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To me cryptocurrency sounds like monorail or electric bus. Both technologies were designed to fix one aspect of existing transport systems.

Monorail concept appeared around 1900, trying to reduce the elevated railways problem. One designer thought of reducing the use of metal. Wuppertal suspension railway uses much more metal for tracks than conventional trams. There is a special monorail in Britain, built in 1940s, that stands on A-shaped legs. The only rail is supported by some metal triangles, using the same amount of metal. Later models, first built in Disneyland, use concrete (which contains a lot more iron in the concrete itself besides the reinforcement), and rubber wheels (sacrificing the advantage of low friction). Their biggest problem is switches: they're heavy and huge. Suspended monorails use big box instead of a rail, because swaying carriages are uncomfortable, and to hold them, the track must resist the force of a long lever. Errr... what was the reason to go for all that, in the first place? Make simpler track and use less rails/metal? Not achieved at all.

Electric buses... just 2 words: they're 3-5 times more expensive, and a whole route of e-buses requires just as much electric equipment as trolleybus line. Plus, e-buses spend twice more time charging than riding. Which means you need to triple the fleet of triple-quintiple more expensive vehicles. Even if battery technology progresses, as some insist, let it improve for private, not public money.

It seems that blockchain is similar: couple of advantages, lots of big disadvantages.
The vaccines do prevent infections and slow the spread. They just don't prevent all infections.
You are able to conceive of it, you're just doing it without realizing what you're doing. Someone with a good imagination but no math knowledge at all could picture the same squiggly lines as you can, but without meaning. In your head there exists both the squiggly lines, and what they mean. All you have to do is fill in the last quadrant, which would be holding the meaning without picturing the lines. I would suggest that you might be using the meaning scratch space without using the imagination scratch space every time you think about something that can't be pictured.

You know how some people can't wink? If one eyelid was picturing an equation, and the other was interpreting it by what it meant, well, you see where the analogy is going, people with bad imaginations would be people with an eyepatch, who happen to all be perfect at winking.
I recommend readers take parent post with a grain of salt.

(1) Google's offering returns with-in <5ms, in my experience.
(2) the demo is for paragraphs, not short text. You're putting mismatched data into the input, of course it's not going to work. Try a paragraph as suggested.
Cynicism should be discared because it's cynicism. It is a pathologicaly warped worldview misshapen by deep narcissism of people who got conned into believing something false and have instead of changing their beliefs made their disillusionment into their identity.
This comment is very interesting to me, thank you for sharing. I can relate to a lot of what you said, and I feel the phrasing "normal imagination lacking detail" is perfect. And, (why I decided to respond ->)

> For me the ball is smooth an white. The table is something akin to stainless steel.

my scene was similar but opposite: Steel/metallic ball on smooth white table, ball falls into a colorless void. The table doesn't even have dimensions really, just has an edge the ball can fall off.

I must read more on aphantasia. If you don't mind me asking: did you decide that this is your condition through learning about it, or were you "diagnosed" somehow?
What's going to happen when people start trying to retire by selling crypto?

Many people will be selling at the same time, and suddenly the subjective value for everyone will be lower because it will be easier and easier to buy it.

My sense is that there is a cap on the demand for purchasing crypto, but the supply is very low because mining decreases over time, and generally people holding lots of crypto are younger and have no need to sell in order to pay for things, they can just pay with their fiat income.

This equation will change drastically as people start to retire and need to sell lots of crypto in order to fund their lifestyle without working.
It's even more ironic, because the entire point of NFTs is to create artificial scarcity in an environment without scarcity (the digital world).

I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies, and I think you'd be right, but I find cryptocurrency projects in general seem to lean heavily into the scarcity aspect, and promise that early adopters will be able to cash in that scarcity later.
"Reported Crimes May Not Accurately Reflect Actual Crimes"

Reported data usually has some error. That does not mean you ignore it, unless you have an alternative with less error. People will care less about neighborhood crime data when crime in general is falling. Murder has risen in the U.S. over the last few years.
Or more simply, 5x as contagious but 1/2 as deadly? That's still a lot more deaths.
> The thing is, vaccines were never advertised as tools to prevent infection.

In the USA? Yes, they were. There was no mention of a future need for boosters. There was a simple promise of safety, and for things to return to normal.
> William Barath December 13, 2021 At 5:27 pm

> John Etulain of Seattle Washington registered those 2 domain names, and it is being served HTTP using STH’s SSL cert.

> Staffer of yours, Pat?

Huh.
so, it's a beacon, making _you_ a beacon, so advertisers can see you wherever you are?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon
Did it? Today's computers are mostly descendents of more heavyweight '80s computers. I know there are like a few C64s running webservers and stuff for kicks.

Home computers were good for games or learning to program, not sure they were actually that useful outside of those things.

