job. They converged to a near 50/50 duty cycle I think between two trunk lines.

I've heard Austin Energy is epically failing some of it's customers though.
Proving a criminal committed a crime is often difficult. Putting career criminals away would be a lot easier if all you firearm.
He was sarcastic
Most of these systems are so far behind any real understanding of your words, though. They behave like Text-to-Speech followed by a Google Search, whether that's how they're implemented or not.
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That would be a benefit to following the federal regulations - more of the country gets failures in unique modes, and you get the learnings from all of them, rather than having to experience each one for yourself
See, right there. Renting space in the local Gallery Row for a few months, printing stuff to fill it up, and promoting it is a serious chunk of change for me, but nothing for YC. Art grant or some kind of investment scheme, either way. Do it with thirty artists, maybe one blows up to the levels where people outside the gallery scene hear about the ludicrous prices their "I can't believe people are buying this shit" experiments start going for, profit.
Those are just the standard compressor/r410 systems with reversing valves. There are number of systems designed to work well below 0F.

https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/benefits/hyper-heating
https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/technology/xlt...
I think most peoples' negativity here is not towards the idea that it can be useful for quick Google searches, but rather that it has become a place that doesn't foster or encourage productive feedback and has become negatively affected by poor moderation. This will, in totality, greatly affect how valuable one appreciates time spent contributing there to be.
"webshit pride"
This actually seems quite useful and innovative.

Most of the processing these days involves moving buffers: networking, databases, graphics, and core parts of most OSes would involve a significant amount of slapping buffers together, changing them for which a CPU might not be that efficient for IO bound operations even with DMA or other fancy instructions.

AI/ML buzzword notwithstanding, this is very cool.
Wow, this has broken my brain but has really piqued my interest - thanks. Do you have any reading on this topic / strategy to help a mouth breather like me out?
It also depends if it was "closed" for how long, how "closed" it is, and the nature of the contamination.

The most dangerous potential contamination would seem to be from similar modern ecosystems in other parts of the world.
i honestly don't know of another way to think about it.

it's literally arrows
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Hmm, yes it's pretty great that we can use these huge-ass energy generating machines to power houses and malls, instead of burning a crapton of non-renewable dead dinosaur juice, so that we can reserve this precious dinosaur juice for cases where we really need it, such as antifreezers, food packaging, or (for now) helicopter fuels.

...what?

* Yes I know it's not really "dinosaur" juice.
Everything that you mention above i know about it and i have 5 plus experience in php laravel, lumen framework.know about git, docker,aws lambda, aws api gateway etc.
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It’s still backed by the currency. Kind of like how when you make a stock trade the actual trade isn’t cleared for some time. In this way the blockchain of Bitcoin is simply transparent and easy to follow, if slow and expensive.
This seems to be flat out false. According to this 78% of gold globally is used in jewelry. Some other portion is used in electronics of industry.

https://goldprice.com/project/facts-about-gold/

There’s no such reserve value for Bitcoin. You can’t look at it or hold it or do anything with it other than as a currency.

I’ve seen widely varying stats estimating gold’s jewelry share but all of them are large.
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I remember the night I saw this for the first time. It was after a friend of mine had a “Roadhouse” themed party in his loft where he had a stage surrounded in chicken wire where people went inside to sing karaoke and we’d throw beer bottles at them. After we trashed the place, someone showed us this weird video on their laptop. We watched it over and over, convinced it was brilliant. It felt like a defining moment for my generation. God, I’m so old.
I bought a pen plotter a few years ago inspired in part by your work - it's been a ton of fun (and paid for itself multiple times over now :)
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Thank you for being receptive! Let’s go make the world more accessible.
> I'd imagine 10 years from now Bitcoin will still be around and likely much larger than today

I agree it will be around in 10 years, but think it will always be highly volatile. Between now and then, I could see it being worth much more and worth much less than today's price.
Bitcoin network uses about 120 TWh of electricity per year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

It accomplishes about 7 TPS.

120 terawatts * hours / 1 year * 1 second / 7 in kilowatt hours = 543 kilowatts * hours.

Average US household electricity usage is about 877 kWh per month
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

Of course, increasing Bitcoin prices will likely increase the amount of resources dedicated to mining, too...
He could be referring to pinned posts.

I think it's valid to say the point system contributes to the formation of the echo chamber.
You can certainly avoid failures that have been predicted for you 10 years ago and the fixes are part of a standard.

Pretending the black swans you've seen don't exist make it a black swan event when one finally pecks you
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Agreed on Reddit posts. They're a lot less formal and depending on the community and activity can be super helpful. Especially with followup questions.

