skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrency was a broken concept from the very start. It assumed that you can build a financial system by engineering "trust" in purely technical terms.

Trust is something between humans. If you cannot find an arrangement of checks and balances that gives people comfort that the "system" is not ripping them off there is no amount of cryptoaccounting that will solve it for you.

The very anonymity of the bitcoin founder(s?) shows this was never an honest-to-goodness project. Its not surprising then that crypto never solved any real economic problem. As in: making any economy a tiny bit healthier, more resilient, less unequal. Not a single one.

But had it stayed a failed financial reform project would have been one thing. It is heartbreaking to witness the amount of fraud, waste of resources and manipulation it unleashed. Its ongoing amoral adoption by the formal financial system as "yet another asset class offering diversification to our customers" is a fitting closure.

The chicken came home to roost.
It's particularly staggering because it's unlikely they've correctly verified the status of all 200k, and are just dumping out a database query. (Whenever one checks these things, it typically turns out that many are actually CC or otherwise Open Access, PD because federal government work, preprints permitted to be shared, etc.)

One wonders if they sent Researchgate a DMCA and thus have perjured themselves countless thousands of times, and why Researchgate is rolling over?
Well if you put it like that, then why bother with cloud storage?

If I can't trust cloud storage, I might just buy another external hard drive (or a nas) and backup my data there.
Maybe. I don't think the trend towards urbanization is likely to reverse. Generally, for house prices to fall under the current system the area in which they're located needs to become almost unlivable. That's possible with depopulation since you might end up with not enough people to pay for utilities or upkeep of roads in which case the municipality may abandon large areas. Demolition of existing infrastructure and buildings to revert those areas to what could be used for a typical rural home with a large enough lot for well and septic would be quite expensive. I don't think it would be an option for most people or even desirable for those that could afford it.

We still don't have a good grasp on all the factors that depressed wages in the last half century, I don't think they are going to start rising due to a slow change in demographics. More likely people will continue to move where the jobs are and employers will continue to automate or outsource where it saves them money.

I'm also not sure this would mean less environmental impact since as the article states declining fertility rates coincide with increases in education and increased female participation in the economy which indicate an increase in the standard of living. Higher standard of living means more demand for luxury goods, personal transportation, larger houses, more varied diet and all the other consumer demands that drive energy use, construction, agriculture, and manufacturing making up the bulk of CO2 emissions.
750k in cash found scattered throughout the rubble of Surfside condo collapse
Honest question: it's still a consensus that they do have value in situations such as airport Wi-Fi, correct?

Separately from that, I still do wonder whether, if you subscribe to a VPN that has well-examined security practices and whose reputation depends on such practices, whether it still may have value over relying on the security over a local ISP which may not have as much expertise or reputation investment with respect to security.

I'm not arguing, just trying to understand the issue better.
NFTs can be anything.

I don't get the art focus.

They can be a degree, a concert ticket, a driving license, a permission to a API service, equity to a company.
that's actually a pretty fresh idea I could get behind.
Guitar Hero doesn't pay either, but it doesn't stop people from spending eons of time on it. Some folks just do it for the thrill and the rep.
I take pictures of birds and the iPhone camera is pretty much useless for it, but so is every camera without a super telephoto lens. I wish there was some kind of retractable zoom lens as an addon or something for the iPhone camera.
On the other hand, Singapore judges are well paid and their courts are considered among the most honest in the world.
Let's accept your premise for the sake of argument.

Why do you thinik the contagion from other crypto scams imploding won't bring down BTC? Will people still trust BTC if they lose trust in other crypto?
Parents can stop opting their children into this voluntary system. Parents sell out their children for the IRS tax benefit.
The only implementation of NFTs I've come across that doesn't look like a fly-by-night operation is NBA's Top Shot, where you can buy video NFTs of special moments in NBA history.

At the very least, you can buy a piece of IP directly from the IP holder, and receive a package that's nicely presented.

It's still totally overpriced, but I can see at least some value. It still needs to go a step further technologically. Like a special app that allows you to view the NFT with AR features artificially implemented. Or displaying it in a holographic form, especially for moments captured with 360-degree cameras.
The list of countries they offer endpoints in are not encouraging.
Data migration or how to roll out a release without losing users
PGP. Register your official public key with the state. If you agree to a contract, sign it with your private key. State co-signs the key indicating with a short validity period. State publishes list of person->key somewhere. Person signs multiple subkeys for different areas of their life.

