skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you have multiple Zoom calls with some one-on-one rather than a single Zoom call?

Do you have good internet? If not, upgrading it might improve the video signal.

What about something like Discord with voice setup so you can literally chat every five minutes if you want?

Could you not use one of the VR programs on Oculus Quest that create virtual meeting rooms like Spatial?

What about playing a game together once a week online? Could be something that requires a ton of cooperation like Rainbow Six.

I'm not saying that real lunches or whatever are not great and a step up in bandwidth, but I feel like if you really take advantage of all of the possibilities then you can still have social opportunities online that can build real cohesion. Which I think you are not really trying.
If you assume:

(a) the energy of the Army/Navy/Air-force supports nothing other than US currency

(b) no force would be necessary to back compliance with entries in a crypto ledger
For those who don't know what "commercial paper" is, it's like a company bond, but a short-term loan (typically 30 days) that typically pays a premium interest rate.

The problem with it is that if the company issuing it has liquidity or other problems, the buyer is stuck holding it until further notice.

Many holders were stuck with it after the 2008 crisis.

One family sold a US seaport and their investment advisor put the $1 billion proceeds into commercial paper without telling them, which they were stuck holding for over a year.

> Last March, the Federal Reserve stepped in to buy commercial paper as the pandemic led money market funds, one of the biggest buyers, to pull back.

If the Federal Reserve has to continually prop up the markets down to the level of commercial paper, then the economy hasn't really recovered since 2008. Which is why interest rates are still around 0%. This is the corrosive effect of big government, which prevents re-pricing.

If you're an investor, it's important to know that the markets stand on a foundation of quicksand, at least since 2008. So corrections will tend to overcorrect.
Anyway, as I was saying, it's amusing and baffling observing how people react with such passion and certainty.
The comment by the appropriately named “moron4hire” said the threat of punishment doesn’t work, not “prison isn’t the best form of punishment”.
Your posts are clearly designed to elicit as much outrage as possible.

Either that our you need treatment for paranoia. Not only are your incompetent employees screwing you over, but your competent employees are also out to get you by “hiding” their abilities from you. Come on.
The 300,000 warrantless secret gag orders issued by the FBI [1] are why we should be E2EEing all the things. Really disappointed that Apple held off implementing further E2EE in iCloud at the FBI's behest [2].

A lot of very personal data is not E2EE in iCloud [3]:

- Calendars

- Contacts

- iCloud Drive

- Notes

- Photos

- Reminders

- Voice Memos

- Mail

This is honestly completely unacceptable. The current 'E2EE' is basically a farce - storing this data without E2EE in the cloud creates an extremely powerful state surveillance apparatus subject to gag orders. It is irrelevant that my Memoji are E2EE when my photos, notes, files, and calendars are not.

Furthermore, the E2EE implementation might not even be true E2EE:

> When a user enables iCloud Keychain for the first time, the device establishes a circle of trust and creates a syncing identity for itself.

> When the user turns on iCloud Keychain on another device, iCloud Keychain notices that the user has a previously established syncing circle in iCloud that it isn’t a member of. The device creates its syncing identity key pair, then creates an application ticket to request membership in the circle. [4]

It follows that Apple or a malicious actor can add an invisible device to the initial keyring server-side - a virtual 'zeroth device' - and 'approve' the user's very first device. It would receive everything added to iCloud Keychain. It isn't stated if the iCloud Devices list in Settings is a cryptographically verified list of all devices. Until Apple verifies that this is the case, we cannot reasonably call iCloud Keychain E2EE.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters/faq

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

[3]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

[4]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-keychain-syn...
Ask HN: Why does archive.is track who reads submitted content via DNS
Does anyone know why archive.is tracks who has read an article. If we look at the HTML from archive.is we see they include an image link to a domain name that contains the user's IP address. Popular browsers not only run arbitrary Javascript by default, they also access image links by default. Thus the archive.is DNS server has a record of every time the page is viewed in one of these browsers (and the domain name is not cached). This includes the IP address of the person who retrieved the page.

<img style="position:absolute" width="1" height="1" src="https://[ipaddr].[country].ABCD.1234567890.pixel.archive.is/x.gif">

It seems some HN commenters have a preference for sharing links to https://archive.is as a way of avoiding Javascript obfuscation of text (so-called "paywalls").

The text being obfuscated is public, available to anyone, not only to subscribers. It is not password-protected. The website developer using the "paywall" technique simply tries to annoy the user into subscribing by obfuscating the text using Javascript. This only works if the user runs Javascript from the website. Popular browsers, most of them funded by advertising, run arbitrary Javascript by default, however Javascript can be disabled by by anyone by simply changing default settings. Most users do not change default settings. Most users use the same small number of popular browsers.

