skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this feels more like they know they can get them on these crimes, easily, without involving other countries. Lying to banks is pretty trivial to nail them to the wall for. "Hey I'm a real estate company" - "sir these look like crypto deposits?" - "no, I don't think so." That kind of thing.

It's like getting Capone on tax evasion.

Once they've got them behind bars they can start untangling the clusterf*ck.

Thing is untangling the clusterf*ck is likely a multinational, mutli-party, multi-year effort but lying to Wells should be cut and dried. Remember it took 17 countries cooperating to unwind Liberty Reserve and that was a fraction of the scale and audacity. This will allow them to end it the fastest way possible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion lists it as an example, along with other reactions that also all result in the fused nucleus decaying into alpha particles.
Culture can evolve. We have a very selfist culture. It is possible to evolve a culture that values the common good for more than our society does.

There are many parents who don't pass on anything to their children beyond what they did to get them to adulthood, believing the best thing to bequeath your child is a solid upbringing and strong sense of responsibility, independence rather than entitlement and dependence. And there are many children, like myself, who want no inheritance, who even think it immoral to take any.
> It's almost like there's something backing USDT as well even though it's all nonsense.

Yes. Speculation and their ~~criminal conspirators~~ exchanges.

> Another truth is governments force their citizens to use their own currencies.

Absolutely. Not a single person in this thread has argued otherwise. What's your point? How does that somehow make something else more stable? If the government is the big bad wolf, what's stopping it from using that same force to blow USDT's house down? What army and treasury is going to rescue USDT when it crashes? (And it will crash, eventually, just like every other market in history has, whether its due to Tether's negligence or external pressures)
I'd agree with much of that.
Interesting. The fungal production process for making citric acid leaves traces of fungal allergen in the product. Some people are sensitive enough that they suffer a reaction when consuming citric acid made this way.

Depending on how common the reactions are, it sounds like there needs to be a warning on food packaging (like for peanuts) or assays developed for the allergens plus further purification of citric acid destined for human consumption.
Or, you know, have a functioning public transport system. Oh well...
Don't call it Web 3.0 - these projects have proven very little to imply they are the true next progression of the "Web."

Most of the use-cases don't even especially benefit from decentralization. The main reason they have blockchains and coins is so the project founders can cash out the moment they release a mainnet (thus getting paid by the fans they hype up.)

Look at dfinity (ICP) for a recent example. First week or two it was selling for as high as $600ish and as low as almost $150. Now it goes for $44. Someone is always holding the founders' bag - their newfound cash came from somewhere!

EDIT: upon googling, it appears dfinity is getting sued for this potential pump and dump
It's kinda both. The distinction breaks down a little.
I have every intention of following the guidelines. It doesn't exempt me from being aware of reality, and there are times when the guidelines and events in reality clash. This makes your job as a moderator (I take it that's something you do?) unreasonably difficult.

I'm very sorry about that. The fact that reality makes it unreasonably difficult doesn't mean reality stops happening, and your efforts are appreciated even when they can't be completely effective (because some participants will not honor your rules or operate in good faith).

It's tough all over, and it's important to respect our intentions. The goal is to get back to good faith one day :)
"[We’ve also] found that younger workers are more likely than older employees to accept smaller pay increases for non-monetary benefits, including extensive mental health benefits, unlimited sick time, flexible work hours and remote work options"

(potentially noteworthy for future employers; credit PwC survey linked in the article)
I don't know what regions you're referring to, but my family gets $75/acre rent on their land when their lessees plant alfalfa and $300/arce when they plant potatoes. In the Central Valley, they can grow even better crops than potatoes.
Why is that surprising? If you look at the last 50 years of extremist violence in the US, there is a significant divide between right and left wing extremism. Left wing extremism used to be more common in the US, but it was mostly during the beginning of the 20th century. During that time, it was mostly leftists that were being targeted.
just because you don't use it or put in the effort to look at different decentralized projects doesn't mean there are "no use-cases".

I think with the amount of activity on AAVE and yearn, plus the growth these projects have received have killed that argument. Very 2017 argument that no longer makes any sense and is presented by luddites.

Most the bottlenecks right now to why you don't have day-to-day apps deployed on ecosystems like ethereum is because of the gas prices. You have hundreds of very intelligent developers working to decrease this to fractions of a cent.

There are legit architectural changes like proof-of-staking and L2-proposed changes that will for sure reduce the price of a function invocation in ethereum.

