skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "average consumer" should be educated on different types of financial ownership by the state run media/financial press: custodial-legacy (Barclays), custodial-challenger (Revolut), defacto-custodial(arguably all centralized crypto exchanges..e.g. you can move the crypto off it), non-custodial (Meta Mask) etc. Then they should be allowed to risk or derisk as they see fit by choosing the most competitive option on the market. IMO stability in the economy comes from having a large number of prosumer types who can take activist positions when they need to, simply by quickly switching provider and getting a better deal or supporting something in their interest or to their taste. This is especially important considering the real alternative DeFi provides versus bank based lending and slippery financial constructs endemic in that industry (wasn't it the latter that caused 2008? Nearly any alternative is better than that situation.).

Other points:

- KYC exists on most of the major crypto exchanges with Coinbase and Gemini doing this properly. Proof that it works in the long term is not there yet of course.

- Fraud mostly happens through the traditional banking system. It's more complicated and embedded in how things are done but it's still fraud. The BBC on Barclays role in 2008: "At its worst, for every £100 the banks had lent, if as little as £3 or £4 failed to be repaid, it might be enough to bankrupt them."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51593639

- I struggle to see the sharp differences between a Coinbase or Binance (ok minus the overleveraged trading on the latter) and a Revolut or Monzo. Both allow different ways of accessing crypto within custodial model, have KYC, have a debit card. The only difference is how they have each responded to poorly formulated regulatory frameworks (2-3 years ago). Once again, binance sucks in so many ways but there's still something incredibly misleading about the way it is covered.

- Tether is no good but Dai is an excellent alternative. In any case, Tether operates similarly to many banks where 1:1 shadowing of money held/money deposited is obviously never going to work out as a profitable business model. Tether is not viable long term but neither are most banks then.

These things aside, my main overall point here is that:

- UK financial institutions should protect consumers but should not create information asymmetries (via state run media and highly influential financial press) that heavily predispose a certain outcome in the favour of a tiny subset of companies innovating in this space. For example, FUD focussed on a single company that is directly competing with Revolut or Monzo. This is anticompetitive in my view and there is such a lack of clarity on what is acceptable that it is likely to stifle any innovation going forward.
It’s not really that rare, there’s a reason for the common saying in public choice, “concentrated benefits, dispersed costs”.

Think subsidies. Industry specific subsidies (e.g. farmer subsidies) are popular, while industry wide subsidies (e.g. tax cuts for business) aren’t.
It could be something intangible, an emergent property, you know it when you find it sort of thing.
If the central trusted ledger starts censoring transactions, blocking users or producing invalid blocks with additional rewards to themselves, then what? Just keep going with it and accept the new reality? Then we would be back at what we have now - the current central bank monetary system.

Trustless decentralized architecture makes the Bitcoin network incredibly robust against attacks on its principles. It can't be changed (without users/capital switching over to new version), stopped or censored by anyone.
That’s actually a myth. Global cooling was a small minority of published papers in climatology at the time. They were many more papers discussing warming.

Source: https://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/131047.pdf

P.S. I learned this watching the excellent video by Veritasium on climate change misconceptions:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU
Crypto isn't money.
I still doubting that regular consumers will go out of their way to buy Linux Ready Laptops/Gaming PCs (and no they’re not installing Linux on their computers) I think HN in general severely overestimates how willing to normal consumer is to use Linux over Windows and how much utility Windows has.
You both might find https://stitcherd.vhodges.dev/ interesting then.
"Find work that feels like play" apply here.
CS/Engineering problem are not easy but always feel like game to me. Chasing fad(picking major)/money to me is like cart pulling the horse. I get it but not for me.
Afaik they don’t charge any brokerage fees. From what I gather, they use PFOF (payment for order flow) to get revenue, instead. This essentially means that they sell the information on the just placed customer orders to 3rd parties, so that those 3rd parties can front-run the trades and skim the profit off of RH customers.
Like you said, the biggest corporations have become mini-states with enormous power. I don't know what the solution is, but assigning them, however informally, the role of deciding on ethical standards isn't a sustainable solution to government ineffectiveness. I don't disagree that the mechanisms of government are in a sorry state, but this happened _despite_ all the built in checks and balances. I worry what the approach you're suggesting is going to lead to after a few decades, considering you're using a mechanism (corporations) that evolved for one purpose; to make money.

I do see where you're coming from regarding cynicism. I don't find it ethical to allow corporations to sell cigarettes to 12 year olds in countries where that's legal, but I'd rather they be allowed to do that than to take up the role of ethical enforcers, further taking away that burden from government and reducing the pressure for meaningful reform.

