skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong, and you have some good points here, especially about the banking limits. I'm not sure where the cynicism comes from, but HN seems very hostile to this space.
my impression is that those threatened boycotts won't really cause much damage to companies

It still boggles my mind to see multi-billion dollar multinational companies cowering in terror from what is probably no more than a few dozen Twitter users in each case, none of whom were customers anyway, they just have too much time on their hands
there are other alternative cryptocurrencies working on this exact problem.

you're talking as if bitcoin and ethereum is all of cryptocurrency.
"Military grade" means it will break.
You can see the table here: https://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~ecs103/chart/?ShowStable=...

When I click on the lead-208 box, it credits data from:

NUBASE2020: https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/abddae
AME2020: https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/abddb0

It also only says that alpha decay is “possible”, not that it happens with any frequency—in fact, it lists Pb-208 as stable.
> go downtown to a travel agent

Phones were out, too?

("You kids" should realize that most of the stuff done on the web today was done by mail or phone during most of the XX century, especially in a country as spread out as the US. Ring up the merchant with the order, sing out the credit card, done, was the MO from the 70s to the late 90s.)
Stefan, if you are reading, dude, this nasty hostile approach will ruin your life. Nobody cares if you are right when you act like this. Be nice, submit patches, become a hero.
This is an astounding response: in reaction to people bullying each other on the Internet, you want to empower everyone to use the force of the law to silence their critics? In what world is that either (1) a reasonable de-escalation of a social ill, or (2) a net win for free expression?

I'm not very old, but I am old enough to know the history of SLAPP lawsuits and anti-SLAPP legislation[1]. Barbara Streisand lost a SLAPP motion so hard that we named an entire effect in free expression after her! Do you really want a world in which well-resourced parties can leverage the courts to silence dissent?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
Yeah, I'd be on board with that if 99% of the people talking about typed languages at the moment weren't using Typescript for use cases where you literally get instant feedback from hot reloading as you code.

Every time I see an example of a bug that TS would solve, it's something that I routinely find in 2 seconds by looking 10 degrees to the left at my second monitor and noticing the screen is white and there's some red text in the dev tools. "Compile time" doesn't mean anything if it consistently happens 0.5s before "run time".
Sure, fantastic. Why should it be legal to exchange bitcoin for US$? Or euros?
Weird. Maybe hotels are exempted from that?
In this specific example it’s probably the opposite. Bose is very good at locking down their supply chain to make sure no one is selling their headphones below list. They always have been. They probably imposed this restriction on Amazon even if now Amazon wants it too.
I've been thinking just days ago that ending the Bond franchise will be the number 1 target of the woke crowd (or whoever steers them). The reason is obvious: Bond is the pinnacle of "whiteness" - the character is all about excellence and superiority, all attributed to a white dude (this brazen heresy is making me feel a bit uneasy). And since the censors can't make their own PC movie that would outcompete Bond, they'll have to cancel it.
Count me as one of the people in the silent majority. (Well, not exactly "silent" because I'm talking about it now in Hacker News, but the things I write don't usually reach the general public.)

You're right that cryptocurrency enthusiasts are always generating new work and coming up with new ideas. Actually, they do this a lot more easily than other domains, because the fact that their entire field is a scam means there are a lot fewer of those pesky roadblocks like "the idea not actually accomplishing the thing you think it does" to contend with.

The fact is that nearly all cryptocurrency projects rest on one of a few obviously-false premises. Like "systems that require every participant to store the entire history of transactions forever scale well", or "people in the real world want every transaction they make to be completely irreversible", or "digital legers are guaranteed to accurately track the state of real-world objects". If you dismiss these, you can dismiss all the projects that depend on them without needing to know the difference between a MerkleCat and a SatoshKitty.
>If it affects 1% of the population instead of 50% then it’s far more likely to be dismissed.

I wouldn't call it insight, I'd call it prioritization; but perhaps more to the point, you've provided no evidence whatsoever that overclocking a CPU will affect any proportion of population whatsoever (not 50%, not 1%, not 0.01%), at any distance, in any circumstance. And remember, we're not even saying "whether a computer emits EMI". The claim put forward is that overclocking a PC, say from 3ghz to 3.3ghz, has detectable enough negative impact on people other than the owner / in other households, to be part of this discussion.

Certainly, I currently do not believe so and am dismissing your argument for that reason. You are welcome and indeed encouraged to persuade me otherwise :)
I am a PhD student at a university in Roma3.
Tomorrow I'll have to explain a student that, no, I won't give access to AI lab's Teslas to let them research a Deep Learning algorithm to forecast bitcoin price.
Groan.
> The early Internet was infinite times more fun.

