skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I google "Bitcoin Sharpe ratio," every article that comes up shows its ratio to be quite high.

Here's a chart comparing various assets' Sharpe ratios over time, always for the previous four years. Bitcoin's is at top of the chart, staying over 2 and sometimes over 3: http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-risk-adjusted-return/

The lowest I've found is in this article, calculating over the past five years a Sharpe ratio of 1.6: https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2021/03/02/how-bitcoin-...

According to this, from 2007 to 2021 the Sharpe ratio of the Nasdaq 100 was 0.97: https://backtest.curvo.eu/portfolio/nasdaq-100--NoIgcghgzgJh...

And this gives a FAANG portfolio Sharpe ratio of 1.25: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/3-ways-to-evaluate-the...

In terms of absolute returns, TQQQ has done well but not so well as Bitcoin. Since 2016 TQQQ has done 12X, compared to Bitcoin's 85X. Since April 2013 (as far back as Coingecko goes) TQQQ has gone up 37X, compared to a Bitcoin's 272X.

As a bonus, Bitcoin has a long-term correlation with the S&P500 of only 0.01, according to the Forbes article linked above.
It would be great if the author could elaborate on what exactly they take issue with about the alleged "Trumpian wannabe korean royalty bitcoins millionaire".
I started on IRC circa ... 1990? My older handles are still in the most ancient of helpfiles. Drama is practically built into the protocol.

First, last I saw, servers connected in a tree structure, so a "split" further down the tree structure, closest to the trunk, might take out quite a lot of users. Therefore, administrators closer to that trunk effectively control a larger population -- unless the admins of IRC servers toward the "leaves" connect with someone else.

Second, and again I am working from old memories, there were a lot of synchronization issues, so timing attacks were quite common. Join at just the right moment, and you could take over a channel. That has probably stopped.

Third, bandwidth usage can be intense as you approach the root, so most admins were originally piggybacking off of .edu connections. "My bandwidth, my rules."

Fourth, the protocol has evolved in many, many different ways. Originally, bans didn't even exist, you just had to hope that if you kicked someone, they stayed gone -- forkbots took amusing advantage of this. So, too, did the server code evolve, as well as the code for numerous clients, which were often vulnerable to buffer overflows.

Fifth, claim that name. NickServ had a period of not existing, so if someone wanted your nickname, flooding you off the net was an option. Whoever can DOS the most wins. Similarly, channel names were hotly contested, so combined with various attacks, you could "take over" a channel and depose people if ChanServ didn't exist -- and they didn't have bots busy re-opping them.

Pulling back, you see people from server admins down to channel owners and then half-ops, each appointed by those above, scrambling for bandwidth, knowledge, and names. It's nearly designed for drama.
I would actually argue for the latter. Even if he might have had valid geopolitical reasons to advocate a nuclear strike (althought I highly doubt it), it would have been morally wrong nevertheless. In my opinion, there is never an ethical justification for the usage of atomic weapons. In fact, I firmly believe that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was ethically wrong as well, but I know that other people have a different opinion on this matter.
Hamas is the legitimately elected representative of the Palestinians in Gaza. They were voted into power in 2006 and act as the Gazan sovereign.

We can agree on "Gazan rocket fire".
It's an absolute scandal that this story got no traction, but the original "fake news" got front page and hundreds of comments on HN
Fun! Two suggestions:

I'd like to see which partial I'm in. Perhaps a highlighted region behind the the instrument?

Also I'd rotate the scrolling to be more like moving the slide: make the slide move toward me when I scroll toward me and away when I scroll away. Partials can go left for higher or right for lower. Or some way for people to map their own scroll bindings, in case they've flipped scrolling.
If you make £100,000 then an hour of your time is worth ~£48.

You can get lunch for £10 or less, and cooking at home doesn't cost £0, so unless you are replacing a fancy two course lunch with a made at home sandwith, I dont see you saving over £2k a year.

Warren Buffet is cool and all, but he is not the world's lunch expert
Missed a couple of early opportunities to buy eh? Don't worry about, expending your energy is going to get you nothing. Even if it all implodes tomorrow all you can do is say "I told you so". And you may feel superior to others, but no one will care. And if it doesn't implode you are here expending energy unnecessarily, which, we have already gathered, is an activity that you don't appreciate.
We know that there are supply shocks - chips, lumber, commodities, appliances, labor have all been in the news lately. We also know that monetary base is increasing rapidly:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

I wouldn't say there is any consensus at all, but that's why we have capital markets. If you believe price levels are going back down and we'll return to normal you are free to take the other side of the trade from me.
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So you should never use your wealth in the best case scenario. What’s the point?
What’s the bandwidth problem? Could we modulate the light coming from our star just so?
Psychological projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
This is clearly false- Bitcoin had a return of 100000% in the last decade. It's completely irrelevant with those kinds of numbers what the "risk" was.

