skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

You're right there Obediah.

Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

A cup ' COLD tea.

Without milk or sugar.

OR tea!

In a filthy, cracked cup.

We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'

'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a corridor!

Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

Cardboard box?

Aye.

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

Nope, nope..
I like that this person is not judging, merely describing their observations.
Often I don't think wealthy people are aware how poor people interpret their actions, and I'm not arguing that they are required to either.
I've somewhat seen both sides of this, and I think it's beneficial for both sides to understand where the other is coming from..
It'll make a poor person feel better knowing that the behaviour they saw was not intended to demonstrate anything, that this rich person is just unaware that what they did could be perceived like whatever.
It'll also make a wealthy person understand averse reactions better, and avoid them, to understand how those who have less can interpret their actions.
But if you stake your entire argument on something inaccurate because you think it makes the best soundbite, then you risk setting progress back in reality as people decide that you're full of crap about everything else you say.

Frankly, it is the average citizen that voted to get us this system, and trying to convince them that they were manipulated into that position by evil corporations is probably a non-starter. IMO it would be more effective to convince them that a puritanical attitude towards criminals has a net negative effect on the rest of society. Get people to focus on the forest instead of the trees.
I second this - it is the best solution if one wants to decouple upgrades of Elixir vs OTP, and is really useful for long term upgrades (one step at a time).
Can we stop pretending these are currencies now?
Does anybody know how these are reported in chinese media? NASA makes a huge effort to publish their stuff in the western world and you don't hear much about china. Is it the opposite from inside China?
I posted this at a time when there were no other positive comments in the thread, so not the biggest sample size :)
so many FBI inquiries started from the GME fiasco, right?
Ah, I see. Well, thank for clarifying. My argument was however that, by not explaining what this "larger evil" is, and just giving examples that exist and are equally problematic, if not more, in private prisons, while at the same time not addressing my point, which was the moral aspect of profiting from incarceration... That the response I got seemed disingenuous or unrelated? I don't know. People seem to downvoted anything that isn't pro USA. Just see my other comment. I took the time to answer how this doesn't apply to food production, and also got downvoted without explanation. So, maybe this isn't the website for thoughtful discussions that it once was. Arguing the immorality of private prisons is not the same as arguing the morality of public prisons. The response I got seemed based on an assumption that I argued the latter, and is a logical fallacy.

A: profit on prison population has significant moral problems

B: public prisons exploit workers in the US!

A: well... That's, bad too.

And, it's a bit tiresome. I'm pointing out something that is pretty obvious, yet, instead of some argument that can be refuted, my argument is made to be something different. And that's the crux of it. People don't like that their constitution explicitly allows forced labour of incarcerated people, aka slavery. I wouldn't like it either. It's immoral and wrong. Put it under a for profit business? Even worse... I mean. What counter argument can you possibly have. So, of course people will attempt to refute it with logical fallacies instead.
Not all the reviewer are from the Element company.
Except it doesn’t mean nothing because there are a bunch of lawsuits against Robinhood, because the law provides a remedy for the bullshit they pulled.
It is on its way back up. Remember to buy the dip, folks!

Also interesting how BTC is now a store of wealth, not a currency. They should just call it a religion.
This comment cannot be saying what it seems to be saying, can you clarify what you mean? Maybe it was worded oddly.
I'm surprised at how much money is being spent micro-optimizing the superficial and contingent aspects of intelligent behaviour. It's as though you've got a toddler who has no idea how to play piano, and instead of trying to teach them a C-scale, you're investing in increasingly sophisticated studio equipment to record random cacophony.
I mean, maybe? If crypto is not bound by legal frameworks that govern traditional banks, what law would the exchanges have broken? The worst I could see happening is class action lawsuits, but not any kind of federal action.
To make a transaction, you have to spend a certain amount of gas. This will then be multiplied by the constant cost of the transaction. But gas fluctuates based on demand. If many people want to make a quick transaction, gas will go up as the amount of transactions per block is limited. Avg gas was around 70 gwei yesterday. Currently there's tons of blocks averaging between 1000 - 1500 gwei, which is a lot.
I was shocked the other day on the Ethereum PoS announcement by the energy consumption per transaction metrics. It threw the whole crypto market into a new light for me. BTC is using over a megawatt hour PER transaction! That's almost 5000 miles in a Tesla model 3. BTC is using about 2/3 of the power of every data center on the planet! Many, many people have been imprisoned or executed for creating less societal harm and externality than Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto may end up being the most destructive person to have ever lived.

