skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, we don’t want central democratic control over who can transact. We want no control.
I went back to school and was thrilled to have an excuse to use my ti86 once again :)

Love that thing.
It clearly states that if you create the account in the app you have to be able to delete the account within the app.

In none of those cases are you creating the account within the app.
Bitcoin mining provides security for a global, decentralized currency / payment system.

If we disagree on the value Bitcoin provides to society, then we'll disagree on the power usage. The value Bitcoin provides to society isn't, and shouldn't, be judged on any specific point in time or it's unsuitability at it's core function or whatever else, it should, and will eventually, be judged on the disruption and change it brings. For better or worse.
How statistically likely is this? Can't you just regenerate until no you have a suitable short URL. Aside from performance, this is as random as you can be. Or generate the characters one by one and backtrack, this requires less random days. Or regenerate the unwanted substring.
This describes itself as a handbook for tech workers, but it’s just about leaking confidential info and likely losing your job? Huh??
2h wait times? No way in 10 years I never once waited more than 15m!
I think that'd be a great idea, but I'm skeptical that this would come any time soon because regulators are not good at pushing for open API regulations. Look at banks, this is only becoming a thing recently, and only in the UK.
Calling that control “democratic” is a bit of a stretch.

Plus, anonymous physical cash transactions have been the status quo forever
Rarely is it one person doing all the lying in a Ponzi scheme. Commonly they're labeled as multi level marketing, which then encourages more people to lie.

And I disagree that bitcoin proponents doesn't claim they make your money with for you: there's a lot of talk about the "deflationary nature" of bitcoin, aka the "magical scheme". Miners haven't burned all the money invested in bitcoin, but I'll admit this particular scheme has an unusually high cost of business, for a Ponzi scheme.

Most victims of a Ponzi scheme believe they're investing in something that will earn them money in the long run, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen for it.

Bitcoins long-term value is clear by examining it's usefulness: it's a tulip, at best.

I'll also freely admit that bitcoin is by far the most cleverly disguised Ponzi scheme yet, it's nature will probably only be obvious after the inevitable collapse.
Considering the number of people who would switch to Vivaldi if it was open source, i don't understand why they haven't done it already!
I am sorry but there is no way that that lack luster product is half as addictive as porn let alone opiods.

All of our first hand experiences disprove the narrative. Anyone here helplessly addicted? Sure a couple people might have issues but treating it like digital cocaine is a bit much.
There was an article about this here on hn some time ago. People who don’t have a mind’s eye.
Different languages strengths "matter the most" in different usage scenarios. Sometimes an OS doesn't even exist. Sometimes an application is written fully in the same language. etc.
Oh yes—this footnote is not knocking non-relational DBs, in fact we have deployed DynamoDB in production for other use cases today.

We were on a tight timeline due to impending TXID wraparound. Switching database technologies would have required us to rewrite our queries, reexamine all of our indexes, and then validate that queries were both correct and performant on the new database. Even if we had the time to derisk those concerns, we'd be moving our most critical data from a system with scaling thresholds and failure modes we understand to a system we are less familiar with. Generally, we were already familiar with the performance characteristics of Postgres, and could leverage a decent amount of monitoring and tooling we built atop it.

There is nothing inherent about non-relational DBs that make them unsuitable for our workload. If we were designing our data storage architecture from scratch, we'd consider databases that are optimized for our heaviest queries (vs. the flexibility afforded by Postgres today). A large number of those are simple key-value lookups, and a plain key/value store like DynamoDB is great for that. We're considering these alternatives going forward, especially as we optimize specific user workloads.

Re: Cloud Spanner: we didn't consider a cross-cloud migration at the time due to the same time constraints. Still sounds like a wonderful product, we were just not ready at the time.
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"Creative Labs Sound Blaster"... ah the nostalgia
Thank you! I've been wondering why that number instead of, er, other numbers since I first discovered the stories earlier this year! ^_^;
Okay, so what you're saying is that the crypto community is what pushed crypto in that direction.
Curious, what other noxious problems?
> By that definition, real estate too is a ponzi. No. Like stocks, real estate creates value while it is being owned, namely the sheltering service it provides to those who live in it. That value returns to the investor (owner) either by him living in the property, or by renting it to others.

Actually holding land out of use so you can speculate on its increased value, which comes from the activity of the community around you (and not any actual hard work or investment you yourself did), is an unproductive speculative activity that is a drag on the whole economy and the cause of our housing crises. I'm not sure if I'd call it a ponzi specifically, but it's bad and we shouldn't encourage it.
> ... Where people choose to throw their own money should be left to them.

Yes, unless it causes harm to the broader economy.