Edit: Ok Atari STs were good for music and Amigas were apparently good for graphics rendering.
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I find it interesting that bug is so normal, like it's exactly the type of bug we encounter all the time in terrestrial software. Yet the stakes are so much higher.
Let us know when the TOS allows us to create adult works, until then, will be working with GPT-Neo and Google Colab.
I don't mean that it doesn't happen or that defense agencies keep everything a secret -- I mean that people routinely go to prison for leaking defense tech that wasn't supposed to be leaked.
If by:

> do nothing at all. Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover.

you mean: let humans go extinct. Then yes, that would work. It has the elegance of Multivac’s answer to Asimov’s “The last question”

“And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.

But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.”
Same here: it reduces to a logic problem. I can imagine the transformation, the space, the cube, the rotation individually as concepts, but all of it is more memory than visualization and carrying through the shape and orientation of the numbers seems like magic.
Why do you thing HN and for example /r/programming communities are united in telling visitors that Web3 is scam, cryptocurrencies is a scam and so on? Maybe it's a time to stop and reflect on their opinion, instead of blindly listening to blatant lies?

(before anyone writes indignant answer to me - for example "NFT facilitates decentralized proof of ownership" is a complete and utter lie in our face, "like "black is white", and it was written by multiple users just in this topic, and same happened in every other discussion too, it's always the same story and the same lies)
I agree, democracies are getting hammered. But it’s not because we are busy with experimental blockchain tech. That said - I found your response deeply unpleasant and imposing. Now I do have a horse to ignore you from telling me what to think and do.

Think deeply about what you just did. “If you’re on the sidelines and not playing the game, you’re an enemy”. That sounds exactly opposite of democracy. It sounds like Authoritarianism.
I am mind-blind in every sense, yet I got a 9/10 on that. It's still only checked by qualitative things, how a person self reports about it. I know it's not just a language thing though. My go to example is that if you knew morgan freedman wrote this you could read it in his voice in your head. I can't, I'd recognize his voice, but I can't use it in my head.
Depends which OSX version you have for both, I don't know if your hardware supports the last one, but you might need the correct cable, HDMI doesn't do it for me, and if your intel GPU can't, it won't, not an OSX issue.
The bigger supply-chain problem there wasn't the fake FTDI chips, which actually worked reasonably well; it was the totally genuine and authorized FTDI driver update which FTDI designed to brick your customers' hardware if they installed it, if you had been so unfortunate as to get fake FTDI chips.
'Diet' soda is disappearing from store shelves
I don't feel any guilt about it for several reasons:

- I'm poor, so my impact on CO2 emissions is minimal.

- Rich people will always invest in some green-washing scam (whether intentionally or not). Our leaders are not smart enough to solve global warming. As a poor person, I have no power over anything. Also, I'm trying my best to become rich in order to gain the power to improve things. So I'm basically doing everything I can to get into a position to solve these problems but I'm consistently denied this opportunity... So none of it is on my hands.

- At some level, I don't care about global warming enough because I don't own any stake in the planet. I'm just renting. I'm a nihilist and an atheist; so from my perspective, the entire universe ends in about 50 to 70 years anyway... Who cares about one lousy planet? When I'm dead, I will have 0 association with it because I will be nothing. Do I care about planet ABC in parallel universe XYZ? No! Because it has nothing to do with me... Exactly the same as my relationship with Earth in 100 years.

So the simple answer is:

1. I'm not causing the problem.

2. I'm already doing everything I can to solve the problem.

3. It's not even my problem to begin with...

I think most people experience some of these three points. I actually experience all 3 so I feel absolutely zero responsibility about global warming. If anything, I feel contempt.
A vaccine is likely to enhance your immunity and make you less likely to become ill and infect others. It's not guaranteed to do that, but that's different than not doing it at all.
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So one vector per article? Doesn’t this skew results? A short article with 0.9 relevance score would rank higher than a long article containing one paragraph with 1.0 relevance. Am I mistaken?
OK, I want to use a new web3 product. How do I know it's one of the good ones and not a scame?
A serious response to the article would begin by acknowledging the strongest parts of the complaint.
If COVID is here to stay, we still need mitigation strategies and for people to follow them.
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I don't.

Big oil is still doing things with impunity. They knew 40 years ago that this was going on, they expanded operations, funded a denialism campaign, bribed left and right, no consequences besides doing more, getting even more money, and people consuming more.

Governments follow the money, they don't touch a finger on them, even invade foreign countries to give them control over even more oil. Other big corporations (banks and so on) keep investing money on them.

People are told to "recycle" but to not put a finger on having cars, having vacations on the other side of the world or consume in general. The top consumers are not the more affected in the short term, so they don't do anything really meaningful. It is easy to convince masses that is their fault, and the small actions that don't affect big money are the things that they should do. Against this even the gods are powerless.

