skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An empty bitcoin block and a full bitcoin block use the same amount of energy

Your dissertation seems to be unrelated to this conversation. Your topic sentence says “thats not an argument.” Or “thats not how it works” and proceeds to not disprove that at all, derailing every conversation with something completely unrelated

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Sure. I'm not opposed to supporting it. It is just weird to me to see people pushing for it with seemingly equal vigor as U2F.
Banks, having surplus cash, offer low-monthly-payment loans which allows more people to buy them, by the way earning 0.6-0.8 * X to the banks.

Since there is a lot of cheap credit price stops constraining the demand side. You can get almost arbitrary large loan with arbitrary long timespan. This causes prices to rise. Houses seem like good investment so wealthy buy them restricting supply side, causing prices to rise even higher.

Rising prices make it impossible for most to save for the house. They have to take loans.

Now poor people who want house need to pay the inflated price + credit fees on top of that. Sellers see their assets rise in value, creditors see more customers and more revenue.

If there was no cheap credit then the prices wouldn't rise so much because nobody would be buying them.

Now, I don't know how true is all above but that seems to be the explanation of the issue I've seen many times.
Hmm, this would be pretty easy to test I'd think. You should see a definite knee in US property prices around $612k ($510k conforming loan maximum + 20% standard down payment). Above that price, loans will be harder to obtain and command higher interest rates.

Does anyone have a good source of this kind of data?
In order for bitcoin to be used as valid currency it needs to be pegged to the local government issued fiat currency. If BTC fluctuates so much would you like a coffee or groceries with it knowing its value can be half or double tomorrow. Real question to ask yourself is have you used it to buy anything in the real world with it.
> so supply > demand

Nope.

Japan has a declining population, but the population keeps urbanising. So while there's hefty supply (literally millions of unoccupied housing inventory) in places nobody wants to live in, there is not in places where people are moving to (large cities).

There's very regularly news and posts about unoccupied houses ("akiya") being literally given away by government and local authorities because even at auction for pennies nobody wants to bid on rural properties. There was one going through here just last week.

Some prefectures are nearing 20% vacancy rates, but they're places like… well basically all of Shikoku which is largely mountainous and rural, and has been bleeding population at a rate of 5%/decade since 2000.
Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
By 4%.

I'd be happy to have the cost of a $7 burrito increased by $.28 to think that the people involved in giving it to me aren't going hungry themselves.

I don't for a minute think that it's really "covering the cost of raising wages". It doesn't work that way. They set their prices to extract what they think they can get. They weren't losing money on a $7 burrito. They set that price because they were afraid if they charged more I'd go to Burger King next door.

They're raising prices because they now think they can get an extra quarter out of people. Which they probably can. If that happens to coincide with them giving raises to workers, great. Especially if that raise is a lot more than 4%.
That's like asking "do people allow javascript when opening webpages in 2021?"

It's common for browser-based email services (such as Gmail) to default to loading remote images.
My question to you is have you used it to buy anything real with it?
I say if you want a universal language everyone should learn Latin. Now you won't offend anyone. Except the French.
Hyperbole doesn't help here. Legalizing four-plexes in your neighborhood will almost never knock a million dollars off your home's value. I bet it'd be hard to find many examples of upzoning causing SFHs to drop significantly in price anywhere.
"It's more important to keep in mind that the CCP created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, raised minimum wage in many areas, and brought many people out of absolute poverty. No matter which way you look at it, a net positive rather than a negative."

Your logic seems highly suspect.
I update every night, including Ungoogled-Chromium. I'm not awake for the night, so why not do it then?

Gentoo may be rolling release, but they batch the updates every day.
Indeed— like a lot of these things, it would punish upper-middle class families who inherit a cottage, but not affect anyone with >5 residences since at scale the work needed to evade becomes worthwhile.
Clickbait :( It's a device that plays back - through headphones - specific normal-range sound which is crafted in such as way as to help you locate a source of another (ultra)sound which you normally wouldn't hear. Nothing in this thing enables people to hear ultrasonic sources. They still hear sound from normal range.
yeah remember the block is because they don't have enough Russian customers to make complying with local data laws worth the cost/effort. They were not banned the were asked to obey the law and they weighed up pros and cons. Normal.
Plenty of US sites refuse to let eu citizens view thier content because they don't want to comply with GDPR (which I consider a reasonable set of laws that protect me)
Personally I use Yandex for email so the NSA can't get their hands on it and I don't have to continually fight changes in terms and conditions that want to sync my advertising id with Google or Facebook.
Fastmail obeying local laws is the correct thing to do. There is no malice in the law as it is written, its just data protection _from_ the US government.
Banks don't need funding to supply mortgages. Or, more accurately, they need only 10% funding and that has never been a bottleneck before. It isn't the reason mortgage prices are rising.
I miss this website so much. It had a soul, unlike most websites today. Post about the pirate flag is also worth reading.
This is both true and not true. It is true that transactions on the blockchain is public. But it's not true that it makes it trivially easy to identify the actual entities behind those transactions.

