skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if most accounts are correct, being "American poor" means you may have to endure, or at least seriously worry about, things like frequently missing meals, going without important and relatively basic healthcare, being forced to live in a dangerous neighbourhood, and even homelessness. It might not make you one of the world's poorest people, but it seems you can quite easily experience a pretty meaningful level of absolute poverty in the US, not just find yourself poorer than others in the country. And this is worsened by the fact that certain "non-essential" things like mobile phone service, Internet access or even a working and fuelled-up automobile may be essential to keeping your access to paid work.
“ turned out the virus did come from a lab, there is a risk that the already Sinophobic political climate in the U.S. and elsewhere would get significantly worse”

Sinophobia should be our greatest concern.
Wait. An IRC network has employees?
It strikes me as similar to the reasons I see people rejoice when artists or the like struggle to make it. It validates one's life choices like giving up on dreams to take up a dull job that keeps the lights just barely on.

Crabs in a bucket mentality. I for one would be happy if the kids find a better way forward that leaves fewer people in the dust (without instituting a new ecological drain, please). That's not happening yet, but some of the thought work shows progress to me, even if the execution isn't final and still lacking.
No, as Time magazine itself puts it: it is a person that "for better or worse [my emphasis added], has most influenced events in the preceding year."
It is like model railways. You are selling to an older demographic with little interest from younger people.

Older people do have money though. In 1983 it was not possible for them to upgrade to a C64 from their ZX81 or VIC-20 because they lacked the money and Christmas only came once a year.

Nowadays though they can buy these toys without having to leave their chair.
There are technologies people are working on to solve that. One is called ZK-SNARKS and ethereum is working to integrate the tech. Another is Monero, which is a privacy focused crypto.
Looks like very serious stuff happened indeed. I'm not sure about why I forgot about the congressional probe. Perhaps it's because for the people who lost or made money out of this nothing changed.
It's good to know that when bad stuffs happens on regulated markets there will be a congressional probe while on the crypto market you have no prime BS on tv.
According to their Terms and Conditions, Tether has no obligation whatsoever to redeem their currency for dollars, so while they may not be backed (and almost certainly are not), a bank run is not really their problem.
They may also be used for password recovery.
Overall, I would pick XMPP over Matrix at this point. it is rather bloated and the clients are a little bit obtuse for newbies. I do wonder what the DAU for Matrix is at this point. as I suspect that 32 Million number might be a little overstated.
Well-said.

Can you blame the author for being overweight and not wanting to put up with feeling self-conscious at the gym? Being poor can push you to your limits even just trying to survive every day, not to mention be an effective worker, and being a good parent/spouse/partner/friend/family/etc to whoever is in your life. Doing 45 minutes of cardio while also feeling like an outsider is just not in the time or energy budget.
I'm very much against it. It's actively causing environmental harm, scams are common, market manipulation within cryptocoins is common, very volatile, it's a source of hardware shortages, etc. I view the whole thing as monetary speculation for speculation's sake.
>Coinbase has a $50k a day withdrawal limit

Given the price volatility of crypto, that sounds absolutely insane to me. Also, I don't think this prevents a run, on the contrary, when everyone hits the sell button and cannot actually exit then panic will ensue.
Your store of value just dropped 40%.
And it has encryption built-in, so even the server operator can't read messages.
I agree, but I think there are many ways of arguing that the destruction of Kyoto was justified at the time that do not involve arguing that it would make Japan better off. And like I said, there is more than one theory of morality :)
At least in hindsight I can say with confidence that John von Neumann was wrong in this matter. Or do you really think things could have turned out better if the US had began a nuclear war?
The official site of CNSA is available in English:

http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
Technology can be revolutionising without investing in a very specific cryptocurrency like bitcoin.

I'm betting my ass of that cryptocurrency in a different way might be the future of fiat BUT from the countries themselfs.

I'm not sure why anyone in the long run would trust a system which is controlled by some totally unknown and new individuals who invested in some cryptocurrencies.

There is no need at all to assume that the crypto technology is limited to btc and other current cryptocurrencies.
I've down voted you for complaining about votes. It detracts from the quality of the discussion and is against the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm glad I was able to clarify something for you, but I have nothing else to add.
No, intelligence is mostly inherited. If your biological parents were smart then you will almost surely be smart and vice versa. And smart people end to earn more money, so intelligence is indirectly correlated with parental wealth. But when you put kids from poor parents into rich households they will continue to do poorly. They do a bit better, but their biological parents still matters more.

If it was easy to produce smart kids then we would already do it, since smart people are so much more valuable to society the small amounts it requires to add that extra value would be nothing. But no country has managed to do this so far, its just a slow climb that follows the same trend in every western society no matter what policies they implemented.
Literally nobody here is making argument that jet fuel is 100% safe and we should fill fire extinguishers with it.

