skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austrian economics aren't crackpot, they're just outdated. Their view of the world was the correct when human labor was the most valued thing in the world.

Austrian views on inflation have been proved several times over.

Austrian views on the value of labor are a disaster. They're entirely unable to imagine our current labor market where a substantial amount of the work is done by machines. Human Action was written in 1949. Imagine how different the world must have been back then. My iPhone can recognize the contents of pictures such that I can search them-- in 1949 that would have required an office building some storage cabinets, logistics, and a personal secretary or two. Now nobody,

not even Apple can tell you how that works.
>it needs to make the people running it rich or they wouldn't bother. This is debated

I don't think this is even debatable anymore. We were promised decentralization and transaction costs at a fraction of traditional payments. Instead we have astronomical transaction/gas fees and effective centralization around a different cast of characters.

Of course there are positives. For instance, if you are sending large sums, it can be cost-effective. But, this is far from the world of micropayments and fractional penny transaction costs, and that money is going somewhere.

Seems pretty clear that we've just dislocated some percentage of the financial incumbents to create new ones. And, even the old incumbents are buying back in. Reminds me of the early promise of the Internet itself giving way to corporate overlords and capital.

I'm not anti-crypto, but it is kind of silly to keep pretending it's close to or even on track to realizing its early promise.
Fortunately they made an extension for it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
Thanks, that's a good answer. I am not 100% sold that any of these are "problems", but I could at least see why you think they are and pursue "solutions".
FT-8 has issues beyond what is or is not encoding that could be argued (and is) to be in violation of certain rules.
From the 2010 article:

> The current financial system is slow, and tedious, and old, and in many ways actually broken or flawed. But one thing we know is that it's resilient. One single mathematical error will not send the whole thing into a tailspin. With bitcoin, it will.

9 months later, this article was released, titled "The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash".

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/black-schole...

Lol!
Expectation for suicide hotline is not "make whoever is sad and calls happy". It is to prevent suicides. He called suicide horline. He was not suicidal at all, he said it to then and to us.

He was not trained away from saying it. The question did not even came straight away. If he is afraid to admit suicidal thought for rational reasons, as you say, rational act is to not call at all.

Way more likely explanation is that they realized he is not suicidal, then asked to confirm and end ended that all.
> Putting dollars into it, and hoping I get more dollars out.

So you mean as a hedge against inflation? That is exactly the usecase of Bitcoin right now.

Other cryptocurrencies go for other usecases, but for bitcoin, that is it.
Yes, I got that one too and was extremely perplexed that it didn’t close when I clicked outside it and I had to hunt the tiny x instead.
You are arguing against a point I didn't make, and supporting the point I was trying to make.

I actually read the papers on remdesivir, and as a result decided that I will not take it if offered, whether hospitalized or not, because of my risk/reward preferences, which may or may not align with the doctor's or the system's.

In Israel (where I now reside), AFAIK, they are happily administering it to hospitalized covid patients; at least, they were giving it out a lot until they started treating with regeneron. Now, Israel has its own definition for requiring hospitalization than the WHO or the FDA (e.g. SpO2<94% is considered severe and requiring hospitalization -- if you have a positive PCR test).

Do you think the doctors treating covid are actually aware of the minute differences between WHO, FDA, IMOH definitions? I checked with a couple I know. They have no idea.
While it's true that virtually any substance has a toxic dose, avoiding that dose is straightforward for drugs as well-known and widely-used as ivermectin. There is no risk of harming someone significantly. (There's also, I think, no chance of being effective against covid at safe doses.)

It is true, but unfortunate, that in many societies only licensed practitioners are in a position to prescribe (or proscribe) most drugs. That's a policy that does some good but also an enormous amount of harm.
I have plans for a real SHTF scenario. Things to eat, things to barter, things to defend myself with. I really don't think in time of instability I'll be thinking "damn, wish I had some bitcoin right now."
Litespeed, or Apache+mod_lsapi are excellent alternatives.

