skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I showed you ...

Here's another way to think about evidence: All you showed me was your thinking; you didn't show me anything from the 1619 Project.

Your points have intriguing points, but as written here, all they are now is points about you, not about the world.
Many things in the world use a lot of energy, even inefficiently.

But it's hard for me to think of another thing that makes a worldwide competition for who can waste the most energy, with a massive crowdfunded prize every 10 minutes, and the crowd that has paid into the system to fund the prizes so far wants me to join in funding it so the prize can get bigger.

Edit: for example, take Cathie Wood's claim that Bitcoin will be worth $500,000. If that happens before 2024, that would make the reward for the winner of the useless-hashing race $3.1 million plus change, every 10 minutes. Awesome!!! That kind of money can buy a lot of useless-hashing ASICs and energy to run them. The smart miner had better spend most of it that way, just to be able to keep up with the others in the race.
> it would shake the confidence in governments

Deciding ancient laws, no matter how sucky, must all be iron-clad & that modernity/the future get no say is critically de-legitimizing, and in these cases seems to be headed quickly for cataclysm.

Giving alive people some sovereign rights over the dead, as is the case with these water rights issues, seems necessary to maintain the basic social contract, to maintain the mandate of the people. Not fixing this seems deeply de-legitimizing.
Yeah, the government also artificially suppresses interest rates, making it easier to get mortgages yet somehow the blame goes to the lenders.
I can walk down the street and buy a coffee with it.
Bitcoin is the worst cryptocurrency to use as an actual currency, isn't it? I mean the transaction speed and commission rates.
With Lightning channel factories:

- 2 people can make 10,000,000 transactions between each other in seconds

- 10,000,000 people can make 2 transactions between each other in 46 days

Channel factories are not a solution to the user scaling problem.
There is no extra infrastructure cost.
You'd be surprised how often something that does not seem like a big deal is some kind of deal after all, sometimes even a big one. Software is complex.

So far, all signs point to this not being a big deal (EDIT: from the software side), but that is contingent on the aforementioned investigation. Others have also mentioned how it is a matter of principle: Certificates were misissued, where do you draw the line if not at that general fact?
I was born in the early '80s, and I remember learning both names in my dinosaur-obsessive phase, so I'm not sure it's a new thing.
Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street
Any tips on where I could go to read more about the entrepreneurial adventure?
I think this is something that is really under appreciated. When there is inherited property, the cost-basis is reset to when the parents died and the Prop 13 basis is also inherited now if it becomes their primary residence. This is a huge advantage for those people who happen into this sort of situation.
It seems Ireland's official language of the EU is Irish:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2018-00402...
On reading the explanation:

> The Zlint project only attempts to check whether a certificate exceeds the maximum validity allowed by the baseline requirements [398 days], and is not configurable.

To extend the 'no brown M&Ms' analogy, this would be like Van Halen learning the caterer was only checking for FDA safety requirements and not their specific needs. It's good that it's food safe, and a brown M&M (or one with a fleck of brown exposed) isn't going to hurt anyone, but it means that you've got a breakdown in your process.

Specifically, Let's Encrypt needs a review of their linting process. The requirement was that the lifetime be set to 7775999 seconds, or 90 days, this particular tool may not have thrown an error if the time had been 180 days or 360 days, and instead only thrown an error at 399 days. One second is not a problem, but 300 days would be a problem for sure! How were the lints which they're running selected, in particular how was the rule 'e_tls_server_cert_valid_time_longer_than_398_days' accepted, knowing that their validity was shorter than that? Are there other rules where the linter is checking against the most liberal specs but Let's Encrypt is offering something more precise? Fuzzing against a validity clock of 7775998 seconds, 7775999 seconds, and 7776000 seconds would find this issue, are there any other parameters that can be fuzzed? Questions like this need to be asked.
It isn't being hoarded, it is being lent out.
Convertkit is a front-end for Sendgrid, so possibly they use the same format as them?
Yep, it's survivor bias.
A warning to anyone reading this: it’s a gruesome story.
Is it just me, or is Chicago Booth beginning to publish more pop-econ articles that question the simplistic reality of the so-called "Chicago School of Economics" ?
You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. Often attributed to George Carlin.
I'm actually not sure if the original title is explaining the article well. The article is about evolution of personal micromobility - form factors, business models, etc.
That's BS. If I pay $10k in property taxes(excl school taxes), that means I cannot invest that money into something more tangible. Thus depriving me of working investments to subsidize wealthier individuals is worse, than steadily increasing taxes.
By the way, following an earlier issue that did result in revocations, Certbot added logic where the certificate will automatically be renewed early if an OCSP check shows it is no longer valid. That means that early revocations may not cause outages for sites that are successfully using automated renewal with Certbot.

Of course, those sites are a minority and possibly not even a plurality, but in theory revocation can be made a smaller burden over time as more sites are using automation successfully.

