skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are overlooking the CT saying its a lifestyle vehicle. Its gonna be lighter (unibody, structural pack, megacastings), more efficient (triangle for aero), and have better range per cost of vehicle. That has to mean something for fleet managers looking at cost.

The design looks avante-guard from a consumer perspective, but its a result of making it more functional and easier to manufacture which is hard to argue with when your using for business even if you think its hideous. I think the f150 will compete for sure but its traditional branding and smaller bed will probably attract more consumer oriented existing pick-up owners. City people will continue to buy model Y because they have to run errands in tight spaces.
It just means that they can't retire solely on the money they get for having money in the first place.

With 2% inflation and a 1% money market, you're losing a net of 1% per year. If you were handed a million bucks at 25 and sat on it until 65, you'd still have an inflation-adjusted value of $669k.

That's not the difference between retirement and non-retirement. It's the difference between a luxurious retirement and a less-luxurious retirement, or a retirement at 70 rather than 65.

That money will continue to deflate, and if you live for another 40 years, it becomes a mere half-million at the end. That would give you $11k a year to live on -- not great, but again, you're talking about four decades of no work. That's a lot to ask.

That's not fun, of course, but it's not supposed to be fun. "I was handed a million dollars and therefore deserve to have it exponentially accumulate value for no work or risk" is fun, but it's not a fundamental right.

If you put earn more money than you need and stick it in the bank, you can retire. Inflation means that you need a little more money, which you can get either by working longer, or using your money to improve the economy as a whole by investment. More risk means bigger rewards. Zero risk means a net loss, as punishment for keeping your money out of circulation.

The point is that exponential growth is powerful, but even exponents of multiples of 10 don't do all that much when the base rate is 1%. It's only the difference between retirement and non-retirement for a relatively small sliver.

The real problem with non-retirement is that many people can't put away anything. They live hand-to-mouth for their entire careers, with every incoming dollar accounted for. For them, inflation isn't an issue because they have $0.

Worrying about inflation is a great privilege for those who have cash and would prefer it to become more cash for free, with no effort or risk. Instead, the economy demands they take risks rather than sitting on their money -- with the goal of some of it ending up in the form of jobs for those who don't have that cash sitting around.
Imagine that for a chain to be acceptable, it must chain back to a known genesis block, and that that genesis block distributed stakes to 100+ people of whom you trust at least half.

That's more equivalent to the PoS system Ethereum is using, and has much stronger guarantees.
The new Ford Ranger is a smaller size, but it's perhaps the worst looking truck available. I'm not sure what Ford was thinking there.
Nobody has been able to explain this to me WRT cryptocurrencies and their "digital scarcity" quality: If people are free to create new chains out of thin air and build networks around it, how is anything digital "scarce"? Like, bitcoin set out to be deflationary, a "limited" amount of bitcoins till the end of eternity. ...except for the fact that I can create a new blockchain independent of bitcoin and it is the SAME thing, breaking the inflation proof quality of it. The new chain has a new "name", a new "brand" but that is just a conceptual difference, not a practical one.

All the cryptocurrencies created after bitcoin creates "inflation" for bitcoin. If bitcoin was the only possible cryptocurrency but the hype around cryptocurrencies was the same, a bitcoin would cost substantially more today. If people are not happy with the "xcoin" billionaires at some time in the future, they can create just another currency to inflate the cryptocoin space (I'm saying "in the future" but that is what is happening since the beginning of this story). In that sense, they all are practically infinitely issuable. Different chains are just technically different, not practically. All are different forks of the same "cryptocurrency-token" of humankind, with no protection against additional and additional forks (new cryptocurrencies).

So while this enormous efforts about the fork protections on a single chain is a fantastic academic and intellectual exercise... in the end one can create a new "cryptocurrency", a new network to create more "money" - that is the ultimate fork that can't be prevented by any on-chain methods.

It is all futile in the end.
There seems to be a cult of proof of stake haters with basically no deep knowledge of the consensus mechanism who bash it with increasingly inane arguments. This is one of the worst I've seen. Basically:

1. Create bad metaphor
2. Relate it to your target
3. Claim the target of your criticism has no additional nuances than your bad metaphor.

Perpetual motion machines, for example, have absolutely nothing to do with cryptocurrencies or proof of stake. Perpetual motion machines are impossible because of conservation of energy. There is no equivalent physical law that prevents proof of stake from being secure.

What the author of this poorly conceived rant doesn't seem to understand is the concept of bootstrapping and incremental validation. Computers for example bootstrap every time they.. well.. boot, which is why they call it that. The program basically asks "what program should the computer run" and the program then tells it. No one would take a perpetual motion machine argument seriously if used to argue that computers can't work because they're self referential.

