skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he’s just getting in a cheap shot at the post he’s replying to, whose author happened to be Polish.

As you say, it’s whataboutism - nothing that the
Polish people think is in any way relevant to the disgusting anti-foreigner media frenzy of the right-wing press prior to Brexit.

Brexit was xenophobia in a sheer dress, made up to the nines, and wiggling its way down a Tory-blue carpet dragging the mindless and the easily-led along behind. It was opium for the masses while the masters made a killing. It was tragedy.

Brexit may mean Brexit (whatever that was supposed to mean), but it translates to the real world as “Bullshit” very well. Oh, and I’m a Brit.
Yes, for the Scots and Northern Irish too. They value autonomy allright. Does that nean we should go back to city states now?
They're both ML family languages, and both add OO, so they're not quite that closely related but they're definitely part of the same family tree.
Is it safe to just leave the panels in the sun without letting them convert sun energy into electricity?

If connecting into the grid isn't possible you could maybe attempt to charge batteries that you then take home and use there. Would require some calculations to check if it's worth it though... Would maybe be best if it were an electric car that can feed back into the grid.

Or run a desalination plant ;D
For Android, testing. It's quite common to get caught on a architecture that's difficult to test later and crashes for obscure reasons.
Just like Bitcoin. Your bias/ignorance is keeping you from understanding that all these things apply to BTC. I highly suggest taking a step back and reflecting on this more objectively.
You are being uncharitable here.

While there might be a lot of nonsense peddled around, this article does not belong to that category. It is about one man who saw something that others didn't and convinced them to heed his advice to the betterment of the entire Nation.
These kind of comments always seem to dismiss the positive value that facebook brings to society.
Well the idea that stocks must go up is a kind of scheme in itself. The whole financialization of our economy is based on constant growth. So you could argue that it’s a Ponzi scheme as well. Our children will likely be caught holding the bag.
Question: And when did these students start writing real programs that people used? Here in Canada and I assume the USA there were teenage kids writing useful code that made money for them.
Back in the 1600s it was the printing press. 30 years and 50% population decline later, it was corrected. Hopefully we can avoid too strong of a correction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
People don't use cryptocurrency "in exchange for goods" to any significant extent. Major merchant adoption of Bitcoin peaked years ago. And at least in my area, the same goes for local merchants; Bitcoin here is extinct.

Bitcoin is doing what, 100m transactions per year? Most of which are not for physical goods. Venmo, which started around the same time, does over 2 billion. M-Pesa, a "digital money" solution the same age does 15 billion. US credit transactions? 45 billion. Debit? 75 billion per year. And unlike Bitcoin, most of those are what people would call real transactions. Bitcoin's real use is a rounding error.

Cryptocurrency can be here to stay and also be driven by scams. Set up a Google News alert for "Ponzi scheme". Ponzi was active 100 years ago, but his approach is more popular than ever. As they say, there's a sucker born every minute.
If you think real inflation is 1-3% right now — when house prices are up 20% y/y — you may not be paying attention.
At some point, hacker news needs to accept that crypto is here to stay. Maybe not now, but you can't deny it forever if it is successful.
I need to test presignedurls in R2 to figure out if they allow specifying file names, file size limits and time limits for the put/post requests. If so, then I might switch from B2 and S3.
> gold has no value to typical people.

The whole point of an economy is that something has value if it's valuable to someone, not just the person who's holding it.

I'm not going to use a chunk of gold for anything, but it has intrinsic uses that aren't tied to being an exchange of value. It can be used to make jewelry, electronics, food, and medical devices. In some of those applications, there is no substitute for gold.

Contrast that with Bitcoin, whose only value is speculative (whether people think it will increase in price). It has literally no other use or value. If the internet crashed, you couldn't sell your Bitcoin to someone to make jewelry out of it.
It's not /just/ about the PR, the whole foundation has pulled all the projects it had access to into the DNF organization without telling anyone about it.
So no different than gold?
Or maybe we are ready, and there will be some downside. I still believe that the upside of all being able to communicate and find each other so easily balances out the negative side.

I truly believe that shutting down facebook today would be a huge loss for all of us. We can complain but social networks have changed our lives for the good in a multitude of ways.
Yes, I agreed with his point and disagreed with his characterization of the situation.
But wouldn't perfect communication also level the playing field in terms of asymmetrical information, which would also be in everyone's self interest?
That one was my favorite too. Filter lists don't work well in a multi lingual world. https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainbow6/comments/a01w7q/got_banned...
> Yea, I can't even imagine the furor if Chrome were to do this

But... Chrome does do this. They're just not labeled as ads.

Type the letter "K" (or any other single letter) into your Chrome search bar on a fresh profile and tell me what you see. Because I see an awful lot of "contextual suggestions" that are not really any different from ads.

https://imgur.com/a/baXZDrN
Well... I wouldn't, nor would 95% of the US. I want to be paid in stable currency backed by the full faith and force of the US Government.