There is a clear spectrum of flammability/explosiveness in which hydrogen, gasoline, and jet fuel are sorted in that descending order. That's what several posters are saying.
Thanks, yep I think you are right about Olivetti, but in this case the company was Buffetti, a national-wide office supplier company that moved into software in the '80s to surf the PC era, cooperating with IBM for the hardware. I think at that point that was the first version of their software, and the department didn't last a long time.
Unfortunately the network can’t handle more transactions.

Decentralised, fast, cheap: pick two.
Man that koolaid must be tasty
Right, I was talking about Bitcoin only. mimblewimble and zcash also both have shielded transactions. I believe they use an ECDH secret for each transaction so that only the two people involved in the transaction can decode it.
Yes. Look where it got us: fb, twitter, reddit, etc taking it all over, because people "trust" them - see ominous zuck quote. Why? Because ordinary people need faces and names. So unless libera is aiming for the oldschool nerds, like us, they need to align with 2021.
That's certainly not the behavior of plenty of people.

If you have this kind of disposable income, why not take a few days off?
Stability=stasis

1:1 human relationships are unstable as it is, think about a 300M individuals megasocial group where everybody is interacting with everybody and constantly adjusting.

The Fed is like the doctor who fills up the patient with cortisone and throws away the thermometer to avoid reading the temperature

We need ups&downs, love&hate, forest fires and rebirths. Anestetyzing the whole process makes me wonder what are we even thinking

BTC mimics nature as opposed to the Fed which mimics the arrogance of man.
Then link the debunking.
Sounds right up there with filed-down cards or connectors that had longer grooves cut in them!
Great story, helps me see the profound effect that such stresses put on a person.

I got another clue out of it. That 'personal friend' was a user, a manipulator, a predator, and preyed upon folks like us. She must have felt something personal toward you else she'd never have said what she did and given up the raw deal she pushed over on you. To threaten to quit and get offered double - that's a situation to run from as fast as you can. Get double from the next person, but never, ever work for such a person as that again. That's my take anyway.
Yeah, I miss it a lot.
But immediately i have seen companies announce specialized PCIe 4 SSDs - in the beginning you could also just mine bitcoin with existing CPUs or GPUs.
> This one is way off. Synapse, the "one complete server" you must be referring to, is going to be deprecated. The Matrix Foundation team is working on Dendrite to replace it.

Interesting, I've always been reticent to host my own instance because of how complex Synapse is to setup for the uninitiated. Hopefully Dendrite makes it simpler.
Boeing Rehires Aircraft Inspectors
But it's worth clarifying that the number is correct — Bitcoin is currently using 1 Mwh per transaction.
Awesome, now do the financial industry!
We have no idea how many transactions are “in a block”. There are multiple decentralized layers aggregating thousands of transactions down into a single bitcoin block transaction. This doesn’t even begin to touch the sheer magnitude of transactions that exchanges facilitate between their users without touching the blockchain.
> Cryptocurrency market is extremely volatile. This isn't that far from normal.

I think you inadvertently confirm OPs point. Cryptocurrencies with their volatility cannot replace regular currencies.
That's a USD limit. Since Coinbase is FDIC insured, I expect they have the cash-reserves to actually survive a run denominated in dollars. Even if Coinbase itself goes under, FDIC will make your dollar value whole (up to $250,000 per banking institution)

You know, the whole benefit of being in the USD. The made up rules of society that provide stability in times of crisis.
Ah, yes, it's taking over traditional finance except they still haven't figured out how to make loans, but never mind that.
Like I said:

>prisons get less heat if they can say they payprisoners for work

Who cares how much they get paid? They're prisoners! /sarcasm
FYI, Fidelity, with nearly $5T AUM, is currently down.
99.9% genes in his case. Look how hard parents push their kids these days, yet few even come close to his genius.
At least. NYC is more than double that: $120-130 a month.
> - The part of stealing I don't find relatable, even when my bank account was empty I would never resort to stealing, must be some honour system I grew up with

Do you mean the last bit about the Macbook and the headphones, or the bit about the snacks? The snacks were more of a "it is fundamentally impossible to steal cheap stuff because we have infinite cheap stuff, why do you even care that someone took it!" mindset.
And I think what the comment meant was: the special license was driven more by consideration of the fellow countryman's economic situation than by appeasement of crackers. In reality it was probably a bit of both.
I'm glad people are starting to realize this. I have been bashing bitcoin for this reason for ages only to be ridiculed.
Military and banks do more than what PoW blockchain does.

I don't buy in the energy argument myself, but trying to justify the way you do sounds a little too kool-aid-y.
base layer tps is low because it is designed for survival in most adversarial of conditions. It is a heavy duty tank, not a sport bike.

