skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve come to the conclusion that Bitcoin was a perfect “isolated” P2P currency system. If it was just considered Monopoly money, that is. The moment you try to find its worth by buying/selling it against Fiat - you get the exact same thing you get when you allow real world trading on any game currency - scams.
How is git an application of blockchain when it predates Bitcoin by several years?
Yea, people are fallible. It seems ok to me if he tried to make amends by trying to add a little incentive for people to better the world.
I am a big fan of my first espresso machine - the Rancilio Silvia. It’s got many commercial components in a small form factor. It’s easily repairable too, but probably doesn’t need it.

Mine did approximately 15,000 coffees in the 20 years of use it had, and had one service for about $US75. It’s still around as an emergency backup.

It’s shown in the wiki.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancilio
I meant to say concept of ownership of digital content. My wording was ineloquent.
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This is and is not true. The implicit value of a currency is backed by being able to tax the citizens. This is why there are federal but not state / province level currencies as the friction of conversion is a dead weight loss.
Wall Street struggles to sell Washington on Bitcoin for the masses
> Almost everything I receive is damaged, late, or mis-delivered. Books are especially abused somewhere in Amazon’s fulfillment. (They’re always bent, creased, or dirty.)

Strangely enough, a company whose employees have to piss in bottles and use crying booths may have staff that are not especially engaged in the highest quality work.
Exactly. The people here who believe they're too "smart" to be influenced are probably the biggest suckers!
Capitalism is the scam. Cryptocurrency is just an extension of it.
The link (2012) does not contradict 1 and does not say that Fauci does not want to fund "this" [SARS] research.
Haha damn, didn't expect that
Bitcoin was a fascinating technical trick, but it's also been a worked example of the difference between "interesting", versus "feasible" or even "a good idea".

As soon as it claimed to be money, then it was all about the money. If you look at early BitcoinTalk, you'll see a pile of scams that are extremely similar to the jargon still used in crypto to this day - the scammers got in very early indeed.
- Decentralized (Not controlled by a single company)

- Phone number not required

- Crypto-coins work in more countries countries then mpesa
I don't understand the belief that any of this takes power from corporations. If you look at NFTs right now, big participants include the NBA, Sotheby's, and a whole lot of venture capital. What's the dynamic that's going to shut them out as they become more lucrative?
> I would think a review of the tapes should give a pretty idea of who struck first

But this bit is exactly it - you can have not struck first and still be in the wrong by fighting.
> The issue isn't with electronics but with electronics being applied in the wrong direction.

This is also an issue with IoT in general. The internet functionality replaces basic functionality instead of being built on top. No, I don't want to wash my clothes with an app! But I would not mind the fscking machine to shut the fuck up at night and remind me in the morning to empty it. Not a hard thing to do. Same with e.g. light switches, if there's no internet it should still work, some don't, awful.
Why is the latter ideal for anyone? Right now people just use Vimeo for that. And it’s not ideal for YouTube because they make money by serving ads. They are a business. They are not just trying to cover their costs of delivering content.
Ah, I might be out of the loop. tl;dr?
I'd be pretty alarmed if my untouched savings account grew by 6250% over five years.
Slight of hand. We were not discussing the credibility of an academic researcher, we were to discuss the contents and logical merit of their submission.

Both were ad-hominem. The first one also suffers from a pompous bias: What does it even matter if the submission is not peer-reviewed? It could have been posted on a blog! It is dropping little seeds of doubt, to weaken and attack something you don't want to attack directly:

"A warning to everyone that the linked website does not adhere to Wikipedia guidelines for being a credible source."

Expect better. If you demand peer-review, then review the contents as a peer! You have the opportunity to get what you want, instead of needlessly attacking a fellow scientist' credibility.
> A startup launched here a few days ago that does autocomplete for the terminal.

Huh?
Even worse than coal mining and ICE vehicles right? I don't see all this righteousness for those.
Why adding salt makes fruit–and candy–sweeter
Smart plugs loaded into home assistant are good for this.

Then you can turn the fan off after a period of time, at a specific time, at a certain temp etc.

It risks over complicating things though.
Haters in this thread, do you think you know more about monetary assets than Ray Dalio:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2021/05/24/bitcoin-...

And Carl Icahn:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2021...
I think this actually overstates the value of cryptocurrencies. The value of say, Bitcoin, isn't even connected to its value as a method of money laundering or extortion through ransomware. However morally objectionable these are, they do have economic value - it's just that value is not connected to the price of any cryptocurrency.

Rather, the whole thing is an extended, worldwide pump-and-dump; speculation is driving all movement.