I also know there are tons of Let's Encrypt users who are still using a completely manual workflow. Some of them just don't understand some part of the automation concept, while others have devices and/or operating systems where they simply can't automate certificate renewal, because they couldn't install any software that would facilitate it.
as a non-chinese person, in Taiwan currently I would say otherwise. with Chinese learning english to remain competitive.
And currently english schools demand a premium. And likewise foreign english teachers are paid more than locals.
Taiwan for example wants to become bilingual by 2030. though, personally, I don't see that happening.

Majority of business communication worldwide is already in english so are technical docs. well, unless it's electronic stuff which is in chinese | german. Culturally america's most known exports are in english.

So yeah, what France is pushing is largely stupid, though i'm an ardent listener of French hip hop.
#ShrugOps
Heh "top 100 ways to launder bitcoin if you wanna blackmail someone.html"
> "...Globish – that ersatz of the English language, which narrows the scope of one’s thoughts..."

So the EU's argument in Le Figaro is basically the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
That is correct. It's been difficult, I've had to rebuild the entire system 4 times finding new optimizations here and there. I'm at break even cost wise from people purchasing custom domains for $1/month, or $6/year.

The latest version, v4 is performing really well and is helping me keep costs low while we're getting more users.
I... what?

How?
Because YouTube employs an evil recommendation system that is designed to maximize your screen time, even if this results into addiction. There are much better and more ethical alternatives, at least for some kind of videos.

I’m having a good time with nebula for educational videos. It’s not great, but it’s good enough and it’s very reasonably priced.
Yes this is political trolling, and should France get it way Hungary will counter troll and insist we adopt their language for 6 months next time around.
I just can't stand the vivaldi UI. It's just too slow.

Especially everything tabs feels awful. From new tab, to drag-and-drop.
HN gives special treatment to YC Company job posts, see 'Can I post job ads' on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html I there's a special invite-only submission page for those. You should contact the moderators ('contact' link in the footer).
Housing markets just really suck. They tend to settle just so as to be too expensive for many and extract tons of value from the poor.
> Could you help me see where you're coming from here?

I like affordable housing and think everyone should be entitled to it. Whether renting or to own.
Shame there's no real-world interest in the powers that be to officialize Esperanto.
> the great thing is that it incentivises your next door neighbour to build a high rise

This is more about NIMBY attitudes and zoning laws, which are separate issues.

> their pension won't cover the tax burden of the house they spent their lifetime saving for

An LVT won't tax the house, only the value of the land. If the plot itself is hyper-valuable, that's not a bad place to be, financially speaking. Beyond that, "won't someone think of the poor landowners?" doesn't strike me as a very compelling argument in this day and age.
Fun fact, english in England and in the US is spoken badly. The real majority decides, that is… India!
It's interesting that the "probability to distance" function (-log(prob(edge))) wound up being the information-theoretic entropy [1]. I wonder if there's anything deeper there?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
What are you talking about? Serious question.
Literally hoarding... as in under your mattress? Yes.

Instead, your ‘hoarders’ are loaning their money to a bank which then in turns loans many multiples of that money to borrowers.
> No reply to the autofree comment? Unsurprising.

autofree was placed a bit lower on the prioritization list due to the focus on C2V and amazingly well integrated -gc boehm, which solves all leaks for now.

- "No undefined behavior" -> How does V prevent this?

By not having UB. You have any examples of UB in V?

`x and *x` type checker bug in the compiler means the compiler doesn't work? Then by this definition none of the compilers do, because all of them have bugs.

> How do you plan to deal with template bloat slowing down compilations?

Is that your example of an alpha or a broken feature?

> - -usecache -> Another one of the 20% implemented features. This was done to give V a huge boost in compiling simple programs but the implementation is so busted, you yourself disabled it on the benchmarking site.

No I didn't. V hello.v uses -usecache. And v self was removed for now because it's unfair: V modules are in vlib, all of them get cached, and the compilation is too fast. How is it 20% implemented?

> - "immutable" references -> As shown on Discord, "immutable" references can easily by laundered into mutable ones by assigning the reference to a mutable variable and then assigning into that.

Not anymore, a large amount of these bugs have been recently fixed.

Native backend is being worked on by a very experienced developer, author of radare2, so we will definitely see v self -native work this year.*
now you're making it sound like there's no need for channel aggregation at all. which is it?
Well, if it's not widely held, then it shouldn't be as widely said. Saying it when everybody knows it's not true just makes you look like a nut case who's lost touch with reality. People who make such claims do their cause more harm than good.
I love my Hey email because of this. they block tracking with no configuration. It's great!
> a pain in the ass if you lose your device

Every modern TOTP app is cloud-synced, so I'm not sure why people are saying it's "a pain in the ass if you lose your device."

