skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN/SV in general can't wrap their minds around Bitcoin, because it's the opposite of everything they stand for.

Bitcoin doesn't "move fast and break things"... it just keeps chugging along every 10 minutes adding new blocks and ignoring the naysayers crying about the energy usage.

If they were really concerned, they would stop taking flights across the country to talk about their useless startup at a conference nobody wants to be at.

Instead they try to police the world's energy, and don't realize Bitcoin will drive unsubsidized renewable energy faster than any government program.
The act of donating is not just something that happens in a vacuum, and having ties to Epstein just ends up leading to tons of questions. "Did someone exchange favors for sex? What caused Epstein to donate? Who was engaging in what sort of relationships with him and his associates?"

This is why you don't just accept any and all donations from anyone. And here the best option seems obviously to close the center and open something new that does not have the ties to Epstein hanging over it.
I mean, how many tons of rock are removed for each ounce ton of gold is a more relevant figure maybe
What value? In terms of defining the 'value' of an asset in real finance terms you would look at future cash flows (In fact - in some finance circles the definition of an asset itself is a collection of future cash flows).

A bitcoin doesn't create cash, it just becomes more valuable if you find someone else that is willing to pay more for it than you did (i.e. the 'greater fool theory'). This is why it is speculative - i.e. in the absence of it generating revenues, people are just assuming that someone will buy it for more than they did in the future because of scarcity.
If someone told you two people are dieing every month from poisonous McDonald's burgers, would you consider that low? And would you defend McDonald's on internet forums?
Bitcoin has the branding.

It's like the bud light of crypto in a world where most people aren't aware yet that bud light isn't the only beer.
Conquest might indeed be too strong - occupation might fit better. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93Norway#Langu...
I grew up playing the violin, and also drawing a lot.

They had very different models for learning: with the violin you’d spend weeks or months in solitude on a piece, each week trying to improve some particular passage, and then you performed in front of lots of people, and then it was done.

The drawings I did, on the other hand each consumed a few hours at most. Each drawing made me a bit better, and I got constant feedback. There wasn’t one single important moment, where things could go wrong and invalidate months of preparation, and drawings were also fairly mutable.

This is interesting because it’s a sort of union of the two — practice becomes performance. Maybe I’d have been a little more motivated if I’d been able to see my peers practice violin.
I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand bitcoin mining at all. Bitcoin mining is not just "making currency", the miners get a reward for minting a block, which is just a bundle of transactions. The new bitcoin they get as a reward is theirs to spend.
I am pretty sure that not sleeping at all also increases fat burning as body uses less energy when asleep

The fat burning might be from reaction of organism that is not used to a lot of daily caffeine ingestion. For example, when I don't use caffeine for a long time my heart rate increases when I increase amount of coffee I drink. But then goes back after some time (presumably when my body gets accustomed to it again).

Also, this kind of research must be read with a little bit of scientific background.

It is easy to get an impression author wanted to establish causation, but in reality this research only shows correlation, and correlation does not prove causation.
What is the blood thinner for?

Edit: found this ingredient list but not sure if it is the same formulation or what I am looking for: https://www.heb.com/product-detail/vpx-redline-xtreme-triple...
Of course you’d say that, you have the brainpan of stage coach tilter.
If you like books, I can recommend O'Reilly's "CSS the missing manual"
It may look easy for you but it would complicate things for them. After packing your stuff you would probably want to get back home in the same vehicle, right? Otherwise the driver could get there before you. But in order to optimize, they will try to serve several customers at once - it would be impossible to let them all into the same large truck.

SO basically you have two options: either use their online story (the most convenient option) or use public transport to go there and a taxi (of adequate size) to get back home. I usually use the former option after having visited the store first to actually try the products I intend to buy. I don't treat their stores as stores but as showrooms.
But it is a warp drive in that it propels itself by warping space.

edit: aside from being completely theoretical at this point
But coffee induces stomach acid reflux, which is definitely not what you want during exercise, so catch-22 here.
Saying something that is false and lying are not the same thing.
I believe that this will follow the usual technobubble pattern, pump energy (money) until it blows, gather the remaining working bits on the ground afterwards and come back in 10 years.
You think people are perpetuating a "narrative" about how it sucks to be a cog why exactly? You honestly think we are secret socialists arguing against Amazon? I love my cushy tech job where I get paid ridiculously for what doesn't feel like an actual job. I just happen to know people on those bottom rungs and how much it sucks.

Put yourself in the shoes of each layer of a bureaucratic organization like Amazon. Most will be normal rational actors that are self interested. Most will want to make more money and advance their career. For those on the very bottom of society, working a warehouse job will mean a few more dollars more than minimum wage and it will be one of the best opportunities available to them. They will not enjoy it and it will be hard work but they will do it because making 25k a year at McDonald's will not put enough food on their families tables.