Holy crapballs, yeah it was! I remember when I learned HTML in 1996 and put up one of those blinkety animated GIF homepages on the hosting space given (for free!) by my local dial-up ISP. They had a local chatroom and I spent hours and hours chatting with locals from the same city--even met some of them! I read the hacker's manifesto and about phreaking and all of that stuff, found Usenet, played Quake over 33.6kbps dialup with a 300ms ping and still wiped the floor with people. I remember when mp3's came out. It took me 5 mins to download my first one. C&C music factory--everybody dance now!

But that's just nostalgia part. The reality is that nowadays the internet is ad-laden crapware/spyware that is scheming every second of every day to get you to do something--sign up for something, buy something, like something, rate something. Your eyeballs, your likes, your hates, your friends, your vices and quirks, are worth billions to multi-national corps who hope to never have to give you customer service, who keep you at AI-defended arms-length, but will happily sell your attention (won through their latest crack-like invention) to the highest bidder.

It feels like the internet is infested with the worst of human carnival barkers and con-artists these days.
M-Pesa and SMS banking in general had an immense impact in African nations. Bitcoin - not so much.
Please note: The entire "windows" portion of that article has largely been resolved at this point, because I fixed it myself. Some of the more egregious documentation problems have been fixed, but others remain unresolved.

Unfortunately, we have since discovered even more insane behavior: https://github.com/terralang/terra/issues/460
Tapad are probably bigger than Drawbridge
Cheers.

This topic actually really depresses me. The whole "crisis" is unnecessary. The US and China can easily, and probably should renegotiate trade terms amicably. It just seems to be politically impossible to say "we got what we wanted then, but now we have different priorities." It doesn't seem possible to actually spell out priorities, or admit that in a negotiation, the other party has priorities too.

Geopolitics, or humans rights issues are a different matter. There are real dangers at play, now that the two countries are equal rivals. China's way of disciplining companies (eg Nike when they made a Xinjiang, or John Cena's little speech) is directly at odds with the US' MO. It's quite zero sum. I don't see how that gets resolved, in a way that doesn't (for example) have the potential knock a whole $trn off Apple's market cap.
A $190B Covid Vaccine Bonanza
You mean the thread? The onus is on them to prove their claims. See burden of proof: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
> it’s the convenience not to enter your details again...

With more and more adoption of ApplePay and GooglePay to power the checkout experience this advantage might away..
She entered a contract.
Must be tough for Italians to travel across Europe and feel like savages when using bathrooms on holidays? A bit like when I use the “hole in the ground” model of toilet in some countries I guess.
We could get really meta with it and have @idlewords sell that phrase/post to you as an NFT.
Plus, cryptos are responsible of 1% of world elecrticity consumption. Holy cow.
Reminds me of the old adage about technical solutions to social problems. Cryptocurrency isn't going to un-fail these states, all it does is enable the wealthy to evade currency controls and reinforce the downward spiral. If someone lives in an oppressive regime it's governmental change they need, not worldwide abandonment of financial regulation just so the lucky few can escape.
The difference between Bitcoin and a pyramid scheme is that most pyramids are basically zero sum games... for every dollar one player makes, another player loses a dollar.

Bitcoin, due to its mining costs, is a massively negative sum game. So much worse.
But this becomes a full-time job for minorities to explain what is bigoted to people they don't even want to be talking to, which

1) gets you attacked for seeing everything as bigoted - especially when you make mistakes because you can't know why everyone is doing everything, just see statistically stuff is happening to you and people who look like you more than everyone else, and

2) alienates you from your co-workers, who would prefer that you act according to the stereotypes they have of people like you and laugh at the jokes they're making about you (and your parents, and your parents parents, who were indisputably shat on.) They don't want to hang out with you because they can't relax around you. You're not going to get promoted unless the word comes from so far up you're going to get resented for it, and

0) it's just another burden to constantly be explaining how and why you're miserable to people, even (especially) the ones who consider it self-improvement to listen to you.

The temptation is just to coon for people, say what they want you to say and do what they want you to do, and just silently hate them and hate yourself.

> But it would make life a lot easier if we just sorted out these issues at the source, with two people, explaining what hurts and why to someone.

This is problematic thinking. For example, black people are 15% of the US population. It isn't one-on-one, it's one-on-five-and-a-half at best. And really, if you're a middle class professional (let's say programmer) where there's a lower proportion of black people that would be indicated by relative populations, it's one-on-a-small-army-20%-of-them-heavily-redpilled-and-angry.

I prefer to leave it to the twitter mob, although some of their positions are crazy, and it being twitter the people who are going to be the most vocal are going to have severe personality disorders (usually borderline.) It's still nice sometimes to have them deflect the belligerent white dude from you.
Breeder reactors, as others have pointed out. Oklo is a modern design based on the concept: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/aurora-oklo.ht...

Also see “Problem free nuclear power and global change”: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/614877

And “Nuclear fission power for 21st century needs”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01491...
>You have to counter that showing actual market data that disagrees with them.

