skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an "emperor has no clothes" kind of thing. A big farce, that's all it is.
Recommend the book Narconomics for an in-depth look at the «free-market» ideas that drug organizations use in South America.

Gang tattoos to limit the mobility of their labor, duopolies to minimize conflict but maintain most of the benefits of a monopoly, squeezing upstream suppliers by playing them off each other, geographically-differentiated pricing and much more.

The violence is obviously the biggest difference, but even the rest serves as a warning not to drop regulation entirely.
NFTs applied to media just feels like a really rubbish version of CDs, tapes, vinyl, DVDs, and trading cards.
The thing that makes ticketing difficult is not minting and selling unique items of inventory - that's a well understood problem with many viable solutions. Nor is verifying at any given moment if a single piece of inventory is valid and who owns it - again, that's a solved problem.

The secondary markets in ticketing exist because there's an excess of demand and entities who can exploit access, speed, or technical know-how for arbitrage. Blockchain ticketing companies don't fundamentally change that statement - they enable it.

No one likes Ticketmaster - but to call them a 3rd party service that takes a massive cut is inaccurate. Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation, which usually owns both the venue and the artist's tour schedule. And owns the primary and secondary ticketing sales. So Ticketmaster is usually the first, second, and third-party in ticketing.

Blockchain doesn't magically fix this. It doesn't change the deep relationship Live Nation has with labels and artists, their fodness for excluding artists who play at rival and independent venues, their habit of defining contract requirements that can only be fulfilled by Ticketmaster software...

Blockchain is solving all of the wrong problems in ticketing. I don't need a distributed, trustless ledger of who owns a ticket when all of them are issued by and redeemed at the same location. The only real reason to push for blockchain in ticketing is to help scalpers hide what they're doing.
Tallest elevator tower rises in Rottweil, Germany (2015)
> taxi driving attracts a certain type

Or the stress of driving a taxi drives people insane.
The worst part is this isn't even a mainstream media source. This is coming from a university!
CO2: Excellent point. After 4 hrs in 30m2, we bathe in 1100ppm. After a night, 1800ppm. Normal levels are 500-600. After living in Australia, I’ve always attributed their taller average to being more outdoors and having well-working ventilation standards for buildings. Low CO2 might do wonders for mental development.
Writing interactive stories with Ink in Unity (2017)
And what result is that? Most of this is well-known. Ergodicity is a concept that's covered in econometrics classes. "When are time averages the averages of the underlying probability distribution?" is the first topic in time series.

Honestly, the whole approach is a step back. People discussed these ideas back when Kelly first published the Kelly rule, and the conclusion is that most people are not that aggressive in their investment decisions. People still study it, though, (it's called the growth optimal portfolio), and its properties are well-known.

Peters also sneaks in a second assumption, which is that the growth rate of wealth is ergodic. Is it? That's not clear to me at all.
Pricing niche products with Vickrey auctions: a mechanical keyboard kit is $1668
Aggregate spent time is probably the most interesting metric.

Plus, if a service visibly dominates in some demographics (e.g. 35-50), is it a "local monopoly" in the same sense as if it dominated in a geographic region, say, the Midwest?

Because if all your friends and colleagues and schoolmates use service X, you are strongly incentivized not to go to another competing service where only much younger / much older people are.
I've seen articles in the news try to compare an NFT with signature of an artist. This feels like a romantic concept, which supports the idea of unique value.

If I start to think about NFTs as a receipt, some of the latest bit stories start to gain a new perspective.

Someone has a receipt for buying the first Twitter message for $2.5m dollars.

It feels like stupidity, because it's a clear case of the tail wagging the dog.

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On the other hand, there's a hug amount of utility in the idea of a transactions (receipts) being stored on a blockchain.
QtCreator has a SCXML based visual editor for state charts https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-scxml.html
We do not really have a law on services that treat users as a resource. There is a clear need of innovation here. GDPR is a tiny step in this direction.
did you ever try this? or is this just something which you think should be it's distinguishing feature?

Asking mainly because I think this is cool, but the whole setup (lots of random binaries in the server) is not so different to an AppImage of emacs+xpra (if you could do tha) and the times I tried, the thing was _very_ picky about connection losses/timeouts...
Could you clarify more on the ideological differences between Stanford and Berkeley? Also other universities. I had no idea that something like that even exists. Are they (also) different on the political spectrum or in some other area?
https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase
Rich people entrust their entire wealth to third parties to manage it for them. Why wouldn't they trust a third party to keep some ridiculous record of ownership?
We called it left wing politics and it is as old as Marx vs Bakunin.
I just dump a tea bag with sugar and top up with milk. No fancy stuff. I couldn't care less about any standards. I think someone has a bit too much time on their hands.
@admins is it ok to flag that article just for that reason?
It is when B is financially impossible and/or will lead to huge problems later and/or is only motivated by short-term desire which won't be satisfied by a passing whim.