Then you have those slightly better off that are lucky enough to get a chance at an amazing ~20-25 dollars an hour as a driver. It will be hard work but again, they will grit their teeth and bare it because there is the height of what they can attain in life and it will put food on the table and a few gifts under the tree at Christmas.

Then you have the managers just above that first layer. They themselves are micromanaged and are glorified baby sitters whose job it is to get a whole bunch of unhappy people to be productive. They themselves want to provide better for their families and they will seek to improve their career. They are NOT solely evaluated on how quickly they can shuffle boxes around, else they would give raises to motivate their employees. They instead have to bend over backwards to produce results while keeping costs low. They have very few options to do well and are forced to do things that will make those on the bottom unhappy. They will do things like cut hours off employees so that they are no longer full time so that they don't have to pay health insurance. They will be lax on safety because it's worth the risk to them. The ones good at squeezing the bottom rung will get promoted and so on. It is a darwinian survival of the fittest with rational actors on every rung.

Should we tell those on the bottom tough shit, you should be thankful you're not working at McDonald's? Or do we all say you know what that incentive structure seems bad, that Amazon company has billions of dollars of cash laying around, it doesn't seem fair that our fellow citizens have to trudge through life miserably and that we should enact some laws to make their lives less bad? Why is a little bit softer version of capitalism so bad? We live in a shared society where those on the lower rung have it hard. We are all on the same team here and there is plenty of prosperity to share around. Meet and talk to people who are on that lower rung. Try to get to know them and understand their viewpoint, the struggles that they go through and what their lives look like.
What I'd really like to see is a discussion of how Bitcoin energy use compares with the current banking system. Many people criticize Bitcoin in a vacuum - so it's easy to get behind those arguments.

But I'd rather talk about whether or not Bitcoin is worthwhile progress or not. The current banking system might not be as wasteful from an energy usage perspective - but might have other environmental costs - plastic, paper printing, transportation costs. How do those compare?

And is Bitcoin progress - in the sense that it eliminates the state from printing and controlling the currency? If not, then what would progress look like?
As someone who is going all in with Ada, every time I have to reinvent the wheel I plan on releasing it as a MIT licensed library on github. Hopefully if enough Ada programmers do that, we won’t have to worry about it as much.
In what scenario can you tell the difference between 40 Mbps and 1000 Mbps on a mobile phone?

20-40 Mbps is more than enough for streaming. So I suppose you’re regularly downloading very large files or something?

Genuinely curious what use cases you notice a difference.

Or maybe it’s the better latency of your gigabit that you notice more so than the throughput?
HDI is widely regarded as the best metric for nation development.
It's the ultra-modern equivalent of the modern TV soundbite of an off-the-cuff remark. Also a new phenomenon. And it really is a new phenomenon. Until the 20th century, almost no person's expression or idea would reach the global, national or even regional consciousness without having gone through many layers of slowly-building feedback and editorialization and comment.

It's like if someone in the early 20th century took random excerpts of someone shouting on a soapbox at an intersection, but published it on the front page of a national newspaper unfiltered. I'm pretty sure no one back there would have seen much value in doing that.
Its not much cheaper if you compare to Onyx equivalent - Onyx Boox Note Air or Boox Note 3 which are also 10.3 and run on Android.

https://onyxboox.com/boox_noteair
Yes it depends heavily on your preferences. I’m attracted to this idea as Im feeling fatigued with programming, it can scale well without even inventing or coding anything, and perhaps narcistically I believe if you throw a excoder/math person at the analysis of markets and profitability you’d get a massive advantage over a typical seller.
uh..yeah. The halting problem doesn’t mean you can’t do termination checking. It just means there’s no general algorithm for deciding if a machine halts.

We only care about the specific subset of programs that the compiler is able to prove properties about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis
> In the one Culture story that refers to our planet, “The State of the Art,” Sma is among a group of Contact representatives who visit Earth in the year 1977. After a period of careful investigation, Sma argues — in the official report that constitutes most of the story — that the Culture needs to intervene to clean up the mess that human beings are making of our world. Were such an intervention to take place, Special Circumstances would spearhead it. However, one of her colleagues finds the Star Trek television series almost the only redeeming feature of Earth civilization and recommends that the whole planet be destroyed. Special Circumstances would handle that as well.

I'm not really a fan of the Culture, but that kind of blows up any illusions about it. The against-their-will homogenizing manipulations are one thing, but actual literal unprovoked genocide? If that's an option what other kinds of skeletons can this utopia be assumed to have in its closet?
You have a lot to say for someone who has no idea about BTC
I would love to have something of this kind as a calendar and agenda on my wall, but as you mentioned the price is currently ridiculously oppressive. Can't wait for the patents to expire so competition in this space becomes viable.
Well it's rather obviously false. Even if there are no miners at all (e.g. pretend the difficulty was fixed at a trivial value), the only way to know whether someone really has the coins they are paying with is to download all transactions that lead to this public key having a certain value. Even with blockchain checkpoints, you'd be hard-pressed to make this use less power than a very badly designed centralized service -- unless you use some form of centralization and defeat the purpose.

