skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit more nuanced isn't it (or am I mistaken)? All you see in the ledgers is the (hopefully single use) addresses the money is sent to, plus all addresses that come after it. There's not much in the system itself that links people / organisations to addresses, right? You'll have to get that information from outside the system: you know yourself, and maybe the receiver as a person, but where it then ends up requires you to obtain knowledge that's not readily available.

Sure there's a lot stored, which does bring privacy concerns that are quite different from our current financial system, I'm not debating that, but it's not as obvious as you put it, as far as I understood it.
> Without any chemicals and additives, the pool filters more than 600,000 gallons of East River water that floats through the pool’s barriers every day.

...how? I'm disappointed that they didn't even attempt a handwave explanation here.
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I'll have to try it on my eight-year old laptop then. Maybe the crash will make it suddenly efficient.
What happens ultimately? Regulated out of existance? Attacked and destroyed by the NSA? Banned?
There are numerous situations where gag orders can be issued, both in the US and the UK, not just NSLs. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order
I didn’t fire him because he made 2 mistakes. I fired him because I was giving him 10-15 hrs/week of coaching and mentorship and he wasn’t improving at all. The process that was bad was our interview process and our process change was changing our interview process.
Yes, I thought so too, and I also thought it sounded like a shame because the tiny scraps of information I'd heard sounded good.

But there's no info about it on that website. Is there anywhere that I can read about design, specs etc?
Crypto is DE-CENTRALIZED. As long as there are people out there that rather trust a ledger produced by a collection of de-centralized computers than a ledger held by a private institution/government (closed) its value will remain useful/practical.
The two are highly correlated.
That's BSV, maybe. Bitcoin core deviated from the original white paper long long ago
SPY is up 50% since 2019 (pre covid crash). As someone partially invested in index ETFs, this worries me. Index funds aren't supposed to be nitro, they are supposed to be slow and plodding, and 10% annual is supposed to be huge. I think major indices should be nice, slow, inertial gains from ~6-7% annual, tops. Why? When at any point as an engineer or a scientist have you observed large exponential growth to be sustainable in any context???

EDIT: Ooops It is ~50% (258 in Jan 2019 * 1.50 = 380)
> What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

–Andy Warhol
No, you can send arbitrary hashes to anyone at any time. It's just a mutual agreement that those hashes are worth anything at all.
I'm complaining about what I wrote in the comment. It wasn't the top comment when I wrote it. That happened after I wrote it. It got a lot of upvotes so I guess people who agree with me were more comfortable upvoting/replying after I wrote it than commenting before me. Maybe because they knew that the comment would attract criticism like yours
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard covers its abandonment, including by USD
>it was almost unnerving to hear silence from auto sales staff

Use this as an opportunity to inform people about the dangers of proprietary software.
Stocks are a big Ponzi scheme too. Most people buying stocks aren’t interested in buying cash flow like stocks were meant to provide. People want capital gains. You only get capital gains when there’s a greater fool.

I’m not against owning stocks. I’m just as concentrated as you. But, let’s not confuse luck and genius. We are just hoping to be the one that gets out before the music stops.
get a book, read a topic, solve leetcode with those tags. rinse and repeat.
Only in the same sense that nothing has inherent value. Gold is pretty and durable and people like it. That gives it value in the system of exchanging stuff amongst humans.
I’m in the camp of whatever title seems less biased and more directly describes what is happening should win out.

As someone with only a passing interest in freenode which I used to use but no longer do, learning they were bought is much more relevant than the implication they formed a partnership. I understand that there is grey area over whether they were “bought”, but a partnership doesn’t seem to cover what went down in any way.
>Ibm is a competitor in this space

I'm well aware - doesn't mean they're not right.

>You make a hello world program before making actual useful programs.

how hilarious would it be if some chip manufacturer bragged about the performance of a hello world on their chip...?
Do you take a stance on hyperinflation events throughout history and it's victims?

Do you take a stance on security of untested POS coins gambling with people's money?

A senior Engineer once told me, "anyone can poke holes in an idea, we will make a change if they have a solution."
I'm sure there's some truth to these criticisms, but it's hard to see this as anything other than immature trolling when you created an account called "newvectorllc" just to trash them.
> I've heard stories that at Google, the non-engineering workers at campus may not socialize with engineers at all. What kind of society is this that Google is building?

