skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin being a net-negative investment doesn't exclude the possibility of a few winners. Much like some people do actually benefit from pyramid schemes.
Look, you can't both, compare it to some system that you know and then suddenly claim that I'm changing the topic to focus on the system you compared it to, at the same time. If you are comparing X to Y and I question your assumptions on Y, it is a valid way to understand the comparison. Your angry reply isn't going to diminish my stance. You don't have to use bitcoin, it's alright.
What is the specific technical reason that would be true?
I think you might be the one struggling with it. Calculating value (and its possible future) is actually my job description (I work on risk systems for one of the largest banks in the world).

If something "provides value" it means it generates net benefit after inclusion of various costs and risks.

If we take "provides value for humanity" it means bitcoin would have to make net benefit for humanity.

But that is not the case. Almost all people have other as convenient ways to transact money. So we only have actually very small minority of people who see the actual benefit.

These are mostly people who use bitcoin not to transact but rather to speculate on it -- they don't benefit on it because it makes transacting easier, it is just a pure game on whether the value of bitcoin is going to go up or down.

Another class of people for whom bitcoin creates value are the ones with access to capital, cheap energy and silicon to play the game of burning money for bitcoin.

Everybody else (ie. almost all people in the world) is left with no benefits and a disadvantage of worsening environment.

The energy must be produced somewhere. Even if the particular MWh for mining was produced from renewable sources, it could have been used to offset some non-renewable MWh, but now is lost to the space. The capacity to produce energy is being wasted.

Even if humanity produces 100% energy from renewable resources we are still long way to repairing our environment and that energy could have been used to maybe sequester some CO2.

"Normal" coin on normal account does not require so much energy to be burned.
Well, it’s intent is for IoT devices so that makes sense.
This comes off as overly dramatic fear mongering. We’ve moved on from big oil being the bogey man and source of our problems to Amazon and big tech.

Amazon has a detection system to figure out if you are getting tired. Sounds great to me. If you’re driving a huge rig or even a larger van, you falling asleep at the wheel means risk to your self and others on the road.

Not everything is bad and evil. This almost feels like an anti Amazon propaganda campaign to me. Why? Amazon isn’t the only one in the delivery business. Do their competitors have the technological capability to put this kind of feature in production? Probably not.

CCTVs have been around for decades. If surveillance was an issue, it would have come up many decades ago.
Hard fork to pure proof of stake, problems solved. However, against Miners' best interests
Could not find something to read about this topic directly but here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8ZScrXFZE is a great talk about why the incentives in blockchains systems are bad for the system and its users.

The speaker is an ex-btc dev and one of the creator of the first public FBA based blockchain. (which obviously mean hes biased but good arguments are good arguments)
HN does not equal to YC despite YC owning HN.
>a parser without

can you show me a parser generator that produces this kind of visualization?
Why do you feel this library is necessary
Going into low-power mode and then being woken up by the tower is standard function (even of 4G) - it's called paging, and pretty much all devices support it.

Unfortunately, although listening for these paging messages requires less power than having a full connection, it's still non-zero.

For really lower-power applications, 5G (and I think some of the later 4G extensions) support Mobile-Initiated Connection Only, which essentially means the device goes into low-power mode but doesn't even listen for paging messages - instead, it wakes up occasionally (maybe even just once a day) and sends and receives messages. The tower knows to not even bother trying to page it.
There's a thing called a Gish Gallop (all this is actually rather on topic for discussions of lying) where the counter to someone arguing your points, is to pivot and rapidly throw out more points, pretty much anything you like, too fast to properly refute. It's a rather effective tactic for socially disabling an argumentative opponent: just not for anything truth-related. Might not be truth-related but it's still very real.

All this relates to discussions of lying because the fundamental structure of the gallop, plus numerous other forms of BSing, requires the implication that everybody is in good faith: you're meant to grant that and then examine the arguments and see how they shake out. There's a lot of stuff happening in modern discourse where an anchor point to the argument is, 'since everyone here is in good faith and we just believe different things, let's break down the sides of the arguments'.

But we're not. When you're desperate enough about winning (or not losing important things), good faith is disposable, and then people lie, for advantage, because they badly need advantage and aren't getting it from truth and good faith.

Hence, the OP question of 'How can you tell if someone is lying?'. People will con themselves, but they will also lie on purpose to accomplish a goal.
Indeed. IMHO, this phrase really got the essence about the pandemic and disinformation.