It's not a gendered problem, although of course it looks like it when the other half of the couple is demanding The Thing and you're the one saying "no".

Or vice versa.

Some actions are strategic, and some are whimsical.

Whimsy is welcome and enjoyable when there are no strategic consequences, but not such a good idea when the consequences are obvious, predictable, and negative.
Show HN: Markdown 101 Basic to Advance Guide – Part 1
. . . So how many American and European cities has China bombed and invaded so far? No war was ever won with your mentality which makes the completely incorrect assumption that this is somehow a fight for survival or between good (uncle Sam) and evil (those commies). It's also putting the glory of battle over the survival of those that battle was supposedly done to protect. Maybe Hawaii and Puerto Rico should have fought to their last defending their shore from the American hordes by your logic?

Also, it's funny you bring up the Axis powers considering that America would have entirely sat out the entire war if it wasn't for Pearl Harbour and Japan constantly provoking a response with their actions in the pacific. I have also never seen the US ever go into a war where they did not have overwhelming power advantage over their enemies. By the time D-Day happened, the supply lines for the Axis were crippled beyond repair and the war was essentially already lost. It was just a matter of time before supplies ran out.

China has more than enough nuclear capability to cripple the entirety of NATO and they also are well aware that NATO has the capability to do likewise. Hence, neither parties are ever going to even contemplate an outright war with each other despite the wet dreams of war mongers from both sides.
Markdown 101 Basic to Advance Guide – Part 1
That Twitter thread is tautological trash, to put it politely. It seems more interested in protecting turf than directly critiquing (or even understanding) Ole Peters’ central point.

It is absolutely silly, bordering shitposting, to respond to a claim about subtle/hidden assumptions by claiming:

> Expected utility theory makes 4 assumptions, which are stated precisely and concisely in every graduate textbook. Ergodicity is not among them.

when the whole point is that the conventional economics literature might have ignored a subtlety.
That's very much what a law of physics is.

If the law is observed broken once, that is a falsification of the entire theory.

And I assume you live in a rather peaceful area if you think powers adheres to borders. In many parts of the world governments have a harm time enforcing their law upon fringe areas where effective anarchy is quite common. — the picture is certainly not as simple as you paint it.
I use standardrb since I found out about it a year ago. Really like the approach because it doesn't interfere so much with rails generated projects. Take a default rubocop and look at all the style errors you get in rails projects.

Also being a go developer I really appreciate gofmt and the way go code only has one formatted representation.
> cut out unneeded aggravations

Some people? There is a thin line between cutting out people who step onto you, and becoming misanthropic/associal. Since lockdowns I went from 60 friends to ~4, because I can’t stand them and I’ve come to realize their politics directly harm me. But now I’m alone. Working on this, but it is a very thin line.
That's big shed. I was expecting one like roald Dahl's or Dylan Thomas's.
How to Delete a Google Account
Ireland is the best country with France to opposed the UK.
I can't speak on behalf of ta8645, but it's possible that they support banning people who harass or threaten violence, but don't think that banning an ever growing list of ideologically chosen words will do much to solve the underlying problems (and may in fact exacerbate them).
It's not just Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook too. Our website was recently flagged by Facebook's ML [1], and the only way to "unban" it was to find ways to contact a human being inside.

PS. Twitter still does not allow me to share links to OP's website.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546868
The main article doesn't seem to refer to "the ruin problem" either. What is that?
Bitflips when PCs try to reach windows.com: What could possibly go wrong?
Indeed. And the Irish spend more per gram of tea than any other country in the world. It's a good strategy: Pick something relatively cheap and then get the best of it.
Content-Driven Growth
Are these thermal 'selfies' the key to tackling elephant-human conflict?
You pay the price for your politics.
Thanks for posting. I had read Antifragile in parts but I had never heard of Ergodicity. But it's a great technical term to understand!

I looked online and found this post that explained it well: https://taylorpearson.me/ergodicity/
i fail to see how this is an important philosophic subject, being based on absolutely no scientific data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

> Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing),[1] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. […]
So how is it any different Bitcoin?
Obvious solution to everything(to me) is to establish on-orbit 3D print space colony manufacturing by the end of this century to boldly go with.

Wanna spend silly amount of energy on fake Internet points? Totally fine! Just buy a bunch of cylinders and do it there. Makes more sense anyway because they come with batteries too.
The example you're using isn't contemporary, it's over a century old, and it's a design for a stage curtain. It's not valuable for the effort put in * (it's literally just a solid black painted square), it's valuable because of the point in time it represents w/r/t art history

* edit for clarity: what would be commonly considered technical artistic effort, although a large % of graphic designers would disagree with that as composition is a skill, and conceptual artists would disagree due to the thought put in (which imo feels post-hoc but hey ho)
The same is true for Bitcoin and all crypto “currencies”
> The big difference between uber and taxis is that uber drivers have a direct incentive to improve via ratings.