"Oh shit, the internet went out. Hope the value of my ETH doesn't crash through the floor while the internet is down...."
> there are studies showing higher protection from vaccination alone than prior infection, and other showing the opposite.

So you admit to listing one small study that states A while knowingly ignoring the other studies that argue the opposite? The NIH-funded study and Israel’s data are relevant counterpoints in this discussion.
Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27950416 ?
Yes. You only need to share your code (or send it if asked) to people who get your modified code. If nobody gets it, then nobody can ask you for it.
It's not worth it to sacrifice everything over a WASM runtime. I hope the author takes more than just a couple of months to gain some perspective on what is important and get out of his burnout. I've been in a similar situation and burnout really sucks. Hope you get better!
Much like Bitcoin gold has virtually no uses (outside of being worth money)
A Ponzi scheme is when someone gave you money and you gave them back more because someone else came and gave you money, and now you need to give money to this new person so then you get another person and their money and so on. This is absolutely not in any way similar to Bitcoin. These "five features" author suggests are completely random and have little to do with a Ponzi scheme.
"missed the boat" somewhat implies that blockchain technology is already being used for anything except the backing for pump-and-dump schemes and the punchline for jokes.

Unless you mean specifically "missed the opportunity to make lots of money", in which case sure, that's absolutely accurate, but if I wanted to gamble I'd just go to a casino.
When you need to register on a website, you can opt-in into a random email that is generated by Apple. Something like cooker-huskies0u@icloud.com. They then setup a relay that sends everything it receives to your email that is registered with your Apple Id. You can cancel any of those emails whenever and never hear from that website again. There's a similar offering from joint venture of Fastmail and 1Pawword if you're not into Apple.
Likely depends on whether or not that's the reason most people are buying it.
This is hardly news. You can sway a democratic election, by definition, by changing the opinion of the median voter. Which means political campaigns focus their energy on the median voter. And targeted advertising makes it easier and more efficient to do that. So what? This doesn't change the end result, that the person who gets elected is close to the median opinion in the country. It doesn't give you a way to elect an extremist that 90% of the country disagree with.

It's also a mechanism that is equally available to all candidates. It is not as if only Republicans can run advertising on social media.

In fact, I recall a bunch of fawning praise in the media and tech sphere for the 2008 Obama campaign's use of social media, and much prognostication that the old farts in the Republican party would be consigned to political oblivion because they wouldn't be able to master the use of big data and social media to precisely target their spending and efforts to win elections. At the time no one in the media seemed to consider this future the end of democracy - that's only a complaint that comes up when the Republicans use this technique to win, apparently.
Thanks!

I decided to delve into the "pure" sciences of mathematics and physics. I figured I'd end up in the ivory towers of academia. And of course, like many other undergrads, I ended up major hopping a bit. I never considered programming as a career until it happened.
Why do people keep repeating that it is Facebook’s fault to spread misinformation? Humans do that. IMO channels like fox news have caused much more damage.
I find it very manipulative to offhandedly dismiss the utility it provides to people suffering under oppression or unstable financial systems and to compare that to smoking.

As the article states, check your financial privilege.

And "tiny amount of people"? What's "tiny" here? Hundreds, thousands, millions? Do you know how many people use Bitcoin in this way?
I got involved in bitcoin after being blackballed from the (US) financial world while for 2-3 months while I was "investigated" in the most dystopianly opaque way possible. One day I lost the ability to transact. A few months later I got it back. Had it not been for good friends who could cover my expenses, I could have easily ended up homeless. And the most shocking part of it all, was that I was merely collateral damage -- I had done nothing to piss off any of the powers to be.

It made me quickly appreciate that a persons ability to transact while not quite a human right, isn't too far from it either. There is no way the government (or financial world) should hold the power to wreck someone with no accountability. Bitcoin as I see it, is a way to shift the balance of power somewhere closer to where it belongs.

I don't hold bitcoin because I think it'll go up in value, I hold it because I don't want someone to tell me I can't pay rent because ... well they can't tell me why, because "sorry, I don't have access to that information"
I see your point.

But if quantum computers start breaking encryption, crypto currency is probably pretty low on the list of worries…
Oh man, getting obsessed with TI-82 BASIC in middle school is definitely the reason I have the career and life I do today. I remember after years of dealing with ~36 variable slots and all the other insane limitations, my parents got me a TI-89 for Christmas and it changed everything. You could perform "indirection" on a constructed string, which opened up all kinds of awesome techniques. And you could draw lines and points on the canvas! I built an incredibly slow pokemon clone and a theorem prover before a kind mentor suggested I try programming on the computer.