Reddit picks up the slack of SO for those who want to discuss issues and better understanding. Still though, the flood of bad questions happens on Reddit too.
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I found the "anonymous-client-ip-when-cross-origin" part of the proposal very vague and misleading.

I believe exposing user information to a completely new entity (proxy) which previously did not have any visibility into the user traffic leads to less privacy.

Sadly the proposal is also vague on what guarantees are provided by the proxy, and how can developers ensure that the proxy is following those guarantees.

The proxy knows the user's IP, and it can see all the encrypted traffic including the URLs (easy to decode using deep packet inspection).

Would the proxy share/sell that information to an ad network? This is especially concerning for Chrome since it's owned by an ad company, and this whole proxying thing might be just a thin-veiled shenanigan to collect more user data that Google did not had access to before.
HN loved bitcoin circa 2011 and in the few years after that. Wish I’d paid attention.

As you have made a totally new account you probably weren’t around for this.
Paul's essays always hit the sweet spot of excellent writing, genuinely interesting subjects, and life struggles. As some kind of bonus, they also seem to be sprinkled with good advice on how to run a startup.
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-payments

Typical value is 680,000 payments/day.

That's 7.9/second.
Funnily enough my brother showed me prices for magic cards he sold a few years back. They have surged in value in 2020. The asset price inflation isn’t limited to tech stocks.
How does the thermostat work? I've had the old mercury switch style thermostats before, but those work by completing a circuit, so I assumed they were dependent on power being on.
Heat pump efficiency drops a lot when the temperature goes significantly below zero celsius
Moreover, it's a blockchain that provides something useful to society other than a gold replacement and the waste heat output of France.
Strongly agree. I simply post my solutions to my own website. And Google and other search engines do the rest.
The implication is that the poster works on social media.
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The issue is that the decision of which language to use at an employer is outside the control of the individual, so they're stuck with it.
> lightning network obviates this problem

I first heard someone mention this circa 2014. What happened? If anything fewer people try to use bitcoin for transactions since then.

And if the point is to hold and never sell why buy anything with bitcoin?
It's a much easier to look up library functions than language keywords in Python docs, and it's one of the first things Python programmers learn.
It does cost reputation to downvote
do you have a repo? this sounds cool
It is not just the moderators, comments can be abused by users as well. Once I had a top 25 user came to leave a wrong comment to my answer, in a rather aggressive tone. When called out, he just proceeded to delete the comment.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villian I guess.

When something becomes big enough the quality starts degrading rapidly as a function of complacency.
I was remembering a bunch in Quebec. Not sure where all the hydro power in the pnw goes. Was nice to have cheaper power when I lived up there though!
same goes for all question-answer type platforms. they all fall into the traps you describe above. unfortunately, i don't see any of them doing anything about these issues.
I'm just guessing here but they might be hedging against future trade restrictions set by China against US companies like Tesla. If another trade war was to happen, people in China might be able to buy a Tesla using Bitcoin vs having to buy a NIO.
Trade is complicated and protectionism is not always bad, but the idea that "money going out == bad" is a common misconception that underlay the "mercantilist" economic policies of the early modern era. Kings and parliaments were alarmed to see precious gold leaving their shores. Adam Smith set them straight: money and value are not the same thing. In fact, money is only valuable if you can use it to acquire something else of value! If you "give up" an amount of gold but receive valuable goods, which can be combined with other goods to create even more value, the national wealth can go up even with "precious gold" leaving town.
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> it's no longer helpful to search for "javascript" related questions and get mostly answers for jQuery

jQuery is used on 83% of all websites; React is used on 4% [1]. You’re right that people are probably using it differently than they were a decade ago, but even in 2021 your average jQuery question is probably useful to many more people than your average React one.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/
How many miners are in China?
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Whoa, this project looks really cool. I'm trying to read the docs though, and there's a lot of broken links — e.g. all the "Backend Documentation" links here: https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta/tree/master/docs
Electricity is unlimited and cheap when people do not fear to build nuclear power plants.

> Maybe electricity should be sold in blocks that have to be refilled, set daily/monthly quotas or limit current draw

Or maybe there should be realtime electricity price and fines for outages, so both providers and consumers would be incentivised to optimize consumption, and market will make the electricity available.
They did that in the old days because the public utility commission wielded a big stick. Companies only understand punishment when delivering a commodity service. Power companies care about the dividend.

In my experience running capital projects, you get performance by paying modest performance bonuses and assessing tough penalties for non-performance.
Resistive electricity will be close to 100% efficient, and heat pumps even higher depending on the outdoor temperature.

