skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That link plays fast and loose with stats making any actual analysis impossible.

"We calculate the metric by estimating total cryptocurrency received by that country, and weighting the on-chain value based on PPP per capita"

Weigh how?

"we rank countries by their P2P trade volume and weight it to favor countries with lower PPP per capita and fewer internet users"

Weigh how? How do you get the numbers on internet users?

"We rank all 154 countries according to each of those three metrics, take the geometric mean of each country’s ranking in all three, and then normalize that final number on a scale of 0 to 1"

What?

It's not a methodology conductive to analysis. Is a hodge-podge of smart sounding words that create pretty graphs.

Oh, and they changed the methodology this year, but still compare results to previous years that used the old methodology. Very scientific
Stolfi was my professor at Unicamp and has become a somewhat famous buttcoiner. His laundry list of arguments always depend in this "let them have cake" mentality of people living in a world of functioning institutions. It is almost ironic how someone who lived through all the economic instability in Brazil never bothered to look at the practical reasons that lead to people holding BTC.

With that said, each day that goes by I am more inclined to agree with him in relation to Bitcoin and all projects that tout "fixed supply", "store of value", PoW crap.

I agree that the unbanked and people that fear persecution or censorship can benefit from crypttocurrencies. The part where I don't agree anymore is these people have BTC as their best alternative to protect their wealth or to be sovereign over their finances.
> China vs crypto has been going on since 2013 [1].

True, the saga went on for a while, and I suspect their recent kibosh had more to do with domestic financial instability and a shaky power grid than ideology.

> Jerome Powell from the Federal Reserve has said from a video from 9/30/21 that he has no intention to ban crypto like China did, although it sounds like stablecoins may be regulated [2]

Yeah, and frankly, that may be enough to pop the bubble. I have long maintained the position that most price action in crypto is driven by rampant manipulation and un-backed stablecoin issuance. Once number stops going up, I don't think people will care at all anymore.

> The SEC has also already said in 2018 that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities [3].

Yes, Bitcoin is not a security because it's distributed solely by mining. Etherium is and always was a security, as it plainly fails the Howey test like every other ICO, in line with the formal guidance issued by the SEC. The SEC elected not to treat it as one, however. They have also indicated that every other ICO is at risk of being treated as a security.

> The head of the SEC, Gary Gensler, taught a course on blockchain for several years at MIT [4].

Yep, he's super smart, and I have a lot of respect for him.

> How do you think this technology is going to be completely banned, or everyone will forget about it and it will totally go away? The seeds are already planted, and as I said, there's no nipping this in the bud now.

I think stablecoins will be regulated, price action will subside and nobody will care anymore as we were on track to seeing before the printing spree of 2020. And I think most ICOs are going to get smacked down as unregistered securities offerings.

The China model of removing the bandaid would be much better though.

That's a best case though, and you could totally be right.
I think it's supposed to be a hairy testicle?
It's not the whole internet, just you or the company that holds your BTC wallet. Just the other day Facebook was down for hours. Imagine had that been Coinbase.
Agreed - at a previous job someone tried to force me into implementing some horrible sharding solution they'd dreamt up. I didn't: three years later the project was nearly dead and the database had never gotten anywhere close to maxing out a single machine.
> I’ve long hoped that gamedev would make a similar transition.

Reminder: Microsoft is one of the biggest game platforms, too, and have not even flirted with the idea of open source there.
Ford is definitely responsible for encouraging people to buy ever larger cars which are responsible for the increasing number of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. So yes they are choosing profit over people.
Ellis Island is the one with that big green statue. What it has in common with Soundex?
Mobile Firefox (Fennec) doesn't support tags, but the text descriptions are searchable when entering URLs, so you can key off of those.