I could go further, it captures the essence of "lying for profit" no matter the economic/political system.
Ethereum processes more transactions per day than Bitcoin. It offers more features. It consumes less power. It's pretty much superior to Bitcoin in every aspect. It would make more sense to run all Bitcoin transactions on Ethereum.
> I don't understand how they came to this conclusion.

Whether humans are just much-loved companion animals to the Minds is a running theme in the books. The role and value of beings almost infinitely smaller in capacity than the Minds is certainly a theme. The Minds may be wired to adore us, but do they truly respect us? One imagines that if the likes of Grey Area went around reading the minds of other Minds rather than mere meat minds, he would promptly have met a rather more painful end than social ostracism. Similarly, while the Culture purports to be a universal direct democracy, when the entire public discussion can be subtly guided by the Minds... how free are the Culture's humans, really? I've noticed some people seem to completely miss this theme. Others tend to read that theme even more strongly than Banks probably intended. But it's certainly there.
I just watched this a few days ago. The soliton wave was sort of a magic carpet. They, of course, decided to test it by aiming it at a colony...
Fascinating read! I really wanted to try this until I got to this part.

A humorous research paper from 1989 gathered together some classic put-downs, including "At best, it is only one degree better than a rotten apple" – from a 19th Century gardening book – and "the medlar is not… worth a turd until it's ripe, and then it tastes like shit" – reportedly the opinion of an anonymous medieval author.
How is immigration a better solution?

Instead of a child, an adult must adapt to a very different culture. With lots of cultural clashes that are pretty obvious, especially in Europe, where a lot of the migrants come from the neighboring Islamic world with its very different social norms.

Not to mention that you rely on the fact that other nations do not stop reproducing. What if they do?

Countries like Bulgaria and Serbia have dropped into very low birthrates before becoming wealthy, thus they exist in the worst of worlds: educated and employable immigrants obviously choose places like England and Germany where they can make a lot more money, domestic youth migrates to the West too, leaving an old and vulnerable population without services.
Go ahead and call Bitcoin a "fiat currency" if that suits your narrative.

Don't be surprised if some people laugh at your face, though.
Worst case scenario is something like, every dollar spent mining gold goes into diesel for machines moving dirt to find the gold, which amounts to something like 27 billion gallons of diesel per year, which amounts to something like 275 million metric tons of CO2 per year. Which would, in fact, be something like 7.5x more CO2 per year than BTC.

I'd put my estimate at something like 30-150 megatons of CO2/year for gold, just because I'd be surprised if they spent less than 10% of the cost of mining gold on fuel, or more than 50%. So I'd be neither surprised if gold generated less CO2 / year than Bitcoin, or if it generated like 4x more.
> The value of bitcoin is driven by speculation

I agree, but isn't that how all fiat money behaves?
My knee-jerk reaction was to skip directly to comments. It seems correct.
I'm very exhausted with trying to treat ideas as property. I'll accept it got us here and appreciate it for that, but it's a broken model that requires massive orchestration to keep in reality. I want something different (and better...though that's the hard part).
The same process takes place with astringent persimmons. Persimmons are even weirder because they have four types: pollination constant non-astringent (PCNA), pollination variant non-astringent (PVNA), pollination constant astringent (PCA), pollination variant astringent (PVA).

That means that some (very tasty) types of persimmon can be astringent or sweet when hard depending on whether they were pollinated, which is nearly impossible to tell just by looking at the fruit. The most well known categories of persimmons, at least in the US -- Fuyu types (PCNA) and Hachiya (PCA) -- are not pollination variant.
Well, the most common ad of this type are for the exact item I purchased from the retailer I purchased it from. Usually for things which a person wouldn't need two of. I tend not to see these ads until after I have made the purchase.
Man I love e-ink devices so much. My Onyx Boox Note Air is one of the nicest and useful devices I have ever owned. I absolutely love it and their open platform. (I even ditched my Kindle oasis for the Poke3)

I always regarded e-ink as a soon-to-be (or already) obsolete technology and while that might still be true, I absolutely love it for reading and writing. There is currently nothing better.
A grande (16oz) drip coffee from starbucks is over 300mg of caffeine. The problem with Red Bull is the sugar.
> Cryptocurrencies give us the opportunity to create new financial instruments that do not support industries that are destroying the environment.

While crytocurrencies’ ridiculous hunger for energy will destroy the environment all on their own.

How much energy is wasted or could otherwise be used mining the next whatevercoin.
Back in the late 00’s I discovered Redbull really helped me overcome after-lunch food-coma. I’d drink one right after lunch to help me get back to work and focus for the rest of the day.

After about 6 months of this, one day I was sitting at my desk having just finished my afternoon Redbull, and felt my heart skip a beat, literally. Like a little mini-heart attack. Scared the shit out of me, and I quit Redbull cold turkey that day.