What kinda of air conditioners beat that for efficiency? I don't think we covered those in heat engines
Expanding the economy benefits everyone, but really it's more nuanced. Yes you need (ambient) growth because growth equals change which hopefully you get (good) innovations. But you can have growth down bad paths like cloud slavery and the erosion of machinic/digital ownership so growth for growth sake may be maliciously ignorant without the nuance of what the consumer and product landscape is like. On that alone I'll rebuke growth over equality. You don't want to become a bootloader for a paperclip system of bad innovation and social organization. Ah figures this was written by a 'classical* liberal'.
I keep thinking, that from an engineering standpoint, maybe it's better to look at:
What went right?
Look at all the processes that worked, and continued to work in spite of high demand and stress. Those are the systems that should be studied, copied, and understood.
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Both Stack Overflow and Wikipedia are Creative Commons licensed, so they can be reused and remixed freely. Contributing to them may not be optimal if your goal is to maximize your personal brand exposure in search results, but it does serve a greater good, and it's very different from contributing to a locked-down, copyrighted repo like Facebook, Instagram, etc.
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I'd not call it stable as it is now.
Yep, I had a brief chat with one of their engineers a few days ago: https://twitter.com/FeifanZ/status/1361392018514010116
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A wiki curated from stack overflow answers would be amazing!

StackOverflow powered GPT-3 haha.
A survival game 'The Long Dark' might be handy to learn how to keep warm. You dont need external heaters, just lots of layers and food, your body is a heat engine.
Great post.

I would also encourage people to contribute to original project documentation, bug trackers, or mailing lists.

It’s unfortunate that Stack Overflow is the first destination people end up going to. I guess it’s to be expected since many projects only offer static pages and offer minimalist code examples.

The original poster is lucky that they have a blog and their own platform to voice their opinions.
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Bitcoin was actually enormously popular on hacker news in the early years. Its popularity has soured here over time but it started popular.

I think the opinion changed from favourable to skeptical as no use cases emerged.
But that’s not even remotely true. People’s standard of living is better than ever before and their chances of success higher than ever.

The narratives we craft define how we move in this world. This is a toxic way of thinking. It takes about $500/month throughout a working life to retire comfortably investing in just VTSAX.
Rolling outages are when they've got enough power for some neighborhoods, but not all of them. Texas is so short of power right now that they've dropped power everywhere they can, excepting only certain critical facilities (hospitals, police), and continued operation of the grid itself -- a totally cold restart, they say, could take weeks.
I think the rules about self-promotion are well-intended. If you ever get quora results to common programming or technology searches, you'll see what I mean; people responding with only loosely related comments which link to their own product, which "solves the problem for you". I get it, without any moderation, SO would be just as useless.

I think there should be some nuance in how those rules are applied. The author of this post appears to be one of the authorities on webgl. If they've written helpful posts on the topic, and those can be referenced from SO answers, they should be able to do that. Heck, even if they sell something on their blog, it's still highly relevant. It's same the problem Google, Youtube, Apple, and basically every other service right now is having with attempting to moderate what can be shared on their platforms, without losing the quality content. Incredibly often, they end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I don't have a solution; the problem is in promoting quality content while preventing spam. It's not all-or-nothing, we need to strike the right balance with moderation.
It seems like so much consumer tech has reached a point of diminishing returns. Going from candles to electric light is a huge deal. Going from flipping a switch on the wall to turn on a light to waving your arm or speaking out loud to turn on the light is not that big a deal, although it requires huge advances in the underlying technology.

Going from paper maps to Google maps? Huge.

Going from Google maps reading you directions through a phone speaker to Google maps reading you directions through a speaker woven into your clothes? Meh
I don’t think that is an indictment of the moderation system. You can’t replace a dead community with excellent moderation. Slashdot’s dead because it failed to produce worthwhile content and not be an even uglier pile of ass. The mod system can’t do anything about that.
I would say native and web development can be sufficiently different, particularly if your company is targeting native mobile.
I'm not certain that Bitcoin should be treated as a currency.
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A founder effect population would still have some genetic variance left (Alleles A through M), but it would have less than the base population (A through Z). This is a shift in allele frequencies in the population as a whole due to sampling bias.

Inbreeding is reproduction by two people that are closely related (i.e. have similar alleles). Since people only have one allele in our example, that only occurs when two people with the same allele (e.g. A-A) reproduce. A-B, B-C, or any other dissimilar combination would not be inbreeding because their alleles are different, i.e. the "coefficient of inbreeding" is low.

Hopefully that clarifies how they're distinct.