People are free to gamble, but could they please not turn the surface of the Earth into a black body radiator while they're at it?
I did notice they stopped printing some time this week after months adding billions of dollars. For anyone curious you can easily see tether printing by checking at USDT market cap increase.
Crypto isn't a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is form of fraud where funds from recent investors are used to pay (fictitious) profits to earlier investors. Say the ringleader claims a 10% profit. An early investor had deposited $100 and wants their $100. The ringleader had blown that investor's $100 on coke and hookers and gives him $110 from new investors.

Crypto is more accurately a pyramid scheme. But then so are precious metals and fiat currency.
Its back now. Started getting Cloudfare errors too, but all fine now.
You don't understand Bitcoin because you are 1) white 2) male 3) middle aged 4) citicen of the United States. Take away any one of those and with each step you get a little bit closer to understanding why Crypto/Bitcoin is perhaps the most important invention in human history!
Buy a pan without a non-stick coating (eg stainless steel or enameled cast iron) and try and fry as much as you can in it.

The feedback is straightforward: If your food sticks, you've messed up. It teaches you loads about the right amount of heat and patience.
I might sound heartless here, but, Not your keys, Not your coins.
I guess they mean that in many places around the world, public transportation is more usable, so people don't need cars.
But you know what's worse? The government helping you!

t. anarchists
I can't answer in general, but one thing I do remember: Litecoin didn't move in tandem with Bitcoin until after it was added to Coinbase.
We had a guy show up an EAA meeting about 10 years ago. He was making maps of all the private air strips in our state. These are not on the regular charts but most of the their owners understood that in an emergency it would be nice to intrude on a private strip rather than intruding on a cornfield or worse.
One of the parts that most stood out to me was how the author was apparently paid much less that her comparably-skilled coworkers, since she didn't negotiate for higher pay. How common is this in tech companies in and around San Francisco? Are there a lot that would pay you as little as possible--even far below what is common for your skill set--if you didn't defend yourself through negotiation and awareness of market value for your skills? Was it more that she didn't ask for enough, or that her coworkers were much more aggressive negotiators?
I only say this about 1% of the time I read stuff like this, and it's still too much:

_Bitcoin doesn't use GPUs to mine with_.

It's been custom ASICs for the last eight years or so. I think.
I broke the site 2 days ago by swapping my AWS key... fix coming soon. And I’m having a designer make new mocks for the site, will post before we start building!
And, as usual, Coinbase is also down at the moment [0]. Don't have a super-strong opinion on the crash itself (or whether we should call it a crash given crypto's volatility)--but it does seem peculiar that the exchanges in the space tend to drop when things get rough.

[0] https://status.coinbase.com as of 13:51 UTC status was "intermittent downtime" and "delayed withdrawals"
Although von Neumann was certainly a genius who happened to be in the right place at the right time, he's also an example of how groups of people can create a culture seemingly much more important than the effect of one outstanding individual. Lipót Fejér led a school of analysis at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He ran a seminar, was the centre of a large group of young mathematicians who worked together and was enormously influential.

Hungary has a disproportionate number of the world class mathematicians of the 20th century. The numbers are even more extreme when you consider that those mathematicians are all from Budapest, all from Eötvös, and the vast majority of them Fejér's supervisees. It's totally plausible that Fejér created an environment where people who might otherwise have been middling mathematicians, decent engineers, or never have found their niche, were transformed, by collaboration and inspiration, into the likes of von Neumann, Erdős, Pólya.

Even today the Eötvös school of analysis and combinatorics is a significant powerhouse, with most members direct mathematical descendants from Fejér. And there are other branches such as Cambridge combinatorialists where the influence of Fejér's students and grand-students has been key in the formation of world class mathematicians.
People realised some time ago that Bitcoin isn't actually fit for purpose for most payments because transactions take so long to close. So it's now pivoted to this value idea of storing "value". Absolute house of cards.
My personal take:

There might well be ponzi schemes on top of the bitcoin infrastructure, but the technology behind bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme.