Heck, most modern password managers (e.g. 1Password, LastPass, etc.) are also TOTP, and help you fill the TOTP token (usually by putting in on your clipboard) at the same time they autofill the password.

> It is also weak to phishing (extremely common) but adds protection against SIM-swapping (comparatively very rare).

Sufficient paranoia / user training is enough to protect against phishing. (Especially for services where the only "users" are the extremely-paranoid IT admins themselves.) But nothing can really protect you from SIM-swapping, save for not allowing services that use single-factor SMS recovery to ever know your phone number in the first place.
"Read slower"

Write clearer
Second Career
TOTP is an improvement over SMS in that identity is not tied to a phone number, which has been proven over and over again to be a terrible indicator of identity.
It's a recognised minority language in Germany, specifically in Schleswig-Holstein.
The target demographic of Apple is developers using Swift, Objective-C and native OS APIs directly.
Time traveler detected.
Me too... maybe a browser-based remake of the Jeff Minter classic "Attack of the Mutant Camels" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Mutant_Camels)?
How could I forget Belgium. Damn!
Keep in mind "traditional" car rentals are one of the most hated places to be. Not much better.
Yes, at some point, management can ask you to justify the work you did. They are paying you, after all. Scrum and agile was never about letting people do whatever they wanted do. Management has already had a role in making sure there were appropriate limits set. In other words, if you're responsible for building a word processor and end up building a video game, I think it's appropriate for someone to ask what are you doing?
Scalability is definitely something we're thinking about. Agreed that a single replica DB probably won't work well after a certain extent. Currently we do help customers to set up a data warehouse and optimized data model in Snowflake or other sources if needed.

We also refer customers to services or contractors who help them set up a their data infra to fit their needs as it's not the core focus of our product.

We have also thought about implementing a caching layer to improve performance, although that adds a few hurdles regarding data privacy and pulling live data.
It's a 30-year mortgage either way. The time frame is exactly the same.

The only difference is the down payment, which matters because a bigger down payment means more opportunity cost of stock market gains.
Why not Latin?
What has happened (at least in my locality) is in years of high assessment increases they cut the rates so the increase is buffered. They typically don't set the tax rate until they see how the initial assessments are coming in.

The other program some counties around here do is property tax exclusion for low income seniors.
By that logic the Fed's low rates is what buried the middle class in debt by a much larger degree than corporate savings.
I have heard that this is actually better and more secure. Google voice I think isn't susceptible to social engineering attacks like typical phone carriers. Also it's a smarter move to have a separate phone number that isn't related to what a hacker might be able to find out about you just doing basic search engine queries.
Per my most recent Substack email, they have 55k+ publications, 37M+ posts, and 19M+ users. Interesting.
Everybody should use google because it's the most used search engine.
> SMS as a second factor is purely additive. It cannot reduce security.

You are forgetting social engineering. Humans find it reassuring that the security process happened as usual, even if in fact the apparently "usual" process was them being being phished. This can mean they're actually less alert than they would be otherwise.

You get an urgent message from your bank about an unexpected $500 transaction, you follow the link & you need to enter your password as usual of course, and then it tells you that you'll get an SMS and to type in the code so you do so. Phew! Disaster averted! Right? This must have been real, you even got an SMS from the bank.

Alas the SMS was from your bank, and the bad guys didn't have a way to intercept it, but they didn't need one because you typed it into their phishing website. That unexpected $500 transaction wasn't real, but their emptying of your bank account will be.
Indeed, generally almost everything in economics is at best zero sum outside of productivity.
Part of them agrees, probably...
The former bit is illustrated by the Friis formula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friis_formulas_for_noise
Those that do get counted and optimized for. The rest of us might as well not exist.
At first sight their service appears to be legal.

However, when you are using their service on some website you may well be violating the EULA of that site.

I am a bit surprised that they are a UK company. I would have expected some poorer country.
Using open source to find my next job
> Neither can cement, cars, porcelain, or most other products of heavy industry.

These are resources. The more we have of them, the more we can do. BTC does not operate this way. If 100BTC exists and if 100,000,000 BTC exists the network functions in the same manner.

> I'm not sure what kind of future you're imagining here. Are you thinking that maybe Algeria will monopolize world bitcoin mining because it has 0.1% more sunlight than Chile and Saudi Arabia, so its mining costs will be 0.05% lower? That seems unlikely to me.

I'm hoping to imagine a future where no nation uses a considerable amount of carbon to generate energy. The claim is that BTC adoption moves us in this direction (though this is later dropped).

> Now, there are some places where coal power generating capacity is increasing. PRC built 38.4 GW of new coal power capacity last year. But it also built 48.2 GW of new solar capacity and 71.7 GW of new wind capacity.

Given that China is one of the regions you mention earlier where glorious cheap renewables are dominating, I think this is a pretty darn important fact. Any increase in carbon use is terrible. We need it to go to nearly zero.