The only thing that's actually public are the public keys of the transacting parties. Public keys can be anonymously generated for free. It only becomes possible to deanonymize transactions if the money actually touches a deanonymized terminus.

Even assuming all the fiat off-ramps are properly KYC'd, it still gives the criminal unilateral control to arbitrarily decide when and where to risk deanonymization. You can commit a crime, then wait years for the heat to let up and make sure you're in a safe country without extradition treaties.
I think from the French Gov it's just a way to express how fed up they are with UK Gov Brexit policy.
They very well know that English is now the predominant language, Macron is in fact the first French president speaking English so well in public.
Long gone is the "francophonie" policy of the 80's, the number of French peoples speaking English have increased considerably in the last 15/20 years.
I see no "worries" about French being less used from the French officials, more a give up, which is kind of sad.
So this move is very political.
No. People always say density helps availability, and price increases are due to the denser areas being more desirable.

The major factor driving housing inflation is restricted supply, which is relative to demand. Demand is created primarily by jobs. The difference between jobs and employed residents (with overhead for non-working family members etc) drives the imbalance. If demand was being met, prices would plummet.

This factor is orthogonal to overall density. The Bay Area is expensive because there is not enough housing for the jobs. If San Jose became as dense as SF, it would not help anything, unless that growth was focused primarily on housing. But San Jose already supplies net housing and SF supplies net jobs. These are not small imbalances either; they are both 6 figures in 2008 ACS commute data. (Unfortunately that dataset seems to be compiled very infrequently, but I doubt things have changed much other than density increasing.)
This issue is NOT critical to my operations and is, in fact, irrelevant to them. I can NOT speak to any other users of letsencrypt. So I'm happy this was raised because maybe there is another, seemingly harmless incident that MAY impact my operations that will be brought up in the future.
According to the Census Bureau, the trade balance between the US <==> Netherlands is +$17B in the US's favor [0]. This seems to support OP's point.

[0] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4210.html
> Every modern TOTP app is cloud-synced

I've got a few services that only support Symantec VIP, which does not allow you to extract secrets.

> Sufficient paranoia / user training is enough to protect against phishing.

Considering how easily actual factual professional security engineers fall for phishing, I don't believe you.
Rent increases are a cause of inflation (as part of the basket of goods that defines inflation), which in turn causes interest rate increases, which then cause home price decreases.

Homes are like fixed-income securities. When interest rates go up, the value of existing securities goes down.
I don’t do a lot of front end dev. Just some personal projects here and there and I usually just slap Bootstrap on it to make things look reasonable. I had to do a bit for work and man, when I started actually reading the docs I was surprised to find things like form validation [1] out of the box! There were a few others that I forget now, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I _didn’t_ have to do. I wound up needing no extra JavaScript.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/HTML5_i...
> “People get angry about seeing the rich consuming a lot,” Sufi says, “but that’s better than what they’re actually doing.”

I’m going to use that line
The conforming loan max is different in different areas, so you'd have to look at this very regionally. 20% is hardly universal too.

When I looked, non-conforming loans had slightly higher rates, but in a sub-3% world... it wasn't a huge difference. Sometimes down payment affected the rate, sometimes it didn't. Lenders seemed to have a lot of knobs to tweak on the backend to make it work if they wanted to make the loan for clients who were shopping around.
There's already multiple rules for "primary residency", you could structure a progressive property tax off of that.
Retirement isn't the issue. Most people who live in suburban areas today close to live in low density areas. They don't want their neighborhoods to become urban regardless of what that would mean for proximity to jobs and other desirable features.

Stop trying to tell people what they ought to want. Not everyone agrees.
Does this also work for consoles or just pcs?
that's a great feature.
I really love my iPad, but changing the workflow to operate both systems is overwhelming. I can imagine myself using Universal Control everyday.
Russian tsars are likely not even native Russian speakers. I listened to a recording recently -- the accent is obvious.

Same family https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/king-george-tsar-nicholas-1...
Nice try, China.
I think this is encapsulated in the point I am making with that sentence. It may not be the work itself that people will remember, but it's how you do it.

