skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sirer is either disingenuous or quoted entirely out of context. I'm leaning more towards the latter.

This reads more like a shallow shill-piece for the people in the article. It's odd to see it at IEEE.

None of the presented angles would work for something like Bitcoin. Without another native currency, how do you assign value or determine usefulness of, say, models? No matter how you slice it, if you're going to make it into a viable PoW-replacement you will need some kind of fundamental theoretical breakthrough that none of these have. TEEs are definitely not it. The status quo is otherwise that it is an intractable proposal (which other commentors have covered already)

I have a feeling that the author doesn't fully understand what they're writing about and are acting as a useful idiot so some guys can get free PR.
Riiiight... Anyways, you kept complaining of being downvoted, here's a clue: you're being an ass and no one likes you or what you have to say because you're wrong. So go scurry back to reddit where you belong troll...
I'm curious, why push through on a fun personal project into causing burnout? Asking for...a friend.
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1 minute of cranking for 30 minutes of play time seems honestly pretty great. Wish I could do that with an iPhone!

I have been in Miami this last week and went to the Mayweather v Paul fight and leaving there was absolute hell. Phone was at 2%, thousands and thousands of people were all trying to get Ubers at once. It was a disaster. Took two hours to find someone who was headed to Hollywood and then I charged my phone along the way and got another Uber back down to my Airbnb. #salty

Could be a cool idea to have a "dual mode bike" that could let you pedal to charge your phone. Anything like this exist lol?
Decentralized projects will always be less efficient than centralized ones why are we suddenly so surprised?

The value of decentralized system far outweighs the cost of maintaining it especially when it comes to money. Could bitcoin be more efficient? Absolutely, but to call it big mistake of modern technology is just silly.
Ardupilot will not hit a human size target. People can barely do it. You're not going to lob a tumbling quad at a target with any accuracy that's a joke.

To do this with any reliability you need custom software and probably hardware. It'll look more like a smart munition. But it'll also be more difficult than strapping a knife to a RC plane.
SF being the tech capital of the world is going to have a very high amount of workers who are now remote. This creates a unique opportunity to build more housing that can use the existing now less utilized infrastructure. The then higher ratio of workers paying taxes to infrastructure should allow additional improvements to that infrastructure.
> Every time someone tries to make a tax targeting the ultra rich, it ends up hurting the moderately wealthy instead.

Governments around the tax the middle class, because that's where the money is. Our current spending campaign will result in substantial tax increases for the middle class; the only real questions are when, and how much (less if it's sooner, more if it's later).
Every week, every month, every year, crypto is alleged to be dead and dying. And still the adoption, usage, and price goes up.

It gets hyped, it falters, people stop talking for a while, and the cycle repeats itself.
US investigates leak of records showing billionaires pay little tax
Growing up, what my late father probably wanted most from me is for me to find a project of my own. When I was in high school, he once threatened me with "get a life, or I will get you one".
Engines, and especially motorcycles, were always a passion of his. He grew up on a farm, and "was rebuilding tractor engines when the other kids were learning to ride bicycles."
He still holds a few land speed records he set with motorcycles he designed and built.

But I had no real hobbies or passions of my own, other than playing card games.

It wasn't until my twenties, after I already graduated college with degrees I wasn't interested in and my dad's health failed, that I first tried programming. A decade earlier, my dad was attending the local Linux meetings when away from his machine shop.

Programming, and especially performance optimization/loop vectorization are now my passion and consume most of my free time (https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/LoopVectorization.jl).

Hearing all the stories about people starting and getting hooked when they were 11 makes me feel like I lost a dozen years of my life. I had every opportunity, but just didn't take them. If I had children, I would worry for them.
I think you're correct in how you're characterizing the general consensus around wealth tax - that people should be taxed based on all accumulated wealth, including unrealized gains. I don't know how practical that is. I think an approach that frames it as 100% capital gains and/or marginal income tax rate on equivalent to the first 2-3% of your total gross wealth is more workable.
Non fungible tokens are by definition not interchangeable.

Whereas things like Bitcoin and Ether are fungible, meaning there's no difference between my 1BTC and your 1BTC.
I experienced the opposite moving from Toronto to SF. In Toronto, indoor life was the norm (due to cold winters, plenty of rain, and much nicer indoor spaces). In SF, we seem to do everything in parks. And hiking seems more popular than bars. Hiking seems to be the presumed common activity across all people (especially as it requires almost no money at all, which is a concern for many given how high rent is).
Slow and easy to kill? Seen a drone race? At what range and with what weapon would they be easy to kill? How long would the kill take? At what range could the drone be killed at?