I guess I also have less faith in our ethical standards than you do. We're not yet at a state where we have a coherent, stable ethical framework. Things that were condemned 20 years ago are being celebrated, and we seem to be in a state of constant change and instability. It's why I feel foolish taking stances on what is and isn't abhorrent for other nations. I most certainly don't want to live in China or have Chinese-style laws in my country, but at the same time I'm not in a position where I can praise or condemn the Chinese for how they're doing things. Strong-arming the world into mirroring my ethical standards is only going to lead to even more division and hatred, rather than the desired result of a more ethical world. Expecting other nations to smile when we criticize them and condemning them when they don't listen is unrealistic.

As for your last point, I suppose it's the free-will of the consumer to punish corporations in the only way they respond to; their bottom line. This is effective when it comes to product and service quality, in that if you don't like it don't buy it. The corporation has to either improve its offerings or lose its market position. But the result of asking them to take ethical positions turns things into a PR game with no meaningful results other than making the public feel better. For example, Blizzard didn't internally change or have an ethical awakening after what they did. All they're going to do is invest more into PR to avoid looking bad in the future. Nothing changes. If you've had any interaction with the sorts of people that rise to senior positions in _any_ corporation you'll realize such people, like politicians, are incapable of any sort of genuine ethical conviction.
(17b) End-to-end encryption is an important tool to guarantee secure and confidential communications of users, including those of children. Any weakening of encryption could potentially be abused by malicious third parties. Nothing in this Regulation should therefore be interpreted as prohibiting or weakening end-to-end encryption.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/202...
> This is just FIRE without the money.

I love how you framed this as a bad thing. As if FIRE was something one has to earn after years and years of wage slavery.

> Kids will make zero plans to use school to make themselves useful.

> So you'll have a population that is incapable of doing anything useful, demanding a middle class lifestyle, for free.

That assumption has been disproved time and again.
People buying your stuff on ebay or from the thrift store are not going to desolder the flash chip and solder it into an identical board.

They'll just move on to an easier target.

It's like locking the door on your house. Sure, someone really wanting to get in will bypass it. Opportunistic criminals, which are the vast majority, will just move on. You just have to not be the slowest guy in the herd running away from the leopard.
Nah, that’s not true if you use a container with cheap enough cost per storage-kWh, for instance salt caverns. In fact we ALREADY use them for seasonal natural gas storage. The references to this toy model show how to get extremely low cost per storage-kWh, as cheap as 0.7 € per kWh. (So amortized over 20 years, that’s a pretty small addition to the energy cost). https://model.energy
Details on the salt cavern hydrogen storage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.05.059

Or think in context of this liquid air (or compressed air) battery.

If you can get liquid air or compressed air batteries to cost $300/kWh or so, hydrogen in the same container compressed to the same degree can store about 100 times the energy (especially if sub-cooled). So the storage cost (if dominated by the container structure) drops by a factor of ~100. That’s $3/kWh for storage, if you don’t use salt caverns. Not great if only amortized over 20 years (plus the bad round-trip efficiency), but also not terrible if it’s only used for like 5% of the electricity needs.

And that’s the real issue with seasonal storage: no one needs it really until you get to 95-100% decarbonization of the grid. Otherwise, best to use like a few gas turbines or something as backup/seasonal power. So investing a bunch of storage when you haven’t even built out a bunch of solar or wind, yet, is kind of suboptimal. Good to do demo plants, though, so you can get ready with the tech for when you DO need to decarbonize that last 5% or so.
The EU has around 450 million residents. And hey, maybe a portion of your 50 % start hyper disruptive start-ups in, say, Berlin. There they can really contribute.
Sure. It's a good excuse to get the word regurgitate in an HN title.
Fair enough.

I personally imagined much more of a "well we're a shoe company...anyone got any ideas for new models? Well then, how about one with fancy laces?" situation, and that seemed plausible enough.
console.trace() is also a nice declarative shortcut (may not be compatible with your logging setup, but convenient locally)
I think it's worth remembering that climate change isn't just heat waves. The same will also protect you well from cold spells, but you should build a home that fairs well with other extreme weather too.

It didn't get much publicity, but last weekend there was an F4 tornado that destroyed a number of villages in the Czech Republic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651
This certainly looks like good practice to me, but it could be undone by insider trading, which could ignore the blue dust supply chain. The article flirts with the possibility of there having been insider trading here, but does not seem to come to any definite conclusions. Given the weaker reporting rules of those days, it may be impossible to say.
Many people like living where they are for reasons in addition to it's close to an office. And most of them will have an option to go into an office as was the pre-pandemic case although it may not be the same experience any longer for better or worse.
when this happens the product dies. in my mind it’s as if audacity never existed. hopefully a project emerges from a forked code base that’s useable going forward.
> UBI I can see can diminishing the ability for the same laborers to obtain affordable food, housing, and transportation.