This could be made user friendly in a lot of ways... tap-to-sign with your smartwatch, boutique IOT pens, etc. We have the tech, but getting this secure system established would uphend a lot of industry players who have a vested interest in the current state of affairs.
But it's "for the environment." Idiots always buy into the propaganda that tell them that authoritarian crack downs are noble and good.
Is there any “penalty” when using Live Photo mode as compared to normal mode?
> It's extremely, extremely unlikely that we're going to beat plants on efficiency of biomass production

I'm not so sure this is true. If it turned out that a more efficient pathway is possible with solar energy collection via sheets of extremely pure crystalline silicon (i.e. solar panels), then I would not think that it's strange that evolution didn't come up with it first. Some solutions simply aren't accessible to evolution.
Aren't Ombuds generally limited to investigations and recommendations (not enforcement)? What country colors your context? (e.g. I'm in the US where federal Ombuds aren't much of a thing, though similar roles may be filled by other persons).
Same here. I've even tried a compact DSLR and with a pancake lens to get some of the portability, but it's still relatively bulky and lacks connectivity. Technically the DSLR even has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but camera makers can't write software, so it's unusable.
I've noticed a trend, some people answer with what should be a comment and then progressively edit their answer while hogging the attention of the questioner and anyone coming to view the page. For some reason people are loath to downvote an early answer without competition, even if it's rubbish.
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Depending on her data plan, downloading several tens of gigs over her 4G could have resulted in a rather exciting phone bill.
A proof of concept becomes a product when the manufacturer sells it to clients with the expectation that it is reasonably safe to use.

Now. If it turns out that the product isn't reasonably safe to use and it hurts people, then the manufacturer has a moral and ethical obligation to cover the damage.

"reasonably safe" is often decided by the court system after a manufacturer hurts people with their products.
I think your portability point is a fair one and also what motivated 35mm photography about a hundred years ago. But I think the DSLR vs phone comparison is flawed. There are plenty of wonderful point-and-shoot cameras that easily fit in your handbag, satchel, or whatnot and can give any phone a run for its money with its bigger sensor and larger glass – without being a bulky DSLR. It is a spectrum is what I am trying to say I guess.
Here's an NFT which is the best description I've ever seen of what NFTs actually are, https://foundation.app/@visualizevalue/nfts-explained-12012

It sold for 74 ETH.
"I don't understand it, therefore there is something suspicious about it" is a very dangerous way of reasoning.

We burned innocent people because of this not long ago.

Anyways, I find the Bitcoin paper very approachable. You may need to read it a bunch of times until everything clicks into place. But it's all there, in just 8 pages.
BTC specifically has seen it's volatility drastically reduced. It's not hard to find several stocks with a much higher volatility in the last month, particularly the last week.

Many other cryptocurrencies still experience extreme volatility on par with BTC's early history.
I used to have a DSLR camera and the pictures I've taken with it are fantastic. But I realized that lugging it around was a chore and whenever I wanted to take a shot in a jiffy, it was never possible for me. With a small kid, it became even more difficult to manage it because now I had a stroller and a diaper bag to carry. Once I forgot my DSLR on a flight in Asia and that was the time I realized I can't be bothered with it anymore. The airline found it and returned it to me. I sold it soon after that along with the lenses, tripod, and the camera bag to a photography student at a steep discount.

Edit: The point is that a smartphone camera may never compete with a DSLR on quality but its portability and convenience are unparalleled.
> Now at some point there is a market incentive to develop mining techniques that optimize for less energy consumption above all else. This would lead to better technologies and thus environment friendly mining techniques.

That's the insidious thing about PoW, though: it will absorb efficiency improvements by design. If a chip came out tomorrow that halved the amount of energy used per hash, instead of halving the CO2 use of PoW, miners would be incentivized just to double the network hash rate.
Maybe in the future photo reviews would also include the photo in the raw format?
I wonder if UK can use the fact that most US - EU links go through UK as a leverage.

EDIT: answer is yes:
"LONDON (Reuters) - High-speed sub-Atlantic cables may force banks to keep their armoury of currency trading hardware in London for some time, even if the dealers themselves go elsewhere when Britain leaves the European Union." [1]

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-forex-cables/trans...
The rest are completely irrelevant.
However, it also mean that during that time this individual might not be working or spending time with his/her family, etc. Extreme performance like what he is achieving always come to the expense of something else.
Well, Twitch somehow detects you don't actively watch.
Came here to say the same thing. Trades by lawmakers should be instantaneously public.
> Serious question — why do people so frequently sleep rather than shut down?

So we can right back in the context we had? Who wants to spend the first 15 minutes digging out Jira, the issue you worked on, the two related ones, start IntelliJ, digging out the correct screenshots etc etc.

... or even: who wants to stop debugging and turn of the computer just because we are leaving the office to catch the train?