Sure often drones fly in straight lines or hover. But in an adversarial environment they could easily move pseudo randomly and be quite difficult to kill.
Also: native scrolling is better than smooth-scroll.js
"Don't speak" is a myth and by not speaking you are hindering your own learning. Dr. Krashen's advice was taken out of context. It was not meant as general advice not to speak.

If you personally don't care and don't wish to speak that's fine, but don't try to promote that as advice on how to get the most out of studying a language.
Was thinking that games similar to Obra Dinn would be awesome on this device, but also realize that games of that caliber are a rare thing indeed.

In the long run I'd think that the lack of colors is a deal breaker, so I think you're right this is very much a niche type of product.
I'm guessing this idea comes from a time when people's main asset was land.
How low does the energy price have to be that someone could currently expect to profitably mine Bitcoin on commodity hardware? (I read "without permission" that one cannot expect to have specialized hardware available as import of mining rigs could be regulated).
Well, I'm randomly working on it, but the roadmap (at least to get to a stable version) is kind of obvious. The core features of Teams must be replicated, so that the original application should be only used for calls.

Do you have any suggestion?
There’s the fascinating example of “Nooshare”, which is an interesting proposal for embedding arbitrary Monte-Carlo simulations as the proof challenge!
http://web.mit.edu/alex_c/www/nooshare.pdf

It’s an elegant exploitation of the design reasons why the work must involve something like random search (for an easy to validate target).

On squinting, it’s kinda like a smart contract for a compute job, where the compute job itself constitutes proof of work to validate the settlement of the contract!
stop with that FUD. PGP is a standard and an implementation. You can have secure (Open)PGP implementation. at least there's a official spec, which is not there for age, which complicates reimplementation
I worked 10 years for a Bank. A lot of the mainframe batch processing were unnecessary. A lot of the mainframes running Cobol could be replaced by some smaller hardware and code written in java and C. There are a lot of people working around bad written system or bad written laws/rules, to make the things work. My point is: Wouldn't be fair to compare the amount energy to run bitcoin vs the amount of energy to run the banking system?
> In this case leaking Jeff Bezos' tax returns targeted one individual and provided no new useful information. It's exactly what we already expected about his taxes.

I completely agree with your overall point, but this statement is not true. Solid concrete evidence of what we "already expected" _is_ new information. (also, as other commenters have pointed out - what _you_ already expected is not necessarily what the average person already expected)
Only, that's not the case. Granted, I tend to stay at home when taking hallucinogens, but not always - and have been both in cities and closer to nature.

The thing you have to remember is: No one pays attention to you. If you have a beer in your hand - or smell like you've been drinking - people do assume that is the case. It isn't like can't act normal, especially if you make sure to walk around after you peak.

It isn't like hallucinogens necessarily make you act weird - especially since people will just assume you are weird. Again, people don't really pay attention to you.
Just don't do this if it is your first time.
I should have added that I'm German, and here the estate tax is only exempt on the first €500k for spouses and €400k for each child. And everything above is taxed between 25% and 50% depending on your income tax bracket. Real estate is exempt if the heirs continue to live in it for at least 10 years. Edit: And yet I've heard the calls for 90%-100% estate tax from voices in Germany...
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It sounds ridiculous on the face of it to me (one exception: in board games. There's something similar in board games like Isle of Skye where you set a price for tiles that you must pay if other players don't buy them from you, but that's just a 45 minute board game for victory points, not real physical assets)

But I'm willing to read more about the idea, if you have an article or two that makes a good case for your proposal, please post and I'll give it a look.

I saw in another comment someone called it the Harberger tax, and linked to a 66 page paper that I'm just not going to read for the sake of an internet post.

I could have been less antagonistic in my reply, I apologize for that.

I do think you're overestimating how well people can judge, individually, what something is worth accurately on declaration, both now and in the future, especially if it's an asset they don't ever want to part with.

But again, I'd be happy to read articles from experts that make a case for this.
Financial Different-ness? Financial Disparity? I just needed a word to talk about things that were not uniform or the same.

Also not saying that diversity in this case is a good thing or a bad thing - just that it exists and it may have interesting consequences or change with this policy. I would think making salaries public might limit gentrification. But it might also cause flight and impact the tax base. I do not think neighborhoods need to be uniformly financially diverse...
European stocks slightly higher as U.S. inflation data dominates week ahead
I hope I'm able to afford one. At $179, I don't think supply will be a problem.
Lol, yes! But the Stuka (Sturzkampfbomber) wasn't what I had in mind. In reality they were (retro)fitted with gadgets that made them whine/screech loudly when doin' the dive...
They published Firewatch, too! In addition to being being highly respected (someone else in this thread used the word "legendary") Mac software developers.
The problems in the US are primarily due government regulations breaking markets in things like education, medicine, and housing.
Anyone else looking for proper tiling window support in KDE?