And science? It's been very creative in "mitigations" without consuming less or producing less oil. Going against the symptoms and letting the real problem to keep growing because it can't be touched.

More than half of the CO2 emissions since 1751 were emitted in the last 30 years, after was evident that something very wrong was going on, the IPCC was funded, the UN noted the urgency to solve this and more. And the pledges that we managed to get was to reach "net zero" that is not to limit oil/fossil fuel production (that could still keep expanding over the years), but to somewhat compensate what is extracted with what is captured. And this of course doesn't cover capturing what is already on excess, just try to neutralize the new, and have the fantasy to wait 100+ years till that vanishes.

And time is against us. We already, with a mild increase in the global average temperature, have big extreme weather events, and it not an El Niño year. Some "stable" climate features like the polar vortex and the gulf stream seem that are getting disrupted. And, of course, this article, that points that the biggest warming happens in the artic, where some positive feedback loops are rooted, from albedo lost from a blue ocean and permafrost thawing will worsen "hands free" the already very bad current situation.

So, hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I'm open to good surprises, but I don't bet that things will be solved. At least my worst scenario is not fast extinction but that we will get into a climate dystopia with most people living in weather isolated environments controlled by the same big money that caused all of this.
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Rust is infectious, its well named. Once there is a rust interface its better, and not for nothing but wasm makes rust a true polyglot.

C++ is inferior, but also older and better known, easier to hire competent people TODAY. 20 years, c++ maintenance will be a big industry, but AI CODEX (combined with fuzzers and auto regression) could also probably accurately transpile & test a lot c++ accelerating this.

Rust is integral to the EXCITING aspects of the linux kernel such as ebpf w/ io-uring that will eat modern k8 and other ecosystems like a blackhole. These are billion dollar markets that will principally disappear due to the kernel abstracting & obviating the need for them. Companies will move on for the security aspect, unfortunately because new threats require attention.

Rust devs & shops will spend a a significantly smaller fraction of their time troubleshooting code in the field & on smaller more efficient devices and certainly have less security issues as well.
C++ will still exist in 20 years, but will be not in vogue.
Anybody who thinks rust is hard clearly hasnt attempted c++ imho.

Typescript, python will also remain popular for other reasons.
Open alternatives to GPT-3 also seem to exist: https://nlpcloud.io/gpt-3-open-source-alternatives-gpt-j-gpt...
Ask HN: Hacker News, but for Finance?
HN is full of intelligent respectful discourse, with tons of insight gained by reading the comments.

Is there anything similar to HN, that covers finance topics (such as markets, etc)?
I really love your understanding of the biological effects on human interaction:

"I tend to forget humans are embodied and expect more logic out of them than their bodies will allow."

Thanks for today's smile.
USA is first and foremost a federation of relatively free countries, most legislation is at state level and it works in a way like EU with an integrated military. The major difference is they used to have freedom to choose healthcare, it is not forced like in EU (ex: in my country 10% of your income is paid as healthcare tax and you can be treated in state owned hospitals when there is a place available; note there is no obligation for the state to give you any care, but you go to prison if you don't pay up).
When the whole of Antarctica melts, as seems inevitable, sea levels will rise 70 meters.

Honestly I kind of think it's a good thing - humans and their civilisation have been such poor stewards of the world that we really need to be moved on.
> Long term damage is not getting enough attention.

Too bad all those back-to-office-adamant employers completely ignore this. Like, OK, I get infected cause I had to commute to work and then you fire me/lay me off and I'm left holding the bag, financially and physically cause you really wanted to make your leasing payments "worth it".
> there was a three to four hour lull between the first alarm sounding and the arrival of the tornado

You sure about that?
It’s a bad idea to date at work regardless. Hardly anything worse than a breakup with someone you sit next to at work.

The problems with making advances in the workplace are that it’s really not the place for it and if you’re going to do it you better be certain it’s in an appropriate way and that they feel comfortable rejecting your advances. Since those are hard things to be certain about it’s probably better to avoid it entirely at work.
Move value to me to value to many within a society and everyone can be on the same page
This author is deluding him/herself. Oh well, not my money.
It was at https://fuckedcompany.com/
The US extradited the guy from Canada who did it and put him in federal prison, there were increasing threats of sanctions, and Obama met with Xi to talk about it.
I promised myself I will stay patient, but I think I am on verge... It's everything I've dreamed off!
Work/life balance should be difficult
> It amazes me that there remains this misguided view that vaccination efficacy around protecting others is a binary mechanism. It's not. There is evidence of at least partial reduction in infection, not just outcome, by being vaccinated.