Where's the best place to pull this data from?
There are a dozen different approaches to solving the bandwidth problems. IMHO, it's safe to say one or more will succeed.
Maybe 80% of the people that opine on this subject are in category 3)

Category 3 is actually “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”
> A virus RNA in nucleus of neurons in your brain is part of you or not?

Depends on the virus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus

> Is that lump of physical matter conscious or not?

Depends on the lump. The only lump of physical matter that I know with 100% certainty is conscious is me. But my consciousness produces behavior in me that is similar to behavior I observe in other lumps of physical matter. Furthermore, there's a lot of evidence that my consciousness is somehow bound to a particular physical structure, namely, my brain. So it seems reasonable to suppose that other lumps of physical matter that have brains and exhibit the kinds of behavior that I associate with my own consciousness also possess consciousness, and that lumps of physical matter that lack these things don't.
> What are the fundamental flaws you're talking about?

For a payments system, the fact that all transactions are final is pretty bad. I'd say this, by itself, makes the system unusable in the real world.
When I search for cheap carabiner's on Amazon I notice that my former purchase no longer shows up on amazon search, even though it is prime, and offers great price+product characteristics: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016CMFESW

This pattern seems to be showing up more and more. Maybe it's just that the FBA marketplace is flooded with too many choices, but my "best" often seems to be not searchable any more.

In the carabiner example I present, there are plenty of tiny carabiners or those with weird shapes, or expensive ones. Just not low cost, non-tiny, normal shaped carabiners
What the Bolinas Poets Built
Let’s see who bulks first
Oh, I definitely look for those as well, but I'm just saying this is often difficult because people don't know what brands are trustworthy or what a "too good to be true" price is in the first place.
Look to the Steam Community Market & Trading if you want an example of a cross-game economy.
I caved to socializing with my friends that were into "game nights".

What I learned is that the board game scene is ridiculous and obtuse. That's after learning there is a board game scene at all.

Insanely complex and stressful games where it isn't clear if you are competing with the other players as opposed to competing with surviving the mechanics of the game itself. Where you need an entire round of reconciliation just to understand what the "score" was, for the slight gratification of knowing who won.

I can appreciate a game, I just don't think I can appreciate why this is a scene at all. How often is anybody playing these games? Why do people feel like they can make and launch board games themselves now, aside from enthusiasts pre-ordering a single run of a game on Kickstarter that nobody else will ever buy?
I think we are likely indeed converging to a point of agreement.

Things are usually on a spectrum and not binary; I agree that part of the thrill of ride is the sensation - vibration, noise of wind and engine, gravity forces, etc - and certainly manufacturers of both performance bikes and cars frequently tune the engine and particularly exhaust for desired image and sound.

I still maintain though that there is a wrong side/portion of that spectrum, and that e.g. a straight pipe on a Harley does far more negative impact on others than positive impact (real or perceived performance, rush, etc) on the rider.
One thing is for sure. HN community has never gotten any trends correct. That must say something. FAANG, crypto, AI, javascript etc gets hate. Post about lisp, shell, emacs and if will be hailed :-
Bring the downvotes now.
Okay, I got a little off track. Let's say you're an HR person (or whoever is at legal risk if an employee decides they've been taken advantage of), and someone come in with just such a complaint.

How would you, an outside party, determine whether the superior was really [infatuated, in love, whatever], and not simply taking advantage of their situation? Or how would a judge determine that? Is it worth it to the company to work through that process every time it happens? What about the people who really were victimized, but the evidence is circumstantial and the court says otherwise? Isn't it easier to exclude the small pool of people that are subordinates and tell the supervisor to find romance anywhere else?
> Crypto is so large, complex and fast-moving that it takes thousands of hours to grasp.

The thing is, regular money is, from a certain perspective, also a "scam". A lot of the financial system is effectively make-believe, with massive conflicts of interest at every corner and dynamics that keep working because everyone believes they should - until, for one reason or another, they stop believing, and then you have 2008.

Crypto is just another big mountain of make-believe systems (and getting bigger with every new contraption), but it is so young that the games of pretend are still very visible; and the key actors in crypto are different from the key actors in regular finance, which means it gets a bad rap from the latter. But if it can survive long enough (say, 30 or 40 years), people will just stop pointing out the "scam" and will go along with it, because "why not? If it works, it works".
Alcohol really does not help me with code either (except maybe a relaxing beer), but Marijuhana works(occasionally). But you really, really need to do the sober clean up part. Otherwise it becomes a mess.
I keep getting downvoted on Reddit for stating that I personally hate TypeScript to the max. It ruined the beauty of JavaScript (once you know it, anyway, I understand there are difficulties for JS-novices) and I honest to goodness 100% do not EVER find myself thinking: "Gosh, thanks TypeScript!" - on the contrary, it's always: "For fuck's sake you stupid POS TypeScript, you're wasting my time for no benefit at all."