If you are consistently someone who can be relied upon to get things done and consistently does them well, people will remember that.
As they use lightning network the reasoning that there will be high demand for block space is not a valid assumption. Theoretically, it is possible that the government of el salvador is doing a single transaction on the blockchain as channel funding and sends bitcoin via lightning to 6,4 million people from el salvador from that channel without touching the blockchain...
You mean without Amazon, we would not be buying at Whole Foods for example? You mean there are net new jobs not just jobs that may have been lost in my company? I understand Amazon's benefits, and I know someone else may not have executed as well thereby slowing progress, but who knows maybe YouTube tv with it's bundled benefit of YouTube shopping would be ruling the world and we would be discussing that :)
Citation otherwise this is just your biased anecdote.

There’s plenty of turnover in California on par with other states. If prop 13 were somehow so powerful a factor not to sell, you would see a lot less house sales which you don’t.

In my city, half the houses were sold in the last 20 years which sounds pretty good to me. The idea that property taxes are frozen to 30 years ago and governments are starving for money is fiction.

In places like Toronto where property taxes get assessed every year, the property taxes 1/3 for an equivalent house price.
I'm about 99% sure I'll get downvoted for this but how do I sell my house a pension fund? I have a house with a renter in it and I would gladly sell it to anyone who would buy it without having to displace the renter. Right now, I'm stuck holding it for a little while longer because the renter and I have an agreement.
The Magical, Mystical, Mind-Boggling Ames Window (2018)
The main Tegel terminal buildings will be converted to house research institutes; this will be the core of a project with the fancy name "Urban Tech Republic".

The eastern part of the airfield will be used to build new residential housing ("Schumacher Quartier").

These are quite ambitious plans, construction is expected to complete not before 2027.

See here for more details:

https://www.tegelprojekt.de/en.html
https://www.schumacher-quartier.de/
> Does it?

Supposedly ;)
I strongly agree with this. Relatively recently, I did a major migration to clean up some weird account states that we didn't want to support anymore, so we could launch a new feature. I spent some time writing all the SQL queries to do the migration, went into staging, ran them... and found that there were a lot of edge cases that weren't handled correctly. It was terrible. I decided to abort the SQL statement approach, and just wrote a somewhat-complicated program with extensive unit tests to handle the migration. The tests exercised the edge cases and ensured that they were accounted for correctly in the migration. (And we had time to come up with a real plan for each of them.)

When the time came to do the cut-over in production, we had a war room, ran the program, and it was all over in seconds. Everything worked perfectly and I honestly felt a little dejected how boring the most major change we had ever made as a team went. I had hyped myself up for some stressful debugging, hair pulling, restoring things from backups... but it was all over and done with perfectly in a few seconds. I didn't really know what to do with the rest of the day. It worked! Major new feature! Back to work.

I try to make all future "major" migrations equally boring. The time you spend debugging things in development is time you don't spend with production being down. Worth it every time.
Because Visa and other payment processors don't require opening an account? (e.g. a credit card, which is a much more involved process than opening a channel). Or 24 hour servers?
Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession for 70yrs?
They have the physical infrastructure to do so, but you've missed this part of article you linked:

> In order to get all those certificates replaced, we need an efficient and automated way to notify ACME clients that they should perform early renewal. Normally ACME clients renew their certificates when one third of their lifetime is remaining, and don’t contact our servers otherwise. We published a draft extension to ACME last year that describes a way for clients to regularly poll ACME servers to find out about early-renewal events. We plan to polish up that draft, implement, and collaborate with clients and large integrators to get it implemented on the client side.

Running certbot daily will currently do nothing. It won't think that the certificate needs to be replaced since it has not yet reached the limit required to renew.
Currently working at PostHog, an engineering-centric product-led startup (20-odd people currently) all our engineering teams fully own an aspect of the product and prioritize themselves. Obviously there's company-wide context and company leadership has crucial input, but since hiring optimizes for maximally self-sufficient people, there's no PMs. I'm a big fan of that as an engineer
I’ve been trying to learn Arabic since 24 September last year. Notwithstanding that my effort so far has been merely one Duolingo lesson per day, I still can’t even manage the Arabic alphabet.

(Also: Obsolete? What?)
The CCP created hundreds of millions of new jobs and brought hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty.

The CCP has its problems, but you must respect that so much economic growth has never happened so quickly for so many people in human history. A lot of people are living happier, more productive, more interesting lives because of the actions of the CCP.
It is a little bit of both, at least when it comes to maintaining a local public school’s rating. People will oppose lower income housing to prevent the children of lower income people from attending the same schools, which might cause the school’s rating to go down. Which would then be downward pressure on the price of the land.

Every real estate website has school ratings for each house listing because it is such a sought after amenity.
What would be the point? Might as well make Klingon an official language.
> This is a "no brown M&Ms" kind of violation.