I explained this in a different reply lower down, but when enough people participate it can destabilize the entire financial system in the country. And if it takes down the USD, globally. Pardon the pasta, but in 1997, the entire economy of Albania collapsed because everyone started participating in Ponzi schemes. They even jailed their finance minister for trying to stop it, and it led to a civil war. The IMF had to air drop in big bags of money to bail the country out. [1] This is what is at stake.

[edit] > At their peak, the nominal value of the pyramid schemes' liabilities amounted to almost half of the country's GDP. Many Albanians—about two-thirds of the population—invested in them. When the schemes collapsed, there was uncontained rioting, the government fell, and the country descended into anarchy and a near civil war in which some 2,000 people were killed. [1]

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...
Are you seriously implying that the phone system is a reliable registry? I change phone number every year, most of my friends have changed phone number several times since I know them. There's a reason I've lost touch with old friends who deleted their facebook accounts.
Just because there are a large number of market participants involved purely for speculation does not mean we can just ignore those who are there for genuine commercial transactions. What percent of people who buy oil futures contracts intend to take delivery of thousands of gallons of oil?
Wow this is amazing. It's super fast and has a very easy to follow help page, plus the formatting is pretty awesome. I just did a quick benchmark searching for `kthreadd` using grep and ag and it's magnitudes faster than grep. Thank you for sharing this. I hope I can convince the network admins at my workplace to install this tool.

In addition, A+ for the ag's design for `mmap()` ing files instead reading them into a buffer.

Bench marks:
Using Grep

```bash
$ time grep -Rsn "kthreadd"
...
real 0m25.341s
user 0m5.738s
sys 0m4.074s
```

Using ag:
```bash
$ time ag "kthreadd"
...

real 0m2.182s
user 0m1.306s
sys 0m1.773s
```
I hope I'm not just feeding a troll, but my appreciation for Bitcoin has only increased with the more I hear and read about the blatant corruption of worldwide banking and finance systems.

The more time passes, the more value I find in the existence of Bitcoin, and therefore the value of the power usage that secures it's network.
The mob isn't running bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme. People who buy bitcoin are not mobsters.

There are different waves of investors from the true believers who mined because the idea was powerful to the mt gox crowd, coinbase newbies, wall street / hedge fund crowd. Each group has a different reason. The latest groups are looking to make money and the earlier adopters have moved to a less popular more ideological coins with advantages over bitcoin.

Mafia no.. something else yes.
It's not just a guide on how to do things with an operating system; it frequently veers off into the usual bizarre stuff about how no-one really needs proper office suites, databases, browsers, etc. In that, it's an encapsulation of the worst things about Plan 9. It was already dumb to go on like than in 1994; it's ridiculous in 2021.

I'm deeply affected by this because I loved Plan 9 in 1992-1994. I wrote multiple user level file servers for my silly honours project and for summer research projects. I built compiler passes for Thompson C while I was at the Labs between ugrad and starting my PhD (mixed caller save, callee save register allocation and a retargeting to the R4000). I wanted it to succeed because of the things that were good about it - but even then was starting to realize how worrying the NIH stuff in Plan 9 was. I started CMU still wanting to talk to people about Plan 9, but it didn't last.

My complaint comes from disappointment: Plan 9 was exciting because it was a clean sheet design, coming from the best judgement of a bunch of very smart people looking around at what was going on with hardware and software in around 1989. People poking the corpse now are working in the opposite of that spirit.

Everyone is free to do what they want, of course (I'd love to fire up a Commodore 64 or an Amiga!) but it feels like a tremendous waste of time to me (subjectively, of course).
>The social security administration could also be considered a Ponzi scheme

It's far worse than a ponzi: ponzi's aren't usually compulsory.
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science
This is not specific to you, but in general people saying some social media site is "actually useful (TM)" is usually a cope to justify the staggering amount of life they've burned sucking dopamine from the website's teat. Can social media be useful? Yes. But there is a point where you get severely diminished returns, at which you would be better off doing something else, but we hide behind excuses to avoid feeling bad about ourselves.
I worked there for two years, and I joined facebook in part because I believed (and still do) that they're a net positive for the world. And I get frustrated when I read one-sided comments on HN, so I push back. Not everyone believes FB is evil or a negative to society.
> One of a finite number of digital assets that will ever be created.

That would have been a plausible explanation, if not for the abundance of digital currencies. There are now many more times crypto assets than there are actual currencies in the world, and new ones seem to be created every day. There is absolutely nothing "finite" about crypto anymore.
Just create a separate "online account" that links to the other database.
> at what price point and time would you start to consider that you may be tragically wrong?

In theory Bitcoin can keep growing as long as people believe in it.

It has a strictly negative EV though.

