skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a new technology, I don't think comparing it to collectible is totally accurate.

As a collectible, it can choose to print more of itself if needed, all it takes is a majority to agree to it by altering its protocol (which could also result in a fork).

As a collectible, it can also trade itself digitally, but cannot be copied.

As a collectible, it keep tracks of all transactions between parties (even though the parties are anonymous).

So I mean, it is what it is. It has resemblance with gold, with fiat currencies, and with collectibles, but it's also none of those.

And similarly, different cryptocurrencies and blockchain based technologies have similarities with one another, and yet important differences.

I think the question that matters more is: could it be used as money?

The article says it needs to be usable to pay a central governments taxes, that's just a matter of policy, so it seems like it could.

It also says it has to capture dept, well that's an interesting difference here, some other crypto could work as such, but Bitcoin has a fixed limit right now. I don't know if money needs to capture dept, that's what it does now, it didn't always.

And so I think I won't agree with this articles definition of money, I recommend people read wikipedias take instead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions

> Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context

Maybe you don't consider Bitcoin generally accepted quite yet, but it could be, and I think that could make it money if we wanted too. And that's because it has all the functions needed to do so: it can store value, it has a unit of relative measure, and it provides a medium for its exchange.

Which leads us to the most important question: Why would we use it as money over the alternatives?
Legalize drugs.
Considering that the number of patches submitted was quite limited I don't think the original research paper would qualify as a DoS attack. The workload imposed by the original research appears to have been negligible compared to the kernel effort as a whole, no more than any drive by patch submission might result in. So no, I wouldn't personally view that as harmful.

As to the backdated review now being undertaken, as far as I'm concerned that decision is squarely on the maintainers. (Honestly it comes across as an emotional outburst to me.)
Yet again you crawl on this forum to spread unproven allegations. Case against Minsky is based on one witness testimony which is contradictes by the testimony of another witness. This was never tried in court, yet, you, time and again, present this allegation as a proven fact. Moreover, the whole ordeal is reported in a very unspecific and imprecise manner, which Stallman rightfully criticized. He also had never defended Epstein.

Your account here exists only for a crusade against Stallman, and i think that this site rules forbid that.
This isn’t a big deal. This guy just created his own smart contract with a special code snippet that, after he mints an NFT to beeple’s address, allows his address to still transfer it to another address (himself). On Rarible/etc this then makes it appear that Beeple minted it and then transferred it to him.

This is why you need to publish the code for NFT smart contracts... which pretty much everyone does, which makes real NFTs auditable and secure (enough). He wouldn’t be able to mint a duplicate NFT from the same smart contract Beeple originally used.

Lol, self-proclaimed “banksy of NFTs”, come on
Both variations are common. "It was just a few bad apples" is the one you more often see today. But it only became common after refrigeration made it so that few people now experience what is required to successfully pack apples for the winter.
Who/what should make the decision then?
Additionally some universities use a subdomain for student addresses, only making top level email addresses available to staff and a small selection of PhD students who needs it for their research.
Oh right, I think I see now/ Yes. the cuban missile crisis is a far better "fit" than I thought.
EASTON — Jonathan Smith, one of three men implicated in the 1987 murder-burglary of Adeline Wilford in Easton, was released as part of a plea deal on Wednesday after spending more than 20 years of a life sentence behind bars.

Smith entered an Alford plea to first-degree felony murder and daytime housebreaking in the case of Wilford’s death. The plea is not an admission of guilt but acknowledges a potential for conviction if the case had gone to trial.

The conditions of his pleading guilty were that his sentence be suspended and he be granted probation. Talbot Circuit Judge Stephen Kehoe accepted the plea and handed Smith five years of supervised probation and a suspended life sentence.

Joseph Michael, special prosecutor in the case, said he reached the agreement with Smith’s attorney Don Salzman over the weekend. Michael said a plea deal had always been a potential outcome in the case but Smith had not previously been willing plead guilty.

The prosecutor said of the agreement Wednesday that while “the only real justice would be for this crime to never have happened,” he stands behind his offer “because this matter needs to be closed.”

Smith “can hide behind an Alford plea,” he said, “but he’s a guilty man and he will always be guilty.”
And what has that got to do with people like me whom have had the rona and not died?
It doesn’t mention that the worker had and recovered from the rona, just that they were unvaccinated.
Even the WHO have started to admit to immunity through exposure.
Increasing bitcoin mining capacity allows the energy provider to “overbuild” solar without wasting energy.

Nope. “Free” PoW undermines the whole system. Mining has to be a sacrifice, otherwise it won’t work anymore. There is no “and I can use the resulting infrastructure for X”. Every joule of energy that goes into proof of work is a joule wasted by design. There is no free lunch.