I see it more as a "no brwn M&Ms" violation.

We would all assume the intent was to say no brown M&Ms, rather than imagine that no action was required.
>Multiple nations working together can form a cartel just like the oil cartel of previous years.

Is there a wheat cartel? Coal cartel? Oil cartels are only a thing because it's geographically concentrated to a few countries. Oil could be used to generate electricity, but it's by no means the only way, or the cheapest.

>My point is everything rests on this idea of 51% attacks being impossible. [...] The blockchain cannot magically solve the problems of politics and centralized power because that power can be used to control the chain too.

The possibility of 51% attacks is acknowledged in the original whitepaper, so what you're describing isn't exactly a revelation. Moreover, the presence of a flaw doesn't mean it's absolutely useless. It simply means users think the possibility is low enough that it doesn't outweigh the other benefits.

>Owning crypto in an anonymous wallet, or running your own node cannot save you from a dictator with a gun

The most advanced military in the world lost wars against a bunch of goat herders and rice farmers. Being impervious to all attacks isn't a necessary feature.

>There is fundamentally no purely technological solution to political problems in the real world. It's a distraction from the real frustration we have with democracy and centralized power in the real world.

What's your opinion on encryption, then? Is working on e2e apps a distraction from advocating for better data privacy laws? What about VPNs? Are VPNs a distraction from petitioning the government to uncensor websites? I think technological solutions have their place alongside political ones.
In the real time strategy world (eg Starcraft, Warcraft), this strategy is called “turtling”. Perceived as low risk… it’s a defensive move aimed at creating moats in hopes that you buy enough time to out tech your competition; it rarely results in a win against any real player (which the US, Germans, Russians and Chinese are) and wastes everybody’s time by creating unnecessary friction. Reason often prevails over the long term thankfully.
> Opera was first a paid browser (which limited its reach)

I'd argue that this, in combination with easy availability of pirated serials (and the actual quality of the engine, of course), contributed to Opera popularity because "why use freeware when you can use premium software (which other people supposedly even pay for) for free".

I believe this works so if I were going to release a commercial app I would make sure to put some serials on pirate sites.

Even today, if you release a new Chromium-based browser, make it paid but easily piratable it probably is going to enjoy more popularity than if you release it for free.
What is a category mistake?
Yes, as I said, you care about the monthly payment, not the lump sum price of the house.
Roskomnadzor themselves is not likely to block smtp or even imap traffic to fastmail in Russia.
I guess that is one of the few good things to be colonized by the Brits as a colony - they gave us fish & chips , tea , soccer , cricket and their language.
Honestly I think this would be fine. The problem is they allow FANG to build giant offices, which brings new 400k-income jobs and bids up the restricted supply.

I think they should be forced to choose one or the other. Keep their SFH and say no to FANG, or accept townhomes and condos to balance out the new jobs.
It’s a risk to build into the financial model, just as folks might invest in volatile countries in South America and Africa (“emerging economies”).

If you offer me a chance to turn $1M into 10x or 100x, but on some occasions, it goes to zero (either because of business or government failure), that might be a level of risk I’m willing to take based on desired yield, asset class exposure requirements, and risk tolerance/management.
> It's not like most of the things property taxes pay for are proportional to the value of the property

Exactly! The extraordinary taxes on property are a result of unfair distribution of cost of services. A city needs to collect for a budget of $X... so they distribute the costs the best they can.
> you can in firefox settings

Obviously a remnant from the Netscape codebase. They will fix it.
> Not even in Brussels.

Most people in Brussels already speak French... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francization_of_Brussels
Exactly. It has never been abandoned at all, simply and wisely re-purposed.
I'm not even sure it's reckless. Especially with rates so low, even a fairly small absolute change in interest rates can have a huge impact on the actual price you theoretically pay for the house, which includes both principal and interest. Paying way too much at 2.75% may actually be less expensive than paying a more reasonable price at 3.25%.

Meaning that, if you've got any concerns that rates might go up in the near future, you're reasonably well incentivized to get into a bidding war in order to close now instead of later.
Yes, but it turns out I came out ahead from 1990-2021 by having all my investments in the stock market instead of housing.
I like how many comments mention "you don't need a framework" and then mention how they wrote there personal bloggers in pure whatever.

Frameworks is not just some hyped up abstraction layer. Advanced frameworks offer advanced functionality for advanced projects. They really do.

They have standardized certain ways of doing things, structuring complex web applications and solving problems.

I completely agree about using a framework to build a personal blog is overkill in many ways, but don't blame the framework for that. Just like you shouldn't blame the saw for being bad at hammering in nails.