skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm concerned not only about the Blackrocks, but also smaller investors fueled by cheap cash and wealth fantasies based on flipping and FIRE/4HWW. The depressed, small city in northern New York featured in this article (https://www.uticaod.com/in-depth/news/2021/04/07/vaccination...) has people buying houses sight unseen from other states, which might be a good thing if they intend to live there, create businesses, build up the city's tax base, and invest in the community. However, I am very skeptical any of that will happen based on the many reasons cited in the article.

I can't see how this ends well.
I've just checked, remittances to El Salvador account for 20% of the GDP.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/remittances_percen...
Well, the concept of holding cash and gold at home is easier than managing a private key. But as soon as you want your money to work i.e. earn interests or invest it, crypto currencies are easier to work with. I mean, you can literally deposit and earn interest by touching a button inside your Coinbase wallet, right now.

Regarding your second argument: Change in the financial system does not happen by itself. You need severe pressure. DeFi has a huge potential to put pressure on the traditional financial markets to make them more accessible to the poor and limit their excesses (monetary inflation).

The government could of course “ban” Bitcoin and DeFi. But since they are decentralized it can’t make them really disappear — only more cumbersome to get into (and out of), for example, by closing down centralized exchanges. But the government can’t really prevent you to meet a “dealer” cashing in/out on your cryptos.
Oh, the most corrupt government in the world has adopted the most specious currency option, typically used for fraud, ponzi, and money laundering?

I'm so surprised.
The statewide average is deceptive here. The northern Front Range (South Platte basin) had a very snowy / wet spring, but the rest of the state is well below historical averages.
If only they had come up with a simple web game that teaches you about the vulnerability while you play. Then you get the best of both.
Do you think the Salvadorians do not have a bank account because of the lack of banking infrastructure or because of the fees to use it or lack of funds to justify it?
Well, you make it sound like there's a limited number of dollar notes and the bank will refuse your deposit/loan if they don't have enough notes lying around to make the fractional requirements.

In reality, they will accept your deposit/loan (as long as it makes business sense) with no regard for how many notes they have lying around. If that puts them over the edge of the fractional requirements, they'll just go to the Fed/Treasury, who will swing their wand and write in additional (digital) reserves for the bank.

It is mainly all digital at this point.
Sidestepping all the emotional comments. It's open market. Adopt to it.

1. Build more homes.

2. Sell to Blackrock or whatever at 2x or 3x your cost.

3. Profit!
It needs to be significantly easier to buy a first house than a second house. Getting a first mortgage is "easy" until you factor in the "mortgage insurance" scam. Rent seeking should not be such an appealing option to make money. The result is a bunch of scummy landlords, essentially utilizing the poors to "keep down" the other poors through rent exploitation. Basically the "upper middle" class is the gatekeeper preventing lower classes from having social mobility by maximizing rent exploitation. It's a great system because it prevents the real upper classes from having to get their hands dirty.
The internet says that WF has no bank-to-bank fees outside of WF. At least, as of 3 weeks ago.
There's plenty of primarily-online banks. I haven't set foot in a brick and mortar bank in well over a decade.
That sounds fairly easy on a national exchange level, actually.
At least the author is committed.
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Isn't this just getting a heightmap again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heightmap?
I think it's interesting that people are still harping on the transaction fees.

It's a fair point, but I don't honestly think that most people who've studied Bitcoin for more than a minute wants to use it for transactions. More and more people are seeing Bitcoin as either a store of wealth or a money making scheme. In either of those cases, the transaction fees really don't matter as much.

Incessantly bringing up the transaction fees seems to be missing the contemporary vision of BTC. The original intent of BTC is pretty much dead outside of black markets, and even then BTC wouldn't be a first choice.
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It's an interesting point that you make, there are definitely differences in personality in how we approach work.

I think you could learn to like putting in 12 hour days if you were working on something that you enjoyed sufficiently that it didn't feel like work. I feel that way sometimes with side projects ( read attempts to bootstrap a software business.) Sometimes I have to drag myself away from it, and I think about it when I'm showering, eating, on vacation, or even sometimes during sex (that last one doesn't end well.)

I was like PG in that I never played sports or did exercise, and was terrible at both, but now I'm a gym rat. So people can change.
I really wish we'd get some innovation in the housing market. 3D printing of houses or something could be epic. "Just" disrupt the current construction companies... It's clear they can't keep up with the demand right now.
One way that the govt can keep the economy stable is for the Federal reserve to just give the big banks money they call it 'injection'. It's framed as 'lending' but at extremely low interest rates.

