skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychedelic effects could be an advantage, from an evolutionary perspective, that encourages consumption, propagation and cultivation of different species of fungi. I could see that being an agenda.
Morrowind is a hell of a grind. It didn’t detract when that was more common and when I was a kid with all kinds of free time. I tried it again but didn’t have time for the grind so it just didn’t work for me anymore :/

That said it’s one of my favorite games for what it was when I had time for that.
Broken Markets: New Jersey deli valued at $105M
Why would any reasonable person limit their choices based on a tool? Rust or Blast - whatever

I really don’t care what language I’m using if it it doing the job. I use Java, Java Script, Go, Python, Scala when appropriate.
And the backstick only works if you start by the left one.
It's reasonably likely that there will be a run on dollars at some point.

If/when it happens, the bitcoin network collapsing is a pretty likely outcome.

(what I mean by a run on dollars is that lots of people may decide they want dollars instead of bitcoin, so the people with dollars won't have to pay as much for bitcoin, and then the people who want dollars will have to accept less for their bitcoin, and then…)
As a resident of Chelan county, I can attest, muni broadband is a great idea! It has allowed me to live the lifestyle I choose, where I choose. I’ve had <$80/mnth 1G fiber for years now.
>You sound like a creep.

He sounds desperate. I can imagine the prospect of becoming homeless isn't comforting.
Mother earth will be fine only until the sun expands to the point that it boils off the oceans and completely sterilizes all life within the next billion years.

I guess the dead rock ball will still be fine.
It’s a simple equation:
So long as there is more money in mining BTC than there is cost in energy to mine it, mining will proceed.

No entity in the world can control the price of crypto. But, we can and already do regulate energy production.

I think we need a carbon tax, that is specifically a financial disincentive towards any means of energy production that directly pollutes the atmosphere.

Seriously, what are the current best arguments against levying such a disincentive?

Moreover, if energy were priced correctly (its toll on the climate priced in) would BTC become higher in value? That is, we have a supply, increasing at a rate fixed between the arbitrage of energy and mining efficiency. If energy were to become more expensive, the growth in supply would slow. Assuming demand remains constant or continues to grow as well, the only way for price to go is up.
Why did the ones using analytics blockers show up when you took ads off the page?
I don't doubt that scale matters, it's just a bad analogy. Knives aren't comparable to social media, but if the commenter wants to play the knife analogy game then this is the conclusion.
> Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories.

Yeah, how do they know you viewed 5 stories? Block cookies or clear cookies on exit and they have basically no way of knowing. Use an VPN to the EU and they have to comply with GDPR as well so they can't fingerprint you.

(Or use AMP if they offer it. Sometimes that helps circumvent paywalls.)
And to add to the list: there is no way to reply to a message, although they have this implemented in the mobile client for ages.
Exactly. If you're on grid, unless and limiting yourself to times when there's a surplus, every KW of clean electricity you use is a KW of dirty, natural gas or coal peaker plant electricity someone else has to use. If you've got an off-grid solar set up, you're just bidding up the price of PV panels.
I’m an exec. I might be impressed, might not. Context is everything. Two sides to every story.

Hiring someone is a huge liability. Depending on their state it could be a 500k bet. Give me a reason to believe in you.

Red flag of this post is absence of self reflection. What has been learned during this? Why do you deserve a shot?
He will be a "former" alt-right youtuber when he takes responsibility for his actions. I don't see anything to suggest he is taking responsibility for anything he has said or done (i.e. the assault of the unnamed black man), and it appears all that he has done is shift his audience from the alt-right community to those interested in how the alt-right works.
I can't speak for Poland, but for India the primary reason such services can't exist is - culture.

India is basically a "low trust society". People in general have a mindset of "scarcity" and at every stage of their lives they try to micro-optimize for what's the best for them at that time. In the absence of good institutions, this often means that we get stuck in shitty Nash equilibria which have terrible, terrible outcomes for everyone involved, but are difficult to get out of.

It is not that everyone in India has no morals or behaves terribly. But the number of people who do are enough to spoil trust-based models that work in other countries by making them too expensive.

From a business point of view, the obvious question is - how do you create a circle of "trustworthy" people? If you could create such a circle, you could offer them special services (better return policies, lower rates for insurance and credit etc) to encourage them to consume more without worrying so much about abuse. This is one of the most exciting business problems in India and solving it is worth at least worth 10 billion dollars and that is probably an underestimate.

