skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short (pardon the pun), because GameStop and AMC are [most likely} still wildly overvalued - and they're expecting some [relative] amount of sanity to return to their pricing "soon"

Shorting is supposed to be a way to hedge your bets regarding an asset you believe to be overvalued (note the word "believe"), by essentially saying, "loan me 100 shares; I'm going to sell them; I'll buy them back when the price halves (or in one week, whichever comes first), and give those repurchased shares back to you then"

It's slightly more complicated than that - but it's the basic gist

These institutional investors believe GameStop and AMC to be overvalued.

They also believe that the price should correct within the window of time they have for their shorting (1 week, 1 month, whatever).

But, so far, it appears that the price correction hasn't come - which hurts shorters
This would be a significantly less of an issue if victimless crimes weren't crimes.

Murderers need an incentive not to murder, labor can be that incentive.

I feel bad for the majority of the prison population.
You are correct, but for the wrong reason. Bitcoin's energy consumption[1] does not track with the number of transactions[2]; energy consumption has significantly increased while the number of transactions has not. What the energy consumption does track is the price[3]: mining creates coins, so higher price means more mining. The current ~4% inflation rate will not significantly decrease incentives for decades.

In a sane world, the energy use and price would be tied to the actual usefulness of the currency. They are not. In roughly 100 years the energy use will be set by transaction fees and the number of transactions, but currently it's only proportional to speculative will.

When transaction fees incentivize mining, the incentive to mine will certainly be much lower. Arguably more secure, too- the block reward creates a separate incentive for large players to dominate mining, which lowers the diversity of miners. It's not at all clear that the absolute energy consumption will be lower than it currently is.

[1]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
[2]: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day
[3]: https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin
I think this is school dependent. In my experience, many wealthy kids will hide behaviors they know are associated with being wealthy / hide their backgrounds in order to better fit in. The awkwardness goes both ways.
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As of press time, USDT (Tether) is currently trading at a slight premium to USDC[1]. There's no indication that the market is pricing an imminent collapse to Tether.

[1]https://info.uniswap.org/#/pools/0x7858e59e0c01ea06df3af3d20...
Why would someone want to buy freenode?

Is there some monetization angle?
When the BIG selloff comes, the withdrawal limit isn't gonna matter. 'NO BID' seems inconceivable to some, but it's real and it can happen.
I have been reading some books by Peter Hopkirk, an amateur historian covering The Great Game[0], and what's amazing to me from reading his books is how much effort it took to get even basic knowledge of the geography of Central Asia (I'm sure it was similar in other parts of the world). Things that we now would find trivial due to airplanes and satellite imagery required years of exploration and time-consuming, detailed surveying took years of effort by men who're basically unknown today.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
https://pluspool.org/pool/design/

Seems like it is a giant strainer. The walls are permeable and the river is supposed to push the water through the pool/filter to produce clean water.
> I think it is understandable to feel inadequate. that is motivation to be better.

I don't see the sense in this. No amount of work would turn the average mind into the next von Neumann.
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Sharpen your axe: Don’t sleep because when you , you miss all,
you need to sharpen your axe, life is one, the sharper the axe,
the faster it cut. Iron sharpens iron, if flagitious is higher than rectitude,
the rectitude is going to turn to flagitious, if a goat befriend a dog,
it will definitely become wild like a dog. A stone is heavy and sand is weighty
but an unwisely fury, is hefty than them both, a wise befriends a wise and unwisely befriends an
unwisely because iron sharpens iron, a person is revealed by his friends because appearance
show the manner, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
This is a pretty childish perspective and doesn't fit what people that fight against discrimination want to convey at all.

You have constructed a strawman you are fighting against, perhaps to elevate yourself.

If you believe there are tons of uncivilized people around you, it is probably just imagination and exactly what people describe as moral panic.
I don't know, prison is about something. It's not about treating prisoners as law-abiding rights-bearing citizens with the highest level of social leverage.

At what point should prisoners do something, anything, to mitigate what damage they've done to the rest of us? Is planting potatoes in the hot sun in Texas too much to ask? Regular law-abiding folks do it after all.

And note: when folks have to plant potatoes in the hot sun as part of prison, recidivism is very low. For whatever reason, though I'd guess that petty criminals are essentially lazy and having to work a real job is more than they want to do. It changes their outlook, when prison work outweighs the benefit of petty theft etc.