I’m starting to think that maybe cryptocurrency is the great filter. It’s actually pretty terrifying.

Edit: we should probably have termed it proof of valueless work to make that clear. There is also nothing to stop a speculative bubble crowding out all other energy uses. Our low-growth world is very vulnerable to these schemes.
I don't know why there's an article that makes the rounds once a month analogizing bitcoin to some other thing when..

1 bitcoin is its own thing

2 bitcoin has a clear analog in the form of gold

Collectibles are a terrible analogy because

1 they are not fungable and bitcoin is

2 they are not easily converted into currency whereas bitcoin is

3 they carry novelty and bitcoin does not (cryptocurrency may carry some novelty but each individual bitcoin does not).

4 their value is based on nostalgia turned speculation whereas bitcoins is more complex (though still speculative)

5 neither is really good for anything other than maybe as a value store (though both are questionable on that front too)

I could go on. Gold is genuinely a pretty good analogy for bitcoin. People buy both believing they can be converted into money later or directly traded. Both have pools of true believers, spectators and novelty purchaers. The main difference is simply that bitcoin does not have the long history that gold does.
The thing about this argument is, bitcoin used to be a lot more like money. In 2015 there were several Bitcoin ATMs in my city, and a handful of shops where I could pay directly from my wallet to buy a cup of coffee or computer parts.

> No country or central government decides how much Bitcoin is worth. It is all up to people trading on many individual exchanges. You can also buy/sell it directly without using an exchange, all same as gold.

It's a nice ambition, but is bitcoin really decentralized? The thing which made BTC less useful as a currency between 2015 and 2017 for example was that the core team refused to increase the block size, meaning transactions got much much slower and more expensive.

To compare BTC to gold, our best physical manifestation of "intrinsic value" seems a bit off the mark for something which is vulnerable to being rendered useless if a hand-full of unaccountable individuals decide to make it so.
Adding an elastic demand sink to a peaky supply in a way that is profitable is quite interesting. Joules that are not used at all are wasted. This converts that wasted generation into cash allowing expansion of the facilities and more Joules overall.
Exactly this, and if sex-workers can operate in the sunlight they can use services that maybe offer security in case they're doing outcall and go missing...

I listened to a podcast about some pig-farmer who killed like 49 prostitutes over 10 years back in the 80s-2000s in Vancouver, B.C. the police didn't know the prostitutes were missing because they don't want to be seen, they are hidden so they're easier to just kill and nobody notices... I guess.
To be fair, the same can be said of backend devs. Think of rails devs, they know the framework, barely the language, let alone sql and fail miserably at any sort of software design or even architecture for what matters.
The story has been submitted a few times to HN and was actually discussed once about 2.5 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18490746
The existence of CreateRemoteThread[1] may amuse readers. In addition to the obvious nefarious uses, it does end up being quite useful.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...
Not if you directly transfer bitcoin to the destination wallet address, without going through a broker or payment processor.

This isn't possible with credit card or bank transfers.
I'd also like to get really excited about this. Can someone ELI5?
> I don’t think that’s true. There’s a legal idea of “fruit of the poisonous tree”[0] that basically says you can’t use bad evidence, either in court or as an excuse to collect more, valid evidence.

I think the police have been using "parallel construction" to get around that for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

> Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel, or separate, evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.[1]

> In the US, a particular form is evidence laundering, where one police officer obtains evidence via means that are in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and then passes it on to another officer, who builds on it and gets it accepted by the court under the good-faith exception as applied to the second officer.[2] This practice gained support after the Supreme Court's 2009 Herring v. United States decision.
Well I should say through the sound system (through your laptop's speaker and microphone). I don't think it would work with the old original IBM PC motherboard speaker.
What do you dislike about Jira?
> The government can put ceilings and floors in the price of all things

and see how Venezuela fared when they tried to control their official currency exchange to the USD.
> bitcoin does not have the track record that gold does.

That's a heck of an understatement - Gold's track record dates back essentially to the beginning of civilization or earlier.
What, they're not mentioning "Metaverse" and "NFT", and they don't have a blockchain? They're missing the hype train.

Right now, there's a huge boom in "blockchain metaverses". Search for "metaverse" in News for info.
The idea is to have a virtual world in which you can buy scarce land and maybe scarce objects. There are at least a dozen of these things. As virtual worlds, they're awful. The graphics are bad, the worlds are tiny, you can't do much, and nobody goes there. It's all about selling land and "rares". There are at least two such things where they skipped building the virtual world and just sell land on a map. On top of this fluff, there's now a virtual land real estate investment trust.