I don't understand how this follows. I was with you until then, but IMHO UBI might negatively affect middle/upper class who relies most on lower class paid labor (things like cleaning, delivery, cooking, repairs). But people who provide these services already can and have to do them themselves, I don't see how UBI causing rising labor costs hurts them.
There was no intent to ridicule. The answer is that the policy is (1) unsustainable, not unlike a Ponzi scheme, and also (2) even prior to its inevitable collapse, such a policy distorts investment choices and thus makes society as a whole increasingly poorer. Note that there are similar policies that can be more sensible. For example, you can tax wealth and use the proceeds to gradually pay off some of the national debt. (Note that even these policies are typically only resorted to during emergencies, such as war.)
In the US major banks will sometimes ask you that if you withdraw a large sum or take out a cashiers check. I always tell them it’s not their business and I get back generic lines about how it is for my safety or they’re just trying to help.
> Regions becoming uninhabitable, sea levels rising, mass extinctions.

Every single one of those things has already started happening.

Sea level rise is already starting to threaten low lying coastal areas, including places like Miami beach where sea water is more and more frequently seeping up through porous bedrock and flooding roads and other public spaces. It's also exacerbating the effects of king tides and creating far more destructive storm surges.

Parts of India are more frequently hitting the wet bulb temperature where humans can no longer survive, something which will occur with increasing frequency.

And we're smack in the middle of a major mass extinction event.

What more do you want?
This reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”. One of the themes, and I have no idea if it really happened, is that mathematicians worked with the Allied armed forces to bury the signals of their future actions. They end up doing things like launching fake paratrooper landings in Norway to cover the signs of the impending D-Day attack - all mathematically calculated to generate maximum entropy.

My second thought : I’m a little surprised that the use of lithium in nuclear weapons represented enough of an increase in the total demand to boost the stock price that much.
Fine, but what's the argument that this proposal will restructure the economy in a freedom-promoting direction? What's the argument that this is a move in the US direction, instead of away?
The OLAP cube needs to come back, as an optimization of a data-warehouse-centric workflow. If you are routinely running queries like:

SELECT dimension, measure
FROM table
WHERE filter = ?
GROUP BY 1

You can save a lot of compute time by creating a materialized view [1] of:

SELECT dimension, filter, measure
FROM table
GROUP BY 1, 2

and the query optimizer will even automatically redirect your query for you! At this point, the main thing we need is for BI tools to take advantage of this capability in the background.

[1] https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/views-materialized....
I’d argue that copyright is still relevant when the source code isn’t published. It’s not too difficult to copy an algorithm from a binary even if you don’t have the source.
GOAT as the OG of his field
You get to run both a heat engine, on the temperature difference, and a turbine, on the resulting boiled-off gas. So, you get benefit of thermodynamics both ways. Furthermore, the heat engine uses heat pumped out and saved from liquifying the gases.

It is typically a mistake to assume people behind an innovative development, that they are spending $150M on, are idiots.
A Twitter addict realizes she needs rehab
It will literally put me to sleep.
My point entirely. The EU already has more freedom than the US, in sense. UBI would only increase that difference, and would by no means make the EU more like the US. And again, the EU is made up of independent nations, so these EU/US comparisons are already wrong.
The problem is price distortion and that whatever you do, prices will be raised until a section of society can barely survive because essentially enough people tend to make bad decisions and live beyond their means that sellers will raise their prices to whatever the market will bear, and there are always people willing to buy things they can’t afford.

Attempts to shape markets tend to do this.
When you consider the number that are required to supply our entire grid reliably (if even possible), it is. The only way to do it and maintain capacity is to use renewables alongside things like nuclear (or stay with fossil fuels and adapt our living habits).

Don't forget about the turtles, too: https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environm...

It's not a question of morality, but of mathematics. Can we sustainably and consistently produce enough energy using those methods long-term?

If the answer is "no," fooling ourselves into believing it's "yes" for the sake of ego/emotional pacification is setting us up for failure. I do believe the answer may be yes eventually, but on the current doomer timeline (always shifting but afaik the current doomsday is in ~12 years), the answer will remain "no."

