skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you shut down Bitcoin mining it's immediately worth nothing.

Except that it is impossible ever shut down Bitcoin mining at once(). It might be more similar to gold than what you think.

There are too many incentives to keep it up. The holders want value to be kept, the miners have vested interest in the system to continue to work. If you shut down, say, half the miners, this will create opportunity to other miners to invest and expand. If it drops too much, people inject money into the system, which gives liquidity to the miners again, that can continue to trade their work for goods and services with Bitcoin or by trading Bitcoin for fiat.

It is very similar to Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Square and other centralized systems. The fees you pay for transactions keep the centralized finance business working and profitable as well as they invest back in software and hardware. For miners the Bitcoin fees, based on Bitcoin price, keep their systems profitable too. Not to mention some mining companies started to get listed on the stock market too.

(): Yes, you can shut down Bitcoin eventually, bugs, attacks, etc., but those have been tried and not very relevant to my point.
I am going through the boot up camp at airminers.org and I would gladly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about the state of the art of carbon capture and removal.

Also, if someone's interested in developing tools that go with this, reach out!
"Shortwave" just refers to a range of frequencies (which, counter intuitively, are on the longer end of the wavelength spectrum). It's generally used to refer to the 3-30 MHz range.

Ham (amateur) radio is a pretty wide range of radio activities performed by folks who have passed an exam and received a license to transmit using various modes on various frequencies (there are a few different licensing levels that grant different privileges). Activities include everything from talking to other hams in your local area using a VHF/UHF handheld radio (often via a repeater), to long range voice or "morse code" communication over hundreds (or thousands) of miles using the "shortwave" bands, to very long range (and very low bandwidth) modes like FT8 (Ever wanted to send 12 bytes to someone on the other side of the world? With FT8, you can!)
My statement is consistent with my belief that most drug research and development is a public good, and should be treated as such. Drugs shouldn't live or die based on whether companies think they that bringing them to market will generate windfalls for shareholders or not. I don't mind the state shouldering most of that responsibility, instead, for the benefit of the public.
I convinced my family to sign some papers so I could get a "real job" around the age of 12, working at my middle school, and doing computer repair for complete strangers as a teen just to save up for software. That included Borland C++, which cost considerably more than Turbo C++.

As an added benefit, my family knew that I was keeping out of trouble. There's not much trouble you can get into when you're going to school, working, or sitting in front of a computer (at least in the pre-online era).
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> And after ten years, there isn't one actual application of cryptocurrencies except for speculation and crime.

Remittances - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance

There is a vast market for efficient, fast, and affordable methods of transferring money/wealth across political boundaries. Blockchain/crypto seems to be filling that niche for many people, myself included, without "speculation and crime" being a factor. There is no "remittance app" for it because you can do it with your pick of various widely available crypto coins and exchanges.
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There are several options to 'stake' (deposit) coins/tokens and earn interest. You can earn more interest in crypto than you can at a bank. Assuming you trust the underlying tech long enough for your investment horizon.
I pushed myself to try this one summer in college when I was working in a lab that needed things to be checked on at odd hours. I ended up severely sleep deprived, but it was fun to try and debunk it at least for myself.
Agreed. My set intersection joke was unacknowledged. It failed Jepsen.
I don't understand why that grep stuff would give you anxiety. It is a dumb trivia question, just say you don't know.

But I don't understand because I am not you. Different things give different people anxiety. Anxiety isn't something you reason your way into or out of.
I’m taking a break from drawing a comic book about a jackal lady teaching some basic magic techniques (http://egypt.urnash.com/Stella) to do some commissions and some standalone art.

This comic is in itself a project designed to do as a break from a massive graphic novel about two sides of a YA space opera. http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/

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Which Ferrari will have a hard time convincing that they are a brand of high performing sports car, when every other EV has capabilities of sports car.
Even worse/better!
Yes, I did. Sorry for the confusion.
Javascript never really had a chance to "take over the world" before Google released Chrome and the V8 engine. Before that it was just too slow.

Java applets really sucked. They took a long time to load and initialize. They all looked ugly (probably because of the default libraries?).