It might well be that a lot of people are crazed over it and want to buy bitcoin and push up the price, but that's because there is something here with cryptocurrency. It definitely is a new way of accounting, and it could potentially be a hedge against the fiat system.

There's a lot of IFs, but I still think it is revolutionary technology that may well revolutionise things in 5-10 or 50 years, who knows.
It's not about it being valued as a currency for its objective characteristics, but rather based on the limitless enthusiasm of crackpot ideology
In the 2010s, PageSpeed Insights' metrics compared to your site to how it could be if it was delivered optimally. Did you compress your images? Have you combined your CSS files? Are your static resources longcached? A huge site perfectly delivered would score high, while a tiny site sloppily delivered would score low. They represented how much room for improvement your site had if you didn't want to make deep changes.

Search was doing its own thing, and they didn't ever have any public speed metrics.

Core Web Vitals is a different approach: pages are compared to thresholds. A huge site perfectly delivered now likely scores lower than a tiny site sloppily delivered. (PageSpeed Insights now reports CWV metrics.) These are the kind of metrics you can use for search ranking, because they are about user experience instead of developer room for improvement (low-hanging fruit).

(I used to work on mod_pagespeed, which would automatically optimize sites, and I still work for Google. Speaking only for myself.)
Alabama prisons are a crime against humanity.

https://eji.org/news/what-you-need-know-about-alabama-prison...
I'll add that even without understanding OTP in full, people will get good results.

I have also had good results with non-Elixir coders learning it with a bit of coaching, and recruiting is OK these days due to interest of developers for the language.
What's to stop me opening 10x accounts of $50k each and pulling them all out at the same time?
Realistically, the infrastructure for the servers can be replace and when that is done there is a high chance >75% of the users remain. There will always be other people willing to volunteer. I remember the AOL ICQ IRC had volunteer opers and there is no way you can think that wasn't fully a for-profit setup.
Thanks for the response, that sounds good and makes sense, I guess I'll continue waiting...

My family regularly does things like forget which browser they last used, or re-install windows, or otherwise mysteriously have all browser settings disappear, etc - all things that seem to be related to those key-backup issues.
Crypto exchanges have thr crypto and the fiat posted by customers ahead of time. Settlement is instant, it's withdrawal that takes time on the USD side. In stocks the various broker dealers are essentially loaning each other the money and stock and sorting it out in three days.
No, I refuse to put in effort to correct the level of confident ignorance the OP displayed.
Car dealers make their money from trade-ins, parts and service (new sales are often a loss leader to get you in for service work - everyone is driving for the best deal even if the dealer loses money), so the dealers at least care.

Car makers need to do well against the competition, and resale value is something that people look at. They want your car to last 10 years and then fall apart - that being about the time people start to be willing to call a dead car dead of old age. Though they do like having a few collectors cars that are a lot older than that around because collectors also feed into car culture.
BTC is a climate armageddon? I cheer too.
Coinbase Pro Is Up
While I know what you mean (and it's true to some extent), I think the media strategy and of course lang sphere barrier are factors. With the American Mars landing it's a big live event with the landing time known down to the second in advance, designed to generate a lot of momentous excitement. The Chinese space programme tends to release information more sparingly and after the fact.

I'd actually love to know more about this from a good English source (unfortunately I haven't taken the time to study Mandarin), really. Especially the engineering - it's been a while since we had two distinct tech stacks on the Red Planet, it'd be cool to compare and contrast.
> Personally I don't feel inadequate when reading about someone like von Neumann, as I'm not really tempted to compare myself to him in the first place. Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species.

Perhaps I am more prone to egoism than you! I had a "promising" start to my career and a lot of ambition. I've fallen off that track and had time to reflect on what matters, but I still feel twinges of ego-driven ambition.
The GME saga is over outside of fervent believers who cannot accept that Wall Street did not tumble because one small hedge fund made a bad bet.
See:
"Comparing KubeVirt to other technologies":

https://kubevirt.io/2017/technology-comparison.html
Wouldn't the hundreds of other PoW currencies still be an incentive?
I think the amount of fees per block is what's "insane" here.