Strong-typed languages (especially in the damn browser) make no sense to me. It's not like we need to manage memory or anything.

20+ Years of experience here, and I hate TS with the passion of a thousand suns.
Decentralization is a spectrum. Bitcoin cannot be shutdown because it is decentralized. There can be centralized actors within a decentralized system. The major benefit is you can choose between various service providers and switch when you please. With government monopolies you use their service at gunpoint.
I think HN is big enough that you're not going to beat the averages with advice from the comments here. They're filled with the kinds of opinions that are more popular on big company teams than good startup teams.
I agree, but that’s what I meant. Toward the end he comes right out and practically calls the books antisemitic, but his evidence is that they contain plot elements that resemble other, truly antisemitic fantasies, such as global plots to take over the world.
> "professional grade" in consumer kitchen devices is basically all a fantasy/farce

That is not what the article is about though. He buys actual commercial / industrial stuff that is indeed more rugged.
Pretty much every method call, unless it is optimized—will go through `objc_msgSend`. The runtime looks up the code for a particular object using `objc_msgSend.` The function signature varies depending on how many parameters the method has but it always has at least 2 arguments—the instantiated object and the method name. Objc calls this the selector. :)
Is this a joke or are you missing the point? The guy doesn't actually think that a fighter jet seat is better than a normal office chair in any practical sense. He just thinks these things are cool. Often, part of the charm is how incredibly impractical they are.
That strategy didn’t work for Marshawn Lynch and it won’t work here either. Fan intrigue pays her bills, whether she wants to acknowledge that fact or not.
> Frankly it gets a little tiring after sometime , specially when walmart.com exists

You didn't read the article, which demonstrates how Amazon's actions raise the prices at Wal-Mart.
You're not very good at experimenting then. I first bought BTC in 2013 because of a legitimate purpose: to pay for online goods (legal software) to a seller who wanted to completely eliminate any risk of chargebacks.
YouTube says this is unavailable. Is it only available in France and Germany? Are there alternative sources? I'm interested in watching this...
One example from last month: https://decrypt.co/69205/cardano-developer-iohk-strikes-part...
Top athletes are very well paid because there is public interest in what they do. Being available for interviews is part of the job. If athletes can bail out as they wish there will be less money for them in the long run. This will perhaps affect the next generation more than the current but I think it is selfish to not fulfill their commitments.
My friend had a Toshiba Satellite that was running the fans at 100% all the time. The fins on the radiator we’re blocked with dust. Easy to fix - unscrew the bottom plate and unscrew the fan and make the airflow path clean again. Low risk fix as they were about to throw it out it was so annoying. Sometimes it is unobvious how to remove the bottom plate - usually there will be a video on YouTube for the model.

Yeah, the Dell is not that problem, but just saying for others that other brand/model laptops with the same symptom might be easy to fix.
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Claiming you have the ability to sell some property when all you actually have is an NFT that purports to represent ownership of the property, but the property itself is in the hands of a government that doesn’t recognize that NFT is going to have a significant impact on the sale price you can get for that NFT.

Property rights are always going to rest on the rule of law, and in places where the rule of law is strong, property title law is well established and doesn’t need a distributed ledger to disrupt it. Disrupting it would generally be bad.
Costco Business center is a good and accessible alternate if you have one near to you.
The only reason she can play the sport professionally is precisely because of the media machine behind it. It is incredibly misguided for her to think that, as a professional sport player, her job stops at the final whistle. Who does she think pays for her prize money?

If she cannot take the pressure of media interviews, then she is simply not a well-rounded professional player, the same way she would not be able to play if she had a busted knee or a broken arm. It is not a pick-and-choose situation: in order to play for money, you have to hit a ball and then talk about it.

Anyway, it does not really matter. There are thousands of players ready to take her spot, and it won't be a great loss except for herself.
These correlation methods exist, and indeed reveal a lot about you, but they have precision limits. In rural areas, the ip block might be as large as an entire municipality, or even larger. If you turn on location services, Google knows which house you are in, and even where you are inside that house from the wifi networks you give them.
It's supported on Firefox for Android. I use it on a two-year old OnePlus 7 Pro.
You could try downloading it.

https://www.youtubepp.com/watch?v=uUz_vA06ffA
I'm not really seeing the point here. Lever espresso machines exist and continue to be manufactured. La Pavoni and Olympia continue to make lever espresso machines that work just fine.

A lot of the reliability concerns from tools of the past are frankly quite well justified, and to this date we continue to sell and produce tools that are dangerous if not properly operated.
Not in the context of my comment which you replied to.
These days this is a basic offering of any adtech company and is full of quite a lot of BS.
Humans still sleep in two shifts. It's called the siesta