Effectively full-text-search tagging.
On Self-Service, Data Democratization and (Natural) Language
You can look at a chain, and see: This link is broken, the chain is broken. But if it looks intact, you cannot just from looking at it, know how strong it is.
Nota: A Web Framework for Academic Papers
We have been using rectangular pieces of paper for centuries.
The UK also benefitted from North Sea oil, but unlike the Norwegians, we don't have a sovereign wealth fund.

Some suggest the money raised went towards tax cuts and contributed to house price inflation. [1]

Although I'm not sure about house price inflation, as there has been similar inflation in Canada and Australia.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/north-...
Are you suggesting that there is a place where woman are seen as dogs or seen as property or both?
Counterpoint: I've had the same phone number for 7 years (Sweden), and another number for 15 years (British), but I've deleted my Facebook account multiple times in that timespan, and removed "friends" even more commonly when they started posting excessively political stuff and I didn't have a strong connection to them.

Are you aware that you can take phone numbers with you when you change providers? As for the other point: they're addressable on the entire planet, you can be sure everyone has one and it's not tied to a singular company.

So, while I'm joking about the equivalency, you said that a "registry that everyone on the planet was on" was the value add- I'm suggesting, somewhat tongue-in-cheekly, that we have such a system.
Also, in countries with fake exchange values (like Argentina or Venezuela) you get 1/3 of the currency for your dollars, while with bitcoin you get the full value.
Like UNIX workstation wars won by NeXTSTEP in the end, come for POSIX (RISC-V in this case) compatibility, stay for the extensions.
I would love for comments like yours to provide examples for these net positives.

Sure FB made it way more easy for me to follow my favorite band and see when they announce special concerts that are in small locations so that I had a chance to grab tickets.

I stopped using FB in January and deleted all content I ever put there. I kept the account as it was an experiment planned for one month. But I just didn't return.

So as said for a balanced discussion I would like to see the net positives you see. I can't currently see things, that are genuinely there because of Facebook.
That depends on the compilation options.

With the appropriate compilation options the C++ compiler will not make any optimizations that depend on the undefined beahvior for overflow.

The only defect here is that the options to do unsafe optimizations are default and you have to give explicitly an option to forbid them, instead of the safe option being default.

Since the overflow check is also controlled by a compilation option in Rust and the default for release builds is no checking, there is no difference. Even if Rust might have done less optimizations, an unchecked overflow will still cause a bug.
Well somehow I missed that (and also I am from Poland which means the sticker is still enforceable here).

But being amateur electronics engineer myself I actually agree with the "warranty void if opened". Handling electronics safely is not trivial and if you touch electronics with your bare hand you can easily damage it due to static discharge. And there is going to be no way of telling who is exactly responsible for the damage.

I have myself destroyed a bunch of things before I have learned the lesson.

I have also seen a lot of electronics that have been "handled" by repair shops. I repair things for fun, but I know people who do it as their day job and frequently they have special rate for repairs when somebody has already tinkered with it. Mainly because of shit people do to electronics.

I just don't like when manufacturers go out of their way to make it hard for me to understand and repair something when I supposedly own the device and bear full responsibility for my mistakes.
No, we are asking tech platforms not to amplify society’s problems
I find it really hard to argue that any of that is worth the enormous loss of privacy, the rising anxiety and effects of Instagram on the youth and the terrible effects Facebook is having across the globe when it comes to politics.
Oh please regale me with tales of how Donald Trump won the election in 2020 and Bill Gates is implanting us all with tracking chips through vaccines just so I can see pics of the grand kids, they do the darndest things.
PASSPORT.MID is pretty cool, too.
You need to open that link incognito. (If clicking through from HN)

The site you linked to detects if the referrer url is HN and instead displays only an image saying "HACKER NEWS - A DDoS MADE OF FINANCE-OBSESSED MAN-CHILDREN AND BROGRAMMERS" instead of the content you are trying to link too.