There is one company already that claims to have solving this problem as their primary long-term vision - Cred and that company is currently valued at > $2 billion even though currently their revenues are weak and any connection to the long term trust problem quite distant.
Miners aren't building their own solar arrays right now and even if they were until we're throwing away wind or solar power constantly any energy burned to work on a coin is energy that could have just gone into serving existing loads.
Eh, I’m fine with it. Free is stupid and for kids, and mostly social media and YouTube have them covered.

We all have jobs because people pay for things.
Add a simple header to block FLoC on your website (fortunately):

`permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()`

It's only deployed on a test set of Chrome browsers so far, and it does create a warning message on browsers that don't support it. [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66997942/error-with-perm...

Edit to note support for blocking this!
BTC miners buy the energy to power their nodes and that cost is passed to the users in transaction fees.

The only legitimate criticism here may be that energy prices dont account for the externalities of carbon emissions. But thats irrelevant of how the energy is actually used
I think that’s highly unlikely. Surely the people mining Bitcoin would be doing something else if Bitcoin didn’t exist. Or to think of it the other way, if there was some better way of making money with electricity then the Bitcoin miners would be doing that instead.
@maxerickson

That ultimately will be the end game. I'd argue that most of the folks that bought into Bitcoin do not, in fact, share in the an-cap libertarian utopia of an economy entirely detached from the US Dollar. Folks are going to want their payday, even folks like Michael Saylor and Elon Musk.

These guys aren't HODLing for charity. They want to exit before the rest of the peanut gallery does.
Yep. Given that the fastest Windows ARM device is an M1 Macbook Pro running Windows in Parallels, there's currently no competition for local platforms and ARM.

If Amazon and Nvidia's ARM server chips really pick up steam, then the M1 Macbooks would be the premiere local device.
How can I get in contact with you?
> Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.
Is there an index or ETF that tracks what the House does? I'd love to invest in that.
I assume you’re not happy with stuff like HackerNewsletter [1], though my experience is that missing out on the latest stuff on Hacker News has never had a material negative effect on my life. I see it as entertainment, not a need per se.

[1] https://hackernewsletter.com/
> Yes and no. Not to be cliche, but times are different. Everything now is digital

What did your elders who grew up with books and radios say of the early computers era you’re fond of?
Could Bitcoin really bootstrap ourselves up the Kardashev scale? Amazing story.

Please put tulip bubble in new context.
According to this survey of economists, the consensus seems to be "rent control is bad". https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control/
I’m not. Journalism is now infotainment. Return to factual unbiased un-opinionated reporting and I may reconsider.
ok I'm wrong on the grammatical analysis, it's not a noun but rather an idiom meaning to lack or need something.
And you just used "i.e." incorrectly. Congratulations.

Hey snakedoctor! You're probably not a sociopathic, autistic, illiterate narcissist like everyone here is telling you. For one, your writing is just fine, and beyond that any of your bad decisions can simply be explained by youth and (understandable) desperation.

I would suggest staying away from HN for life advice. People here might have some money but, aside from that, they are mostly low-intelligence failures.
Before you call me a troll, know that I worked with PHP for two+ years maintaining both legacy codebases and writing new code with Laravel.

My question is: why would anyone want to start something new with PHP in 2021? Is there anything that it does better than any other language/ecosystem? I feel like the community is full of (but not exclusively composed of—there are some gems like Caleb Porzio who write good stuff) people who just care about hacking something together and, as long as it works, it's fine. They care nothing about elegance and have but a dim conception of larger CS/SE principles.

For example, why would you write something in PHP when you've got an excellent choice between Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, both of which are fantastic, and, especially in the case of the Elixir/Phoenix stack, really developer friendly, easy to set up and deploy, etc. and also have solid foundations?

I'm glad to see PHP getting better—it will certainly improve life for those maintaining old PHP projects that are agile enough to upgrade—but I really see no reason to not choose a better tool in this day and age.

(You may now call me a troll if you see fit. I stand by what I said though. :-)
Oculus isn't your only alternative. I've been very happy with Vive, especially the Cosmos, and I've heard great things about Valve's Index.

If you're on more of a budget the PSVR is quite good if you happen to have a PS4.
I don't think I can recall any cases in my professional history as a software developer of anyone landing a dev job due to "hustle". Unless we are using some shallow definition of it that's "Taught self how to code, passed the same technical interview as everyone else"
Reuters used to be the gold standard (in my view) of objective, un-opinionated journalism. Not sure what changed in the last 2-3 years. Now they heavily editorialize titles and miss important facts in order to sway readers.

