skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if you want me to got into more detail, I'm happy to oblige. To me the whole first paragraph seems to be simply dismissive, painting different opinions as incorrect and immoral, talking about how surprised you are that the comments are so cold, that people aren't holding a mirror up to their own behavior, that this depresses you and that "we can do better":

> Many of the comments on this article are so cold. I can’t believe it. When I read the original article I was imagining all the constructive ways HN readers would interpret it and hold a mirror up to their own behaviour. Some commenters are doing this. But it surprises and depresses me how many people are commenting saying “no, this list isn’t what it says it is, it’s a list showing the author has a negative mindset / is not from the Valley bubble, and that problem can be fixed by just getting over it.”. We can do better than that.

I don't see any engagement (in the first paragraph or subsequent ones) with the opinions of the comments (and if I missed them, feel free to point them out), or any effort to entertain the notion that they could have a point.

There used to be a big problem online where people wouldn't consider other people's opposing views. But we seem to have reached the point where people are upset that people even have views that are different from our own.
bitcoin doesnt use GPUs
How do you differentiate the infrastructure from the technology? The technology drives the infrastructure.
Big banks and the rich are squeezing out paper handed retail and leveraged traders. They are buying in at the low and will go full steam by the summer.
> needless to say the title was edited...

Congrats on spotting the danger early. Still, I support editing the title back to the original. Avoiding editorialised titles is important, it means that opinions are shared in comments and it's easier to have a neutral discussion.

Back then you were right about the purchase but it seems that you weren't able to get your point across to the others; I wish people listened more and I also wish you talked more.
IMO, there's a difference between people who are very good at connecting frameworks together and have a strong knowledge of many frameworks and platforms, and people are who are actually building those frameworks/services for others to use. It's the latter who are hard to find & hire, as most people (esp. coding bootcamps and self-taught courses) focus on the former because you can quickly create working mobile and web applications.

One question that I ask during interviews is to write a method to find the intersection of two lists of integers in better than O(n^2) time - basically, any solution that is not two nested `for` loops.

intersect([1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 4, 6, 8]) => [2, 4]

Half the people I talk to cannot do that in 30 minutes. (no, you cannot use the built-in set operators)
I'm not sure if it is the causation but China took drastic restrictions on cryptocurrencies yesterday, and Chinese players IMHO held a big share of those cryptos.

Also, people in China would call it "unplug" when exchanges going down. It's a popular meme because people find every time the market crashes those Chinese exchanges would go down as well, thus many people believe they intentionally did that to let oligarchs sell their crypto in back channels first.
Bitcoin is the ultimate, purely financial object. It has no revenues or profits. The supply is fixed -- unlike, say, gold, where high prices mean people will eventually start digging mines, BTC supply is entirely price-inelastic. The only thing that determines BTC price is demand. And over the past 13 years, we've seen reflexivity at work: The price has gone up, so more people want it, so the price goes up further, and on and on.

There's no reason this can't happen in reverse. As in previous crashes, once the price starts going down, more people want to sell.

Really just an interestingly pure experiment in group psychology.
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That's not about smartness or dumbness, though. I don't think intelligence is correlated with poverty much, but poverty is additional difficulty, so they have to work harder for the same thing as someone who isn't poor.
Yeah - I agree with all of this.

On a related note, I think the US approach to dismissing class is preferable to the UK where it’s very explicit.

While both approaches have issues, when it’s explicit in the culture people seem to discriminate on it more (or even self-sort themselves based on identity).

I think ideally it’s better for a culture to try to not do that, but pragmatically it’s good to be aware of its existence in order to be successful. I mostly chalk it up to social skills.

On specifically being told to “stay in your lane” my point was more that if you’re behaving a certain way you won’t be told that, because the other people will assume you’re like them. It’s not only about wealth (though as in the article, the behavior is often related).
Not quite math, but TAOCP was like that for me: rather than having to force myself to work through it, I actually looked forward to spending time reading it or working the exercises.
Any advise on good / recent sources of information about the various GC algorithm in the recent JVM ?
It's neither. A defining feature of both pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes is centralized control of the ledger and who is allowed to participate. And a defining feature of cryptocurrencies is, at least theoretically, the lack of such centralized control.

I understand that people feel like there's something fraudulent going on with crypto. Given the sheer density of fraud and scamming surrounding crypto, it's hard to argue with that. But trying to make one's argument seem more concrete by picking the name of some well-known class of fraud and blithely using it to describe crypto in general is counterproductive. It muddies the waters, and makes it more difficult to have an organized discussion by removing clarity from the language we have to discuss these things.

The urge to do so should be resisted for the same reason that we should resist the urge to try and make arguments involving statistics seem more authoritative by just guessing at numbers when we're not sure of them. False precision is, well, false.
> competition in mobile gaming is fierce!