If self-hosting, Nginx and FPM is well-tested and very fast.
> How is that not neutral?

the "news" headline is literally just a quote from only one side/perspective of the issue
GitHub allows stacking PRs
you send PR1 to master
and PR2 is a pull request to PR1's branch, the diffs look good, and when PR1 is merged GitHub automatically changes its target branch to master.
Current fees are very high: eth $81!, Bitcoin $2.78

Time to confirmation varies from 300-600 seconds compared with ~ 1-3 seconds on traditional networks.

I’m afraid it is neither cheap nor easy.
I hope it’s WIP!
I always marvel at how fellow technologists and engineers on HN don't grok the significance of Bitcoin, while people from all walks of life on crypto Twitter truly understand Bitcoin's impact. This post and the comments section is proof.
My point is: that narrative is a heartstring-pulling load of B.S.
The majority of the parts I printed on my first 3D printer were upgrades for the printer itself...
The authoritarian tech/finance cartel will gladly close your PayPal account without recourse to claim the balance, close your bank account, prevent you from getting access to payment processors, delist your products, kick you off of web hosting, ban your social media accounts, and otherwise shut you out of 99% of what people use the internet for, just for crossing one of them.

I never hold more than leftovers-worth of Bitcoin, so I'm not tied up in its success financially, but it has been a great way to support people who have been oppressed governments and corporations, many of whom who have never even been accused of a crime.
I suppose the classic answer to the problem it solves is the Byzantine general's problem, or in other words the combination of incentives and rules to allow records to be made on a distributed system that isn't actively managed by anyone.
Yep. And somehow SharePoint was supposed to apply either AIP or something similar automatically.
crypto is a techincal monetary system yet the most techical people does not like it.. something to think about.
> I take it that he's not doing that because he wants to diminish the size of his practice.

But very likely (especially in the US, but also in other places), his considerations have to do with not increasing his malpractice insurance premium.

Your and his interests are not aligned. And that chasm is larger than anyone likes to admit.
I think the news of PHP's death came a bit too early. Most people I know claimed it was dead during the time Node was getting popular and people started pushing for things like websockets to make updating pages faster. PHP couldn't do that so people said it would die, and honestly if you were in a startup or a FAANG at the time it looked like it would. Everyone was moving from a REST web 2.0 model to a "live, concurrent users" model.

But the trend didn't continue. People did it for a whilw, but then moved on to other models which still worked for PHP because few apps really need live data and concurrency like that.

The problem for PHP is that the reputation for being "a dying language" stuck.
I think it is also kind of a collectors' item. Like owning a piece of a rare set of baseball cards or cars.

There are definitely religious zealots out there but in terms of passive ownership -- it could be viewed as a scarce collectors item with theoretically infinite appreciation right?

For example, if a rare painting could not be effected by environmental degradation. Would it not appreciate forever until people stopped caring about paintings or suddenly rare paintings could be atomized into existence by a replicator?
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
This is neat but how is it low-code?
You don't actually own cryto currencies either. You own the key, equivalent to the document you mentioned.

If something happened to the blockchain, your key would be worthless. Much like a bank that got robbed.

Storing crypto currencies is also very expensive, at least for all popular ones. Proof of Work requires to chrun out hashes to secure the network from external threats and in the car of Bitcoin it costs billions each year. Compared to the relatively low number of users it's very expensive and resource intensive.
The difference is that the government will (implicitly) point a gun at you and demand a tax payment from you next April, and they'll want that payment in fiat. Everyone knows that everyone else will be coerced into coming up with some U.S. dollars in a few months, so they have a lot more to rely on than everyone else's mere belief in money.
> but a slack like service like XMPP/Matrix/Kafka? sound way simpler than having servers message each other directly