Edit: rough solar panel efficiency stats https://archive.ph/Vh1Qj
Symbols + Maps have some neat gotchas that are good to be aware of.

For example, if you use Symbols as keys in an object, Object.keys() or for...of/in will NOT return/iterate over those keys. You have to use Object.getOwnPropetySymbols()...
Would you mind sharing the specific ones you use?
When would you say this cultural identity developed? Because there are millions of people in this country that can remember a time when the top marginal tax rate was above 90%.
Excellent! I'll look into actually implementing this before making further comments, since I'm sure I'll find out such things as I do :P

Edit: the package I'm using to generate the feeds does not support that attribute yet, so it'll have to wait a bit for my PR to hopefully be accepted: https://github.com/jpmonette/feed/pull/158

Thanks for the pointers!
I'm tired of such preoccupation on some nebulous notion of "rationality," when any cursory reading of philosophy, particularly of mathematics, informs one of the subjectivity inherent in the choice of one's axioms and definitions, especially amidst type theory's recent resurgence.

So, no: "rationality" is not common knowledge. Perhaps I don't accept the Axiom of Choice, yet you do? Perhaps my definition of "authority" differs from yours?

I am reminded of Richard Hofstadter, who said something to the effect of: "anti-intellectualism is the idea that my ignorance is just as good as your expertise."
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virtually all of the web based offerings are intentionally crippled or just bad these days though. i do not use apps when i can. installing them and not allowing notifications is pretty darn good but every single one ive used bugs me to enable notifications on a regular basis and i uninstall and try to tolerate web version again
The service itself was broken for a very long time, did it become active again?
But, why do they need to store IP-address at all? It don't see what good it can do.
Why the Current Monetary and Financial System Is a Losing Gamefor 99%OfthePeople
this is excellent advice and one of the ways i have gotten back on the horse after falling off is to restrain myself from feeling guilty for easing back into it by only running 10 minutes or so on a mostly level route. running a little every day is much much better than not running at all
Was FB objectively wrong for firing him and he was a good employee? When you say FB tried to sweep it under the rug - what were they exactly in the wrong for? Losing your job being the reason to commit suicide sounds like this employee had bigger mental health issues.

Not defending FB, and I don’t use their products nor believe in anything they’re doing.
yeah that would do it. i didn't notice that... I guess like the other commenter said it could be done with a pseudo tabgroup kind of thing where you move the tabs in a specific ordering but you'd lose the coloring that is native to tabgroups in chrome.
I used to fall asleep thinking about the next cool app or website I could build.

Now I think "is another reddit/tiktok/silly app/game reeeallly worth doing when all big apps are a trade off for other things like privacy etc" - I feel I talk myself out of things before trying them.

I hope it is repeated lockdowns and covid life in general right now that has destroyed my optimism and not intellectual maturity.
No, I disagree on the fact that they are « publishers » at all. Reviewers, for sure, and they still get paid for that.

But being a publisher means being an intermediate between the author and the reader, which they are not since when I buy the right to read a publication, 0% of my money goes to author.

And even, I could be ok to pay them to compensate access fees (lol !) but I prefer using their concurrent (Sci-Hub)

I call this a mafia. The fact it is legal don’t change my view on it.
An algorithm is a reasoning procedure. A program (e.g. a browser) embodies many algorithms.

I've not come across your stipulation that for a thing to count as an algorithm it must provably halt, but I can go along with that. So I'd argue that in most cases, any function or subroutine provably terminates, even if the program embodying it is not supposed to terminate.

I also don't agree that an algorithm is "just maths". At least, not if you then pivot to saying that a browser isn't "just maths". Any operation performed by a computer is "just maths", because what a CPU does is basically arithmetic and branching.

I don't think it's a question of what does and doesn't "deserve" IP protection. The source code of a browser is clearly an original work, and entitled to protection. But the ideas and procedures it embodies are not "works", and copyright isn't supposed to apply to ideas and procedures.

I'm against the very idea of "intellectual property". It must have seemed a good idea at the time, but I think patents and copyrights have become monsters that inhibit, rather than encourage, innovation and creativity.
If you're taking a family camping vacation every time you stop the car it's going to be a 15-20 minute minimum stop by the time everyone climbs out, goes to the bathroom, and gets loaded back in. I don't believe you can transport 3 or more people without needing to stop at least once every 3-4 hours.

Here in Canada things are way, way further apart than Europe and car travel to vacation is often many hours or days apart. I have taken a number of EV road trips and I have not had to stop more often or stay longer than I would have in a gas car. Charging speeds and range are only getting better, but they are already well into low/no impact territory.
They are talking about dilution.