I first learned this on a 486/66 DX2 IBM aptiva desktop in 1995.

I've too had times when it didn't work on Linux but today boil-in-bag seems to be a Windows feature, not supported out of the box on ordinary Linux distros on mainstream hardware ;-)
As a slight aside, I prefer to shut down and be sure that things are shut down. It really bothered me when Mac laptops started turning on just because the lid was open.

It makes it impossible to confirm the laptop is truly off, because opening it to check turns it on. This was especially annoying during my "boarding a plane" ritual where I check everything is right before settling in.
>If you think you want a VPN for "privacy", use Tor Browser.

Isn't using Tor browser trusting a group of unknown people as well (nodes)? I hear all the time theories that Tor is a giant honeypot
Can't understand "Ownership of a Tweet" as Twitter owns them - or at the very least they can destroy them whenever they want.
Delta P... it's so strange to be totally comfortable in water and then to feel a pressure differential. Even a simple current is wild.
This is an overly aggressive tone that will cause knee-jerk pushback, but there is an argument that it is exactly the thing we should expect of our government, to correct for externalities.

This is effectively not that different than a company dumping chemical in the local river rather than disposing of them properly. They are encroaching on my rights to a livable planet for their own personal financial gain.
Gennady Korotkevich – “tourist”
If a lawmaker knows they'll only be in office for a limited period of time, there's potentially incentive to behave extra dishonestly to maximize how much they can profit.

Additionally, however you feel about established lawmakers, the current multi-term career lawmakers are very familiar with the process of making laws. If there's a higher proportion of new lawmakers, then the people most familiar with the process of making laws would be the lobbyists. That could result in them having a larger influence on the whole process.

The balance is that newer lawmakers are potentially less corrupted from decades in the system. It's not easy to say what the net result would be.
It's definitely has major design philosophy differences that make it scratch a very different itch then dwarf fortress. Both good games, but not really equivalent imo.

RimWorld randomizes difficulty through the game. So when things go crazy the response tends to be Angst against rngesus.

In dwarf fortress when problems arise the answer is almost always that it could have been prevented and or dealt with in many many ways (some that the developer never considered).
Tor is practically unusable in 2021. Tor is blocked or is very difficult to use for a growing number of sites. Google is the big one (whether one should use google at all is a different story).

Plus ISPs can detect tor use by its customers just from packet patterns. I don't want to be flagged as a tor user by either my ISP or the sites I visit.

The only other option is to set up your own ISP either in a colo rack or on a cloud VM. That's going to cost $50-$100 month plus your time fiddling with it and any network overages
The hate for crypto in HN is just tiring.
I've also found this behavior annoying. There should be no difference between "-[]", "- []", and "- [ ]". There should be no difference between "- [x]" and "- [ x ]".

The solution we came up with is, for people who want to use the Web UI, GitHub has clickable checklists. For people who don't like the Web UI, we have commands.

To create a check:

@bugout-dev check require <message>

To mark it as complete:

@bugout-dev check accept <message>
There's a lot of vague language in these types of threads. What does "banned" mean? Does that mean illegal and punishable by death? Or does that mean, connections to identified crypto computing resources will be blocked by the great firewall?
Permission to an API service maybe, the rest of the examples create more problems than they solve.
This is true for lots of virtuous acts or acts of survival under authoritative regimes, such as hiding Jews from the Nazis or selling your surplus harvest under Stalin. It’s only if you are privileged (or, arguably, ignorant) to not consider on balance the counterfactual costs of undermining technologies which could de-risk such acts for those being oppressed. (Which may include a future-you.)
The ban also applies to proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies.
So can blockchain, but the only use cases anybody has ever cared about are the get-rich-quick ones.
Is it feasible to publicly fund the global energy transition?
It does seem to be used by people transferring funds internationally, especially from SEA to the USA.
I liked the idea of the moonshot bots https://decrypt.co/79606/moonshot-bots-nfts-gitcoin-ethereum... where the funds raised are used for public goods.
I had the GR1V film camera. It was so, so good for taking hiking.
It's not that you can't put it in a bag, you just need to shutdown the laptop completely before doing so.

The issue is most people don't use their laptops like that. My laptop basically only shuts down doing updates. While I can sort of understand Dells logic, it's also ignoring how people will normally use their laptops. It's really something Dell should adresse in their coming generations of laptops. No amount of writing will get users to change their behavior and even if Dell is correct, it will make their laptops seem inferior if they break because you transportet them in a bag while hibernating.
Actually I find it way more comprehensible than the posted link. The posted link seems to prioritize form over functionality.
Doesn't a lot of these cables pre-date fiber? They had these in WWII. I remember the Gilligan's Island episode where the cable washes up in the lagoon and the professor was able to connect up a phone so they call around the world -- of course Gilligan screws it all up at the end.
> Hide geographic location

> VPNs do not effectively solve this issue. Most modern browsers can detect the geographic location of a device based on data from GPS, available Wi-Fi networks and GSM/CDMA cell IDs and will submit this information to websites requesting it.