But maybe the article is satire and I just missed the joke?
Not only would it risk the market value of the stake, but in Ethereum's version a double-spend attempt would result in near-immediate destruction of the stake.
This criticism doesn't seem very substantial, what exact problem does PoS have that PoW doesn't have? Why doesn't PoW have the exact same "50/50 consensus split issue"?

Bitcoin nodes can _also_ choose to pick an alternate chain, see every hard fork.
>vigilante justice machine

That is illegal, and I feel this company is setting itself up for lawsuits.
Happens to me all the time, with all kinds of things

I'll grind leetcode and be stuck on a problem and wake up the next day and be able to do the problem.

I'll study new information and wake up the next day and that information is intuitive.

I'll practice guitar for hours and be unable to consistently play a certain riff then wake up the next day and be able to play it effortlessly.

Strange what sleep does.
About 27PB/month right now: https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
exactly right. That is why I flagged this low quality article.
> but the power is ultimately in the hands of voters and elected representatives

Some conspiracy theorists would like to disagree
I've had the pleasure of working with 3 excellent home inspectors over the past 20 years. They tested and checked things that I never would have thought of. One of them flagged the water heater in our current house for immediate replacement. Sure enough, it started leaking the day after we moved in.

We had asked for various fixes to be made but the seller only did a sewer repair and I think that is/was required for the house to be in sellable condition.

With everybody looking for houses now, a big thing is to put in a bid without requiring an inspection. I'm sure it works out almost all of the time but I'd hate to do it.
Interestingly, this happened not to a blockchain, but to a protocol: https://www.coindesk.com/steem-will-hard-fork-in-just-hours-...

Justin Sun planned to take over steem, what did the community do? Fork it, and remove his power.

What gives things legitimacy socially is our perception that things are legimiate. On blockchains, one could argue the majority can more easily take away abusive power.
Closer to 27PB/month: https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
You could argue that we're already in an anarchy. Its non-controversial to say that the international stage is an anarchy. All governments are just simply local entities working inside that global anarchy.
That's fine for training your own model, but I don't think you could distribute the training set. That seems like a clear copyright violation, against one of the groups that cares most about copyright.

Maybe you could convince a couple of indie creators or state-run programs to licence their audio? But I'm not sure if negotiating that is more efficient than just recording a bit more audio, or promoting the project to get more volunteers.
If you are into home improvement it is very easy if you are getting materials, hauling garbage, bringing tools from one place to another. You could substitute a trailer for a lot of stuff, but then you need to park that. Parking the truck instead of an SUV/car is easier than parking the SUV/car + a trailer.
Start off by saying that the goal of the post-mortem is not too blame anyone or point fingers but to find out where improvements can be made and where downtime and incidents can be reduced. Every time a team is paged at our company we have a post-mortem meeting to review the incident. If we have a lot in a specific week we do them in batches when possible. We pull in anyone involved with identifying, triaging, or resolving the incident and create follow-up tasks based on the meeting. You might want to try the Five Whys approach as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
> So I banded together with neighbors in the community on a couple of adjacent un-served streets and we trenched and laid fiber. Now I have 10000/10000 service and it's awesome.

That’s fantastic! One might even scale this community up to a few more blocks and call it a government. Too bad it’s such a bad word for many.
Una and her content are great.

Checked out the first two chapters on this resource and immediately recommended it to my colleagues as well.
Looks cool, tons of potential here!
Honestly, I don't understand why crypto, and especially PoW, is so special. My understanding is that crypto is good because 1) you can't "forge" crypto (mining is different since it takes resources), and 2) you can make transactions that are harder to track. Particularly because governments "forge" (print) money all the time, and heavily track how we spend.

Ultimately, currency only has meaning because we assign value to it. The only intrinsic currencies are food, shelter, luxuries, etc. If people stop accepting Bitcoin, "I can prove that I have X bitcoin" no longer means anything. If government outlaws bitcoin and forces you to use USD, it doesn't matter that they can't forge or track bitcoin, because you have to use USD.

A lot of people argue that PoS is bad because roughly "the people who control the most etherium can dictate the rules", but the people who control the resources we need will always dictate the rules.

> Forking a proof-of-stake chain can create two chains, each of which is endorsed by a majority of stakers in that chain. This split can repeat ad infinitum. Which will be the “real” one?

Isn't this the same as Bitcoin vs. Dogecoin vs. etcCoin?
your comment is flat out wrong. Lots of places will let you rent a pickup truck and use it for work - that is literally the point of a pick up truck.
> Monetary policy is not handled by the current political white house. Hasn't been for decades and never should be, ever.

Right, which is why I don't think Krugman being a liberal has anything to do w/ taking the threat of unprecedented growth in money supply seriously.

> "GOLD STANDARD!" arguments have long been settled by economists a century ago.