At the time I was really into cycling, riding about 100 miles per week (50 on the weekend plus daily bike commute). I was in tip-top shape, with no family history of heart problems, and an otherwise normal, low-sugar, whole food diet.

Never experienced that since, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are studies that find a link between super-high caffeine energy drinks and heart or other health problems.
I can imagine this type of reaction when people started to suggest time past at different rates for different observers.
I might buy an umbrella because I believe it is going to rain, but that does not mean that an increase in the supply of umbrellas will lead to an increase in the amount of rain.
The Culture series can be read in pretty much any order; staring with The Player of Games might be easier.
Wasn't that implicit? When you connect to a network down to a tower every few blocks you are broadcasting location.
This from the study was very interesting to me:

> In athletes, it is known that endurance performance is poorer early in the morning and late at night compared with the afternoon [6], and that MFO and Fatmax are higher in the afternoon compared to the morning whether in non-athlete male students [7], in untrained normal-weight and obese individuals [8], or in endurance-trained athletes [9]. The difference has been explained by the higher body temperature, the enhanced neural activation and contractile properties of the skeletal muscle, and the higher plasma catecholamine concentrations found in response to exercise in the afternoon compared to the morning and evening [10, 11].

So it seems like regardless of if you had caffeine or not, it is better to work out in the afternoon vs. in the morning
First, looks like you judged that I'm economically conservative and I am not.

My point was that the author isn't talking about the poor, they're talking about a problem with technocracy that seeks to define you by metrics. As a SRE you should be keenly aware of the shortcomings of such approaches.

The story you've told here is not far from the journey I had as a software engineer coming from the military in the Midwest and South, and even at similar hourly rates.

If you look at my other comment, we likely have the same views, but I'm not focused on how it's projected on different classes. I'm focused on the practice itself.

> 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.

This is rich. You assumed I've always had money. You assumed my political allegiances. You assumed I've never existed on a "lower rung".

That's all narrative, so in a way, you made my point for me. You've now distracted from the debate entirely and have earned a second person who doesn't want to hear what you have to say.
I'm not sure you two are disagreeing?
Then any currency would be fiat making the word meaningless. Bitcoin haves an intrisic value like gold, the energy it takes to create a btc. Fiat money can be made out of thin air as the fed can just print more money
LOL talk to your local priest about the whole thing being a bunch of nice fables; or actually go to church.
The sermons at Easter can be especially unpleasant.
Start with Player of Games, it's better and most people recommend it as a starting point.
Those are very good questions, but nobody wants to touch them because they are inherently political and somewhat destabilising.

Personally, I don’t think the absence of well-regulated banks and central banks under a degree of democratic oversight would be progress; but there is some value in making the underground economy somewhat structured and relatively transparent.

It’s a bit like the Japanese yakuza: everyone knows it exists, members are very visible, the state tolerates it as long as it stays under certain limits, and so on. This is not perfect but it’s a better and more desirable situation than full-out war like in Mexico, for example. Similarly, we currently have little or no visibility of dirty money; we know it’s pumped in our “clean” banking systems but we don’t really know where, we’re in a constant struggle to uproot it before it taints the rest. Wouldn’t it be better to keep all that in its own dedicated system? Btc can be that.
Microplastics as hubs enriching antibiotic-resistant bacteria and pathogens
Link the source?
We should note that the Russians are the only ones crazy enough to build positive void reactors (i.e. reactors that have a large pressure and can.... explode). No one else uses RBM designs because of safety concerns. Even then they were known.
> You might want to look into how much our existing banking systems consumes in terms of total energy. It might shock you.

Actually working for a bank, I can tell you that banks do a lot more than just keep your money.

If you are not convinced try to move your entire financial life to bitcoin and tell me how you get cash, how you pay for fuel at gas station or pay your taxes.

Does bitcoin have inherently web application for you to log in and manage your account?

Does it have a call center for you to call to block your credit card?

What about a host of other services banks provide you just conveniently omitted?
How does this solve the causality paradox?
> Great food, great views, relatively competent government.

The thing is, none of these things are a function of previous owner or landlord, so why should I be paying them for these great things?