...Now, you may have a personal opinion that the next decade will not see similar returns, but that is a completely subjective assessment on your part, even if you try to pretend that you're being objective by using the phrase "risk-adjusted returns".
This makes me wonder how you pay for basic living expenses like rent/mortgage, food, clothes, etc
FFS. This is not pure projection or anything.

The simple fact that is in English language "man" is often used to apply to both sexes, the most common one being "Man"kind, another example being "Chairmanship".

A company being run by a single person is understood to be a "one-man" company even if it is run by a woman, because the emphasis is on the fact of being run by a single person rather than a single person of a particular sex.

PS. Have HN users become a downvote happy bunch in recent years, or is it just my imagination?
> *Hamas rocket fire

This is the rub really. The militants aren't formally part of the government, the aren't broadly supported, but they are tolerated. People don't fully agree with them... or disagree with them. My mental model is the de facto soft semi-decriminalization of marajuana that was in places in many states before 10 years or so.

...like most of the Middle East: it's complicated.
> The Nakamoto Scheme is an automated hybrid of a Ponzi scheme and a pyramid scheme which has, from the perspective of operating a criminal enterprise, the strengths of both and (currently) the weaknesses of neither.

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
>The Amish have the luxury of sitting back and evaluating after the fact. In fairness, I don't think the Amish really care if anything new does get invented, but they have effectively externalized the downsides of technology onto the rest of us while reaping the occasional upside.

This reminded me of an Atlantic article making a similar point: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/camp-...

>But Baldwin asks, "Where did you get your axe? And the slide camera and the stove, the flour, the nails, the books, the garden seeds, and the window glass?" While it seemed that they'd gotten farther away from a technological life, "they'd merely lengthened the umbilical cord." And here's the key part of the criticism: "By moving to the bucolic boondocks, that happy family dodged the undesirable effects of the technology that was supporting them even as they sneered," he concludes.

I think we all need to be more engaged and thoughtful about our choices, how they affect our lives, and how they affect the lives of those around us, but we need to be alert for situations where we just push problems elsewhere instead of addressing them.
he tweeted diamond hands like 30 min ago...
This pales in the face of other useless things people waste energy on...
It had them. But if you did a System.get_env inside the config.exs/dev.exs/prod.exs etc it would be at compile time. Various patterns arose to do that at runtime, by using things like `{:system, "FOO", Integer}` as conventions, but it was always a bit ad hoc. If a lib saw that they would know to punt the actual reading to runtime, which is what many folks did before releases.exs, which runs at RUNTIME, so things like System.get_env work as expected.
Agree with HDMI. But you can get plenty of new 4:3 aspect ratio displays — primarily meant for security cameras, backup cameras and the like.
> Trust is established ... not by; real names

That's not true. The problem with anonymity or pseudonymity is that there is no way to trace bad behavior beyond the persona and back to the person behind it. A single person can even adopt multiple personas, some of which may be trustworthy, others not. The use of real names constrains this kind of gaming of the system and so makes trustworthiness easier and more reliable to establish.

This is not to say that the costs of using real names outweighs the benefits. They may very well not. But to say that there are no benefits to using real names in terms of establishing trust is just wrong.
The comments here are full of delight. So many people who had others over a barrel and could have charged so much money but didn’t! And it actually still seemed to have worked out great in the long run.
It also really depends what you're doing - if you need millions of processes almost nothing is more memory efficient.
> It can hold value while your country's fiat currency doesn't.

It can also spectacularly crash overnight.
UK and NZ both have more private prisons snd I suppose they qualify in your eyes as better than US.
Of course some of it genetics, twin studies show significant correlations.

We should not discard the importance of pedagogy and mentorship.

Polgar chess prodigies is an interesting experiment on upbringing and crystallizing genius abilities in gifted children though.
Scale, but not %.
> complains about tooling in IDEs

>> I strongly disagree (doesn't use IDEs)

??
It's not how it works now.

I think many were caught off guard by the legal setup of freenode that allowed it to be sold, including all the staff that resigned and founded Libera Chat.

With that in mind, the lesson to take from that is to make sure the legal structure and ownership of the new service is more clearly documented and understood by everyone.