This isn't true at all.
Not sure about people pushing matrix as an alternative. I tried out Matrix several weeks ago and hated everything about it. From the account creation process, shiny modern UI, channel finding options, activity level (since you are basically constantly logged in, channels with even quite a lot of users have next to no activity for days at a time), kind of activity (and most of it was really poor activity, like someone sharing a link, someone giving a thumbs up, and channel dead for another day) and I'm not sure I fancy large number of mobile phone users on any form of IRC replacement.

It's complicated/convoluted enough to be for a tech crowd, and modern/shiny/complex enough to be a disgusting mess to someone coming from IRC. At least for me. Given more users and activity I still wouldn't like it.

I might be wrong, but maybe this whole mess with Freenode won't be a big deal in the end. IRC never held a particular promise of "privacy" for me, many channels are logged by some or most of their users, or even publicly online via some sites. As long as Freenode continues to work (in a technical sense), and mass migration of channels doesn't ensue, I see no point in stopping my use of it.

I desperately hope matrix (or discord, which I haven't yet tried, but don't have much hope for either) won't be the answer. Maybe a switch to OFTC is an option for some channels.

We will see.
Saxy is already in my bookmarks because we're going to ingest the largest XML files I've ever scanned with Elixir soonish.

Thanks for reporting a good experience, this gives me hope that my task won't be daunting!
And species (nobody knows i m a dog)
Because it's easy to think cynically when nothing is at stake, when you don't have skin in the game. I bet $1000 that China won't help North Korea to invade South Korea. Bet ends 2030. You in?
> of course they wouldn't have published that after a (theoretical) leak

Twisting "absence of evidence" into "evidence" by alleging a coverup is a classic conspiracy theory tactic. You're literally arguing for a conspiracy by asserting the conspiracy as a prior.
> Are you interested in detecting local 'key up' events over an SSH connection without involving an X server? Oh boy, are you in for a disappointment! It turns out, that it's impossible. I don't mean the "I tried really hard and couldn't figure out how to do it, so it must therefore be impossible" kind of impossible, but the real kind of impossible where the keyup event doesn't get communicated at all during a non-X forwarded SSH session. Here is an experiment you can do to prove this to yourself [...]

This isn't really a good experiment as it assumes that everything that can be sent over SSH will always be sent. This not the case in the terminal world where by default you get a processed character stream and have to explicitly enable anything else. For example kitty's keyboard protocol [0] mentioned elsewhere in this thread needs to be activated by sending the escape sequence CSI > 1 u to the terminal on the other side of the SSH connection.

[0] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol.html
I remember a few years back reading a National Geographic article about the Amish and their love of cellphones. The point was the Amish accepted cell phones where they had rejected landlines for the simple reason that with cellphones they could turn them off, with a landline your family time could be interrupted.

The bigger picture was that the Amish view of technology was not to view 1857 or whenever as the year technology stopped, but their view was to evaluate technology in light of where it fit in their culture. Hard work is a virtue, so why do I want tools to make things easier. Raising barns together draws us together as a community, so what's the value in technology that lets fewer people build a building. And so forth and so on.

On the surface the idea of evaluation technology based on impact seems great, but the thing is the Amish never invent anything. The rest of culture invents without thinking about the consequences and deals with the consequent. The Amish have the luxury of sitting back and evaluating after the fact. In fairness, I don't think the Amish really care if anything new does get invented, but they have effectively externalized the downsides of technology onto the rest of us while reaping the occasional upside.
Like all the people who went to jail for the 2008 crisis?
650B is a small market cap for a global currency.

Gold is 12T. Once Bitcoin gets to 10T, volatility should drop.
Hmm... I'd agree that policies should help everyone, including people who are "dumb"... but not that poor people are categorically dumb.
Did you include the energy cost of building the car?
I've noticed this trend lately on HN of people digging through user history to make some meta commentary about the poster. It's weird. This isn't reddit. Let the statement speak on its' own regardless of who posted it or why.
The supply is infinite if you take the whole crypto space:

You can create as many BTC#3 EGold-plus ... as you wish, and future generations will.
Does anyone talk about how much money funds have made on the other side of these trades?

Reminder there were days where GME was doing more volume than SPY. That wasn't redditors.
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It may be arrogant sounding, but it’s not stupid. It is in the financial interest of Bitcoin holders to talk up Bitcoin and defend it to the death.

The senior management of regular banks in many countries are often required by law to deny that the bank is in jeopardy right up until the moment they close the doors, as a way to prevent bank runs.

Because crypto is distributed, every holder is a bank manager, and must deny or minimize problems with the currency in order to maintain sentiment and prevent runs.