OK Then...
Openai AI Passes the Turing Test (GPT-3 Interview)
I think you’re suffering confirmation bias or bubble mentality if you cannot see any positive
The first thing I look when working with any language excluding shell scripts is interactive debugging from IDE.
Should we ban media coverage and making movies, books etc about this kind of thing? I don't think it helps improving public awareness as much as it gives these psychopaths the idea that what they do is cool.
Lead is only bad in fuels and chew toys. Removing lead from solders, piezoelectric components etc is truly catastrophic.
Ooh, Atlantis, thanks for telling me.
Twint has no fees for the customer and you can send each other money as well. The Vendor pays around 2%

Visa has higher fees not for the customer but for the vendors. It's specifically a problem in Switzerland where the "Maestro" bank cards are being replaced with Visa Debit which is being pushed by the banks. The benefit for the custom is they can use those visa cards online but the fees at the store for the vendor are up to 260 times higher. [1]

[1] https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/neue-debitkarten-visa-und-ma...
A Scary Energy Winter Is Coming. Don’t Blame the Greens
Thanks. That's a very interesting approach by them.
California has instituted state-wide vaccine mandates for kids in schools. LA has instituted vaccine mandates for restaurants, gyms and malls. The long term safety and efficacy of the vaccines is yet to be proven. Literally, since not enough time has passed since the vaccines were conceived. Authorities are significantly overreaching. This is a crisis. Perhaps people have all the reasons to be touchy.

For comparison, Norway just lifted covid restrictions. Apparently they have access to a different science than US West coast authorities.
> Lead is only bad in fuels and chew toys.

Water pipes?

> Removing lead from solders, piezoelectric components etc is truly catastrophic.

Sounds like you're happy turning Facebook into something that consumers don't touch on a daily basis, like piezoelectric components. No complaint here, so you've got a deal!
Gold is bitcoin minus all the bullshit. If you'd offer me some amount of money today and would pay me in either gold or bc I'd choose gold every time. Downside is, you need to physically store it somewhere safe and accessible, but that somehow applies to your bc wallet too. Exchanges with people's money getting hacked or disappearing, people forgetting their passwords, hard drive failure, the failure modes of bc are endless. And in that scenario of the apocalypse where the government collapses and a civil war breaks loose i wanna see that idiot with his mining rig trying to power it with a solar cell, or the idiot trying to get on some form of network (let alone the internet as we know it today) to start a transaction.

Bitcoin has and only ever will have a practical use for criminals.
You need to open that link incognito. (If clicking through from HN)

The site you linked to detects if the referrer url is HN and instead displays only an image saying "HACKER NEWS - A DDoS MADE OF FINANCE-OBSESSED MAN-CHILDREN AND BROGRAMMERS" instead of the content you are trying to link too.

wtf
This may be a bit off-topic and I don't know much about crypto currencies, but I do know that one of the reasons Stellar was set up the way it is, is to enable tiny transaction fees so that anyone could participate, including the poor or those without the kind of access to a stable currency or financial services that most of us on this forum would normally expect. Thus, the transaction fees are minimal.

I guess it should be possible to trade bitcoin via the stellar network (according to their intro page[1], any currency can be), but I could well be wrong.

I got some given to me in the Keybase drop so I read up on them, but that's the limit of my knowledge in this area. I'd love to find a way to use them but articles like this talking about ponzi schemes etc tend to put me off bothering.

[1] https://www.stellar.org/learn/intro-to-stellar
There is a writeup in PDF here
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=198357
about what actually happens on all the unimplemented instructions that still "run" parts of the CPU, some with decent results, and some with less.

And for the last part of your sentence, it depends on what address you run some of the instructions from, since they take a byte out of that in account when doing the weird operations, so some bad instructions can be used, if you are running from $fe00 - $feff because it takes the high byte ($fe), adds one to it, then ands something else with it and lastly produces a result that leads to a usable instruction, but only if the and is with $FF so it doesn't drop bits on you. =)

Lots of weird/fun reading there.
I replied in another comment. At the end of the day I think people here need to accept that their own experience doesn’t necessarily reflect the experience of others. The fact that fb is one of the most used website today implies that many people are getting something from it.
C++ is the language I use most for my day job. I am definitely on the "love" side of the "Marmite" argument.