* it returns no revenue

* At current mining levels, it burns about 1.8% of its market cap annually. By burns I mean literally burns energy and ASICs. (About $18 billion at current market prices)

* That’s just for mining costs. There are other costs associated with bitcoin such as costs associated with running exchanges, etc. won’t venture to guess here but it’s all in the billions. Coinbase alone had costs of about $1.1 billion in Q1

No market price changes this fundamental math. People could bid up the price to $1 million per coin and burn $360 billion per year on mining and the dynamics would be the same.

Now, what would change my mind would be some kind of use case. Currently we have money laundering, avoiding governments, etc. thin gruel

There is some interesting stuff happening with Ethereum. I don’t know if it will take off, but I at least see ways in which it could (Chainlink etc)

If bitcoin develops some kind of use case, then I’d change my view.

Right now bitcoin in economic is more akin to tourism or a church or something. It takes a bunch of economic resources to run it, but it also makes people happy, and that’s the benefit.

But don’t be mistaken: money goes in to bitcoin to be burnt (like tourism). It doesn’t generate money. That there is a number going up doesn’t change any of the dynamics laid out above. That’s just shuffling around between participants, not revenue or a use case.
No it wasn't.

UNIX world had sandboxing via stuff like Tru64 and HP-UX vaults, while the cloud kind stuff kind of traces back to IBM System 360 capabilities, later improved in z/VM.
Of all the edicts Apple forces upon app developers, this is about the only one I agree with. I allow users to do this on my webapp, quixical.com. I wish more companies respected the 'right to be forgotten'.
Facebook can have some negative values, while still when taken as a whole be an overwhelming societal net positive.
> . If you try to maintain a $20k balance for a year, for example, you’ll discover that this balance counts against your deductions for that tax year (effectively a negative $20k deduction). Or at least that’s my understanding so far.

You don’t get taxed on having a balance; you do get taxed on the income that generated it. (Or am I missing something crazy?)
TSMC Alleges Some Customers Are Hoarding Chips Creating Artificial Shortages
I'd also like to call out the S&C Plastics[0] "company", especially around this time of year[1] :-D

[0]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-s-c-plastics-hub

[1]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/black-autumn-hub
Funny, but I do exactly the same. My source, however, is Telegram's channel @hacker_news_feed. As you said, the signal-to-noise ratio hits that sweet spot that keeps me out of HN's front page for a long time.
The generate the same assembly in this particular context, but changes to surrounding code could change that. The fact that signed int overflow is UB in C++ is a major difference.

> C++ is better because the developer may choose to keep the option also in release builds

You can enable overflow checks in release mode if you like:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html
Definitely true, retail trading of all sorts is basically gambling, and crypto has a lot of gamblers. I think this is a really bad thing. However, even the typical lambo-dreamer sustains the effect: it would be rare for them to cash out completely, unless that dream is suddenly dashed. What if they miss out on future growth?

Rephrasing: how much bitcoin do you think the average bitcoin-billionaire owns? It's belief that stops them from selling, and belief that sustains the value. If you think that sounds like a ponzi, you're missing one thing: all else equal, dollar (and equivalent) denominated value will rise, because those currencies slowly devalue by design.
My theory is that a lot of people here had the opportunity to be extremely early adopters of Bitcoin and make a hell of a lot of money, but most missed that boat and now hate bitcoin because of it
I said crypto generally, not just Bitcoin, as the article in this post is not only focused on Bitcoin but crypto in a broad sense.
China vs crypto has been going on since 2013 [1]. Open source, decentralized crypto is a direct competitor to China's CBDC, which they have already developed and are trying to distribute [2]. Of course China would want to squash all competition. Jerome Powell from the Federal Reserve said in 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 [3]. Jerome Powell has also said that the US is considering a CBDC [4]. The SEC has also already said in 2018 that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities [5]. The current head of the SEC, Gary Gensler, taught a course on blockchain for several years at MIT, and here is a set of his videos [6]. How do you think this technology is going to be completely banned, or that 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.

[1] https://www.btctimes.com/news/chinas-history-of-bitcoin-bans

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/china-digital-currency-beiji...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-09-30/powell-says...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/22/the-fed-is-evaluating-whethe...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/bitcoin-and-ethereum-are-not...

[6] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...
I've been tinkering with an AST based grep tool. (It only works for JS/TS right now). It allows you to search for code in a more free-form way and I hope better code-searching tools like this can come out. Because searching by string is really primitive. (pun intended)

Here is an example:

npx @nikhilverma/ast-grep '{ meta: { title: "___" }}' src/
Institutions in the typical context of the word do not do this. They don’t engage in manipulation of markets.

Traders and exchanges do.
Mostly because VMS was commercial and UNIX free beer.

History would have played quite differently had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from the get go.
Unions are not “anti-tech”, they are “pro-worker”. Who else is?
Everybody should be allowed to transact. While transactions can be results of crimes, transactions are not crimes themselves.

Governments should stop crimes that may lead to transactions, not transactions.
I agree with that.