At the very least the legal name of this new non-profit they have established should be clearly displayed on the web page somewhere.
I see no problem with prison labor as long as they are paid a competing wage and their wages go to support their incarceration and victims, if any.
Look I’m as jaded as the rest, like everyone. I’ve seen mass manipulation to promote bullshit wars. I graduated in 2008 and I am still told to shut up and say thank you to the banks for paying back taxpayer loans with interest that bailed them out of their own fraud and let them consolidate the market. I saw the CDC initially lie about masks to allegedly preserve supplies for healthcare providers. I saw the government take trillions in future taxes and mostly give it to businesses and for the FED to leverage into even more money to prop up the stock market (hey, all time highs again mid pandemic).

Still, for all the BS lawyers get, much of it deserving, for every lawyer behind the brokers/investors/funds there are others representing the victims. These are the types of lawsuits that include egos so big that sometimes discovery of emails/communications and the prospects of sitting for depositions result in a resolution, and even change.

It’s funny you mention the army of lawyers, because many of these cases have been consolidated and one 1 Zoom hearing were 141 lawyers…they represented the plaintiffs.
Goodness, they set this up in record time. Cut them some slack. Even #help states in the topic to allow the dust to settle a bit.
That's funny because the only people I know who had big sums of money lost via hacking were holding crypto.
You can trade bitcoin futures.
In my opinion the mistake was to move away from the terminal in the first place. Many gui commands like "draw button in bottom right corner" could be done via escape codes and creating a gui program would be as simple as writing a bunch of commands to stdout. As far as I know the earliest prototypes of X worked just like that.
Uh, it got to me now. Performing the facepalm maneouvre
This is pure garbage. The problem bitcoin solves, a distributed ledger, is one that's simply solved with a ledger over a trust network. In otherwords, this is a "solution" that is burning TWh of energy doing something global banks accomplish with kWh of power.

All the power funneled into BTC would be far better spent doing anything useful. From electrolysis to protein folding.

Also, it should be noted that shiny rocks have intrinsic value beyond their aesthetics. BTC is literally just a number with no value.
No, you can’t. Given a transaction on the btc blockchain, how would you determine if actually changed hands (as opposed to internal/self-transfer), and if so, at what valuation?

Trades on sidechains or on centralized exchanges also don’t register.
It's also established by pointing to one's past behavior to demonstrate a track record of trustworthiness, of certain values, etc. If it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg is leading the charge, here, you'd be unhappy.
They move to stable coins because most of those exchanges do not have dollar trading, rather you have to have a stablecoin as a middleman between fiat and crypto.
"The inmates can learn a job and once released have a useable qualification for finding a job."

It's one thing to learn a job, and another to waste a large part of your own life making other people rich.

"And yes salaries are low, but they get free food and accomodation and aren't there for fun but punishment ... "

So what's the point of punishment, exactly?

Endless studies which have shown it's not an effective deterrent.
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Here's a good, up to date primer: https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...
The move to stablecoins instead of cash is a reflection of major exchanges not being able to maintain banking relationships.
Although ethereum’s price also went down, so it is not the case that it is seen as a better alternative.
Interesting, that's much higher than I expected. Thanks for the info!
I say hi only and came from a fairly well-off family.

Every additional complaints about my life or happenings in my life that I would have would be unrelatable to the maids and the drivers at our house and it might make them feel uncomfortable.
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I can buy a car on credit using DeFi right now, is that what you're saying?
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> However, it doesn't explain why being 'overweight' BMI consistently proves to be protective against death

I don't see how the "protective of death" conclusion is able to be maintained when it was determined by comparing the mortality of overweight people to frail and dying old people and cancer patients. The reality is that it's the opposite. It's well known that being overweight damages the organs and makes a person more susceptible to dozens of diseases.
I suspect most of us feel the same way, but it seems like we might disagree on what constitutes slavery.
The term light field display includes lenticulars and parallax barrier displays (and holograms and volumetric displays). They are all different ways of carving up, sweeping out, or multiplexing a light field.
It did in it's price discovery stage before a market was properly established.
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this could have been named jsdoot instead
Sprague Dawley rats are so expensive though. You might just want to get informed-ish consent from your patients.
If you're interested in a long-term hedge, and all the 30% down-days are eventually offset by a soild long-term up-trend: yes, sure, why not?

If asset A reliably loses 4% of its value per year, in a totally-predictable straight-line, and asset B has wild up- and down-swings, but over years reliably delivers 25% appreciation per year - asset B is better, unless you'll be forced to urgently sell at unpredictable times. (And if you can find a basket of uncorrelated B-like assets, all the better!)
Also dark-net commerce.
Last time a headhunter managed snatch me was weird. I wasn't really active before deadline because I was on a holiday trip and the headhunter said "it's okay, let's call after your holidays". I wasn't actually looking for a new job but couple of the buzzwords sounded promising so I ended up having calling one of those chitchat calls with the headhunter which then led to a chitchat with the company guys.