I do not understand if this argument is made in good faith or if it's covid deniers stirring shit up in the public debate or just rationalizing their fear of the syringe (yes, I know of 2 anti-vax who admitted it was their original reasons to refuse the vaccine).
A quick skim on the summary suggests that Linux Foundation is unusually efficient, which probably happens because it's not a hidden profit making scheme for its owners.

Project support at over 50% of expenditures (separate from 3.4% of kernel-specific support) is pretty impressive, the rest going to infrastructure (a bit over 12%) and community training and events, with barely over 7% costs.

Also, all the other projects are also pretty much based on top of Linux and thus driving linux-related things, as even Zephyr RTOS is heavily driven as something to use in cooperation with Linux based systems.
> That's not true. France constantly steals US Defence tech. China constantly steals Russian tech and they are still on good terms. The US probably also tried to steal what it can from everyone, and we know the US facilitated industrial espionage of German companies.

Can you tell me more or what to look for? I just remember an Israel stole some classified stuff and was sent to prison, an ally stealing secrets but I thought it was a rare occurrence.
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Ask HN: What is your HN but for science/physics?
Where do fusion and CRISPR researchers hang out?

Where is the aggregator of "hey nice paper man" and discussions?
Parent said he has natural immunity, can you cite any evidence that you can get covid twice? If not then people who can prove natural immunity don't need the vaccine and are just risking their health for nothing.
IPCC v5 is predicting .3 to 0.6 meters of sea level rise by 2100. That's about 1-2 feet over the next 80 years.

Maybe we can stop with the extremism, especially for something as well measured as sea-level.
I work in an industry rife with typos, and can assure you that typos are missed all the time, and it doesn't indicate a greater QA problem or lack of QA. It's just a missed typo.
Although terrifying, a map showing exposure would be fascinating. As an aside, this makes me instantly think of an old movie, Waterworld with Kevin Costner.
I don't see any problem NFTs solve that these loyalty problems don't.

- Primarily the trust problem. For loyalty rewards programs its basically free money the brand provides based on miles traveled/products bought. You'd never actually convert large sums of solvent USD (>$25K) into the Nike rewards program though because then you have to start thinking about whether Nike be around in 25 years, do I trust Nike's backend unaudited IT systems to not screw up, if Nike stops making cool stuff my $25K is stuck in their rewards program.

However, with a Nikecoin if you knew multiple 3rd parties (i.e. Citibank, Coinbase, etc.) were validating the Nikecoin ledger and could convert from Nikecoin back to USD there's more trust that could be developed.

- Another scenario is transferring Nikecoin between friends without Nike having to manage the transfer

- And perhaps group/syndicate buying - i.e. Constitution DAO style?

- In-game tokens? Imagine you could wander around PokemonGo/Roblox to find Nikecoins at which point you could redeem them for sneaker coupons or jump through hoops to convert to USD.

Are you picturing the cryptocurrency being tied to the dollar? Otherwise, Nike could make things cost more Nikecoin than dollars over time which would effectively be the thing as devaluing Nikecoin. They still control the currency because they control the economy they can be spent into.

- Just spitballing but yes I'm picturing it the same way BTC/Dogecoin/Shibacoins are tied to the USD in that you as Nikecoin holder you could freely convert back and forth at the going exchange rate and the number of Nikecoins is run with a predefined supply algorithm.

- I could also picture a standard set of Nikes always tied to a set Nikecoin price so Nike can provide some stablecoin like price stability.

So they would store the shoes on a centralized location that they control? What problem does a decentralized system have here?

- Traders can trade the digital version ad naseum until the final owner is found. The final owner is the one who wants to have the physical version be shipped to their home address for actual consumption/wearing.

- There are probably more traders than final owners for most Nikes. There are also more people who would know how to bid for collector grade Nikes using virtual Nikecoin than know how to store a collector grade Nikes in a climate controlled warehouse.
I'll second the first paragraph here. The demonstration I've come up with involves holding a hand closely in front of only my left eye. My brain lets me see both things, but my hand also has a 'transparent' characteristic when I'm focusing on my right vision. Back to visualizing, the 'other source' isn't anywhere near as crisp as the demonstration, and often is a mix of memory / imagination / caricature / labeling it with the concept.
I used to work in incoming inspection department for a medical device manufacturer. If the switch/router company did a "first article inspection" (FAI) and missed this (or missed it on a later incoming inspection), I would agree, but if they found it and called AMI and got the answer it was a typo, then they would note that on the inspection sheet and move on.
Let's just say that the geostrategically important states that tried to move away from the dollar got freedomed very quick.
I’m quite familiar with web 1 & 2’s meaning having worked on both so while I’d want to fix that definition it’s really distracting from the main point: log4j has nothing to do with either, as evidenced by the many projects which didn’t even use Java.

It’s just a library, and compiling into byte code for some blockchain VM wouldn’t make it a cryptocurrency library, either.