Comparing transactions is one way of measuring it, but I can't fault the proponents for saying it's a bad analogy. The number of transactions is indeed quite unrelated to the current power draw. But it's not hard to see that even the transaction system without the mining is already less efficient than a few database servers per bank for each bank in the world.

Now, Bitcoin doesn't have to provide power to people operating phones for customer support and other things that people expect from their bank, so in that sense you save a bit, but then there are still developers working on the bitcoin ecosystem, and there's this minor issue called miners that also use a small amount of power on top of it all.
My feeling is that interstellar travel will be slow and require many generations of travelers -- or not done by human beings at all.
In Italy it’s a running joke that everyone thinks they can speak any “Latinesque” language if necessary, because “they are just Italian pronounced a bit differently” - when obviously that’s far from the truth, resulting in very funny attempts to invent words on the spot. But yes, there are a lot of structural similarities; which is natural, considering how these languages came to be.
How does a Somali web dev get a Visa to pay for her servers or domain registrations? How will a Syrian restaurant owner accept Mastercard payments from his custumers? How can Wikileaks accept donations?

Do you not consider those 'economic value'?
Is true that 5G enables high precision, real-time tracking of all connected devices?

Like, high-precision and real-time enough to kill anyone from a satellite/drone/missile/etc at any time with no additional effort?
So much words to cope you didnt get into the train at the right time, but keep going no-coiners :-)
If you say so. Here Brazil has always been of particular interest due to our close historical relationship, so nothing has changed (e.g. "Lava Jato" was also covered much more closely than corruption cases in other countries, left or right-wing).
> You are talking nonsense here. Money is just an abstraction of energy and resources used by a human organization.

Money is a separate system that often but not always flows hand in hand with the flow of energy and resources.

> Remove the money and the organization can still function.

Not every organisation. Remove money from the stock market and you have barely anything left. Large portion of money circulates in organisations that have very little to do with energy or resources.
I’ve always found exercise to be a motivator for getting diet under control. Periods of low exercise correlates with bad eating. Building back the routine makes shifting diet much easier.
Enjoy staying poor.
Starting an essay on any topic with an assessment of just the size of the Wikipedia pages about it really doesn’t inspire confidence that the author’s research goes much beyond having brought up the Wikipedia pages and declared ‘gosh, those are long.’ It’s really only one stop short of opening the essay “Webster’s dictionary defines ‘culture’ as...”

Then the author makes a weird and baseless speculation: ‘I would not be at all surprised if Banks himself, in the writing of Culture novels, consulted Wikipedia to ensure consistency with his previous work.’ - most of the novels predate the very existence of Wikipedia; a page about The Culture was only added in 2009.
Misapplying overloaded labels to sneak into benefit pools a group doesn't belong to is the bread-and-butter of bureaucracy. Once a union has solved the problems that lead to members losing fingers, they turn to regulatory capture like this.
Something does not need to be an asset to have value.

Does the US dollar not have value?
> Mining Bitcoins is like Iceland smelting aluminum?

It can be argued that producing new aluminum with cheap power is also kind of a sink. There is plenty of aluminum that has already been produced, if we keep producing new cheap aluminum we are in fact incentivizing using aluminum for cheap single use products and decentivizing recycling. A lot of this new cheap aluminum will end up in landfills, hence the sink.
I'd say that, yes, work laws are better in France than in the US, it's rather obvious, but I can't say that the unions in France are a net good.

Also something I forgot to yesterday: unions that prevents downsizing or restructuring efforts to tackle industry changes, ending by killing the companies in question. Or, when a falling factory is about to be bought, imposing such constraints that all deal fall trough.
Staking and inflation don’t have to be bad if everyone can participate in staking and their coins still remain liquid.
to me, if the scientists wanted footage, they'd rent a real helicopter and use real cameras with really nice lenses so they can hover at a nice safe and comfortable distance, yet still get the footage needed.

flying a $1k toy into high temperatures is just an attempt at a stock fotog to get some footage and some publicity. science was nowhere near on the agenda. the guy runs a stock photo company specializing in aerials.
You probably get reported because that is a particularly silly hill to die on. Every niche gets these things wrong. Random example: "Majority of Republicans think evangelical Christians are more discriminated against than minorities" https://archive.thinkprogress.org/republicans-evangelical-ch...

You know what the actual problem is? That this number is larger than zero at all. Police violence in the US is completely nuts, there were 999 deaths in 2019 alone. The population-adjusted number from Germany is 55 (actual deaths by police were 14). Which is still too much.
> I never understand why classify people on their looks.