When I was meeting the company guys, I'd updated and printed my puny resume in case they would've wanted it but realised they had "my resume" already. Basically the headhunter had copy pasted my puny LinkedIn profile data into their some sort of resume template and the guys were thinking I was actively looking for a new job.

Weird coincidences but ended up taking the job and haven't regretted after 2,5 years.
Yeah I believe my mac machine has the following in `~/.ssh/config`:

Host *

AddKeysToAgent yes

UseKeychain yes
> it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable.

I would argue it’s actually a sub-zero-sum game because the “game master” (bitcoin miners) withdraw 12.5 coins from the pool every 10th minute.
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Bill Gates is getting divorced. I think that is bigger news than Elon Musk not accepting crypto for Tesla’s
GPU prices going down wont' happen. Just take the hit, or queue.
He does some pretty cool stuff with the tremolo arm too.
As someone with a substantial (for me) amount of money in crypto, I'm happy Bitcoin is tanking. For many, crypto === bitcoin, and "the rest" is grouped together as "shitcoins". I totally get this sentiment, as 99% of coins ARE scams / snake oil salesmen promising the world with over-engineered uselessness trying to solve problems that don't exist.

But I do believe in a digital de-centralized currency. Not smart contracts, not DEFI, not all the latest buzzwords: just a fully decentralized medium of exchange that actually works as a currency that no sovereign nation can control. That's why I have invested in a project that is the most promising in that respect (not going to say it here, as I don't want to shill). For that project to be truly successful, the world needs to move beyond Bitcoin, its clones/equivalents and PoW in general.
"Bitcoing drives renewable energy" is one of the most nonsensical arguments I've ever heard. It's not like the components for solar panels and windmills grow on trees, and bitcoin miners aren't going to just stop expanding wherever there is cheap power, so it won't get used for anything besides mining more bitcoins. It's like saying that we should deliberately cause more pandemics to drive interest in vaccine research.
> But if you look at it against the backdrop of sanctions, civil asset forfeiture, erosion of civil liberties, and monetary debasement, things look different.

People forget about this. Bitcoin came up in the context of crypto-anarchism, and was meant to serve the needs of that community.
Hamas is the government in Gaza.
The book does not recommend it as a technique for starting a negotiation but does include a chapter on the final barter/haggle over price and how best to handle it
In my opinion one of the great contributions of Von Neumann was the fact his "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" report was spread so quickly in academic circles. When Eckert and Mauchly attempted to apply to patent their ideas for the ENIAC, the courts decided that the report constituted prior publication, and their patent application failed, meaning the key ideas and concepts from the ENIAC, many which define modern computers, were now in public domain and could be used freely
I don't know why, it's been around for at least 5 years. Maybe you have a Chrome extension blocking it.

Anyways, Google absolutely does provide that, as well as additional analysis/warnings in YouTube.

So Google's doing exactly what you're asking for.
I don't trust those prices I'm afraid - the price of most cryptocurrencies is manipulated heavily, and this one in particular by printing tether - the peg is a lie (as shown by AG investigation), the backing is a lie (as shown by Tether's admissions), and it's going to zero eventually IMO when the lies unravel. See this recent story for more detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27151370
I've used the Echo Show 10 with the drop-in feature for my mom with vision issues (basically can't use touchscreens) and it works fairly well. That said I fully agree with you that something like this would be really excellent. A full-sized person's face and head in 3D is far easier to recognize and understand than a poorly lit 2D 10" display.
I knew the woman walking alone.

People are free to insult each other and name call all they want. I just thought it was odd that the mother name called the woman and that the child was conditioned to do so as well, especially in the scenario where science says there’s a near 0 benefit to staying masked outdoors alone in sunlight while socially distanced.

I find it curious why they thought it was inconsiderate, but didn’t get the chance to ask them.
They're probably doing that to stop BTC from crashing even further. If BTC crashes, altcoins would probably follow (instead of taking BTC's position). Even if they don't follow, just BTC crashing would make exchanges lose the biggest chunk of their income. So shady business, but business as usual.
Matt Levine on Elon's magic Twitter lamp https://kill-the-newsletter.com/alternates/2h8ucjd0bueldre6....
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.

— Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97
I think this is the key: We need to skill/educate these folks. I know that sounds counter-intuitive because they are supposed to be punished. But if we don’t, they will come right back. And every prisoner is a burden on the tax payer. Also, if you’ve paid your debt to society, it should be paid in full - wiped from your record. That only seems fair.
"I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen. Seaweed snacks were always empty. Nobody had those telltale red stains on their fingers but me."

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