This is called an Enterprise Service Bus and got its start in the early 2000s when you started to have the first batches of programmers entering the workforce who could write code to build business apps but didn't really "get" computers and networks. TIBCO made billions selling it and facilitating .NET apps talking to Java apps talking to random Oracle things.
Inflation is a safety net. Inflation prevents populations from fearfully (or speculatively) hoarding money. When a population collectively decides to hoard money, demand for goods and services tanks, jobs are cut in response, and so on in a vicious cycle until the entire economy grinds to a halt. Such a situation is extremely difficult to recover from without government monetary policy to stimulate demand.
Is this sarcasm? I can't tell.
I've been harping on this for years. If Apple released a micro-43rds camera (as a starter) with a A-series CPU and it's image processor, they would clean up.

The beauty would be that they already have all the APIs to support doing this, and you could run one of the existing 3rd-party camera apps too. (Hi, Halide!)

I drop $2k+ for one in a heartbeat.
I have no idea what set off the spate of so-themed band names some years ago - Com Truise, Joanna Gruesome, Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr.

Anyhow Chet Baker is no more obscure than John Coltrane, Count Basie, Stan Getz... titans of the mid 20th c.
Yea, I don't quite understand how the article's product is different from this. I also don't understand how anyone uses Github in a professional context without using the workflow you describe...

EDIT: Ah, from comments further downthread, it seems that the level of stacking enabled is much deeper, as a lot of the manual process is automated. I stopped using Critique over half a decade ago so I no longer remember the details of how it handled this.
Worth reading the Wikipedia article on the Handle System, of which the DOI system is a subset:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_System

All handles that start with 10 are DOIs. Handles that start with 20 are issued by CNRI.

I don't know of a published list of prefixes, but it would be easy to investigate since entering the prefix into the appropriate resolver will bring up information on the issuing authority:

- https://hdl.handle.net/20.1000 : "Prefix for CNRI licenses."

- https://doi.org/10.14288 : "Datacite prefix 8/22/13"

Not all have the DESC field, but you can figure out who these are from other fields:

- https://doi.org/10.14288 : CrossRef & American Chem. Soc. publications

- https://doi.org/10.1038 : CrossRef & Nature publications

etc...
Sorry about that - I don't think that comparison made sense and it was also really inflammatory so I removed it
Is speed the only measure of a programming language?

Honestly, I have no idea how it compares to PHP. If I wanted truly fast I'd use a compiled language. The point is more that Ruby is still being used and improved upon all the time; far from 'dead'.
> Any tips to write like that?

You notice the pattern. Mimic it. Struglle with it. Persevere.Endure. Will you reach perfection? Maybe not. No problem. Satisfaction is few layers below.
How does Bitcoin solve the "can't trust the other party" problem? If you send bitcoin to someone to buy some fine pharmaceuticals and they just don't send the product, what recourse do you have?
Online voting should be limited to:

1) Open ballot elections. (e.g. lawmakers voting on a nomination)

2) Small consequences elections. (E.g. flag change)

3) "Non binding elections" (i.e. opinion polls with huge sample size and marketing)

4) Small groups of tech savvy people.
Just run it in a VM, no random reboots to hold you hostage.
The United States itself is also a kind of religion.

We have our gods (founding fathers, dead presidents) and demigods (American folk heros, war heros).

We have our sacred texts (Constitution, Declaration, etc) and our genesis story (War for Independence).

We have our temples (capitals, court houses).

We have our core beliefs (representative democracy is good, all men are created equal, the peaceful transition of power).

Citizens of this country worship at the alter of Americanism, and many of us work hard to make the religion successful and dominant throughout the world. Like other religions, we've even engaged in genocides and wars to spread our beliefs and convert or destroy the unbelievers.

The United States succeeds only because a critical mass of us choose to believe in this religion and really want it to succeed.

Is it really that much different from Bitcoin?
"Crypto" is a general set of fundamental primitives for decentralized infrastructure.