The expectation is that the banks will lend this out to companies to stimulate the economy.

Apparently instead of loaning this money out to to small/medium businesses big banks have mastered operating small/medium businesses at scale and are combining their banking with asset acquisition.

So banks having endless capital essentially given to them from the government in our tax dollars...while also having asset and business branches in their own closed system ultimately leads to massive banks owning the world.

People think the government is on their side but it's not.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/econom...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081415/under...
I meant it in serious way (as serious as Bitcoin is, which is not much).

How can you legally define what "bitcoin" is, when that definition is not clear?

Most people will tell you "bitcoin is whatever is in the consensus in the last release of Bitcoin Core, based on the bitcoin github repository"... but that is still kind of finicky

Bitcoin to their credit does not change the consensus rules all that much (only via "soft forks"). But still.

Is code in bitcoin github repository what now decides what is legal tender in El Salvador?

Does El Salvador now need to agree with all the decisions Bitcoin Core team makes? What if they don't like Taproot?

A lot of the Bitcoin software around still doesn't allow bech addresses. Does all El Salvador citizens now need to support them? Even when the software doesn't? Is bech32 part of "bitcoin" as defined by El Salvador?
A minuscule amount of household water use is for drinking. The prices should be cranked way up on it before bothering with bottled water.
I think that's a reasonable place to be. If you introduced a "Breaking build changes: New Checkbox Requirement" email most teams could just pipe that to pagerduty/opsgenie and have a reasonable way to ensure a working green deploy pipeline.
Well at least he still has billions. It's not like he'll be poor and homeless. If I were him I'd just by my own Island somewhere and retire.
That's more a job for the platform staff isn't it? Apart from making (several) announcements I've never seen a driver fix this.
3 transactions a second is 100m transactions per year. So everybody on the planet gets one transaction per 70 years. So everybody gets one transaction in their lifetime to open a channel to a lightning network provider and that's it.
> Warren Buffet mocked it.

Buffett has also said that he does not understand technology.
Make enough bets and it works out.
Right now, doing a Bitcoin transaction costs $0.97, so it's already false. If you are willing to wait ~48 hours for confirmation, it can cost as little as $0.15.[0]

Furthermore, the system in question is not Layer 1 Bitcoin, but Layer 2 Lightning. To use Lightning, one must perform a Bitcoin transaction to open a channel– akin to opening a bank account– which provides access to the entire lightning network.

I find opening a bank account for less than a dollar very attractive.

That being said, layer 2 fees exist as well– you must pay someone, usually a hub, to securely lock some amount of Bitcoin to a channel so that you may transact. (Note that the secure lock isn't a security deposit; a channel be closed with funds returned without any third-party trust.)

[0]: https://mempool.space/
Probably worth pointing out this twitter account is promoting the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. To me that casts suspicion on their other assertions.
Author here. Wow, uh, I definitely did not expect to be featured on HN this morning, but seeing this linked put a massive smile on my face.

There are just so many examples of captivating writing, innovative problem solving, and candid discussion throughout the FFFs. Taken all together, the Factorio journey is one of my favorite _stories_ to read...and it contributed to becoming a better designer and engineer along the way. I really encourage people to read more of their blog than just what I've linked, since it crosses so many areas of interest.

To anyone reading that's worked on Factorio, thank you and you all are wonderful people.
Is bitcoin specifically legal tender, or other digital currencies, or layer 2 solutions, or what exactly? If bitcoin only was made legal tender, then layer 2 solutions will not be legal tender, and businesses could choose to only accept direct bitcoin payments via the blockchain, forcing customers to pay high fees.
I don't think they have to use it like we use it..
Every failure of capitalism is always the government's fault (as if those are separate somehow?) and any success is always despite government, not because of it. That's always the response to this kind of question.
I've had the same good experience as you. As another datapoint, they really do live up to their name. Everytime I test sending myself emails, I almost always get the email to my fastmail address 30-90 seconds faster then Gmail. Also gmail tends to disapear messages if they're not from a super uber reputable email provider, which sucks sometimes. Fastmail will always deliver my emails if I am playing with a local postfix server or something like that.
if you immigrate, like I did, but still have some pension funds or saving accounts in your home country. Why would I want a local phone line?
Location matters too. I don’t think the problem is making a log cabin in the woods.
Entirely possible (and occurring already in the south bay), but they scale poorly - they require very large tracts of land since the pools need to be fairly shallow. They're also fairly labor intensive, between harvesting, purifying, and transporting the resulting salt.
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"Metro" (short for "metropolitan railway") is the clearest generic, English term.