Going back a day shows that the fees were on the order of ~3 eth per block (https://etherscan.io/blocks?p=300) whereas now they're averaging around ~20eth per block.

In other words ETH holders are very motivated to move their tokens right now, and the amount they're paying to do so reflects this.
I've been hearing the same thing about tether for about half a decade now.

We all know it's insolvent. Apparently it doesn't matter.
That is the type of bizarre connection only made by zealots.
I was born and brought up in India. I live abroad now. People are sending each other money via UPI/ Google Pay / PayTM. No ones sending Bitcoin for the meal they had yesterday. When cash was taken away people started using PayTM and not Bitcoin. They used this to send money to the road side seller selling sandwiches for 1/3rd of a dollar.

Other developing countries could use wallets too I guess? What volume of crypto is actually used by people without a bank account? What are they buying with it? Why do I mostly see rich tech people championing for it on Twitter?
I guess the fact that they follow KYC requirements and not allow anonymous accounts? You would have to create 10 fake identities for yourself first.
Bitcoin & Ether are both down -40% from a week to a month ago. Both of those are, in theory, large enough that investors "letting off some steam" shouldn't move them that much.

If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash. This isn't that different.

Also unlike the stock market, crypto is under the delusion of being a viable currency. If USD or Euro dropped even 20% we'd start questioning if it's a recession, much less 40%.
"Focus on the math, not the mathematician."

Do you think von Neumann's education might have had anything to do with what he was able to achieve?

How about how he was raised by his parents?

Or how about his work ethic, motivation, and attitude towards discovery?

How about the people that he admired and that influenced him?

Learning these things might help us to raise future extraordinary achievers, or might even help us with our own lives/work.

You will not find any of these things in his mathematics, but you might learn about them by studying his life.
I wonder how this will affect Binance?
Grew up poor in New Zealand. Parents moved there when I was 2 and struggled with being first generation immigrants.

After years of under-employment, government assistance and scraping by, I lied my way into my first tech job and learned on the job.

I hid the fact that I got one off government assistance for the new clothes I wore on the first day. The gravity of someone buying me a coffee struck me to my core.

It was unlike anything I had ever experienced before to be guaranteed ~$500usd per week, every week. Living with 0 hour contracts, if you said the wrong thing you risked you next week's roster. Work on that level is fraught with petty politics and it really messes with your sense of identity to need to suck up to get by.

Dealing with the government assistance office was demeaning. ~$100usd per week and you had to be in the office twice a week, attending the seminars and talking to your caseworker. With minimum wage at the time being ~$7 an hour, full time employment a dream due to labour laws favouring casual/0 hour contracts, employment was seldom worth it.

It comes to a point of true apathey. I remember thinking "oh my bank account is 2k overdrawn, haha funny".

I started to become politically aware when I got that first job. I, for some reason, thought people were more progressive. I was shocked when I heard my boss and colleagues complaining about taxes going to lazy people taking advantage of the system. I know the people they are talking about, and it's not like that at all but it's so outside my colleagues' bubble of understanding.

As others have stated, it's not "developing nation poor" and I was given more social mobility than my family living in my country of origin - but it's not an easy thing to live through and my mother is still living like that today (though I help now)

I can't appreciate enough the opportunities software engineering has opened for me. I am reminded that I didn't have a cushy upbringing from the little things that separate me from my colleagues.

In some ways I am nostalgic for the times I was cold in my crappy damp house, burning treated offcuts from the local lumber mill giving off toxic fumes. I had so much drive to make it out, I started a new money making scheme every second week. One time I got access to a printer and made a bunch of flyers offering converting VHS tapes to DVDs. Another time I went to retirement villages and helped people set up Skype. I worked for a retail store (like best buy) and started selling my own "home computer installation service" to customers, billed outside of the company - I then started offering other staff cash to sell it too (which got me fired).

This song really resonated with me when I was struggling https://youtu.be/8AjgWyxJAGQ?t=28

...that and literally any angsty song
Coinbase is down for me.

Gotta give it to BTC: it's a great store of value. You cannot sell it in panic, the technology is protecting you from your own psychology.