I want to see a good big "metaverse". Right now, 19 year old Second Life is still the best recreational virtual world, despite a lack of forward progress in the last few years from Linden Lab. Roblox is getting steadily better, moving past their blocky origins. IMVU is trying harder. Epic keeps talking up the "metaverse", but all they have shown so far is a level editor for Fortnite.

Improbable [1] raised US$400 million to build a back-end system for really big virtual worlds. It even works, more or less. But you have to host on their servers (Google's, actually) and the thing is so expensive to run that the three indy games that used it all went broke.
Since they raised too much money, they now have two in-house game studios, which have shipped nothing.

[1] https://www.improbable.io
Finance is slowly moving in to get a share of the pie. Meaning: making money somehow.

See: Derivative based on bitcoin/ETH.

It's not a counterpoint, just a third category.
It turns out that the Associate Department Head was engaged in similar "research" on Wikipedia over a dozen years ago, and that also caused problems. The fact that they are here again suggests a broader institutional problem.
We had other global reserve currencies before USD and they have all lost their reserve status, it can and will happen to USD too, as other countries become more powerful.
OP mentions they used a throwaway to prevent this "smack talk" from affecting any of his future YC prospects. I don't think YC management/judges are that petty, or at least I hope they aren't.
To be fair, it's perfectly fine for 3D, such as traditional "isometric" style 3D. It suffers more with the lack of clever culling in first person style cameras, especially near large objects (it renders the whole object, even if 5% of it is seen).
Inequality comes from power, and fiat inflation where power determines who gets the newly printed money is just one form of that. Inequality existed back when money was hard, and it will continue to exist even if another form of digital hard money replaces it. Money is a form of social organization of humans and an information system, and you always have to remember the humans is what keeps the entire thing running.
> they are not fungable and bitcoin is

Bitcoin is not fungible. Bitcoins can be distinguished by their transaction history. Governments are blacklisting addresses and all bitcoins that have passed through them are now tainted. Exchanges already reject deposits containing coins tainted by association with blacklisted individuals or even coin mixing services.
Somewhat of a tangent: this project's GUI was built using Wails [1]. According to their docs, "The traditional method of providing web interfaces to Go programs is via a built-in web server." I'm not a Go developer so I'm hoping someone more familiar can comment on this. Are all Go GUIs basically Electron-lite apps?

[1] https://wails.app/
I'm not an expert but I keep reading that bitcoin isn't fungible. Each bitcoin has a unique ID and public provenance, and that there are other coins that are truly fungible, like Monero - am I way off the mark?
And as mentioned in the article/release, they are serious about maintaining Godot 3 and won't neglect it in favor of 4.
there was some name for it when it first started showing up in games, "puresound" or something.... yes, it would make jaws drop when the speaker stopped squeeping and started rendering digital audio.

i think eventually windows added an sound driver that did pwm on the speaker.

it was one of those really cool hacks that blew your mind when you first saw them. (like people playing music with disk drive stepper motors, i guess exactly like that heh)

edit: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound
Taking homicide as an example (a crime more likely than most to result in a trip to death row), the most recently available data (2019) [1] shows that 56% of perpetrators were black. That's quite a feat for 13% of the population!

If anything, that only 42% of those on death row are black may be indicative of a racial bias in their favour.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
"No comment" is equal to "silence is violence". You're directly involved in and complicit in the crime if you don't make public statements.
Don't miss out on a fascinating discussion on Machine Learning on 20th April
Good stuff. When I wrote an eBook I found the extra features of reStructuredText to be useful (index, glossary, graphviz & Tikz environments, etc.) and wrote a sort of similar post.

https://digitalsuperpowers.com/blog/2019-02-16-publishing-eb...
Authentication services can quickly build secure user authentication system
Epub is just html with css and images in a zip file. So the quality of the typography will largely depend on the renderer, not the file itself.
It has value as a currency on dark markets and possibly for companies paying hackers off to disable ransomware. I can't really think of why people would use it instead of fiat for something like a Tesla though.
Getting Started:HMS Toolkit Gives You Mastery of HMS Core Kits-Huawei Developers
There are hundreds (if not thousands) of other signals that the Google search engines considers over and above back-links. This includes which links users click on the results.
> I understand, certain people really hate bitcoin— and fir good reason. Bitcoin will eventually obsolete the fiat inflation system which has created all the wealth inequality in much of the world. The system that lets politicians buy power and escape responsibility for violating rights.

What part of Bitcoin abolishes corruption, power-grabbing and bribes? How would it fix anything you accuse the current system of?

Actually, the deflatory effect of Bitcoin is more likely to create the kind of issues you mentioned, as there are historical examples (Great Depression).