I always use it when I'm not in the UK, since subway is ambiguous, and underground / tube are more-or-less specific to London.
Bitcoin beach is run by a few college students. Not exactly something to depend on.
What are people using to write non-fiction (e.g technical books)?

Much of what Scriviner provides is also useful?
If only so many people didn't treat land and houses like investments, there wouldn't be such a disastrous hoarding problem. Henry George's Land Value Tax [1][2] seems like an obvious economic fix that would require a large fraction of the population to change how they think about land and natural resources, but most of them are invested in such a way (i.e. owning multiple houses on multiple parcels of land, often without renting anything out) that it is in their economic self-interest to block any such proposals. Although, I suppose this situation isn't unique. The world has long been doomed by coordination problems.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
You don't become a billionaire by being the kind of person who wants to chill on a private island.
NG is not a viable aircraft fuel. It is possible that cryogenic LCH4 could be, as SpaceX uses it, but its energy mass density is not enough to drive a wholesale conversion, as LH2's is. Batteries are also far from viable as energy storage for transport aircraft.

Obviously, the LH2 fuel must be produced electrolytically, from electricity generated from renewable sources like solar, wind, or geothermal, not from NG as it all is today; I specifically called that out in the text that the above pretends to reply to, so it is hard to see why NG-generated H2 is mentioned here at all. LH2 generated on demand at airports does not incur transport losses.

Identically, NH3 is today produced by consuming NG and exhausting CO2, which process also must be replaced with catalytic means powered from renewable sources, and H2 generated electrolytically.

And, obviously there are conversion losses from solar/wind to electric to separated H2 and to chilled LH2, and then to accelerated air, just as there are losses extracting crude oil, transporting, refining, transporting again, burning, and exhausting it. End-to-end cost, including externalized environmental cost, is what matters. We need a carbon tax to help drive conversion. But the favorable energy mass density of LH2 overrides enormous conversion losses, which is the whole point.
The comment that really made it click for me is that there are two diametrically opposed responses for engineers playing Factorio:

* "This game is scratching the same itches as my day job, but with more dopamine and less bureaucracy - how can I play this all the time?"
* "This game requires me to expend the same brain-effort as my work/side-projects, but I don't even get anything tangible out of it? Why would I ever 'play' this?"

Neither of them are wrong - and I suspect that the same person might even have different reactions at different points in their life.
I've always wondered much these types of things degrade or stress out the github backend services and what they do to prevent abuse.
by default %programfiles% and %programfiles(x86)% are whitelisted, so for most users pretty much that's exactly what they will do with Lockdown, launch it click Enable and that is all that needs to be done. Granted you do need to worry about specifically whitelisting programs not installed to those locations, which are few if any for most people, and actually it wouldn't be a bad feature idea to add an automatic scan for them since some apps insist on running from nested %appdata% folders...
In my previous job I was the lead engineer of the MessengerPeople Unified Messaging API, so congrats, this looks awesome! :)

I wonder how you solved media files and attachments? I remember having major headaches around transporting, storing and retrieving media files for different messaging backends, especially WhatsApp and Telegram.

Also, any plans to support WhatsApp Business containers directly?
It was correct when I wrote the RAQ in 2007.

In fact I've been making the crack about 'not being able to change it because he's dead' in my lectures for at least forty years.
> The M1 is probably the worst hardware you could have picked in 2020-2021 if computational power was your main concern. For highly > parallelizable work tasks, the top end GPU alone has 10x the computation power than the M1, and a top end CPU has around 4x the
> computation power than the M1. Not to mention a rather limiting 16GB of memory.

This statement is so banal that I am not sure how to comment on it. I never understood the logic of people who point out that an entry-level, low power chip targeted at ultraportable laptops and kitchen computers cannot compete with high-end desktops. It's just as ridiculous as to complain that AMD EPYC is too big to fit into a laptop.

M1 is obviously a terrible choice if you are looking for a deskbound HPC workstation. It's a terrific choice if you are looking for an ultraportable laptop with excellent battery life that you would still like to prototype your ML code on before running the full workload on a mainframe.

> That the M1 is computationally powerful is a myth started out by exceedingly misleading marketing and reinforced with hard-to-
> compare benchmarks.

More like a myth perpetuated by people who like to take facts out of the context. In terms of the underlaying IP, M1 is terrific technology. It can deliver the same performance as state of the art designs at a fraction of the power consumption. In terms of absolute performance, it's obviously an entry-level chip, and it performs exceedingly well compared to other offerings in this segment. And even outside its segment it is no slouch either. It runs my database scripts and builds code faster than my Intel i9 laptop, despite using 70% less power and half as many performance-oriented CPU cores.
Let's call them a 10k times engineer.
WU incurred $41.3 million in "non-credit related losses," which includes fraud in 2020[1] which is only maybe 1% of their revenue. It had another ~$40 million in expected credit losses (primarily from agents), so I think ~2% of the fee goes to losses.