I hope these sorts of experiences will still be accessible for my kids. Having a school-mandated device with a button labeled "PROGRAM" that took you straight to a BASIC interpreter made it possible for someone like me, growing up in a rural area with zero parental technical knowledge, to end up where I am today.
Temporary visas in post-brexit UK? Not that great. And quite a typical English arrogance for that matter: "we're short staffed so we'll give you a time limited offer to work on a remote island away from your friends and family at the same rates as you could earn on the continent". Why thank you, but no. Payment or tax incentives might be different on the other hand. Also, brace for construction staff shortages. Currently the UK is the laughing stock of the EU 27.
I'm sorry, what applications? Besides accelerating global warming there doesn't seem to be anything it's good at.
Gold has actual use. At minimum, gold is worth the value of it's conductivity properties, or of it's high malleability, high density, low reactivity and low toxicity, or it's pretty looks. Bitcoin has none of those going for it except maybe the looks (to anyone who has a copy of the "pretty" Blockchain)
Well, yes, but that's true with pretty much everything. If you're addicted to reading Clancy novels, you spend more time reading Clancy novels and less time talking to friends, therefore Clancy novels are more addictive than heroin. Sounds ridiculous, right? Yes, there's a positive feedback dynamic in any addiction, every basic text on it mentions it. But that's no reason to jump to "most people never would be able to get rid of the habit". This dynamic can be overturned, and there are many tools to do it, and in this particular case it's easy - you body won't disintegrate and you would not feel like armies of Hell descended on you to torture you if you don't use facebook for a week.
QRL is a thing https://www.theqrl.org

It uses XMSS, and does it fairly well.
Textbook shill.
Christmas lights use way more electricity per year than Bitcoin mining. 6.6 billion kw/h for Christmas lights, 33 million Christmas trees grown and shipped around.
This is great news. I've struggled so many times with websites that either don't offer a deletion option in the account/profile settings or where customer support never responds to requests. My hope is that deletion in this case really means deletion: The user data will not remain in their database to then eventually be accidentally leaked or hacked.
You are not going to convince people who already dumped billions dollar into this thing. You better invent a bitcoin killer or ask governments to shut it down. Ponzi as a concept is unaware to most bitcoin holder.
Bitcoin continue working even if there are no newcomers, is this how a ponzi works?
> The social security administration could also be considered a Ponzi scheme, but it still provides tremendous value to a lot of people.

Government runs a debt and finances it on the bond market with US Treasuries. That's not a ponzi scheme.

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes, but it's true and will continue to be true in the forseeable future.
Thank you for the lecture series recommendation, I enjoyed those.
Haha, yes if you're just a "weekly" investor. But for me who invested years ago, my assets begs to differ. Back then there were people I know personally that like you who also said that it's a bad idea to invest in crypto, I'm very glad I didn't listen to them haha. Now I just tell them it is not yet too late before global adoption.
> Elon and SpaceX will be able to mine gold on asteroids within the next 20 years, which would crash the price of gold.

what would be their incentive to do it, then?
You can't make new rare elements out of thin air though.
Nasa did worse than that. To simulate space they pressurized Apollo 1 to one atmosphere above external pressure. So they were at two atmospheres of pressure, which is ironically about the same pressure as the hyperbaric oxygen therapy used in the OP. The patients in the OP were using masks.
Yes, the wrench technique will always ultimately win.

https://xkcd.com/538/

But they have to know someone holds it in the first place. You can walk around with a seed phrase in your head and no one would know.
Commerce.
Technically we want to punish people for driving a car. Electrics are of course better than ICEs, but they're still a lot worse that cycling or taking a train. It would of course be nice if the infrastructure wasn't optimized for cars...
From a users perspective this sounds entirely positive, but I guess there may be ambiguities around the definitions of "account" and "deletion" and "account deletion".
> But ETH is still tied to the dollar and that's where it gets its value,

For people that look at it like that, sure. That's not how everyone looks at it though. I personally look at it with the aim of acquiring as much ETH as possible because I can see that the future economy will be built on it and eventually things will be priced in ETH.

Just because the transitions are slow and you don't see it happening, doesn't mean that there's not a transition happening.
But most coins have a limit . Btc is 21 million it's not infinite
"Bitcoin privacy" is a contradiction in terms, as has been repeatedly proven.

You set up a scene of a refugee "storing their wealth in Bitcoin", but it begs the question: where are these refugees with substantial wealth they are looking to exfiltrate? Typical refugees are emigrating from locales where they were earning dollars per day. The use case of shielding hoarded wealth during a journey to a freer locale is a blinkered fantasy. (Of course, if this is incorrect, surely there are hundreds, at least dozens of compelling case studies by now?)
It's happening again!
I tend to like "The Greater Fool."

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes, but this is a common phrase used to denote ponzi schemes.
Mining gold on asteroids will likely be more expensive than mining on this planet. If mining gold on asteroids crash the price of gold, who would mine gold from asteroids?