When we refrain from running Javascript and accessing image links automatically, the web becomes more readable and less annoying. We can choose a browser that is simpler than the popular ones and does fewer things automatically without user input, e.g., running Javascript and loading images.
I recently took "the compound effect" out at the library. It was one of the worst pieces of "success grifter" bullshit I've read (audiobook) in over 10 years.

A steaming pile of trash from the founder of "Success" magazine.

Imagine my surprise when I read the original source of that was an article in the pages of the same magazine.
Which of those facts would you like a citation for?
The 12 hours is a guess. IPeter Attia has talked about this. We just don’t know when autophagy kicks in in humans as we have no direct measurements or bio markers to measure yet.

I forget how they measure it in animals but I believe it results in animals no longer being among the living.
And not just on Everest, on most mountains.
He's also staff on Leenode now.
The answer is simpler than the article suggests: People who hoard precious metals or cryptocurrency have fallen for the financial-economic equivalent of Flat Earth propaganda, but unlike Flat Earth propaganda many people are not sufficiently literate in finance or economics to defend against such a destructive meme.
Assuming you mean harder than it sounds. Or, easier said than done.
As if BTC would somehow eliminate the army, navy and air-force.
Tens of millions of voters own crypto now. Rational policy != feasible policy.
>Your paper wallet might become a rather thick paper listing, though.

Why? Are you saying you'll need a bunch of new addresses? I think you'll only need 1 new address. Are you saying the addresses or stored private keys will be gigantic? I don't think that needs to be the case. Current addresses are just hashes, they can stay hashes and thus be small. Private keys don't need to be stored, only a seed needed to generate a private key needs to be stored.
It's a psyop, the navy is trying to fool other nations into wasting
their money on BS technology.
I've read a fair share of Austrian Economics and they certainly don't believe that gold was an awful reserve. I have yet to hear a credible argument against the use of gold as a global reserve currency other than the fact that countries can cheat by lying about their reserves such as they did during WWI.

If you have reasoning to back your claim that gold was an awful reserve currency, I would love to hear it.
You are right, I conflated both by mistake
Looking at the document, it seems like they make pretty strong judgments about the numbers they found even though they don't compare those numbers to any alternatives.

For example, who's to say that 59 minutes/day looking up knowledge isn't the cutting edge of what's possible, for the type and size of organization they consider? Probably far better than cabinets of paper archives.
In my view, the energy cost of crypto is on top of the cost of the mainstream system. The mainstream system is what supports great ventures such as widespread energy distribution, manufacturing of computers, telecommunications, international shipping, and so forth. And it provides the goods and services that are worth spending bitcoins on.

Note I've had similar debates with my kids: "Why don't we just replace the entire economy and political system with X?"
It's probably a sane choice for most products to -not- prepare for very rare disasters like a hundred year pandemic. After all, markets optimize for profit, not convenience or safety.

These shortages will all smooth out relatively soon. It can cost a lot of money to be prepared for everything.
That requires a MITM. A typical cybercriminal isn't in a position to MITM me. But every cybercriminal on the internet is in a position to steal my bitcoins (if they can break bitcoin crypto).
> Bitcoin now is basically too big to fail.

That phrase, are you really going to use that without a /s ?
My guess is they're trying to classify behaviors like glancing off in some direction repeatedly to look at a cheat sheet or a phone, the same things human proctors watch for.

Presumably the system can fail to accurately estimate the gaze direction for some people because they are too different from the design assumptions made. i don't really think that's the same as phrenology. It's more akin to BMI being a poor estimate of obesity for bodybuilders.
I'm using a Lenovo Duet ($170 on amazon right now) which is a mediatek powered arm tablet. it came with a keyboard and a stand that pair with it perfectly and it works like a surface go. I do all of my work on it for over a year now where most things are either run inside of the linux vm or pinning PWA's to the homescreen. since most desktop apps are made cross platform through having a web version and having full chrome extensions makes me easily leave behind any "native apps"

the concept of saving a lot of money, having 20hr+ battery life and no way to brick the computer (unless I really try) is kind of incredible, especially since this came out way before my patience ran out for the m1 macbooks.

I can still imagine someone wanting a premium chromeos experience since just having a logged in session of chrome is super powerful in being able to store your internet knowledge through bookmarks and history. While the trend of ignoring native apps accelerates it seems foolish to use something like windows these days and running it in chromeOS mode where accessing information or connected chat apps like slack might as well not be electron apps and be PWA's not running their own browser instance :/
I also don't drive a really big car, and I think it's stupid as well.

So, now we're at two things I don't do because they're bad for the environment.
No, PoW can be parallelized, but VDF/PoET cannot, that's why it's also called PoSW.