Put another way, I'm honestly glad to pay lots of money to live in Toronto, because what I get for that is amazing. But I'd rather just pay that directly to the people who made the city great (the community as a whole), rather than someone who simply had the luck to buy at the right time.
I hadn't heard the concept of a reducer. Very cool!
Have you ever tried to buy a car with seashells? Or take them along for the vacation?
As I remember it takes 3 extra instructions to check for arithmetic overflow after, say, an ADD instruction. Spewing those extra instructions all over the place sounds like severe code bloat to me, though I'll try to get around to checking examples sometime (gcc trapv vs wrapv). Yes, Risc-V is unable to trap on overflow and yes that was an intentional design decision. It can trap on invalid memory references and various other things, it can set flags on floating point overflow if it implements IEEE FP properly, but integer overflow is unchecked. Whether that limitation is wise or unwise is a matter of opinion, but that it is part of the architecture is just a fact.
haven't read the comments yet, but i ctrl+f'd and searched the word 'fiat' - 39 results - yeah its a bitcoin thread alright
I use docsify with github pages. This allows you to edit in markdown.

Github basically gives you a free IDE. There's no need to compile as markdown is converted to html on the client side.

https://docsify.js.org/#/
Instant settlement doesn't necessarily provide 'value'.

I can arrive at a store entrance, and in 30 seconds be leaving with a new macbook, paid for on my VISA card. I can then pay it off 56 days later without paying any charges or interest.

If i couldn't do this the store would almost certainly make fewer sales.
Fair, I thought we were talking about some sort of intrinsic/actual value, rather than purely speculative value.

Clearly anything that someone is willing to trade for something else has some sort of 'value'.
Why do you think it’s too much? That seems arbitrary. Some people do bad things and risk harm to others. When those situations are immediately in front of someone like a policeman, action has to be taken. I recall reading an article digging into all the 2019 cases of unarmed blacks killed by police and only one seemed outright unjust - and the police in that case were charged. This made me feel the system by and large is working well.

But my main point isn’t to debate policing. It’s that reasonable discussion is disallowed due to vague content policies like banning “hate speech” (very fluidly defined) and the ability for coordinated brigades to mass report and block dissenting viewpoints. This allows one sided unrefined ideas to be the only ones in circulation, and they get amplified without anything to slow it down, without anything to add nuance.
Looks like Albanian muç-molla

They are very tasty, and can be eaten like a mini apple or pear. They taste like a combination between a pear and an apple. I used to have one in my home/garden.

...it is the baby of the rose family. This little tree produces small fruits in brown to rust color.

These fruits are similar to those of the wild rose, but larger in size.

https://www.classlifestyle.com/news/39341/mucmolla-shqiptare...
> No additional tanks, armies and nuclear weapons needed.

Of course not. The existing ones you depend on to protect the necessary infrastructure and servers of bitcoin are already sufficient.
But doesn't provide any proof whatsoever.
Coming from a background as a professional music performer and educator (now a software engineer), seeing highly-upvoted comments like this one that are so confident and yet so completely wrong is a great reminder that you should always take what you read in an internet comment section with a grain of salt, no matter how many people are nodding virtually in agreement.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with anybody learning to play piano entirely by ear and never picking up a music score. If that brings you enjoyment, that's truly fantastic, and I mean that sincerely. But for the vast majority of pianists, being unable to read sheet music will cut you off from many genres of music entirely, make in-person instruction mostly impossible, render all written pedagogical resources inaccessible to you, and enormously limit your ability to play in ensembles. Even jazz pianists who improvise and play by ear for all of their meaningful playing can read music; in fact you'd probably find that most of the really good ones are incredible sight-readers.

> These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine.

I think a better analogy is probably something like "these things are about as different as being able to understand a spoken language, and being able to speak and write it".
Good question, I have no clue as I have nothing to do with 5G. From what I recall, it was something about how quickly the cars would be able to communicate with each other. Maybe this is just a very common misconception that is shared widely, but I know I've read it before in numerous places online.

EDIT: Link to Verizon talking about it. It could all just be hype to make people want 5G and to get governments to invest in it, I don't know.

"Today, internet-connected cars rely on 4G LTE technology to stream music and engage other connected services, but 5G will usher in a step change not only for in-car connectivity, but for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication.

The implication is clear: Cars will not only “talk” with one another in near-real time, but also with sensors installed in streets and traffic lights, sharing information on roadways and weather conditions, and alerting drivers on the same stretch of highway to potential hazards. Connected vehicles will be able to crowdsource near-real-time routing information to avoid backups and streamline traffic flow. Next-generation networks should also lead to improvements in driver safety by helping mitigate the unknown—a truck, for example, sensing that its driver is about to run a red light and alerting other vehicles approaching the intersection of the hazard. The National Highway Safety Administration has concluded that the introduction of systems to prevent collisions at intersections alone could save 1,300 lives a year."

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/how-5g-ultra-wideband-can...