On the other hand, if one were to buy proven gold reserves stored on an asteroid, then that might make sense. The exploration company could discount the value of the gold by the existing cost of sending it to Earth and the ongoing cost of guarding it which will necessary given an absence of enforceable property rights. As the cost of terrestrializing shrinks and potential value of off-Earth use grows the value of the asteroid stored gold would increase over time.
Is this a joke? Show me a Wix website with the features and scalability of the giants.
> The people inside Facebook aren't immoral

I'm going to go ahead and push back on that.

A company whose founder started by using his fellow students' photos without their permission for a hot-or-not copycat website, then went on to assist genocide in Myanmar, do psychological experiments on its users, and facilitate the spread of misinformation in a pandemic that has caused more deaths than any foreign conflict in US history is an immoral company full of immoral people.
You can denominate ETH in whatever you want, but come April 15th you’d better exchange enough for dollars to meet your dollar denominated tax obligation.
Not if you still have older CRT monitors or plasma screens.

Also login / lock screens are essentially just screen savers
He was as tenacious as a bull-dog when he once understood what he had to do, and indeed it was just this tenacity which has brought him to the top.
OP mispoke and meant the supply is finite.
Oh man, if Edward Jenner, the father of vaccinology, was alive today, he would get crucified over his discovery of the smallpox vaccine.

"What? Did you just scrape some cow's tits and inject fluid into a boy?
No control? Where the ethics approval?"

And that's probably in the Top 10 of largest advancements in medicine of all time. Luckily he did it all before the existence of armchair keyboard warriors.
Neat idea! There's no C, C++, Perl, or MATLAB entry though, so my ability to help is limited... :/

Surely there's a need for "implement <foo> in better machine code" work, in other languages and projects, no?
>> People invest into it because they expect good profits

OK yeah that's called an investment. Most people don't invest in stuff they think will be unprofitable. Maybe you're different?

>> that expectation is sustained by such profits being paid to those who choose to cash out

Profits aren't paid out from Bitcoin. There are no profits being paid out. That's sort of the key difference. Bitcoin doesn't send you a check if you own it.

>> the operators take away a large portion of this money

If there were "operators" of the Bitcoin scheme, they left billions of dollars on the table. Which...I hope they did!

But sadly, unlikely.
Since road wear is proportional to something like axle-weight to the power of four, bikes essentially don't matter.
People do not invest in USD because they expect a gain? Anyone holding cash is doing exactly this. Because the only rational reason to hold USD instead of spending it or converting it to some other asset/investment is because you think it's value is going to either hold or grow more than other options.

If people expected no gain in USD (or inflation) then they would not hold USD and instead choose assets or other investments.

If one does expect profits they can achieve that not just by BTC going up in value, but other currencies being inflated.

I myself hold bitcoin as a store of value and do not necessarily expect profits. I simply feel that it will hold it's value better than other things. I could be wrong, but that doesn't mean it is a Ponzi.
It’s clearly argued that since a majority of demand for gold is from non-investors it doesn’t fit the definition..
That's not true. It's fantastic for ransomware and scams in general.
Stocks produce value though. They represent shares of companies that make useful products that generate actual value.

When you own a share of Apple you literally own a fraction of their factories, IP, etc.
What percentage of people who bought bitcoin today, bought it with the intent of making normal commerce-related transactions?
The users, it’s the same network effect that prevents me from making a Facebook clone and taking market share.
This feels like a blogpost about graphic design using too many grids and tables. It doesn't really dive deep into the conundrum of what UI could be when the system is "symbolic all the way down", with the basic digital representation of 0 and 1 groupings primarily existing as a leveraging mechanism for defining other symbols.

With everything physical and freeform, the problem of measuring and aligning becomes primary. Tool precision drives what our built environment can look like. For UI to evolve likewise, it has to pay considerable attention to what documents are measuring. At the most primitive level this is always linear memory cell structures, even if they have some data attached indicating representation as a connected graph or other structuring mechanism. But time and again we opt to adopt something with higher level representation, which then creates the need for a custom toolbox, and I think that in turn drives the use of tabular and grid presentation as a way of putting the toolbox within reach. If you don't have more than one tool, UI disappears.
Your digital store of value promises to lose around 2% of its buying power every year, and they beat that by a lot this past year.
>The social security administration could also be considered a Ponzi scheme, but it still provides tremendous value to a lot of people.

The Social Security Administration is entirely solvent by itself. The only "ponzi scheme" comes from congress using it like a piggy bank. And despite all that, SSA is backed by the US government. Bitcoin is backed by... nothing. So it's basically the equivalent of the zimbabwe dollar, not SSA.
Gov.uk did this. The code WNKR still ended up on Reddit yesterday.
Venezuela
That’s like saying that because people are actually selling shovels and pickaxes there is something to the gold rush.