Curious as to why you decided to release on mobile, instead of a slightly friendlier platform like PC.
>Are they there for punishment or for rehabilitation?

A third possibility is 'removal'. The idea is that a potential criminal is under the control of the state.

Correlation vs. causation and all that, but given the likely lack of results from either punishment or rehabilitation, perhaps that is what happened here.

https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/uploads/content/_1400_700/Cr...
Apps like Nicehash mine the most profitable shitcoin using your GPU and convert it to Bitcoin. When the market pumps people buy up cards and use it to make good money.
Just like 99% cocoa chocolate — built-in overeating protection.
You may find out that the stocks you hold dear will crash just as bitcoin. If you think bitcoin is a ponzy scheme think about the stock market as well. The stocks(most of them) are not traded on roi anymore. Long gone is that period.
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It seems like there's something wrong with NickServ:

> 15:56 -NickServ(NickServ@services.libera.chat)- Sending email failed, sorry! Registration aborted

It's probably just busy with the influx of new people :-)
Well clearly those things are not of the same quality.
Anti

- Not suitable as an asset.

- Not suitable as a currency.

- Bad for the environment.

- “Community” is rife with scams and illegality.
You seem to be sarcastic but in fact yes the Robinhood/GameStop BS resulted in both a congressional probe and it skipped the FBI and went straight to the prosecutors at the Department of Justice.
Render.com does a great job at running distributed Elixir.
More precise way of expressing this is: gold has industrial uses not "inherent value".
China did recently make some negative announcements on Bitcoin.

https://www.ft.com/content/c4c29bb3-c8ee-454c-a2dd-eac9f6440...
I first read this perhaps ten years ago, and I re-read it every year or two, hoping to one day make it there to experience it myself.

Now I know who wrote it! Thank you!
Until it does. If everyone tries to get out of tether at once there could be a run on the currency and a collapse. If tether has been manipulating prices (seems likely) that will also come out in the crash.
The analysis in that link was debunked.
> that book can't ever get obsolete

Math doesn't change, but language and printing technology do.
You say it as if it is regulated. They will simply put a stop for real customers and pump some orders in the market to keep the peg. I fail to see how they can fail except massive incompetence in managing this scheme.
>Another question: how do these scammers get mobile numbers? I suspect there are many online personal data breaches which are never reported e.g. a breach from an online retailer, or maybe a friend with your contact details who has been hacked.

try every number? It's not like phone numbers have high entropy.
I know that cynicism is popular, but in fact their incentives are for more than that. The executive who wants to last - and most do - needs to ensure there is a profit next quarter as well. Sure they will take profit today vs next week, but they also invest in r&d because they know if they don't eventually there will be no bonus at all next quarter.
As someone with no real opinion on crypto the arrogant stupidity of the anti-crypto crowd (really prevalent on HN) is also quite tiring.
Does living in Oakland really draw arched eyebrows like as stated in the article? Do the neighboring areas like Emeryville, Alameda, or Lafayette do that?

(moving down to SF in a month or two, so just starting to get a feel for east bay ;) )
A lunch between $15-20 every day is about $4k per year. That's still a large percentage of a person's after tax income even making $100k.

You might want to correct Warren Buffett since he recommends packing your lunch at least 3 days per week.
Right, the surface of the Earth will eventually become a black body radiator _anyway_, so why should it bother anyone if we want to have a little fun first.
I use Bear on the Mac. Super simple, works on iOS too, fast, syncs cleanly.
Why would it be? People can do what they want. It isn't hard to avoid.
Yep. No names, no contact, no impressum, but "trust us, we're the good ones" - right. Than act like it.
I very clearly recall Coinbase structurally having these outages back in 2017/2018 as well. Always when big price movements are about to happen, but often before the volume spike. Nothing but funny coincidences I'm sure.
The assumption that people who don’t want to buy crypto must not “understand” crypto is a cliché among that community, and it reeks of the kind of hubris that makes me okay with seeing this kind of crash.
I mean the technology is highly damaging to society in a whole bunch of ways, damaging the environment, supporting fraud and ransomware, used for money laundering, funding crime, and if it gets integrated into the financial system like some want it to be, it could even destroy human civilization: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html (even Douglas Adams tried to warn us 40 years ago).

So it's a relief when it looks more like it's going away or at least staying contained.
BTC has substitutes in the altcoin sphere which can make similar claims to scarcity.