Because it's easy. Our brains are expert pattern matching machines. The things we see immediately cause our brain to act and match based on the prior data it holds. What's the easiest thing to see about a person that relays the most information to our brain? The color of their skin, what they're wearing, their hairstyle, etc.
Because bitcoin is product of goldbugs' fevered imagination where somehow the gold standard a) existed for much longer than in reality b) was much more successful.
This has puzzled me for a long time too. Now I know!
Bitcoin (and similar) are the only truly global digital cash assets.

We could build a digital currency that was secured by public cryptography, totally anonymous, tradable without involving central authorities, and verifiable offline/by third-parties. It would require no blockchain, consume no natural resources (anymore than, say, VISA), and plug seamlessly in to the existing banking system.

No government, however, would allow such a beast to be on the Internet: global, unrestricted, and free of capital controls. In order to redeem or refresh the tokens you'd need to be a citizen and have a bank account.

That's the only unique selling point for Bitcoin.
What sorts of features from 3.8 and 3.8 have you been seeing regularly used?
Only the extremely wealthy could line their floor with gold. You were comparing Bitcoin to gold, not "all lustrous materials". It remains a poor comparison.
Well, as an actual newspaper indeed this approach is not handy. But if the author of the blog-post is a journalist, editor or a writer (in a newspaper) I totally can see this as a show of his "works" on a wall of fame in his office.
AWS offers a hosted Ethereum node service now. It's pretty simple to set up. I would be glad to walk you through it for $1,000.
When the facts are with you, pound on the facts, but when the facts are against you, pound on the table!
Facts make Bitcoin look bad, and now someone's trying to witness to me, calling me "blind" and trying to change the topic to "petrodollars," a fantasy bogeyman, and drag in 50 other distractions.

I deliberately chose international wire transfers as the worst and most expensive way to move money. I assume everyone knows that you can move large sums of money domestically for mere pennies. Yes, that implies the total cost of the system is less-than-pennies per transaction, including human staff, hardware to run everything, taxes paid to governments which protect the system, everything. Yes, transaction costs are the right way to compare the cost of transactions, believe it or not.

Maybe Bitcoin is a FULL system. Big deal. If it's not going to share that FULL system with normal everyday life and its shared institutions, it bears the FULL costs of failing to share, as expensive as that may be.
I'm not sure how say Bitcoin payments are going to outpace in effectiveness what is essentially database queries.
How would you know? The person who got the million views may have copied someone who copied someone who copied from you. You may have originated something but assumed you heard it from somewhere after it caught fire.

The life of ideas and clichés is largely independent of celebrity - if it hadn't been one twitter star that picked up some pithy arrangement of words that fit the zeitgeist, it probably would have been another.

The trying really hard part is just to be in the middle of things, and if you're successful at that, when you're the 1 out of 100 people who said the same thing, you're the one that gets the credit because you have 2M followers.
how would you quality VISA and Tesla accepting bitcoin ? does it qualify as asset tranfer or currency ? (open question)
"Detached home sales in February amounted to 1,123, up from 678 the year prior, while prices edged up to $572,670 from $526,084 previously." [0]

Calgary detached homes are up 9% year over year, in a pandemic, with Alberta's oil industry haemorrhaging jobs. The only way 9% is low is in relation to the rest of Canada. BC (Victoria, Nanaimo, Kelowna, etc, all outside Vancouver) are up 30%. Nova Scotia is up 30%+ even outside Halifax.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-real-estate-b...
Framer is an awesome prototyping tool (I use it), but I would've wanted to know up-front that "export to React" comes with two huge caveats:

- There's nothing stopping you from using it in production, but it isn't designed for this. What you create does not even use real layout, does not use normal HTML elements, etc.: see https://www.framer.com/support/using-framer/creating-real-ap....

- Inevitably in any real-world project, various parts of the UI need to be changed/overridden from code. But you cannot iterate on the design once ejected, which is a significant limitation for any product that requires iteration.

For building prototypes, it works great, and it makes user-testing a "happy path" nice and breezy.

That said, would love to see/hear more about the projects you've shipped to production!

(Disclaimer: I work on https://www.plasmic.app.)
I think the big problem is the amount of energy this thing is costing, and the huge load it puts on the GPU market, which could very much be a speculative bubble. There is a lot of difference between your examples and Bitcoin :

The labour of your employees hopefully adds something you can show to your clients : it’s a lot less speculation on your part.

Van Gogh is a name in the art world, and has a well documented place in art theory. Van Gogh is hardly speculative.
I can't figure out how to charge a battery with bitcoin. Just working for a few hours drains my 12.6 to 12.2 at night. Lead acid is a battery. Lithium is a battery. Btc is not