Also Java itself as a language was really bad and the development experience was awful. I want to say that no one wants to program in Java but in reality many people do (I don't understand those people).

The important lesson here is the implementation is more important than the idea.

Good idea with bad implementation -> goes no where.

wasm is not java.

The important quality about wasm is that it's not garbage collected. It's pretty close to just good old assembly.
Um do you write JavaScript? Because that’s what it’s called in JavaScript.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Why so negative, I’ve had this thought before and found it reassuring that I’m not the only one.
I'd rather fund that with my tax dollars than rely on the whims of corporations to bring drugs to market.
Given the capacity of the BTC blockchain, if everyone one earth finally adopted BTC (as some people dream about), everyone could get in about one transaction in their lifetime.

(3 tx/sec = 3 tx/sec * 31m sec/a = 100m tx/a = 10bn tx/100a, so the network supports 10 bn transactions in about 100 years, and there are about 10bn people on earth, each living around 100 years.)
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Nah. Reviews tend to cost thousands of $CURRENCY as part of the publishing costs, while reviewers give their personal time, thereby losing cash and/or time.
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I can't speak to Apple's reasons specifically, but usually it comes down to:

1. Degenerate cases with new allocator designs, e.g. being better for some workloads and not others

2. Bug-for-bug compatibility - applications which break due to dependencies on undocumented behavior or the old allocator memory structures.

3. Boundary conflicts - systems where an allocator change would mean allocation and free are hitting different implementations across module boundaries, as one module allocates memory for another to consume. Some systems and programming languages are more vulnerable to this sort of issue.
Thanks for answering with an ambiguous answer. Of course I don't know everything about anything. That's why search engines were invented. I mean, even O'Reily doesn't know everything else there wouldn't be other authors!

So, which manual am I reading for learning everything there is possible to know about Console.log that will mean I never have to turn to a search engine again (with console related questions)?
Don’t protest on a highway, people are terrible drivers and worse under stress. I’m a huge urbanist but this is a terrible take.
Corel got a chunk of my money back then too
Some past submissions. Others?

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28464368 - Sept 2021 (1 comment)

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538028 - June 2020 (46 comments)

1978 – 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907778 - April 2018 (2 comments)

The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16904770 - April 2018 (65 comments)

Farewell – ETAOIN SHRDLU (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806072 - Nov 2017 (1 comment)

Etaoin shrdlu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9958143 - July 2015 (1 comment)
When you have multiple parameters that are the same type, though, that isn’t foolproof. Maybe don’t do it everywhere, but do do it when misuse is likely (function foo(a: string, b: string, c: string): [string, string, string])
Why aiming for international democracy is not an option?

You didn't explain that.

And please, stop using communists to refer to anything on earth. There is no such thing as communist nowadays. If you think there is a communist in China, that person probably will be shunned as one would be in USA...
Amazon disables New World 'wealth transfers' to fight gold dupe exploit
Actually, it was fiscal policy which dropped money from helicopters in the form of pandemic assistance of all kinds including small business loans that will never be paid back again. In the 2007 financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks and big finance ( see AIG). This time it was businesses and consumers who were bailed out. Allot of that money went into crypto and stocks.
> Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

Since you asked, yes. I do. To me, it's like asking if a beehive will always have a queen. It's in our DNA.

> Also, you're right. POW as a consensus method is flawed. But again, all V3 cryptos have essentially transitioned to delegated proof of stake at this point.

I honestly don't know enough about "V3 cryptos" to speak to it, and I'm not trying to add any FUD to the conversation :) I'll have to DMOR if you will before I can speak to that, which is why I've been constraining my comments to the system I know (BTC).

> Edit: There are 104 protocols/coins that have over $1B market cap. Value isn't a personal judgement, it's a group one.

[edit] Market cap isn't a judgement of value, just the most recent price multiplied by supply. Control the most recent price, you control the market cap. Unless you include legitimate market depth it's not really a meaningful number. SHIB for instance.
A couple of things. All unfinished (of course).

First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of people to break off the public chat and go into a private chat or into a webrtc call. Once the thread loses momentum the chat room sort of dies. And people move onto the next thread.