But you probably don't care about this, because you'd rather hang your nose high and pretend that you're much smarter than a whole ecosystem of extremely talented developers (including some award winners). Enjoy that feeling mate, it's not going to last long and it's all entirely ego-based.
I have three extra buttons on my mouse. One is set to Alt+Tab, another to Alt+Tab+Tab, and the last to push-to-talk. I get by fine with one monitor now.
I mean that you are one of several. Hence the running joke is the "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" and not "that one rust guy."

An evangelist/growth focused role is exactly what a promoter is. If you spend large numbers of typical work-hours, which I'm assuming you're paid for, on social media to promote something, like Rust, or you go to conferences and events to speak publicly in promotion of something like Rust, then a "paid promoter" seems like a pretty accurate description.

Is that disparaging? Is that not what you are doing right now?
> The new electric trucks plummet on mileage if they are carrying weight.

Source? Supposedly the F-150 Lightning numbers are including 1000 lbs of cargo. So a full cabin of people still supposedly getting the stated 300 miles on a full charge (For the extended range.)
No problem, glad I could help - that does clarify where you're coming from. Interestingly, when Brendan Eich was creating JavaScript, he actually intended to make it more like Scheme before his supervisors pushed him to make the syntax more like Java. So I think your thought process is inline with his original intentions.

When you say minimal surface area and "whole thing fits in your head," I can't help but think of the Alpine.js API. Although I'm still mixed on how I feel about Alpine, I can't deny how beautifully simple the API & docs are for it.

I also wonder whether web assembly could play a part in what you're suggesting. It's a part of the web platform, would potentially help with providing robust in-browser tooling... even the S-expressions of human-readable .wat files look rather Lisp-like, albeit too low-level for most frontend work. But I don't know wasm that well, just thinking out loud.
It doesn't matter at all, I'm here to do a job and get paid. We aren't family, I don't even like most of them.
> I would never buy a Tesla because I see better options in the EV space

Tesla might not be your taste, but every test and comparison shows that Tesla is at the top or at least incredible competitive.

> To me that's always been the best way to handle these sorts of things, to introduce competition and win people over.

That's exactly what has happened already.

> I also don't really fault Toyota for pursuing hydrogen

You mean talking about hydrogen while trying to prevent cleaner fuel laws and zero emission vehicles. Yeah you really can't blame gigantic cooperation from lobbying against the environment. Where would we be if cooperation could be criticized like that.

> I realize it's not as fully there yet as EVs, but EVs aren't either

EV are going totally gang busters and are on a massive growth curve. They are on an incredibly fast adoption curve, as faster then many expected and its going faster. They are there, but it still needs time.

> In fact, if the EV market is so healthy, maybe the government should be subsidizing alternatives like hydrogen?

Why? Why would you dumb money in a technology stack that has gotten government money for 50 years and has shown absolutely no success what so ever and is worse for the environment by far. What is the logic in that.

Seems much more important to replace ICE vehicles then to fight EV with FCV. Wouldn't you say?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/synthetix-is-already-tokenizi...

"The Synthetix (SNX) project, one of the biggest ecosystems in decentralized finance (DeFi), recently launched the Hadar upgrade, which enabled tokenized real-world assets like Brent oil and the Nikkei stock index."
They have adamantly declared that these are not loans to exchanges. That's one of the few things we know.
If you get served with a small claims lawsuit it is clearly labeled as such. And most small claims jurisdictions have no-cost mediation options to help people understand wtf is going on.
Not me ;[
That comment you linked is amazing - it steps back a little bit and gets our head of out the dirt to see the horizon. As a bunch of programming ostriches try to muck about this or that - the author instructively dictates that general purpose programming languages are part of the toolbox to get the job done...on an operating system of choice.

We need to listen to people that have gone through the experience of putting complex systems together and their learnings are immeasurably valuable. This is the eternal balance of theoriticians and practioners.

It also further cements something that I always felt but can be offputting to some people - Julia is an academic language used by academicians. From a software engineering perspective (not computer science, mind you), there is much to be desired.
What we consider "welfare" is typically not handed out based on merit, but based on need (and, from a global perspective, also based on privilege). The idea of a welfare state is not meritocratic. Many societies strive to be meritocratic with egalitarian constraints: anyone should be able to have a decent life (egalitarian), but to have a great life, one needs to contribute (meritocratic). Interestingly, inheritance neither fits the egalitarian nor the meritocratic perspective.
Your argument falls into the typical "We might as well do nothing because the rich will just game the X" category, which is not only defeatist, but lacks nuance. When you tighten rules, there will be more effort to circumvent them, but that does not mean it would be nearly as ineffective as maintaining the status quo.
Allow me to offer a counterpoint to the claims that it’s the employers who are to blame for this “breaking point”. Might it be possible that employees are feeling empowered to dictate terms, and what we have it not a breaking point issue, but rather two opposing forces of the market:

Business which seeks labor at the lowest cost and labor which seeks employment at the highest cost.