Monitors are getting bigger and have higher resolution, but the default still seems for a single monitor laptop experience.

Workarounds like Kronkite and others don't do the trick.

I've wanted this for so long now, I'm strongly considering building this out myself as there's no traction behind this from the core devs.

The latest additions are _nice_ but aren't really what I'm looking for.
Gym membership.

> no benefit

Movie theater attendance has been dropping steadily. Theaters, especially today's multi-plexes, are vast wastelands of empty seats the majority of the time. There absolutely is a benefit to them selling more tickets at off-peak times, or to not-so-hot films, or just as an incentive to sell popcorn. Keep in mind all this extra volume would cost theaters ZERO in additional marketing expense.
Again, if that is actually their wishes.
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> So could Bitcoin actually be used to make the world greener?

No. The value of a PoW coin is based on the wasted electricity.

If mining does something useful (like heating) for a large fraction of the miners the mining difficulty will go up to adapt to such change, requiring additional mining.

At the end of the amount of wasted electricity will remain the same.
Fun.. I guess that's one way to figure out if someone is guilty or not. Either he's innocent and nothing happens or he's guilty and he dies or flips. The whole side stepping the judge/jury to go straight to the executioner part seems like it should violate some kind of law.
BTW, a habit of spurious legal harassment is called "barratry". It is harder to demonstrate it to the satisfaction of courts than it perhaps should be, possibly because the habit is profitable for lawyers.
I don’t know about you but the concept of collecting US Dollars et al seems to me to have caught on
The mental monologue debate is just another case of "what if the red I see isn't the red you see?" There's just no way for you or your friend to prove anything to each other. It's a fun conversation, but you're not going to get any answers.

The question of whether someone "has" a mental monologue is also complex. Is your friend saying they don't usually talk to themselves when solving problems, or that they never do? Are they saying they can't talk to themselves? If they don't do it often, and you do it more often out of habit, that's a different thing than "not having a mental monologue". The problem with these articles is that people conflate all of these concepts.

Also, a lot of data supports the idea that people aren't very good authorities on how their own minds work. Decades of research on psychology and consciousness can attest to that.
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3D-printer to the rescue!
There are far less costly ways for the environment to achieve the same results.

This is simply unjustifiable, when thousands of people are actively running the planet to the ground to make a quick buck in an online casino.
I didn't know there was a term for that. It's exactly what I was thinking about.
No, they would not live there indefinitely. California has eviction process for tenants.
For those of us living on boats (in the UK, so nothing close to Siberia temperatures) how feasible is solar powered off grid mining, using heat for hot water/heating?
> You are conflating iMessage in iCloud with iCloud Backup.

I'm not. MIC on, being the default, puts the MIC secret key used for sync into the iCloud Backup. This means after the first nightly backup, Apple can read your iMessages in realtime as they are synced via MIC.

> If you have iMessage in iCloud disabled, and iCloud Backup disabled, nobody has your messages except you and the recipient.

Yes, and these settings default to on, and resultantly virtually every iMessage recipient has both of these settings turned on, which means that Apple receives your iMessages from the other end of the conversation, even if you have them off.

Again, we are back to the original claim: Apple can read all of your iMessages in real-time.

I also have iCloud disabled and do local backups. I also have FaceTime and iMessage disabled for this reason. I also have an external VPN router that is used for all Apple device traffic that blocks push service connections and other telemetry collectors (xp.apple.com, pancake.apple.com, et c).
googling "US plane 100 dollar bills iraq" returns a plethora of news sources that corroborate https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
China has a mixed economy, not a command economy.

My point is that the analogy of US in WW2 doesn't really hold up because the US had an excellent economy throughout WW2 relative to others which fueled their excess industrial production. China would be in the opposite situation - economic collapse.

Would China be able to maintain industrial production by forcing workers and firms to produce equipment despite economic collapse? Perhaps. But the US in WW2 shouldn't be considered historical precedent, due to the above distinction.
I didn't use the word offended.

Feeling offended is a very different emotion than feeling alienated.
Funny you mention it, you can buy mushrooms, LSD, DMT, whatever on hippie hill in Golden Gate Park at all hours of the day. Although you're right, most people there are just walking around oblivious to all the hippies tripping.

As an aside, microdosing is a placebo for people too scared to take a real trip.
There is a game called "Robot Fishing" briefly featured in the video.
To sell if for 2 Billion after the jump in price? Or to drop the price and annoy some people? I mean he openly manipulated the price and exited pretty fast. Now it's even lower than before. Longterm he probably made more harm than good.
Some companies try to do this, like hired and another one that is always in HN and I forgot the name.