I "hate" (rather, despise) Bitcoin because it's an obsolete Blockchain technology that uses absurd amounts of energy for the purpose of calculating SHA-1 hashes. There are dozens of other protocols that have taken off, that either don't use POW, or that use POW in a more useful manner.
Architecturally it's perfectly fine, designing the 3D world is just as capable as the 2D world in terms of tooling. It's more a performance concern. The biggest pain is the lack of proper face culling. It does object culling, meaning if you don't see it at all, it's culled. However faces, not quite.

So if you're in space, and you're flying nearby a big ship full of triangles, such as an imperial star destroyer, you run your framerate down to the ground if you render even only 5% of it, as it renders everything else as well.

You can mitigate that to some degree by breaking up objects, but even the shell being plain would still cause massive issues.

For first person, open world, or large environment type game, I'd recommend Unreal. For 3D isometric style games, it's perfectly suitable with knowing the caveats and minimal adjustments from an asset creation perspective.
1) force developers to rebuild

common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it

2) price increases

true

3) shitty customer service

same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise.

4) continued existance of google cloud

article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown

no sources, that is just my gut feel.

The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.
HMS Toolkit Streamlines Environment Configuration with Configuration Wizard
Not that she would be biased in any way, shape or form. Right?
> using a revolutionary peer-to-peer meshed (infinite!) game world

As someone who actually have built a peer-to-peer meshed game world, good freaking luck to them.
So with the standard Godot binaries for Windows can I write my Godot project in C++, without having to build whole of Godot locally?
> I’m starting to think that maybe cryptocurrency is the great filter. It’s actually pretty terrifying.

Either cryptocurrency is extremely useful and the energy spent will turn out not to be wasted at all or it is a big useless energy draining scam and the whole thing will soon collapse.

I really don't see a scenario were it will still be useless or only moderately useful and consuming so much energy that the human species will slowly die off.
I cannot believe I forgot one of the requirements for money. Thst is scarcity. In this regard bitcoin beats everything else, and especially beats baseball cards. Unlimited dollars can be printed and baseball cards rven more so.

Gold is genuinely scarce but there is %1 inflation and the asteroid mining risk.

Meanwhile bitcoins inflation rate gets cut in half every 4 years until it becomes zero in 2140.
I would pay and get paid using monero. It's everything bitcoin was supposed to be.
> the fiat inflation system which has created all the wealth inequality in much of the world.

> The system that lets politicians buy power and escape responsibility for violating rights.

Wouldn’t it be more energy-efficient to just go back to golden years before William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 presidential campaign?

Can you think of historical examples of dramatic wealth inequality or misuse of political power? As surely as the Dalai Llama is Catholic, history shows us that empires and robber-barons were vanishingly rare before Bretton Woods.
> He attributes this to the presence of more-infectious variants.

I still think facemasks are selecting for more infectious strains and likely won't be effective enough in a few years unless vaccines bring us to herd immunity fast enough or the virus mutates into something less severe.
> The easiest non-hype example I can think of right now is identity. If you literally own your identity then you're in control.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

I can understand using public/private key cryptography for identity. That makes a lot of sense, although there would be challenges around what to do when somebody loses or leaks their private key. Would likely require a central authority that can authenticate a fallback form of identification (old school birth certificate/driver's license/passport/whatever) and certify a new set of keys for the person's identity.

But how would NFTs/blockchain become involved? I wouldn't ever want to transfer my identity to somebody else.
Star Citizen is a decade-spanning imploding trainwreck, but there’s no doubt that it’s helmed by ambitious and notable gamedev veterans.

Dreamworld doesn’t even have notably padded resumes, and it’s flimsy even by the low standards of shoddy Kickstarter MMO campaigns. To be honest, when I saw it claiming to be a member of YC, I assumed it was touting a participant award (i.e. it applied to YC, but wasn’t necessarily accepted), or was engaged in some other outright deception. Anything seemed more probable than them actually getting YC investment
Most of the people in the US support deportation. Most of the people in Japan too. Should they be worried?
Ah, so people do actually use the expression backwards like that. I had seen many people complain about other people saying “just a few bad apples”, but I couldn’t remember actually seeing anyone use the “one/few bad apple(s)” phrase as saying that it doesn’t cause or indicate a larger problem.
No, bonds are a poor investment right now. I generally invest in equities.
You’ve not countered any of their arguments.

Of course there isn’t anything directly to do with baseball cards, but there are probably more similarities than with fiat currency, which is their argument.
Face Recogntion and how to use it in real life?
> So what you have left is crypto or gold.

Right. Because there are no other investments.
> Is there unambiguous way to define whether David got the BTC originally owned by Alice or the one owned by Bob?

Yes. BTC is completely traceable. You can follow the TXOs