PoW (Proofs of Work)
PoSW (Proofs of Sequential Work)
VDF (Verifiable Delay Function)
PoET (Proof of Elapsed Time)
This is goofy. The worldwide Bitcoin network uses about 12 GW, mostly renewable, because Bitcoin mining is unprofitable if it's using anything but the absolute cheapest electricity, and scalable renewable electricity is about a third the price of fossil-fuel electricity now, with the gap constantly widening. By comparison, China built 71.7 GW(p!) of new wind energy capacity last year, and the world economy uses 18000 GW.

Worrying about today's Bitcoin mining is as silly as worrying about plastic straws. Maybe in the future Bitcoin mining could become an environmental disaster, but today it's insignificant.

Further details in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27449443 and https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall....
Bare with me, I think everyone needs to understand (1) why the secret courts are so important and (2) some of the damage done.

First, the steele dossier was paid for by the Clinton foundation (basis for “Trump Russian collusion”).

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/Steele20...

The fbi knew this. Why was this important? It was what directly led a secret FISA warrant being used by the Obama administration using NSA, FBI, etc resources to spy on trump (recall Hilary was part of that administration AND was running for president. Biden was also part of the administration)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Optimized.pdf

So we are clear. This is 100x worse than watergate so far, but it continues...

It appears the NSA director had an unauthorized meeting with trump after which Trump held many meetings in golf courses

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/502980006/reports-suggest-nsa...

Then as the article this article is discussing the “Trump Justice Department” really refers to special council muller investigating the White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/us/politics/justice-depar...

Yes, I agree these need to stop. But will any of these people ever be held accountable? No.

Most people don’t even know all of this, EVEN THOUGH it’s in the public record. So no one is getting rid of these secret courts, it’s too powerful a political weapon.

The entire “russian collusion” thing was fake. The fake report was propagated by the news (and still a lot of people believe it), but importantly it was used to have our secret courts decimate our president. I say “our” not because I agreed with the man, never voted for him. But he was our president. Had the secret courts and BS not been there we probably would have had a different view on trump.

Yes the courts need to disappear. As does all the ex-cia, ex-nsa and ex-fbi working in media. The media is controlling our view of this whole story and not telling anyone the truth. The media is propagating these stories and the ex-three-letter-agency “analysts” for CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc then make claims running cover and in fact fabricating evidence.
We don't know the best arguments against secret gag orders because of secret gag orders.
no, your toaster is
Internet brainwashing “ but it uses electricity” never mind the fact proof of work is on it’s fourth generation of hardware and the price absolutely coo relates with the cost to play the game.

We’re opining about a system that finally, for the first time in the history of man, might accurately price the cost of the electricity consumed to power the system.

It’s pretty mind boggling but that’s the internet for you.
Check out Toastmasters. It's all about speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International
if we want to maintain cohesion and engagement, we must have something that binds us together.

current and past mainstream religions are not capable of achieving this. they were not meant to. they did achieve it for the society at the time they were founded, but the world has moved on and religions stagnated.

and it's not just society at a national level. we live in a global society. our interconnections worldwide are to deep to be able to separate societies by nation.

a religion today must be capable of creating cohesion and engagement on a global scale. it must bear scrutiny from all angles indeed, from every corner of this planet.

if we can't find a religion that is capable of achieving this, then indeed we may be better off without any religion.
> watch some videos of what actual Hindu gurus say.

I am watching videos of what actual hindu gurus are saying and quoting hindu texts

https://twitter.com/DalitChef/status/1283967349691826184?s=1...

Right from the horses mouth. Quoting prabhupada.

https://twitter.com/Devendrakumar_/status/128447931018772890...

More knowledge from Prabhupada. Click on the video to hear him explain clearly.

"The word dharma is used. Dharma means occupational duty. Dharma does not mean some religious sentiment. No. Natural division and the occupational duty."

Mixing of varna is deleterious to society.

https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/The_Vedic_civilization_is_varnas...
intriguing... your profile bio is down fyi
Maybe if AMD starts caring about ROCm, users might. To this day Navi and newer cards are unsupported.
this was probably one of the most knowledgeable articles I have read on this site

I hope someday I would have the domain knowledge of something to write like the author
Bitcoin is fairly unique in its energy use. Almost every other use of resources will try to be more efficient if it can be.

If, for example, it were possible to create steel alloy in a way that took 1% less energy or made less waste (and thus was presumably cheaper at scale), the trucks would use this slightly more efficient steel.

On the other hand, Bitcoin relies on wasting a certain monetary value of energy for the security of the network. Its waste is adversarial. If we manage to produce 2x the electricity tomorrow and it becomes significantly cheaper, that just means a 51% attack also became much cheaper so people need to waste even more energy mining.

I can't think of any other uses of energy offhand that so actively resist any improvements. I can think of other intentional forms of waste (like dumping toxic waste, "rolling coal", etc), but I can't think of any that are aligned such that making upstream production of a resource more efficient then requires producing even more waste and environmental damage.
He’s talking about the fact that India’s ruling class for a long time has been western-educated and rejected the people’s populist instincts: https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial...