(1) A decentralized, "trustless" ledger. There are a ton of use cases here -- akin to databases, but without having to trust a central authority to not go in and just tweak the rows. Good examples: Land registries, stock ownership (current status quo with entities such as DTCC are "interesting" in the loopholes), etc. Bitcoin made this datastructure popular, but it has become (effectively) a Digital Gold; I do not think it will "win" the day due to some key limitations around Proof of Work.

(2) Futures contracts on compute power. Ethereum is a good example. Each "smart contract" lives on the blockchain and is akin to a perpetual AWS Lamda-style program. You can spend ETH to publish or execute programs. By owning ETH, you have a futures contract on said computation.

(3) Futures contract on file storage. The most prominent examples are IPFS/Filecoin & AR Weave. People earn tokens by storing files & spend tokens to have someone host files. Owning tokens gives you the ability to store files in the future.

(4) Decentralized governance (DAOs). These are new ways for people to organize and control the direction of projects. It makes things like voting trivial & verifiable. See recent US elections for examples of how this is beneficial.

(5) Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Combining the above, you can do amazing things in finance without relying on centralized institutions. For example: DEXs (decentralized exchanges) are marvelous -- you can convert between virtually any pair of crypto currencies automatically without restriction.

(6) You can build incentivization structures to enable microtransactions. A good example is Helium -- a LoRa wireless network (900MHz, super-low datarate IoT) ecosystem that covers vast areas. You earn Helium by providing area coverage & transferring data. You spend Helium by using bandwidth. All of it is done without a big central authority (e.g. legacy telcos). Currently in the process of supporting cellular & wifi.

Using these primitives, you can build a host of valuable applications. E.g. rideshare is really just a giant decentralized auction on moving things from A->B -- doesn't matter if it's Uber, Lyft, taxis, autonomous cars, or random people with a vehicle -- you could implement the auction via smart contracts and have "perfect" balance of supply, demand & pricing.

I would liken the state of crypto today to the internet in 1995-1998 -- bubble & all. My suggestion: Try not to judge the www by your experiences with usenet. The "toys" of today could very well become the most valuable institutions on the planet in 20 years. And above all, remember that in the scope of humanity, money is not that old -- and fiat less the gold standard even less so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZkP2b-4vo
To me your reaction is just as emotional. Your emotions require you to attempt to be analytical, dispassionate and transcend the issue. It's possible to have empathy for the author and be agnostic to any perceived rhetorical goals.
Won't regulations make it expensive? I don't think the technical aspects of money causes the high transaction cost. The regulations does.
We are regressing back to barbarism. People are starving and freezing in a Polish forest while crypto thought leaders are shilling how to buy a copy of the US Constitution at a Sotheby's auction. Really weird times.
The dislike (not hate, at least in my case) is not against Firefox. I like Firefox a lot.

What I don't like is Mozilla using it as a dairy cow, and starving it on top of that.
But what problem does that solve?
> it sort of automatically signals the requestor is more important than the time picker

This is precisely the problem with Calendly and why I'd never recommend it.
In that story, which is very long and has all kind of hollywood quality twists (and heros, and villains), there was a highly effective and (relatively, ~$10K overall) cheap treatment, where the official treatment was $30K/month with potential for stopping at some point, but most kids are on it for years before they can stop.

The diagnostic failure was just the beginning.

(And, unlike the HCQ/IVM case, which I don't support and is in general speculative - the guy responsible for the official recommendation was actually convicted for taking bribes from the company making the treatment. I won't divulge any details, because that will de-anonymize me - the disease is rare enough that people in the field know each other and all the cases).

p.s: That treatment (in combination) is also used for other, similar diseases, each is rare, but overall it was a lucrative market for the drug company.
Neither event you mention led to land being reclaimed by nature/regrown into forests/habitats, which allegedly is how the CO2 got recaptured in this theory
Bitcoin is perhaps a rounding number today (my guess is that it is more than that due to Chinese miners not reporting energy usage correctly but could very easily be wrong), but what it solves is even less of a rounding number.