To me, it's really sad, because Bitcoin (and some of its descendants) are intellectually fascinating. With simple building blocks that had been around for decades (hashing + public keys) someone made something profoundly new. It's in some ways inspiring, since it makes me feel there must be so much more out there to discover and build. It's also sad, because it shows how things you build can 'grow up' and become a little unrecognizable.
There are channel memberships, but their main offering is access to members-only content.
That's just an overly simplistic summary of the whole thread. Pinboard isn't angry about artificial scarcity, but how cryptocurrency fails to fulfill its promises: it fails to decentralize, it fails to reach performance levels of existing financial institutions, it wastes huge amounts of energy, and it provides zero value other than being a ransomware enabler. (Disclaimer: I own cryptocurrency)
There are a surprising amount of people that think Belgium is majority French speaking. While I understand Belgium is tipping few foreign curricula with such trivia, I blame it for this default across the many services that do it wrong. Also, non-Belgians I meet rarely know two-thirds speak Dutch rather than French.
I think one needs to be a bit selective here.

About 8 years ago I bought the cheapest catering/professional microwave/combioven I could get my hands on. I did this because I got tired of consumer units with overcomplicated UIs designed (apparently) by unregenerate misanthropes, rotating dishes that are a pain in the ass to clean, overzealous bleeps that go off every 30 - 60 seconds after a cycle is finished, peeling enamel, corrosion issues, and that are too small on the inside.

Consumer grade microwave ovens all, as far as I can tell, universally suck in one way or another that my commercial grade microwave doesn't. The thing is bomb proof. The only thing that's gone wrong in 8 years is the internal bulb. Everything else is rock solid.

This is, however, a rather different proposition to buying a food mixer that was manufactured in 1948. I can get spares for my microwave or, at this point, buy a new one and recycle the old without feeling I haven't got my money's worth. I'm going to struggle with the 1948 mixer and, like you, I don't want that.

Others have highlighted that commercial grade dishwashers and fans are also probably bad ideas. I've run into similar issues with UPSs: none of these things seem designed to run in an environment where fan noise is going to cause a serious problem (nobody seems to sell a completely silent UPS - it's really daft).

Likewise, if you buy a rackmount server instead of a desktop computer you may be surprised to find that the fan noise is extraordinary.

Honestly, the main thing is to do your research before making a purchase so that you buy something that's really going to suit your requirements, whether that's a consumer grade or "professional grade" piece of equipment.
Fifty years on, the article reads to me like one writer was angry at another writer's outsized success, and went really hard at them in the cattiest possible way.
If you really are a refugee and suffered inflation then this should begin to change your mind: https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nobj1h/real_mai...

Otherwise I don’t know what else to say
I've been fighting this at my company lately. We have a CDF that _clearly_ rewards people who write really advanced Ruby code. We have a lot of working, but not perfectly architected code that people come back through, pull it out into a module, and add a bunch of "included" and meta-programming.

It works. I look at their code and think "that's neat", but you added 0 functionality while making it hard for the lowest half of the engineers to work with. You could have accomplished the same thing with hard-reference to a class.
> string theory for programmers

This is gold, I'm gonna steal it
Because when it breaks, your company won't want to use 3rd party repair, so they will send it straight to Apple. That means that it will take at least a month to get back and all your data getting erased is pretty much a guarantee, even if all that was broken was one resistor in the power supply circuit.

Even if they buy a new one, how long will it take you to set it up from scratch?

Meanwhile, any other vendor will have competent technicians available almost anywhere (with a support package maybe even 24/7/365), who will be able to at worst transplant your storage media into a working machine while they refurb your old one. The downtime can be shorter than a big Windows update.
> Problem is the way AWS is marketing it

Isn’t that always the case?

(I especially like how they market any schemaless database capable of strong consistency in the CAP sense as fully ACID compliant RDMS alternative, because if you can’t specify a rule making database states invalid than the consistency in the ACID sense is trivial because every database state is valid.)
Thanks for your honest broker moderation, here and in all the other places you do it.

I do find it interesting that there's this putatively 100% tech topic that has the same dynamic as political threads.
Go try something else.
I have a phone just like you do.

It’s just not attached to any human identity.
As a thought experiment, I imagined a Government/Central bank auctioning (for $) bitcoin denominated bonds. These bonds would be repayable (in bitcoin) on demand.

Presumably each bond would fetch a value (in $) corresponding approximately to the current exchange rate. While the bond holder could cash them in at any point, why would they? Wouldn't many investors consider a bond backed by a major government at least as secure as a crypto coin?

In this way, the government could effectively increase the supply of bitcoins (and presumably thereby reduce their cost/value).

Of course, the Government runs the risk of bitcoin appreciating and then having all the bond holders cashing in, but with exceptionally deep pockets the only real reason to cash in would be if they feared a Government default.