Did I miss something? Even the ad-tech browser will ask the user before sharing that?
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Hibernate is the best option by far but they seem to want to push away from it.
>not that all securities are "investment contracts".

If you search around people do seem to think that "investment contracts" are "security" (eg. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp) although I can't find someone saying "investment contracts iff security". If that's not the case, can you list what else counts as securities, and why do you think stablecoins meets those definitions?
I will if we end up trying it out, though I think we'll just go with your version anyway. It's between you guys and Cloudflare, AFAIK, as Cloudflare's VPN does authentication to services easier too.
And a lot of them at that
Of couse, it's in the public roadmap:

https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap

We are scheduling it for version 3.2, there's no ETA though.
There's another one that appears to run through the Gulf of Mexico to the US as well (looks like AL or LA to TX), so I suspect it's surprisingly cheaper and/or easier to get policy approval.

It's not entirely uncommon to route cables from and to your own country through the water, apparently:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domestic_submarine_c...
Thing is, NFTs don't represent ownership, absent some external legal documents which tie ownership to the NFT. (And even with such external documents p perhaps not; see e.g. the statute of frauds which restricts in what form land ownership can be transferred.)

I can sell NFTs of bridges all day long; doesn't mean anyone is buying a bridge.
to be clear, he's shooting in ProRAW, Apple's proprietary RAW format.
I've been on some photography excursions where your main camera just starts to piss you off. Notably, stumbling through the woods trying to get macro shots of tree bark patterns. It's always nice to decide the chunky camera isn't working and revert to the phone, especially if it's a reliable shooter.

Having a tiny, powerful backup camera is a joy for shooting. It'll never be my main, but it has salvaged a shooting day here and there.
Using KeyONE, very happy with it as long as the networks let me have it. Loved the Bold, Q10, Classic, but living with android without apps going south on me being outdated is the best option for the present. It is the 4g memory India version instead of the original 3g memory usa version. I want to try the Titan Pocket as a backup/ alternative, and will get the OM Blackberry if it ever materializes, if I can afford to. Keyboards are the only way to go, and a backup slab phone for browsing/viewing time, although the KeyONE screen is plenty big enough to do it all too.
High inflation encourages spending. It is deflation that discourages spending. High inflation means that the money you have today will purchase less in the future, thus it pushes people to buy now rather than later when things will be more expensive in nominal terms. High inflation combined with low interest rates, will also increase financial speculation pretty much across the board.

The problem with high inflation is that it usually (but not recently) goes hand in hand with higher interest rates (i.e. money costs more). Which tends to discourage business borrowing, which acts as a damper on non-financial investment (i.e. spending on factories, marketing, R&D, etc.). This has the effect of slowing down economic growth.

On the other hand, high inflation/high interest rate environments tend to arise when growth is high. Because high growth tends to go hand in hand with a rise in wages, increases in demand (which shifts the demand curve, and thus raises prices), increases in financial speculation, etc.

There are a ton more "on the other hands". Economic analysis is complex and difficult because it's a tangled mess of interdependent feedback loops that constantly change. A single policy action has an avalanche of cascading effects, some of which will be counter to the policy objective. I'm not suggesting humanity should just roll over in the face of this challenge. We should just be aware that it's a "hard problem" and there are never any simple solutions.
Luckily I didn't say planned obsolescence, I said manufactured - because that's precisely what it is, Apple is well known for this type of behavior. Introduce candy, don't allow old hardware to run it, pretend like it's a hardware issue. Problem is, they do this for features that demonstrably don't require better hardware, such as the animations in the weather app for the iPhone.

It's very obvious what it's about, make "old" hardware feel outdated and force the customer's hand.
To me this sounds like more lies.
Phones are good for portability but for any once in a lifetime experience, I would rather take some real camera gear. The amount of computer magic the iPhone camera does to photos look good is plainly visible in the sample pictures in the review.

For what an iPhone goes for these days it’s possible to buy a used high grade camera body and a good prime lens if you can handle shooting with something a generation or two old. If you spend your time taking photos instead of reading blogs and taking photos of charts, you will be very happy.
I see. Do you know about how many page views you got? If I may ask. The interest seemed higher than one subscriber