What is scary is, I don't doubt that some people will read your comment and think it could be true!
That's not the topic of this apology, so it's an entirely inappropriate place to have that discussion. The apology is about not following the procedure..
Massive energy use, manipulated by shadowy actors, facilitates crime and capital flight, etc.
If you're so certain short it. The amount of wealth you would gain by being correct is immense. You should be spending every waking moment attempting to predict it.

Something about anti btcers I don't get you'll wax how smart you are and how everyone else is dumb. Just put your money where your mouth is.
Yeah pretty much. Except the miners don’t take the money, they burn the money. Mining has low barriers to entry (more or less) so you’d expect low profit margins. And the major costs are energy (lost forever) and ASICs (unfit for other purpose)

So while most industries have costs that feed back into economy, mining costs are just burnt.

But yeah beyond that it’s just musical chairs. Depends entirely on inflows.

And those aren’t too high. Coinbase’s USD volume is $300,000,000-$1,500,000,000. And that’s buying and selling. You couldn’t sell the whole $1,500,000 and exit without crashing price. 2% depth negative is a bit over a million.

So with an apparent $1 trillion in value in the btc market, the exit door is thin.
Just so we're on the same page, me and the article is talking about an observed pay gap between people employed in the US for the SAME tech job roles. I think you're debating something tangential.
Taxes can be a perverse incentive for revenue hungry governments to encourage the taxable behavior.
All of these are understandable considerations.

Since you are paying with your life, I can only highly encourage you to reconsider your conclusions.
Canyon is good, but Passport.mid is the superior Windows midi file...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w
How on earth Seoul is at no. 70 and Zurich at no. 3? Anecdotally, according to someone who's familiar to both places living in Seoul now is more expensive compared to Switzerland's cities (Top 6 from top 10 cities).
If your account is frozen for whatever political reason your bank can't help you. Bitcoin fees can be 15 cents. I think it is a dollar now. Plus the 10,000 or 100,000 limit you would have could prevent you.
The phone polls only one server, in p2p it will need to poll a good chunk of whole network.
Isn't Android technically GNU/Linux?

It has Linux kernel, but I am not sure about the GNU.
> but I actually rarely visit HN’s homepage,

I really like the HN front-page, it gives me a sensation of comfort (so to speak), of how the Internet should have been but unfortunately it is not: very fast-loading page, all text, a basic color-scheme that hasn't changed in a while.
No worries. Everyone is biased and it’s good to be aware of your own biases or to be transparent about them. That is to say if you use my transparency to cancel my opinion, it says a lot about your open mindness.
I had a pair of those Etymotics (maybe a previous iteration, but they looked exactly like those). I loved them, but I made the mistake of falling asleep with them in with my head propped up on my hand. When I pulled the headphones out, one of the silicone tips stayed in my ear canal. It was pushed so far down that I had to go to an ENT to get it pulled out. He said that it was not an uncommon thing for him to see. Now I won't use in-ear headphones that have any kind of detachable piece like that.
My go to is SQLite, unless I need GIS features. If traffic or database size becomes unwieldy, it’s easy to transition to PostgreSQL.
How are Norwegians using money from the Oil Fund to buy EVs?
Is something like noscript possible with the new extensions standard?
Do you have a recommendation for a better resource aimed at mathematically mature reader?
https://www.kubegres.io/ perhaps
El Salvador’s recent decision is a Hail Mary attempt at solving a tiny impoverished country’s crippling financial situation. They make their citizens use a government approved wallet where they process transactions off chain. This is the antithesis of what crypto used to stand for.

The worlds largest country just banned Bitcoin too. I don’t think either event is indicative of btc’s intrinsic value.
Did I argue that point at all? Such immutable system will absolutely not be applicable to the EU and GDPR unless all the data is encrypted and the encryption keys are not part of the major chain.