By selling enough bonds, presumably the price could be driven arbitrarily low, extinguishing the risk entirely.
>Would such an infection be able to explain chronic symptoms over a 1-2 year period?

These symptoms specifically: some at least, I believe. Lyme disease is fairly well known for having severe lasting effects though, years of issues even after treatment is not uncommon at all.
> I never really need anything I buy online "tomorrow".

Gifts generally have strict deadlines. Sadly, Amazon has stopped offering any shipping speed guarantees -- there is no longer even an option in the purchase flow. It will get there when it gets there.

They won't refund if they miss their own self-imposed shipping deadlines, either.
Ownership is information, not the underlying asset
As a whole, the HN crowd has jumped the shark when it comes to takes on China. But once in a while, we get gems like your comment, which really understand the issue, and address the issue without being partial and biased. Bravo.
JSON is arguably easier to read than XML
What is surprising is how large the number of techies who don’t get this. It’s not about crypto currencies as much as it is about the game theory that allows it to run a distributed self replicating state machine that is Byzantine tolerant - this is the true innovation
Were the offices physically destroyed?
If i’m correct you can get upwards of like 5-10% interest on those platforms?

Can you simply explain to me where that money comes from? That just seems like an absurd amount of interest. Considering the crypto/inflation hawk intersection, i’d presume people would be skeptical of all this “free” money?
look into Dual numbers. That way there is no accuracy loss. More generally look into AD (automatic differentiation). thanks me later, cheers
FOMO is real when I hear people talking about crypto. I feel the hype and I notice it in others too. Cool names flying around, there's a new type of coin for every coffee break we're having, the graphs go high, memes churned out every second. Colleague makes tenth of his salary with his GPU. Hard to remain neutral.
Bond films are glorified for something that snobby elitist critics have disdain for; they're fun.

Not a big fan of the Daniel Craig bond films though, they've joined the 20xx trend of everything having to be dark and gritty.
> Yeah. I think these HN threads are either manipulated, or HN is full of idiots. Not sure which is more likely.

Or perhaps neither.

Some other simple explanations include:

1. People see it differently than you do.

2. People are not engaging in conversation as a way to learn from each other; rather they are talking past each other.

I'm inclined to think it is a mix of both.

Like I mentioned in a comment nearby, people on HN seem to vote based on different criteria. The lack of clarity can make it hard to extract clear meaning from votes.
Idk, not being able to get it fixed without data loss in the case of even a minor hw failure seems like pretty bad UX to me...
Tether is an application, not a core technology. Stablecoins would fit that quote.

Tethers management is the problem - obfuscation and using other crypto as collateral instead of just USD.
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I think they're referring to the ratio of household wealth to total value of the fed balance sheet. Which is a number easy to calculate and his claim is factually true (mostly because the fed balance sheet has never been bigger).

But while his claim is true, in a Boolean sense, I don't know what exactly we're supposed to conclude about the world based on it. This isn't a ratio I've ever seen talked about before.

I'm guessing they're insinuating that the size of the feds balance sheet is somehow related to inflation, which it is only in a fairly loose sense.
> Those are a lot of hasty statements made without indisputable evidence.

That reminds me of that guy who didn't receive his package and filed a complaint to the store he bought it from. They asked for a proof that the package didn't arrive, and he replied with the photo of his empty hands.
> The implicit value of a currency is backed by being able to tax the citizens.

Elaborate? Not sure why this would be true.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of "commodity currencies" (shells, salt, even gold) that achieved value without some central agency controlling the currency that could also levy taxes.
Geez why not just send patches?
> First, the "inverse square law" isn't a law in the colloquial sense (like a maximum speed limit law) where the universe is forced to obey it. Instead, "law" is just a conventional phrase indicating what the consensus among scientists is regarding certain observations.

That's incorrect in this case. It's a hard requirement that can easily be mathematically derived, so easily that I'll do it here:

1. The surface area of a 3D sphere, 4πr^2, is proportional to the square of the radius.

2. Radiation from a point source that is evenly radiating outward is therefore spread out over an area that increases in proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

3. Therefore, such radiation must obey an inverse square law, in any universe in which the preconditions -even radiation from a point source through 3D space - are true.

> Future observations of radiation propagation might run completely contrary to those we've had up to now

That's provably not the case, and I've just proved it beyond doubt. From this proof, we know what kind of situations are subject to this law, and can even determine what kinds of situations might not be subject to it.

A similar point applies to conservation laws, such as conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. Noether's theorem shows us that such conservation laws must hold, again in any universe where the preconditions around differentiable symmetries hold.

With that in mind, I don't think the rest of your comment makes much sense. Not only does science answer "why" questions in many cases, it can answer them so definitively that we can apply that knowledge to other universes.
it’s an example of a similarly absurd law
U.S. experts call for China to allow deeper look into the pandemic’s origins
This is one of the best HN comments I've read on the China issue. Finally a fair comment.
So it's a slam piece against an OSS project for fringe cases and Windows support quirks?