Would you take M1 Abrams tank to race at Nurburgring? They have a different function.

Lightninig/Payment channels, backed by the same baselayer security guarantees, can operate at literally unlimited tps. The only ceiling is how fast you can send packets back and forth.

Miners do not vote, they are nothing but security guards paid by the network users. Miners do not get paid if they produce a block with rules not accepted by the rest network.

Counterintuitive, but that is the reality.
I imagine much of the traffic is likely out of China?

It sounds like the CCP is moving to ban clearance and trading institutions in the space, stopping short of banning personal holdings. (something in the name of protecting people? https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-financial-payment...)

A lot of people probably trying to sell off now or moving their holdings to exchanges located outside of China.
Trust is built over time. The same complaints exist even if they provided all of the information requested. “How do we know these people are really the real people that worked on freenode?” Etc.

The solution here is trust neither freenode nor Libera.chat, but use them cautiously. Eventually one will implode and a more complete story will emerge.
In Australia, setting up an association of members is as easy as a limited liability company. You can become a Federally registered not-for-profit as an incorporated association.

The cost of having a model set of a constitution and doing the paperwork is as simple as doing the same for a limited liability private company.
Just use Slack. It's a lot more user friendly and inclusive.
See the list on page 5. Both of those terms are listed as "characteristic of white supremacy".

I see your point about "either-or thinking". One could also call that "black and white thinking" (not referring to skin colors) -- an approach to a given situation that refuses to see nuance.

However, mathematics is an area where either-or thinking has its place. Either a given mathematical statement or proposition is true, or it's not.

The paper fails to acknowledge this important nuance... and in my opinion, falls into its own form of either-or thinking: anything that has been taught or learned by white people is suspect.
It’s not irrational it’s a step towards not wasting tremendous energy.
>The mathematics itself is greater than the mathematician, who himself craps on the toilet like anyone else. Focus on the math, not the mathematician. It will make you happier.

The mathematician reveals the math. The math won't reveal itself
Are you sure these aren't extensions on the 2017 'ban'? (As well as more attempts to 'crackdown' in 2019)

Isn't Binance based in Hong Kong?

Either way, if indeed clickbait, crypto does seem to bounce around on a lot of FUD, which might have a role to play in the recent bath they've all been taking recently.
Not talking to the cleaning person is just rude and mean. Seems to me if no-one else in the office does it, that's an opportunity to be the person that changes things. If one person starts talking to the cleaning lady/man, other people probably will. Or if they look at you weird for doing so (yeah to be honest this sadly did happen to me) then ** 'em, they need to learn. As for free stuff, hey, if the company wants to give away free stuff, its our moral duty to use it, right? ;) If like the author we're struggling to make ends meet, then we should take whatever free stuff we can use. If we don't technically "need" it, well how about pass it on to someone else who does. Or give extra money to charity. Really, why be embarassed to be the only person using free stuff. Will people really deep down judge you? If they really do, go work somewhere else with better people ;)
Right! Let me know when they get their money back. I thought that when bad stuff happens on regulated markets at this level(i.e congresional probe etc) the DA, SEC, FCA or whatever agency is in charge is supposed to intervene and make it right. And btw it wasn't just RobinHood. At some point all the retail brokers(i.e Interactive Brokers) decided to hold various positions(buy/sell).

People can sue coinbase and any other shady broker as well. If you've lost 10K I doubt you are willing to spend even more to get it back in court be it coinbase, RobinHood or any other exchanger/broker with an army of lawyers.
What I love about this story is that feeling of tinkering with a logical system and solving problems with clever hacks. For many, it's the reason why they ended up working in tech, I guess.
> will run out of dollars and this whole machine will fall apart

Sounds like it could be three things:

1) Their USD standard is bunk. If you're on a commodity money - or secondary exchange money - standard then you can only issue as many certs as there are units of that money in your reserves. With the XAU standard, you can't just mint gold certs without gold underlying it. That's not how any of this works!

2) They just FDR'ed their users, and took them off the USD standard but didn't tell them.

3) Less technically: sounds like they're skimming off the USD for themselves and hoping everyone doesn't divest at the same time. This could be either fraud, or it could just be incomitance, ignorance or any other *ance really.
> All jobs have mandatory stay of 2 years

You might as well make an argument based on the premise that pigs can fly. Contracts like that are basically unheard of in the US, outside of top executives and a few rare industries like professional sports.
FB requires true names.
I grew up poor(but no longer am). I can sympathize with some of the things she wrote, but not very many. I too talk to the janitor and cleaners. I once had a job like that.

What strikes me is that she describes a work-life that are quite a few years long, perhaps even decades, and she still is dirt poor apparently.

I know that no-one just gives money away, but how come she lives a frugal life and after years of working still is extremely poor?