However... they end up just being an extra step, you have to go through them to get in the hiring pipeline of other companies anyways.
If you look in the original HN thread and on Twitter, people have posted forks and backups of the original project.
Wealth taxes don't work. It was tried in Europe in many countries and they ended up rolling them back.
> Firstly, the tax will be nowhere near 10% p.a..

The rate was, of course, fictitious. Feel free to use a different estimate.

> Unimproved land will be less, of course.

Unimproved land would be more since a higher tax rate is needed to bring in the same tax revenues if you exclude the value of the improvements.

> Secondly, would "Big Ag" really offer 20x the intrinsic value of the property?

To eliminate a competitor? I don't find that implausible at all. They wouldn't pay that much for an arbitrary plot of land, but it's not the land that they're paying for here.

> Thirdly, who wouldn't be dancing for joy to receive 19x the value of their property in cash…?

Presumably the owner who didn't want to sell the land at the ordinary market value in the first place. Maybe it's been in their family for generations, or they just really despise Big Ag and don't want them to get it. Maybe cash just isn't all that valuable to them.

> …then yes, LVT is a pressure to sell. That's (part of) the point of LVT.

And that is part of what is wrong with LVT. Property owners have the right to keep their property no matter who wants it or how much they are willing to offer. Regardless of the reason.
The most politically tenable way to end long term unrealized gains is

1. drop the corporate tax rate to 0%. Most notably, these corporations would follow the REIT tax policy that requires them to distribute > 90% of taxable income to shareholders.

2. Move Social Security and Medicare into the Progressive Income Tax (it being flat on income is regressive)

3. Offset #1 and #2 with a higher income tax (especially for capital gains)
It started in 2012. A lot of the finer points of CoffeeScript are in ES6, so that might make less sense now.
Electricity generation in Russia is about two thirds gas and coal.
> Wouldn't be fair to compare the amount energy to run bitcoin vs the amount of energy to run the banking system?

Hasn't this comparison been made over and over, and every time it comes out in favor of traditional banking by a mile?
It's not just non-governmental currency (in fact, it's rather crappy if regarded purely as e-currency), it's also basic infrastructure for decentralized trust. Currency is simply the most basic application of a fully distributed blockchain.
From my experience M5Stack products pop in and out of stock in AliExpress frequently. I own a lot of them, and just check AliExpress until it’s available. Recently, their shipping time has improved there, my last purchase was made in May 26th, shipped in May 27th, and delivered to my house in Brazil on June 7th.
2008 - 0.00 USD/BTC
What other currencies or monetary goods are being developed and realized in real-time?

If gold was invented today, what would it look like, and how would it function?
From my short life as a tech guy, I have already realized that there is no 100% secure system. Companies try to hide information and avoid leakages; complicated systems of governance try to avoid malpractices while minimizing bad actors. In the end, it is always a dance between attackers and defenders. Bitcoin has the dumbest way of protecting itself from attackers. But by being the dumbest way, it is also the most predictable. It is like instead of coming up with sophisticated methods of protection that no one knows its weaknesses on the long run, Bitcoin only focuses on building a bigger wall. And that's why I feel more confident.
> but they still look at where I went to college (based on high school achievement) and my first job (based on college achievement) and subsequent jobs (much easier to get because of where I worked at my first job), etc.

No one has ever asked me about my schooling and I haven't had a school on my resume in over 10 years. Do they look at it because you put it on your resume?
Yes, it would be fair. However, it is not a comparison that Bitcoin even comes close to winning (Bitcoin uses orders of magnitude more energy), so you instead see takes like "you forgot to account for the energy cost of aircraft carriers!" to try to make the comparison more favorable to Bitcoin.
SALT deductions are a massive tax break for the wealthy. Your own partisanship that would see them restored is just as powerful, and the tax policy you advocate here is more regressive.
Uh... You'll be happy then. Lucas Pope is at work on a game for this called Mars After Midnight.
The biggest trouble here is that pollution externalities of power generation are very commonly not priced into the cost of electricity, so generic incentives to consume energy also very commonly mean incentives to pollute more.

> Random Ex: Texas power outages during summer peak AC usage. It's infeasible to spin up and spin down extra generators to meet spikes in demand. #Bitcoin fixes this by providing excess supply a discounted demand during normal hours that can be routed away during peak needs else where. Ditto for renewables.

Could be, but are the price signals really in place to make this out work in practice in many places? How many electric utilities have so far succeeded in charging people more at all during peak demand times? (maybe other than electric customers they've identified as industrial)

Edit: To be clear, I agree that there is such a thing as surplus power generation and usefully smoothing out demand, I just don't agree that we're in a scenario where cryptocurrency mining is predominantly used or predominantly incentivized to be used that way.