There's a moral dimension (who are we to judge etc) and a political one (out-of-control profiteering). But fundamentally, making prisoners work is not a bad thing.
The power per tx metric is a dumb metric. Power usage doesnt increase or decrease per tx
Yep, same, thanks! NickServ didn't know any of the usernames I think I had.
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I don't see it that way, she was a friend, she built a company from the ground up and she took care of people. At that time (2002ish IIRC) she was paying me fair market rate which in full disclosure was about $150k USD a year. She knew my worth, she was trying to teach it to me. She saw me build the other company and she saw that I did not extract my value from that deal. She paid me what I asked for when she called me after the exit of the other company and that is the point, I did not ask for more. She needed me to fix her companies technical problems, she knew I could do it and I did, she knew my value, I did not. She came to me in need, and "I" asked for market rate, because I was not working due to the exit and was worried about burning up the small safety net I had just acquired. She was a friend in tilting her hand. Had she just told me you don't make enough here, here is some money. I would not have learned the lesson that she wanted me to learn as a friend.

When that happened I was annoyed, I went and interviewed and I asked for as much as I thought I could get. I had never interviewed when I did not need a job, it was the first time I has ever interviewed without a sword over my head and I had to do that to learn the lesson that she knew she could not teach me, but was in the position to nudge me into. She was stupid rich, it did not hurt her one bit to pay me double, the key was I never asked for it, because I thought like a poor man. Money was very valuable to me, to her it was an afterthought as compared to the important things she needed accomplished.

When you are poor, money and the retention of it, is the bottom line. When you are rich it is not. It is a factor, a rich person is not going to go into a bad deal and loose money intentionally but in her case she was loosing millions in lost opportunity. Had I asked for $500k, her mind would have still been on the Millions is lost opportunity, not the $500k it will take to pursue it. It is as simple as that.
Well, to be snarky, if that M1 could take out the other cars, then it wouldn't have to be the fastest to win. Only the fastest which is still capable of motion...
there is no tech though. it is just math
Dividends and voting rights, off the top of my head. That's not universal to every stock, but fairly common.
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It's still true. "Allowing ex-inmates to petition courts to expunge their records so they can get jobs as firefighters" is not the same as "allowing ex-inmates to get jobs as firefighters".
Eager to see the profitability change of ETH for today:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/price-mining_profitabil...
A lot of passive aggressive dietary preference shaming for someone whose supposedly an advocate for body acceptance.

Feels more like a salty rant to subconsciously justify her own unhealthy eating habits.
It basically looks like equirectangular and modified with pointy poles.

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

Maybe it is just regular equirectangular but the lines are drawn weird.
There are undercollaterized / no collateral loans on Ethereum. You can build a credit score using decentralized identities. But yeah, keep dismissing it. You'll eventually use Ethereum or something like it whether you want to or not.
seemed like it had one, who sold it to some guy in exchange for a salary (without telling anyone)

then buggered off when the consequences became clearer
> Mix.install

This is game changing for me (my life is boring). I totally didn't even know this was coming. It's like unexpected Christmas! For folks not in the know, it's been kind of a PITA to have packages loaded in an Elixir repl without a proper project. This should enable a lot more developer tooling to exist too; I'm stoked because I have one tool in particular that's going to be immediately be useful thanks to this change.
> certainly doesn't seem sufficient evidence that we should disregard what he has to say.

No, we should disregard what he has to say because even his arguments against the century-old studies he attacks (while carefully avoiding modern work) were shown to be faulty. It's like (poorly) debunking phlogiston in the modern day, and expecting to be taken seriously.
Maybe they have a lot Brita filters? Those don't use (liquid) chemicals, although they're activated charcoal which is carbon, and carbon is a chemical element. Insert the Batman slap meme here for people who use the word "chemicals" when they mean harmful or artificial chemicals.

A quick google says lava rocks also filter water.

I wonder why they chose that inconvenient shape, a square would take the same length of sides to make, it would just need a wider floor, and it would be able to contain more people.
Theology is just philosophy.

Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate according to the will and word of the Christian Evangelist god.
I see. Well, I'm actually very aware what the guidelines say.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

However, I did not in particular complain about the downvotes. I minded silent dismissal and intellectually dishonest discourse. I took the immediate downvotes as a need to clarify, and stated that as the reason. But, I might as well not do that. Point taken.
Not all poor people are dumb, but most are. And since we are talking about statistical level effects poor people being dumb will greatly influence them.

So instead of asking "why are poor people fat, we should fix that!" you can also ask "why are dumb people fat, we should fix that!". The second gives a lot of different angles and can help find solutions the first question wont find.
This website is awesome and has been around for more than 20 years. I know because we once used this in college to find a cool place to go hang out!

Back when I was a student at Auburn University (southern Alabama, USA) in the early 2000s, some friends and I went up to check out the abandoned airport in Camp Hill, Alabama [0], about a half-hour out of town. It was super creepy at night.

It felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. It was unguarded and there was no fences or anything. We parked along a treeline that shielded our car from the road in case anyone came by. There was a door on the side of the hanger that was unlocked. We poked around inside for a little bit; apparently the city was using the old hanger as a storage barn for trucks and stuff. There were still all kinds of old neat aviation stuff in a small office inside the hanger (old runway signs, charts, etc).

Took a walk up and down the old runway. We didn't use flashlights on the runway because we didn't want to be noticed, but the moon was enough illumination that night. Walking on a runway completely surrounded by these enormously tall southern pine trees, dead silent, with just moonlight was one of the more surreal experiences of my life.

A few months or so later we went back up there because it turned out that it was a really, really good place to watch the big Leonid meteor shower in 2001 [1]. You were pretty far from any town and the tall trees gave it extra darkness. We threw blankets down on the runway and just chilled with some drinks and watched the show.

Unfortunately, shortly thereafter the state cut the new US-280 bypass across the back part of the old runway [2], so you can't really have that experience anymore. Still, it remains one of my favorite college memories.

[0] http://www.airfields-freeman.com/AL/Airfields_AL_Birmingham....

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/ind...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Camp+Hill-Tallapoosa+Count...
>The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots.

The only people who think that have a very privileged upbringing. My SO worked in an archaeological site in central Asia, and the vast majority of the hosts meals were just raw onions and stale flatbread.
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My kids schools make announcements on social media before sending alerts using the official SMS and email alerts I signed up for.
Some discussions can only be done on facebook.
Volatility up, coinbase down
As the supply is fixed, this is a very illogical take.
That's 65 species that we know of, so far.
Is the complain still relevant now that you have the most votes? To me it seems like HN loves to agree with people whom it thinks are shunned by HN, but in reality you are the voice of HN. Again, as evidenced here after a few minutes of posting your comment.
Because its a risky job with a high esprit-de-corp. Similar to allowing criminals to be soldiers, think of the damage it does to the esteem of folks already in that position to be told "you are in the same class as these dregs".
I love the sour grapes of the conventional investors. It must really grind their gears when BTC hits a new all time high after each of these draw-downs.
Positive status implies a negative test result and negative status more than strongly correlates with positive test.

To me that's just semantics but in fact it is basically a medical status.
To me, the argument that fixed supply is a good thing has always been worrisome. People just parrot that viewpoint without asking whether some amount of Keynesian economics is useful, because you know, government is evil. It got us out of the Great Recession and it’s been 12 years. Maybe the consequences haven’t fully manifest, but another Great Depression would have been guaranteed hell.
Does the stock market work similarly? From what I understand about 4/5 of all trading done today is automated.
If crypto dies you will have to find a new group of people to feel superior to to feed your ego.
being better does mean being a copy of the guy
And so is our physical money a shared belief that those pieces of plastic are worth something as well. Really though man, this argument has been hashed out in so many places on the internet innumerable times. Stop the downvoting and let's agree to disagree.
That's strange. I own crypto assets that are also capital assets and I receive fees based on transaction volumes and loans. Seems like there's real value there.
SSDs are not required for farming Chia or even really advantageous at this point. Using them to write the plot data is faster than HDDs certainly, but that only happens once per plot and will happen a lot less as the network growth slows down. The main costs of Chia in the long-term are using the cheapest, most dense storage media to farm with minimal electricity.

We'll certainly see empirically what the long-term outcome of Chia is given that the network is at 7 exabytes and showing no signs of slowing down.
Links to an article that requires me to log in. What does it say?
Simple: stay out of prison.
Bitcoin picked centralized, slow, and expensive. Most mining is done in giant warehouses, and the whole point is that more computing power results in zero faster processing.

It remains to be seen if there are good ways to do distributed currency, but there are certainly less bad ways.
This hits home with me as well. My spouse and I live a “DINK” lifestyle - dual income, no kids. He works from home for an established (not a startup) multi-billion dollar multinational in the Valley, so we live on the East Coast. He is well compensated enough that I don’t have to work, but I do run our investment property and a small business we founded.

The problems we have now are ones most of my own family can’t relate to, so I just don’t share them. His parents used to run an extremely lucrative firm, but that was after they raised him in much less lavish circumstances. So I can talk to them about some of these parts of life, and he and his parents know the value of a dollar.

It can be isolating to know how “both halves” live, and I definitely feel a sense of guilt as to the amount of privilege I have and how radically more easy we have it.