Her writing makes me think she thinks like a beaten dog. Either she is exaggerating/lying or she has some other problems that are not actually money-related.
This is the status quo at almost every company.
It's a problem for the value of the Tether coin and therefore for the nominal value of the entire crypto market.

But otherwise: smart move. :D
I’ve been extremely lucky moving to the Bay Area to be someone who has not failed. I grew up poor. Today, I have enough money for rent and bills, I still think and worry about them. The endless what if’s are a lifetime long curse, and there is no cure.
Imagine one person moving $SPY or USD tens of percentage points by tweeting a meme or two. The volatility in crypto is quite something.
According to the article the address is not included in the 2D-DOC QR code.

I agree with you that it's not useful information for the purpose of a "health pass" used to gain access to venues and events. On the other hand, as a matter of Covid response strategy and enforcement of any restrictions (so for the authorities at large) it is very useful to know where a person that has tested positive lives.
That's because Bitcoin is very tightly held, and the amount of tradeable float is very very small compared to holdings.

This results in outsized volatility, as it is still a developing market. 1T for a global currency is very small.

We'll see how it behaves at 10T.
Honest/weird question.

This is (at least) time number two, that OSS projects have used the "Libre/Libera" term in community reboot/rebrand efforts. Nothing against speakers of French which have given us so many beautiful words, but there is something off putting about libre/libera for me in "brand names". I like what they stand for even! They just don't roll off the tongue for me. Is this just a "me thing"? Maybe there's something inherit about the actual phonetics that makes it off putting for me?
That's largely dependent on the ebb and flow of hydraulic power
And the west coast didn't even wake up yet...
Ask HN: Why do investors keep shorting GameStop and AMC?
I just read this article,
https://www.reuters.com/technology/gamestop-amc-short-sellers-sit-nearly-1-billion-loss-ortex-2021-05-18/

which says short sellers of GameStop and AMC realized losses of almost a billion dollars. With these two having pretty much become meme stocks, why would any sane institutional investor keep shorting the two?
A lot of that particular shortage happened because everyone cancelled their preexisting contracts and now they have to renegotiate at a new cost basis, after the government has thrown trillions of new dollars into the economy.
The queen does not have much personal money anyway. it belongs to the family.

I think it is understandable to feel inadequate. that is motivation to be better.
I'd assume, though, that a tech writer's base salary would be higher than a receptionist's and maybe an executive assistant's. I'm trying to gauge if she was being vastly underpaid for her skill set and if Bay Area tech companies tend to do that if you don't negotiate aggressively.
China prepares to launch rocket carrying space station supplies
I don't think you can get an unbiased reply on this topic on HN unfortunately (or any other SoMe site). You can look at CNSA.gov.cn yourself though and make up your own mind :)

English site: http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
Yeah, the exercises in that book were wonderful.
Satoshi is a supervillain who created the most effective weapon of mass destruction the world has ever seen. Unstoppable and fueled by the inherent greed of mankind.
> Many cryptocurrencies provide value while video games suck time and value.

You don’t really expect anyone to take your defense of cryptocurrency seriously with a statement that hyperbolic and dismissive, do you?

Since the games industry is making up almost a quarter of the M&E economy, which is the single largest industry segment in the US, it’s evident that games provide a transfer and store of value to the economy. People who create games are effectively mining, so there is an apparent creation of value too, one that also involves creativity and skilled labor, unlike crypto. You can even read about the “value chain” of the games industry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry#Value_chai...

Just last year’s video game revenue in the US alone is equal to two thirds of the entire market cap of ETH as I post this, and of course the industry's revenue is growing every year, and the global games industry is much larger than the US alone. Crypto will become bigger eventually, but it’s not today. (And which is larger is actually irrelevant, you compared apples to orangutans, my point is simply that it’s a pretty bad idea to try to falsely claim the financial value of games is negative.)

I don’t even play games that much, because you’re right they do suck my time, so it’s an awkward position to be defending them, but the least you could do if you’re going to spout about the “value” of games and crypto is start from the truth and financial reality of the markets.
A fair opinion to have. I feel every HN thread on crypto now though dissolves to negativity (without any substance) + toxicity really quickly.
Does anyone have recommendation on distributed tracing platform for Java (primarily spring). I'm confused as to what's a standard vs. tracing implementation vs. transport/exporter vs. storage/ui options are. Seems like there's lots of moving pieces to understand.

And it's advantage vs. disadvantage against a profile. Distributed tracing seems more powerful in the face of distributed application (microservice kind though not limited to it) as it can span hosts but limited in the sense that it only trace at coarse level web server > remote service > db kind of way but not providing a view of finer details in a single host (e.g. expensive method calls, computation or lock issues etc.) I wonder if that's a fair characterization or I'm completely off.