I don’t think this is ultimately winnable by the labor. Companies exist to make a profit, and when they don’t make a profit, things change usually not in favor of labor; outsourcing and robotics come to mind.

Business IMO will not magically begin to care what labor thinks, nor will they capitulate. Unless we are willing to upend capitalism, which I think is not even academically feasible in America, business will eventually win out.

So this breaking point is not really a point, but an aberration that business has faced many times before.
It's not "anybody's money".

Just because you've successfully created a wildly successful business, does that imply that you should now also be the person to decide how all that money is spent? Why would society agree to this? We can acknowledge that you might be a brilliant business person without simultaneously and implicitly agreeing that you're just the smartest person around and should clearly get to control where all that revenue flows to.

Hence, the 1950s & 1960s idea of taxation: you can earn boatloads of cash, but we'll tax a lot of it away from you. You'll still have enough to be crazy rich and lead a life everybody else can only dream of, but you're not going to control the disposition of (say) US$20B.
Does Ethereum do stuff well or efficiently?
My understanding is that gas prices have been both high and unpredictable, and as such even for use cases where smart contracts make sense in the abstract, it can be impractical to use it b/c the overhead would be too high.
The credit markets being built on top of crypto have been useful to me personally. Rather than going through the lengthy and invasive credit application/approval processes required by lenders, I can take out a cash loan against my crypto in 1 day with zero hassle. Early last year (prior to building my crypto position) I shut down my startup and had no cash to rely on. I ended up burning through credit while looking for work. It was very stressful. If I'd had the options I do now then I would have taken out a balloon loan against my crypto and taken more time to search for my next gig, rather than jumping on the first decent position I was offered because I needed the money. It has really opened a new world for me financially. I rest much easier knowing that I have this tool available.
I like to check smhasher for comparison of many hash implementations: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher. It’s a bit clunky to search for the exact items you want to compare, but there’s lots of data and a good summary under the table.
A lot of people probably install Puffin just because it's there without really understanding the deal that they're agreeing to.
... it can't be just because of keywords like "weed" can it (a lot of his videos mention weed/s)
>Unlike Teslas, Priuses are actually affordable to a large number of Americans.

Which is part of why they fell out of favor so hard with the white collar demographics.
>Bullshit. When one coal mine in a remote region of China flooded, the Bitcoin hash rate measurably dropped by 30%. Keep in mind this was just one coal mine. Not all of China's production.

FYI, China kicked out crypto miners, which is why hash rates tanked in the last few months:

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

So we don't know what percentage of mining is even left in China.

Also, dirty energy is a regulatory issue. Externalities should be captured in the price with taxation, and coal mining should not be subsidized by a nation state. When you do those things, energy consumers won't want to use dirty energy, they'll flock to renewables.
Ok. While you're in denial - its being adopted by social media platforms (twitter), ecommerce platforms (Amazon), its on corporate balance sheets (tesla, spacex, microstrategy, some others), all major payment vendors, banks (JMP), and something like 70 million americans, hundreds of millions globally own it and disagree with you.

Its useful to have a money system that isnt abused by central banks, destroying what you've worked for your whole life. The problem is accelerating and people seem to have found a solution. And energy "waste" is 1) an opinion of its utility and 2) more a function of grid structure. If the energy grid globally was all green then btc would be all green. It also less than 1% of global energy usage and does not scale with usage. It scales with price discovery which eventually maxes out long term.

You dont need to participate if you dont want to but sweeping it under the rug as all a scam is head in sand behavior.
Good for bitcoin the concept, bad for the gold-chasing crypto-geeks who want their 10,000% return get-rich-quick scheme.

If mining was banned, it would force a move to a POS system like ETH 2.0 and would solve most of the environmental problem. Just the people who hold it and the miners would lose their income source. This should make it clear that you have the people who want crypto as a currency and people who just want profits and they don't know they are enemies.
I think that's fair, it just depends on what frame we are arguing in.

Because the motivation of a lot of the people arguing for "raising taxes on the rich" is to indeed leave the curve altogether.

Will small increases or decreases in tax rates fundamentally alter GDP? I think obviously not.