I'm not sure this is true. There's a limit to how well any driver can perform their job; unless a driver is rude to me or drives unsafely, I rate them five stars every time because I can't think of any legitimate reasons to rate them lower. When minor annoyances do occur, my desire not to disrupt another person's livelihood pressures me to let it go and rate 5 stars anyway. If they went above and beyond, I'd still rate them 5 stars. For me, that means the rating system tends to homogenize all service quality ranging from average to amazing.

My impression is that the incentive is more fear-based: even a brief period of below-average performance might cost you your job.
You didn't even read the introduction.

> In this paper, we raise design issues and present
recommendations; for clarity we say “never” for
design choices that are inappropriate for dependable
or safety-critical applications. For novelty and other
non-dependable applications, obviously examination
of cost and design trade-offs may lead to other
decisions, and such decisions should be backed by
competent empirical evaluation.
Also if anything is a digital beanie baby then so is Bitcoin, what’s the difference?
> I could, for example, turn each of the 8,500 posts on this blog into a token and sell them on the open market.

So it's like a DOI?

DOI's can apply internally, so a book can have one, a chapter can have one, paragraph, sentence.

I guess someone will blog the difference at some point
It seems that `inline for` is the corner of `comptime` that newcomers appreciate the most. See this other example:

https://clips.twitch.tv/RockyLivelyChimpanzeeDoubleRainbow-P...

Full video available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UYT-brgrc
I was about to comment on your example of talking to SpamHaus, but I misremembered and was thinking of SPEWS instead:

> One common criticism is that there was no way to contact SPEWS. According to the SPEWS FAQ: "Q41: How does one contact SPEWS? A41: One does not..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_Prevention_Early_Warning_...
I thought this was really interesting. Would love to know whether he had made mistakes or if these are necessary Rust pain points.
So will this help everyone realise how stupid Bitcoin is? Is this dorseys goal? To counteract the insane libertarian propaganda through reductio ad absurdim?
I would welcome more like this.
Part of the problem is that Vega GPUs are too good for crypto currency mining.

Example: I bought a 16GB Radeon VII for €550 (including 19% VAT). That would be a decent value proposition for Deep Learning even today. However, the card appears to trade second hand(!) for €1300+ on e-bay, because you apparently can run 90-100 MH/sec or so (this is an estimate I found on the web, I don't engage in this type of thing). As a result, you would not be able to get consumer Vega with these performance characteristics for a good price even if AMD produced them.
Well integrating a diverse range of cores into a CPU is all the rage these days...if Intel doesn't do it Apple would.
Eat More to Lose Weight?
Talk about delusions of grandeur.
Physics isn’t politics.

Most countries follow borders most of the time.

This really isn’t that complicated.
taste is in the tongue of the imbiber
FWIW I have been sent several phishing sites running on Google lately. (Can't remember if it was Drive or Sites—is Sites even around still?)

About half of them are taken down by the time I get to them. The other half, I've had to report myself.

I realize, however, that these are not malware.

(Funnily enough, I think all of the attempts I was able to view were trying to phish O365 creds.)
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I think the author needs to look into NFTs more closely before making a judgment like this. With the sole notable exception of NBA TopShots, which is on Flow, all prominent NFTs are currently issued on Ethereum. Ethereum's energy consumption will massively decrease in the near future as the long-planned switch of its consensus algorithm to one based on Proof of Stake is implemented.

Ethereum's Proof of Stake Beacon Chain launched in December 2020 and has worked smoothly since then. The launch was the first of the three phases of ETH2, by the end of which Ethereum will be fully reliant on Proof of Stake - with no dependence on energy mass-consuming Proof of Work - and be massively more scalable.

The author's criticism aside and on the subject of the nascent NFT market, I hope in the future multiple MMORGs recognize NFT sets and allow players to unlock certain digital items, traits or characters by proving ownership over an NFT within that set.

Being able to migrate digital assets across virtual worlds could lead to the emergence of a global cyber culture with universally recognized digital cultural items.
>Doesn't he know all the NFT stuff is going on in Ethereum which is transitioning to POS

Ethereum has been "transitioning" to POS for years and it is still using POW. It reminds me a bit of nuclear fusion that is always "30 years away".
Microeconomics is meaningless unless everyone gets macroeconomics right
> it should replace essentially all uses of "bad" entropy

Yes. One application is Monte-Carlo methods. When the function is fast to compute, especially when running on GPUs with thousands of concurrent threads, good RNG is hard.
My first thought was to think that the standard was ridiculous. Obsessive formalization of the mundane. But that's a hasty conclusion.