This for me is one of the biggest problems with Bitcoin - it incentivizes the holders to become engines of disinformation.
Isn't the revisionist history amazing? All of the other use cases (e.g. smart contracts) are proven failures and now the original use case (payment method) is also clearly a failure, so the narrative shifts to "it was never intended to be a payment method, only a store of value". A store of value that can drop 40% in days, BTW, another failed use case.
Military is worse than POW.
There is a lack of people willing to work for less-than-market-prices in every occupation. I'm not against encouraging people to become engineers or hiring foreigners. But there's simply no shortage if it is possible to attract engineers by raising the salaries you're willing to pay; you're just too cheap. And the side benefit of increasing prices is not only lowering the quantity demanded from employers unwilling or unable to pay market rates, but also raising the quantity supplied by enticing more people into the field with higher salaries.
I'm curious why Freenode staffers aren't instead moving to OFTC (https://www.oftc.net/). Seems like a well structured network with a lot of history.
Apparently this is the "story time" thread, so here's mine, of how I hacked the Linux kernel without ever having written more than maybe 50 lines of C code.

This was in early 2001, I was an exchange student in Japan, and I'd bought a really cool gadget in Akihabara that almost nobody had heard about: a hardware MP3 player. For storage, it used MMCs (precursor of SD cards), affordable ones held 32MB. To get music onto those cards, I also bought a USB card reader.

And there I ran into problems: the PC in my dormitory room was a used Pentium Pro desktop I'd gotten very cheaply without an OS, and I'd installed Linux on it. But at that time, USB support on Linux was still rather spotty, and while the card reader was in principle supported as a mass storage device, the USB driver would reproducibly freeze up after a short time accessing it.

As mentioned above, my C skills were basically non-existing,
but compiling your own kernel was at that time still a pretty common thing for Linux users to do, so I had some experience with that. And I was motivated. I enabled kernel debug output, and discovered that just before freezing up, the driver would report that it had received an event with a certain ID. I found the code that handled events, and I found the code that handled the problematic event. I looked at it and realized that I was many months of learning away from being able to fix it.

So instead, I deleted it. I simply made the driver ignore that type of event.

It worked. I could use the card reader to put MP3 files on the MMCs and listen to them on the player.

I felt a strange mixture of achievement and embarassment.
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I once read a AskReddit about people who worked for extremely rich people.

Many said that the old man and wife, who built the fortune, were nice humble people that understood that they are so lucky to have made it in life. Many comments also said that their children were absolute spoiled brats who were the exact opposite to humble.
FBI can fetch the true names thus nicknames became irrelevant
That would only be true if bitcoin technology were protected by IP, which it is not. new coins effectively dilute existing holders of btc
This is good advice. Problems you have yourself you understand better and have probably already had some thoughts on how to solve them. Even idle thoughts in the past can be really handy when it comes time to think deeper about solving it in code.
Gold's monetary premium dwarfs its industrial value. Something like 90%+ is purely monetary usage.
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That's not the point (edit): the only thing I'm missing from libera is an impressum. Mentioning a nameless swedish nonprofit is actually worse in my eyes, than calling it xyz's server in the basement.
A related article (by SCMP): https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/tech-design/article/312...

Very cheap.
You can criticize crypto currency’s for a lot but I still have never seen a good argument for it being a ponzi scheme. Can someone further this argument to one that wouldn't cover every investment asset?
Cryptocurrency is a misnomer. Most cryptos aren't trying to be currencies in the traditional sense. For example, RAI is a stablecoin on Ethereum that's not pegged to any fiat currencies. You can think of RAI as a stable form of ETH.
This is not good - likely a shit ton of people withdrawing due to panic and Coinbase is having trouble covering. Only way to stop the bleeding is to hide behind "server troubles". It can't be a coincidence that all crypto currencies are on a downward spiral and Coinbase is down
Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhf_2gJJS1I
I mean anyone sane was expecting a trace back at some stage after the wild couple of months we just had. Predicting crashes isn’t hard. Predicting the timing thereof on the other hand…
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Interesting point there. What is also interesting is how well jokes are received. HODL and 'buy the dip' or 'to the moon' are taunts.

Note how far my comment was modded down - no room for humour if you have had your 'money' wiped out.

You can't tease religious people either. I once sat next to a girl at work who was seriously Christian. I jokingly asked if she believed in Father Christmas one slow Friday afternoon and the looks I got from my colleagues who knew what I was doing and how morally wrong my teasing was!

It is the same with the Bitcoin religion. You quickly learn not to question it.

I also consider The War Against Terror to be a religion.
Well, gold is a better conductor in electronic circuits than bitcoin, so it has SOME intrinsic value. ;-)
> You do know that Coinbase has a $50k a day withdrawal limit?