But those attempting to make a data-based argument for introducing MMT or a UBI with significantly nationalized elements of the economy (healthcare, energy, etc.) are laughable, when the evidence is so overwhelming that these ideas lead to adverse outcomes in the long-term.

I'm not attempting to straw-man, just to cut the meat to what people are actually arguing about (which isn't a couple percentage points in a tax rate). And it's important to flip it and be honest...and say, no, the data does indeed show without question that freer societies are way better -- and it's just that simple.
Oh, don't worry, leftists are targeted too and were for decades. They just don't talk about it.
OK then, what does it do? Feel free to tell me. I've asked a lot of times and have never gotten a good response.
> Time to add tariffs

If you do that then the price of Solar PV will skyrocket back up. The key reason we've seen Solar PV prices plummet is because we've seen an increasing amount of manufacturing move to China, now 80% of solar PV are manufactured their.

It takes a tremendous amount of resources and energy to make solar pv and the only way to do it cheaply is to do it someplace that doesn't mind burning lots of coal to extract and process the necessary resources to build them.

Though to be fair, high tariffs that reduced Chinese production would hurt the global economy, which is the only demonstrated method we've seen to reduce emissions. This could be the best path way to improving emissions, but I suspect many people would be unhappy with consequences.
> I don't think "chargers are too slow" is really a valid forward looking argument anymore.

The problem is how many cars can be serviced by a single charging center in a given amount of time. Think about a weekend with good weather, or holiday weekends, when many people are taking trips on the same days. Normally, because filling a gas tank takes 5-10 minutes, cars can cycle in and out of ubiquitous gas stations very quickly. The same isn't true for charging, at least with the current footprint of chargers out there, especially with differences in charging architectures.
'For the vast, vast majority of its customers, keygen files are going to be malware.'

That's just not true though. They have the ability to detect malware. What they are doing is blindly labeling anything reslembling a keygen as malware , for no valid reason. This also doesn't just apply to Defender.
Coal is deeply unpopular in most areas where good alternatives exist.

5 & 7 already are now operating at reduced capacity, as alternative power plants have come online, and over a decade or so, the plan is to reduce operational capacity and possibly decommission. I suspect if you dig into some of the rest of these, you'll find similar situations.
Eh not a nit - I didn’t understand it until your context was added
I hadn't seen that earlier, and (knowing myself, and being honest) it would've alienated me so much that I wouldn't have wanted to have a discussion around this article by that person.

But, given that we're already here, and if I'm aspiring to be the change I want to see in the world (as we say), I suppose it's most inclusive and cooperative to have a civil discussion about the topic of the article -- even I'm disappointed or offended by some separate statements of the author.

(And if we can do that, maybe in another context we can discuss what's bothering different people around the other topics, and collectively improve around those.)
Moreover, room-temperature fuel cells require platinum-group metal catalysts and this is the main reason that has prevented the introduction of vehicles with fuel cells.

High-temperature fuel cells do not need expensive catalysts, but it seems that nobody succeeded to reach acceptable lifetimes for them.
The big difference is that states use force to convince people of the worth of their currencies: If you don’t pay taxes you will go to jail.

The reason people believe in the worth of cryptocurrencies is greed and fear of missing out.
You and (other person) started your lives on different dates, in different places, in unique circumstances; you are statistically unlikely to end those lives at the same time and place. If the two of you appear to be following the same path for a portion of those lives just enjoy the company while it lasts. There is no single, universal measure of success, so the fact that one person's achievements exceed your own in one area is cause to celebrate that other person but not a reason to feel bad about yourself. Be better than you were yesterday, be kind to those around you. Your story (hopefully) has decades left to tell. It probably includes major characters that you haven't even met yet.
I don’t understand how they get to just walk away without any consequences.

prosecutor1: sir we got evidence that defendant1 was behind the shooting

defendant1: sir I was miles away from this area - let’s verify the evidence

prosecutor1: you know what, never mind - poker face

Court: poker face

Defendant1: poker face

>“Rather than defend the evidence, [prosecutors] just ran away from it,” he said.
Developers make a absolutely horrible testers. It requires completely different skillset.

It's pure arrogance that developers can do anything, including testing.

And automated tests only test things that developer thought about.

If anything developer of given piece of code should be expressly forbidden from delivering automated test for his code and other developer should be tasked with this with guiding goal of making the test fail on the initial implementation from the first developer.
If you replace "Windows 11" with "macOS", and "Microsoft Teams" with "iMessage", is it the same thing?