It does start to become hard to relate to people who don’t have this kind of socioeconomic standing because so much of life is built on how many assets you do or don’t have. Last year we were at Home Depot buying a new, rather pricey appliance for our new home and I realized in talking to the sales lady exactly how out of touch I had become. She had never had what we were purchasing and we were buying a high end model from a high end brand. I was trying to make small talk and I’m sure I sounded like a classist asshole, but I was trying not to.

I’m trying really hard to cling to a realistic relationship to money and class.
Israel Censors the Internet
What would happen if a significant fraction of the population was holding crypto?
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Does escrow licensing not allow for a "transaction closed in 3 months or assets released to original owner" contracts?
Gemini Is Down
Can I see the debunking? Or is it secret?
Exchanges suffer the disadvantages of serialized computing. The matching engine model is inefficient from a computing perspective.
>SPY is up 100% since 2019 (pre covid crash).

Wait, what? I don't see SPY below 250 for all of 2019. A 100% gain would be 500, but it's 406 now. (Its 2020 nadir was ~228, but it's still not up 100% from that.)

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SPY:NYSEARCA?window=5Y
"We've killed people based on metadata" - Former USA CIA director. [1]

It really isn't that nuanced at all for Bitcoin. If I know your wallet I can see all of your transactions. Period. And if you want to trade money with me, you need to give me your wallet. Once I find it, thought, it is game over. [2]

There are "tumblers" that attempt to obfuscate the chain by turning one transaction into millions of little ones, but it is just a matter of tree search to reconstruct.

[1] https://www.rt.com/usa/158460-cia-director-metadata-kill-peo...

[2] https://www.blockchain.com/explorer
alt coins. BTC dominace used to be 90%+. now way lower . BTC holders get no royalties from blockchain being copied
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The current site lists the LR at 353 miles EPA range and the performance at 315.

But again, you're using the words "on the highway" to reflect what I assume to be your driving habits in rural open road conditions and not the test that was actually performed to produce the numbers in the product specs. And that was my point. It's not about advertising fidelity at all, it's about regulation and its mismatch with the expectations of a modern EV driver.
Having the ability to earn a wage while in prison is a great idea. Paying those people at least minimum wage instead of pennies is a great idea.
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> IRC never held a particular promise of "privacy"

True, like almost all nice network protocols and implementations in heavy use of the 90s (NNTP/Usenet, Mail, IRC amongst others) no one did foresee the privacy/spam wave that hit us when the internet became famous. I remember in Europes most used IRC network at that time - IRCnet - it was mandatory to run an identd server that would tell the user of the logged in system to the IRC server, and it would display it to all users (along with the IP address of course). Imagine such requirements today...
Some channels have announced they are moving, some don't know yet. Hope this isn't another blow to IRC
Truth? There is no truth
The gap between asynchronous and synchronous remote work
Can you use Matrix from Emacs?
I've been trading Bitcoin for several years and have gone through the various booms and busts of that time. I'm not sure I'm ready to call this a crash when it's back to where it was a few months ago.

The idea of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is addictive, but there's always the sobering moment when you realize how limiting it is. I tried to transfer some a few months ago and was hit with $25 in transaction fees, and it took over 3 days to be confirmed. Clearly I should have used higher fees to expedite it, but I sympathize with newer investors experiencing that for the first time. I've also seen folks recently invest in mining rigs only to realize they're not as profitable as they anticipated.

I'm sure in time prices will back up as the cycle will repeat itself--the hype will die down, Musk will tweet something that inspires the next generation to jump on the bandwagon, and the price will rise again. Maybe we'll lament not buying while it was under 100k.
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I don't 100% percent know this for sure, but since a lot of gamers are using "how long the game is" as a significant portion of their "is this game worth buying" metric, we've unfortunately incentivized game developers to pad this unnecessarily. I'm not sure which is worse, the micro ways like this that they pad things out or the inclusion of entire irrelevant subplots or the "Cut and Paste Dungeon It Will Take You Longer To Go Through Than It Took Us To Make (Please Enjoy These Palette Swapped Enemies And Palette Swapped Boss Rush)" in the last third of the game just because they need more run time.
no, it isnt. you asked for when a hedge fund was bailed out by a bank. i gave you one. there's many more. that's just the most famous example.
Great little site! Having been in aviation for a while I was looking for some of the grass runway airports I'd visited in the past. My goal is to revisit them all, but this time in MS Flight Simulator. :)

Will be making a donation, my only gripe is that there is no search, either by name or zip code (or sectional map?), so it was not easy to find everything I was looking for
> from how I understood it, because she has been poor, she had reasons for stealing.

No, it says that nobody even considered that she might steal, because rich people don't see the point of stealing when stuff is so cheap relative to their wealth that it's effectively free.

That's why nobody bothered to even escort her, stealing just didn't even occur to them at all.