US got off gold standard in 1971. Gold has been around since 40,000 BC. I don't think hard money has been settled. But that's besides the point. The question is whether you think there is a remote chance that increasing the money supply by 25% in one year could have negative economic distortions such as inflation. You can be for fiat currency but think that growing the currency 25% in one year is a bad idea.
Ill sit in the shower sometimes for hours and just think.

I have to be careful that the thinking doesn't turn into unsubstantiated worry and fretting though.

I have to manage my thoughts.
GitHub uses Rails just fine. If it works for GitHub, it will most likely work for >90% of use-cases out there.
Same here. I was a huge terminal in editor user, but VSCode crashed on me a couple of times resulting in restarting all the terminals and the processes which I was running. Since then I always use an external terminal.
Wow, I wonder what connector that uses? They'd either have to backfeed through J1772, or backfeed through the DC pins with a house-mounted inverter.
> The company is partnering with Stripe to handle payments, and it says users will receive 80 percent of revenue after Apple and Google’s in-app purchase fees are taken.

Why go with Stripe when their CEO is also the CEO of Square? Avoiding self dealing or lost on the merits?
Reminds me of the /r/FindBostonBombers nonsense on reddit years back. People need to leave this sort of thing to the professionals.
For those of you who struggle with going to sleep due to racing mind, this practice helps me:

I sometimes have brief moments of hyper-awareness as I approach sleep, where sounds are rich and images vividly detailed, but as soon as I attend to the experience it fades, like the wood-elf party in The Hobbit[0].
After reading about how USAF pilots used to be coached in the 1940s to fall asleep quickly (by flexing and relaxing body parts)[sorry, no reference yet], I started trying/not-trying to sneak up on the elves. One way I set the stage is to imagine my consciousness at the edge of the solar system, then galaxy, then universe, and further and further, then holding it there longer and longer.
Another way is to look at the colors inside of my eyelids and allow those to be seeds for abstract art and eventually concrete, recognizable images materialize. This took about two years of practice and now I have no anxiety about falling asleep, can do it quickly and without nagging my partner to turn the light off.
It is such a delight to finally see and hear the previously-elusive autogenous art. I don’t know how long the experience lasts, and unless I’m interrupted by a loud noise or touch it almost always leads directly to sleep.

Other factors: I’ve been off alcohol for more than a year, and reduced coffee to hot water added to the dregs of my spouse’s French press. I don’t run as much as I used to, and I feel running and lifting more would help me sleep better.
Good luck!

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/hobbit/
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Well the reality is the blockchain is programmed by people, right? So any network established to act as the new government is still at the will of the people who write it.

What I could imagine is an open source "constitution" of sorts enforced by the blockchain in some capacity, at least on the economic level. A socialist society therefore could implement something like a strong UBI or equalization of people's net worths just via the blockchain itself and you rid yourself of the "elites" - but this still requires that everyone in the physical side agrees to such a system.

There won't be a way to rid yourself of the physical government.
I'm not sure how you consider it lying to have an asterisk that clearly explains their calculation along with a slider that says Potential savings with said asterisk. That same asterisk is on every mention of the price on the page.
This is the configuration I've got in my vehicle, which I feel strikes the right balance: https://www.ford.com/content/dam/vdm_ford/live/en_us/ford/na...
I'd recommend this: https://mastery.games/flexboxzombies/
As someone who is actually an operator on Rizon, I agree.
Err the PC is already supposed to vet for quality. That they failed to do so adequately is not because the policies omitted that requirement, but probably more because Oakland receives many many submissions
Should have just turned off their computers
I did this to myself by reading my kindle while on a treadmill. First few times I finished up and dismounted I had wobbly sea legs.
As a newcomer - how can I tell the "right" chain apart? In Bitcoin I simply choose the one that burned the most work - it's trivial. In PoS I do what? The longest? Its trivial to produce a long chain. The longest and that have many different public signatures?
Why do people not use the object interface for matplotlib.pyplot in their examples?
If it was discovered tomorrow that there was a massive secret bitcoin mine in a cave in Siberia that produced a chain 2x as long as the main chain and we didn’t know about it, and this miner also gave themselves all the coins, the community would choose to ignore that and use the shorter one we have built consensus around.
This is crazy. I never thought that anyone else would use those lectures to sleep. I like them when I'm awake also!
Agree in theory but no one has built in a similar sensor suite to Tesla or added a powerful enough computer chip in their cars. This roots back to Tesla treating the whole car like a unified piece of software and having much better programmatic control over it. I only mentioned autopilot because the leading EV does have it as an included feature and so when weighing options people might question why it's not there on other models.
I'm not sure how Proof of Stake is actually going to roll out in Ethereum or on other cyptocurrencies where it's already rolled out...

In theory, for the system to be controlled by the elite - I guess we first have to define the elite. Let's say that's the top 0.001% - or the richest ~70k people on the planet.