Why does this standard even exist? The Wikipedia article mentions something about maintaining consistency of blends and harvests, but can somebody elaborate? If I was managing a tea plantation, I might certainly be interested in something like this, but why would I use the ISO recipe, rather than some plantation-specific technique?
Best effort is well-defined only for a fixed bandwidth of opportunity.

However, you can always increase your bandwidth of available opportunity. That's what opening yourself up to luck does for you.

The author's coffee-buying policy is an example of a technique that increases available opportunity.

I find this similar to the Zen notion of Beginner's Mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
One thing is, as someone who develops cross-platform software, you really want font rendering & unicode support to be exactly the same across platforms, so that users don't have a save file that looks one way when opened on a Mac and another way when opened on a Windows.

This means that you can't use the OS provided facilities (as they all have different metrics) and have to bundle good font rendering engines (if you care about non-us-ascii people) - that means already ~7-8 megabytes at the bare minimum for that.
kiwix includes a relation to Qt5Core.dll with an invalid signature, not sure if relevant to anybody
Building a Scalable Monolith
"It would kinda take the wind out of the idea if they had to tell you that none of these jobs pay more than $50k." That's around 41k€. What country are you from?
These numbers are certainly way off for Frankfurt and other bigger German cities. We pay around 45k€ for a junior (!) developer and we're a pre-market startup and I know for a fact that this is a bit lower than the market standard.

Why is no one mentioning buying power as proper means to compare salaries? Also the health care stuff, rent, owning a car, retirement plans, all these things are widely different in cost and what you actually need. No one needs a car if you live in a city like Frankfurt for example. This all depends heavily on the country and region.

If you haven't thought of these things yet, you might think a bit about moving to a different country, because otherwise you'll be disappointed.
Self-restraint is a sign of an evolved ego.

Also: energy, or anything else, is not infinite. It HAS TO BE RESTRAINED.
Zig code looks way more readable to my eyes, damaged by the years of staring at C/C++. Also the learning curve for Zig so far seems to be relatively shallow. The documentation is rather "ok-ish", comparing to Go for example. But it's much better than a few of the other programming languages I've used. I really hope Zig will find the place it deserves in the programming world!
I don't, but I would be happy to know about it if such a space exists
When an article rants about the high electricity use of NFTs without acknowledging that some projects are on PoS and more are moving to it they are clearly just trying to present it in the worst light.

Even worse here as he mentions NBA Topshots which is on Flow, PoS and likely uses up less electricity than his blog.
Yeah it's eight 0 but nobody knows in what order they are. That's the top secret part.
> Basically, it boils down to this: if someone understands it is a joke, and think a joke in that place is offensive, I'm willing to hear you out. If someone doesn't understand that it's a joke, and are mad about the "politically correct" nature of his words, then I don't think they understand the situation properly and ignore their concerns.

Thank you, I think we agree then.

> Yes, they note the flippancy of the "amen and awomen" joke, but only really find it offensive in light of his prior comments.

Yes, unfortunately it is difficult to isolate one's feeling of being offended from the context in which the words are spoken, which means if someone says multiple potentially offensive things it can be difficult to decide how much offence each word caused.
Just xor them together. As long as they are uncorrelated, you will get the best of both worlds.
Bitcoin's transaction throughput is independent of its energy consumption. If its block size limit was raised to allow Visa-scale transaction throughput, its per transaction energy cost would be 1/1000ths what it is now.

Bitcoin Cash forks Bitcoin to provide a block size limit that allows these kinds of throughput levels, while Ethereum enables both sophisticated transaction compression methods and layer 2 models, that can achieve Visa-scale throughput without raising layer 1 block sizes.

So attacking the cryptocurrency concept based on Bitcoin's peculiar shortcomings is misguided.
I think the issue goes somewhat deeper than this.

For example, in Paris, it was pretty common for taxi drivers to refuse to take you somewhere, even though there's a "starting fare", which is quite high, and you'd think that only that could make it worth their while. This would especially happen late at night, when public transport is basically non-existent.

But taxis aren't just any random person with a car willing to drive people around. For example there are all kinds of arrangements done for them, such as dedicated lanes or authorization to use bus lanes. They have dedicated parking spots all over the city, etc.

So if we, as the public in the city, make those concessions to them, I'd expect something in return. To me, they're a public service much in the same way the metro or the bus service. Sure, they cost a lot more, but that's because I can get them to come exactly where I am, when I want, and drop me exactly where I want to go. I'm not sure people would be so understanding if a bus driver refused to drive because he didn't feel like it / the weather was bad / it was too hot / etc.