There is still the undressed assumption that deploying more solar lowers the cost but that the same effect is impossible with carbon.

> However, I am done explaining things to you.

I'll wait for 1002 I guess.
Why should they get services, that are paid by people with no money?

Also - they wouldn't be paying $30k per year. If you had a rational government cost distribution among people in the area, you wouldn't need to charge people $30k just in property taxes.

And then - they also haven't paid their fair share of taxes in decades, so why do they get to be in a highly privileged position?

Imagine if I didn't pay any income tax for 50 years - would you excuse me, if I turned 60?
> I’ve been using Bitcoin to get paid for a couple of years at this point where I live here in Argentina

Can you explain how this is better than e.g. Wise (formerly Transferwise), PayPal, or some other international money transmitter?

And in the case of El Salvador, I think Western Union is popular for remittance because people without a bank account can get cash. Bitcoin does not solve the “cash to people without a bank account”. If the idea is, that people should instead transfer money to each other via the Strike app, when they pay for things, I fail to see how this is different from e.g. sending money to each other with PayPal.
I think also that high lumber prices combined with tariffs contribute quite a bit.
What if you want to make organisations who need English translations of EU documents foot the bill for translating into a non Official EU language?
If you're an american, what about the bill of rights, the right to a jury, the right to free speech, etc. Are those ancient agreements acceptable?
California and NYC have a declining population.
Anecdotally I can confirm those stats for Sweden. Some of the things I was blown away by in Sweden are:

1) Everyone's beautiful
2) Everyone's super tall. I'm 184cm and saw multiple women every day that were taller than me, let alone men. In the US it's quite rare for me to see women taller than me.
3) Everyone's rather slim. It's nice to see a population at healthier weights than what I'm used to in the US
4) Not once did I find somebody who couldn't speak English, from workers at train stations to museums to airports. It was crazy. In contrast, Germans being about 50/50 matches up with my experience. Italy felt lower than 1/3 even in Venice, but I spent much less time there.

Sweden sure is amazing; can't wait to visit again.
This is an interesting reading. Although there are more tracking mechanisms than pixels. Surely you can configure your email client to not to load remote content automatically, but most of the clients will still leak information in various html/css elements.

A while ago, I used https://www.emailprivacytester.com/ to test several famous iOS email clients, and most of them more or less leaked _something_, even without loading remote content. In the end, I found Fastmail and Apple's built-in iOS mail client to be the top-notch in terms of privacy (Fastmail leaked nothing but only their server side DNS server via DNS prefetch[1][2], which has nothing to do with client. Apple is slightly worse, but still far better than any other email clients like Outlook, Spark, Edison...)

1. https://www.emailprivacytester.com/testDescription?test=dnsL...

2. https://www.emailprivacytester.com/testDescription?test=dnsA...
> somehow the blame goes to the lenders

I find this statement quite tone-deaf. It’s hard to blame people for wanting a roof over their heads.
Also stable value, if I stole $1 million, I'd probably want to bury it in the desert for a few years and then come back to dig it up once the heat died down. With BTC it's a big gamble what it will be worth. Fine to sit on it when the price is going up, but if the price of my ill gotten bitcoins is crashing it might force me to make a stupid mistake and get caught.
YOLO Traders Are Mad That Surveillance Giant Palantir Isn’t Making Them Rich
By backing policies and politicians that constrain the expansion of public and affordable private housing in the face of an increasing population. Or by purchasing homes they do not intend to use as a primary residence.
I think compared to the Gilded Age they're doing a 1000x better job. Even if it's because they were dragged into doing it. It's easy to point out shortcomings, but don't ignore progress.

Think of America as a giant venture-funded experiment in equality. Even if we're 200 years in without a showing a profit, we've had steady revenue growth and loyal customers. Profits will come eventually.
Just a small correction: You can't mine BTC using graphic cards, so BTC mining has nothing to do with the shortage of those. Ether on the other hand...
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying those agreements / rights are theirs until a court decides they ain't. That is the proper process. We can't just ignore them completley.
Does anyone else here use Google voice for sms 2fa?

You get another number and you should be safe from sim swap attacks.
That taxes compete with other potential uses of money is obviously true, and equally obviously irrelevant to the discussion of whether Prop 13 will or will not lower your real tax bill over the time you own a home.
How the hell do you find a 60-year loan? Sign me up! Remember, leverage is what makes home ownership a good investment.
That's the reason the US government is running deficits. It's because it is rescuing consumers from the burden of taking on that debt.
this is interesting, when supply is artificially limited so reliably you can bank long term investments on it. Pretty amazing.
We don't know. That's why the Precautionary Principle is so important. It is built on the assumption of "We don't know, and we don't know what we don't know, so we had better be cautious."