Also lol:

> A Reuters spokeswoman declined to comment on the investment figure.

Reuters journalist contacting a Reuters spokesperson to get a statement.
You seem to be asking that rhetorically with the implication that the answer is obvious “no.” But that’s certainly not obvious to me. Seems to me that adding energy demand is a good thing for the advancement of renewable energy. Surely a decrease or stasis in energy demand would be devastating to the renewable energy industry.
I guess if we theoretically had enough wind turbines, climates could start being impacted due to winds being slowed down but not exactly sure if that would heat the earth more or not. Could an area with lots of turbines have slower wind speeds and have heat dissipate less quickly? It seems plausible, but would think it would even out with a different area getting a little cooler. But yea, don't see how that would cause the earth to warm overall.

Also, I assume wind turbines cause some emissions during manufacturing. Not sure going gang busters and making a ton to power bitcoin mining would be great for the planet.
Pricing freedom is mandatory for a properly functioning market.
The interesting take I've seen about this is that disinformation and lies are free to consume en masse, but current events and real facts cost money.

I understand Reuters' need to make money, but with all the quality journalism and news costing money per view, we should expect further problems arising from disinformation.
Snakedoctor's writing is fine and you sound like a pompous idiot.
Sounds like you’re firing on all fronts.

What’s your goal/objective? Pick an industry find their association and make inroads.

If you didn’t land a FAANG out of college you’re going to have the hustle at SMEs and build a resume that shows consistency in the following:
- you showed up
- you got things done (be wary of hanging your hat on that one thing you did back in xxxx).

But if it’s just healthcare, HomeDepot/CostCo may be a good bet. Even if you hustle at a place like that and make manager you can make enough to take care of a family.

Also I’d lose the victim and woes-is-you cuz big corporate isn’t noticing you -‘tude.

At the end of the day your job will be to make someone else’s life easier, if you figure out who and can speak to how in an interview, chances are you’ll get the job.
The relationship with a potential employer and a romantic interest have the same dynamics between creepy vs confident/hustling. We all have seen examples of both, but if any have tried to project confidence or to hustle to any significant and meaningful degree you run a non-trivial risk of appearing to cross lines / be creepy.

Often it isn’t one or the other. Steve Jobs was both a heartless ass at times while also being a brilliant hustler.
Quality journalism will become a commodity for the wealthy.

Reputable news platforms are moving behind paywalls, while propaganda/quasi-propaganda networks remain free.

This is bad for society, for politics, and in the long term for our way of life.

It is not reasonable to expect the average person to validate the news they see on low quality news platforms by cross checking with other sources, even if quality sources were free, which they are increasingly not.

I see only one sustainable solution. A public news organization, paid out of the federal government budget, with your and my taxes. Like PBS, but with 50x the budget.

As the Trump years have shown, misinformation and the distortion of facts can have real life, hard consequences. Trump owes his 2016 victory to 80,000 votes in three states. How likely is it that his democratic opponent would have won had the social media storm of combined conservative-Russian propaganda been a degree or two lower? Extremely likely.

Four years later, half a million Americans have died because of Covid-19. This would not be the case if the 2016 election had turned out differently.

To circle back to the original topic. The paywalling of quality journalism is detrimental to society, and the consequences of this trend can and have already led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people.
Up until now Reuters has had some of the most shockingly invasive banner ads I've ever seen, exploiting every CSS and Javascript trick in the book to force its ads (quite successfully) past all major ad blockers.

They'll have to compete with AP News, which remains free at https://apnews.com, and has a much nicer site.
>A six-figure salary to study whether the electric grid is racist is absolutely excessive

How so? Doesn't seem any more ridiculous than any other six-figure job.
Hard to do this when you can have other countries with much looser regulations allow Bitcoin miners run rampant.

What probably should happen is to make converting from any cryptocurrency to major world currencies a crime. I have no delusions that this will halt activity in this sector entirely, but it will make it reasonably difficult to make any substantial money this way without raising some serious eyebrows.
> Many/most of those people, it seems to me, mean well but have difficulty connecting with you in the way you are used to. Many of those people have a bunch of insecurities, burdens, or even mental health concerns.

And I wouldn’t hire them. That’s the point OP was trying to make.
Hmm. It looks like Wealthfront offers direct indexing for reasonably small account sizes. But it's not clear from this description if they actually allow customizing stock picks. Could be worth investigating. Their fees might also make it unattractive.

https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/211005023-...
Comments by banned accounts are killed by software, but other users can vouch for them to unkill them (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). That's what happened in both of those cases.
To make this even more explicit: if OP can get interviews, then the resume (and the "on paper" job record) is clearly not an issue. The issue is interview technique, possibly the verbal description of the job history, but possibly something else (technical or social).