So if BTC ends up being too illiquid and slow - build another coin.
What are the other options here? Sounds like you've got some good perspective!
I didn't hear it from someone in tech; in fact they are now doing house flipping. However, they embodied this 'success personality' quite explicitly. I can definitely relate to hosting parties with mixed moods. Over time you realize you have to host multiple kinds of events - this is more maintainable for having multiple kinds of friendships. I have friends who can be comfortable in any event I might have, but it is best to find those naturally rather than during awkward parties
If you're in the bay area, the Redwood City airport was near what is now the 101/Woodside Road interchange; the section of Woodside Road between El Camino and 101 wasn't built until the late 1950s. The airport's runway ran from the Redwood City municipal yard, across Woodside Road, through the post office, towards Summit High School. The offices were roughly near the Denny's.
The technology has no use outside the scope of crypto-currencies.
In reality it's much easier. I've sold couple of my projects before via different mediums (one is through microacquire - the one OP mentioned, and one was through a connect), and the best way i found to go about it is to be ready to walk away from the deal.

I know this is negotiations 101, but it's tough to put it in practice most of the time if one person wants a little bit more to see the transaction through. Surprisingly, communications skill doesn't play that big of a role, unless you really want to "sell it" most of the conversations goes the same way OP mentioned.
Likely related to the China news: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-financial-payment...

Estimates put 65-75% of BTC mining in China. That just became a pretty shaky foundation.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
leave gender out of it
MAA has its Basic Library List: https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-basic-library-list...
If SPY dropped to the level where it was at the start of the year, would we call it a crash?

Also, maybe BTC is not like SPY but more like TSLA.
Same here. The machines were really good looking too.
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I stormed back to the website, arms filled with pitchforks ready to hand out, and was completely let down by the most tame About Me section my mind could have possibly summoned. I know you say you cant put your finger on it but can you elaborate a little bit?

For those of you too lazy to click through to it here is the text (followed by a bunch of photos of her in different fancy outfits/settings):

Meg Elison: Author & Essayist
Meg Elison is a California Bay Area author and essayist. She writes science fiction and horror, as well as feminist essays and cultural criticism. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards finalist. Her work has been on the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) longlist, nominated for the Audie Award, and won the Philip K. Dick Award. She has also been published in McSweeney’s, Shimmer, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Catapult, Terraform, and many other places.

She is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and the National Writers Union (@paythewriter).

Her debut novel, "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. Her YA debut, “Find Layla” was published in fall 2020 by Skyscape. It was one of Vanity Fair's Best 15 Books of 2020.

Elison is a high school dropout, a graduate of UC Berkeley, and writes like she’s running out of time.
What Beijing's new crackdown means for crypto in China
Huh, looks like they're better organised than I expected, thanks.
I can relate to this guy.

Not about the billionaire part, but about the goldfish part. Good to know that we at least have something in common.
The funny thing is that a couple of comments up 2 sibling comments basically gave the exact same answer, but one in jest and one seriously. The cryptosphere really is beyond parody
I find noise distracting when things are not working, and I believe they should be working, and this process has been going on for a while. Otherwise I find noise sort of calming.
On the other hand, there is evidence that a certain amount of noise helps creativity: [1], [2]

[1] - https://medium.com/s/how-to-design-creative-workspaces/how-n...

[2] - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048
Totally agree. The S&P500 is at the lowest it's been ... since one week ago (quite literally: May 12). And before that, April. A 1.5% decline isn't a crash.
The original 3G phone spectrum auction was in part premised on the notion that we would all be placing video calls.

Personally I though VR glasses would take off when I had a go with them in the late 90's.

Today with remote working I am on the end of a microphone without a picture of myself or my colleagues in the chat.

Yet I am looking forward to being in the office.

I see what Google are trying to do but we have wave after wave of this. VR is a classic, if only we can solve the motion sickness!

On the family level those zoom calls with my niece are now plain telephone calls. Or WhatsApp messages. We stopped caring.
It's not irrational, it's an opportunity to buy more for cheap!
Plastic waste can now be turned into jet fuel in one hour
I've heard some stories, mostly around XML handling if I recall well, and also due to people not using a form of streaming when it would have been necessary.

I'm curious to know what you have heard with more precision, if possible.
The retro designs that I really want to see made real would be the ones done by "Arne"[1].

Most of the designs would be impossible, being pretty steeped in trademarks, but they've explored some interesting ideas, like alternate keyboard layouts (ABC, 4 rows etc.) and mashups of all kinds of "retro" machines.

We're also not seeing that many 16-bit faux-retro designs (i.e. not straight-forward Amiga/Atari clones). Either because they tend to be more complex, or because this follows the same trends as fashion and music, where we e.g. had 80s synthwave followed by 90s vaporwave and now more 00s sounds and looks. Since the time for that should've come by now, I think it's more the complexity angle. "Just" hooking up a 6502/z80 seems an order of magnitude easier than coming up with whatever the equivalent of custom chips would be. Never mind that because of the scale economy, you'd have to do the latter with FPGA, which is a step down on the ladder of retro authenticity.

[1]: https://androidarts.com
Withdrawal limit or sell limit?