Backend is written in Go. Frontend will likely be Elm. Redis for pubsub. Postgres for crud.

Second idea, an Elm-like language for building linux applications (and crucially linux-phone applications). I'd really like to de-throne apple and google from the smartphone market. I think a dead simple language like Elm + a super simple, standardized dev environment + no weird configuration or new conventions to learn would be a killer feature for the linux platform. Something like Elm-UI would attract a wave of new developers to Linux.

Unfortunately, I've never made a programming language before. So I'm working through "Crafting Interpreters" to get started.

Third, possibly finding a SWE in Miami and starting a software consultancy partnership. Could be fun and lucrative but I've never been on the business side before. So likely this idea will stay half-baked for a lot longer.
The Daily Gwei (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDailyGwei) is great for catching up with news.

Also the ROLLUP series from Bankless (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIZzpOsoko)
I’ve used TypeScript and VSCode for years and I still find this infuriating:

const anything = (a: ActualTypeA, b: ActualTypeB, someOptionalFlagIveInspectedTenThousandTimesAndStillForget?: boolean) => IrrelevantReturnType

What does the parameter mean? Is it in the doc block? (Almost never.) Does it default to false? (Now you’re reading the whole potential call stack.) Are additional behaviors associated with its absence or trueness that aren’t inferred at the call site? (Who knows but it’s a fair roll of the dice!)
You can easily short Tether on DeFi platforms that can’t be locked down.
I wouldn't buy a Google hearing aid for that reason (and definitely not a Facebook hearing aid), but I trust Apple to do the right thing and I think their tech would translate well to hearing aids.
What's with all the dumb comments that the Tesla and driver was at fault?

Yes they were. End of story. OP doesn't say where weren't.

Is that how the HN brain works, you just make up stuff in your head?

OP wants an investigation. They don't necessarily get that. They get payment for damage to person / vehicle. How insurance companies work it up to them really.

How NTSB and NHTSA work I have no idea. But one assumes just because someone is cranky they got hit by a car and forwarded a story from a third person is perhaps not good enough?
I've declined PRs in the past (and had mine declined) over boolean flag args, magic numbers etc. When you work in a team readability is an important factor.

Still, I do wince sometimes at the Everest sized heaps created in JS to do even the most trivial of tasks. 10s of thousands or hundreds of thousands of objects being generated in a smallish React app.

It's fast enough, the VM is obscenely optimized, and it's readable. But what is all that stuff really _doing_?

It reminds me I recently had a company ship me a laptop with Win on it. I turned it on and logged in and the CPU was just a madhouse with Edge and 2 tabs open. What is the CPU even _doing_??? Does the company mine crypto on company laptops for cash flow... or, what?
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An actual, real-world use for robot dogs
Distributors ship products far away from their sources, sometimes to other states. I think a zip code lookup tool would not be useful and may even mislead.
The point is that it not only didn't slow down but accelerated.
I've seen some interesting arguments that 'sleep' is actually the default state of living organisms, and being 'awake' is the temporary altered state evolved on top of that.
This really wouldn't be a proxy war. And none of your examples are proxy wars either. Proxy wars are when you have someone else fight in your place. US troops fought in all three conflicts you've listed.
What is the difference between promises and native async/await? From the perspective of coding them they seem to be exactly the same.

It preserves the call stack as soon as you use ‘await’ instead of ‘[promise].then’?
> US "asks" Canada to detain prominent Corporate exec.

The scare quotes here are completely unnecessary and inappropriate. A formal extradition request was made by the US government and Canada was treaty-bound to follow it.

There were formal fraud charges against Meng Wanzhou filed in the US and since there is equivalence in Canadian law (often a prerequisite for extradition), there was no legal reason not to proceed. There was no '"asking"' involved.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_case_of_Meng_Wanzh...
Yeah the scale of shovelware and even broken games is really bad.
Finley (YC W21) is hiring engineers to build fintech infrastructure
> BTC is backed by one of the most powerful networks of computing power on the planet

And that huge computing power is employed to basically solve Sudokus whose difficulty is adjusted to burn as much energy as is put into it (which unscrupulous people will do as long as that energy is still cheaper than the mining rewards).
Hard to feel guilty about energy usage when the politicians arriving for the summit all arrive by private jet.