1) That's still A LOT of people.

2) There's no way they're all going to collude together.

3) They don't (yet) have >50% of the world's wealth.

What am I missing?
Yes I think so.

I'm a strong supporter of free markets* -- meaning, free markets are efficient and good, but efficiency isn't the only consideration for society so reasonable regulation is just and necessary. I'm not convinced you get any additional transparency from a blockchain that the government doesn't already get into any organization it wants to. Public ledgers also have remarkably poor privacy, which is necessary for some transactions and/or individuals.
You don't need a truck to tow a larger trailer. My Audi A3 is rated to tow 1600kg. I did tow my 1000kg race car many times using a normal car without any problems and it was both safe and legal when I was racing. Trucks, and SUVs, are bad for the environment and are more unsafe for both the driver and for others.
> $5.6 to host

Before taxes. I'd be very surprised if the host gets even $4 afterwards.
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Child seats will fit in an F-series supercab. The Tacoma isn't a full size truck so not exactly comparable.
Pretty sure it's paved with ill intentions.
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This is third time I've seen artvee posted on here. I'm happy to see it again! I freaking love the user experience of this website, it's so simple yet so intuitive. The other websites I went to have horrible search features or display the images in really tiny thumbnails.
Proof of gun happens to be the ultimate answer in real life, though.

I’m bullish on blockchain and cryptocurrency in general, but eventually it’s going to have to be backed up with guns. In that respect every currency is a fiat currency.
This apocryphal quote comes to mind, "We may be arresting the wrong people but at least we are arresting people."

(variously attributed to Himmler, Beria, Mao or Stalin; th verb is variously "kill" or "arrest")
what do you mean? like a Postman? a browser?
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Those are notable issues (though if you take Barks as canon Duckburg is intentionally in Calisota - basically Northern California but fictionalized; and it could make sense to try to 'localize that' for an audience elsewhere; especially when they're just "comics" - Don Rosa's detailed Life and Times would likely garner more respect) - but also note that if you step outside the Barks canon the stories get varied and wild, and are inconsistent amongst themselves. It's one of the surprising things about Don Rosa's work - not that he wrote it but that he COULD write it; Barks was internally consistent without apparently trying.

Lots of these things are caused by the Disney "rules" at the time - no human characters for example (everyone "human" is technically a dog), and there may have been additional rules about "real places" - though enough adventures involved GOING to real cities and locations.

Depending on which story you started with I could easily see the misunderstanding - the "three nephews" refer to Donald as "Uncle Donald" and to Daisy as "Aunt Daisy" at times - but if Donald and Daisy aren't married the way to make that work is to make them cousins. And then you get a second story to translate where it's clear they're dating, and you are now kind of stuck.
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The Internet has rob me of that.
I think that speech is also a pretty good superpower.
> Also, in our current system the people with actual power are not at all anonymous. I can name all the elected officials.

Crypto doesn't replace elections or government?
>It actually annoys me how popular 6 ft (or less!) beds have gotten in recent years. Especially when so much lumber comes in 8 ft length.

Most people buying pickups don't use the beds for anything other than groceries. Buying a pickup is just a form of social signalling that you belong to a certain in-group. Those people buying trucks with 6-foot beds don't care that lumber doesn't fit in them because they use their trucks exactly like I use my Volkswagen. On the rare occasion they need to put lumber in the bed they'll let it hang out the back, just like I put it on my roof bars.
I held out 15 years after moving to the US before I picked up a Toyota Taco. It's one of those rare life changing purchases that you wonder how you got on without.
This is a thing, but there are a million edge cases that you can’t rely on this for. Sometimes you underestimate the amount of material you need, sometimes you need to make sure that the sheets of drywall you’re getting aren’t damaged, sometimes you need to pick individual pieces of lumber from the pile because there is a ton of variation in the grain etc etc

If you’re doing a project you very much need to be able to run to Home Depot that same day and pick up additional bulky items.
Anarchism and Stalin wouldn't jive well, so I wouldn't say it's "traditionally another word for communism"
> Offering an ingenious array of connected, intelligent features with over-the-air Software Updates to help ensure your truck can get even better over time.

Anyone else think it's anti-consumer to not be able to opt out of these 'features'?
Not an expert on any of this, but wouldn’t already published content (public or proprietary) such as Youtube videos, audiobooks, tv interviews, movies, tv programs, radio programs, podcasts, etc. be useful and exempt from privacy concerns?

Do user collected clips have soemthing so special to the point that it’s critical to collect them?
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Proof of stake might have problems. But there aren't any identified here. Let's try and find the real problems instead of just posting FUD.

Btw the smug portrait at the bottom (of the author?) seems out of place.
The question is rather, was significant bias found.