How many of these are opened as bug reports?
Cryptocurrency is maybe the most important innovation is human history

Electricity? The wheel? Money? Sulfa drugs? Spoken language? Counting? Agriculture? Written language? There's a long, long list and to put cryptocurrency on it seems awfully hubristic.
What are the disadvantages? The article left those out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-solid_metal_casting says it's "typically used for high-end applications" which suggests that it's very expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-solid_metal_casting#Disad... says this is because it requires much more precise control over process parameters.

This augurs well for SSM casting, since precise control is immensely cheaper in 02021 than it was in 01977.
Oil prices didn't go negative, the price of a financial derivative did.
> I should just be going to the bose.com store and cutting out amazon. I never really need anything I buy online "tomorrow".

That’s another point of the article. Amazon forces Bose not to sell at a lower price anywhere else. So the price you pay at Bose is also the 30-40% Prime premium that Amazon charges. Although you are right that premium goes to the manufacturer as opposed to Amazon but overall a significant loss to all customers prime or non-prime
A Dynamo wrapper must simplify AND/NOT/AND NOT filters (which are a pain) to be useful in my opinion
I was on call as a new developer on a system. I was not given any procedures or trouble shooting documents. I got a call at 1 am, missed it, and waited one minute to see if there was a message. I did see a voicemail, so I started listening and logging on. Before I could even get halfway through, the person called again (why not leave the voicemail on the final attempt?). So I'm looking for the issue/fix for 5 minutes and they tell me they know who the SME is for the functionality, so they will call them. Why even call me if you're just going to call the SME without giving me time to look at it? I got negative feedback from my manager about the way I handled it. So, I asked how I should have handled it without any training or documentation. They said I should have called the SME. Well, I didn't know who the SME was and there's no documentation or list of what who is the SME for which part of the system, nor was I instructed to immediately call the SME. Again, why not just call the SME first if they knew who it was and the SME didn't create documentation because they are "too busy".
Or the CSO of the Human Rights Org?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bitcoinmagazine.com/.amp/cultur...
some of us were here and read it a while ago[1]. it is clever indeed but we have seen it can't be a currency as it originally claimed

[1][https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1251519]
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See! Look! This is exactly my point! Nobody is ever going to convince the guy who sealioned into a random subthread with some random charts to make an unclear point. Nothing a human can say will stop this army of even-more-nerdy Ross Perots.

The only thing that speaking up ever does is generate more noise, which frustratingly then generates more interest. This probably even applies to Pinboard's appearances - anything, pro or con, to keep cryptocurrency on the air.
It depends--This doesn't feel like a very satisfying answer, but certain devices have been shown to perform better at extreme low temperatures (up to a point). However, there is the ever-present issue of reliability. For instance, certain CMOS devices exhibit improved switching characteristics, but the increased hot carrier mobility can cause degraded reliability, so certain design trade-offs have to be made.

Of course, many COTS components specify much higher minimum operating temperatures in their datasheets, so thoroughly characterizing these components is vital for high-reliability operation in cryogenic conditions.
Well, of course you can only stop digging after you realize you are on a hole.

This phrase is intended for people that once discover they are in an always deepening hole panic and do nothing (or worse) because they see no way to completely fix the situation.
Actually, my understanding is that cryptocurrencies are having impact in developing countries. They can address hyperinflation, access to financial services, general friction in exchanging money etc.
GPs, as opposed to GPS. Wish GPS was looking out for us like that.
It’s the same data structure. Bitcoin just added the proof-of-work idea to extending the chain and attached the concept of “value” as a social construct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
> "only gives them the utility of the land itself"

"only"?

I'd say the "utility of the land" IS the only value of "having" land.
A podcast of how I am trying to become my own boss
A smart home consumer's wish list
A not so insignificant part of me wishes Tether would crash already so it'd kill that argument dead for crypto detractors. It'd be interesting to see how Bitcoin's value would look after. I really doubt it'd be zero.
Make your own with a raspberry pi,a screen and a couple of beers to enhance the tinkering
<conspicuously defensive voice> Two is plural!
I am from Italy and I've never seen a house or a hotel there not having one. We have been used to use it since we are young and when speaking to other Italians abroad, the talk about "how can these people live without a bidet?" comes out a lot.
I want to see those things go away too, but we're going to need to significantly increase the energy efficiency of our entire society to be able to achieve that. Cryptocurrency mining is anti-efficient, by design. How much coal generation could we retire just by eliminating the energy demand from cryptocurrency mining? I suspect the answer to that question is more than zero.