Even the loudest politicians usually maintain 3 or 4 homes, often with heated swimming pools.

I'm a bit tired of the extreme hypocrisy. If someone like Jimmy Carter or Ralph Nader (they both live humble lives) were to be the leading voice, I'd feel better about things.
John Deere boosts pay, retirement benefits in new offer to striking UAW
L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity
That does, in fact, appear to be a nearly textbook example of JavaScript object destructuring. See the Mozilla Developer reference site[0], specifically the "Unpacking fields from objects passed as a function parameter" section.

(Edited for clarity)

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> Why doesn't the bread and wine that miraculously becomes the body and blood of Christ taste like flesh and blood? Well, because it miraculously also retains all the physical properties of bread and wine...

I'm not a Catholic, but I figured that most people interpreted the bread and wine as symbolic.
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Everyone already has pretty good immunity to their own bacteria, so it's mostly others poo they need to watch out for. Secondarily, the biomes of the astronauts will merge on earth if they are spending lots of time in close proximity training. How much they merge, and whether this shared biome is enough to render pink eye not a worry is a little beyond me.
The tooling only got better last year with esbuild.

Everything else is either unmanageably complicated (webpack) or slow (rollup, parcel, babel).

React mainstreamed the idea of using a virtualdom to accelerate UI building (accelerate in the computational sense: by not dealing directly with the slow DOM).
They used the trademark "Windows Media Center": https://uspto.report/TM/78100817
Fixed now. Submitted title was "4.3M Americans quit their jobs in August". Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Pixel 6 review: Google Hardware finally lives up to its potential
"But, that's like saying that your military tank is incredibly safe, but crushing dozens of cars in front of you. Safety should be about how safe the streets are with your car on the road, vs not being on the road. "

I recently witnessed an almost head-on collision between a H2 Hummer and a Chevy Malibu. The H2 Hummer lost control (i think due to speeding) and served into oncoming traffic. The H2 flipped on it side but was barely damaged; the Malibu was completely mangled.
Well, some cheap compilers (this is about 1984):

- I got C for free on the first Unix systems the polytechnic I was working for bought - a desktop, but still a multi-user system. We had it connected to VT100 compatible terminals via the poly's WAN that anyone could connect to.

- Desmet C on the IBM PC. I can't remember the exact price, but much less than 100 GBP, otherwise I couldn't have wangled the expense.

- A C compiler on the Atari 512. It can't have been expensive, as after buying the hardware, I couldn't have afforded it!

- Small C. Completely free, as I remember it.

- Borland Pascal, also cheap.

Of course, I think things are much better today with the likes of GCC.
Not seeing any openings for product managers - just a product designer role. Thanks for posting though!
I responded to the sibling comment asking the same question

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068066
05:15

It takes from fifteen hundred to two thousand hours to create a piece of quality software

12:30

Captain Crunch
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There were timestamping services which people paid for before bitcoin.

So, there is some price people will pay in order to be able to demonstrate in the future that some data existed at or before a given time.

A decentralized ledger also provides this purpose.

Of course, at current transaction fees on most blockchains, it would be wasting quite a bit of money to make a transaction just to timestamp a single thing.

This is why there are services (one of which, iirc, has gotten a, uh, endowment(?) in order to provide the service for free?) which collect large quantities of (hashes of) data that people want to establish existed before a given time, and produce a Merkle tree of all of that, so that all those people can demonstrate that their data existed before a given time.

So, that's one useful service.

Is it enough to justify all the stuff that goes into blockchain stuff? That's a different question.

But, if the question is "Do they have any genuine use?", the answer is "yes." .
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Nice! Yeah, I have actually contacted BCCLA a couple times in the past and been really impressed with their through responses to my queries. I once asked about a fairly new program that was coming in and they knew way more about it than I expected. Very cool :)
isnt this just named parameters?
Better than selling ads I guess