A lot of firms that deal with personal data may even have snapshots of every single change, sort of immutable - just not global. Again destroying the keys solves the issue of the immediate erasure. The latter is often times impossible due to tape back ups.
If you have a single-pass compiler (for speed) then it will not know on pass #2 that the old value is to be used for something or not and can drop it.

In a single-pass run, you must generate code to keep the previous value in case the line actually was foo = ++a; or foo = a++; so that foo gets the pre-inc or post-inc value.

The small part that creates the code for the small "a++" part of the line will then produce a dead store of the pre-inc value, and no 2nd pass will remove it.
How do your links counter my argument that any kWh spent on creating synfuel could be used for something else instead and as long as we don't have a surplus of carbon free energy all the carbon free electricity used in this way needs to be compensated by fossil fuels somewhere else in the grid?
How do you account for survivorship bias in your chosen group of "good organisational builders"? Organisations which have been successful in their domain could have internal organisational problems but succeed in spite of them because of other exogenous factors (luck, overwhelming product/market fit etc). Are the people who built those organisations good builders? Conversely you could concieve a brilliant org design but the org itself fails. That would not make you a bad org builder.
I've been using Firefox for like over 10 years I guess.

It's just the best browser for me, I can hack the browser UI, freely arrange the buttons and bars, and I keep 10s of plugins installed to comfortably browse, learn and work.
How exactly does a refugee convert their wealth to bitcoin before leaving their country?
You are right. It does not show in private browser mode.
Trump won the election in 2016 because half the country voted for him, and because there is no popular vote in the US, and because there is a lack of education in the US.
This is different from not deleting your account. Having to keep a record of your purchases doesn't mean they can keep track of your hobbies or whatever.

GDPR solved this years ago: right to be forgotten does not apply to legal requirements to keep records. Companies must keep those records only for the minimum time though.
So you’re an app developer, the part “want to run my software” confused me. As an apple user, I’m afraid that I’m with apple here, because I’ve been experimenting with other platforms before and didn’t like it when people just ran their software without any rules on my phone. That big market share is partially the result of the rules that protect the consumer, and that is a good thing. (Btw, I’m okay with 3x price idea, I think it isn’t criticized by apple and would be not)
I've looked at it a few times, but $130 for the personal-use copy is a bit steep for a hobbyist interest. My budget for this particular novelty is about 50 bucks.

I have positive nostalgia for the platform. Back in 2003, I decided to start taking notes in college on a a salvaged 486 laptop. I tried running OS/2 3.0, installed from a boxed copy bought on eBay where the discs were degrading as I was installing them. The pack-in software was pleasantly featureful compared to the placeholder stuff Windows 3.1 came with, but it was a little poky on a DX2/40 with no L2 cache.
> The only defect here is that the options to do unsafe optimizations are default and you have to give explicitly an option to forbid them, instead of the safe option being default.

And that the option to do the safe thing isn't even part of standard C++ at all!

> Since the overflow check is also controlled by a compilation option in Rust and the default for release builds is no checking, there is no difference.

Rust has no "undefined behavior" option. It only has overflow and trap. That's also a big difference.
Dragon Quest composer Sugiyama Koichi has died
I have switched to cockroachdb for personal projects as it is wire-compatible with postgres, but is easier to run/scale/maintain
Removing lead from solder is, well, not really catastrophic. I’ll admit lead free is a pain in the ass sometimes, but catastrophic, not really.
Probably CockroachDB - I'm not sure what other free/open source options there are.
I'm sure some proprietary databases will do it too but I haven't used Oracle/MSSQL/whatever to know what they give you.
I'm heading into the same situation.

I wonder if there's a way to match with equally wealthy partners. I suspect there aren't that many out there.
This isn't even true you can track wallet addresses and see their movement overtime. Look up a graph called hash ribbons. People hold btc for very long periods of time.