I second other comments elsewhere in the threads here to get a candid friend to help with interview practice.
If you live in NYC and worry about failed housing policies like Berlin's making inroads here, join us at https://opennewyork.city/
I'm all for people donating money, but they don't have to. It's theirs and they get to do what they want with it, without the burkamans of the world guilt tripping them. If they want to invest their savings until such a time as they have something better to do with it, more power to them.

After all, you wouldn't want me telling you how to spend your money.
Bitcoin is obviously producing money for these miners, just like farms, mines, and factories. And wait, are you suggesting that we should also ban using electricity to create art?
The story kept getting worse when they explain that state grants covered all the money spent by lobbyists to help the new owners pay a tiny fraction of taxes compared to the old ones.
This is some next level BS
There are many commenters who post abusively, but in my experience it is not the case that they're posting in bad faith. I think that is actually rather rare. Users are far too quick to assume this about each other.
Yes, the chip shortage must be preventing the manufacture of enough ASICs.

The same can be said for Ethereum. The shortage of GPUs is preventing the difficulty to raise fast enough. The profit margin has been like 5-10x the electricity cost for the last few months. If you bought a RTX 3080/3090 it would have paid itself and the electricity by now.
Ironically, Nextcloud is moving to Golang.

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/16726
From: john.arbuckle@reuters.com

To: communications-office@reuters.com

Title: Request for comment

Body: Hi Bob. I'm writing a piece on the paywall. Do you have a quote for me? Best, see you at the cafeteria later. - John
That's because the "stink of old PHP" never really went away.

For example, Wordpress install guide [0] still talks about making your code directory writtable by web user -- practically guaranteed that any minute exploit will lead to permanent web shell.

So does Nextcloud install guide [1].

I am sure there are nice, modernPHP somewhere, but a lot of time you I see old-style programs with horrible security practices.

[0] https://wordpress.org/support/article/how-to-install-wordpre...

[1] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/instal...
Sounds like you’re firing on all fronts.

What’s your goal/objective? Pick an industry find their association and make inroads.

If you didn’t land a FAANG out of college you’re going to have the hustle at SMEs and build a resume that shows consistency in the following:
- you showed up
- you got things done (be wary of hanging your hat on that one thing you did back in xxxx).

But if it’s just healthcare, HomeDepot/CostCo may be a good bet. Even if you hustle at a place like that and make manager you can make enough to take care of a family.

Also I’d lose the victim and woes-is-you cuz big corporate isn’t noticing you -‘tude.

At the end of the day your job will be to make someone else’s life easier, if you figure out who, and can speak to how in an interview, chances are you’ll get the job.
Fair enough, not everyone learns in the same way.

You are right that clubs will feel awkward, for the first 2-3 months anyway. But they will also challenge you to improve your social skills.
I'm not deep into the cryptocurrency world at all, but a good friend of mine is really into it and has given me a bit of Nano. Transactions are settled nearly instantly on a mobile device, and it relies more on a "proof of stake" than proof of work style system: https://docs.nano.org/whitepaper/english/

I really don't understand how it can be secure and haven't tried to read more into it due to skepticism about cryptocurrency generally, but are non proof of work schemes more viable?
That's about the 5th time I am seeing this article posted here.
If I knew, I would’ve been sneaking it to my kids all this time.
The utopia is so mind boggling far fetched.

Suppose I have a weapon and I want to kill you unless you give me your bitcoin. How do you stop me? You either have your own weapons to defend yourself or go to an authority for help.

So unless everyone wants to build their own personal military the end game is the same.

All of these arguments boil down to one possibility that could work. Bitcoin somehow brings about world peace, which seems unlikely.

Bitcoin as an experimental protocol is interesting, as a serious currency or asset it is an environmentally dangerous joke.
Good point, but snakedoctor did set this in motion by asking for candid feedback. Ostensibly, he wants to receive and integrate feedback. Seems like the sort of thing a smart kid would aim for. Part of me feels like in a decade people will reference this thread in the same way we reference the shellacking of Dropbox back in the day. It takes a cosmic-sized ego to ask HN to give you advice about why no company will accept that your cosmic-sized ego is justified. But what if the kid is right in his self-evaluation, but has enough self-awareness to critically question his self-evaluation and ask others to do the same? That’s kind of a powerful combination.
It's always the same web giant.