What I meant was the governments at the minimum stop banks and financial institutions from legitimizing these.
> The properties of it being difficult/impossible to confiscate and its privacy make it valuable in oppressive regimes. A refugee could store their wealth in Bitcoin, leave their country, settle somewhere else, and access their Bitcoin without the risk of it being confiscated during the journey, because they can simply memorise the seed phrase (24 words).

LOL, who in those countries would sell them bitcoin?

You've pulled out an argument I see all the time about the utility of bitcoin, but you can always just tell that it's made by someone who's never lived under an oppressive regime.

It's a first-worlders idea of what thirdworlders can do.
So the blood washes away the diamond?
what happens with credit card apps ? because once u create a bank account - u cant just delete the credit card. the history is still maintained and the credit bureau pushes still happen.

anyone know ?
maybe we skip the need and move to https://crossplane.io, to abstract all this part as well as gain 2nd day operations natively, and k8s readiness.
(bonus: the closest path to cloud agnostic definition)
niggers got A LOT of attention. they are the new jews.
Nah, it was. Much less stressful than some salesman trying to string it out until I give in. Bank guy asked 1 question then actioned it. With another bank it would probably be 2 clicks.
Actually, kind of. It would involve appealing to other organized crime outfits that the given mob interacts with to have them reign in their behavior. Group A might think they can bully group B, and maybe they can, but they can't bully groups C, D, E, and F, who all rely on each other to not attract unwanted attention from the authorities or the public.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachin_meeting

not quite suing, but it was a diplomatic way of resolving disputes and preventing them.
Hashids (https://hashids.org/#how-does-it-work) have a pretty clever trick for this. They’re able to encode multiple IDs to a single obfuscated hash, which works by reserving some characters from the alphabet to use as a separator between each encoded value. That guarantees that whatever characters you choose to be separators are never next to each other in the output. By default their separators are (lower + upper case) “c, s, f, h, u, i, t”

It worked surprisingly well when we used it.
> Plenty of people buy gold expecting it to appreciate...because other people use it as a hedge.

Long run? I think not. Gold hasn’t really risen over millenia, just stayed in a certain band.

Buffett made a good argument that you could either buy a giant gold cube and fondle it, or a large number of productive assets in the states and collect the revenues. He’d bet on the assets being worth more over the decades, and over the long run he was right.

Bitcoin proponents expect bitcoin to soar long run, unlike gold, which doesn’t.
Progress Asahi Linux brings forth a usable basic desktop on Apple's M1
The initial post is literally the flip side of the same coin.

We've had romantic Bitcoin maxis in the beginning, saying Crypto will change the world, we now have luddists screaming to stop the crypto as it will destroy the world.

Only a small portion of users are the Crypto maxis. And they truly can't care less about such posts. They might have been wrong about what Crypto means, but you cannot deny the use. BC is a reserve currency of a nation. EU is contemplating digital euro. People invented a way and are exchanging ownership of IP daily with various block chains.

Crypto is here. I highly doubt it its going away. Too much value and utility.

Perhaps it would be best to simply create a HN News policy to ban crypto related stuff as it really boils down to maxi-haters reiterating their views over and over.

But I do understand that is great for Karma farming.
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Are you saying Ellis Island used Soundex (that seems to check out) or devised it?
You'd have to cash it out at an exchange and pay the individual in question. This choke point would leave you similarly locked out.

Would it? The parent commenter was in the United States, and even in cities of about 1 million people, I've seen Bitcoin ATMs at chain supermarkets. Some were even integrated into the ubiquitous CoinStar machines at the front of the store.
I doubt the bank is going to be happy with you disputing charges if you haven’t followed whatever process the company makes you follow in order to cancel.
Two things to counter balance your point of view:

- In some way, had they not care about growth, they would not have become a useful public registry that you can use to connect with anyone.

- on the other hand, I do think that the app could be better if they cared less about engagement. I really wish you could customize your timeline and see things chronologically by default, like it used to be. It has become less and less of a place to find out what your friends are up to, and more about "news sharing" and "facebook groups".
Rust also trivially allows to keep overflow checks in release builds.
Both IBM and Microsoft fully realized the problems inherent in the real-mode DOS architecture and worked on solutions throughout early and mid-80's. There were two significant products that made it to the retail shelves:

IBM TopView. This was a text-mode multitasking shell for DOS ...

I was an intern at IBM when TopView was brought in by the original devs to demo to the execs.

I remember being dumb struck that you could copy from one window and paste it into another. That was just science-fiction AFAIWC.
One reason you can’t call gold a Ponzi scheme is that gold isn’t a scheme at all. There is no inventor of gold who owns 5% of the gold.
Unfortunately it seems I don't have access to that page. Do I need to be a Wikipedia editor?
How much is your own time worth?