Said in a different way to do all financial transactions on the blockchain would use a lot more energy then it currently does.
I worked in the public sector for decades and we did so many proof of concepts on block chains, exactly because successful consultants and university researchers (the sort of people we trust) tried to sell us various ideas.

It never stuck in my country, I think it did for a while in Sweden for their land ownership systems, but never here. It never stuck because it’s just a terribly inefficient database.

There is a use case for decentralised landownership, maybe not in a low corrupt country like Sweden, but I’m sure you can think of places where total transparency in land ownership and the transfer of land ownership would matter.

The problem blockchain doesn’t solve is that even with perfect transparency, your claim of ownership means nothing to the people with guns. Which means it doesn’t actually help you in countries that aren’t big like Sweden.

The same is true for all its use cases, including money. Because even money relies more on the established system more than any crypto fan will ever care to admit to themselves.
OH but each time you boot it up, it's slow as molasses as it force runs those updates, ask me how I know.
Chet Baker did not invent the torch song. Does "Is That All There Is?" do anything for ya?
C/C++ Search Extension (search cppreference.com)
DOI prefixes are designed to be opaque. All they do is serve as a namespace that helps guarantee that somebody can generate a unique DOI (yes, I know, other approaches to this would arguably be better). In short- the prefix doesn't really tell you anything useful about the DOI. So what are you trying to do?

And have you looked at the Crossref and/or DataCite APIs?

https://api.crossref.org
https://api.datacite.org
I've thought about this a lot because my less technical friends are often surprised when I tell them I am not "super into" BTC.

I wonder if it is because I am used to dealing with the fragility of digital systems (not to unfairly discount their strengths either) -- so then paper money almost feels like a relief to hold in my hand and just slap on the counter and smell that fresh legal tender.
Why Some Machine Learning Models Leak Data
Can confirm, as someone who spent 2 years building software to beat recaptchas/bot management. I literally told DK that there was no way that Browserflow could solve the problems I spent years fighting against. I was wrong... it was humbling.
Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
> The entire messaging of this OS is dystopian corpo garbage and then people are shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that it's a monopolistic shitpile kicking your civil rights in the nuts at every turn.

The funny thing is, they're doing it for more than decade, and people believe that one day they won't do it. On the contrary, it'll get more and more aggressive.
Sorry, but 0.1% of global energy consumption still adds up to a lot of coal power plants.
That seems to be the consensus of what people say, but I think that all of those things are false or atleast assuming functional parts that aren't actually guaranteed.

No anonymity, means sure you are free to transfer, but the gov is free to track you down, and if you live in an anti crypto gov, that means entering or exiting the crypto universe is very difficult.

You say $100 or $100 million, but this is a large failure of Bitcoin. You are tying it's value to fiat. That compounds on my previous point, if all governments crack down on crypto, would it actually have any value? If tomorrow, all exchanges were shut down, the truth is, Bitcoin would be dead.

Lastly, the largest flaw of Bitcoin is it's failures to scale. That means that in the golden crypto universe that every follower dreams of, every text, transaction, breath, thought, all exists on the blockchain, Bitcoin inevitably collapses. You have the problem of both the blockchain size has grown to such a size that the barrier to entry for nodes becomes too large, as well as the failure for Bitcoin to handle any rate of transactions/seconds to handle the real world.
I felt like PHP set me back as a first language (many moons ago). It just works so differently to other languages.
Very nice.

What API is used to track Shift/Ctrl/Alt keys state?
> You have to speak the same protocol from end-to-end, otherwise you'd have to break the end-to-end encryption to translate from one protocol to the other.

Why is this any different from WhatsApp, which has a Matrix bridge? Or does that break encryption too?
2021 is the year to be ‘non-toxic’
Especially considering how fucked Xilinx and Altera customers are these days. Now's the best possible time for competitors to hit the market hard.