Presumably, people can sell all their holdings and withdraw over time.
Never grow? It will shrink. The buyer got robbed. Churn is one the numbers investors watch like a hawk in a SaaS, and I can’t imagine this service retaining more than 30% of their users over several months.
Coinbase is not the only place to sell it though.
My son and I built a next box and put it in the garden. It isn't hard (even for a software engineer like me). We have now had several generation of blue tits nest there. A few points:
-The size of the entrance hole is important, depending on what sort of bird you want.
-The orientation relative to the sun is important.
-Don't put a peg below the hole. Birds (bluetits anyway) don't need it and it may give purchase for predators.
-The birds seem to like having some twigs thay can land on near the box. So don't cut back all the foliage around it.
> BTC is using over a megawatt hour PER transaction!

A transaction meaning transferring money from one wallet to another?
>They should just call it a religion.

A Planet Money episode from a few months ago covered this (https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969182201/bitcoin-the-religio...) and it was an interesting episode.

Basically, bitcoin is like a religion in that 1) the founder is shrouded in mystery, 2) he/she goes missing/vanishes/dies before being able to benefit (i.e. they sacrifice for the benefit of others), 3) thus the actual spread of the religion/technology is left to an inner circle of disciples, 4) the masses that are brought in often talk about it incessantly furthering its spread, and 5) it has rituals/holidays (bitcoin halving day, bitcoin pizza day)

This changed the way I think about bitcoin adherents.
Just to get a frame of reference, what is memory efficient for web servers?
HN when crypto pops: This is off topic/irrelevant

HN when crypto retraces some of those gains: Pop open the champaign! Lets all talk about how great this is! Front page!
Ethereum will solve both issues, removing miners and the energy use by moving to Proof of Stake at the end on this year, and increasing the transaction throughput by 100x factors with level 2 solutions.
Coinbase infrastrcture does not run on bitcoin
The Old Internet way, you knew people by their nicks. The only thing that mattered was what they are bringing to the table in terms of valuable input. Sex, race, nationality, education, believes, age, etc. were irrelevant.

Asking someone for a "true name" was consider to be impolite if not offensive.
The error message from Cloudflare is interesting "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks."[1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/BRDMH0z
This entire conversation seems especially resistant to facts, due to their inconvenience. No matter, HN doesn't exist to solve the world's problems, only bitch about them.
That's great; can you use the money to do something useful now and stop supporting this garbage?
I'm from Spain and I find relatable. I've been in places where I didn't have to eat, so when people orders food every day I just compute in my head how much money goes to waste.

Another thing that I do, is consider the ability to repair tech without lock-in. Being a techie poor teachs you to be careful about this decisions, but people seem perfectly fine to be locked in and just buy new stuff every time.

There has been a lot of time since I don't buy new tech. My phone is second hand, my laptop is a second hand ThinkPad, I have two Eizo Screens that came through ebay, my upgraded desktop has an I5 from ebay, and RAM is probably second hand too, I don't remember.
Have you heard of DEFI (decentralized finance)?
Surely this is also very much related to the recent announcement in China [1], banning financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrencies?

[1 : https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-beijings-new-crackd... ]
Even if the big crash that kills GPU prices happen, I'll probably still have to go second hand, since a brand new, better GPU than the one I have will still go for (albeit less) ludicrous prices.
Because the only utility it has is that it appreciates over time. Of course, until it no longer does, then becomes worthless.
While you have a point regarding fixed supply, I think bitcoin is more than just a KBC. The ability to do uncensorable (or at least uncensorable without truly absurd computing power) global financial transactions is a really amazing thing and I think it definitely has "intrinsic" value, insofar as any value is "intrinsic" and not the result of social interaction.

The energy consumption is definitely bothersome but overall I am glad that bitcoin exists.
Show HN: OEIS Number Sequences in Haskell
(Disclaimer: I know exactly zero things about reverse engineering, so this is probably a very stupid question. Read at your own peril.)

Could this be helpful in reverse engineering binaries by first movfuscating and then demovfuscating them? My hypothesis is that movfuscation (maybe coupled with some other techniques) might “normalize” the program in some way and demovfuscation might recover some more human-understandable structures. Or would demovfuscation just bring back the same original obfuscated mess?
This topic seems to come up a lot, and I didn't know that, for example, the Matrix founders are in the minority on the Matrix Foundation board.

Is there a place with this history or the governance structure that people can link to the next time this comes up?
What surprises me is that the person's address is stored there. It seems to me absolutely unnecessary, and I'm not even sure where they get it from as the address on record by Social Security is not supposed to be disclosed even to health professionals.

I think this is only the address one gives freely to the vaccination/test center and which is not checked by anyone.

I still can't think of any case where it would be useful in conjunction with your vaccination status.