> Nehru and Jinnah led India and Pakistan to independence as the brown-skinned Westerners Thomas Macaulay had envisioned a century earlier. South Asian in appearance and pedigree, the leaders of these two nations nevertheless personified a fundamental truth about the Western orientation of the new Asian states.

We had the same in Bangladesh. Westernized university-educated people like my dad trying to impose secular democracy on a deeply Muslim country. Didn’t last.
Maybe because they have ratcheted up production to try and handle demand. A lumberyard filled to the brim doesn't mean what you think it means if that entire yard full is being sold and replenished every week.
Baffling that tech types here aren’t grasping digital money, basicaly a self custody PGP key with value, and instead defending the status quo with poorly researched FUD like layer 1 scaling limits, power usage, and fear of regulators!? You guys sound like Paul Krugman, meanwhile Tesla and MicroStrategy are taking all the trending bitcoins off the table… the only point I disagree with LynAlydn, who wrote a great article, is that Bitcoin doesn’t offer yield. You can get yield on Bitcoin by either loaning it out or staking in in the lightning network to collect fees for providing liquidity.
Yes, at present Bitcoin is a trinket in the global scheme of things, a small toy compared to most other major economic items. Facebook is worth more than Bitcoin.

One of the things frequently intentionally neglected in Bitcoin discussions, is that it will die. It is guaranteed to die. It's a human invented digital technology, there is no long-term scenario where we don't kill it off through replacement and or competition. We'll be constantly inventing new cryptos, that process will never stop. The odds of Bitcoin maintaining its crown long-term are not good, for all sorts of reasons (not least of which are vast dilution through competition and regulation; eg nations heavily restricting foreign/external cryptos and only allowing official national fake crypto currencies (digital currencies), as China is speeding toward). We can and will replace Bitcoin with something better. And then we'll replace that too.

People that are irrationally, emotionally bound up in Bitcoin will fight you to the death to deny that. Bitcoin is not a forever technology, it's transitory. But who gives a shit about Bitcoin per Bitcoin, click, click, no more Bitcoin, I just moved my Bitcoin over to X blah coin that is better. The coins don't matter unto themselves, they're merely vessels for holding or moving value, nothing more. A crypto investor should always be prepared to abandon ship for something superior and maintain a rational independence from becoming emotionally biased toward a given coin. It's no different than understanding to not fall in love, so to speak, with stocks (or commodities, and so on).

The tragedy of Bitcoin is that as it fades away and gets replaced, it'll leave a giant environmental blackhole in its wake. There will be a question as to whether it was a mistake (was there a better alternative beginning technology for cryptos), or whether it was absolutely necessary to learn from to spark the field (and if so, was it necessary to go so far with it before abandoning it).

Besides the replacement factor, there is no scenario where major world governments allow Bitcoin to replace central bank controlled fiat currencies. Give up a huge source of their power, give up the ability to free-spend, 'print,' steal & paper over fiscal mistakes via inflation? Ha, yeah right. It's hilariously trivial for major governments to dictate financial matters within their own borders. Outlaw Bitcoin and throw a bunch of people into prison for using it and they'll instantly see 99%+ compliance, that's how easy it is to relegate Bitcoin to the fringe. All the largest economies are already priming their moves to squeeze crypto via intensifying regulation, to make sure it stays in the corner where they're willing to tolerate it.
War in Libya was initiated to prevent erosion of the US dollar as a world reserve currency among the other things. You are free to calculate how much energy went into it. I am sure there are more big energy consuming "contributions" in facilitating current financial system.
>I think that changes with Taproot though, otherwise native mutisig would not work

Can you elaborate on this? AFAIK taproot only makes it so you don't have to divulge the non-executed branches of code, but everything still uses hashes/ecdsa signatures so the threat model stays the same.
Could divisive click bait titles become the new journalism?
https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs describe a high-end dedicated machine, perhaps out of range for most individual hobbyists. But it seems perfectly sane for any reasonable-scale business building nontrivial features on top of Solana to run its own validator. And https://docs.solana.com/clusters describes exactly how to run validators that connect to the test and mainline-beta networks.

IMHO that's more than enough to provide robust decentralization. I can't speak to Solana's other claims but there seems to have been a ton of thought put into the scalability of the system.
What does being a "tech type" have anything to do with currency?
> No, ad buyers are businesses. As much as business interests have been trying to redefine negative impact on consumers as including out-competing rival companies, that’s not what it means.

That's a bit of a non sequitur.

Ad-buying businesses aren't, generally, rivals to the ad-selling platform. It isn't necessarily a bad model to treat them as consumers, or at least as proxies for actual consumers. The cost of monopoly rents being passed on to consumers isn't a particularly controversial proposition.