Since their gross margins are consistently 40% and their operating margins are ~20% I think barriers to entry/international government regulations better explains the high fees.

[1] 2020 10-k (ctrl-f for 41.3)
The extra "a" is a typo but would have no effect. The "i" is also superfluous but harmless. Without more details on the "gibberish" it is difficult to guess what happened. The space before "int fileno (FILE *);" is required. All the other lines must be left-justified, no leading spaces, except the line with "int main()" which can be indented if desired.
This is why CA has prop 13 which limits increases to property taxes from year to year specifically because CA had seem property boom/bust cycles kicking people out of homes because of irrational real estate prices.
The government has a claim to your property. The government is strongly influenced by lobbyists.
The government is also gerrymandered.

The government always needs more money.

Why would your property taxes not continue to go up endlessly?
There is open market competition for these third-parties. The system is fully trustless. Furthermore, onion routing (akin to Tor) is in development to prevent that third-party from knowing the content of your transaction and who you transacted with.
I don't get why the train attendant has to be able to move the train. That's not required in the driverless systems I know. Either the train is unable to move and has to stop immediately, or it tries to drive to the next station, right? The only job then for the attendant is to guide the passengers to safety and watch out for unruly passengers. I know Nurembergs underground quite well and it just works. No platform doors and no attendants.

For the exceptional case that the train is unable to drive itself without an accident occurs a special team should be enough. I don't remember that it happened for the nuremberg underground.
Sounds like we'd describe a linker the same way :)

A simple linker doesn't need symbols for a link plan, or even a link plan (assuming you just load all input files and ignore static library indices). It doesn't even need a symbol table, it can do a full scan of all input files every time it needs a symbol during relocation processing. The symbol table is just a performance optimization.

Again, this changes for a real linker with weak symbols, comdats, section gc, etc.

I baselessly claim that a simple linker that doesn't need to read elf can be < 200 lines :) If you want to do elf, I think that becomes difficult.
They are ruining / skewing the stats of that plugin in the readme for others, it uses an algo to determine profile rankings based on everyone elses stats.
Reminder:

All the wealth inequality was created by government money printing. They claim they are printing money to help the poor, but are really making them worse off
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/illegal-conte...
upvoting but also this just feels like yet another contributing factor to the accumulation of wealth that was happening anyways.
In practice, it appears this approach would make most BTC transaction validation illegal in the US in the common case (exceptional cases would still be authorized; specific users could have their public key allow-listed and some due-diligence would then occur).

This wouldn't end BTC; it would simply constrain how much American citizens could be involved in the mining process (and, practically, basically cede ownership of the network mostly to Chinese nationals IIUC current distribution of mining hardware ownership).
Can you post a non-Zelle link with instructions?
Have you tried 1 in most places?

No lot availability. No materials to build the house. No workers available to build the house. Etc.
Arkansas has a petition going around right now to axe property taxes completely. I believe other states do not have property taxes already as well.
> Private homeownership is just LARPing owning real capital to placate a new conservatized middle class

If you don’t own real productive capital and depend on it broadly ad much as sale of labor, you aren’t even in the middle class to start with, your in the working class—just LARPing, to use your term, being part of the petit bourgeoisie.

Of course, LARPing as a member of the petit bourgeoisie is the perennial pastime of a substantial portion of the upper income segment of the proletariat, especially the proletarian intelligentsia.

> rising prices cannot spur more land production

Sure they can, both literally (artificial land is a real thing, and its production is spurred by demand running into supply constraints) and more importantly economically (as “land”, the valued commodity, isn’t just raw square footage of the dry surface of the earth, but a product of access to infrastructure which makes it economically useful.)
Absolutely. This is the problem - it's not the ideal method.
They have so much money there's nothing really left to spend it on.
> k_B is now defined as a part of the redefinition of the SI unit system in 2018.

> The value is 1.380649×10^{−23} J/K, exactly.

Hmm. This is a trendy thing to do with SI units, indeed.

But this definition makes me wonder if there are also definitions of the Joule and the Kelvin. If there are, it seems like they could easily conflict with this definition of k_B.

And if that happened, we'd have to admit that k_B was a measurable quantity all along -- the only way to demonstrate a conflict in the definitions would be by measuring the quantity more accurately.