On the day you might think that limit matters, it's not really gonna matter.
It seems freenode did at one point have a charitable parent organisation, in the UK, but it had to dissolve because it was too expensive to run.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130322063238/http://blog.freen...
So you've discovered domain squatting.
Ya I am not an expert to judge if Bell, Grete, and Mermin also misunderstood von Neumman, and I see a few papers argue that. But the larger physics community does seem to agree with Bell's take. I do find it a bit weird that paper is using an entire page of what von Neumman would have said in response.
>which says short sellers of GameStop and AMC realized losses of almost a billion dollars.

You have it wrong.

To "sit on" losses mean that the losses have not been realized.
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I was referring to this phrase:

> Because they have never been poor, they had no idea what I might do. Why would I steal, when everyone clearly has enough?

from how I understood it, because she has been poor, she had reasons for stealing.

In companies I worked for the snacks are there for being taken, I notice in every company I worked for there's the rule "the company is going to put stuff in the kitchen in some common areas, everyone is free to take them", I did always ask to a colleague about that, just to be sure I don't steal the pack of chips another colleague left there.
They all have the same value, ie. not much.
Sharing your amortisation schedule to anyone
Please don’t “both sides” this.

Stocks are not a Ponzi scheme because funds from early investors are not flowing to fresh investors. There is the actual value created by a company together with its future prospects and assets that combine to determine a stock price.

Crypto meanwhile has the backing of whom and what assets?
I think people wildly over-estimate the costs of driving an older (say 5-15 years old) car and so are prone to over-pay for a new or newer car, believing they're making a good choice based on flawed data. (They remember the time they had to dump $1200 into repairs into some old heap that isn't even shiny anymore. They don't remember that for the last 24 months in a row, they saved $450 in payments, $200 in depreciation, $125 in insurance, and $20 in property/sales taxes each month. They could have a $1200 repair twice a year and still come out way ahead.)

We drive older cars. I can think of 3 times in the last 25 years where we've had car trouble that interrupted or hampered motoring (a failed battery, a failed clutch release bearing, and an electrical short). The battery is a 20 minute swap; the electrical short indeed sucked [because it required a tow home and took me most of a day to find where the short was]; the clutch release bearing left the car limpable and she was able to drive it home with quick instructions on how to start the car and drive it with third gear selected for the whole trip.

On one hand, I'm happy that the market (read: people) wildly underprices used cars, because it makes for cheap motoring for us. On the other hand, it frustrates me that people's third largest expense category is higher than it has to be and many of them could improve their situation by better optimizing this category.

tl;dr: If you want cheap[er] motoring, buy a 4-8 year old Toyota or Honda and drive it until it's 15-20 years old. Drop collision insurance as soon as you've saved enough from this strategy to replace the car. Add that savings to your snowball.
The Left is probably the most ignorant political group despite being composed of generally great people because they all make the assumption that those who dare disagree do it out of ignorance or malice.
I'm keeping my FAQ gist up-to-date with the full list of resignations as best as I can, as well.
Having it running in source control and on someone else's computer is a moderate advantage over regular cron.
I think some lower pressure medium for publication could work. Publishing every attempt that didn't work would be tedious, but a database of attempts, implementation, and results would allow others to not walk into the same bog
In 1936 it was Wallis Simpson, who's marriage to King Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis in the British Empire and a subsequent abdication, and in 1939 it was Stalin. So unless Time Magazine is a Monarchist Nazi Communist mag, it's probably not a promotional award.
Sounds like chaos that someone like "Fierce Nerds" would create. Keep it up.
You’re not alone. Seeing the comments flooded with “buy the dip” or, God, “diamond hands” makes me cringe every time. They get so offended when you call cryptocurrency a cult or Ponzi scheme but they make it extremely difficult not to. This is from someone with financial interest in a few coins but I’m not ready to die on any hill for bragging rights. I wish they would just admit they want capital gain and call it a day
That probably tells us more about humans than it does about insects.
On the flip side, an agent is motivated to close the deal not necessarily get the highest price. If the agent gets 10% cut, they get $750 or $1050. Is $300 worth potentially souring the deal?
This is literally evident in the same thread. Just scroll to the top of the page to see the commenter?
It is one thing to say that in hindsight he held a wrong belief, and another thing entirely (especially without knowing his exact arguments and priors) to say that he held a wrong belief at the time and was not only wrong, but also therefore morally defective.
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Maybe, but it's cheaper and easier to have a bunch of techs on overtime than paying the ransom and hoping that they don't just take the money and run.